[Illustration] CHARACTER SKETCHES OF ROMANCE, FICTION AND THE DRAMA A REVISED AMERICAN EDITION OF THE READER'S HANDBOOK BY THE REV. E. COBHAM BREWER, LL.D. EDITED BY MARION HARLAND VOLUME I NEW YORK SELMAR HESS PUBLISHER M D C C C X C I I Copyright, 1892, by SELMAR HESS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. VOLUME I. PHOTOGRAVURES AND ETCHINGS. _Illustration_.................._Artist_ ICHABOD CRANE (_colored_).......E.A. ABBEY CONSTANCE DE BEVERLEY................TOBY ROSENTHAL LADY BOUNTIFUL.......................ROB. W. MACBETH SYDNEY CARTON........................FREDERICK BARNARD BERNHARDT AS CLEOPATRA..............._From a Photograph from Life_ ABBÉ CONSTANTIN......................MADELEINE LEMAIRE CAPTAIN CUTTLE.......................FREDERICK BARNARD THE TRUSTY ECKART....................JULIUS ADAM ELAINE...............................TOBY ROSENTHAL * * * * * WOOD ENGRAVINGS AND TYPOGRAVURES. ABELARD..............................A. GUILLEMINOT ÆNEAS RELATING HIS STORY TO DIDO....P. GUÉRIN ALBERICH'S PURSUIT OF THE NIBELUNGEN RING...HANS MAKART ALETHE, PRIESTESS OF ISIS............EDWIN LONG ALEXIS AND DORA......................W. VON KAULBACH ALICE, THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER.........DAVIDSON KNOWLES ANCIENT MARINER (THE)................GUSTAVE DORÉ ANDROMEDA............................ ANGÉLIQUE AND MONSEIGNEUR DE HAUTECOEUR...JEANNIOT ANGUS AND DONALD.....................W.B. DAVIS ANTIGONE AND ISMENE..................EMIL TESCHENDORFF ANTONY AND THE DEAD CÆSAR........... ARCHIMEDES...........................NIC BARABINO ARGAN AND DOCTOR DIAFOIRUS...........A. SOLOMON ASHTON (LUCY) AND RAVENSWOOD.........SIR EVERETT MILLAIS ATALA (BURIAL OF)....................GUSTAVE COURTOIS AUGUSTA IN COURT.....................A. FORESTIER AUTOMEDON............................HENRI REGNAULT BALAUSTION...........................F.H. LUNGREN BALDERSTONE (CALEB) AND MYSIE.......GEORGE HAY BAREFOOT (LITTLE)....................F. VON THELEN-RÜDEN BARKIS IS WILLIN'....................C.J. STANILAND BAUDIN (THE DEATH OF)................J.-P. LAURENS BAYARD (THE CHEVALIER)...............LARIVIÈRE BEDREDEEN HASSAN (MARRIAGE OF) AND NOUREDEEN...F. CORMON BELLENDEN (LADY) AND MAUSE HEADRIGG..WM. DOUGLAS BENEDICK AND BEATRICE................HUGHES MERLE BIRCH (HARVEY), THE PEDDLER-SPY..... BLANCHELYS (QUEEN) AND THE PILGRIM...J. NOEL PATON BOABDIL-EL-CHICO'S FAREWELL TO GRENADA...E. CORBOULD BOADICEA.............................THOS. STOTHARD BONNICASTLE (ARTHUR) AND MILLIE BRADFORD... BOTTOM AND TITANIA...................SIR EDWIN LANDSEER BRABANT (GENEVIÈVE DE)...............ERNST BOSCH BRÄSIG, LINING AND MINING............CONRAD BECKMANN BROOKING'S (JOHN) STUDIO.............A. FORESTIER CÆSAR (THE DEATH OF).................J.L. GÉRÔME CANTERBURY PILGRIMS (THE)............THOS. STOTHARD; WM. BLAKE CAREW (FRANCIS) FINDING THE BODY OF DERRICK...HAL LUDLOW