C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Locke to Nansen

John Locke. 1632–1704. Critical and Biographical Introduction Pleasure and Pain Injudicious Haste in Study Frederick Locker-Lampson. 1821–1895. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard The Skeleton in the Cupboard My Neighbor Rose The Rose and the Ring The Widow’s Mite To My Grandmother Advice to a Poet The Jester’s Plea John Gibson Lockhart. 1794–1854. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Last Days of Sir Walter Scott Zara’s Earrings The Wandering Knight’s Song Thomas Lodge. 1558–1625. Critical and Biographical Introduction Beauty Rosalind’s Madrigal Love Jack London. 1876–1916. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Leland Hall From ‘The Sea Wolf’ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1807–1882. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Frederick Johnson Hymn to the Night The Beleaguered City The Skeleton in Armor Maidenhood Serenade Genius The Wreck of the Hesperus The Village Blacksmith The Rainy Day The Belfry of Bruges The Bridge Seaweed The Day is Done The Arrow and the Song The Cross of Snow The Launching Sir Humphrey Gilbert My Lost Youth My Books Changed Paul Revere’s Ride Thangbrand the Priest Kambalu The New Household Chaucer Milton Haroun Al Raschid Divina Commedia The Poet and His Songs Finale to ‘Christus: A Mystery’ The Young Hiawatha Prelude to ‘Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie’ Peace in Acadia Postlude to ‘Evangeline’ Longus. Second Century? Critical and Biographical Introduction The Two Foundlings Pierre Loti. 1850–1923. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Sailor’s Wife Samuel Lover. 1797–1868. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Low-Backed Car Widow Machree How to Ask and Have The Gridiron James Russell Lowell. 1819–1891. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Henry James Si Descendero in Infernum, Ades Hebe She Came and Went The Changeling The Vision of Sir Launfal From ‘The Biglow Papers’ What Mr. Robinson Thinks The Courtin’ Mr. Hosea Biglow to the Editor of the Atlantic Monthly The Washers of the Shroud Memoriæ Positum Uncle Zeb From the Address on ‘Democracy’ From Essay ‘On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners’ Sir John Lubbock. 1834–1913. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Habits of Ants Savages Compared with Children Lucian. c. 125–after 180. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Emily James Putnam Aphrodite and Selene The Judgment of Paris The Amateur of Lying Titus Lucretius Carus. c. 99–c. 55 B.C. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Paul Shorey Spenser’s Imitation of the Opening Lines of the ‘Nature of Things’ Invocation to Venus On the Evil of Superstition The Foolishness of Luxury The Nothingness of Death The End of All The Spirituality of Material Things Martin Luther. 1483–1546. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Chester David Hartranft To the Christian Nobles of the German Nation On the Liberty of the Christian Reply at the Diet of Worms A Safe Stronghold Our God Is Still Letter to Melanchthon Letter to his Wife Extract from Commentary on Psalm CI. A Hymn for Children at Christmas The Value and Power of Music Luther’s Letter to his Little Son Hans, Aged Six Luther’s Table-Talk Sayings of Luther E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton (Owen Meredith). 1831–1891. Critical and Biographical Introduction Aux Italiens Lucile’s Letter From Prologue to ‘The Wanderer’ Maarten Maartens (J. M. W. van der Poorten Schwartz). 1858–1915. Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Sharp Joost Surrenders The Calm before the Storm Knowledge Music and Discord Guilt The Dawn of the Higher Life Hamilton Wright Mabie. 1846–1916. Critical and Biographical Introduction Country and People The Mabinogion. Critical Introduction by Ernest Rhys The Dream of Rhonabwy Lludd and Llevelys Kilhwch and Olwen From ‘Branwen the Daughter of Llyr’ From ‘The Dream of Maxen Wledig’ Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay. 1800–1859. Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Bach McMaster The Coffee-House The Difficulty of Travel in England, 1685 The Highwayman The Delusion of Overrating the Happiness of our Ancestors The Puritan Spain under Philip II. The Character of Charles II. of England The Church of Rome Loyola and the Jesuits The Reign of Terror The Trial of Warren Hastings Horatius The Battle of Ivry Justin McCarthy. 