Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. 20 volumes (xxi, 9822 pages) : 25 cm V. 1. Ancient Indian hymns / Monier Monier-Williams -- The stupid Rakshas / John Thackray Bunce -- Prince Siddârtha's marriage / Edwin Arnold -- The cup of water / Charlotte M. Yonge -- The clay cart / King Sudraka -- Tubal Cain / Charles Mackay -- The Princess of the Madras / From the Mahabharata -- The mother / Trans. by George Borrow -- Hymn to the God Merodach -- Manners and customs of the Egyptians / Charles Rollin -- The mirage in Egypt / Theodore Watts-Dunton -- The oldest story in the world -- The seventh plague of Egypt / George Croly -- the burial of Moses / Mrs. C. F. Alexander -- The temples of Rameses -- Eros and Psyche / John Thackray Bunce -- A happy life / Charles Merivale -- The conduct of life / From the Mahabharata -- Aphorisma on life / Francis Bacon -- The death of a son / From the Ramayana -- Sohrab and Rustum / Matthew Arnold -- After reading Arnold's "Sphrab and Rustum" / Edith M. Thomas -- The story of Damon and Pythias / Charlotte M. Yonge -- Homer and his translators / Matthew Arnold -- Beauty / Anacreon -- Greek wit / Aristippus and Bias -- The heroes at Troy / William Shakespeare -- A dialogue of the dead / Anna Letitia Barbauld -- The contention of Achilles and Agamemnon / Homer (Iliad) -- On translations of Homer / Alfred Tennyson -- On first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats -- Achilles and Helena / Walter Savage Landor -- Menelas and Helen at Troy / Walter Savage Landor -- Circe's palace / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The strayed reveler / Matthew Arnold -- The parting of Odysseus and Calypso / Homer -- The song of Phaeacia / Andrew Lang -- Odysseus and the Princess Nausicca / Homer -- Ulysses / Alfred Tennyson -- Greek wit -- Translations of Homer / Butcher and Lang -- The Odyssey / Andrew Lang -- Odysseus describes his adventure with the cyclops / Homer -- The cyclops / Virgil -- The splendor of Greek / Frederick W. H. Myers -- The cyclops in love / Theocritus -- The story of Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea / Ovid -- The love of Achilles / Bion -- Dido in love / Virgil -- Virgil's Dido / Walter Savage Lando -- Pisidicê / Andrew Lang -- The labors of Hercules -- Hyperion / John Keats -- The golden fleece / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Babylon / Charles Rollin -- Athene / Sir Lewis Morris -- The greatness of Ahtens / Thucydides -- The pass of Thermopylae / Charlotte M. Yonge -- The spartans and the laws of Lycurgus / Charles Rollin -- Greek myths / John Ruskin -- Sapphics / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Horatius / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- Virginia / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- The story of Lucretia / Livy -- War songs / Tyraeus -- Of feminine subtlety / From the Gesta Romanorum -- Nymphs / Thomas Wade V. 2. The Gorgon's head / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The prayer of the swine to Circe / Austion Dobson -- The Olympic Games / Grorg Ebers -- Arion / George Eliot -- The story of Croesus / Herodotus -- The last two oracles of Greece / Trans. by F. W. Myers -- Wit and satire of the Greek Anthology / Trans. by Lord Neaves -- The Isles of Greece / Lord Byron -- Solon / Plutarch -- Arethusa / Percy Bysshe Shelly -- An ancient Gulliver / Lucian of Samosata -- Agamemnon / Aeschylus -- The downfall and death of King Oedipus / Sophocles -- Medea / Euripides -- Faithful unto death / Charlotte M. Yonge -- The knights / Aristophanes -- Parabasis / Aristophanes -- Plato and Bacon / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- A Grecian sunset / Lord Byron -- The trial of Socrates / Plato -- Account of Socrates / Alcibiades -- A dialogue from Plato / Austin Dobson -- The destruction of the Athenians at Syracuse / Thucydides -- The shepherd of King Admetus / James Russell Lowell -- The expedition of Cyrus / Xenophon -- Thrasymedes and Eunöe / Walter Savage Landor -- On the crown / Demosthenes -- Ode on a Grecian Urn / John Keats -- Alexander at his best and worst / Plutarch -- Alexander's feast; or, the power of music / John Dryden -- Alexander the Great/ J. P. Mahaffy -- The dying gladiator / Lord Byron -- The defeat of the Galatians / Pausanias -- Greece and Rome / Percy Bysshe Shelly -- Hannibal as strategist and soldier / Livy -- To Rome / Lord Byron -- The conspiracy of Catiline / Sallust -- Speech on Catiline's conspiracy / Marcus Tullius Cicero -- The Campagna of Rome / Bessie R. Parkes -- Caesar's first invasion of Britain / Caius Julius Caesar -- Julius Caesar / Shakespeare -- Antony and Cleopatra / Plutarch -- Antony and Cleopatra / General Lytle -- Jocular oratory / Quintilian -- The spinning of the Fates / Caius Valerius Catullus -- Epithalamium / Caius Valerius Catullus -- Praise of poverty / Lucius Apuleius -- From Lucretius / Titus Carus Lucretius -- On old age / Marcus Tullius Cicero -- Chorus from "Atalanta in Calyson" / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Encomium on flies / Lucian of Samosata -- Odes / Horace -- Charitable judgements / Horace V. 3. Rubáiyát / Omar Khayyám -- The story of Ali Baba, and the forty robbers destroyed by a slave / From the Arabian Nights -- King Dathy's death / Tr. by Jas. Clarence Mangan -- The Maguire -- Prechristian Irish literture -- Description of the great eruption of Vesuvius / Pliny the Younger -- Pompeii and Herculaneum / Johann Friedrich Schiller -- The destruction of Pompeii / Bulwer-Lytton -- The Underworld as described by Aeneas / Virgil -- Dante and Virgil in the Shades / Dante -- Of Christ, who, by his Passion, delivered us from Hell / From the Gesta Romanorum -- The return of the Golden Age / Virgil -- A sacred eclogue in imitation of Virgil's "Pollio" / Alexander Pope -- The savagery of classic times / Anthony Trollope -- Tiberius and the Senate / Tacitus -- Tenth satire / Juvenal -- Thoughts / Marcus Aurelius Antoninus -- The Emperor and the Pope / E. H. Plumptre -- Confessions / St. Augustine -- Roman and Provincial life in the fifth century / Apollinaris Sidonius -- The monks and the giants / John Hookham Frere -- The Historie of King Arthur / Sir Thomas Malory -- Merlin and Vivien / Alfred Tennyson -- Writings / Mohammed -- The Poem of my Cid -- Reflections on Moslem domination in Spain / Washington Irving -- Arabian poetry / Tr. by Charles James Lyall -- The legend of King Solomon and the Hoopoes / Hon. Robert Curzon -- From "Quo Vadis" / Henryk Sienkiewicz -- The Gladiators / G. J. Whyte-Melville -- Marcus Aurelius at home / Walter Pater -- The vision of Sir Launfal / James Russell Lowell -- Maxims / Epictetus -- On anger / Lucius Anaeus Seneca -- The vanity of fortume's gifts / Boethius -- The voyage of Maeldune / Alfred Tennyson -- The fall of Palmyra / William Ware -- The ruins of Rome / Lord Byron -- The Huns at Reichenau / Joseph Victor von Scheffel -- The horn of Roland -- Episodes of English history / David Hume -- The white ship / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Old German love songs / F. Max Müller -- Sunken cities / Tr. by F. Max Müller V. 4. The capture of Jerusalem / Edward Gibbon -- Godfrey of Boulogne / Torquato Tasso -- Richard and Saladin / Sir Walter Scott -- The Ingoldsby penance / Richard Harris Barham -- The tournament / Sir Walter Scott -- The Nibelungenlied / W. N. Lettsom (Tr.) -- Aucassin and Nicolete / Andrew Lang (Tr.) -- The Gulistan / Shaikh Muslih al Din (assumed name, Sa'di) -- Rustam and Akwan Dev / Ferdausi -- The Fourth Cursade / Margaret Oliphant -- Dies Irae / St. Thomas of Celano -- Art thou weary / St. Stephen the Sabaite -- The rhythm of Bernard de Moriaix / John Mason Neale -- Village life in England six hundred years ago -- Augustus Jessopp -- The Emperor Frederick the Second / Edward A. Freeman -- The Diver / Johann Friedrich von Schiller -- Robin Hood and Maid Marian before the renaming / Thomas Love Peacock -- Inferno / Dante -- Poems / Dante -- On a portrait of Dante by Giotto / James Russell Lowell -- Stories from the "Decameron" / Giovanni Boccaccio -- The Damsel of the Laurel / Petrarch -- The death of Rienzi / Bulwer-Lytton -- On a wet day / Franco Sacchetti -- The Battle of Otterbourne / Jean Froissart -- A chapter of Froissart / Austin Dobson -- The Ballad of Chevy Chace -- Fables / Pilpay -- The prologue to the Canterbury Tales / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Early Dutch poetry / Sir John Bowring -- Travels / Sir John Manderville -- The Battle of Agincourt / Michael Drayton -- The White Company / A. Conan Doyle -- The Kings' tragedy / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Review of John Foster Kirk's "Charles the Bold" / Edward Freeman -- Quentin Durward's Initiation / Sir Walter Scott -- Charles the Bold an Louis XI / Philippe de Comines -- Coplas de Manrique / Don Jorge Manrique -- Prologue to the Recueil des Histoires de Troye / William Caxton -- Epilogue to the Dictes and Saying of the Philosophers / William Caxton V. 5. Warwick the kingmaker / Charles W. Oman -- The Battle of Barnet / Bulwer-Lytton -- The Morgante Maggiore / Luigi Pulci -- Columbus' voyages to America / William Robertson -- Savonarola / Pasquale Villari -- Romola / George Eliot -- Sonnetts: The Garland and the Girdle ; The Transfiguration of Beauty / Michael Angelo -- Invention of composition in painting / Leonardo da Vinci -- Venice / Lord Byron -- The Bell Ringer of Notre Dame / Victor Hugo -- Alcina the Enchantress / Ludovico Ariosto -- The Prince / Niccolo Machiavelli -- Romeo and Juliet / Shakespeare -- The Imitation of Christ / Thomas à Kempis -- The Duke of Guise and Henry II / Alexandre Dumas -- The Mischievous Ape / Matteo Bandello -- A Lover of Lies / Ortensio Lando -- Stories from the "Heptameron" / Margaret of Navarre -- A Ghazal / Hafiz -- Meditations / Hafiz -- Zulaikha / Jami -- Poems / François Villon -- A Lodging for the night / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The sack of Rome by the Constable of Bourbon / Lord Byron -- Benvenuto Cellini's early life / Benvenuto Cellini -- The lost hatchet / Rabelais -- Astrological prediction / Rabelais -- Poems / Fronsard -- Mary of Scots' departure from France / The Abbé de Brantôme -- Essays / Montaigne -- Count Alarcos and the Infanta Solisa / John Ginson Lockhart -- Pizzaro in Peru / William H. Prescott -- The Conspiracy against the Portuguese / Camoens -- Don Quixote and Sancho / Cervantes -- The Battle of Ivry / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- Luther's Table Talk / Martin Luther -- The Apparation / Erasmus -- The Cloister and the hearth / Charles Reade -- The Pied Piper of Hamelin / Robert Browning -- Ignatius Loyola and his work / Rev. Thomas Hughes -- Prefatory address to the "Institutes of the Christian Religion" / John Calvin -- Ballad of the Emperor's daughter / John Bowring -- Scenes of the Milan Plague of 