Library of the Worlds Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 3 | Page 2

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')
JENS BAGGESEN 1764-1826 A Cosmopolitan ('The Labyrinth')
Philosophy on the Heath (same) There was a Time when I was Very
Little
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY 1816- From "Festus": Life: The Passing-Bell;
Thoughts; Dreams; Chorus of the Saved
JOANNA BAILLIE 1762-1851 Woo'd and Married and A' It Was on a
Morn when We were Thrang Fy, Let Us A' to the Wedding The Weary
Pund o' Tow From 'De Montfort' To Mrs. Siddons A Scotch Song Song,

'Poverty Parts Good Company' The Kitten
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) Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
The Hunting of the Cheviot Johnie Cock Sir Patrick Spens The Bonny
Earl of Murray Mary Hamilton Bonnie George Campbell Bessie Bell
and Mary Gray The Three Ravens Lord Randal Edward The Twa
Brothers Babylon Childe Maurice The Wife of Usher's Well Sweet
William's Ghost
HONORÉ DE BALZAC (by William P. Trent) 1799-1850 The
Meeting in the Convent ('The Duchess of Langeais') An Episode Under
the Terror A Passion in the Desert 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)

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME III.
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PAGE Ancient Irish Miniature (Colored Plate) Frontispiece "St.
Augustine and His Mother" (Photogravure) 1014 Papyrus, Sermons of

St. Augustine (Fac-simile) 1018 Marcus Aurelius (Portrait) 1022 The
Zend Avesta (Fac-simile) 1084 Francis Bacon (Portrait) 1156 "The
Cavaliers" (Photogravure) 1218 Honoré de Balzac (Portrait) 1348
George Bancroft (Portrait) 1432
VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
Émile Augier Jane Austen Robert Aytoun Walter Bagehot Jens
Baggesen Philip James Bailey Joanna Baillie Henry Martyn Baird Sir
Samuel White Baker Arthur James Balfour

(Continued from Volume II)
"Do you imagine that every one is kindly disposed towards you? Take
my word for it, a palace contains people of all sorts, good and bad. All
the vices abound in such a place. And there are many other matters of
which you have no idea, and of which you will, I trust, ever remain
ignorant. But all you meet are wondrous polite. Try to remain just as
you now are, and when you leave the palace, let it be as the same
Walpurga you were when you came here."
Walpurga stared at her in surprise. Who could change her?
Word came that the Queen was awake and desired Walpurga to bring
the Crown Prince to her.
Accompanied by Doctor Gunther, Mademoiselle Kramer, and two
waiting-women, she proceeded to the Queen's bedchamber. The Queen
lay there, calm and beautiful, and with a smile of greeting, turned her
face towards those who had entered. The curtains had been partially
drawn aside, and a broad, slanting ray of light shone into the apartment,
which seemed still more peaceful than during the breathless silence of
the previous night.
"Good morning!" said the Queen, with a voice full of feeling. "Let me
have my child!" She looked down at the babe that rested in her arms,
and then, without noticing any one in the room, lifted her glance on

high and faintly murmured:--
"This is the first time I behold my child in the daylight!"
All were silent; it seemed as if there was naught in the apartment except
the broad slanting ray of light that streamed in at the window.
"Have you slept well?" inquired the Queen. Walpurga was glad the
Queen had asked a question, for now she could answer. Casting a
hurried glance at Mademoiselle Kramer, she said:--
"Yes, indeed! Sleep's the first, the last, and the best thing in the world."
"She's clever," said the Queen, addressing Doctor Gunther in French.
Walpurga's heart sank within her. Whenever she heard them speak
French, she felt as if they were betraying her; as if they had put on an
invisible cap, like that worn by the goblins in the fairy-tale, and could
thus speak without being heard.
"Did the Prince sleep well?" asked the Queen.
Walpurga passed her hand over her face, as if to brush away a spider
that had been creeping there. The