Library of the Worlds Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 3

Library Of The World's Best
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LIBRARY OF THE
WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE
ANCIENT AND MODERN
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
EDITOR
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE
GEORGE HENRY WARNER
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Connoisseur Edition
VOL. III.

THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
* * * * *
CRAWFORD H. TOY, A.M., LL.D., Professor of Hebrew,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Mass.
THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, LL.D., L.H.D., Professor of English in
the Sheffield Scientific School of YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven,
Conn.
WILLIAM M. SLOANE, PH.D., L.H.D., Professor of History and
Political Science, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, N.J.
BRANDER MATTHEWS, A.M., LL.B., Professor of Literature,
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City.
JAMES B. ANGELL, LL.D., President of the UNIVERSITY OF
MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Mich.

WILLARD FISKE, A.M., PH.D., Late Professor of the Germanic and
Scandinavian Languages and Literatures, CORNELL UNIVERSITY,
Ithaca, N.Y.
EDWARD S. HOLDEN, A.M., LL.D., Director of the Lick
Observatory, and Astronomer, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
Berkeley, Cal.
ALCÉE FORTIER, LIT.D., Professor of the Romance Languages,
TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La.
WILLIAM P. TRENT, M.A., Dean of the Department of Arts and
Sciences, and Professor of English and History, UNIVERSITY OF
THE SOUTH, Sewanee, Tenn.
PAUL SHOREY, PH.D., Professor of Greek and Latin Literature,
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Ill.
WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL.D., United States Commissioner of
Education, BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D.C.
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A.M., LL.D., Professor of Literature in
the CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, Washington, D.C.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. III
LIVED BERTHOLD AUERBACH--Continued: 1812-1882 The First
False Step ('On the Heights') The New Home and the Old One (same)
The Court Physician's Philosophy (same) In Countess Irma's Diary
(same)
ÉMILE AUGIER 1820-1889 A Conversation with a Purpose
('Giboyer's Boy') A Severe Young Judge ('The Adventuress') A
Contented Idler ('M. Poirier's Son-in-Law') Feelings of an Artist (same)
A Contest of Wills ('The Fourchambaults')

ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO (by Samuel Hart) 354-430 The Godly
Sorrow that Worketh Repentance ('The Confessions') Consolation
(same) The Foes of the City ('The City of God') The Praise of God
(same) A Prayer ('The Trinity')
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS A.D. 121-180 Reflections
JANE AUSTEN 1775-1817 An Offer of Marriage ('Pride and
Prejudice') Mother and Daughter (same) A Letter of Condolence (same)
A Well-Matched Sister and Brother ('Northanger Abbey') Family
Doctors ('Emma') Family Training ('Mansfield Park') Private
Theatricals (same) Fruitless Regrets and Apples of Sodom (same)
AVERROËS 1126-1198
THE AVESTA (by A.V. Williams Jackson) Psalm of Zoroaster Prayer
for Knowledge The Angel of Divine Obedience To the Fire The
Goddess of the Waters Guardian Spirits An Ancient Sindbad The Wise
Man Invocation to Rain Prayer for Healing Fragment
AVICEBRON 1028-?1058 On Matter and Form ('The Fountain of
Life')
ROBERT AYTOUN 1570-1638 Inconstancy Upbraided Lines to an
Inconstant Mistress (with Burns's Adaptation)
WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN 1813-1865 Burial March of
Dundee ('Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers') Execution of Montrose (same)
The Broken Pitcher ('Bon Gaultier Ballads') Sonnet to Britain. "By the
Duke of Wellington" (same) A Ball in the Upper Circles ('The Modern
Endymion') A Highland Tramp ('Norman Sinclair')
MASSIMO TAPARELLI D'AZEGLIO 1798-1866 A Happy Childhood
('My Recollections') The Priesthood (same) My First Venture in
Romance (same)
BABER (by Edward S. Holden) 1482-1530 From Baber's 'Memoirs'

BABRIUS First Century A.D. The North Wind and the Sun Jupiter and
the Monkey The Mouse that Fell into the Pot The Fox and the Grapes
The Carter and Hercules The Young Cocks The Arab and the Camel
The Nightingale and the Swallow The Husbandman and the stork The
Pine The Woman and Her Maid-Servants The Lamp The Tortoise and
the Hare
FRANCIS BACON (by Charlton T. Lewis) 1561-1626 Of Truth
('Essays') Of Revenge (same) Of Simulation and Dissimulation (same)
Of Travel (same) Of Friendship (same) Defects of the Universities
('The Advancement of Learning') To My Lord Treasurer Burghley In
Praise of Knowledge To the Lord Chancellor To Villiers on his Patent
as a Viscount Charge to Justice Hutton A Prayer, or Psalm From the
'Apophthegms' Translation of the 137th Psalm The World's a Bubble
WALTER BAGEHOT (by Forrest Morgan) 1826-1877 The Virtues of
Stupidity ('Letters on the French Coup d'État') Review Writing ('The
First Edinburgh Reviewers') Lord Eldon (same) Taste ('Wordsworth,
Tennyson, and Browning') Causes