1630 / Allessandro Manzoni -- The Ballad of Judas Iscariot / Robert Buchanan V. 6. England in Henry VIII's time / James Anthony Froude -- The Araucana / Alonzo de Ercilla -- The crushing of Italian freedom / John A. Symonds -- The Cenci / John A. Symonds -- The Medici / John A. Symonds -- The lover's appeal / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- The execution of Lady Jane Grey / W. Harrison Ainsworth -- Faustus / Christopher Marlowe -- A Maltese millionaire / Christopher Marlowe -- Barabas and his daughter / Christopher Marlowe -- Elizabeth and Amy Robsart / Sir Walter Scott -- Now, what is love? / Sir Walter Raleigh -- A report of the truth of the fight about the Isles of Azores / Sir Walter Raleigh -- The "Revenge" / Alfred Tennyson -- Philaster / Beaumont and Fletcher -- Mary's escape foiled / Sir Walter Scott -- Three phases of English history / John Richard Green -- The death of King Lear / William Shakespeare -- Hamlet in the Churchyard / William Shakespeare -- Poetry as a mistress / Abraham Cowley -- Angelo and Dorothea / Thomas Dekker -- Goethe on Shakespeare / Johann Wolfgang Goethe -- Caliban and the sailors / William Shakespeare -- The trial / William Shakespeare -- Into the breach / William Shakespeare -- Falstaff and the Prince / William Shakespeare -- To the memory of Shakespeare / Ben Jonson -- Essays of Lord Bacon / Francis Bacon -- Lord Bacon / James Spedding -- Apothegms / Francis Bacon -- A supplication / Abraham Cowley -- The relief of Leyden / John Lothrop Motley -- Charles the Fifth / John Lathrop Motley -- The invincible Armada / Friedrich Schiller -- The Armada / Leopold von Ranke -- True liberty / Dirk Coornhert -- The Spanish Armada / W. Clark Russell -- Ulyssess and the Siren / Samuel Daniel -- The great captain / Albion W. Tourgée -- Pack clouds away / Thomas Heywood -- The defeat of the Armada / Charles Kingsley -- To Celia / Ben Jonson -- The ladies of England / John Lyly -- Una and the lion / Edmund Spenser -- Utopia and its customs / Sit Thomas More -- The bringing up of youth / Roger Ascham -- The Duchess' wooing / John Fletcher -- Prayer before battle / John Fletcher -- Love's vitality / Michael Drayton -- Explorata; or, Discoveries / Ben Jonson -- Basia / Thomas Campion -- Overreach overreached / Philip Massinger -- The Plague of London / Daniel DeFoe -- The masque of the Red Death / Edgar A. Poe -- The progrress of the pestilence / W. Harrison Ainsworth -- Valediction, forbidding mourning / John Donne -- The undertaking / John Donne -- Scences and portraits from Clarenson's "History of the rebellion and civil wars in England" / Clarendon -- An Horatian ode / Andrew Marvell -- Oliver Cromwell / Thomas Carlyle -- L'Allegro / John Milton -- Il Penseroso / John Milton -- Sonnet to Cyriac Skinner / John Milton -- Religio Medici / Sir Thomas Browne -- A happy life / Sir Henry Wotton -- Walton's angler / Izaak Walton -- Prithee, send me back my heart / Sir John Suckling -- Red and white roses / Thomas Carew -- Angling / Leigh Hunt -- The two brothers / Sir John Vanbrugh -- Origin and development of the Bank of England / Walter Bagehot V. 7. Athos, Porthos, and Aramis / Alexandre Dumas -- The fate of Mordaunt / Alexandre Dumas -- The man in the iron mask / Alexandre Dumas -- Scenes from "Athaliah" / Jean Baptiste Racine -- Sigismund / Pedro Calderon de La Barca -- Justina's temptation / Pedro Calderon de La Barca -- The mighty magician / Pedro Calderon de La Barca -- The times of Gustavus Adolphus / Zachris Topelius -- From the Kalevala / John M. Crawford (Tr.) -- The Cid / Pierre Corneille -- The story of Ali-Bey, the Persian / La Mothe-Fénelon -- Sonnets / Lope de Vega -- Funeral oration on Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans / Jacques Bénigne Bossuet -- The affected ladies / Molière -- Fables / Jean de La Fontaine -- Madame de Sévigné's letters / Marwuis de Sévigné -- Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon on the reign of Louis XIV and the regency / Duc de Saint-Simon -- Boileau's art of poetry / Nicholas Boileau-Despréaux -- Trial and death of Joan of Arc / Jules Michelet -- The Hypocrite unmasked / Molière -- On Penitence / Jean Baptiste Massillon -- Adventures of Count Grammont / Count Anthoy Hamilton -- Persian letters / Baron Montesquieu -- Maxims / Duc de La Rochefoucauld -- The manly heart / George Wither -- Sentiments / Jean de La Bruyère -- Chorus of angels / Joost van den Vondel -- The debate in pandemonium / John Milton -- With fire and sword / Henryk Sienkiewicz -- Liberty of printing -- John Milton -- The Battle of Stamford Heath / Arthur T. Quiller-Couch -- Sweet day, so cool / George Herbert -- Notable men and sayings of England / Thomas Fuller -- The clock case / Charles Dickens -- Hervé Riel / Robert Browning -- Leaves from Pepys' diary / Samuel Pepys -- Hudibras / Samuel Butler -- Notes form Evelyn's diary / John Evelyn -- Poems / Robert Herrick -- Demeanor in church / George Herbert -- The life of George Herbert / Izaak Walton -- The bird / Henry Vaughan -- Shaftesbury and Halifax / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- Three English politicians / John Dryden -- The proper qualities for a tutor / John Locke -- Contentedness in all estates and accidents / Jeremy Taylor -- Of the liberty of subjects / Thomas Hobbes -- The betrayal / Thomas Otwa -- The grasshopper / Richard Lovelace V. 8. The Pilgrim's progress / John Bunyan -- The dying man in his garden / George Sewell -- Beautiful gardens / Sir William Temple -- On the prospect of planting arts and learning in America / George Berkeley -- The decadence of Spain / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- Esmond's friends and foes / Wm. Makepeace Thackeray -- Essay on man / Alexander Pope -- A dialogue to the memory of Mr. Alexander Pope / Austin Dobson -- Apologues / Joseph Addison -- Fables / John Gay -- Letters / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- Thoughts and aphorisms / Dean Swift -- The hermit / Thomas Parnell -- Alexander Selkirk / Daniel Defoe -- Supposed lines of Alexander Selkirk / William Cowper -- The footprint on the sand / Daniel Defoe -- Afar in the desert / Thomas Pringle -- A voyage to Laputa / Dean Swift -- Adventures of Gil Blas / Alain René Le Sage -- Pleasure is vanity / Matthew Prior -- The lady's looking glass / Matthew Prior -- An ode / Matthew Prior -- The history of John Bull / John Arbuthnot -- The Good-humored club / Sir Richard Steele -- Sweet William's farewell to Black-eyed Susan / John Gay -- The restoration of a husband / Charles Reade -- John Ridd and the Doones / Richard D. Blackmore -- Go, lovely Rose / Edmund Waller -- Micah Clarke / A. Conan Doyle -- The death of Rafzivil / Henryk Sienkiewicz -- Sir Roger de Coverley / Joseph Addison -- on life, death, and immortality / Edward Young -- Dick Turpin's escape / W. Harrison Ainsworth -- Mazeppa's ride / Lord Byron -- Charles XII at Bender / Voltaire -- My dear and only love / James Graham -- The Monarchy of Spain / James Howell -- Memoirs of the Lord Viscount Dundee / John Graham -- How sleep the brave / William Collins -- Letters on the study and use of history / Viscount Bolingbroke -- The castle of indolence / James Thomson -- Manon Lescaut / Abbé Prévost -- The passions / Williams Collins -- Letters of Lord Chesterfield to his son / Philip D. Stanhope -- The seasons / James Thomson -- The skeptic / David Hume -- The analogy of religion to the course of nature / Joseph Butler -- An epistle to Curio / Mark Akenside V. 9. Letters / Horace Walpole -- Hours in a library / Leslie Stephen -- Elegy in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray -- Exequy / Henry King -- A sisterly visit / Samuel Richardson -- The genial jokes of the eighteenth century / Henry Fielding -- The conspiracy against Clinker / Tobias Smollett -- The wild huntsman / Sir Walter Scott -- Experiences of Candide / Voltaire -- The self-analysis of a parasite / Denis Diderot -- Confessions / Jean Jacques Rousseau -- The various delights and pleasures of the bodily senses, useful for mental recreation / Emanuel Swedenborg -- A letter to a friend concerning tea / John Wesley -- Account of all that passed on the night of February 27, 1757 / Robert Louis Stevenson -- From "Frederick the Great and this Court" / Louise Mühlbach -- Adventures of Tom Jones / Henry Fielding -- Marlow takes Mr. Hardcastle's house for and inn / Oliver Goldsmith -- Essays / Samuel Johnson -- The happy valley / Samuel Johnson -- A poem of Ossian / James Macpherson -- The limitations of pictoral art / Gotthold E. Lessing -- Sultan Saladin and Nathan the Wise / Gotthold E. Lessing -- The Vicar of Wakefield and his family / Oliver Goldsmith -- The deserted village / Oliver Goldsmith -- Passages from a sentimental journey / Laurence Sterne -- Jests / Samuel Foote -- Reminiscences of Dr. Johnson / James Boswell -- Dr. Johnson / Augustine Birrell -- Poems and will of Chatterton / Thomas Chatterton -- Letters of Junius -- The man of feeling / Henry Mackenzie -- Lenore / Gottfried A. Bürger -- The duel / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- A tour in Ireland / Arthur Young -- The wealth of nations / Adam Smith -- A review of schools / William Cooper -- Captain Cool's death / A. Kippis -- The murder of Abel / Vittorio Alfieri V. 10. From "Evelina" / Frances Burney -- Diary of Madame D'Arblay / Frances Burney -- Diary of Wilhelmine of Bayreuth -- The diverting history of John Gilpin / William Cowper -- The school for scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- The Caliph Vathek / William Beckford -- Poems / William Blake -- The shipwreck and Virginia's death / Bernardin de Saint Pierre -- The brothers / George Crabbe -- The mutineers of the "Bounty" / Barrow -- Sea songs / Charles Dibdin -- The natural history of Selborne / Gilbert White -- The pleasures of memory / Samuel Rogers -- Wilhelm begins his apprenticeship / Johann W. Goethe -- Wilhelm and the dramatic company / Johann W. Goethe -- Strolling players / George Crabbe -- Sketches of eighteenth-century life / Sir Walter Scott -- Gibbon and his history / Edward Gibbon -- Cagliostro's predictions / Alexandre Dumas -- Mistakes, methods, and crimes of the French Revolution / Edmund Burke -- The young captive / André Chénier -- Last night and execution of the Girondists / A. de Lamartine -- A tale of two cities / Charles Dickens -- Episodes of the French Revolution / Thomas Carlyle -- The Battle of the Baltic / Thomas Campbell -- The huntsmen / Viscomte de Châteaubriand -- Casabianca / Felicia D. Hemans -- The murder of the Duc D'Enghien / Pierre Lanfrey -- The burial of Sir John Moore / Charles Wolfe -- The ship duels and the privateers / John B. MacMaster -- The German's Fatherland / Ernst Moritz Arndt -- Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte / Lord Byron -- The rescue of Picciola / X. B. Saintine -- Poems / Pierre Jean de Béranger -- Trafalgar.