Armance, Stendhal |
Armenia, An Excursion into, Bodenstedt (Thousand and One Days in the East) |
Árnason, Jón |
Arnaut Daniel |
— de Maroill |
Arndt, Ernst Moritz |
Arne, Björnson |
Arnim, Bettina von |
Arnljot Gelline, Björnson |
Arnold, Sir Edwin |
— Matthew, G. E. Woodberry |
Arrow and the Song, The (Poem), Longfellow |
Arsène Guillot, Mérimée |
Art (Poem), Thomson |
Art and Architecture. |
Acropolis of Athens, The, Pausanias |
Æsthetic Education of Man, The, Schiller (Letter) |
Architecture, The Law of Proportion in, Blanc (Grammar) |
Artists made by Accident, Disraeli (Curiosities of Literature) |
Art Work of the Future, Wagner |
Blanc’s Début as Art Critic, Blanc (Contemporary Artists) |
Calamatta’s Studio, Blanc (Contemporary Artists) |
Casting of Perseus, The, Cellini (Memoirs) |
Delacroix’s “Bark of Dante,” Blanc (Contemporary Artists) |
Dome of Brunelleschi, The, Norton (Historical Studies of Church Building) |
Dürer’s “Melancholia,” Blanc (The Dutch School of Painters) |
Dutch Masters, The, De Amicis (Holland and Its People) |
Fascination of the Remote, The, Hamerton (Life of J. M. W. Turner) |
Function of the Artist, Wagner (Opera and Drama) |
Genius of Greek Art, The, Symonds (Studies of the Greek Poets) |
Grammar of Painting and Engraving, Blanc |
Ingres, Life of, Blanc |
Italian Art in its Relation to Religion, Symonds (The Renaissance in Italy) |
Kinship of the Arts, The, Bodmer |
Landscape, Blanc (Grammar) |
Michaelangelo, Michelet (The Renaissance) |
Modernness, Baudelaire |
Moral Influence of Art, Blanc (Grammar) |
Ornament, The Uses of, Ruskin (Seven Lamps of Architecture) |
Orvieto Cathedral, The Building of, Norton (Notes of Travel and Study in Italy) |
Painter of Modern Life, The, Baudelaire (L’Art Romantique) |
Painting, Motoori (Tamagatsuma) |
Poetry and Painting, Bodmer (Holbein) |
— — — Lessing (Laocoön) |
Poussin’s “Shepherds of Arcadia,” Blanc (Grammar) |
Race Characters Expressed in Art, Taine (Art in the Netherlands) |
Raphael Sanzio, Vasari |
Rembrandt, Blanc (The Dutch School of Painters) |
Style, Blanc (Grammar) |
Temple of Zeus at Olympia, The, Pausanias |
Trees in Art, Hamerton (Landscape) |
What is Art, Croce (Breviary of Æsthetic) |
Art Criticism (Poem), Landor |
— and Politics (Poem), Bellman |
— in the Netherlands, Taine |
— of Poetry, The (Poem), Boileau |
— — — — (Poem), Horace |
— Work of the Future, The, Wagner |
Arthurian Legends, The, Richard Jones |
Artists, The (Poem), Schiller |
Artsybashev, Mikhail |
As Careful Merchants do Expecting Stand (Poem), William Browne |
— I Laye A-Thynkynge (Poem), Barham |
— it will Happen (Poem), Geibel |
— Ships Becalmed (Poem), Clough |
— the Flowers of the Field, Strato |
— You Like It, Shakespeare |
Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen |
Ascham, Roger |
Asclepiades |
Ash-Shanfarà of Azd (Poem) |
Asinaria, Plautus |
Aspatia’s Song, Beaumont and Fletcher |
Aspects of the Pines (Poem), Hayne |
Aspiration (Poem), Willis |
— (Poem), Zorrilla y Moral |
Ass and the Jackal, The |
— in the Lion’s Skin, The, Vishnu Sharma (Pilpay) |
Assar and Mirjam, Goldschmidt |
“Assignation, The,” Song from (Poem), Poe |
Assyrian Literature |
Astronomy. |
Copernicus |
Laplace, Arago |
Astrophel and Stella (Poem), Sidney |
At a Funeral (Poem), Heber |
— Dusk (Poem), Lampman |
— Gibraltar (Poem), Woodberry |
— Home and Abroad, S. M. Fuller |
— Last the Daylight Fadeth (Poem), Geibel |
