VOL. V.

[OTTO EDWARD LEOPOLD VON BISMARCK] -- 1815-

By Munroe Smith

Letters-- [To Fran von Arnim]

[To His Wife]: [Aug. 7, 1851]; [June 6, 1859]; [June 8, 1859]; [June 28, 1859]; [July 26, 1859]

[To Oscar von Arnim]

[To His Wife]: [Aug. 4, 1862]; [July 9, 1866]; [Sept. 3, 1870]; [June 23, 1852]

[Personal Characteristics of the Members of the Frankfort Diet]

[From a Speech on the Military Bill]

[BJÖRNSTJERNE BJÖRNSON] -- 1832-

By William Morton Payne

[Over the Lofty Mountains] ('Arne')

[The Cloister in the South] ('Arnljot Gelline')

[The Plea of King Magnus] ('Sigurd Slembe')

[Sin and Death] (same)

[The Princess]

[Sigurd Slembe's Return]

[How the Mountain Was Clad] ('Arne')

[The Father]

[WILLIAM BLACK] -- 1841-

[The End of Macleod of Dare]

[Sheila in London] ('A Princess of Thule')

[RICHARD DODDRIDGE BLACKMORE] -- 1825-

[A Desperate Venture] ('Lorna Doone')

[A Wedding and a Revenge] (same)

[Landing the Trout] ('Alice Lorraine')

[A Dane in the Dike] ('Mary Anerley')

[WILLIAM BLAKE] -- 1757-1827

[Song]

[Song]

[The Two Songs]

[Night]

[The Piper and the Child]

[Holy Thursday]

[Cradle Song]

[The Little Black Boy]

[The Tiger]

[CHARLES BLANC] -- 1813-1882

[Rembrandt] ('The Dutch School of Painters')

[Albert Dürer's 'Melancholia'] (same)

[Ingres] ('Life of Ingres')

[Calamatta's Studio] ('Contemporary Artists')

[Blanc's Début as Art Critic] (same)

[Delacroix's 'Bark of Dante'] (same)

[Genesis of the 'Grammar']

[Moral Influence of Art] ('Grammar of Painting and Engraving')

[Poussin's 'Shepherds of Arcadia'] (same)

[Landscape] (same)

[Style] (same)

[Law of Proportion in Architecture] (same)

[STEEN STEENSEN BLICHER] -- 1782-1848

[A Picture]

[The Knitting-Room]

[The Hosier]

[MATHILDE BLIND] -- 1847-1896

[From 'Love in Exile']

[Seeking]

[Songs of Summer]

[A Parable]

[Love's Somnambulist]

[The Mystic's Vision]

[From 'Tarantella']

[O Moon, Large Golden Summer Moon]

[Green Leaves and Sere]

[GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO] -- 1313-1375

By W.J. Stillman

[Frederick of the Alberighi and His Falcon]

[The Jew Converted to Christianity by Going to Rome]

[The Story of Saladin and the Jew Usurer]

[The Story of Griselda]

[FRIEDRICH MARTIN VON BODENSTEDT] -- 1819-1892

[Two]

[Wine]

[Song]

[Unchanging]

[The Poetry of Mirza-Schaffy] ('Thousand and One Days in the East')

[Mirza-Schaffy] (same)

[The School of Wisdom] (same)

[An Excursion into Armenia] (same)

[Mirza-Jussuf]

[Wisdom and Knowledge]

[JOHANN JAKOB BODMER] -- 1698-1783

[Kinship of the Arts] ('Rubens')

[Poetry and Painting] ('Holbein')

[Tribute to Tobacco] ('Dürer')

[BOËTIUS] -- 475-525

[Of the Greatest Good] ('Consolations of Philosophy')

[NICHOLAS BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX] -- 1636-1711

[Advice to Authors] ('The Art of Poetry')

[The Pastoral, the Elegy, the Ode, and the Epigram] (same)

[To Molière] ('The Satires')

[GASTON BOISSIER] -- 1823-2152

[Madame de Sévigné as a Letter-Writer] ('Life of Madame de Sévigné')

[French Society in the Seventeenth Century] (same)

[How Horace Lived at his Country-House] ('The Country of Horace and Virgil')

[GEORGE H. BOKER] -- 1823-1890

[The Black Regiment]

[The Sword-Bearer]

[Sonnets]

[SAINT BONAVENTURA] -- 1221-1274

By Thomas Davidson

[On the Beholding of God in His Footsteps in This Sensible World]

[GEORGE BORROW] -- 1803-1881

By Julian Hawthorne

[At the Horse-Fair] ('Lavengro')

[A Meeting] ('The Bible in Spain')

[JUAN BOSCAN] -- 1493-?1540

[On the Death of Garcilaso]

[A Picture of Domestic Happiness] ('Epistle to Mendoza')

[JACQUES BÉNIGNE BOSSUET] -- 1627-1704

By Adolphe Cohn

[From the Sermon upon 'The Unity of the Church']

[Opening of the Funeral Oration on Henrietta of France]

[From the 'Discourse upon Universal History']

[Public Spirit in Rome]

[JAMES BOSWELL] -- 1740-1795

By Charles F. Johnson

[An Account of Corsica]

[A Tour to Corsica]

[The Life of Samuel Johnson]

[PAUL BOURGET] -- 1852-

[The American Family] ('Outre-Mer')

[The Aristocratic Vision of M. Renan] ('Study of M. Renan')

[SIR JOHN BOWRING] -- 1792-1872

[The Cross of Christ]

[Watchman! What of the Night?]

[Hymn]

[From Luis de Gongora: Not All Nightingales]

[From John Kollar: Sonnet]

[From Bogdanovich (Old Russian): Song]

[From Bobrov: The Golden Palace]

[From Dmitriev: The Dove and The Stranger]

[From Sarbiewski: Sapphics to A Rose]

[HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN] -- 1848-1895

[A Norwegian Dance] ('Gunnar')

[MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON] -- 1837-

[Advent of the Hirelings] ('The Christmas Hirelings')

["How Bright She Was--" etc.] ('Mohawks')

[GEORG BRANDES] -- 1842-

By William Morton Payne

[Björnson] ('Eminent Authors of the Nineteenth Century')

[The Historical Movement in Modern Literature] ('Main Currents in the Literature of the Nineteenth Century')

[SEBASTIAN BRANDT] -- 1458-1521

[The Universal Shyp]

[Of Hym That Togyder Wyll Serve Two Maysters]

[Of To[o] Moche Spekynge or Bablynge]

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME V

Saint Dunstan (Colored Plate)Frontispiece
[Bismarck] (Portrait)[1930]
["The Surrender at Sedan"] (Photogravure)[1944]
[Richard Doddridge Blackmore] (Portrait)[2012]
["Rembrandt and His Wife"] (Photogravure)[2055]
[Giovanni Boccaccio] (Portrait)[2090]
["The Decameron"] (Photogravure)[2108]
["Fatima"] (Photogravure)[2120]
["Domestic Happiness"] (Photogravure)[2206]

VIGNETTE PORTRAITS

[Björnstjerne Björnson]
[William Black]
[William Blake]
[Mathilde Blind]
[Friedrich M. von Bodenstedt]
[Johann Jakob Bodmer]
[Boëtius]
[Nicholas Boileau-Despréaux]
[Gaston Boissier]
[George H. Boker]
[George Borrow]
[Jacques Bénigne Bossuet]
[James Boswell]
[Paul Bourget]
[Sir John Bowring]
[Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen]
[Georg Brandes]
[Sebastian Brandt]