1830–1912. Critical and Biographical Introduction The King is Dead—Long Live the Queen A Modern English Statesman George MacDonald. 1824–1905. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Flood The Hay-Loft Jean Macé. 1815–1894. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Necklace of Truth Niccolò Machiavelli. 1469–1527. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles P. Neill The Conspiracy against Carlo Galeazzo, Duke of Milan, 1476 How a Prince Ought to Avoid Flatterers Exhortation to Lorenzo de’ Medici to Deliver Italy from Foreign Domination Percy MacKaye. 1875–1956. Critical and Biographical Introduction From ‘The Canterbury Pilgrims’ From ‘The Scarecrow’ Norman Macleod. 1812–1872. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Home-Coming Highland Scenery My Little May John Bach McMaster. 1852–1932. Critical and Biographical Introduction Town and Country Life in 1800 Effects of the Embargo of 1807 Andrew Macphail. 1864–1938. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Archibald MacMechan Psychology of the Suffragette Imre Madách. 1823–1864. Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Alexander Kohut From the ‘Tragedy of Man’ James Madison. 1751–1836. Critical and Biographical Introduction An Objection Drawn from the Extent of Country Answered Interference to Quell Domestic Insurrection Maurice Maeterlinck. 1862–1949. Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Sharp From ‘The Death of Tintagiles’ The Inner Beauty From ‘The Tragical in Daily Life’ William Maginn. 1794–1842. Critical and Biographical Introduction Saint Patrick Song of the Sea John Pentland Mahaffy. 1839–1919. Critical and Biographical Introduction Childhood in Ancient Life Alfred Thayer Mahan. 1840–1914. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Importance of Cruisers and of Strong Fleets in War Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout). 1804–1866. Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Malone Father Prout The Shandon Bells Don Ignacio Loyola’s Vigil Malbrouck The Song of the Cossack Moses Maimonides. 1135–1204. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Rabbi Gottheil Extract from Maimonides’s Will From the ‘Guide of the Perplexed’ Sir Henry Sumner Maine. 1822–1888. Critical and Biographical Introduction by David MacGregor Means The Beginnings of the Modern Laws of Real Property Importance of a Knowledge of Roman Law: and the Effect of the Code Napoléon Xavier de Maistre. 1763–1852. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Traveling-Coat A Friend The Library William Hurrell Mallock. 1849–1923. Critical and Biographical Introduction An Evening’s Table-Talk at the Villa Sir Thomas Malory. d. c. 1470. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ernest Rhys The Finding of the Sword Excalibur The White Hart at the Wedding of King Arthur and Queen Guenever The Maid of Astolat The Death of Sir Launcelot Sir John Mandeville. Fourteenth Century. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Marvelous Riches of Prester John From Hebron to Bethlehem James Clarence Mangan. 1803–1849. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Dawning of the Day The Nameless One St. Patrick’s Hymn before Tarah Alessandro Manzoni. 1785–1873. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Maurice Francis Egan An Unwilling Priest A Late Repentance An Episode of the Plague in Milan Chorus from ‘The Count of Carmagnola’ The Fifth of May Marcus Aurelius. 121–180. Critical and Biographical Introduction by James Fraser Gluck Excerpts from the ‘Meditations’ Marguerite de Navarre. 1492–1549. Critical and Biographical Introduction A Fragment Dixains From the ‘Heptameron’ Christopher Marlowe. 1564–1593. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Passionate Shepherd to his Love From ‘Tamburlaine’ Invocation to Helen From ‘Edward the Second’ From ‘The Jew of Malta’ Clément Marot. 1496–1544. Critical and Biographical Introduction Old-Time Love Epigram To a Lady who Wished to Behold Marot The Laugh of Madame d’Albret From an “Elegy” The Duchess d’Alençon To the Queen of Navarre From a Letter to the King; after being Robbed From a Rhymed Letter to the King Frederick Marryat. 