Transcriber's note:
A complete [Index] of all 20 volumes of The World's Greatest Books will be found at the end of this volume.

(signed) Matthew Arnold

THE WORLD'S
GREATEST
BOOKS

JOINT EDITORS
ARTHUR MEE
Editor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge
J. A. HAMMERTON
Editor of Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia

VOL. XX

MISCELLANEOUS
LITERATURE

INDEX

Wm. H. Wise & Co.

[Table of Contents]

Portrait of Matthew Arnold[Frontispiece]
Addison, JosephPAGE
Spectator[1]
Æsop
Fables[10]
Arnold, Matthew
Essays in Criticism[18]
Brandes, George
Main Currents of Nineteenth Century Literature[31]
Burton, Robert
Anatomy of Melancholy[41]
Carlyle, Thomas
On Heroes and Hero Worship[50]
Sartor Resartus[61]
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Concerning Friendship[70]
Cobbett, William
Advice to Young Men[78]
Defoe, Daniel
Journal of the Plague Year[90]
Desmosthenes
Philippics[99]
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
English Traits[109]
Representative Men[118]
Erasmus
Familiar Colloquies[126]
In Praise of Folly[132]
Gesta Romanorum[140]
Goldsmith, Oliver
Citizen of the World[149]
Hallam, Henry
Introduction to the Literature of Europe[158]
Hazlitt, William
Lectures on the English Poets[169]
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table[181]
La Bruyère
Characters[193]
Landor, Walter Savage
Imaginary Conversations[203]
La Rochefoucauld
Reflections and Moral Maxims[215]
Leonardo Da Vinci
Treatise on Painting[227]
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Laocoon[239]
Mill, John Stuart
Essay on Liberty[248]
Milton, John
Areopagitica[257]
Plutarch
Parallel Lives[266]
Staël, Mme. de
On Germany[276]
Tacitus
Germania[286]
Taine
History of English Literature[298]
Thoreau, Henry David
Walden[312]
Tocqueville, De
Democracy in America[324]
Walton, Izaak
Complete Angler[334]
INDEX[349]