— Penshurst (Poem), Waller |
— the Back of the North Wind, MacDonald |
— — Church Gate (Poem), Thackeray |
— — Fair, Kielland |
— — Granite Gate (Poem), Carman |
— — Potter’s (Poem), Spofford |
Atala, Chateaubriand |
Athalie, Racine |
Atharva-Veda, The |
Athena, The Decree of, Æschylus |
Athenæus |
Athens (Poem), Swinburne |
Atherton, Mrs. Gertrude |
Atlantic Essays, Higginson |
Atlas (Poem), Heine |
Atreus and Thyestes, Crébillon |
Attack on the Mill, The, Zola |
Atterbom, Per Daniel Amadeus |
Attic Nights, Aulus Gellius |
Au Bord de l’Eau (Poem), Sully Prudhomme |
— Service de l’Allemagne, Barrès |
Aubade (Poem), Cawein |
Auber’s “Parisienne,” Mendelssohn (Letters) |
Aucassin and Nicolette, F. M. Warren |
— — — (Poem), Stedman |
Audaz, El, Galdós |
Audubon, John James |
Auerbach, Berthold |
Augier, Émile |
Augustine of Hippo, St., Samuel Hart |
Auld House, The (Poem), Nairne |
— Licht Idylls, Barrie |
Aurora Leigh (Poem), E. B. Browning |
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus |
Austen, Jane |
Austin, Alfred, Erskine |
Austrian Literature. |
Beethoven, Ludwig van |
Grillparzer, Franz |
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von |
Schnitzler, Arthur |
Author’s Ambition, The (Poem), Persius |
— Resolution in a Sonnet, The (Poem), Wither |
Authorship, Schopenhauer |
Autobiography, see Diaries, Journals, etc. |
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The, Holmes |
Autumn (Poem), Chisato |
— (Poem), Thomson |
— (Poem), Watson |
Aux Enfants Perdus (Poem), Banville |
— Italiens (Poem), Lytton |
Avare, L’, Molière |
Avebury, John Lubbock, 1st baron, see Lubbock, Sir John. |
Averroës |
Avesta, The, A. V. W. Jackson |
— From The |
Avicenna, see Ibn Sina. |
Away (Poem), Riley |
Axel and Valborg, Oehlenschläger |
Ayton, Robert |
Aytoun, William Edmonstoune |
Azeglio, Massimo Taparelli d’ |
Bab Ballads (Poems), Gilbert |
Baber, E. S. Holden |
Babrius |
Babylon (Poem), Anon. |
Babylonian Literature |
Bacchylides |
Bach, Berlioz |
Bacon, Francis, C. T. Lewis |
Bacon–Shakespeare Craze, The, White |
Bagehot, Walter, Forrest Morgan |
Baggesen, Jens |
Bailey, Philip James |
Baillie, Joanna |
Bains, Festival of the Queen of Hungary at, Brantôme (Lives of Courtly Women) |
Baird, Henry Martyn |
Bajazet, Racine |
Baker, Sir Samuel White |
Baker’s Tale, The (Poem), Carroll |
Balaustion, Robert Browning |
Balbuena, Bernardo |
Balder (Poem), Dobell |
Balfour, Arthur James, Earl of, C. J. H. Hayes |
Ballad, The, F. B. Gummere |
— (Poem), Calverley |
— against Those Who Missay of France (Poem), Villon |
— of Agincourt, The (Poem), Drayton |
— — Bouillabaisse, The (Poem), Thackeray |
— — Guibour, The (Poem), Mistral |
— — Old-Time Ladies (Poem), Villon |
— — — Lords (Poem), Villon |
— — Prose and Rhyme, The (Poem), Dobson |
— — the Debate of the Heart and Body (Poem), Villon |
— — — Outer Life (Poem), Hofmannsthal |
— — — Women of Paris (Poem), Villon |
— — Things Known and Unknown (Poem), Villon |
— — Trees and the Master, A (Poem), Lanier |
— — in Prison (Poem), Villon |
— … to Our Lady (Poem), Villon |
— to Queen Elizabeth, A (Poem), Dobson |
— upon a Wedding (Poem), Suckling |
Ballade des Pendus (Poem), Banville |
— of Midsummer Days and Nights (Poem), Henley |
— on the Mysterious Hosts of the Forest, Banville |
Ballads and Songs (Poems), Allingham |
Balthazar’s Song (Poem), Shakespeare |
