Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 03
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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
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- VOL. III.
- FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME III.
- BERTHOLD AUERBACH--(Continued from Volume II)
- THE FIRST FALSE STEP
- THE NEW HOME AND THE OLD ONE
- THE COURT PHYSICIAN'S PHILOSOPHY
- IN COUNTESS IRMA'S DIARY
- ÉMILE AUGIER
- (1820-1889)
- A CONVERSATION WITH A PURPOSE
- A SEVERE YOUNG JUDGE
- A CONTENTED IDLER
- THE FEELINGS OF AN ARTIST
- A CONTEST OF WILLS
- ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
- (354-430) BY SAMUEL HART
- THE GODLY SORROW THAT WORKETH REPENTANCE
- CONSOLATION
- THE FOES OF THE CITY
- THE PRAISE OF GOD
- A PRAYER
- MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS
- (121-180 A.D.) BY JAMES FRASER GLUCK
- EXCERPTS FROM THE 'MEDITATIONS'
- JANE AUSTEN
- (1775-1817)
- AN OFFER OF MARRIAGE
- MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
- A LETTER OF CONDOLENCE
- A WELL-MATCHED SISTER AND BROTHER
- FAMILY DOCTORS
- FAMILY TRAINING
- PRIVATE THEATRICALS
- FRUITLESS REGRETS AND APPLES OF SODOM
- AVERROËS
- (1126-1198)
- THE AVESTA
- (From about B.C. Sixth Century) BY A.V. WILLIAMS JACKSON
- A 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
- A PRAYER FOR HEALING
- FRAGMENT
- AVICEBRON
- (1028-? 1058)
- ON MATTER AND FORM
- ROBERT AYTOUN
- (1570-1638)
- WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN
- (1813-1865)
- A BALL IN THE UPPER CIRCLES
- A HIGHLAND TRAMP
- MASSIMO TAPARELLI D'AZEGLIO
- (1798-1866)
- A HAPPY CHILDHOOD
- THE PRIESTHOOD
- MY FIRST VENTURE IN ROMANCE
- BABER
- (1482-1530) BY EDWARD S. HOLDEN
- FROM BABER'S 'MEMOIRS'
- BABRIUS
- FRANCIS BACON
- (1561-1626) BY CHARLTON T. LEWIS
- OF TRUTH
- OF REVENGE
- OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION
- OF TRAVEL
- OF FRIENDSHIP
- DEFECTS OF THE UNIVERSITIES
- TO MY LORD TREASURER BURGHLEY
- IN PRAISE OF KNOWLEDGE
- TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR, TOUCHING THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN
- TO VILLIERS ON HIS PATENT AS VISCOUNT
- CHARGE TO JUSTICE HUTTON
- A PRAYER, OR PSALM
- FROM THE 'APOPHTHEGMS'
- WALTER BAGEHOT
- (1826-1877) BY FORREST MORGAN
- THE VIRTUES OF STUPIDITY
- REVIEW WRITING
- LORD ELDON
- TASTE
- CAUSES OF THE STERILITY OF LITERATURE
- THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS
- ON EARLY READING
- THE CAVALIERS
- MORALITY AND FEAR
- THE TYRANNY OF CONVENTION
- HOW TO BE AN INFLUENTIAL POLITICIAN
- CONDITIONS OF CABINET GOVERNMENT
- WHY EARLY SOCIETIES COULD NOT BE FREE
- BENEFITS OF FREE DISCUSSION IN MODERN TIMES
- ORIGIN OF DEPOSIT BANKING
- JENS BAGGESEN
- (1764-1826)
- A COSMOPOLITAN
- PHILOSOPHY ON THE HEATH
- PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
- (1816-)
- JOANNA BAILLIE
- (1762-1851)
- HENRY MARTYN BAIRD
- (1832-)
- THE BATTLE OF IVRY
- SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER
- (1821-1893)
- HUNTING IN ABYSSINIA
- THE SOURCES OF THE NILE
- ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR
- (1848-)
- THE PLEASURES OF READING
- THE BALLAD
- HONORÉ DE BALZAC
- (1799-1850) BY WILLIAM P. TRENT
- THE MEETING IN THE CONVENT
- 'AN EPISODE UNDER THE TERROR'
- A PASSION IN THE DESERT
- FROM 'THE COUNTRY DOCTOR'
- THE NAPOLEON OF THE PEOPLE
- GEORGE BANCROFT
- (1800-1891) BY AUSTIN SCOTT
- THE BEGINNINGS OF VIRGINIA
- MEN AND GOVERNMENT IN EARLY MASSACHUSETTS
- KING PHILIP'S WAR
- THE NEW NETHERLAND
- FRANKLIN
- End of Volume III.
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