ASTREA; a romance. (L'Astrée, 1608-26, 6 vols.) _Tr._ by a Person of Quality. 3 vols. 1657-58. =VALDES, FRANCISCO.= =Spanish author.= THE SERJEANT-MAJOR.... Englished by John Thorius, 1590. =VALERIUS MAXIMUS.= B.C. 1st century. =Roman historian.= ROMÆ ANTIQUÆ DESCRIPTIO; a view of the Religion, Laws, Manners, etc. of the Ancient Romans, from their Acts and Sayings. _Tr._ Samuel Speed, 1678. =VASARI, GIORGIO.= _b._ 1511, _d._ 1574. =Italian painter and writer upon art.= CHOICE OBSERVATIONS UPON PAINTING, together with Vasari's Lives of the most eminent Painters ... (1550). _Tr._ by Wm. Aglionby, 1719. =VEDAS.= 1400 B.C. THE BENGALA TRANSLATION OF THE VEDANT, [or rather an English Version by Rāmamohana Rāya ...], or Resolution of all the Veds ... 181[6?]. RIG VEDA-SANHITÂ, the sacred Hymns of the Brahmans.... Edited by Max Müller, etc. 6 v. 1849-74. RIKSAMHITÂ: based on the Native traditional interpretation by H. H. Wilson, completed by E. B. Cowell, 4 v. 1854-57-66. RIKSAMHITÂ: in metre, by Ralph Griffith. SAMA VEDA. Translation of the Sanhita of the Sama Veda. By Rev. J. Stevenson, 1841. Vêdâ (English plural Vedas), i.e. 'knowledge', cognate with the old English _wit_. The name of the sacred books or scriptures of the Brahmins, supposed to contain the fountain and sum of all essential knowledge. They consist of four parts, the Rig-Vêda, Sama-Vêda, Yajur-Vêda and Atharva-Vêda. Of these the Rig-Vêda is the most important. It is composed of religious lyrics or hymns, and is confessedly the oldest extant portion of Sanscrit literature, dating perhaps from 1400 to 1800 B.C. =VEGA, CARPIO LOPE FELIX DE.= _b._ 1562, _d._ 1635. =Spanish poet and dramatist.= ROMEO AND JULIET. _Tr._ 1770. THE FATHER OUTWITTED: a Spanish Interlude. _Tr._ 1806. Originator of the 'Cloak and Sword' drama. Imitated by Jonson and Fletcher. Influenced English drama after the Restoration through French sources. 'Perhaps the most amazing thing in all Spanish literature is the miraculous fecundity of Lope, to whom are credited nearly two thousand plays.' =VERCELLI BOOK= (=CODEX VERCELLENSIS=). _Ed._ (with _tr._) J. M. Kemble, 1843-46. This is a large MS. volume of Anglo-Saxon homilies among which are interspersed six poems. Discovered in 1822 by Dr. Blum. The hand-writing is of the 11th century, and the poems contained in this MS. are: 1. The Andreas. 2. Fates of the Apostles. 3. Address of the Soul to the Body. 4. Falseness of Men (a fragment). 5. Dream of the Road. 6. Elene. =VERLAINE, PAUL.= _b._ 1844, _d._ 1896. =French poet.= POEMS. _Tr._ G. Hall, 1895. =VERNE, JULES.= _b._ 1828. =French author.= ADRIFT IN THE PACIFIC. _Tr._ 1889. ADVENTURES IN SOUTH AFRICA. _Tr._ [1891]. ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN HATTERAS. _See_ (1) English at the North Pole and (2) Field of Ice. AN ANTARCTIC MYSTERY. _Tr._ Mrs. C. Hoey. 1898. ARCHIPELAGO ON FIRE. _Tr._ 1886.