A REVISED AMERICAN EDITION OF THE READER’S HANDBOOK

BY

The Rev.  E. Cobham brewer, LL.D.

EDITED BY MARION HARLAND

VOLUME I

NEW YORK SELMAR HESS PUBLISHER M D C C C X C I I

Copyright, 1892, by SELMAR HESS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

VOLUME I.

PHOTOGRAVURES and ETCHINGS.

Illustration.................._Artist_

Ichabod crane (colored).......E.A.  Abbey

Constance de Beverley................Toby Rosenthal

Lady bountiful.......................Rob.  W. Macbeth

Sydney Carton........................Frederick Barnard

Bernhardt as Cleopatra..............._From a Photograph from Life_

Abbe Constantin......................Madeleine Lemaire

Captain cuttle.......................Frederick Barnard

The Trusty Eckart....................Julius Adam

Elaine...............................Toby Rosenthal

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Wood engravings and TYPOGRAVURES.

Abelard..............................A.  GUILLEMINOT

AENEAS RELATING HIS STORY TO DIDO....P.  GUERIN

ALBERICH’S PURSUIT OF THE NIBELUNGEN RING...HANS MAKART

ALETHE, priestess of Isis............Edwin long

Alexis and Dora......................W.  Von KAULBACH

Alice, the miller’s daughter.........Davidson Knowles

Ancient mariner (the)................Gustave Dore

Andromeda............................

ANGELIQUE AND MONSEIGNEUR DE HAUTECOEUR...JEANNIOT

Angus and Donald.....................W.B.  Davis

Antigone and ISMENE..................Emil TESCHENDORFF

Antony and the dead Caesar...........

Archimedes...........................NIC BARABINO

Argan and doctor Diafoirus...........A.  Solomon

Ashton (Lucy) and Ravenswood.........Sir Everett millais

Atala (burial of)....................Gustave Courtois

Augusta in court.....................A.  FORESTIER

AUTOMEDON............................Henri REGNAULT