Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

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Start of eBook	1
VOL. IV	1
FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS	3
VIGNETTE PORTRAITS	3
GEORGE BANCROFT (Continued from Volume III)	4
LEXINGTON	6
WASHINGTON	7
JOHN AND MICHAEL BANIM	11
THE PUBLICAN’S DREAM	12
THEODORE DE BANVILLE	22
LE CAFE	23
ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD	27
AGAINST INCONSISTENCY IN OUR EXPECTATIONS	30
A DIALOGUE OF THE DEAD	35
ALEXANDER BARCLAY	39
RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM	45
THE LAY OF ST. CUTHBERT	51
THE DEVIL’S DINNER-PARTY	51
A LAY OF ST. NICHOLAS	59
SABINE BARING-GOULD	63
ST. PATRICK’S PURGATORY	65
THE CORNISH WRECKERS	70
Jane Barlow	74
THE WIDOW JOYCE’S CLOAK	75
JOEL BARLOW	85
A FEAST	88
WILLIAM BARNES	90
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE	94
THE COURTING OF T’NOWHEAD’S BELL	97
JESS LEFT ALONE	110
AFTER THE SERMON	113
THE MUTUAL DISCOVERY	117
LOST ILLUSIONS	119
SINS OF CIRCUMSTANCE	121
FREDERIC BASTIAT	121
PETITION	124
STULTA AND PUERA	127
INAPPLICABLE TERMS	128
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE	129
BY GRACE KING	129
THE PAINTER OF MODERN LIFE	138
MODERNNESS	140
FROM ‘LITTLE POEMS IN PROSE’	140
HUMANITY	141
WINDOWS	141
DRINK	141
FROM A JOURNAL	142
LORD BEACONSFIELD	142
BY ISA CARRINGTON CABELL	142
A DAY AT EMS	146
THE FESTA IN THE “ALHAMBRA”	149
SQUIBS PROM ‘THE YOUNG DUKE’	155
THE FUSSY HOSTESS	156
PUBLIC SPEAKING	157
FEMALE BEAUTY	157
LOTHAIR IN PALESTINE	158
BEAUMARCHAIS	161
BY BRANDER MATTHEWS	161
FROM ‘THE BARBER OF SEVILLE’	163
FROM ‘THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO’	168
FRANCIS BEAUMONT and JOHN FLETCHER	174
THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS	179
WILLIAM BECKFORD	191
THE INCANTATION AND THE SACRIFICE	193
VATHEK AND NOURONIHAR IN THE HALLS OF EBLIS	196
HENRY WARD BEECHER	202
BY LYMAN ABBOTT	202
BOOK-STORES AND BOOKS	209
SELECTED PARAGRAPHS	211
SERMON	213
A NEW ENGLAND SUNDAY	223
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN	232
BY E. IRENAEUS STEVENSON	232
FROM LETTER TO DR. WEGELER, VIENNA	234
TO THE SAME	234
FROM THE LETTERS TO BETTINA BRENTANO	235
TO COUNTESS GIULIETTA GUICCIARDI	237
TO MY BROTHERS CARL AND JOHANN BEETHOVEN	238
TO THE ROYAL AND IMPERIAL HIGH COURT OF APPEAL	240
TO BARONESS VON DROSSDICK	240
TO ZMESKALL	241
TO ZMESKALL	241
TO HIS BROTHER JOHANN	241
TO STEPHAN V. BREUNING	241
CARL MICHAEL BELLMAN	242
BY OLGA FLINCH	242
JEREMY BENTHAM	248
OF THE PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY	251
REMINISCENCES OF CHILDHOOD	253
LETTER FROM BOWOOD TO GEORGE WILSON (1781)	255
FRAGMENT OF A LETTER TO LORD LANSDOWNE (1790)	256
JEAN-PIERRE DE BERANGER	256
BY ALCEE FORTIER	256
FROM HIS PREFACE TO HIS COLLECTED POEMS	267
GEORGE BERKELEY	268
ESSAY ON TAR-WATER	271
HECTOR BERLIOZ	273
THE ITALIAN RACE AS MUSICIANS AND AUDITORS	275
THE FAMOUS “SNUFF-BOX TREACHERY”	277
ON GLUCK	279
ON BACH	279
MUSIC AS AN ARISTOCRATIC ART	280
THE BEGINNING OF A “GRAND PASSION”	280
ON THEATRICAL MANAGERS IN RELATION TO ART	281
SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX	281
MONASTIC LUXURY	285
FROM HIS SERMON ON THE DEATH OF GERARD	287
BERNARD OF CLUNY	288
BY WILLIAM C. PRIME	289
JULIANA BERNERS	292
HERE BEGYNNYTH	293
WALTER BESANT	294
OLD-TIME LONDON	297
THE SYNAGOGUE	301
BESTIARIES AND LAPIDARIES	306
THE LION	307
THE PELICAN	308
THE EAGLE	309
THE PHOENIX	309
THE ANT	310
THE SIREN	310
THE WHALE	310
THE CROCODILE	311
THE TURTLE-DOVE	311
THE MANDRAGORA	312
SAPPHIRE	312
CORAL	312
MARIE-HENRI BEYLE (STENDHAL)	313
BY FREDERIC TABER COOPER	313
PRINCESS SANSEVERINA’S INTERVIEW	320
CLELIA AIDS FABRICE TO ESCAPE	327
WILLEM BILDERDIJK	332
BION	339
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL	342
DR. JOHNSON	344
THE OFFICE OF LITERATURE	351
TRUTH-HUNTING	354
BENVENUTO CELLINI	356
ON THE ALLEGED OBSCURITY OF MR. BROWNING’S POETRY	360

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