Produced by Joseph R. Hauser, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: POE, LOWELL, LONGFELLOW, PARKMAN] THE BEST _of the_ WORLD'S CLASSICS RESTRICTED TO PROSE HENRY CABOT LODGE _Editor-in-Chief_ FRANCIS W. HALSEY _Associate Editor_ With an Introduction, Biographical and Explanatory Notes, etc. IN TEN VOLUMES Vol. X AMERICA--II INDEX FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY * * * * * The Best of the World's Classics VOL. X AMERICA--II 1807-1909 * * * * * CONTENTS VOL. X--AMERICA--II _Page_ HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW--(Born in 1807, died in 1882.) Musings in Pere Lachaise. (From "Outre-Mer") 3 EDGAR ALLAN POE--(Born in 1809, died in 1849.) I The Cask of Amontillado. (Published originally in _Godey's Magazine_ in 1846) 11 II Of Hawthorne and the Short Story. (From a review of Hawthorne's "Twice Told Tales" and "Mosses from an Old Manse" published in _Godey's Magazine_ in 1846) 19 III Of Willis, Bryant, Halleck and Macaulay. (Passages selected from articles printed in Volume II of the "Works of Poe") 25 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES--(Born in 1809, died in 1894.) I Of Doctors, Lawyers and Ministers. (From Chapter V of "The Poet at the Breakfast Table") 31 II Of the Genius of Emerson. (From an address before the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1882) 36 III The House in Which the Professor Lived. (From Part X of "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table") 42 IV Of Women Who Put on Airs. (From Part XI of "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table") 49 MARGARET FULLER--(Born in 1810, lost in a shipwreck off Fire Island in 1850.) I Her Visit to George Sand. (From a letter to Elizabeth Hoar) 52 II Two Glimpses of Carlyle. (From a letter to Emerson) 54