Transcriber's note: Italics are indicated by _underscores_ and boldface by =equals signs=. A complete Index of all 20 volumes of THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS will be found at the end of this volume. [Illustration: (signed) Matthew Arnold] THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS JOINT EDITORS ARTHUR MEE Editor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge J. A. HAMMERTON Editor of Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia VOL. XX MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE INDEX WM. H. WISE & CO. _Table of Contents_ PORTRAIT OF MATTHEW ARNOLD _Frontispiece_ ADDISON, JOSEPH PAGE Spectator 1 ÆSOP Fables 10 ARNOLD, MATTHEW Essays in Criticism 18 BRANDES, GEORGE Main Currents of Nineteenth Century Literature 31 BURTON, ROBERT Anatomy of Melancholy 41 CARLYLE, THOMAS On Heroes and Hero Worship 50 Sartor Resartus 61 CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS Concerning Friendship 70 COBBETT, WILLIAM Advice to Young Men 78 DEFOE, DANIEL Journal of the Plague Year 90 DESMOSTHENES Philippics 99 EMERSON, RALPH WALDO English Traits 109 Representative Men 118 ERASMUS Familiar Colloquies 126 In Praise of Folly 132 GESTA ROMANORUM 140 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER Citizen of the World 149 HALLAM, HENRY Introduction to the Literature of Europe 158 HAZLITT, WILLIAM Lectures on the English Poets 169 HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table 181 LA BRUYÈRE Characters 193 LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE Imaginary Conversations 203 LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Reflections and Moral Maxims 215 LEONARDO DA VINCI Treatise on Painting 227 LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM Laocoon 239 MILL, JOHN STUART Essay on Liberty 248 MILTON, JOHN Areopagitica 257 PLUTARCH Parallel Lives 266 STAËL, MME. DE On Germany 276