ABÉLARD AND HÉLOISE (by Thomas Davidson) -- 1079-1142
EDMOND ABOUT -- 1828-1885
The Capture ('The King of the Mountains')
Hadgi-Stavros (same)
The Victim ('The Man with the Broken Ear')
The Man without a Country (same)
ACCADIAN-BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN LITERATURE (by Crawford H. Toy)
ABIGAIL ADAMS (by Lucia Gilbert Runkle) --1744-1818
May 24, 1775; June 15, 1775; June 18, 1775;
JOHN ADAMS -- 1735-1826
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -- 1767-1848
Letter to his Father, at the Age of Ten
From the Memoirs, at the Age of Eighteen
From the Memoirs, Jan. 14, 1831; June 7, 1833; Sept. 9, 1833
The Mission of America (Fourth of July Oration, 1821)
JOSEPH ADDISON (by Hamilton Wright Mabie) -- 1672-1720
Sir Roger de Coverley at the Play
AELIANUS CLAUDIUS -- Second Century
Of Certain Notable Men that made themselves Playfellowes with Children
Of a Certaine Sicilian whose Eyesight was Woonderfull Sharpe and Quick
The Lawe of the Lacedaemonians against Covetousness
That Sleep is the Brother of Death, and of Gorgias drawing to his End
Of the Voluntary and Willing Death of Calanus
Of Delicate Dinners, Sumptuous Suppers, and Prodigall Banqueting
Of Bestowing Time, and how Walking Up and Downe was not Allowable among the Lacedaemonians
How Socrates Suppressed the Pryde and Hautinesse of Alcibiades
AESCHINES -- B.C. 389-314
AESCHYLUS (by John Williams White) -- B.C. 525-456
Complaint of Prometheus ('Prometheus')
Prayer to Artemis ('The Suppliants')
Defiance of Eteocles ('The Seven against Thebes')
Vision of Cassandra ('Agamemnon')
AESOP (by Harry Thurston Peck) -- Seventh Century B.C.
JEAN LOUIS RODOLPHE AGASSIZ -- 1807-1873
The Silurian Beach ('Geological Sketches')
AGATHIAS -- A.D. 536-581
GRACE AGUILAR -- 1816-1847
Greatness of Friendship ('Woman's Friendship')
WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH -- 1805-1882
PEDRO ANTONIO DE ALARCÓN -- 1833-1891
A Woman Viewed from Without ('The Three-Cornered Hat')
How the Orphan Manuel gained his Sobriquet ('The Child of the Ball')
ALCAEUS -- Sixth Century B.C.
ALCIPHRON (by Harry Thurston Peck) -- Second Century
From a Mercenary Girl--Petala to Simalion
Pleasures of Athens--Euthydicus to Epiphanio
From an Anxious Mother--Phyllis to Thrasonides
From a Curious Youth--Philocomus to Thestylus
From a Professional Diner-out--Capnosphrantes to Aristomachus
ALCMAN -- Seventh Century B.C.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -- 1832-1888
The Night Ward ('Hospital Sketches')
Amy's Valley of Humiliation ('Little Women')
ALCUIN (by William H. Carpenter) -- 735?-8o4
On the Saints of the Church at York ('Alcuin and the Rise of the Christian Schools')
Disputation between Pepin, the Most Noble and Royal Youth, and Albinus the Scholastic
HENRY M. ALDEN -- 1836-
A Dedication--To My Beloved Wife ('A Study of Death')
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH -- 1837-
VITTORIO ALFIERI (by L. Oscar Kuhns) -- 1749-1803
ALFONSO THE WISE -- 1221-1284
What Meaneth a Tyrant, and How he Useth his Power ('Las Siete Partidas')
On the Turks, and Why they are So Called ('La Gran Conquista de Ultramar')
CHARLES GRANT ALLEN -- 1848-
The Coloration of Flowers ('The Colors of Flowers')
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM -- 1828-1889
HENRI FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL--Continued -- 1821-1881
Introspection and Schopenhauer
Dangers from Decay of Earnestness
ANACREON -- B.C. 562?-477
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (by Benjamin W. Wells) -- 1805-1875
The Market Place ('The Story of My Life')
ANEURIN -- Sixth Century
ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE (by Robert Sharp)
GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO -- 1864-
The Drowned Boy ('The Triumph of Death')
To an Impromptu of Chopin (same)
ANTAR (by Edward S. Holden) -- About 550-615
LUCIUS APULEIUS -- Second Century
The Tale of Aristomenes, the Commercial Traveler ('The Metamorphoses')
The Awakening of Cupid (same)
THOMAS AQUINAS (by Edwin A. Pace) -- 1226-1274
On the Value of Our Concepts of the Deity ('Summa Theologica')
How Can the Absolute Be a Cause? ('Quæstiones Disputatæ')
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS (by Richard Gottheil)
From 'The Story of the City of Brass' (Lane's Translation)
From 'The History of King Omar Ben Ennuman, and His Sons Sherkan and Zoulmekan' (Payne's Translation)
From 'Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman' (Burton's Translation)
Conclusion of 'The Thousand Nights and a Night' (Burton's Translation)
ARABIC LITERATURE (by Richard Gottheil)
Imr-al-Kais: Description of a Mountain Storm
Zuhéir: Lament for the Destruction of his Former Home
Tarafah ibn al-'Abd: Rebuke to a Mischief-Maker
Labîd: Lament for the Afflictions of his Tribe
Duraid, son of as-Simmah: The Death of 'Abdallâh
Ash-Shanfarà of Azd: A Picture of Womanhood
'Umar ibn Rabí'a: Zeynab at the Ka'bah
'Umar ibn Rabí'a: The Unveiled Maid
Al-Nâbighah: Eulogy of the Men of Ghassân
Ibrahim, Son of Kunaif: Patience
Abu l'Ata of Sind: An Address to the Beloved
Katari ibn al-Fujâ'ah: Fatality
Al-Fadi ibn al-Abbas: Implacability
Hittân ibn al-Mu'allà: Parental Affection
Sa'd, son of Malik: A Tribesman's Valor
From Sale's Koran:--Chapter xxxv.: "The Creator";
Chapter lxxxiv.: "The Rending in Sunder"
Al-Hariri: The Words of Hareth ibn Hammam
The Caliph Omar Bin Abd Al-Aziz and the Poets (From 'Supplemental Nights': Burton's Translation)
DOMINIQUE FRANÇOIS ARAGO (by Edward S. Holden) -- 1786-1853
JOHN ARBUTHNOT -- 1667-1735
The True Characters of John Bull, Nic. Frog, and Hocus ('The History of John Bull')
Reconciliation of John and his Sister Peg (same)
Of the Rudiments of Martin's Learning ('Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus')
The Victory of Orpheus ('The Life and Death of Jason')
LUDOVICO ARIOSTO (by L. Oscar Kuhns) -- 1474-1533
The Friendship of Medoro and Cloridane ('Orlando Furioso')
The Saving of Medoro (same)
The Madness of Orlando (same)
ARISTOPHANES (by Paul Shorey) -- B.C. 448-390?
Origin of the Peloponnesian War ('The Acharnians')
The Poet's Apology (same)
Appeal of the Chorus ('The Knights')
Cloud Chorus ('The Clouds')
A Rainy Day on the Farm ('The Peace')
The Harvest (same)
Grand Chorus of Birds ('The Birds')
Call to the Nightingale (same)
The Building of Cloud-Cuckoo-Town (same)
Chorus of Women ('Thesmophoriazusæ')
Chorus of Mystæ in Hades ('The Frogs')
A Parody of Euripides' Lyric Verse ('The Frogs')
The Prologues of Euripides (same)
ARISTOTLE (by Thomas Davidson) -- B.C. 384-322
Nature of the Soul ('On the Soul')
On the Difference between History and Poetry ('Poetics')
On Philosophy (Cicero's 'Nature of the Gods')
On Essences ('Metaphysics')
On Community of Studies ('Politics')
JÓN ARNASON -- 1819-1888
ERNST MORITZ ARNDT -- 1769-1860
EDWIN ARNOLD -- 1832-
Youth of Buddha ('The Light of Asia')
The Pure Sacrifice of Buddha (same)
Faithfulness of Yudhisthira ('The Great Journey')
After Death ('Pearls of the Faith')
Solomon and the Ant (same)
The Afternoon (same)
The Trumpet (same)
Grishma; or the Season of Heat (Translated from Kalidasa)
MATTHEW ARNOLD (by George Edward Woodberry) -- 1822-1888
Intelligence and Genius ('Essays in Criticism')
Sweetness and Light ('Culture and Anarchy')
Oxford ('Essays in Criticism')
Stanzas in Memory of the Author of 'Obermann' (1849)
THE ARTHURIAN LEGENDS (by Richard Jones)
ATHENÆUS -- Third Century B.C.
