Library of the Worlds Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 4 | Page 2

Court of Appeal; To Baroness von Drossdick;
To Zmeskall; To the Same; To Stephan v. Breuning
CARL MICHAEL BELLMAN (by Olga Flinch) 1740-1795 To Ulla
Cradle-Song for My Son Carl Amaryllis Art and Politics Drink Out
Thy Glass
JEREMY BENTHAM 1748-1832 Of the Principle of Utility ('An
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation')

Reminiscences of Childhood Letter to George Wilson (1781) Fragment
of a Letter to Lord Lansdowne (1790)
JEAN-PIERRE DE BÉRANGER (by Alcée Fortier) 1780-1857 From
'The Gipsies' The Gad-Fly Draw It Mild The King of Yvetot Fortune
The People's Reminiscences The Old Tramp Fifty Years The Garret
My Tomb From His Preface to His Collected Poems
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) Beginning of a "Grand Passion" (same) On Theatrical Managers
in Relation to Art
SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX 1091-1153 Saint Bernard's
Hymn Monastic Luxury (Apology to the Abbot William of St. Thierry)
From His Sermon on the Death of Gerard
BERNARD OF CLUNY (by William C. Prime) Twelfth Century Brief
Life Is Here Our Portion
JULIANA BERNERS Fifteenth Century The Treatyse of Fyssbynge
with an Angle
WALTER BESANT 1838- Old-Time London ('London') The
Synagogue ('The Rebel Queen')
BESTIARIES AND LAPIDARIES (by L. Oscar Kuhns) The Lion The
Pelican The Eagle The Phoenix The Ant The Siren The Whale The
Crocodile The Turtle-Dove The Mandragora Sapphire Coral
MARIE-HENRI BEYLE (Stendhal) (by Frederic Taber Cooper)
1783-1842 Princess Sanseverina's Interview ('Chartreuse de Parme')
Clélia Aids Fabrice to Escape (same)

WlLLEM BlLDERDIJK 1756-1831 Ode to Beauty From the 'Ode to
Napoleon' Slighted Love The Village Schoolmaster ('Country Life')
BION Second Century B.C. Threnody Hesper
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL 1850- Dr. Johnson ('Obiter Dicta') The Office
of Literature (same) Truth-Hunting (same) Benvenuto Cellini (same)
On the Alleged Obscurity of Mr. Browning's Poetry (same)

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME IV.
* * * * *
PAGE Egyptian Hieroglyphics (Colored Plate) Frontispiece "The Irish
Maiden's Song" (Photogravure) 1473 "Milking Time" (Photogravure)
1567 "Music" (Photogravure) 1625 Henry Ward Beecher (Portrait)
1714 "Beethoven" (Photogravure) 1750 Jean-Pierre de Béranger
(Portrait) 1784 "Monastic Luxury" (Photogravure) 1824
VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
John Banim Théodore de Banville Anna Lætitia Barbauld Richard
Harris Barham Jane Barlow Joel Barlow James Matthew Barrie
Frédéric Bastiat Charles Baudelaire Lord Beaconsfield Beaumarchais
Francis Beaumont William Beckford Ludwig van Beethoven Jeremy
Bentham George Berkeley Hector Berlioz Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Juliana Berners Walter Besant Henri Beyle (Stendhal) Augustine
Birrell

GEORGE BANCROFT (Continued from Volume III)
WOLFE ON THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM
From 'History of the United States'

But, in the meantime, Wolfe applied himself intently to reconnoitering
the north shore above Quebec. Nature had given him good eyes, as well
as a warmth of temper to follow first impressions. He himself
discovered the cove which now bears his name, where the bending
promontories almost form a basin, with a very narrow margin, over
which the hill rises precipitously. He saw the path that wound up the
steep, though so narrow that two men could hardly march in it abreast;
and he knew, by the number of tents which he counted on the summit,
that the Canadian post which guarded it could not exceed a hundred.
Here he resolved to land his army by surprise. To mislead the enemy,
his troops were kept far above the town; while Saunders, as if an attack
was intended at Beauport, set Cook, the great mariner, with others, to
sound the water and plant buoys along that shore.
The day and night of the twelfth were employed in preparations. The
autumn evening was bright; and the general, under the clear starlight,
visited his stations, to make his final inspection and utter his last words
of encouragement. As he passed from ship to ship, he spoke to those in
the boat with him of the poet Gray, and the 'Elegy in a Country
Churchyard.' "I," said he, "would prefer being the author of that poem
to the glory of beating the French to-morrow;" and, while the oars
struck the river as it rippled in the silence of the night air under the
flowing tide, he repeated:--
"The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that
wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour-- The paths of glory
lead but to the grave."
Every officer knew his appointed duty, when, at one o'clock in the
morning of the thirteenth of September, Wolfe, Monckton, and Murray,
and about half the forces, set off in boats, and, using neither sail nor
oars, glided down with the tide. In three quarters of an hour the ships
followed; and, though the night had become dark, aided by