-The death of Nelson / Captain Alfred T. Mahan -- Influence of Greece on its people / Ernst Curtius -- The Battle of Leuctra / George Grote -- Periods of Greek history after the conquest of Greece / George Finlay -- The beginnings of Rome / Theodoe Mommsen -- The Roman Empire on the edge of decline / Charlse Merivale -- Josephus on the Jewish War / Flavius Josephus -- The Mississippi bubble / Adolphe Thiers -- The old régime in France / H.A. Taine -- The finding of Wineland the Good / Arthur M. Reeves (Tr.) -- The Grettis saga / William Morris and A. Matnusson (Tr.) -- The song of Rorek / J.W. Weidemeyer -- The adventures of Captain John Smith / Captain John Smith -- Betty Alden and her companions / Jane G. Austin -- Dorothy in the Garret / J.T. Trowbridge V. 11. Penelope goes to court / Maud Wilder Goodwin -- The trial of Deliverance Wentworth / Pauline Bradford Mackie -- The wise woman / A. Mary F. Robinson -- The American flag / Joseph Rodman Drake -- Colonial America / George Bancroft -- The sword of Bunker Hill / William Ross Wallace -- Address of Patrick Henry before the Convention of Delegates, March 28, 1775 / Patrick Henry -- Thoughts on the present state of the American affairs / Thomas Paine -- Nathan Hale / Franics Miles Finch -- Powers conferred by the New Constitution in regard to National Forces / Alexander Hamilton -- General power of National Taxation / Alexander Hamilton -- Incoherence of the objections to the Constitution / James Madison -- A health / Edward Coate Pinkney -- The Indians and the Whites / Theodore Roosevelt -- Separation and the Scrooby Church / Edward Eggleston -- The Wild Rose of Plymouth / Jones Very -- St. Leger's advance upon Fort Stanwix / John Fiske -- Character of the Loyalists / Moses Coit Tyler -- The wants of man / John Quincy Adams -- The freedom of the will / Jonathan Edwards -- Morning hymn / Charles Wesley -- In temptation / Charles Wesley -- Silvio Pellico's Imprisonment / Silvio Pellico -- Miller Voss and the Amtshauptmann / Fritz Reuter -- Walpurgis Night / Johann W. Goethe -- Goethe and Betinna / George Henry Lewes -- Goethe's correspondence with a child / Bettina Brentano -- Fritz and Suzel / Erckmann-Chatrian -- Lochinvar / Sir Walter Scott -- Adventures of Baron Munchausen / Rudolph Eric Raspe -- On the conversation of authors / William Hazlitt -- Wooed and married and A' / Joanna Baillie -- It was on a morn / Joanna Baillie -- On wit / Sydney Smith -- An ode of Anacreon / Thomas Moore (Tr.) -- The Limerick gloves / Maria Edgeworht -- The spider and the fly / Mary Howitt -- Hajji Baba and the stolen money / James Morier -- Autobiography / François Arago -- The old Scottish cavalier / W.E. Aytoun -- Con Cregan's legacy / Charles Lever -- Lady Hester Stanhope / A.W. Kinglake -- Frithiof and Ingeborg / Esaias Tegner -- The weakness unrest and defects of man / Blaise Pascal -- Van Artevelde and his companions / Sir Henry Taylor -- Hymn for fourth Sunday after Trinity / John Keble -- John Henry Newman and his companions / John Henry Newman -- The pillar of the cloud / John Henry Newman -- Legend of the dropping wall / Hugh Miller -- Walden Pond in winter / Henry David Thoreau -- Buffon's natural history / Comte de Buffon -- The struggle / Baroness Tautphoeus -- In April / Emanual Geibel -- A Hungarian election / Baron József Eötvös -- Alfred de Musset / Charles A. Sainte-Beuve -- A musical adventure / George Sand -- Gone in the wind / Friedrich Rückert -- A corsican vendetta / Prosper Mérimée -- Classic Chinese poems / William Jennings (Tr.) -- The Christian idea of God / James Freeman Clarke -- Self-culture / William Ellery Channing -- A sermon of old age / Theodore Parker -- The character of Jesus / Horace Bushnell -- Nurture of noble impulse / Henry Ward Beecher -- Margaret goes to meeting / Sylvester Judd -- The minstrel's curse / Ludwig Uhland -- The Brockenhaus / Heinrich Heine -- Coming home / Johann Ludwig Runeberg -- Nigel's doom / Grace Aguilar -- Maria's rescue from the stake / Wilhelm Meinhold -- The angel in the house / Coventry Patmore -- Hannah Bint / Mary Russell Mitford -- Lothair becomes of age / Benjamin Disraeli V. 12. The rime of the ancient Mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The abduction of Amanda / Regina Maria Roche -- The pleasures of hope / Thomas Campbell -- Italian literature / Madame de Staël -- Intimations of immortality / William Wordsworth -- Marion's death and Wallace's vengeance / Jane Porter -- Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu / Sir Walter Scott -- Marjorie Fleming / John Brown -- Paradise and the Peri / Thomas Moore -- The old Scottish domestic servant / Dean Ramsay -- Tam o' Shanter / Robert Burns -- A vision of purgatory / William Magin -- My Lord Tomnoddy / Richard Harris Barham -- The Auld Lichts / J.M. Barris -- Rory O'More's present to the priest / Samuel Lover -- Rory O'More / Samuel Lover -- Depending upon others / Mrs. S.C. Hall -- To a skylark / Percy Bysshe Shelly -- Mr. Collins' courtship / Jane Austen -- Elizabeth and Lady Catherine / Jane Austen -- The bridge of sighs / Thomas Hood -- Headlong Hall / Thomas Love Peacock -- The Cataract of Lodore / Robert Southey -- A dissertation upon roast pig / Charles Lamb -- Charles Lamb / Augustine Birrel -- The owl / John Wilson (probably) -- Miss Pratt / Susan Ferrier -- The belle of the ball / Winthrop Mackworth Praed -- Mr. Pickwick's adventure with the middle-aged lady in yellow curl papers / Charles Dickens -- The bells