VOL. I

[ABÉLARD AND HÉLOISE] (by Thomas Davidson) -- 1079-1142

[Letter of Héloise to Abélard]

[Abélard's Answer to Héloise]

[Vesper Hymn of Abélard]

[EDMOND ABOUT] -- 1828-1885

[The Capture] ('The King of the Mountains')

[Hadgi-Stavros] (same)

[The Victim] ('The Man with the Broken Ear')

[The Man without a Country] (same)

[ACCADIAN-BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN LITERATURE] (by Crawford H. Toy)

[Theogony]

[Revolt of Tiamat]

[Descent to the Underworld]

[The Flood]

[The Eagle and the Snake]

[The Flight of Etana]

[The God Zu]

[Adapa and the Southwind]

[Penitential Psalms]

[Inscription of Sennacherib]

[Invocation to the Goddess Beltis]

[Oracles of Ishtar of Arbela]

[An Erechite's Lament]

[ABIGAIL ADAMS] (by Lucia Gilbert Runkle) -- 1744-1818

[Letters--To her Husband:]

[May 24, 1775]; [June 15, 1775]; [June 18, 1775];

[Nov. 27, 1775]; [April 20, 1777]; [June 8, 1779]

[To her Sister:]

[Sept. 5, 1784]; [May 10, 1785];

[July 24, 1784]; [June 24, 1785]

[To her Niece]

[HENRY ADAMS] -- 1838-

[Auspices of the War of 1812]

[What the War of 1812 Demonstrated]

[Battle between the Constitution and the Guerrière]

[JOHN ADAMS] -- 1735-1826

[At the French Court ('Diary')]

[Character of Franklin (Letter to the Boston Patriot)]

[JOHN QUINCY ADAMS] -- 1767-1848

[Letter to his Father, at the Age of Ten]

[From the Memoirs, at the Age of Eighteen]

[From the Memoirs, Jan. 14, 1831]; [June 7, 1833]; [Sept. 9, 1833]

[The Mission of America (Fourth of July Oration, 1821)]

[The Right of Petition (Speech in Congress)]

[Nullification (Fourth of July Oration, 1831)]

[SARAH FLOWER ADAMS] -- 1805-1848

[He Sendeth Sun, He Sendeth Shower]

[Nearer, My God, to Thee]

[JOSEPH ADDISON] (by Hamilton Wright Mabie) -- 1672-1720

[Sir Roger de Coverley at the Play]

[Visit to Sir Roger de Coverley]

[Vanity of Human Life]

[Essay on Fans]

[Hymn, 'The Spacious Firmament']

[AELIANUS CLAUDIUS] -- Second Century

[Of Certain Notable Men that made themselves Playfellowes with Children]

[Of a Certaine Sicilian whose Eyesight was Woonderfull Sharpe and Quick]

[The Lawe of the Lacedaemonians against Covetousness]

[That Sleep is the Brother of Death, and of Gorgias drawing to his End]

[Of the Voluntary and Willing Death of Calanus]

[Of Delicate Dinners, Sumptuous Suppers, and Prodigall Banqueting]

[Of Bestowing Time, and how Walking Up and Downe was not Allowable among the Lacedaemonians]

[How Socrates Suppressed the Pryde and Hautinesse of Alcibiades]

[Of Certaine Wastgoodes and Spendthriftes]

[AESCHINES] -- B.C. 389-314

[A Defense and an Attack ('Oration against Ctesiphon')]

[AESCHYLUS] (by John Williams White) -- B.C. 525-456

[Complaint of Prometheus ('Prometheus')]

[Prayer to Artemis ('The Suppliants')]

[Defiance of Eteocles ('The Seven against Thebes')]

[Vision of Cassandra ('Agamemnon')]

[Lament of the Old Nurse ('The Libation-Pourers')]

[Decree of Athena ('The Eumenides')]

[AESOP] (by Harry Thurston Peck) -- Seventh Century B.C.

[The Fox and the Lion]

[The Ass in the Lion's Skin]

[The Ass Eating Thistles]

[The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing]

[The Countryman and the Snake]

[The Belly and the Members]

[The Satyr and the Traveler]

[The Lion and the other Beasts]

[The Ass and the Little Dog]

[The Country Mouse and the City Mouse]

[The Dog and the Wolf]

[JEAN LOUIS RODOLPHE AGASSIZ] -- 1807-1873

[The Silurian Beach ('Geological Sketches')]

[Voices ('Methods of Study in Natural History')]

[Formation of Coral Reefs (same)]

[AGATHIAS] -- A.D. 536-581

[Apostrophe to Plutarch]

[GRACE AGUILAR] -- 1816-1847

[Greatness of Friendship ('Woman's Friendship')]

[Order of Knighthood ('The Days of Bruce')]

[Culprit and Judge ('Home Influence')]

[WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH] -- 1805-1882

[Students of Paris ('Crichton')]

[MARK AKENSIDE] -- 1721-1770

[From the Epistle to Curio]

[Aspirations after the Infinite ('Pleasures of the Imagination')]

[On a Sermon against Glory]

[PEDRO ANTONIO DE ALARCÓN] -- 1833-1891

[A Woman Viewed from Without ('The Three-Cornered Hat')]

[How the Orphan Manuel gained his Sobriquet ('The Child of the Ball')]

[ALCAEUS] -- Sixth Century B.C.

[BALTÁZAR DE ALCÁZAR] -- 1530?-1606

[Sleep]

[The Jovial Supper]

[ALCIPHRON] (by Harry Thurston Peck) -- Second Century

[From a Mercenary Girl--Petala to Simalion]

[Pleasures of Athens--Euthydicus to Epiphanio]

[From an Anxious Mother--Phyllis to Thrasonides]

[From a Curious Youth--Philocomus to Thestylus]

[From a Professional Diner-out--Capnosphrantes to Aristomachus]

[Unlucky Luck--Chytrolictes to Patellocharon]

[ALCMAN] -- Seventh Century B.C.

[Poem on Night]

[LOUISA MAY ALCOTT] -- 1832-1888

[The Night Ward ('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?-8o4

[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-

[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]

[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]