Why the Nile Overflows ('Deipnosophistæ')
How to Preserve the Health (same)
An Account of Some Great Eaters (same)
The Love of Animals for Man (same)
AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE (by Frederick Morris Warren) -- Twelfth Century
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON -- 1780-1851
A Dangerous Adventure ('The American Ornithological Biography')
BERTHOLD AUERBACH -- 1812-1882
The First Mass ('Ivo the Gentleman')
The Peasant-Nurse and the Prince ('On the Heights')
BERTHOLD AUERBACH--Continued: -- 1812-1882
The First False Step ('On the Heights')
The New Home and the Old One (same)
ÉMILE AUGIER -- 1820-1889
A Conversation with a Purpose ('Giboyer's Boy')
A Severe Young Judge ('The Adventuress')
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO (by Samuel Hart) -- 354-430
The Godly Sorrow that Worketh Repentance ('The Confessions')
Consolation (same)
The Foes of the City ('The City of God')
The Praise of God (same)
A Prayer ('The Trinity')
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS -- A.D. 121-180
JANE AUSTEN -- 1775-1817
An Offer of Marriage ('Pride and Prejudice')
Mother and Daughter (same)
A Letter of Condolence (same)
A Well-Matched Sister and Brother ('Northanger Abbey')
Family Doctors ('Emma')
Family Training ('Mansfield Park')
Private Theatricals (same)
AVERROËS -- 1126-1198
THE AVESTA (by A.V. Williams Jackson)
AVICEBRON -- 1028-?1058
On Matter and Form ('The Fountain of Life')
ROBERT AYTOUN -- 1570-1638
Lines to an Inconstant Mistress (with Burns's Adaptation)
WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN -- 1813-1865
Burial March of Dundee ('Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers')
Execution of Montrose (same)
The Broken Pitcher ('Bon Gaultier Ballads')
Sonnet to Britain. "By the Duke of Wellington" (same)
A Ball in the Upper Circles ('The Modern Endymion')
A Highland Tramp ('Norman Sinclair')
MASSIMO TAPARELLI D'AZEGLIO -- 1798-1866
A Happy Childhood ('My Recollections')
The Priesthood (same)
My First Venture in Romance (same)
BABER (by Edward S. Holden) -- 1482-1530
BABRIUS -- First Century A.D.
The Mouse that Fell into the Pot
The Nightingale and the Swallow
FRANCIS BACON (by Charlton T. Lewis) -- 1561-1626
Of Truth ('Essays')
Of Revenge (same)
Of Simulation and Dissimulation (same)
Of Travel (same)
Of Friendship (same)
Defects of the Universities ('The Advancement of Learning')
To Villiers on his Patent as a Viscount
WALTER BAGEHOT (by Forrest Morgan) -- 1826-1877
The Virtues of Stupidity ('Letters on the French Coup d'État')
Review Writing ('The First Edinburgh Reviewers')
Lord Eldon (same)
Taste ('Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning')
Causes of the Sterility of Literature ('Shakespeare')
The Search for Happiness ('William Cowper')
On Early Reading ('Edward Gibbon')
The Cavaliers ('Thomas Babington Macaulay')
Morality and Fear ('Bishop Butler')
The Tyranny of Convention ('Sir Robert Peel')
How to Be an Influential Politician ('Bolingbroke')
Conditions of Cabinet Government ('The English Constitution')
Why Early Societies could not be Free ('Physics and Politics')
Benefits of Free Discussion in Modern Times (same)
Origin of Deposit Banking ('Lombard Street')
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY -- 1816-
From "Festus": Life: The Passing-Bell; Thoughts;
HENRY MARTYN BAIRD -- 1832-
The Battle of Ivry ('The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre')
SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER -- 1821-1893
Hunting in Abyssinia ('The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia')
The Sources of the Nile ('The Albert Nyanza')
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR -- 1848-
The Pleasures of Reading (Rectorial Address)