of Shandon / Francis Mahony -- Ten thousand a year / Samuel Warren -- The squire's pew / Jane Taylor -- Mr. Caudle has lent five pounds to a friend / Douglas Jerrold -- The Newcomes / Wm. Makepeace Thackeray -- Sister Helen /Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- The Moonstone / Wilkie Collins -- The skeleton in Armor / Henry W. Longfellow -- Death of ready and rescue of the Seagraves / Frederick Marryat -- The trial of the Kance of Hearts / Lewis Carroll -- The hour of death / Felicia D. Hemans -- Roger Malvin's burial / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The raven / Edgar A. Poe -- The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar A. Poe -- On the track of the white whale / Heman Melville -- The soldier's dream / Thomas Campbell -- A passion in the desert / Honoré de Balzac V. 13. A fight with a cannon / Victor Hugo -- Doomed to live / Honoré de Balzac -- The Devil's drive / Lord Byron -- War / John Ruskin -- Ichabod / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The lost leader / Robert Browning -- The old woman of Schleswig-Holstein / Anonymous -- Growth / Henry Drummond -- Gradatim / J.G. Holland -- The great stone face / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The golden apple / William Morris -- The descent of man / Charles Darwin -- The seven ages of man / Shakespeare -- Inaugural address / Thomas Carlyle -- Tom Brown's school days / Thomas Hughes -- Dotheboys Hall / Charles Dickens -- History of football in England / Montagu Shearman -- Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College / Thomas Gray -- The adventures of Mr. Verdant Green / Cuthbert Bede -- An undergraduate's Aunt / Francis Anstey -- Mrs. Caudle's umbrella lecture / Douglas Jerrold -- The gridiron / Samuel Lover -- The White Wolf of Kostopchin / Sir Gilbert Campbell -- The story of 'Lorn Light / Thomas Hood -- An inland voyage / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The yarn of the "Nancy Bell" / William Schwenk Gilbert -- A brutal captain / Richard Henry Dana, Jr. -- The three fishers / Chalres Kingsley -- The mystery of the "Ocean Star" / William Clark Russell -- The launching of the ship / Henry W. Longfellow -- The Swiss Family Robinson / Johann Rudolf Wyss -- The traveler; or, a prospect of society / Oliver Goldsmith -- Distinguishing characteristics of European civilization / François Guizot -- All things shall pass away / Theodore Tilton -- Persian forms and fables / Sir John Malcolm -- A Persian Governor / Arthur Arnold -- The pilgrims / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Around the world in eighty days / Jules Verne -- The sands of Dee / Charles Kingsley -- Cranford / Mrs. Elizabeth C. Gaskell -- Fair Ines / Thomas Hood -- Jane Eyre's fortunes / Charlotte Bronte -- Any wife to any husband / Robert Browing -- The king of the Golden River; or, the Black Brothers / John Ruskin -- The lost pleiad / Felicia D. Hemans -- Something / Hans Christian Andersen -- Slander -- The Count of Monte Cristo / Alexandre Dumas -- I remember, I remember / Thomas Hood V. 15. The landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England / Felicia D. Hemans -- The golden reign of Wouter Van Twiller / Washington Irving -- Evangeline; a tale of Acadie / Henry W. Longfellow -- Early life of Benjamin Franklin / Benjamin Franklin -- Thanatopsis / William Cullen Bryant -- Washington / Wm. Makepeace Thackeray -- The last leaf / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The true policy of Great Britain towards her American colonies / Edmund Burke -- The independence of America / John Richard Green -- The Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson -- Farewell address of George Washington / George Washington -- The character of Washington / Thomas Jefferson -- The Green Mountain Boys / Daniel P. Thompson -- The death of the flowers / William Cullen Bryant -- Henry Wharton's escape / James Fenimore Cooper -- Burns / Fitz-Greene Halleck -- Ellen at the farm / Susan Warner -- The culprit Fay / Joseph Rodman Drake -- Prue and I / George William Curtis -- Barclay of Ury / John G. Whittier -- The scarlet letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Two women / Nathaniel Parker Willis -- Compensation / Ralph Waldo Emmerson -- The haunted palace / Edgar Allan Poe -- The gold bug / Edgar Allan Poe -- Ninety-nine in the shade / Rossiter Johnson -- Sam Slick and the Nova Scotians / Thomas Chandler Haliburton -- Martin Chuzzlewit / Charles Dickens -- An American girl in London / Sara Jeannette Duncan -- Her letter / Bret Harte -- That gentleman / Edward Everett -- Living in the country / Frederick S. Cozzens -- A Mormon romance / Artemus Ward -- Democracy and women / Alexis De Tocqueville -- Pioneer life in America / Alexis De Tocqueville -- The United States / Lord Byron -- Webster's reply to Hayne / Daniel Webster -- The Biglow Papers / James Russell Lowell -- Lincoln's second inaugrual address / Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln / Phillips Brooks -- O Captain! My Captain! / Walt Whitman -- Sheridan's ride / Thomas Buchanan Read -- Battle Hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe -- Mr. Punch's tribute to Lincoln / Tom Taylor -- The Blue and Gray / Francis Miles Finch -- The place where man should die / Michael Joseph Barry V. 16. Grace before meat / Charles Lamb -- The Lass o' Gowrie / Carolina Oliphant Nairne -- Tammy / Carolina Oliphant Nairne -- Tales from the Fjeld / Peter