VOL. III.

[BERTHOLD AUERBACH]--Continued: -- 1812-1882

[The First False Step ('On the Heights')]

[The New Home and the Old One (same)]

[The Court Physician's Philosophy (same)]

[In Countess Irma's Diary (same)]

[ÉMILE AUGIER] -- 1820-1889

[A Conversation with a Purpose ('Giboyer's Boy')]

[A Severe Young Judge ('The Adventuress')]

[A Contented Idler ('M. Poirier's Son-in-Law')]

[Feelings of an Artist (same)]

[A Contest of Wills ('The Fourchambaults')]

[ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO] (by Samuel Hart) -- 354-430

[The Godly Sorrow that Worketh Repentance] ('The Confessions')

[Consolation] (same)

[The Foes of the City] ('The City of God')

[The Praise of God] (same)

[A Prayer] ('The Trinity')

[MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS] -- A.D. 121-180

[Reflections]

[JANE AUSTEN] -- 1775-1817

[An Offer of Marriage] ('Pride and Prejudice')

[Mother and Daughter] (same)

[A Letter of Condolence] (same)

[A Well-Matched Sister and Brother] ('Northanger Abbey')

[Family Doctors] ('Emma')

[Family Training] ('Mansfield Park')

[Private Theatricals] (same)

[Fruitless Regrets and Apples of Sodom] (same)

[AVERROËS] -- 1126-1198

[THE AVESTA] (by A.V. Williams Jackson)

[Psalm of Zoroaster]

[Prayer for Knowledge]

[The Angel of Divine Obedience]

[To the Fire]

[The Goddess of the Waters]

[Guardian Spirits]

[An Ancient Sindbad]

[The Wise Man]

[Invocation to Rain]

[Prayer for Healing]

[Fragment]

[AVICEBRON] -- 1028-?1058

[On Matter and Form] ('The Fountain of Life')

[ROBERT AYTOUN] -- 1570-1638

[Inconstancy Upbraided]

[Lines to an Inconstant Mistress] (with Burns's Adaptation)

[WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN] -- 1813-1865

[Burial March of Dundee] ('Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers')

[Execution of Montrose] (same)

[The Broken Pitcher] ('Bon Gaultier Ballads')

[Sonnet to Britain. "By the Duke of Wellington"] (same)

[A Ball in the Upper Circles] ('The Modern Endymion')

[A Highland Tramp] ('Norman Sinclair')

[MASSIMO TAPARELLI D'AZEGLIO] -- 1798-1866

[A Happy Childhood] ('My Recollections')

[The Priesthood] (same)

[My First Venture in Romance] (same)

[BABER] (by Edward S. Holden) -- 1482-1530

[From Baber's 'Memoirs']

[BABRIUS] -- First Century A.D.

[The North Wind and the Sun]

[Jupiter and the Monkey]

[The Mouse that Fell into the Pot]

[The Fox and the Grapes]

[The Carter and Hercules]

[The Young Cocks]

[The Arab and the Camel]

[The Nightingale and the Swallow]

[The Husbandman and the stork]

[The Pine]

[The Woman and Her Maid-Servants]

[The Lamp]

[The Tortoise and the Hare]

[FRANCIS BACON] (by Charlton T. Lewis) -- 1561-1626

[Of Truth] ('Essays')

[Of Revenge] (same)

[Of Simulation and Dissimulation] (same)

[Of Travel] (same)

[Of Friendship] (same)

[Defects of the Universities] ('The Advancement of Learning')

[To My Lord Treasurer Burghley]

[In Praise of Knowledge]

[To the Lord Chancellor]

[To Villiers on his Patent as a Viscount]

[Charge to Justice Hutton]

[A Prayer, or Psalm]

[From the 'Apophthegms']

[Translation of the 137th Psalm]

[The World's a Bubble]

[WALTER BAGEHOT] (by Forrest Morgan) -- 1826-1877

[The Virtues of Stupidity] ('Letters on the French Coup d'État')

[Review Writing] ('The First Edinburgh Reviewers')

[Lord Eldon] (same)

[Taste] ('Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning')

[Causes 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.

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]