Library of the Worlds Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 6

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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. VI.

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. VI
LIVED PAGE
THE ABBé DE BRANT?ME (Pierre de Bourdeille) 1527-1614 2319 The Dancing of Royalty ('Lives of Notable Women') The Shadow of a Tomb ('Lives of Courtly Women') M. le Constable Anne de Montmorency ('Lives of Distinguished Men and Great Captains') Two Famous Entertainments ('Lives of Courtly Women')
FREDRIKA BREMER 1801-1865 2328 A Home-Coming ('The Neighbors') The Landed Proprietor ('The Home') A Family Picture (same)
CLEMENS BRENTANO 1778-1842 2343 The Nurse's Watch The Castle in Austria
ELISABETH BRENTANO (Bettina von Arnim) 1785-1859 2348 Dedication: To Goethe ('Goethe's Correspondence with a Child') Letter to Goethe Bettina's Last Meeting with Goethe (Letter to Her Niece) In Goethe's Garden
JOHN BRIGHT 1811-1889 2354 From Speech on the Corn Laws (1843) From Speech on Incendiarism in Ireland (1844) From Speech on Non-Recognition of the Southern Confederacy (1861) From Speech on the State of Ireland (1866) From Speech on the Irish Established Church (1868)
BRILLAT-SAVARIN 1755-1826 2365
From 'Physiology of Taste': The Privations; On the Love of Good Living; On People Fond of Good Living
CHARLOTTE BRONTé AND HER SISTERS 1816-1855 2381 Jane Eyre's Wedding-Day ('Jane Eyre') Madame Beck ('Villette') A Yorkshire Landscape ('Shirley') The End of Heathcliff (Emily Bronté's 'Wuthering Heights')
PHILLIPS BROOKS 1835-1893 2417 O Little Town of Bethlehem Personal Character ('Essays and Addresses') The Courage of Opinions (same) Literature and Life (same)
CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN 1771-1810 2425 Wieland's Statement ('Wieland')
JOHN BROWN 1810-1882 2437 Marjorie Fleming ('Spare Hours') Death of Thackeray (same)
CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE (Artemus Ward) 1834-1867 2461 BY CHARLES F. JOHNSON Edwin Forrest as Othello High-Handed Outrage at Utica Affairs Round the Village Green Mr. Pepper ('Artemus Ward: His Travels') Horace Greeley's Ride to Placerville (same)
SIR THOMAS BROWNE 1605-1682 2473 BY FRANCIS BACON From the 'Religio Medici' From 'Christian Morals' From 'Hydriotaphia, or Urn-Burial' From 'A Fragment on Mummies' From 'A Letter to a Friend' Some Relations Whose Truth We Fear ('Pseudoxia Epidemica')
WILLIAM BROWNE 1591-1643 2511 Circe's Charm ('Inner Temple Masque') The Hunted Squirrel ('Britannia's Pastorals') As Careful Merchants Do Expecting Stand (same) Song of the Sirens ('Inner Temple Masque') An Epistle on Parting Sonnets to C?lia
HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL 1820-1872 2519 Annus Memorabilis Words for the 'Hallelujah Chorus' Coming Psychaura Suspiria Noctis
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 1809-1861 2523 A Musical Instrument My Heart and I From 'Catarina to Camoens' The Sleep The Cry of the Children Mother and Poet A Court Lady The Prospect De Profundis The Cry of the Human Romance of the Swan's Nest The Best Thing in the World Sonnets from the Portuguese A False Step A Child's Thought of God Cheerfulness Taught by Reason
ROBERT BROWNING 1812-1889 2557 BY E. L. BURLINGAME Andrea del Sarto A Toccata of Galuppi's Confessions Love among the Ruins A Grammarian's Funeral My Last Duchess Up at a Villa--Down in the City In Three Days In a Year Evelyn Hope Prospice The Patriot One Word More
ORESTES AUGUSTUS BROWNSON 1803-1876 2594 Saint-Simonism ('The Convert')
FERDINAND BRUNETIèRE 1849- 2603 BY ADOLPHE COHN Taine and Prince Napoleon The Literatures of France, England, and Germany
GIORDANO BRUNO 1548-1600 2613 A