Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 03

Literature -- Collections

WALTER BAGEHOT (by Forrest Morgan)                      1826-1877
   The Virtues of Stupidity ('Letters on the French Coup
     d'État')
   Review Writing ('The First Edinburgh Reviewers')
   Lord Eldon (same)
   Taste ('Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning')
   Causes of the Sterility of Literature ('Shakespeare')
   The Search for Happiness ('William Cowper')
   On Early Reading ('Edward Gibbon')
   The Cavaliers ('Thomas Babington Macaulay')
   Morality and Fear ('Bishop Butler')
   The Tyranny of Convention ('Sir Robert Peel')
   How to Be an Influential Politician ('Bolingbroke')
   Conditions of Cabinet Government ('The English Constitution')
   Why Early Societies could not be Free ('Physics and
     Politics')
   Benefits of Free Discussion in Modern Times (same)
   Origin of Deposit Banking ('Lombard Street')

JENS BAGGESEN                                           1764-1826
   A Cosmopolitan ('The Labyrinth')
   Philosophy on the Heath (same)
   There was a Time when I was Very Little


PHILIP JAMES BAILEY                                     1816-
   From "Festus": Life: The Passing-Bell; Thoughts;
   Dreams; Chorus of the Saved


JOANNA BAILLIE                                          1762-1851
   Woo'd and Married and A'
   It Was on a Morn when We were Thrang
   Fy, Let Us A' to the Wedding
   The Weary Pund o' Tow
   From 'De Montfort'
   To Mrs. Siddons
   A Scotch Song
   Song, 'Poverty Parts Good Company'
   The Kitten


HENRY MARTYN BAIRD                                      1832-
   The Battle of Ivry ('The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre')


SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER                                  1821-1893
   Hunting in Abyssinia ('The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia')
   The Sources of the Nile ('The Albert Nyanza')


ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR                                    1848-
   The Pleasures of Reading (Rectorial Address)


THE BALLAD (by F.B. Gummere)
   Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
   The Hunting of the Cheviot
   Johnie Cock
   Sir Patrick Spens
   The Bonny Earl of Murray
   Mary Hamilton
   Bonnie George Campbell
   Bessie Bell and Mary Gray
   The Three Ravens
   Lord Randal
   Edward
   The Twa Brothers
   Babylon
   Childe Maurice
   The Wife of Usher's Well
   Sweet William's Ghost


HONORÉ DE BALZAC (by William P. Trent)                  1799-1850
   The Meeting in the Convent ('The Duchess of Langeais')
   An Episode Under the Terror
   A Passion in the Desert
   The Napoleon of the People ('The Country Doctor')

GEORGE BANCROFT (by Austin Scott)                       1800-1891
   The Beginnings of Virginia ('History of the United
     States')
   Men and Government in Early Massachusetts (same)
   King Philip's War (same)
   The New Netherland (same)
   Franklin (same)




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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 03

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