Balzac, Honoré de, W. P. Trent |
Ban and Arrière Ban, Lang |
Bancroft, George, Austin Scott |
Banim, John |
— Michael |
Banking, Deposit, Origin of, Bagehot (Lombard Street) |
Banks o’ Doon, The (Poem), Burns |
Banquet Song, A (Poem), Alcæus |
Banville, Théodore de |
Barbara Frietchie (Poem), Whittier |
Barbarossa (Poem), Rückert |
Barbauld, Anna Letitia |
Barber of Seville, The, Beaumarchais |
Barchester Towers, Trollope |
Barclay, Alexander |
— of Ury (Poem), Whittier |
Bard, The (Poem), Gray |
— — (Poem), Pushkin |
Barefoot Boy, The (Poem), Whittier |
Barham, Richard Harris (Thomas Ingoldsby) |
Baring-Gould, Sabine |
Barlow, Jane |
— Joel |
Barnaby Rudge, Dickens |
Barnavaux et Quelques Femmes, Mille |
— Général, Mille |
Barnes, William |
Barrès, Maurice, Pierre De Bacourt |
Barricade, La, Bourget |
Barrie, James Matthew |
Barzaz-Breiz (Poems), la Villemarqué |
Bastiat, Frédéric |
Bastille, The Siege of the, Carlyle (French Revolution) |
Bastions de l’Est, Les, Barrès |
Bataille, Henry |
Battle and Other Poems, Gibson |
— –Field, The (Poem), Bryant |
— Hymn of the Republic (Poem), J. W. Howe |
— of Blenheim, The (Poem), Southey |
— — Copenhagen, The (Poem), Campbell |
— — Ivry, The (Poem), Macaulay |
— — Ivry, Henry Martyn Baird |
— — Waterloo, The (Poem), Byron |
Battles, see War. |
Baucis and Philemon (Poem), Ovid |
Baudelaire, Charles |
Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, earl of, I. C. Cabell |
Béatrix, Balzac |
Beaumarchais, Brander Matthews |
Beaumont, Francis, A. H. Thorndike |
Beaurepaire, Jules Quesnay de, see Quesnay de Beaurepaire. |
Beauties of Nature, The, Lubbock |
Beauty (Poem), Baudelaire |
— (Poem), Jāmī |
— (Poem), Lodge |
— (Poem), Shakespeare |
— (Poem), Very |
— Unadorned (Poem), Propertius |
Bébée, Ouida |
Becket, Thomas, The Death of, Froude (Short Studies) |
Beckford, William |
Bed in Summer (Poem), Stevenson |
Bede, Alfred the Great |
Bedouin Song (Poem), Taylor |
Bee, Life of the, Maeterlinck |
Beecher, Henry Ward, Lyman Abbott |
Beethoven, Ludwig van, E. I. Stevenson |
Before the Convent of St. Just (Poem), Platen |
— — Sacrament (Hymn), Heber |
— — Storm (Poem), Dehmel |
Beginners of a Nation, Eggleston |
Behind the Arras (Poems), Carman |
Behold the Meads (Poem), Guillaume de Poitiers |
Belasco, David |
Beleaguered City, A, Oliphant |
— — The (Poem), Longfellow |
Belfast Address, Tyndall |
Belfry of Bruges, The (Poem), Longfellow |
— Pigeon, The (Poem), Willis |
Belgian Literature. |
Cammaerts, Émile |
Conscience, Hendrik |
Eekhoud, Georges |
Kistemaeckers, Henry |
Maeterlinck, Maurice |
Verhaeren, Emile |
Believe It Not (Poem), Tolstoy |
— Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms (Poem), Thomas Moore |
Belle Dame Sans Merci, La (Poem), Keats |
— of the Ball, The (Poem), Praed |
Bellman, Carl Michael, Olga Flinch |
Bello, Andrés |
Bells, The (Poem), Poe |
Beloved Youth, The (Poem), Theognis |
Ben-Hur, Wallace |
Benavente, Jacinto |
Benefits (Poem), Lessing |
Bennett, Arnold, Allan Nevins |
Bentham, Jeremy |
Benvenuto Cellini, Birrell |
Beowulf (Poem), Anon. |
Béranger, Jean-Pierre de, Alcée Fortier |
Bergson, Henri Louis, W. P. Montague |
Bergström, Hjalmar |
Berkeley, George |
Berlin, The Philistine of, Heine (Italy) |
Berlioz, Hector |
Bernal Díaz del Castillo, see Díaz del Castillo, Bernal. |
Bernard de Ventadour |
— of Clairvaux, Saint |
— — Cluny, W. C. Prime |
— — Morlay, see Bernard of Cluny |
