Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 eBook

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Start of eBook	1
VOL. II.	1
FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS	4
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
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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
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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
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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
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ARTHUR INCREASES HIS DOMINIONS	328
ARTHUR HOLDS A SOLEMN FESTIVAL	328
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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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