LIMITED TO FIVE HUNDRED COPIES IN HALF RUSSIA
No. ..........
Copyright, 1896, by
R. S. PEALE AND J. A. HILL
All rights reserved
THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
CRAWFORD H. TOY, A. M., LL. D.,
Professor of Hebrew, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, LL. D., L. H. D.,
Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
WILLIAM M. SLOANE, Ph. D., L. H. D.,
Professor of History and Political Science, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.
BRANDER MATTHEWS, A. M., LL. B.,
Professor of Literature, Columbia University, New York City.
JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D.,
President of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
WILLARD FISKE, A. M., Ph. D.,
Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages and Literatures, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
EDWARD S. HOLDEN, A. M., LL. D.,
Director of the Lick Observatory, and Astronomer, University of California, Berkeley, Cal.
ALCÉE FORTIER, LIT. D.,
Professor of the Romance Languages, Tulane University, New Orleans, La.
WILLIAM P. TRENT, M. A.,
Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of English and History, University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.
PAUL SHOREY, Ph. D.,
Professor of Greek and Latin Literature, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL. D.,
United States Commissioner of Education, Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C.
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A. M., LL. D.,
Professor of Literature in the Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. IX
| | LIVED | PAGE |
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| [Adelbert Von Chamisso] | 1781-1838 | 3503 |
| [The Bargain ('The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl')] | |
| [From 'Woman's Love and Life'] | |
| |
| [William Ellery Channing] | 1780-1842 | 3513 |
| [The Passion for Power ('The Life and Character of Napoleon Bonaparte')] | |
| [The Causes of War ('Discourse before the Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts')] | |
| [Spiritual Freedom ('Discourse on Spiritual Freedom')] | |
| |
| [George Chapman] | 1559?-1634 | 3523 |
| [Ulysses and Nausicaa (Translation of Homer's Odyssey)] | |
| [The Duke of Byron is Condemned to Death ('Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron')] | |
| |
| [François René Auguste Châteaubriand] | 1768-1848 | 3531 |
| [Christianity Vindicated ('The Genius of Christianity')] | |
| [Description of a Thunder-Storm in the Forest ('Atala')] | |
| |
| [Thomas Chatterton] | 1752-1770 | 3539 |
| [Final Chorus from 'Goddwyn'] | |
| [The Farewell of Sir Charles Baldwin to His Wife ('The Bristowe Tragedie')] | |
| [Mynstrelles Songe] | |
| [An Excelente Balade of Charitie] | |
| [The Resignation] | |
| |
| [Geoffrey Chaucer] | 13—?-1400 | 3551 |
| BY THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY |
| [Prologue to the 'Canterbury Tales'] | |
| [From the Knight's Tale] | |
| [From the Wife of Bath's Tale] | |
| [From the Pardoner's Tale] | |
| [The Nun's Priest's Tale] | |
| [Truth—Ballade of Good Counsel] | |
| |
| [André Chénier] | 1762-1794 | 3601 |
| BY KATHARINE HILLARD |
| [The Young Captive] | |
| [Ode] | |
| |
| [Victor Cherbuliez] | 1829- | 3609 |
| [The Silent Duel ('Samuel Brohl and Company')] | |
| [Samuel Brohl Gives Up the Play (same)] | |
| |
| [Lord Chesterfield] | 1694-1773 | 3625 |
| [From 'Letters to His Son']: Concerning Manners; The Control of One's Countenance; Dress as an Index to Character; Some Remarks on Good Breeding | |
| [The Choice of a Vocation] | |
| |
| [The Literature of China] | | 3629 |
| BY ROBERT K. DOUGLAS |
| [Selected Maxims of Morals, Philosophy of Life, Character, Circumstances, etc. (From the Chinese Moralists)] | |
| |
| [Rufus Choate] | 1799-1859 | 3649 |
| BY ALBERT STICKNEY |
| [The Puritan in Secular and Religious Life (From Address at Ipswich Centennial, 1834)] | |
| [The New-Englander's Character (same)] | |
