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VOL. II.
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FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
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VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
4
4
(Continued from Volume I)
4
ANACREON
11
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
16
BY BENJAMIN W. WELLS
16
THE STEADFAST TIN SOLDIER
19
THE TEAPOT
22
THE UGLY DUCKLING
23
I—THE DUCKLING IS BORN
23
II—HOW THE DUCKLING WAS TREATED AT HOME
24
III—OUT ON THE MOOR
26
IV—IN THE PEASANT’S HUT
26
V—WHAT BECAME OF THE DUCKLING
28
WHAT THE MOON SAW
30
THE LOVERS
30
THE SNOW QUEEN
32
FOURTH STORY—THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS
32
THE NIGHTINGALE
36
I—THE REAL NIGHTINGALE
36
II—THE TOY NIGHTINGALE
39
III—THE REAL NIGHTINGALE AGAIN
41
THE MARKET PLACE AT ODENSE (1836)
43
THE ANDERSEN JUBILEE AT ODENSE
44
‘MISERERE’ IN THE SIXTINE CHAPEL
45
ANEURIN
47
THE SLAYING OF OWAIN
48
THE FATE OF HOEL, SON OF THE GREAT CIAN
48
THE GIANT GWRVELING FALLS AT LAST
49
ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE
49
FROM ‘BEOWULF’
62
CAEDMON’S INSPIRATION
73
FROM THE ‘CHRONICLE’
73
GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO
74
THE DROWNED BOY
77
ANTAR
83
BY EDWARD S. HOLDEN
83
THE VALOR OF ANTAR
88
LUCIUS APULEIUS
93
THE TALE OF ARISTOMENES, THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELER
96
THE AWAKENING OF CUPID
102
THOMAS AQUINAS
106
BY EDWIN A. PACE
106
ON THE VALUE OF OUR CONCEPTS OF THE DEITY
110
HOW CAN THE ABSOLUTE BE A CAUSE?
112
ON THE PRODUCTION OF LIVING THINGS
113
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
114
FROM ‘THE STORY OF THE CITY OF BRASS’
118
127
THE MEETING OF PRINCE SHERKAN AND PRINCESS ABRIZEH
127
FROM ‘SINDBAD THE SEAMAN AND SINDBAD THE LANDSMAN’
134
FIRST VOYAGE OF SINDBAD HIGHT THE SEAMAN.
136
NOW WHEN IT WAS THE FIVE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINTH NIGHT,
137
NOW WHEN IT WAS THE FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTIETH NIGHT,
138
NOW WHEN IT WAS THE FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIRST NIGHT,
139
NOW WHEN IT WAS THE FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SECOND NIGHT,
141
CONCLUSION OF THE ‘THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT’
142
ARABIC LITERATURE
148
DESCRIPTION OF A MOUNTAIN STORM
159
CHAPTER XXXV.: INTITLED “THE CREATOR.” REVEALED AT MECCA
170
CHAPTER LV.: INTITLED “THE MERCIFUL.” REVEALED AT MECCA
173
CHAPTER LXXXIV.: INTITLED “THE RENDING IN SUNDER.” REVEALED AT MECCA
175
THE CALIPH OMAR BIN ABD AL-AZIZ AND THE POETS
179
DOMINIQUE FRANCOIS ARAGO
181
BY EDWARD S. HOLDEN
181
LAPLACE
184
JOHN ARBUTHNOT
196
200
OF THE RUDIMENTS OF MARTIN’S LEARNING
202
THE ARGONAUTIC LEGEND
203
LUDOVICO ARIOSTO
210
BY L. OSCAR KUHNS
210
ARISTOPHANES
223
BY PAUL SHOREY
223
ARISTOTLE
244
BY THOMAS DAVIDSON
244
THE NATURE OF THE SOUL
250
252
ON PHILOSOPHY
254
ON ESSENCES
254
ON COMMUNITY OF STUDIES
255
JON ARNASON
256
THE MERMAN
257
THE FISHERMAN OF GOeTUR
258
THE MAGIC SCYTHE
259
THE MAN-SERVANT AND THE WATER-ELVES
262
THE CROSSWAYS
263
ERNST MORITZ ARNDT
264
EDWIN ARNOLD
268
MATTHEW ARNOLD
285
BY GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY
285
INTELLIGENCE AND GENIUS
296
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT
298
OXFORD
303
STANZAS IN MEMORY OF THE AUTHOR OF ‘OBERMANN’ (1849)
305
BY RICHARD JONES
315
FROM GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH’S ‘HISTORIA BRITONUM’
326
327
ARTHUR INCREASES HIS DOMINIONS
328
ARTHUR HOLDS A SOLEMN FESTIVAL
328
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330
THE HOLY GRAIL
331
PETER CHRISTEN ASBJOeRNSEN
332
GUDBRAND OF THE MOUNTAIN-SIDE
333
THE WIDOW’S SON
335
ROGER ASCHAM
341
ON GENTLENESS IN EDUCATION
342
ON STUDY AND EXERCISE
344
ATHENAEUS
346
WHY THE NILE OVERFLOWS
349
HOW TO PRESERVE THE HEALTH
349
AN ACCOUNT OF SOME GREAT EATERS
350
THE LOVE OF ANIMALS FOR MAN
353
PER DANIEL AMADEUS ATTERBOM
354
THE GENIUS OF THE NORTH
355
AUCASSIN AND NICOLLETE
361
BY FREDERICK MORRIS WARREN
361
IMPRISONMENT OF NICOLETTE
364
AUCASSIN AND THE VISCOUNT
365
AUCASSIN CAPTURES COUNT BOUGART
365
THE LOVERS’ MEETING
366
AUCASSIN, SEEKING NICOLETTE, COMES UPON A COWHERD
368
AUCASSIN FINDS NICOLETTE’S LODGE
369
NICOLETTE SAILS TO CARTHAGE
370
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
371
A DANGEROUS ADVENTURE
372
BERTHOLD AUERBACH
376
THE FIRST MASS
377
THE PEASANT-NURSE AND THE PRINCE
380
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