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

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Editor

Warner, George H., 1833-1919

Title

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 12

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

Language

English

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

Subject

Literature -- Collections

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eBook-No.

32308

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32308

Release Date

May 9, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.LIBRARY OF THE — WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE — ANCIENT AND MODERN CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER — HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE GEORGE HENRY WARNER — Connoisseur Edition Vol. XII. — NEW YORK THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY — Connoisseur Edition
3. 3.THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
4. 4.TABLE OF CONTENTS — VOL. XII
5. 5.FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS — VOLUME XII — VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
6. 6.DENIS DIDEROT — (1713-1784) — FROM 'RAMEAU'S NEPHEW'
7. 7.FRANZ VON DINGELSTEDT — (1814-1881) — A MAN OF BUSINESS — From 'The Amazon': copyrighted by G.P. Putnam's Sons — THE WATCHMAN
8. 8.DIOGENES LAERTIUS — (200-250 A. D.?) — LIFE OF SOCRATES — From the 'Lives and Sayings of the Philosophers' — EXAMPLES OF GREEK WIT AND WISDOM — Bias — Plato — Aristippus — Aristotle — Theophrastus — Demetrius — Antisthenes — Diogenes — Cleanthes — Pythagoras Precepts
9. 9.ISAAC D'ISRAELI — (1766-1848) — POETS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND ARTISTS MADE BY ACCIDENT — From 'Curiosities of Literature' — THE MARTYRDOM OF CHARLES THE FIRST — From the 'Commentaries on the Reign of Charles the First'
10. 10.SYDNEY DOBELL — (1824-1874) — EPIGRAM ON THE DEATH OF EDWARD FORBES — HOW'S MY BOY? — THE SAILOR'S RETURN — AFLOAT AND ASHORE — THE SOUL — From 'Balder' — ENGLAND — From 'Balder' — AMERICA — AMY'S SONG OF THE WILLOW — From 'Balder'
11. 11.AUSTIN DOBSON — (1840-) — BY ESTHER SINGLETON — ON A NANKIN PLATE — Villanelle — THE OLD SEDAN-CHAIR — THE BALLAD OF PROSE AND RHYME — Envoy — THE CURÉ'S PROGRESS — "GOOD-NIGHT, BABETTE" — "Si vieillesse pouvait!" — THE LADIES OF ST. JAMES'S — A Proper New Ballad of the Country and the Town — "Phyllida amo ante alias."— Virgil . — DORA VERSUS ROSE — "The Case is Proceeding" — ( After-thought ) — UNE MARQUISE — A Rhymed Monologue in the Louvre — I — II — III — IV — V — A BALLAD TO QUEEN ELIZABETH — Of the Spanish Armada — Envoy — THE PRINCESS DE LAMBALLE — From 'Four Frenchwomen'
12. 12.MARY MAPES DODGE — (1840?-) — THE RACE — From 'Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates,' Copyright 1896, by Charles Scribner's Sons
13. 13.JOHN DONNE — (1573-1631) — THE UNDERTAKING — A VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING — SONG — LOVE'S GROWTH — SONG
14. 14.FEODOR MIKHAILOVITCH DOSTOÉVSKY — (1821-1881) — BY ISABEL F. HAPGOOD — FROM 'POOR PEOPLE' — Letter from Varvara Dobrosyeloff to Makar Dyevushkin — Letter from Makar Dyevushkin to Varvara Alexievna Dobrosyeloff — THE BIBLE READING — From 'Crime and Punishment'
15. 15.EDWARD DOWDEN — (1843-) — THE HUMOR OF SHAKESPEARE — From 'Shakespeare: a Critical Study of His Mind and Art' — SHAKESPEARE'S PORTRAITURE OF WOMEN — From 'Transcripts and Studies' — THE INTERPRETATION OF LITERATURE — From 'Transcripts and Studies'
16. 16.A. CONAN DOYLE — (1859-) — THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE — From 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.' Copyright 1892, by Harper & Brothers — THE BOWMEN'S SONG — From 'The White Company'
17. 17.HOLGER DRACHMANN — (1846-) — THE SKIPPER AND HIS SHIP — From 'Paul and Virginia of a Northern Zone': copyright 1895, by Way and Williams, Chicago — THE PRINCE'S SONG — From 'Once Upon a Time'
