VOL. II.

[HENRI FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL]--Continued -- 1821-1881

[Self-interest]

[Wagner's Music]

[Secret of Remaining Young]

[Results of Equality]

[View-Points of History]

[Introspection and Schopenhauer]

[Music and the Imagination]

[Love and the Sexes]

[Fundamentals of Religion]

[Dangers from Decay of Earnestness]

[Woman's ideal the Community's Fate]

[French Self-Consciousness]

[Frivolous Art]

[Critical Ideals]

[The Best Art]

[The True Critic]

[Spring--Universal Religion]

[Introspective Meditations]

[Destiny (just before death)]

[ANACREON] -- B.C. 562?-477

[Drinking]

[Age]

[The Epicure]

[Gold]

[The Grasshopper]

[The Swallow]

[The Poet's Choice]

[Drinking]

[A Lover's Sigh]

[HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN] (by Benjamin W. Wells) -- 1805-1875

[The Steadfast Tin Soldier]

[The Teapot]

[The Ugly Duckling]

[What the Moon Saw]

[The Lovers]

[The Snow Queen]

[The Nightingale]

[The Market Place ('The Story of My Life')]

[Andersen Jubilee at Odense ('The Story of My Life')]

['Miserere' in the Sixtine Chapel ('The Improvisatore')]

[ANEURIN] -- Sixth Century

[The Slaying of Owain]

[The Fate of Hoel, Son of the Great Cian]

[The Giant Gwrveling Falls at Last]

[ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE] (by Robert Sharp)

[From 'Beowulf']

[Deor's Lament]

[From 'The Wanderer']

[The Seafarer]

[The Fortunes of Men]

[From 'Judith']

[The Fight at Maldon]

[Cædmon's Inspiration]

[From the 'Chronicle']

[GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO] -- 1864-

[The Drowned Boy] ('The Triumph of Death')

[To an Impromptu of Chopin] (same)

[India]

[ANTAR] (by Edward S. Holden) -- About 550-615

[The Valor of Antar]

[LUCIUS APULEIUS] -- Second Century

[The Tale of Aristomenes, the Commercial Traveler] ('The Metamorphoses')

[The Awakening of Cupid] (same)

[THOMAS AQUINAS] (by Edwin A. Pace) -- 1226-1274

[On the Value of Our Concepts of the Deity] ('Summa Theologica')

[How Can the Absolute Be a Cause?] ('Quæstiones Disputatæ')

[On the Production of Living Things] (same)

[THE ARABIAN NIGHTS] (by Richard Gottheil)

[From 'The Story of the City of Brass'] (Lane's Translation)

[From 'The History of King Omar Ben Ennuman, and His Sons Sherkan and Zoulmekan'] (Payne's Translation)

[From 'Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman'] (Burton's Translation)

[Conclusion of 'The Thousand Nights and a Night'] (Burton's Translation)

[ARABIC LITERATURE] (by Richard Gottheil)

Imr-al-Kais: [Description of a Mountain Storm]

[Zuhéir: Lament for the Destruction of his Former Home]

[Tarafah ibn al-'Abd: Rebuke to a Mischief-Maker]

[Labîd: Lament for the Afflictions of his Tribe]

[Antar: A Fair Lady]

[Duraid, son of as-Simmah: The Death of 'Abdallâh]

[Ash-Shanfarà of Azd: A Picture of Womanhood]

['Umar ibn Rabí'a: Zeynab at the Ka'bah]

['Umar ibn Rabí'a: The Unveiled Maid]

[Al-Nâbighah: Eulogy of the Men of Ghassân]

[Nusaib: The Slave-Mother Sold]

[Al-Find: Vengeance]

[Ibrahim, Son of Kunaif: Patience]

[Abu Sakhr: A Lost Love]

[Abu l'Ata of Sind: An Address to the Beloved]

[Ja'far ibn 'Ulbah: A Foray]

[Katari ibn al-Fujâ'ah: Fatality]

[Al-Fadi ibn al-Abbas: Implacability]

[Hittân ibn al-Mu'allà: Parental Affection]

[Sa'd, son of Malik: A Tribesman's Valor]

[From Sale's Koran:--Chapter xxxv.: "The Creator";]

[ Chapter lv.: "The Merciful";]

[Chapter lxxxiv.: "The Rending in Sunder"]

[Al-Hariri: His Prayer]

[Al-Hariri: The Words of Hareth ibn Hammam]

[The Caliph Omar Bin Abd Al-Aziz and the Poets] (From 'Supplemental Nights': Burton's Translation)

[DOMINIQUE FRANÇOIS ARAGO] (by Edward S. Holden) -- 1786-1853

[Laplace]

[JOHN ARBUTHNOT] -- 1667-1735

[The True Characters of John Bull, Nic. Frog, and Hocus] ('The History of John Bull')

[Reconciliation of John and his Sister Peg] (same)

[Of the Rudiments of Martin's Learning] ('Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus')

[THE ARGONAUTIC LEGEND]

[The Victory of Orpheus] ('The Life and Death of Jason')

[LUDOVICO ARIOSTO] (by L. Oscar Kuhns) -- 1474-1533

[The Friendship of Medoro and Cloridane] ('Orlando Furioso')

[The Saving of Medoro] (same)

[The Madness of Orlando] (same)

[ARISTOPHANES] (by Paul Shorey) -- B.C. 448-390?