THE BALLAD (by F.B. Gummere)
HONORÉ DE BALZAC (by William P. Trent) -- 1799-1850
The Meeting in the Convent ('The Duchess of Langeais')
The Napoleon of the People ('The Country Doctor')
GEORGE BANCROFT (by Austin Scott) -- 1800-1891
The Beginnings of Virginia ('History of the United States')
Men and Government in Early Massachusetts (same)
King Philip's War (same)
The New Netherland (same)
Franklin (same)
GEORGE BANCROFT--Continued: -- 1800-1891
Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham ('History of the United States')
Lexington (same)
Washington (same)
JOHN AND MICHAEL BANIM -- 1798-1874
The Publican's Dream ('The Bit of Writin'')
THÉODORE DE BANVILLE -- 1823--1891
Le Café ('The Soul of Paris')
The Mysterious Hosts of the Forests ('The Caryatids': Lang's Translation)
ALEXANDER BARCLAY -- 1475-1552
The Courtier's Life (Second Eclogue)
RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM -- 1788-1845
SABINE BARING-GOULD -- 1834-
St. Patrick's Purgatory ('Curious Myths of the Middle Ages')
The Cornish Wreckers ('The Vicar of Morwenstow')
JOEL BARLOW -- 1754-1812
A Feast ('Hasty Pudding')
WILLIAM BARNES -- 1800-1886
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE -- 1860-
The Courtin' of T'nowhead's Bell ('Auld Licht Idylls')
Jess Left Alone ('A Window in Thrums')
After the Sermon ('The Little Minister')
The Mutual Discovery (same)
Lost Illusions ('Sentimental Tommy')
Sins of Circumstance (same)
FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT -- 1801-1850
Petition of Manufacturers of Artificial Light
Inapplicable Terms ('Economic Sophisms')
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (by Grace King) -- 1821-1867
The Painter of Modern Life ('L'Art Romantique')
From 'Little Poems in Prose': Every One His Own Chimera; Humanity; Windows; Drink
LORD BEACONSFIELD (by Isa Carrington Cabell) -- 1804-1881
A Day at Ems ('Vivian Grey')
The Festa in the Alhambra ('The Young Duke')
Squibs from 'The Young Duke': Charles Annesley; The Fussy Hostess; Public Speaking; Female Beauty
Lothair in Palestine ('Lothair')
BEAUMARCHAIS -- 1732-1799
Outwitting a Guardian ('The Barber of Seville')
Outwitting a Husband ('The Marriage of Figaro')
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER -- 1584-1625
Arethusa's Declaration ('Philaster')
The Story of Bellario (same)
Evadne's Confession ('The Maid's Tragedy')
Death of the Boy Hengo ('Bonduca')
WILLIAM BECKFORD -- 1759-1844
The Incantation and the Sacrifice ('Vathek')
HENRY WARD BEECHER -- 1813-1887
Book-Stores and Books ('Star Papers')
Sermon: Poverty and the Gospel
A New England Sunday ('Norwood')
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (by Irenæus Stevenson) -- 1770-1827
Letters: To Dr. Wegeler; To the Same; To Bettina Brentano;
To Countess Giulietta Guicciardi; To the Same; To His Brothers;
To the Royal and Imperial High Court of Appeal; To Baroness von Drossdick;
To Zmeskall; To the Same; To His Brother Johann; To Stephan v. Breuning
CARL MICHAEL BELLMAN (by Olga Flinch) -- 1740-1795
JEREMY BENTHAM -- 1748-1832
Of the Principle of Utility ('An Introduction to the Principles of Morals snd Legislation')
Letter to George Wilson (1781)
JEAN-PIERRE DE BÉRANGER (by Alcée Fortier) -- 1780-1857
GEORGE BERKELEY -- 1685-1753
On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America
Essay on Tar-Water ('Siris')
HECTOR BERLIOZ -- 1803-1869
The Italian Race as Musicians and Auditors ('Autobiography')
The Famous "K Snuff-Box Treachery" (same)
On Gluck (same)
On Bach (same)
Music as an Aristocratic Art (same)
SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX -- 1091-1153
Monastic Luxury (Apology to the Abbot William of St. Thierry)
BERNARD OF CLUNY (by William C. Prime) -- Twelfth Century
JULIANA BERNERS -- Fifteenth Century