| [Of the American Bar (From Address before Cambridge Law School)] | |
| [Daniel Webster (From Eulogy at Dartmouth College)] | |
| |
| [St. John Chrysostom] | 347-407 | 3665 |
| BY JOHN MALONE |
| [That Real Wealth is from Within] | |
| [On Encouragement During Adversity ('Letters to Olympias')] | |
| [Concerning the Statutes (Homily)] | |
| |
| [Marcus Tullius Cicero] | 106-43 B.C. | 3675 |
| BY WILLIAM CRANSTON LAWTON |
| [Of the Offices of Literature and Poetry ('Oration for the Poet Archias')] | |
| [Honors Proposed for the Dead Statesman Sulpicius (Ninth Philippic)] | |
| [Old Friends Better than New ('Dialogue on Friendship')] | |
| [Honored Old Age ('Dialogue on Old Age')] | |
| [Death is Welcome to the Old (same)] | |
| [Great Orators and Their Training ('Dialogue on Oratory')] | |
| Letters: [To Tiro]; [To Atticus] | |
| [Sulpicius Consoles Cicero after His Daughter Tullia's Death] | |
| [Cicero's Reply to Sulpicius] | |
| [A Homesick Exile] | |
| [Cicero's Vacillation in the Civil War] | |
| [Cicero's Correspondents: Cæsar to Cicero; Cæsar to Cicero; Pompey to Cicero; Cælius in Rome to Cicero in Cilicia; Matins to Cicero] | |
| [The Dream of Scipio] | |
| |
| [The Cid] | 1045?-1099 | 3725 |
| BY CHARLES SPRAGUE SMITH |
| [From 'The Poem of My Cid']: Leaving Burgos; Farewell to His Wife at San Pedro de Cardeña; Battle Scene; The Challenges; Conclusion | |
| |
| [Earl of Clarendon (Edward Hyde)] | 1609-1674 | 3737 |
| [The Character of Lord Falkland] | |
| |
| [Marcus A. H. Clarke] | 1846-1881 | 3745 |
| [How a Penal System can Work ('His Natural Life')] | |
| [The Valley of the Shadow of Death (same)] | |
| |
| [Matthias Claudius] | 1740-1815 | 3756 |
| [Speculations on New-Year's Day (The Wandsbecker Bote)] | |
| [Rhine Wine] | |
| [Winter] | |
| [Night Song] | |
| |
| [Henry Clay] | 1777-1852 | 3761 |
| BY JOHN R. PROCTER |
| [Public Spirit in Politics (Speech in 1849)] | |
| [On the Greek Struggle for Independence (Speech in 1824)] | |
| [South-American Independence as Related to the United States (Speech in 1818)] | |
| [From the Valedictory to the Senate in 1842] | |
| [From the Lexington 'Speech on Retirement to Private Life'] | |
| |
| [Cleanthes] | 331-232 B.C. | 3784 |
| [Hymn to Zeus] | |
| |
| [Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)] | 1835- | 3787 |
| [The Child of Calamity ('Life on the Mississippi')] | |
| [A Steamboat Landing at a Small Town (same)] | |
| [The High River: and a Phantom Pilot (same)] | |
| [An Enchanting River Scene (same)] | |
| [The Lightning Pilot (same)] | |
| [An Expedition against Ogres ('A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court')] | |
| [The True Prince and the Feigned One ('The Prince and the Pauper')] | |
| |
| [Arthur Hugh Clough] | 1819-1861 | 3821 |
| BY CHARLES ELIOT NORTON |
| [There is No God] | |
| [The Latest Decalogue] | |
| [To the Unknown God] | |
| [Easter Day—Naples, 1849] | |
| [It Fortifies My Soul to Know] | |
| [Say Not, The Struggle Naught Availeth] | |
| [Come Back] | |
| [As Ships Becalmed] | |
| [The Unknown Course] | |
| [The Gondola] | |
| [The Poet's Place in Life] | |
| [On Keeping within One's Proper Sphere ('The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich')] | |
| [Consider It Again] | |
| |
| [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] | 1772-1834 | 3843 |
| BY GEORGE E. WOODBERRY |
| [Kubla Khan] | |
| [The Albatross ('The Rime of the Ancient Mariner')] | |
| [Time, Real and Imaginary] | |
| [Dejection: An Ode] | |
| [The Three Treasures] | |
| [To a Gentleman] | |
| [Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire] | |
| [The Pains of Sleep] | |
| [Song, by Glycine] | |
| [Youth and Age] | |
| [Phantom or Fact] | |
| |
| [William Collins] | 1721-1759 | 3871 |
| [How Sleep the Brave] | |
| [The Passions] | |
| [To Evening] | |
| [Ode on the Death of Thomson] | |
| |
| [William Wilkie Collins] | 1824-1889 | 3879 |
| [The Sleep-Walking ('The Moonstone')] | |
| [Count Fosco ('The Woman in White')] | |