VOL. IV.

[GEORGE BANCROFT]--Continued: -- 1800-1891

[Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham] ('History of the United States')

[Lexington] (same)

[Washington] (same)

[JOHN AND MICHAEL BANIM] -- 1798-1874

[The Publican's Dream] ('The Bit of Writin'')

[Ailleen]

[Soggarth Aroon]

[Irish Maiden's Song]

[THÉODORE DE BANVILLE] -- 1823--1891

[Le Café] ('The Soul of Paris')

[The Mysterious Hosts of the Forests] ('The Caryatids': Lang's Translation)

[Aux Enfants Perdus: Lang's Translation]

[Ballade des Pendus: Lang's Translation]

[ANNA LÆITIA BARBAULD] -- 1743-1825

[Against Inconsistency in Our Expectations]

[A Dialogue of the Dead]

[Life]

[Praise to God]

[ALEXANDER BARCLAY] -- 1475-1552

[The Courtier's Life] (Second Eclogue)

[RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM] -- 1788-1845

[As I Laye A-Thynkynge]

[The Lay of St. Cuthbert]

[A Lay of St. Nicholas]

[SABINE BARING-GOULD] -- 1834-

[St. Patrick's Purgatory] ('Curious Myths of the Middle Ages')

[The Cornish Wreckers] ('The Vicar of Morwenstow')

[JANE BARLOW] -- 18--

[Widow Joyce's Cloak] ('Strangers at Lisconnel')

[Walled Out] ('Bogland Studies')

[JOEL BARLOW] -- 1754-1812

[A Feast] ('Hasty Pudding')

[WILLIAM BARNES] -- 1800-1886

[Blackmwore Maidens]

[May]

[Milken Time]

[Jessie Lee]

[The Turnstile]

[To the Water-Crowfoot]

[Zummer an' Winter]

[JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE] -- 1860-

[The Courtin' of T'nowhead's Bell] ('Auld Licht Idylls')

[Jess Left Alone] ('A Window in Thrums')

[After the Sermon] ('The Little Minister')

[The Mutual Discovery] (same)

[Lost Illusions] ('Sentimental Tommy')

[Sins of Circumstance] (same)

[FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT] -- 1801-1850

[Petition of Manufacturers of Artificial Light]

[Stulta and Puera]

[Inapplicable Terms] ('Economic Sophisms')

[CHARLES BAUDELAIRE] (by Grace King) -- 1821-1867

[Meditation]

[Death of the Poor]

[Music]

[The Broken Bell]

[The Enemy]

[Beauty]

[Death]

[The Painter of Modern Life] ('L'Art Romantique')

[Modernness]

From 'Little Poems in Prose': [Every One His Own Chimera]; [Humanity]; [Windows]; [Drink]

[From a Journal]

[LORD BEACONSFIELD] (by Isa Carrington Cabell) -- 1804-1881

[A Day at Ems] ('Vivian Grey')

[The Festa in the Alhambra] ('The Young Duke')

Squibs from 'The Young Duke': [Charles Annesley]; [The Fussy Hostess]; [Public Speaking]; [Female Beauty]

[Lothair in Palestine] ('Lothair')

[BEAUMARCHAIS] -- 1732-1799

[Outwitting a Guardian] ('The Barber of Seville')

[Outwitting a Husband] ('The Marriage of Figaro')

[FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER] -- 1584-1625

[The Faithful Shepherdess]

[Song]

[Song]

[Aspatia's Song]

[Leandro's Song]

[True Beauty]

[Ode to Melancholy]

[To Ben Jonson, on His 'Fox']

[On the Tombs in Westminster]

[Arethusa's Declaration] ('Philaster')

[The Story of Bellario] (same)

[Evadne's Confession] ('The Maid's Tragedy')

[Death of the Boy Hengo] ('Bonduca')

[From 'The Two Noble Kinsmen']

[WILLIAM BECKFORD] -- 1759-1844

[The Incantation and the Sacrifice] ('Vathek')

[Vathek and Nouronihar in the Halls of Eblis] (same)

[HENRY WARD BEECHER] -- 1813-1887

[Book-Stores and Books] ('Star Papers')

[Selected Paragraphs]

[Sermon: Poverty and the Gospel]

[A New England Sunday] ('Norwood')

[LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN] (by Irenæus Stevenson) -- 1770-1827

Letters: [To Dr. Wegeler]; [To the Same]; [To Bettina Brentano];

[To Countess Giulietta Guicciardi]; [To the Same]; [To His Brothers];

[To the Royal and Imperial High Court of Appeal]; [To Baroness von Drossdick];

[To Zmeskall]; [To the Same]; [To His Brother Johann]; [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 snd 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.

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]
[Beaumarchai]s
[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]