Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 15

Literature -- Collections

WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL. D.,
    United States Commissioner of Education,
                              BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C.

  MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A. M., LL. D.,
    Professor of Literature in the
                   CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, Washington, D. C.




                          TABLE OF CONTENTS

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                                                    LIVED       PAGE
  FOLK-SONG                                                     5853
                           BY F. B. GUMMERE

  SAMUEL FOOTE                                    1720-1777     5878
    How to be a Lawyer ('The Lame Lover')
    A Misfortune in Orthography (same)
    From the 'Memoirs': A Cure for Bad Poetry; The Retort
      Courteous; On Garrick's Stature; Cape Wine; The Graces; The
      Debtor; Affectation; Arithmetical Criticism; The Dear Wife;
      Garrick and the Guinea; Dr. Paul Hifferman; Foote and
      Macklin; Baron Newman; Mrs. Abington; Garlic-Eaters; Mode of
      Burying Attorneys in London; Dining Badly; Dibble Davis; An
      Extraordinary Case; Mutability of the World; An Appropriate
      Motto; Real Friendship; Anecdote of an Author; Dr. Blair;
      Advice to a Dramatic Writer; The Grafton Ministry

  JOHN FORD                                       1586-?        5889
    From 'Perkin Warbeck'
    Penthea's Dying Song ('The Broken Heart')
    From 'The Lover's Melancholy': Amethus and Menaphon

  FRIEDRICH, BARON DE LA MOTTE FOUQUE             1777-1843     5895
    The Marriage of Undine ('Undine')
    The Last Appearance of Undine (same)
    Song from 'Minstrel Lore'

  ANATOLE FRANCE                                  1844-         5909
    In the Gardens ('The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard')
    Child-Life ('The Book of my Friend')
    From the 'Garden of Epicurus'

  ST. FRANCIS D'ASSISI                            1182-1226     5919
                       BY MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN
    Order
    The Canticle of the Sun

  BENJAMIN FRANKLIN                               1706-1790     5925
                           BY JOHN BIGELOW
    Of Franklin's Family and Early Life ('Autobiography')
    Franklin's Journey to Philadelphia: His Arrival There (same)
    Franklin as a Printer (same)
    Rules of Health ('Poor Richard's Almanack')
    The Way to Wealth (same)
    Speech in the Federal Convention, in Favor of Opening
      Its Sessions with Prayer
    On War
    Revenge: Letter to Madame Helvetius
    The Ephemera: an Emblem of Human Life
    A Prophecy (Letter to Lord Kames)
    Early Marriages (Letter to John Alleyne)
    The Art of Virtue ('Autobiography')

  LOUIS HONORE FRECHETTE                          1839-         5964
                       BY MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN
    Our History ('Le Legende d'un Peuple')
    Caughnawaga
    Louisiana ('Les Feuilles Volantes')
    The Dream of Life (same)

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 15

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