BESTIARIES AND LAPIDARIES (by L. Oscar Kuhns)
MARIE-HENRI BEYLE (Stendhal) (by Frederic Taber Cooper) -- 1783-1842
Princess Sanseverina's Interview ('Chartreuse de Parme')
WlLLEM BlLDERDIJK -- 1756-1831
The Village Schoolmaster ('Country Life')
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL -- 1850-
Dr. Johnson ('Obiter Dicta')
The Office of Literature (same)
Truth-Hunting (same)
Benvenuto Cellini (same)
OTTO EDWARD LEOPOLD VON BISMARCK -- 1815-
By Munroe Smith
Letters-- To Fran von Arnim
To His Wife: Aug. 7, 1851; June 6, 1859; June 8, 1859; June 28, 1859; July 26, 1859
To His Wife: Aug. 4, 1862; July 9, 1866; Sept. 3, 1870; June 23, 1852
Personal Characteristics of the Members of the Frankfort Diet
BJÖRNSTJERNE BJÖRNSON -- 1832-
By William Morton Payne
Over the Lofty Mountains ('Arne')
The Cloister in the South ('Arnljot Gelline')
The Plea of King Magnus ('Sigurd Slembe')
Sin and Death (same)
How the Mountain Was Clad ('Arne')
WILLIAM BLACK -- 1841-
Sheila in London ('A Princess of Thule')
RICHARD DODDRIDGE BLACKMORE -- 1825-
A Desperate Venture ('Lorna Doone')
A Wedding and a Revenge (same)
Landing the Trout ('Alice Lorraine')
A Dane in the Dike ('Mary Anerley')
WILLIAM BLAKE -- 1757-1827
CHARLES BLANC -- 1813-1882
Rembrandt ('The Dutch School of Painters')
Albert Dürer's 'Melancholia' (same)
Ingres ('Life of Ingres')
Calamatta's Studio ('Contemporary Artists')
Blanc's Début as Art Critic (same)
Delacroix's 'Bark of Dante' (same)
Moral Influence of Art ('Grammar of Painting and Engraving')
Poussin's 'Shepherds of Arcadia' (same)
Landscape (same)
Style (same)
STEEN STEENSEN BLICHER -- 1782-1848
MATHILDE BLIND -- 1847-1896
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO -- 1313-1375
By W.J. Stillman
Frederick of the Alberighi and His Falcon
The Jew Converted to Christianity by Going to Rome
FRIEDRICH MARTIN VON BODENSTEDT -- 1819-1892
The Poetry of Mirza-Schaffy ('Thousand and One Days in the East')
Mirza-Schaffy (same)
The School of Wisdom (same)
An Excursion into Armenia (same)
JOHANN JAKOB BODMER -- 1698-1783
BOËTIUS -- 475-525
Of the Greatest Good ('Consolations of Philosophy')
NICHOLAS BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX -- 1636-1711
Advice to Authors ('The Art of Poetry')
The Pastoral, the Elegy, the Ode, and the Epigram (same)
To Molière ('The Satires')
GASTON BOISSIER -- 1823-2152
Madame de Sévigné as a Letter-Writer ('Life of Madame de Sévigné')
French Society in the Seventeenth Century (same)
How Horace Lived at his Country-House ('The Country of Horace and Virgil')
GEORGE H. BOKER -- 1823-1890
SAINT BONAVENTURA -- 1221-1274
By Thomas Davidson
GEORGE BORROW -- 1803-1881
By Julian Hawthorne
At the Horse-Fair ('Lavengro')
A Meeting ('The Bible in Spain')
JUAN BOSCAN -- 1493-?1540
A Picture of Domestic Happiness ('Epistle to Mendoza')
JACQUES BÉNIGNE BOSSUET -- 1627-1704
By Adolphe Cohn
From the Sermon upon 'The Unity of the Church'
Opening of the Funeral Oration on Henrietta of France
JAMES BOSWELL -- 1740-1795
By Charles F. Johnson
PAUL BOURGET -- 1852-
The American Family ('Outre-Mer')
The Aristocratic Vision of M. Renan ('Study of M. Renan')
SIR JOHN BOWRING -- 1792-1872
From Luis de Gongora: Not All Nightingales
From Bogdanovich (Old Russian): Song
From Bobrov: The Golden Palace
HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN -- 1848-1895
A Norwegian Dance ('Gunnar')
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON -- 1837-
Advent of the Hirelings ('The Christmas Hirelings')
"How Bright She Was--" etc. ('Mohawks')
GEORG BRANDES -- 1842-
By William Morton Payne
Björnson ('Eminent Authors of the Nineteenth Century')
The Historical Movement in Modern Literature ('Main Currents in the Literature of the Nineteenth Century')
SEBASTIAN BRANDT -- 1458-1521