Christen Asbjörnsen -- After death / Sir Edwin Arnold -- The rift in the lute / Jean Paul Richter -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The shadowless man / Adelbert von Chamisso -- Japanese poems / Basil H. Chamberlain (Tr.) -- The heathen Chinese / Bret Harte -- Gambler's luck / E.T.W. Hoffmann -- The song of the bell / Johann Friedrich von Schiller -- The man in the bell / William Maginn -- The bells / Edgar A. Poe -- The fatal nuptials / Eugène Sue -- The red fisherman; or the Devil's decoy / Winthrop Mackworth Praed -- Romance of a poor young man / Octave Feuillet -- An adventure with brigands / Théophíle Gautier -- A woman's questioning / Adelaide Anne Procter -- On the value and use of libraries / James Baldwin -- Life and letters of Lord Macaulay / George Otto Trevelyan -- To a swallow building under the eaves at Craigenputtock / Jane Welsh Carlyle -- Heroism in housekeeping / Jane Welsh Carlyle -- Each and all / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Women and men / Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- The Jackdaw of Rheims / Richard Harris Barkam -- Unreasonable claims in social affections and relations / Arthur Helps -- Courage / Arthur Hugh Clough -- Essays / Arthur Schopenhauer -- A country party / William H. Mallock -- The goal of life / George du Maurier -- Life / Philip James Bailey -- The physiology of laughter / Hebert Spencer -- Moral education / Herbert Spencer -- Vanities / Johann W. Goethe -- The despotiem of custom / John Stuart Mill -- Crossing the bar / Alfred Tennyson -- Adventures in Central America / Laurence Oliphant -- The Weisshorn / John Tyndall -- The Orang-utan / Alfred Russel Wallace -- The mahogany tree / Wm. Makepeace Thackeray -- Naturalism and ethics / Arthur-James Balfour -- Songs of seven / Jean Ingelow -- Supervision and control of other worlds / Richard A. Proctor -- Amiels's journal / Henri Frédéric Amiel -- How's my boy? / Sydney Dobell -- New York after Paris / William C. Brownell -- The king of Denmark's ride / Caroline Norton -- In the toils / Gstav Freytag -- The escape / Maxwell Gray -- Flight / Charles Sturat Calverley -- The bread riot / Dinah Mulock -- Lady moon / Lord Houghton -- Saved from the quicksands / Grant Allen -- Dinners / Owen Meredith -- A dog of Flanders / Louis de la Ramée -- In school days / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Nora's resolve / Henrik Ibsen -- A pastor's love / Édouard Rod -- Pilate and the Crucifixion / Frederick William Farrar V. 17. Thoughts in the cloister and the crowd / Arthur Helps -- Behind the veil / Alfred Tennyson -- Scenes from "Cousin Pons" / Honoré de Balzac -- The essence of sin / Hartley Coleridge -- Vain virtues / Dante Gabrie Rossetti -- Lost days / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Tricked out of herself / Alessandro Manzoni -- He giveth his beloved sleep / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Friendship / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The courtin' / James Russell Lowell -- On the wane: a sentimental correspondence / Mrs. W.K. Clifford -- Love among the ruins / Robert Browning -- Jean and Bettina / Ludovic Halévy -- Beauty / Sappho -- Julia / Robert Herrick -- Beauth and dress / Robert Herrick -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- Dr. Heidegger's experiment / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Marco Bozzaris / Fitz-Greene Halleck -- William Wilson / Edgar A. Poe -- Song from "Maud" / Alfred Tennyson -- The story of an African farm / Olive Scheiner -- Maidenhood / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The convict in the marshes / Charles Dickens -- Copperfield at school / Charles Dickens -- The death of Dora / Charles Dickens -- The high tide on the coast of Lincolnshire / Jean Ingelow -- The Dolly dialogues / Anthony Hope -- Ode to duty / William Wordsworth -- And every one a winner / William Lindsey -- The deathbed / Thomas Hood -- The boy at Mugby / Charles Dickens -- The trial of Ralph Ray / Hall Caine -- Ode to spring / T. Gray -- Cyril and Cecilia / The Duchess -- Life / Mrs. Barbauld -- The adventure in the cave / H. Rider Haggard -- Sally in our alley / Henry Carey -- Heman's Ma / Alice Brown -- Forest hymn / William Cullen Bryant -- The net of death / A. Conan Doyle -- The olive boughs / Sarah Flower Adams -- The glory of the imperfect / G.H. Palmer -- The old familiar faces / Charles Lamb -- The power of the wild ass' skin / Honoré de Balzac -- Lines to an Indian air / Percy Bysshe Shelly -- She was a phantom of delight / William Wordsworth -- Cecilia de Noël / Lanoe Falconer -- Lord Ullin's daughter / Thomas Campbell -- Stories / Alphonse Daudet -- The carven name / Sam. Walter Foss -- The reveries of a bachelor / Donald G. Mitchell -- Rose Aylmer / Walter Savage Landor -- Essays form "Belcaro" / Vernon Lee V. 18. The drum of the fore and aft / Rudyard Kipling -- Street music / Hugh Reginald Haweis -- The wind in a frolic / William Howitt -- Charles Auchester / Elizabeth Sara Sheppard -- The cane-bottomed chair / Wm. Makepeace Thackeray -- The fisher lassie / Björnstjerne Björnson -- Bingen on the Rhine / Caroline Norton -- The death of the Prince Imperial / Archibald Forbes -- Death's valley / Walt Whitman -- From "Beauchamp's career" / George Meredith -- The warfare of life / Owen Meredith -- From "The Stickit minister" / Samuel R. Crockett -- On being hard up -- Jerome K. Jerome -- An ancient Mariner / Pierre