VOL. VI

[THE ABBÉ DE BRANTÔME] (Pierre de Bourdeille) -- 1527-1614

[The Dancing of Royalty] ('Lives of Notable Women')

[The Shadow of a Tomb] ('Lives of Courtly Women')

[M. le Constable Anne de Montmorency]

('Lives of Distinguished Men and Great Captains')

[Two Famous Entertainments] ('Lives of Courtly Women')

[FREDRIKA BREMER] -- 1801-1865

[A Home-Coming] ('The Neighbors')

[The Landed Proprietor] ('The Home')

[A Family Picture] (same)

[CLEMENS BRENTANO] -- 1778-1842

[The Nurse's Watch]

[The Castle in Austria]

[ELISABETH BRENTANO] (Bettina von Arnim) -- 1785-1859

[Dedication: To Goethe] ('Goethe's Correspondence with a Child')

[Letter to Goethe]

[Bettina's Last Meeting with Goethe] (Letter to Her Niece)

[In Goethe's Garden]

[JOHN BRIGHT] -- 1811-1889

[From Speech on the Corn Laws] (1843)

[From Speech on Incendiarism in Ireland] (1844)

[From Speech on Non-Recognition of the Southern Confederacy] (1861)

[From Speech on the State of Ireland] (1866)

[From Speech on the Irish Established Church] (1868)

[BRILLAT-SAVARIN] -- 1755-1826

[From 'Physiology of Taste':]

[The Privations;]

[On the Love of Good Living;]

[On People Fond of Good Living]

[CHARLOTTE BRONTÉ AND HER SISTERS] --1816-1855

[Jane Eyre's Wedding-Day] ('Jane Eyre')

[Madame Beck] ('Villette')

[A Yorkshire Landscape] ('Shirley')

[The End of Heathcliff] (Emily Bronté's 'Wuthering Heights')

[PHILLIPS BROOKS] -- 1835-1893

[O Little Town of Bethlehem]

[Personal Character] ('Essays and Addresses')

[The Courage of Opinions] (same)

[Literature and Life] (same)

[CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN] -- 1771-1810

[Wieland's Statement] ('Wieland')

[JOHN BROWN] -- 1810-1882

[Marjorie Fleming] ('Spare Hours')

[Death of Thackeray] (same)

[CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE] (Artemus Ward) -- 1834-1867

By Charles F. Johnson

[Edwin Forrest as Othello]

[High-Handed Outrage at Utica]

[Affairs Round the Village Green]

[Mr. Pepper] ('Artemus Ward: His Travels')

[Horace Greeley's Ride to Placerville] (same)

[SIR THOMAS BROWNE] -- 1605-1682

By Francis Bacon

[From the 'Religio Medici']

[From 'Christian Morals']

[From 'Hydriotaphia, or Urn-Burial']

[From 'A Fragment on Mummies']

[From 'A Letter to a Friend']

[Some Relations Whose Truth We Fear] ('Pseudoxia Epidemica')

[WILLIAM BROWNE] -- 1591-1643

[Circe's Charm] ('Inner Temple Masque')

[The Hunted Squirrel] ('Britannia's Pastorals')

[As Careful Merchants Do Expecting Stand] (same)

[Song of the Sirens] ('Inner Temple Masque')

[An Epistle on Parting]

[Sonnets to Cælia]

[HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL] -- 1820-1872

[Annus Memorabilis]

[Words for the 'Hallelujah Chorus']

[Coming]

[Psychaura]

[Suspiria Noctis]

[ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING] -- 1809-1861

[A Musical Instrument]

[My Heart and I]

[From 'Catarina to Camoens']

[The Sleep]

[The Cry of the Children]

[The Cry of the Human]

[Romance of the Swan's Nest]

[The Best Thing in the World]

[Sonnets from the Portuguese]

[A False Step]

[A Child's Thought of God]

[Cheerfulness Taught by Reason]

[ROBERT BROWNING] -- 1812-1889

By E.L. Burlingame

[Andrea del Sarto]

[A Toccata of Galuppi's]

[Confessions]

[Love among the Ruins]

[A Grammarian's Funeral]

[My Last Duchess]

[Up at a Villa--Down in the City]

[ORESTES AUGUSTUS BROWNSON] -- 1803-1876

[Saint-Simonism] ('The Convert')

[FERDINAND BRUNETIÈRE] -- 1849-

By Adolphe Cohn

[Taine and Prince Napoleon]

[The Literatures of France, England, and Germany]

[GIORDANO BRUNO] --1548-1600

[A Discourse of Poets] ('The Heroic Enthusiasts')

[Canticle of the Shining Ones: A Tribute to English Women] ('The Nolan')

[Song of the Nine Singers]

[WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT] --1794-1878

By George Parsons Lathrop

[Thanatopsis]

[The Crowded Street]

[Death of the Flowers]

[The Conqueror's Grave]

[To the Fringed Gentian]

[The Future Life]

[To the Past]

[JAMES BRYCE] -- 1838-

[Position of Women in the United States] ('The American Commonwealth')

[Ascent of Ararat] ('Trans-Caucasia and Ararat')

[The Work of the Roman Empire] ('The Holy Roman Empire')

[FRANCIS TREVELYAN BUCKLAND] -- 1826-1880

[A Hunt in a Horse-Pond] ('Curiosities of Natural History')

[On Rats] (same)

[Snakes and their Poison] (same)

[My Monkey Jacko] (same)

[HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE] -- 1821-1862

[Moral versus Intellectual Principles in Human Progress]

('History of Civilization in England')

[Mythical Origin of History] (same)

[GEORGE LOUIS LE CLERC BUFFON] -- 1707-1788

By Spencer Trotter

[Nature] ('Natural History')

[The Humming-Bird] (same)

[EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON] -- 1803-1873

By Julian Hawthorne

[The Amphitheatre] ('The Last Days of Pompeii')

[Kenelm and Lily] ('Kenelm Chillingly')