Library of the Worlds Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 5

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LIBRARY OF THE
WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE
ANCIENT AND MODERN
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
EDITOR
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE
GEORGE HENRY WARNER
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Connoisseur Edition
VOL. V.

THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
* * * * *
CRAWFORD H. TOY, A.M., LL.D., Professor of Hebrew,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Mass.
THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, LL.D., L.H.D., Professor of English in
the Sheffield Scientific School of YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven,
Conn.
WILLIAM M. SLOANE, PH.D., L.H.D., Professor of History and
Political Science, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, N.J.
BRANDER MATTHEWS, A.M., LL.B., Professor of Literature,
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City.

JAMES B. ANGELL, LL.D., President of the UNIVERSITY OF
MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Mich.
WILLARD FISKE, A.M., PH.D., Late Professor of the Germanic and
Scandinavian Languages and Literatures, CORNELL UNIVERSITY,
Ithaca, N.Y.
EDWARD S. HOLDEN, A.M., LL.D., Director of the Lick
Observatory, and Astronomer, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
Berkeley, Cal.
ALCÉE FORTIER, LIT.D., Professor of the Romance Languages,
TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La.
WILLIAM P. TRENT, M.A., Dean of the Department of Arts and
Sciences, and Professor of English and History, UNIVERSITY OF
THE SOUTH, Sewanee, Tenn.
PAUL SHOREY, PH.D., Professor of Greek and Latin Literature,
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Ill.
WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL.D., United States Commissioner of
Education, BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D.C.
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A.M., LL.D., Professor of Literature in
the CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, Washington, D.C.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. V
LIVED PAGE OTTO EDWARD LEOPOLD VON BISMARCK 1815-
1929
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 Oscar von Arnim To His
Wife: Aug. 4, 1862; July 9, 1866; Sept. 3, 1870; June 23, 1852
Personal Characteristics of the Members of the Frankfort Diet From a
Speech on the Military Bill
BJÖRNSTJERNE BJÖRNSON 1832- 1959
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) The Princess Sigurd Slembe's Return How the Mountain Was
Clad ('Arne') The Father
WILLIAM BLACK 1841- 1983
The End of Macleod of Dare Sheila in London ('A Princess of Thule')
RICHARD DODDRIDGE BLACKMORE 1825- 2011
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 2041
Song The Piper and the Child Song Holy Thursday The Two Songs
Cradle Song Night The Little Black Boy The Tiger
CHARLES BLANC 1813-1882 2051
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) Genesis of the 'Grammar' Moral Influence of Art
('Grammar of Painting and Engraving') Poussin's 'Shepherds of
Arcadia' (same) Landscape (same) Style (same) Law of Proportion in
Architecture (same)

STEEN STEENSEN BLICHER 1782-1848 2064
A Picture The Knitting-Room The Hosier
MATHILDE BLIND 1847-1896 2075
From 'Love in Exile' The Mystic's Vision Seeking From 'Tarantella'
Songs of Summer O Moon, Large Golden Summer Moon A Parable
Love's Somnambulist Green Leaves and Sere
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO 1313-1375 2089
BY W.J. STILLMAN
Frederick of the Alberighi and His Falcon The Jew Converted to
Christianity by Going to Rome The Story of Saladin and the Jew
Usurer The Story of Griselda
FRIEDRICH MARTIN VON BODENSTEDT 1819-1892 2116
Two Wine Song Unchanging 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) Mirza-Jussuf
Wisdom and Knowledge
JOHANN JAKOB BODMER 1698-1783 2128
Kinship of the Arts ('Rubens') Poetry and Painting ('Holbein') Tribute
to Tobacco ('Dürer')
BOËTIUS 475-525 2133
Of the Greatest Good ('Consolations of Philosophy')
NICHOLAS BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX 1636-1711 2141
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 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