Hector Berlioz 1803-1869
   The Italian Race as Musicians and Auditors (’Autobiography’)
   The Famous “K Snuff-Box Treachery” (same)
   On Gluck (same)
   On Bach (same)
   Music as an Aristocratic Art (same)
   Beginning of a “Grand Passion” (same)
   On Theatrical Managers in Relation to Art

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux 1091-1153
   Saint Bernard’s Hymn
   Monastic Luxury (Apology to the Abbot William of St. Thierry)
   From His Sermon on the Death of Gerard

Bernard of cluny (by William C. Prime) Twelfth Century
   Brief Life Is Here Our Portion

Juliana Berners Fifteenth Century
   The Treatyse of Fyssbynge with an Angle

Walter Besant 1838-
   Old-Time London (’London’)
   The Synagogue (’The Rebel Queen’)

Bestiaries and Lapidaries (by L. Oscar Kuhns)
   The Lion
   The Pelican
   The Eagle
   The Phoenix
   The Ant
   The Siren
   The Whale
   The Crocodile
   The Turtle-Dove
   The Mandragora
   Sapphire
   Coral

Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal) (by Frederic Taber Cooper) 1783-1842
   Princess Sanseverina’s Interview (’Chartreuse de Parme’)
   Clelia Aids Fabrice to Escape (same)

WlLLEM BlLDERDIJK 1756-1831
   Ode to Beauty
   From the ‘Ode to Napoleon’
   Slighted Love
   The Village Schoolmaster (’Country Life’)

Bion Second Century B.C. 
   Threnody
   Hesper

Augustine Birrell 1850-
   Dr. Johnson (’Obiter Dicta’)
   The Office of Literature (same)
   Truth-Hunting (same)
   Benvenuto Cellini (same)
   On the Alleged Obscurity of Mr. Browning’s Poetry (same)

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

Volume iv.

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Egyptian Hieroglyphics (Colored Plate)  Frontispiece
“The Irish Maiden’s Song” (Photogravure)        1473
“Milking Time” (Photogravure)                   1567
“Music” (Photogravure)                          1625
Henry Ward Beecher (Portrait)                   1714
“Beethoven” (Photogravure)                      1750
Jean-Pierre de Beranger (Portrait)              1784
“Monastic Luxury” (Photogravure)                1824

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