Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern

About this eBook

Editor

Warner, George H., 1833-1919

Title

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 03

Credits

Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Charlie Kirschner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Literature -- Collections

Category

Text

eBook-No.

13028

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13028

Release Date

July 26, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.LIBRARY OF THE — WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE — ANCIENT AND MODERN
3. 3.CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER — EDITOR — HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE GEORGE HENRY WARNER — ASSOCIATE EDITORS — Connoisseur Edition — VOL. III.
4. 4.THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
5. 5.TABLE OF CONTENTS — VOL. III.
6. 6.VOLUME III.
7. 7.BERTHOLD AUERBACH--(Continued from Volume II) — THE FIRST FALSE STEP — THE NEW HOME AND THE OLD ONE — THE COURT PHYSICIAN'S PHILOSOPHY — IN COUNTESS IRMA'S DIARY
8. 8.ÉMILE AUGIER — (1820-1889) — A CONVERSATION WITH A PURPOSE — A SEVERE YOUNG JUDGE — A CONTENTED IDLER — THE FEELINGS OF AN ARTIST — A CONTEST OF WILLS
9. 9.ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO — (354-430) — BY SAMUEL HART — THE GODLY SORROW THAT WORKETH REPENTANCE — CONSOLATION — THE FOES OF THE CITY — THE PRAISE OF GOD — A PRAYER
10. 10.MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS — (121-180 A.D.) — BY JAMES FRASER GLUCK — EXCERPTS FROM THE 'MEDITATIONS'
11. 11.JANE AUSTEN — (1775-1817) — AN OFFER OF MARRIAGE — MOTHER AND DAUGHTER — A LETTER OF CONDOLENCE — A WELL-MATCHED SISTER AND BROTHER — FAMILY DOCTORS — FAMILY TRAINING — PRIVATE THEATRICALS — FRUITLESS REGRETS AND APPLES OF SODOM
12. 12.AVERROËS — (1126-1198)
13. 13.THE AVESTA — (From about B.C. Sixth Century) — BY A.V. WILLIAMS JACKSON — A PRAYER FOR KNOWLEDGE — THE ANGEL OF DIVINE OBEDIENCE — TO THE FIRE — THE GODDESS OF THE WATERS — GUARDIAN SPIRITS — AN ANCIENT SINDBAD — THE WISE MAN — INVOCATION TO RAIN — A PRAYER FOR HEALING — FRAGMENT
14. 14.AVICEBRON — (1028-? 1058) — ON MATTER AND FORM
15. 15.ROBERT AYTOUN — (1570-1638)
16. 16.WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN — (1813-1865) — A BALL IN THE UPPER CIRCLES — A HIGHLAND TRAMP
17. 17.MASSIMO TAPARELLI D' AZEGLIO — (1798-1866) — A HAPPY CHILDHOOD — THE PRIESTHOOD — MY FIRST VENTURE IN ROMANCE
18. 18.BABER — (1482-1530) — BY EDWARD S. HOLDEN — FROM BABER'S 'MEMOIRS'
19. 19.BABRIUS
20. 20.FRANCIS BACON — (1561-1626) — BY CHARLTON T. LEWIS — OF TRUTH — OF REVENGE — OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION — OF TRAVEL — OF FRIENDSHIP — DEFECTS OF THE UNIVERSITIES — TO MY LORD TREASURER BURGHLEY — IN PRAISE OF KNOWLEDGE — TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR, TOUCHING THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN — TO VILLIERS ON HIS PATENT AS VISCOUNT — CHARGE TO JUSTICE HUTTON — A PRAYER, OR PSALM — FROM THE 'APOPHTHEGMS'
21. 21.WALTER BAGEHOT — (1826-1877) — BY FORREST MORGAN — THE VIRTUES OF STUPIDITY — REVIEW WRITING — LORD ELDON — TASTE — CAUSES OF THE STERILITY OF LITERATURE — THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS — ON EARLY READING — THE CAVALIERS — MORALITY AND FEAR — THE TYRANNY OF CONVENTION — HOW TO BE AN INFLUENTIAL POLITICIAN — CONDITIONS OF CABINET GOVERNMENT — WHY EARLY SOCIETIES COULD NOT BE FREE — BENEFITS OF FREE DISCUSSION IN MODERN TIMES — ORIGIN OF DEPOSIT BANKING
22. 22.JENS BAGGESEN — (1764-1826) — A COSMOPOLITAN — PHILOSOPHY ON THE HEATH
23. 23.PHILIP JAMES BAILEY — (1816-)
24. 24.JOANNA BAILLIE — (1762-1851)
25. 25.HENRY MARTYN BAIRD — (1832-) — THE BATTLE OF IVRY
26. 26.SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER — (1821-1893) — HUNTING IN ABYSSINIA — THE SOURCES OF THE NILE
27. 27.ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR — (1848-) — THE PLEASURES OF READING
28. 28.THE BALLAD
29. 29.HONORÉ DE BALZAC — (1799-1850) — BY WILLIAM P. TRENT — THE MEETING IN THE CONVENT — 'AN EPISODE UNDER THE TERROR' — A PASSION IN THE DESERT — FROM 'THE COUNTRY DOCTOR' — THE NAPOLEON OF THE PEOPLE
30. 30.GEORGE BANCROFT — (1800-1891) — BY AUSTIN SCOTT — THE BEGINNINGS OF VIRGINIA — MEN AND GOVERNMENT IN EARLY MASSACHUSETTS — KING PHILIP'S WAR — THE NEW NETHERLAND — FRANKLIN — End of Volume III.

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