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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)--Great Britain and Ireland IV

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)--Great Britain and Ireland IV

by Henry Cabot Lodge

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Editor
Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919
Title
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV
Credits
E-text prepared by Joseph R. Hauser, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Language
English
LoC Class
PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
Subject
Literature -- Collections
Category
Text
eBook-No.
23971
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23971
Release Date
December 22, 2007
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE BEST — of the — World's Classics — RESTRICTED TO PROSE
  2. 2.FRANCIS W. HALSEY — Associate Editor — With an Introduction, Biographical and Explanatory Notes, etc. — IN TEN VOLUMES — Vol. VI — GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND—IV — FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY — NEW YORK AND LONDON — FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
  3. 3.The Best of the World's Classics — VOL. VI — GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND—IV — 1801—1909
  4. 4.Vol. VI—Great Britain and Ireland—IV
  5. 5.GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND—IV — 1801-1909
  6. 6.JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
  7. 7.THE BEGINNINGS OF TRACTARIANISM [1] — FOOTNOTES:
  8. 8.ON HIS SUBMISSION TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH [5] — FOOTNOTES:
  9. 9.OF ATHENS AS A TRUE UNIVERSITY [7] — FOOTNOTES:
  10. 10.EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
  11. 11.THE DESCENT OF VESUVIUS ON POMPEII [10] — FOOTNOTES:
  12. 12.LORD BEACONSFIELD
  13. 13.JERUSALEM BY MOONLIGHT [12] — FOOTNOTES:
  14. 14.CHARLES MERIVALE
  15. 15.THE PERSONALITY OF AUGUSTUS CÆSAR [13] — FOOTNOTES:
  16. 16.ALEXANDER W. KINGLAKE
  17. 17.ON MOCKING AT THE SPHINX [15] — FOOTNOTES:
  18. 18.THE BEGINNING OF THE CRIMEAN WAR [16] — FOOTNOTES:
  19. 19.CHARLES DARWIN
  20. 20.ON VARIATIONS IN MAMMALS, BIRDS AND FISHES [17] — FOOTNOTES:
  21. 21.THE GENESIS OF A GREAT BOOK [18] — FOOTNOTES:
  22. 22.JOHN BROWN
  23. 23.RAB AND THE GAME CHICKEN [19] — FOOTNOTES:
  24. 24.WILLIAM M. THACKERAY
  25. 25.THE IMPERTURBABLE MARLBOROUGH [20] — FOOTNOTES:
  26. 26.AT THE BALL BEFORE THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO [21] — FOOTNOTES:
  27. 27.THE DEATH OF COLONEL NEWCOME [23] — FOOTNOTES:
  28. 28.LONDON IN THE TIME OF THE FIRST GEORGE [24] — FOOTNOTES:
  29. 29.CHARLES DICKENS
  30. 30.SIDNEY CARTON'S DEATH [27] — FOOTNOTES:
  31. 31.BOB SAWYER'S PARTY [28] — FOOTNOTES:
  32. 32.DICK SWIVELLER AND THE MARCHIONESS [29] — FOOTNOTES:
  33. 33.A HAPPY RETURN OF THE DAY [30] — FOOTNOTES:
  34. 34.CHARLOTTE BRONTE
  35. 35.OF THE AUTHOR OF "VANITY FAIR" [31] — FOOTNOTES:
  36. 36.JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
  37. 37.OF HISTORY AS A SCIENCE [32] — FOOTNOTES:
  38. 38.THE CHARACTER OF HENRY VIII [35] — FOOTNOTES:
  39. 39.CÆSAR'S MISSION [36] — FOOTNOTES:
  40. 40.JOHN RUSKIN
  41. 41.OF THE HISTORY AND SOVEREIGNTY OF VENICE [37] — FOOTNOTES:
  42. 42.ST. MARK'S AT VENICE [39] — FOOTNOTES:
  43. 43.OF WATER [41] — FOOTNOTES:
  44. 44.GEORGE ELIOT
  45. 45.AT THE HALL FARM [43] — FOOTNOTES:
  46. 46.HERBERT SPENCER
  47. 47.THE ORIGIN OF PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATIONS [44] — FOOTNOTES:
  48. 48.SELF-DEPENDENCE AND PATERNALISM [46] — FOOTNOTES:
  49. 49.THE ORNAMENTAL AND THE USEFUL IN EDUCATION [48] — FOOTNOTES:
  50. 50.REMINISCENCES OF HIS BOYHOOD [50] — FOOTNOTES:
  51. 51.A TRIBUTE TO E. L. YOUMANS [51] — FOOTNOTES:
  52. 52.WHY HE NEVER MARRIED [53] — FOOTNOTES:
  53. 53.HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE
  54. 54.THE ISOLATION OF SPAIN [54] — FOOTNOTES:
  55. 55.GEORGE III AND THE ELDER PITT [56] — FOOTNOTES:
  56. 56.MATTHEW ARNOLD
  57. 57.THE MOTIVE FOR CULTURE [57] — FOOTNOTES:
  58. 58.EDWARD A. FREEMAN
  59. 59.THE DEATH OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR [58] — FOOTNOTES:
  60. 60.THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
  61. 61.ON A PIECE OF CHALK [60] — FOOTNOTES:
  62. 62.FREDERIC HARRISON
  63. 63.THE GREAT BOOKS OF THE WORLD [61] — FOOTNOTES:
  64. 64.JOHN RICHARD GREEN
  65. 65.GEORGE WASHINGTON [62] — FOOTNOTES:
  66. 66.JOHN MORLEY
  67. 67.VOLTAIRE AS AN AUTHOR AND AS A MAN OF ACTION [63] — FOOTNOTES:
  68. 68.ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
  69. 69.FRANCIS VILLON'S TERRORS [64] — FOOTNOTES:
  70. 70.THE LANTERN BEARERS [65] — FOOTNOTES: — END OF VOL. VI.

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