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

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

by Charles Dudley Warner

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Editor
Warner, George H., 1833-1919
Title
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 15
Credits
Produced by Juliet Sutherland 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
Category
Text
eBook-No.
33027
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33027
Release Date
June 29, 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. XV. — NEW YORK THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY — Connoisseur Edition
  3. 3.THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
  4. 4.TABLE OF CONTENTS — VOL. XV
  5. 5.FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS — VOLUME XV — VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
  6. 6.FOLK-SONG — BY F. B. GUMMERE
  7. 7.SAMUEL FOOTE — (1720-1777) — HOW TO BE A LAWYER — From 'The Lame Lover' — A MISFORTUNE IN ORTHOGRAPHY — From 'The Lame Lover' — FROM THE 'MEMOIRS' — A Cure for Bad Poetry — The Retort Courteous — On Garrick's Stature — Cape Wine — The Graces — The Debtor — Affectation — Arithmetical Criticism — The Dear Wife — Garrick and the Guinea — Dr. Paul Hifferman — Foote and Macklin — Baron Newman — Mrs. Abington — Garlic-Eaters — Mode of Burying Attorneys in London — Dining Badly — Dibble Davis — An Extraordinary Case — Mutability of the World — An Appropriate Motto — Real Friendship — Anecdote of an Author — Dr. Blair — Advice To a Dramatic Writer — The Grafton Ministry
  8. 8.JOHN FORD — (1586-?) — FROM 'PERKIN WARBECK' — PENTHEA'S DYING SONG — From 'The Broken Heart' — FROM 'THE LOVER'S MELANCHOLY' — Amethus and Menaphon
  9. 9.FRIEDRICH, BARON DE LA MOTTE FOUQUÉ — (1777-1843) — THE MARRIAGE OF UNDINE — From 'Undine' — THE LAST APPEARANCE OF UNDINE — From 'Undine' — SONG FROM 'MINSTREL LOVE'
  10. 10.ANATOLE FRANCE — (1844-) — IN THE GARDENS — From 'The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard.' Copyright, 1890, by Harper & Brothers — CHILD-LIFE — From 'The Book of My Friend' — FROM 'THE GARDEN OF EPICURUS' — ST. FRANCIS D'ASSISI — (1182-1226) — BY MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN — ORDER — [ Our Lord Speaks ] — THE CANTICLE OF THE SUN
  11. 11.BENJAMIN FRANKLIN — (1706-1790) — BY JOHN BIGELOW — OF FRANKLIN'S FAMILY AND EARLY LIFE — From the 'Autobiography,' in Bigelow's Edition of Franklin's Works — FRANKLIN'S JOURNEY TO PHILADELPHIA: HIS ARRIVAL THERE — From the 'Autobiography,' in Bigelow's Edition of Franklin's Works — FRANKLIN AS A PRINTER — From the 'Autobiography,' in Bigelow's Edition of Franklin's Works — RULES OF HEALTH — From Poor Richard's Almanack: 1742 — THE WAY TO WEALTH — From Poor Richard's Almanack — SPEECH IN THE FEDERAL CONVENTION, IN FAVOR OF OPENING ITS SESSIONS WITH PRAYER — ON WAR — REVENGE — Letter to Madame Helvétius — THE EPHEMERA; AN EMBLEM OF HUMAN LIFE — Letter to Madame Brillon of Passy, written in 1778 — A PROPHECY — Letter to Lord Kames, January 3d, 1760 — EARLY MARRIAGES — Letter to John Alleyne, dated Craven Street, August 9th, 1768 — THE ART OF VIRTUE — From the 'Autobiography,' in Bigelow's Edition of Franklin's Works
  12. 12.LOUIS HONORÉ FRECHETTE — (1839-) — BY MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN — OUR HISTORY — Fragments from 'La Légende d'un Peuple': translated by Maurice Francis Egan — CAUGHNAWAGA — Paraphrased by Maurice Francis Egan — LOUISIANA — Paraphrased from 'Les Feuilles Volantes,' by Maurice Francis Egan — THE DREAM OF LIFE — To My Son — Paraphrased from 'Les Feuilles Volantes,' by Maurice Francis Egan
  13. 13.HAROLD FREDERIC — (1856-) — THE LAST RITE — From 'The Damnation of Theron Ware.' Copyright 1896, by Stone & Kimball
  14. 14.EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN — (1823-1892) — BY JOHN BACH M c MASTER — THE ALTERED ASPECTS OF ROME — From 'Historical Essays of Edward A. Freeman,' Third Series. London, Macmillan & Co., 1879 — THE CONTINUITY OF ENGLISH HISTORY — From 'Historical Essays of Edward A. Freeman,' First Series. London, Macmillan & Co., 1871 — RACE AND LANGUAGE — From 'Historical Essays of Edward A. Freeman,' First Series. London, Macmillan & Co., 1871 — THE NORMAN COUNCIL AND THE ASSEMBLY OF LILLEBONNE — From 'The History of the Norman Conquest of England'
  15. 15.FERDINAND FREILIGRATH — (1810-1876) — THE EMIGRANTS — THE LION'S RIDE — REST IN THE BELOVED — ( Ruhe in der Geliebten ) — OH, LOVE SO LONG AS LOVE THOU CANST
  16. 16.GUSTAV FREYTAG — (1816-1895) — THE GERMAN PROFESSOR — From 'The Lost Manuscript'
