Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 08

Literature -- Collections

Alice, the Pig-Baby, and the Cheshire Cat ('Alice in
            Wonderland')
    The Mock Turtle's Education (same)
    A Clear Statement (same)
    The Walrus and the Carpenter ('Through the Looking-Glass')
    The Baker's Tale ('Hunting of the Snark')
    You are Old, Father William ('Alice in Wonderland')


  CASANOVA (De Seingalt)                          1725-1803     3321

    Casanova's Escape from the Ducal Palace ('Escapes of
            Casanova and Latude from Prison')


  BARTOLOMEO DE LAS CASAS                         1474-1566     3333

    Of the Island of Cuba ('A Relation of the First Voyage')


  BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE                          1478-1529     3339

  Of the Court of Urbino ('Il Cortegiano')


  CATO THE CENSOR                                 234-149 B.C.  3347

    On Agriculture ('De Agricultura')
    From the 'Attic Nights' of Aulus Gellius


  JACOB CATS                                      1577-1660     3353

    Fear after the Trouble
    "A Rich Man Loses his Child, a Poor Man Loses his Cow"


  CATULLUS                                        84-54 B.C.?   3359
                           BY J. W. MACKAIL
    Dedication for a Volume of  A Brother's Grave
    Lyrics
    A Morning Call
    Home to Sirmio
    Heart-Break
    To Calvus in Bereavement
    The Pinnace
    An Invitation to Dinner
    Farewell to His Fellow Officers
    Verses from an Epithalamium
    Love is All
    Elegy on Lesbia's Sparrow
    "Fickle and Changeable Ever"
    Two Chords
    Last Word to Lesbia


  BENVENUTO CELLINI                               1500-1571     3371

    The Escape from Prison
    The Casting of Perseus
    A Necklace of Pearls
    Benvenuto Loses his Brother
    An Adventure in Necromancy
    Benvenuto Loses Self-Control under Severe Provocation
            (All the above are from Cellini's 'Memoirs,'
            Symonds's Translation)


  CELTIC LITERATURE                                             3403
                   BY WILLIAM SHARP AND ERNEST RHYS
    I--IRISH
      The Miller of Hell
      Signs of Home
      Oisin in Tirnanoge
      From 'The Coming of Cuculain'
      The Mystery of Amergin
      The Song of Fionn
      Vision of a Fair Woman
      From 'The Wanderings of Oisin'
      The Madness of King Goll
    II--SCOTTISH
      St. Bridget's Milking Song
      Prologue to Gaul
      Columcille Fecit
      In Hebrid Seas
    III--WELSH
    IV--CORNISH
      From 'The Poem of the Passion'
      From 'Origo Mundi,' in the 'Ordinalia'

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 08

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