Loti -- Died at sea / François Coppée -- Lotus farm / Frédéric Mistral -- Morality independent of utility / Wm. Edward Hartpole Lecky -- The last journey to Jerusalem / Ernest Renan -- Mother country / Christina G. Rossetti -- The heart / Jean Macé -- The investigation of life / Thomas H. Huxley -- The petrified fern / Mary L.B. Branch -- Checks to increase of genius / Francis Galton -- The tombs of kings / Mathilde Blind -- Jiujutsu / Lafcadio Hearn -- Lines on leaving Italy / Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger -- Canadian absolutism / Francis Parkman -- North and South / Nora Perry -- Nihilist circles in Russia / Georg Brandes -- Liberty / William Lloyd Garrison -- Camille and Armand / Alexandre Dumas, Fils -- Flowers of evil / Charles Baudelaire -- April hopes / William Dean Howells -- The sightless / Maurice Maeterlinck -- Light / Francis W. Bourdillon -- How Brichanteau almost saved the Emperor / Jules Claretie -- The lost lamb / Richard Henry Stoddard -- The auction / Christine C. Brush -- The poker party / Mary N. Murfree -- Too late / Fitz-Hugh Ludlow -- The brothers / Émile Gaboriau -- The veteran / Stephen Crane -- A northern vigil / Bliss Carman -- Woodcutting / André Theuriet -- Roses / Louise Chandler Moulton -- At Tintern Abbey / Louise Chandler Moulton -- The washerwoman / Blanche Willis Howard -- Spinning / Helen Hunt Jackson -- The romance of certain old clothes / Henry Jones -- Evening primroses / Helen Gray Cone -- The puppy: a portrait / Louise Imogene Guiney -- George Burrow and the publisher / George Borrow -- A ballad of London / Richard le Gallienne -- A man of great projects / Ivan Sergyevich Turgenieff -- To-morrow / Philip Bourke Marston -- Death of Barnier / E. and J. de Goncourt -- Forgotten airs / Paul Verlaine -- The Bowden reunion / Sarah O. Jewett -- Prescience / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- The adventure of a fourth / Thomas Baily Aldrich -- Baby Bell / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Monsieur Viple's brother / Paul Bourget -- On Hell-fer-Sartain Creek / Joh Fox. Jr. -- Stories of Uncle Remus / Joel Chandler Harris -- To Pépa / Alfred de Musset -- What the swallows say / Théophile Gautier V. 19. Mrs. Proudie's reception / Anthony Trollope -- "Murder will out" / William G. Simms -- Fate / Susan Marr Spaulding -- Eliza's escapr / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Song of the banner at daybreak / Walt Whitman -- Webster on the compromises of the Constitution / Daniel Webster -- Tom's effrontery / George Macdonald -- The jeweled drinking cup / Richard Henry Stoddard -- Elizabeth / Margaret Deland -- The strength of American democracy / James Bryce -- The hand of Lincoln / E.C. Stedman -- The Erie Railway scandal / Henry Adams -- Arrest of progress in democracy / Henry Sumner Maine -- Imitation as a factor in nation making / Walter Bagehot -- A political episode / Hjalmar H. Boyesen -- America / Dr. samuel Francis Smith -- The Star-spamgled Banner / Francis Scott Key -- The Marseillaise / Rouget de l'Isle -- The departure for Syria / M. de Laborde -- God save the King / Henry Carey -- Recessional / Rudyard Kipling -- The watch on the Rhine / Mar Schneckenburger -- The voyage of the "America" / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- The heart of England / Richard Grant White -- The Ruose that decked her breast / WIlliams Barnes -- Thackeray / James T. Fields -- The Echo Club / Bayard Taylor -- To Bayard Taylor / George Henry Boker -- Ann Potter's lesson / Rose Terry Cooke -- What might have been expected / Frances Hodgson Burmett -- Love by the ocean / Armando Palacio Valdés -- Mamma Coupeau's funeral / Émile Zola -- The mortgage / Will M. Carleton -- Father Damon and Ruth Leigh / Charles Dudley Warner -- Robert and Catherine / Mrs. Humphry Ward -- Gifts / Emma Lazarus -- The early home of "Black Beauty" / Anna Sewell -- The old apple woman / Christopher Pearse Cranch -- A gatherer of simples / Mary E. Wilkins -- Hannah binding shoes / Lucy Larcom -- In Marget's garden / Ian MacLaren -- The cavalier's song / William Motherwell -- The Battle of Bunkerloo / Willian Henry Bishop -- Little Boy Blue / Eugene Field -- Dutch lullaby / Eugene Field -- Fragolette / Édouard Laboulaye -- Little Orphant Allie / James Whitcomb Riley -- Griggsby's station / James Whitcomb Riley -- The cave of light / Frank R. Stockton -- Colonel Brereton's Aunty / Henry C. Bunner -- Jim Bludso / John Hay -- The Armenian horrors / William Watson -- Mirza-Schaffy, the wise man of Gjändsha / Friedrich Bodenstedt -- The specter caravan / Ferdinand Freiligrath -- Prince Bismarck's letters / Prince von Bismarck -- A fatal step / Count Tolstoi -- Cleopatra / William Wetmore Story -- The death of the Princess / Gustave Flaubert -- The undertaker / Alexander S. Pushkin -- An involuntary imposter / Nikolai V. Gogol -- Irma's remorse / Berthold Auerbach -- The confession / Juan Valera -- The trial and the verdict / Maarten Maartens -- The close of a rainy day / Nathan Haskell Dole -- The American business man and the English girl / Prances C. Baylor -- Ballade of the mysterious hosts of the forest / Théodore de Banville -- To the lost children / Théodore de Banville -- Last time at M'Gurk's / Jane Barlow -- "Posson Jone" / George W. Cable -- The sandpiper / Celia Thaxter -- Am old family servant / F. Hopkinson Smith -- The charcoal man / John Townsend Trowbridge -- The Physiology of taste / A. Brillat-Savarin