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. XV

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[Folk-Song] [5853]
BY F. B. GUMMERE
[Samuel Foote]1720-1777[5878]
[How to be a Lawyer ('The Lame Lover')]
[A Misfortune in Orthography (same)]
[From the 'Memoirs':]
A Cure for Bad Poetry;
The Retort Courteous;
On Garrick's Stature;
Cape Wine;
The Graces;
The Debtor;
Affectation;
Arithmetical Criticism;
The Dear Wife;
Garrick and the Guinea;
Dr. Paul Hifferman;
Foote and Macklin;
Baron Newman;
Mrs. Abington;
Garlic-Eaters;
Mode of Burying Attorneys in London;
Dining Badly;
Dibble Davis;
An Extraordinary Case;
Mutability of the World;
An Appropriate Motto;
Real Friendship;
Anecdote of an Author;
Dr. Blair;
Advice to a Dramatic Writer;
The Grafton Ministry
[John Ford]1586-?[5889]
[From 'Perkin Warbeck']
[Penthea's Dying Song ('The Broken Heart')]
[From 'The Lover's Melancholy': Amethus and Menaphon]
[Friedrich, Baron de la Motte Fouqué]1777-1843[5895]
[The Marriage of Undine ('Undine')]
[The Last Appearance of Undine (same)]
[Song from 'Minstrel Lore']
[Anatole France]1844-[5909]
[In the Gardens ('The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard')]
[Child-Life ('The Book of my Friend')]
[From the 'Garden of Epicurus']
[St. Francis d'Assisi]1182-1226[5919]
BY MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN
[Order]
[The Canticle of the Sun]
[Benjamin Franklin]1706-1790[5925]
BY JOHN BIGELOW
[Of Franklin's Family and Early Life ('Autobiography')]
[Franklin's Journey to Philadelphia: His Arrival There (same)]
[Franklin as a Printer (same)]
[Rules of Health ('Poor Richard's Almanack')]
[The Way to Wealth (same)]
[Speech in the Federal Convention, in Favor of Opening Its Sessions with Prayer]
[On War]
[Revenge: Letter to Madame Helvétius]
[The Ephemera: an Emblem of Human Life]
[A Prophecy (Letter to Lord Kames)]
[Early Marriages (Letter to John Alleyne)]
[The Art of Virtue ('Autobiography')]
[Louis Honoré Fréchette]1839-[5964]
BY MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN
[Our History ('Le Légende d'un Peuple')]
[Caughnawaga]
[Louisiana ('Les Feuilles Volantes')]
[The Dream of Life (same)]
[Harold Frederic]1856-?[5971]
[The Last Rite ('The Damnation of Theron Ware')]
[Edward Augustus Freeman]1823-1892[5977]
BY JOHN BACH McMASTER
[The Altered Aspects of Rome ('Historical Essays')]
[The Continuity of English History (same)]
[Race and Language (same)]
[The Norman Council and the Assembly of Lillebonne ('The History of the Norman Conquest of England')]
[Ferdinand Freiligrath]1810-1876[6002]
[The Emigrants]
[The Lion's Ride]
[Rest in the Beloved]
[Oh, Love so Long as Love Thou Canst]
[Gustav Freytag]1816-1895[6011]
[The German Professor ('The Lost Manuscript')]
[Friedrich Froebel]1782-1852[6022]
BY NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH
[The Right of the Child ('Reminiscences of Friedrich Froebel')]
[Evolution ('The Mottoes and Commentaries of Mother Play')]
[The Laws of the Mind ('The Letters of Froebel')]
[For the Children (same)]
[Motives ('The Education of Man')]
[Aphorisms]
[Froissart]1337-1410?[6035]
BY GEORGE McLEAN HARPER
[From the 'Chronicles':]
The Invasion of France by King Edward III., and the Battle of Crécy
How the King of England Rode through Normandy
Of the Great Assembly that the French King Made to Resist the King of England
Of the Battle of Caen, and How the Englishmen Took the Town
How the French King Followed the King of England in Beauvoisinois
Of the Battle of Blanche-Taque
Of the Order of the Englishmen at Cressy
The Order of the Frenchmen at Cressy, and How They Beheld the Demeanor of the Englishmen
Of the Battle of Cressy, August 26th, 1346
[James Anthony Froude]1818-1894[6059]
BY CHARLES FREDERICK JOHNSON
[The Growth of England's Navy ('English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century')]
[The Death of Colonel Goring ('Two Chiefs of Dunboy')]
[Scientific Method Applied to History ('Short Studies on Great Subjects')]
[The Death of Thomas Becket (same)]
[Character of Henry VIII. ('History of England')]
[On a Siding at a Railway Station ('Short Studies on Great Subjects')]
[Henry B. Fuller]1859-[6101]
[At the Head of the March ('With the Procession')]
[Sarah Margaret Fuller] (Marchioness Ossoli)1810-1850[6119]
[George Sand ('Memoirs')]
[Americans Abroad in Europe ('At Home and Abroad')]
[A Character Sketch of Carlyle ('Memoirs')]
[Thomas Fuller]1608-1661[6129]
[The King's Children ('The Worthies of England')]
[A Learned Lady (same)]
[Henry de Essex, Standard-Bearer to Henry II. (same)]
[The Good Schoolmaster ('The Holy and Profane State')]
[On Books (same)]
[London ('The Worthies of England')]
[Miscellaneous Sayings]
[Émile Gaboriau]1835-1873[6137]
[The Impostor and the Banker's Wife: The Robbery ('File No. 113')]
[M. Lecoq's System (same)]
[Benito Perez Galdós]1845-[6153]
BY WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP
[The First Night of a Famous Play ('The Court of Charles IV.')]
[Doña Perfecta's Daughter ('Doña Perfecta')]
[Above Stairs in a Royal Palace ('La de Bringas')]
[Francis Galton]1822-[6174]
[The Comparative Worth of Different Races ('Hereditary Genius')]
[Arne Garborg]1851-[6185]
[The Conflict of the Creeds ('A Freethinker')]
[Hamlin Garland]1860-[6195]
[A Summer Mood ('Prairie Songs')]
[A Storm on Lake Michigan ('Rose of Butcher's Coolly')]
[Elizabeth Stevenson Gaskell]1810-1865[6205]
[Our Society ('Cranford')]
[Visiting (same)]
[Théophile Gautier]1811-1872[6221]
BY ROBERT SANDERSON
[The Entry of Pharaoh into Thebes ('The Romance of a Mummy')]
[From 'The Marsh']
[From 'The Dragon-Fly']
[The Doves]
[The Pot of Flowers]
[Prayer]
[The Poet and the Crowd]
[The First Smile of Spring]
[The Veterans ('The Old Guard')]
[John Gay]1685-1732[6237]
[The Hare and Many Friends ('Fables')]
[The Sick Man and the Angel (same)]
[The Juggler (same)]
[Sweet William's Farewell to Black-Eyed Susan]
[From 'What D'ye Call It?']
[Emanuel von Geibel]1815-1884[6248]
[See'st Thou the Sea?]
[As it will Happen]
[Gondoliera]
[The Woodland]
[Onward]
[At Last the Daylight Fadeth]


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