Berners, Juliana |
Bernstein, Henry |
Bertrand d’ Aamanon |
Besant, Sir Walter |
Beside the Hearth (Poem), Wagner |
— — Winter Sea (Poem), Roberts |
Bessie Bell and Mary Gray (Poem), Anon. |
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray (Poem), Ramsay |
Best Thing in the World, The (Poem), E. B. Browning |
— Wines, The (Poem), Hermippus |
Bestiaries and Lapidaries, L. O. Kuhns |
Bethlehem, From Hebron to, Mandeville (Adventures) |
Betrothed, The, Manzoni |
Better Answer, A (Poem), Prior |
— Part, The (Poem), Matthew Arnold |
Bewildered Guest, The (Poem), Howells |
Bible, see also Old Testament, New Testament; Apocrypha. |
— in Spain, The, Borrow |
— of the Dadu Panthis, The |
— — Zoroaster, The, see Avesta. |
— Wycliffe’s: Luke xv. 11–32; 1 Corinthians xiii.; John xx. 1–31; Apocalypse v. 1–14 |
Big Words for Small Thoughts, White |
Biglow Papers, The (Poem), Lowell |
Bilderdijk, Willem |
Bill and Joe (Poem), Holmes |
Billy and Hans, Stillman |
Binyon, Lawrence, Erskine |
Biographical Essays, De Quincey |
Biography, see Names of Persons; also Anecdotes; Characterizations; Diaries; Letters. |
Bion |
Bird Let Loose, The (Poem), Thomas Moore |
— Parliament, The, Faríd-Uddín Attar |
— Voices (Poem), Lampman |
Birds, see also Fables. |
Bestiaries and Lapidaries, Kuhns |
Birds, De Amicis (Constantinople) |
Bluebird, The, Wilson (American Ornithology) |
Fish-Hawk, The (Poem), Wilson (American Ornithology) |
Heron’s Haunt, The, Grant Allen (Vignettes from Nature) |
House-Swallow, The, White (Natural History of Selborne) |
Humming-Bird, The, Buffon (Natural History) |
Sharp Eyes, Burroughs (Locusts and Wild Honey) |
Wild Pigeon, The (Poem), Wilson (American Ornithology) |
Birds, Aristophanes |
— (Poem), R. H. Stoddard |
— in the Night (Poem), Verlaine |
Birrell, Augustine |
Birthday, A (Poem), C. G. Rossetti |
— — (Poem), Watson |
Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo, The (Poem), Gilbert |
Bismarck, Otto Edward Leopold von, Munroe Smith |
Bit o’ Writin’, and Other Tales, The, Banim |
Bits of Travel, Jackson |
Bittersweet (Poem), Holland |
Björnson, Björnstjerne, Brandes |
— — W. M. Payne |
Black, William |
Black Forest Village Stories, Auerbach |
Black Maskers, The, Andreyev |
— Regiment, The (Poem), Boker |
— Shawl (Poem), Pushkin |
Blackmore, Richard Doddridge |
Blackmwore, Maidens (Poem), Barnes |
Blake, William |
Blanc, Charles |
Blanchette, Brieux |
Blessèd Damozel, The (Poem), D. G. Rossetti |
Blicher, Steen Steensen |
Blind, Mathilde |
Blind Bard of Chios (Poem), Pascoli |
— Girl of Castel-Cuillé, The (Poem), Jasmin |
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind (Poem), Shakespeare |
Blue Beard, Perrault |
— Closet, The (Poem), Morris |
Bluebird, The (Poem), Wilson |
Boarding-House Geometry, Leacock |
Boat Life in Egypt and Nubia, Prime |
— Race, The, Hughes (Tom Brown at Oxford) |
Boatman’s Song, The (Poem), Carmen Sylva |
Bobbo and Other Fancies, Wharton |
Boccaccio, Giovanni, W. J. Stillman |
Boccaccio’s “Decameron,” Sismondi (Literature of the South of Europe) |
Bodenstedt, Friedrich Martin von |
Bodmer, Johann Jakob |
Boethius (Poem), Alfred the Great |
Boethius |
Bohemianism, Hamerton (Human Intercourse) |
Bohemians of the Latin Quarter, The, Murger |
Bohémiens, Les (Poem), Béranger |
Boileau-Despreaux, Nicholas |
Boissier, Gaston |
Boker, George H. |
Bolingbroke, Bagehot |