18. 18.JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE — (1795-1820) — A WINTER'S TALE — From 'The Croakers' — THE CULPRIT FAY — THE AMERICAN FLAG
19. 19.JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER — (1811-1882) — THE VEDAS AND THEIR THEOLOGY — From 'History of the Intellectual Development of Europe.' Copyright 1876, by Harper & Brothers — PRIMITIVE BELIEFS DISMISSED BY SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE — From 'History of the Intellectual Development of Europe.' Copyright 1876, by Harper & Brothers — THE KORAN — From 'History of the Intellectual Development of Europe.' Copyright 1876, by Harper & Brothers
20. 20.MICHAEL DRAYTON — (1563-1631) — SONNET — THE BALLAD OF AGINCOURT — QUEEN MAB'S EXCURSION — From 'Nymphidia, the Court of Faery'
21. 21.GUSTAVE DROZ — (1832-1895) — HOW THE BABY WAS SAVED — From 'The Seamstress's Story' — A FAMILY NEW-YEAR'S — From 'Monsieur, Madame, and Baby' — THEIR LAST EXCURSION — From 'Making an Omelette': from Lippincott's Magazine, 1871, copyrighted
22. 22.HENRY DRUMMOND — (1851-) — THE COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE — From 'Tropical Africa' — THE EAST-AFRICAN LAKE COUNTRY — From 'Tropical Africa' — WHITE ANTS — From 'Tropical Africa'
23. 23.WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN — (1585-1649) — SEXTAIN — MADRIGAL — REASON AND FEELING — DEGENERACY OF THE WORLD — THE BRIEFNESS OF LIFE — THE UNIVERSE — ON DEATH — From 'Cypress Grove'
24. 24.JOHN DRYDEN — (1631-1700) — BY THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY — FROM 'THE HIND AND THE PANTHER' — TO MY DEAR FRIEND MR. CONGREVE — On His Comedy Called 'The Double Dealer' — ODE — TO THE PIOUS MEMORY OF THE ACCOMPLISHED YOUNG LADY — MRS. ANNE KILLIGREW, — EXCELLENT IN THE TWO SISTER ARTS OF POESY AND PAINTING. — A SONG — LINES PRINTED UNDER MILTON'S PORTRAIT — In Tonson's Folio Edition of the 'Paradise Lost ,' 1688 — ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC — A SONG IN HONOR OF ST. CECILIA'S DAY: 1697 — I — CHORUS — II — CHORUS — III — CHORUS — IV — CHORUS — V — CHORUS — VI — CHORUS — VII — GRAND CHORUS — ACHITOPHEL [A] — From 'Absalom and Achitophel'
25. 25.MAXIME DU CAMP — (1822-1894) — A STREET SCENE DURING THE COMMUNE — From 'The Convulsions of Paris'
26. 26.ALEXANDRE DUMAS, SENIOR — (1803?-1870) — BY ANDREW LANG — THE CURE FOR DORMICE THAT EAT PEACHES — From 'The Count of Monte Cristo' — THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BELT OF PORTHOS, AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS — From 'The Three Musketeers' — THE DEFENSE OF THE BASTION SAINT-GERVAIS — From 'The Three Musketeers' — THE CONSULTATION OF THE MUSKETEERS — From 'The Three Musketeers' — THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK — From 'The Viscount of Bragelonne' — A TRICK IS PLAYED ON HENRY III. BY AID OF CHICOT — From 'The Lady of Monsoreau'
27. 27.ALEXANDRE DUMAS, JUNIOR — (1824-1895) — BY FRANCISQUE SARCEY — THE PLAYWRIGHT IS BORN—AND MADE — From the Preface to 'A Prodigal Father' — AN ARMED TRUCE — From 'A Friend of the Sex' — TWO VIEWS OF MONEY — From 'The Money Question' — M. DE RÉMONIN'S PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE — From 'L'Étrangère' — REFORMING A FATHER — From 'A Prodigal Father' — MR. AND MRS. CLARKSON — From 'L'Étrangère'
28. 28.GEORGE DU MAURIER — (1834-1896) — AT THE HEART OF BOHEMIA — From 'Trilby' Copyright 1894, by Harper & Brothers — CHRISTMAS IN THE LATIN QUARTER — From 'Trilby.' Copyright, 1894, by Harper & Brothers — "DREAMING TRUE" — From 'Peter Ibbetson.' Copyright 1891, by Harper & Brothers — BARTY JOSSELIN AT SCHOOL — From 'The Martian' — From Harper's Magazine. Copyright, 1896, by Harper & Brothers
29. 29.WILLIAM DUNBAR — (1465?-1530?) — THE THISTLE AND THE ROSE — FROM 'THE GOLDEN TARGE' — NO TREASURE AVAILS WITHOUT GLADNESS
30. 30.JEAN VICTOR DURUY — (1811-1894) — THE NATIONAL POLICY — From the 'History of Rome' — RESULTS OF THE ROMAN DOMINION — From the 'History of Rome'

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