Library Of The World's Best Literature Ancient And Modern, Vol 11

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Editor

Warner, George H., 1833-1919

Title

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

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Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Annie McGuire and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

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

Subject

Literature -- Collections

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Text

eBook-No.

25015

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25015

Release Date

April 7, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE OLDEST LOMBARDIC MANUSCRIPT. — Facsimile from an Edict of King Rotharis, — A.D. 643. — Translation.
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. XI.
4. 4.THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
5. 5.TABLE OF CONTENTS — VOL. XI
6. 6.FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS — VOLUME XI — VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
7. 7.RICHARD HENRY DANA, SENIOR — (1787-1879) — THE ISLAND — From 'The Buccaneer' — THE DOOM OF LEE — From 'The Buccaneer' — PAUL AND ABEL — From 'Paul Felton'
8. 8.RICHARD HENRY DANA, JUNIOR — (1815-1882) — A DRY GALE — From 'Two Years Before the Mast' — EVERY-DAY SEA LIFE — From 'Two Years Before the Mast' — A START; AND PARTING COMPANY — From 'Two Years before the Mast'
9. 9.DANTE — (1265-1321) — BY CHARLES ELIOT NORTON — I — II — III — Notes — SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF DANTE — FROM THE 'NEW LIFE' — FROM THE 'BANQUET' — FROM THE 'DIVINE COMEDY' — THE NEW LIFE — I — THE BEGINNING OF LOVE — II — THE FIRST SALUTATION OF HIS LADY — III — THE PRAISE OF HIS LADY — IV — THE LOVELINESS OF HIS LADY — V — THE DEATH OF HIS LADY — VI — THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF HIS LADY — VII — THE HOPE TO SPEAK MORE WORTHILY OF HIS LADY — THE CONVITO — I — THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY — II — THE DESIRE OF THE SOUL — III — THE NOBLE SOUL AT THE END OF LIFE — HELL — CANTO I — THE ENTRANCE ON THE JOURNEY THROUGH THE ETERNAL WORLD — CANTO II — THE ENTRANCE ON THE JOURNEY THROUGH THE ETERNAL WORLD, CONTINUED — CANTO V — THE PUNISHMENT OF CARNAL SINNERS — PURGATORY — CANTO XXVII — THE FINAL PURGATION — CANTOS XXX AND XXXI — THE MEETING WITH HIS LADY IN THE EARTHLY PARADISE — PARADISE — CANTO XXXIII — THE BEATIFIC VISION
10. 10.JAMES DARMESTETER — (1849-1894) — ERNEST RENAN — From 'Selected Essays': copyrighted 1895 by Houghton, Mifflin and Company — JUDAISM — From 'Selected Essays': copyrighted 1895 by Houghton, Mifflin and Company
11. 11.CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN — (1809-1882) — BY E. RAY LANKESTER — IMPRESSIONS OF TRAVEL — From 'A Naturalist's Voyage' — THE GENESIS OF 'THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES' — From 'Life and Letters' — CURIOUS ATROPHY OF ÆSTHETIC TASTE — From 'Life and Letters' — PRIVATE MEMORANDUM CONCERNING HIS LITTLE DAUGHTER — From 'Life and Letters' — RELIGIOUS VIEWS — From 'Life and Letters' — C. DARWIN TO MISS JULIA WEDGWOOD: ON DESIGN — From 'Life and Letters' — C. DARWIN TO J.D. HOOKER — From 'Life and Letters' — C. DARWIN TO T. H. HUXLEY — From 'Life and Letters' — C. DARWIN TO E. RAY LANKESTER — From 'Life and Letters' — FROM A LETTER TO J.D. HOOKER — From 'Life and Letters' — THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE — From the 'Origin of Species' — THE GEOMETRICAL RATIO OF INCREASE — From 'Origin of Species' — OF THE NATURE OF THE CHECKS TO INCREASE — From 'The Origin of Species' — THE COMPLEX RELATIONS OF ALL ANIMALS AND PLANTS TO EACH OTHER IN THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE — From the 'Origin of Species' — OF NATURAL SELECTION; OR THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST — From the 'Origin of Species' — PROGRESSIVE CHANGE COMPARED WITH INDEPENDENT CREATION — From the 'Origin of Species' — CREATIVE DESIGN — From 'The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication' — THE ORIGIN OF THE HUMAN SPECIES — From 'The Descent of Man'