Bon Gaultier Ballads (Poems), W. E. Aytoun |
Bonaventura, Saint, Thomas Davidson |
Bonduca, Fletcher |
Bonnie George Campbell (Poem), Anon. |
Bonny Dundee (Poem), Scott |
— Earl of Murray, The (Poem), Anon. |
Book Le Grand, Heine |
— of a Thousand Nights and a Night, The, R. F. Burton |
— — My Friend, The, France |
— — the Dead |
— — — Native, Roberts |
— — — Rose, The, Almqvist |
Book-Stores and Books, Beecher |
Bookman’s Purgatory, A, Lang |
Books and Bookmen, Lang |
Books and Reading, see also Literature. |
Alexandrian Library, The, Gibbon |
Bookman’s Purgatory, A, Lang |
Books, Fuller (Holy and Profane State) |
— Montaigne |
— and Reading, Schopenhauer |
Book-stores and Books, Beecher |
Choice of Books, The, Harrison |
Early Reading, Bagehot (Edward Gibbon) |
Library, The, Maistre (Journey round My Room) |
Pleasures of Reading, The, Balfour (Rectorial Address) |
— — — — Eliot (The Happy Life) |
Professional Reviewer, The, Bennett (The Truth about an Author) |
Reading, Voltaire (Philosophical Dictionary) |
Booth, Edwin, “Hamlet” at the Boston Theatre, Howe |
— — (Poem), Winter |
Border Minstrelsy |
Boris Godunov, Pushkin |
Borrow, George, Julian Hawthorne |
Boscán, Juan |
Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, Adolphe Cohn |
Boswell, James, C. F. Johnson |
Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich, The (Poem), Clough |
Bourdeille, Pierre de, see Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille. |
Bourget, Paul, Pierre de Bacourt |
Bowmen’s Song, The (Poem), Doyle (The White Company) |
Bowring, Sir John |
Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth |
Boy’s Wonderhorn, The (Poems), Brentano |
Bracco, Roberto |
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth |
Brandes, Georg, W. M. Payne |
Brant, Sebastian |
Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille |
Branwen the Daughter of Llyr, Mabinogion |
“Break, Break, Break” (Poem), Tennyson |
Bremer, Fredrika |
Brentano, Clemens |
Bretonne, The, Theuriet |
Breviary of Æsthetic, The, Croce |
Bride of Abydos, The (Poem), Byron |
Bridge, The (Poem), Longfellow |
— of Dread, The (Poem) |
— — Sighs, The (Poem), Hood |
Bridges, Robert, F. H. Giddings |
Brief is Pain (Poem), Carpenter |
— Life is Here our Portion (Hymn), Bernard of Cluny |
Briefness of Life, The (Poem), William Drummond |
Brieux, Eugène, Clayton Hamilton |
Bright, John |
Brignall Banks (Poem), Scott |
Brillat-Savarin |
Bristowe Tragedie, The (Poem), Chatterton |
Britannia’s Pastorals (Poems), William Browne |
Brittany, The Heroic and Legendary Literature of, William Sharp |
Broken Bell, The (Poem), Baudelaire |
— Heart, The, Ford |
— Jug, The, Kleist |
— Music (Poem), Aldrich |
— Pitcher, The (Poem), W. E. Aytoun |
Brontë, Anne |
Brontë, Charlotte, Ritchie (Memoirs) |
Brontë, Charlotte, and her Sisters |
Brontë, Emily |
Brook, The (Poem), Tennyson |
Brooks, Phillips |
Brotherhood of Man, The, Marcus Aurelius (Meditations) |
Brother’s Grave, A (Poem), Catullus |
Brougham and South America, On, Canning |
Brown, Charles Brockden |
— John |
Browne, Sir Thomas, Francis Bacon |
— William |
Brownell, Henry Howard |
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett |
— Robert, E. L. Burlingame |
— — in Florence, Curtis |
Browning’s Poetry, Birrell |
Brownson, Orestes Augustus |
Bruce to his Men at Bannockburn (Poem), Burns |
Brunetière, Ferdinand, Adolphe Cohn |
Bruno, Giordano |