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Copyright, 1896, by
R. S. PEALE AND J. A. HILL
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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. XVI

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[Aulus Gellius]Second Century A.D.[6253]
[From 'Attic Nights':] Origin, and Plan of the Book; The Vestal Virgins; The Secrets of the Senate; Plutarch and his Slave; Discussion on One of Solon's Laws; The Nature of Sight; Earliest Libraries; Realistic Acting; The Athlete's End
[Gesta Romanorum] [6261]
[Theodosius the Emperoure]
Moralite
[Ancelmus the Emperour]
Moralite
[How an Anchoress was Tempted by the Devil]
[Edward Gibbon]1737-1794[6271]
BY W. E. H. LECKY
[Zenobia]
[Foundation of Constantinople]
[Character of Constantine]
[Death of Julian]
[Fall of Rome]
[Silk]
[Mahomet's Death and Character]
[The Alexandrian Library]
[Final Ruin of Rome]
All from the 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
[William Schwenck Gilbert]1836-[6333]
[Captain Reece]
[The Yarn of the Nancy Bell]
[The Bishop of Rum-ti-foo]
[Gentle Alice Brown]
[The Captain and the Mermaids]
All from the 'Bab Ballads'
[Richard Watson Gilder]1844-[6347]
[Two Songs from 'The New Day']
["Rose-Dark the Solemn Sunset"]
The Celestial Passion
[Non Sine Dolore]
[On the Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln]
[From 'The Great Remembrance']
[Giuseppe Giusti]1809-1850[6355]
[Lullaby ('Gingillino')]
[The Steam Guillotine]
[William Ewart Gladstone]1809-[6359]
[Macaulay ('Gleanings of Past Years')]
[Edwin Lawrence Godkin]1831-[6373]
[The Duty of Criticism in a Democracy ('Problems of Modern Democracy')]
[Goethe]1749-1832[6385]
BY EDWARD DOWDEN
[From 'Faust,' Shelley's Translation]
[Scenes from 'Faust', Bayard Taylor's Translation]
[Mignon's Love and Longing ('Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship')]
[Wilhelm Meister's Introduction to Shakespeare (same)]
[Wilhelm Meister's Analysis of Hamlet (same)]
[The Indenture (same)]
[The Harper's Songs (same)]
[Mignon's Song (same)]
[Philina's Song (same)]
[Prometheus]
[Wanderer's Night Songs]
[The Elfin-King]
[From 'The Wanderer's Storm Song']
[The Godlike]
[Solitude]
[Ergo Bibamus!]
[Alexis and Dora]
[Maxims and Reflections]
[Nature]
[Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol]1809-1852[6455]
BY ISABEL F. HAPGOOD
[From 'The Inspector']
[Old-Fashioned Gentry ('Mirgorod')]
[Carlo Goldoni]1707-1793[6475]
BY WILLIAM CRANSTON LAWTON
[First Love and Parting ('Memoirs of Carlo Goldoni')]
[The Origin of Masks in the Italian Comedy (same)]
[Purists and Pedantry (same)]
[A Poet's Old Age (same)]
[The Café]
[Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt]1819-1887[6493]
[Assar and Mirjam ('Love Stories from Many Countries')]
[Oliver Goldsmith]1728-1774[6501]
BY CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY
[The Vicar's Family Become Ambitious ('The Vicar of Wakefield')]
[New Misfortunes: But Offenses are Easily Pardoned Where There is Love at Bottom (same)]
[Pictures from 'The Deserted Village']
[Contrasted National Types ('The Traveller')]
[Ivan Aleksandrovitch Goncharóf]1812-[6533]
BY NATHAN HASKELL DOLE
[Oblómof]
[The Brothers De Goncourt] [6549]
Edmond 1822-1896
Jules 1830-1870
[Two Famous Men ('Journal of the De Goncourts')]
[The Suicide ('Sister Philomène')]
[The Awakening ('Renée Mauperin')]
[Edmund Gosse]1849-[6565]
[February in Rome]
[Desiderium]
[Lying in the Grass]
[Rudolf von Gottschall]1823-[6571]
[Heinrich Heine ('Portraits and Studies')]
[John Gower]1325?-1408[6579]
[Petronella ('Confessio Amantis')]
[Ulysses S. Grant]1822-1885[6593]
BY HAMLIN GARLAND
[Early Life ('Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant')]
[Grant's Courtship (same)]
[A Texan Experience (same)]
[The Surrender of General Lee (same)]
[Henry Grattan]1746-1820[6615]
[On the Character of Chatham]
[Of the Injustice of Disqualification of Catholics (Speech in Parliament)]
[On the Downfall of Bonaparte (Speech in Parliament)]
[Thomas Gray]1716-1771[6623]
BY GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP
[Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard]
[Ode on the Spring]
[On a Distant Prospect of Eton College]
[The Bard]
[The Greek Anthology] [6637]
BY TALCOTT WILLIAMS
On the Athenian Dead at Platæa (Simonides); On theLacedæmonian Dead at Platæa (Simonides); On a Sleeping Satyr (Plato); A Poet's Epitaph (Simmias ofThebes); Worship in Spring (Theætetus); Spring on the Coast (Leonidas of Tarentum); A Young Hero'sEpitaph (Dioscorides); Love (Posidippus); Sorrow's Barren Grave (Heracleitus); To a Coy Maiden (Asclepiades);The Emptied Quiver (Mnesalcus); the Tale of Troy (Alpheus); Heaven Hath its Stars (MarcusArgentarius); Pan of the Sea-Cliff (Archias); Anacreon's Grave (Antipater of Sidon); Rest at Noon(Meleager); "In the Spring a Young Man's Fancy" (Meleager); Meleager's Own Epitaph (Meleager); Epilogue(Philodemus); Doctor and Divinity (Nicarchus); Love's Immortality (Strato); As the Flowers of theField (Strato); Summer Sailing (Antiphilus); The Great Mysteries (Crinagoras); To Priapus of the Shore(Mæcius); The Common Lot (Ammianus); "To-morrow, and To-morrow" (Macedonius); The Palace Garden(Arabius); The Young Wife (Julianus Ægyptius); A Nameless Grave (Paulus Silentiarius); Resignation(Joannes Barbucallus); The House of the Righteous (Macedonius); Love's Ferriage (Agathias); On a Fowler(Isidorus). Anonymous: Youth and Riches; The Singing Reed; First Love again Remembered; Slave andPhilosopher; Good-by to Childhood; Wishing; Hope and Experience; The Service of God; The Pure inHeart; The Water of Purity; Rose and Thorn; A Life's Wandering