12. 12.ALPHONSE DAUDET — (1840-) — BY AUGUSTIN FILON — THE TWO TARTARINS — From 'Tartarin of Tarascon' — OF "MENTAL MIRAGE," AS DISTINGUISHED FROM LYING — From 'Tartarin of Tarascor' — THE DEATH OF THE DAUPHIN — From 'Letters from My Windmill' — JACK IS INVITED TO TAKE UP A "PROFESSION" — From 'Jack' — THE CITY OF IRON AND FIRE — From 'Jack' — THE WRATH OF A QUEEN — From 'Kings in Exile'
13. 13.MADAME DU DEFFAND — (MARIE DE VICHY-CHAMROND) — (1697-1780) — TO THE DUCHESSE DE CHOISEUL — TO MR. CRAWFORD — TO HORACE WALPOLE — PORTRAIT OF HORACE WALPOLE
14. 14.DANIEL DEFOE — (1660?-1731) — BY CHARLES FREDERICK JOHNSON — FROM 'ROBINSON CRUSOE' — CRUSOE'S SHIPWRECK — CRUSOE MAKES A NEW HOME — A FOOTPRINT — FROM 'HISTORY OF THE PLAGUE IN LONDON' — SUPERSTITIOUS FEARS OF THE PEOPLE — HOW QUACKS AND IMPOSITORS PREYED ON THE FEARS OF THE PEOPLE — THE PEOPLE ARE QUARANTINED IN THEIR HOUSES — MORAL EFFECTS OF THE PLAGUE — TERRIBLE SCENES IN THE STREETS — THE PLAGUE DUE TO NATURAL CAUSES — SPREAD OF THE PLAGUE THROUGH NECESSITIES OF THE POOR — FROM 'COLONEL JACK' — COLONEL JACK AND CAPTAIN JACK ESCAPE ARREST — COLONEL JACK FINDS CAPTAIN JACK HARD TO MANAGE — COLONEL JACK'S FIRST WIFE IS NOT DISPOSED TO BE ECONOMICAL — THE DEVIL DOES NOT CONCERN HIMSELF WITH PETTY MATTERS — From 'The Modern History of the Devil' — DEFOE ADDRESSES HIS PUBLIC — From 'An Appeal to Honor and Justice' — ENGAGING A MAID-SERVANT — From "Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business" — THE DEVIL — From 'The True-Born Englishman' — THERE IS A GOD — From 'The Storm'
15. 15.EDUARD DOUWES DEKKER — (1820-1887) — MULTATULI'S LAST WORDS TO THE READER — From 'Max Havelaar' — IDYLL OF SAÏDJAH AND ADINDA — From 'Max Havelaar'
16. 16.THOMAS DEKKER — (1570?-1637?) — FROM 'THE GUL'S HORNE BOOKE' — HOW A GALLANT SHOULD BEHAVE HIMSELF IN POWLES WALK [49] — SLEEP — THE PRAISE OF FORTUNE — From 'Old Fortunatus' — CONTENT — From 'Patient Grissil' — RUSTIC SONG — From 'The Sun's Darling' — LULLABY — From 'Patient Grissil'
17. 17.JEAN FRANÇOIS CASIMIR DELAVIGNE — (1793-1843) — BY FREDERIC LOLIÉE — THE CONFESSION OF LOUIS XI.
18. 18.DEMOSTHENES — (384-322 B.C.) — BY ROBERT SHARP — THE THIRD PHILIPPIC — THE ARGUMENT — INVECTIVE AGAINST LICENSE OF SPEECH — JUSTIFICATION OF HIS PATRIOTIC POLICY
19. 19.THOMAS DE QUINCEY — (1785-1859) — BY GEORGE R. CARPENTER — CHARLES LAMB — From 'Biographical Essays' — DESPAIR — From 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater' — THE DEAD SISTER — From 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater' — LEVANA AND OUR LADIES OF SORROW — From 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater' — SAVANNAH-LA-MAR — From 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater' — THE BISHOP OF BEAUVAIS AND JOAN OF ARC — From 'Miscellaneous Essays'
20. 20.PAUL DÉROULÈDE — (1848-) — THE HARVEST — From 'Chants du Paysan' — IN GOOD QUARTERS — From 'Poèmes Militaires' — Mirebeau , 1871 — "GOOD FIGHTING!" — From 'Poèmes Militaires' — LAST WISHES — From 'Poèmes Militaires'
21. 21.RENÉ DESCARTES — (1596-1650) — OF CERTAIN PRINCIPLES OF ELEMENTARY LOGICAL THOUGHT — From the 'Discourse on Method' — AN ELEMENTARY METHOD OF INQUIRY — From the 'Discourse on Method' — THE IDEA OF GOD — From the 'Meditations'
22. 22.PAUL DESJARDINS — (———) — BY GRACE KING — THE PRESENT DUTY — THE CONVERSION OF THE CHURCH — TWO IMPRESSIONS — From 'Notes Contemporaines'
23. 23.SIR AUBREY DE VERE — (1788-1846) — THE CRUSADERS — THE CHILDREN BAND — From 'The Crusaders' — THE ROCK OF CASHEL — THE RIGHT USE OF PRAYER — THE CHURCH — SONNET
24. 24.BERNAL DIAZ DEL CASTILLO — (1498-1593) — FROM THE 'TRUE HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO' — THE CAPTURE OF GUATIMOTZIN — THE MORTALITY AT THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO — CORTÉS — OF DIVINE AID IN THE BATTLE OF SANTA MARIA DE LA VITORIA — CORTÉS DESTROYS CERTAIN IDOLS
25. 25.CHARLES DIBDIN — (1745-1814) — SEA SONG — SONG: THE HEART OF A TAR — POOR JACK — TOM BOWLING
26. 26.CHARLES DICKENS — (1812-1870) — THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF DICKENS — BY LAURENCE HUTTON — THE ONE THING NEEDFUL — From 'Hard Times' — THE BOY AT MUGBY — From 'Mugby Junction' — THE BURNING OF NEWGATE — From 'Barnaby Rudge' — MONSEIGNEUR — From 'A Tale of Two Cities' — The Gorgon's Head — THE IVY GREEN — FOOTNOTES:

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