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| [FRANCE—CONTINUED] |
| 1805-1909 |
| [Alexis de Tocqueville]—(Born in 1805, died in 1859.) |
| | [The Tyranny of the American Majority.] | |
| | (From Chapter XV of "Democracyin America." Translated by Henry Reeve) | [3] |
| [Alfred de Musset]—(Born in 1810, died in 1857.) |
| | [Titian's Son After a Night at Play.] | |
| | (From "Titian's Son." Translated by Erie Arthur Bell) | [8] |
| [Theophile Gautier]—(Born in 1811, died in 1872.) |
| | [Pharaoh's Entry into Thebes.] | |
| | (From the "Romance of a Mummy." Translated by M. Young) | [14] |
| [Gustave Flaubert]—(Born in 1821, died in 1880.) |
| | [Yonville and Its People.] | |
| | (From Part II of "Madame Bovary." Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling) | [22] |
| [Joseph Ernest Renan]—(Born in 1823, died in 1892.) |
| | [An Empire in Robust Youth.] | |
| | (From the "History of the Origins of Christianity.") | [30] |
| [Hippolyte Adolphe Taine]—(Born in 1828, died in 1893.) |
| I | | [Thackeray as a Satirist.] | |
| | | (From Book V, Chapter II, of the "History of English Literature." Translated by H. van Laun) | [38] |
| II | | [When the King Got up for the Day.] | |
| | | (From "The Ancient Régime." Translated by John Durand) | [43] |
| [Emile Zola]—(Born in 1840, died in 1902.) |
| | [Glimpses of Napoleon III in Time of War.] | |
| | (From "La Débâcle."Translated by E. P. Robins) | [48] |
| [Alphonse Daudet]—(Born in 1840, died in 1897.) |
| I | | [A Great Man's Widow.] | |
| | | (From "Artists' Wives." Translated by LauraEnsor) | [55] |
| II | | [My First Dress Coat.] | |
| | | (From "Thirty Years of Paris." Translated by Laura Ensor) | [61] |
| [Guy de Maupassant]—(Born in 1850, died in 1893.) |
| | [Madame Jeanne's Last Days.] | |
| | (From the last chapter of "A Life." Translated by Eric Arthur Bell) | [69] |
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| [GERMANY] |
| 1483-1859 |
| [Martin Luther]—(Born in 1483, died in 1546.) |
| | [Some of His Table Talk and Sayings.] | |
| | (From the "Table Talk.") | [79] |
| [Gotthold E. Lessing]—(Born in 1729, died in 1781.) |
| I | | [Poetry and Painting Compared.] | |
| | | (From the preface to the "Laocoön."Translated by E. C. Beasley and Helen Zimmern) | [86] |
| II | | [Of Suffering Held in Restraint.] | |
| | | (From Chapter I of the "Laocoön." Translated by Beasley and Zimmern) | [89] |
| [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]—(Born in 1749, died in 1832.) |
| I | | [On First Reading Shakespeare.] | |
| | | (From "Wilhelm Meister." Translated by Thomas Carlyle) | [95] |
| II | | [The Coronation of Joseph II.] | |
| | | (From Book XII of the "Autobiography." Translated by John Oxenford) | [99] |
| [Friedrich Von Schiller]—(Born in 1759, died in 1808.) |
| I | | [The Battle of Lutzen.] | |
| | | (From the "History of the Thirty Years' War." Translated by A. J. W. Morrison) | [107] |
| II | | [Philip II and the Netherlands.] | |
| | | (From the introduction to the"History of the Revolt of the Netherlands." Translated by Morrison) | [117] |
| [Wilhelm von Schlegel]—(Born in 1767, died in 1845.) |
| | [Shakespeare's "Macbeth."] | |
| | (From the "Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature." Translated by John Black, revised by A. J. W. Morrison) | [124] |
| [Alexander von Humboldt]—(Born in 1769, died in 1859.) |
| | [An Essay on Man.] | |
| | (From his "General Review of Natural Phenomena." in Volume I of "Cosmos." Translated by E. C. Otto and W. S. Dallas) | [130] |
| [Heinrich Heine]—(Born in 1799, died in 1856.) |
| | [Reminiscences of Napoleon.] | |
| | (From Chapters VII, VIII and IX of "Travel Pictures." Translated by Francis Storr) | [139] |
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| [ITALY] |
| 1254-1803 |
| [Marco Polo]—(Born in 1254, died in 1324.) |
| | [A Description of Japan.] | |
| | (From the "Travels.") | [147] |
| [Dante Alighieri]—(Born in 1265, died in 1321.) |
| I | | [That Long Descent Makes No Man Noble.] | |
| | | (From Book IV, Chapter XIV of "The Banquet." Translated by Katharine Hillard) | [152] |
| II | | [Of Beatrice and Her Death.] | |
| | | (From "The New Life." Translated byCharles Eliot Norton) | [157] |
| [Francesco Petrarch]—(Born in 1304, died in 1374.) |
| | [Of Good and Evil Fortune.] | |
| | (From the "Treatise on the Remedies of Good and Bad Fortune.") | [162] |
| [Giovanni Boccacio]—(Born probably in 1313, died in 1375.) |
| | [The Patient Griselda.] | |
| | (From the "Decameron.") | [167] |
| [Niccolo Machiavelli]—(Born in 1469, died in 1527.) |
| | [Ought Princes to Keep Their Promises?] | |
| | (From Chapter XVIII of "ThePrince.") | [178] |
| [Benvenuto Cellini]—(Born in 1500, died in 1571.) |
| | [The Casting of His "Perseus and Medusa."] | |
| | (From the "Autobiography." Translated by William Roscoe) | [182] |
| [Giorgio Vasari]—(Born in 1511, died in 1574.) |
| | [Of Raphael and His Early Death.] | |
| | (From "The Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects." Translated by Mrs. Jonathan Foster) | [192] |
| [Casanova de Seingalt]—(Born in 1725, died probably in 1803.) |
| | [His Interview with Frederick the Great.] | |
| | (From the "Memoirs.") | [200] |
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| [OTHER COUNTRIES] |
| 1465-1909 |
| [Desiderius Erasmus]—(Born in 1465, died in 1536.) |
| | [Specimens of His Wit and Wisdom.] | |
| | (From various books) | [209] |
| [Miguel de Cervantes]—(Born in 1547, died in 1616.) |
| I | | [The Beginnings of Don Quixote's Career.] | |
| | | (From "Don Quixote."Translated by John Jarvis) | [218] |
| II | | [Of How Don Quixote Died.] | |
| | | (From "Don Quixote." Translated by John Jarvis) | [224] |
| [Hans Christian Andersen]—(Born in 1805, died in 1875.) |
| | [The Emperor's New Clothes.] | |
| | (From the "Tales.") | [231] |
| [Ivan Sergeyevitch Turgeneff]—(Born in 1818, died in 1883.) |
| | [Bazarov's Death.] | |
| | (From "Fathers and Children." Translated by Constance Garnett) | [239] |
| [Henrik Ibsen]—(Born in 1828, died in 1906.) |
| | [The Thought Child. ] | |
| | (From "The Pretenders." Translated by William Archer) | [245] |
| [Count Leo Tolstoy]—(Born in 1828.) |
| | [Shakespeare Not a Great Genius.] | |
| | (From "A Critical Essay on Shakespeare." Translated by V. Tchertkoff and I. F. M.) | [252] |