[Origin of the Peloponnesian War] ('The Acharnians')

[The Poet's Apology] (same)

[Appeal of the Chorus] ('The Knights')

[Cloud Chorus] ('The Clouds')

[A Rainy Day on the Farm] ('The Peace')

[The Harvest] (same)

[Grand Chorus of Birds] ('The Birds')

[Call to the Nightingale] (same)

[The Building of Cloud-Cuckoo-Town] (same)

[Chorus of Women] ('Thesmophoriazusæ')

[Chorus of Mystæ in Hades] ('The Frogs')

[A Parody of Euripides' Lyric Verse] ('The Frogs')

[The Prologues of Euripides] (same)

[ARISTOTLE] (by Thomas Davidson) -- B.C. 384-322

[Nature of the Soul] ('On the Soul')

[On the Difference between History and Poetry] ('Poetics')

[On Philosophy] (Cicero's 'Nature of the Gods')

[On Essences] ('Metaphysics')

[On Community of Studies] ('Politics')

[Hymn to Virtue]

[JÓN ARNASON] -- 1819-1888

[From 'Icelandic Legends':]

[The Merman]

[The Fisherman of Götur]

[The Magic Scythe]

[The Man-Servant and the Water-Elves]

[The Crossways]

[ERNST MORITZ ARNDT] -- 1769-1860

[What is the German's Fatherland?]

[The Song of the Field-Marshal]

[Patriotic Song]

[EDWIN ARNOLD] -- 1832-

[Youth of Buddha] ('The Light of Asia')

[The Pure Sacrifice of Buddha] (same)

[Faithfulness of Yudhisthira] ('The Great Journey')

[He and She]

[After Death] ('Pearls of the Faith')

[Solomon and the Ant] (same)

[The Afternoon] (same)

[The Trumpet] (same)

[Envoi to 'The Light of Asia']

[Grishma; or the Season of Heat] (Translated from Kalidasa)

[MATTHEW ARNOLD] (by George Edward Woodberry) -- 1822-1888

[Intelligence and Genius] ('Essays in Criticism')

[Sweetness and Light] ('Culture and Anarchy')

[Oxford] ('Essays in Criticism')

[To A Friend]

[Youth and Calm]

[Isolation--To Marguerite]

[Stanzas in Memory of the Author of 'Obermann' (1849)]

[Memorial Verses (1850)]

[The Sick King in Bokhara]

[Dover Beac]h

[Self-Dependence]

[Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse]

[A Summer Night]

[The Better Part]

[The Last Word]

[THE ARTHURIAN LEGENDS] (by Richard Jones)

[From Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Britonum']

[The Holy Grail (Malory's 'Morte d'Arthur')]

[PETER CHRISTEN ASBJÖRNSEN] -- 1812-1885

[Gudbrand of the Mountain-Side]

[The Widow's Son]

[ROGER ASCHAM] -- 1515-1568

[On Gentleness in Education ('The Schoolmaster')]

[On Study and Exercise ('Toxophilus')]

[ATHENÆUS] -- Third Century B.C.

[Why the Nile Overflows ('Deipnosophistæ')]

[How to Preserve the Health] (same)

[An Account of Some Great Eaters] (same)

[The Love of Animals for Man] (same)

[PER DANIEL AMADEUS ATTERBOM] -- 1790-1855

[The Genius of the North]

[The Lily of the Valley]

[Svanhvit's Colloquy ('The Islands of the Blest')]

[The Mermaid]

[AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE] (by Frederick Morris Warren) -- Twelfth Century

['Tis of Aucassin and Nicolette]

[JOHN JAMES AUDUBON] -- 1780-1851

[A Dangerous Adventure] ('The American Ornithological Biography')

[BERTHOLD AUERBACH] -- 1812-1882

[The First Mass] ('Ivo the Gentleman')

[The Peasant-Nurse and the Prince] ('On the Heights')

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VOLUME II.

The Gutenberg Bible (Colored Plate)Frontispiece
Lyly's "Euphues" (Fac-simile)[485]
Hans Christian Andersen (Portrait)[500]
"Haroun al Raschid" (Photogravure)[622]
Dominique François Arago (Portrait)[704]
Ludovico Ariosto (Portrait)[742]
Aristotle (Portrait)[788]
Matthew Arnold (Portrait)[844]
"Lancelot Bids Adieu to Elaine" (Photogravure)[890]
John James Audubon (Portrait)[956]