Library of the Worlds Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 1 | Page 4

('Hospital Sketches') Amy's Valley of Humiliation ('Little Women') Thoreau's Flute (Atlantic Monthly) Song from the Suds ('Little Women')
ALCUIN (by William H. Carpenter) 735?-804 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 A Letter from Alcuin to Charlemagne
HENRY M. ALDEN 1836- A Dedication--To My Beloved Wife ('A Study of Death') The Dove and the Serpent (same) Death and Sleep (same) The Parable of the Prodigal (same)
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH 1837- Destiny Identity Prescience Alec Yeaton's Son Memory Tennyson (1890) Sweetheart, Sigh No More Broken Music Elmwood Sea Longings A Shadow of the Night Outward Bound Reminiscence Père Antoine's Date-Palm Miss Mehetabel's Son
ALEARDO ALEARDI 1812-1878 Cowards ('The Primal Histories') The Harvesters ('Monte Circello') The Death of the Year ('An Hour of My Youth')
JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT 1717-1783 Montesquieu (Eulogy in the 'Encyclopédie')
VITTORIO ALFIERI (by L. Oscar Kuhns) 1749-1803 Scenes from 'Agamemnon'
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') To the Month of Mary ('Cantigas')
ALFRED THE GREAT 849-901 King Alfred on King-Craft Alfred's Preface to the Version of Pope Gregory's 'Pastoral Care' From Boethius Blossom Gatherings from St. Augustine
CHARLES GRANT ALLEN 1848- The Coloration of Flowers ('The Colors of Flowers') Among the Heather ('The Evolutionist at Large') The Heron's Haunt ('Vignettes from Nature')
JAMES LANE ALLEN 1850- A Courtship ('A Summer in Arcady') Old King Solomon's Coronation ('Flute and Violin')
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM 1828-1889 The Ruined Chapel The Winter Pear O Spirit of the Summer-time The Bubble St. Margaret's Eve The Fairies Robin Redbreast An Evening Daffodil Lovely Mary Donnelly
KARL JONAS LUDVIG ALMQUIST 1793-1866 Characteristics of Cattle A New Undine (from 'The Book of the Rose') God's War
JOHANNA AMBROSIUS 1854- A Peasant's Thoughts Struggle and Peace Do Thou Love, Too! Invitation
EDMONDO DE AMICIS 1846- The Light ('Constantinople') Resemblances (same) Birds (same) Cordova ('Spain') The Land of Pluck ('Holland and Its People') The Dutch Masters ('Holland and Its People')
HENRI FRéDéRIC AMIEL (by Richard Burton) 1821-1881 Extracts from Amiel's Journal: Christ's Real Message Duty Joubert Greeks vs. Moderns Nature, and Teutonic and Scandinavian Poetry Training of Children Mozart and Beethoven

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME I.
The Book of the Dead (Colored Plate). First English Printing (Fac-simile). Assyrian Clay Tablet (Fac-simile). John Adams (Portrait). John Quincy Adams (Portrait). Joseph Addison (Portrait). Louis Agassiz (Portrait). "Poetry" (Photogravure). Vittorio Alfieri (Portrait). "A Courtship" (Photogravure). "A Dutch Girl" (Photogravure).
VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
Pierre Abélard. Edmond About. Abigail Adams. Aeschines. Aeschylus. Aesop. Grace Aguilar. William Harrison Ainsworth. Mark Akenside. Alcaeus. Louisa May Alcott. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Jean le Rond D'Alembert. Edmondo de Amicis.

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
JOHN MILTON.

CAXTON.
Reduced facsimile of the first page of the only copy extant of
GODEFREY OF BOLOYNE
or
LAST SIEGE AND CONQUESTE OF JHERUSALEM.
The Prologue, at top of page, begins:
Here begynneth the boke Intituled Eracles, and also Godefrey of Boloyne, the whiche speketh of the Conquest of the holy lande of Jherusalem.
Printed by Caxton, London, 1481. In the British Museum.
A good specimen page of the earliest English printing. Caxton's first printed book, and the first book printed in English, was "The Game and Play of the Chess," which was printed in 1474. The blank space on this page was for the insertion by hand of an illuminated initial T.

ABéLARD
(1079--1142)
BY THOMAS DAVIDSON
Pierre, the eldest son of Bérenger and Lucie (Abélard?) was born at Palais, near Nantes and the frontier of Brittany, in 1079. His knightly father, having in his youth been a student, was anxious to give his family, and especially his favorite Pierre, a liberal education. The boy was accordingly sent to school, under a teacher who at that time was making his mark in the world,--Roscellin, the reputed father of Nominalism. As the whole import and tragedy of his life may be traced back to this man's teaching, and the relation