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

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Start of eBook	1
BRILLAT-SAVARIN 1755-1826 2365	1
FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS	2
VIGNETTE PORTRAITS	3
THE ABBE DE BRANTOME	3
THE DANCING OF ROYALTY	6
THE SHADOW OF A TOMB	7
M. LE CONSTABLE ANNE DE MONTMORENCY	8
TWO FAMOUS ENTERTAINMENTS	8
FREDRIKA BREMER	10
A HOME-COMING	12
LETTER I.—FRANCISCA W. TO MARIA M.	12
THE LANDED PROPRIETOR	16
STRANGE QUESTIONS	16
A FAMILY PICTURE	21
CLEMENS BRENTANO	22
ELISABETH BRENTANO (BETTINA VON ARNIM)	25
DEDICATION: TO GOETHE	26
TO GOETHE	27
BETTINA’S LAST MEETING WITH GOETHE	28
JOHN BRIGHT	29
FROM THE SPEECH ON THE CORN LAWS (1843)	30
FROM THE SPEECH ON INCENDIARISM IN IRELAND (1844)	32
FROM THE SPEECH ON NON-RECOGNITION OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY (1861)	33
FROM THE SPEECH ON THE STATE OF IRELAND (1866)	34
FROM THE SPEECH ON THE IRISH ESTABLISHED CHURCH	36
BRILLAT-SAVARIN	37
FROM THE ‘PHYSIOLOGY OF TASTE’	39
ON THE LOVE OF GOOD LIVING	40
ON PEOPLE FOND OF GOOD LIVING	44
CHARLOTTE BRONTE AND HER SISTERS	49
JANE EYRE’S WEDDING DAY	56
MADAME BECK	64
A YORKSHIRE LANDSCAPE	68
THE END OF HEATHCLIFF	70
PHILLIPS BROOKS	78
PERSONAL CHARACTER	82
THE COURAGE OF OPINIONS	83
LITERATURE AND LIFE	83
CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN (1771-1810)	84
WIELAND’S STATEMENT	88
JOHN BROWN	94
MARJORIE FLEMING	96
THE DEATH OF THACKERAY	110
CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE (ARTEMUS WARD)	112
BY CHARLES F. JOHNSON	112
EDWIN FORREST AS OTHELLO	115
HIGH-HANDED OUTRAGE AT UTICA	118
AFFAIRS ROUND THE VILLAGE GREEN	118
MR. PEPPER	119
HORACE GREELEY’S RIDE TO PLACERVILLE	119
SIR THOMAS BROWNE	121
BY FRANCIS BACON	121
FROM THE ‘RELIGIO MEDICI’	129
FROM ‘A LETTER TO A FRIEND’	150
SOME RELATIONS WHOSE TRUTH WE FEAR	153
WILLIAM BROWNE	153
HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL	159
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING	162
ROBERT BROWNING	183
BY E.L. BURLINGAME	183
ORESTES AUGUSTUS BROWNSON	210
SAINT-SIMONISM	211
FERDINAND BRUNETIERE	217
BY ADOLPHE COHN	217
TAINE AND PRINCE NAPOLEON	220
THE LITERATURES OF FRANCE, ENGLAND, AND GERMANY	223
GIORDANO BRUNO	225
A DISCOURSE OF POETS	229
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT	233
BY GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP	233
JAMES BRYCE	246
THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES	247
THE ASCENT OF ARARAT	254
THE WORK OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE	260
FRANCIS TREVELYAN BUCKLAND	261
A HUNT IN A HORSE-POND	263
ON RATS	264
SNAKES AND THEIR POISON	267
MY MONKEY JACKO	269
HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE	271
MORAL VERSUS INTELLECTUAL PRINCIPLES IN HUMAN PROGRESS	275
THE MYTHICAL ORIGIN OF HISTORY	280
GEORGE LOUIS LE CLERC BUFFON	285
BY SPENCER TROTTER	285
NATURE	287
THE HUMMING-BIRD	289
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON	291
BY JULIAN HAWTHORNE	291
THE AMPHITHEATRE	297
KENELM AND LILY	312

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