  17. 17.FRIEDRICH FROEBEL — (1782-1852) — BY NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH — THE RIGHT OF THE CHILD — EVOLUTION — From 'The Mottoes and Commentaries of Mother-Play.' Copyright 1895, by D. Appleton & Co. — THE LAWS OF THE MIND — From 'The Letters of Froebel' — FOR THE CHILDREN — From 'The Letters of Froebel' — MOTIVES — From 'The Education of Man.' By permission of Josephine Jarvis, the translator, and A. Lovell & Co., publishers — APHORISMS
  18. 18.FROISSART — (1337-1410?) — BY GEORGE M c LEAN HARPER — THE INVASION OF FRANCE BY KING EDWARD III., AND THE BATTLE OF CRÉCY — From the 'Chronicles': Translation of John Bourchier, Lord Berners — How the King of England Rode Through Normandy — Of the Great Assembly that the French King Made to Resist the King of England — Of the Battle of Caen, and How the Englishmen Took the Town — How the French King Followed the King of England in Beauvoisinois — Of the Battle of Blanche-Taque — Of the Order of the Englishmen at Cressy — The Order of the Frenchmen at Cressy, and How they Beheld the Demeanor of the Englishmen — Of the Battle of Cressy, August 26th, 1346
  19. 19.JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE — (1818-1894) — BY CHARLES FREDERICK JOHNSON — THE GROWTH OF ENGLAND'S NAVY — From 'English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century' — THE DEATH OF COLONEL GORING — From 'Two Chiefs of Dunboy' — SCIENTIFIC METHOD APPLIED TO HISTORY — From 'Short Studies on Great Subjects' — THE DEATH OF THOMAS BECKET — From 'Short Studies on Great Subjects' — CHARACTER OF HENRY VIII. — From the 'History of England' — ON A SIDING AT A RAILWAY STATION — From 'Short Studies on Great Subjects'
  20. 20.HENRY B. FULLER — (1859-) — AT THE HEAD OF THE MARCH — From 'With the Procession.' Copyright 1894 by Henry B. Fuller, and reprinted by permission of Harper & Brothers, publishers, New York
  21. 21.SARAH MARGARET FULLER — (MARCHIONESS OSSOLI) — (1810-1850) — GEORGE SAND — To Elizabeth Hoar — From 'Memoirs': Paris, ——, 1847 — AMERICANS ABROAD IN EUROPE — From 'At Home and Abroad' — A CHARACTER SKETCH OF CARLYLE — Letter to R. W. Emerson — From 'Memoirs': Paris, ——, 1846
  22. 22.THOMAS FULLER — (1608-1661) — THE KING'S CHILDREN — From 'The Worthies of England' — A LEARNED LADY — From 'The Worthies of England' — HENRY DE ESSEX, STANDARD-BEARER TO HENRY II. — From 'The Worthies of England' — THE GOOD SCHOOLMASTER — From 'The Holy and Profane State' — ON BOOKS — From 'The Holy and Profane State' — LONDON — From 'The Worthies of England' — MISCELLANEOUS SAYINGS
  23. 23.ÉMILE GABORIAU — (1835-1873) — THE IMPOSTOR AND THE BANKER'S WIFE: THE ROBBERY — From 'File No. 113' — M. LECOQ'S SYSTEM — From 'File No. 113'
  24. 24.BÉNITO PEREZ GALDÓS — (1845-) — BY WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP — THE FIRST NIGHT OF A FAMOUS PLAY, IN THE YEAR 1807 — From 'The Court of Charles IV.' Copyright 1888, by W.S. Gottsberger. Reprinted by permission of George G. Peck, publisher, New York — DOÑA PERFECTA'S DAUGHTER — From 'Doña Perfecta.' Copyright 1895, by Harper & Brothers — A FAMILY OF OFFICE-HOLDERS — ABOVE-STAIRS IN A ROYAL PALACE — From 'La de Bringas'
  25. 25.FRANCIS GALTON — (1822-) — THE COMPARATIVE WORTH OF DIFFERENT RACES — From 'Hereditary Genius'
  26. 26.ARNE GARBORG — (1851-) — THE CONFLICT OF THE CREEDS — From 'A Freethinker'
  27. 27.HAMLIN GARLAND — (1860-) — A SUMMER MOOD — From 'Prairie Songs.' Copyright 1893 by Hamlin Garland, and published by Stone & Kimball — A STORM ON LAKE MICHIGAN — From 'Rose of Dutcher's Coolly.' Copyright 1895 by Hamlin Garland, and published by Stone & Kimball
  28. 28.ELIZABETH STEVENSON GASKELL — (1810-1865) — OUR SOCIETY — From 'Cranford' — VISITING — From 'Cranford'
  29. 29.THÉOPHILE GAUTIER — (1811-1872) — BY ROBERT SANDERSON — THE ENTRY OF PHARAOH INTO THEBES — From 'The Romance of a Mummy' — FROM 'THE MARSH' — FROM 'THE DRAGON-FLY' — THE DOVES — THE POT OF FLOWERS — PRAYER — THE POET AND THE CROWD — THE FIRST SMILE OF SPRING — THE VETERANS — From 'The Old Guard'
  30. 30.JOHN GAY — (1685-1732) — THE HARE AND MANY FRIENDS — From the 'Fables' — THE SICK MAN AND THE ANGEL — From the 'Fables' — THE JUGGLER — From the 'Fables' — SWEET WILLIAM'S FAREWELL TO BLACK-EYED SUSAN — A Ballad — FROM 'WHAT D'YE CALL IT?' — A Ballad
  31. 31.EMANUEL VON GEIBEL — (1815-1884) — SEE'ST THOU THE SEA? — AS IT WILL HAPPEN — GONDOLIERA — THE WOODLAND — ONWARD — AT LAST THE DAYLIGHT FADETH

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