1792–1848. Critical and Biographical Introduction Perils of the Sea Mrs. Easy Has her own Way Martial. c. 40–c. 104 A.D. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Caskie Harrison The Unkindest Cut Evolution Vale of Tears Sic Vos Non Vobis Silence is Golden So Near and Yet So Far The Least of Evils Thou Reason’st Well Never Is, but Always to Be Learning by Doing Tertium Quid Similia Similibus Cannibalism Equals Added to Equals The Cook Well Done A Diverting Scrape Diamond Cut Diamond The Cobbler’s Last But Little Here Below E Pluribus Unus Fine Frenzy Live without Dining The Two Things Needful James Martineau. 1805–1900. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Transient and the Real in Life Andrew Marvell. 1621–1678. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Garden The Emigrants in Bermudas The Mower to the Glow-Worms The Mower’s Song The Picture of T. C. Karl Marx. 1818–1883. Critical and Biographical Introduction by William English Walling Bourgeois and Proletarians John Masefield. 1878–1967. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Joyce Kilmer From ‘The Everlasting Mercy’ The Yarn of the “Loch Achray” Sea-Fever D’Avalos’ Prayer Sonnets Masques. Critical Introduction by Ernest Rhys Jean-Baptiste Massillon. 1663–1742. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Joel Foote Bingham Picture of the Death-Bed of a Sinner Fasting Hypocritical Humility in Charity The Blessedness of the Righteous One of His Celebrated Pictures of General Society Prayer Philip Massinger. 1583–1640. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Anna McClure Sholl From ‘The Maid of Honour’ From ‘A New Way to Pay Old Debts’ Brander Matthews. 1852–1929. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ernest Hunter Wright American Character Shakespeare’s Actors Guy de Maupassant. 1850–1893. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Firmin Roz The Last Years of Madame Jeanne A Normandy Outing: Jean Roland’s Love-Making The Piece of String Frederick Denison Maurice. 1805–1872. Critical and Biographical Introduction From a Letter to Rev. J. de La Touche From a Letter to Rev. Charles Kingsley The Subjects and Laws of the Kingdom of Heaven Giuseppe Mazzini. 1805–1872. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Frank Sewall Faith and the Future Thoughts Addressed to the Poets of the Nineteenth Century On Carlyle Johann Wilhelm Meinhold. 1797–1851. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Rescue on the Road to the Stake Herman Melville. 1819–1891. Critical and Biographical Introduction A Typee Household Fayaway in the Canoe The General Character of the Typees Taboo Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. 1809–1847. Critical and Biographical Introduction From a Letter to Ferdinand Hiller From a Letter to Herr Advocat Conrad Schleinitz, Leipzig Hours with Goethe, 1830 A Coronation in Presburg First Impressions of Venice In Rome: St. Peter’s A Sunday at Foria A Vaudois Walking Trip: Pauline A Criticism Catulle Mendès. 1841–1909. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Foolish Wish The Sleeping Beauty The Charity of Sympathy The Mirror The Man of Letters Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo. 1856–1912. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Federico de Onís Calderón George Meredith. 1828–1909. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Anna McClure Sholl Meredith’s Poetry by Gertrude Elizabeth Taylor Slaughter Richard and Lucy: An Idyl Richard’s Ordeal Is Over Aminta Takes a Morning Sea-Swim: A Marine Duet Love in the Valley The Lark Ascending From ‘The Woods of Westermain’ From ‘France, 1870’ From ‘Modern Love’ Prosper Mérimée. 1803–1870. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Grace Elizabeth King From ‘Arsène Guillot’ Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. 1825–1898. Critical and Biographical Introduction From ‘The Monk’s Wedding’ Michaelangelo. 1475–1564. Critical and Biographical Introduction A Prayer for Strength The Impeachment of Night Love the Life-Giver Irreparable Loss Jules Michelet. 1798–1874. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Grace Elizabeth King The Death of Jeanne d’Arc Michaelangelo Summary of the Introduction to ‘The Renaissance’ Adam Mickiewicz. 1798–1855. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Harvey Genung Sonnet: ‘The tricks of pleasing thou hast aye disdained’ Father’s Return Primrose New Year’s Wishes To M—— From the ‘Ancestors’ From ‘Faris’ John Stuart Mill. 1806–1873. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Richard Theodore Ely Of the Stationary State of Wealth and Population Of Competition Mill’s Final Views on the Destiny of Society Justice and Utility Pierre Mille. 1864–1941. Critical and Biographical Introduction by John William Cunliffe Joaquin (Cincinnatus Hiner) Miller. 1837–1913. Critical and Biographical Introduction From ‘The Ship in the Desert’ Kit Carson’s Ride John Milton. 1608–1674. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ehrman Syme Nadal On Shakespeare On his Blindness To Cyriack Skinner On the Late Massacre in Piedmont The Hymn on the Nativity From ‘Lycidas’ From ‘Comus’ L’Allegro Il Penseroso The Appeal of Satan Milton on his Blindness Adam and Eve Eve Relates her First Meeting with Adam Song of the Pair in Paradise Invocation to the Muse For the Liberty of Printing On Errors in Teaching Mirabeau. 1749–1791. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Francis Newton Thorpe On the Removal of the Troops around Paris The Elegy on Franklin A Letter to the King of Prussia A Letter to Vitry From the Letters From a Letter to Chamfort, 1785 Frédéric Mistral. 1830–1914. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harriet Waters Preston The Invocation from ‘Miréio’ The Tunny Fishing The Ballad of Guibour The Scaling of Ventour The Epilogue from ‘Nerto’ The Aliscamp Donald Grant Mitchell (Ik Marvel). 1822–1908. Critical and Biographical Introduction Over a Wood Fire Silas Weir Mitchell. 1829–1914. Critical and Biographical Introduction André’s Fate Lincoln Dreamland Song: ‘I would I were an English rose’ Mary Russell Mitford. 1787–1855. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Neighborhood Molière. 1622–1673. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Brander Matthews Peace-Making, Reconciliation, and Robbery Alceste Accuses Célimène A Sincere Critic Seldom Pleases Orgon Proposes Marianne’s Marriage with Tartuffe The Family Censor The Hypocrite The Fate of Don Juan The Sham Marquis and the Affected Ladies Theodor Mommsen. 1817–1903. Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Cranston Lawton The Character of Cæsar Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. 1689–1762. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Anna McClure Sholl To E. W. Montagu, Esq., I To E. W. Montagu, Esq., II To Mr. Pope To Mrs. S. C. To the Countess of Mar, I To the Abbé X—— To the Countess of Mar, II To the Countess of Bute, I To the Countess of Bute, II To the Countess of Bute, III Michel de Montaigne. 1533–1592. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ferdinand Bôcher The Author to the Reader Of Friendship Of Books Of Repentance Montesquieu. 1689–1755. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Francis Newton Thorpe On the Power of Punishments In what Manner Republics Provide for their Safety Origin of the Right of Slavery among the Roman Civilians On the Spirit of Trade On the True Nature of Benevolence On Religion On Two Causes which Destroyed Rome Usbek at Paris, to Ibben at Smyrna Rica at Paris, to Ibben at Smyrna William Vaughn Moody. 1869–1910. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Joyce Kilmer Gloucester Moors The Brute The Daguerreotype On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines Raphael’s Song George Moore. 1852–1933. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harry Morgan Ayres From ‘Esther Waters’ Thomas Moore. 1779–1852. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Walsh Paradise and the Peri Love’s Young Dream The Time I’ve Lost in Wooing Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms Come, Rest in this Bosom Nora Creina Oft, in the Stilly Night Oh! Breathe Not His Name ’Tis the Last Rose of Summer The Harp that Once through Tara’s Halls Sound the Loud Timbrel “Thou Art, O God” The Bird Let Loose Sir Thomas More. 1478–1535. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Anna McClure Sholl A Letter to Lady More Life in Utopia Slavery and Punishments for Crime James Justinian Morier. 1780?–1849. Critical and Biographical Introduction Hajji as a Quack Eduard Mörike. 1804–1875. Critical and Biographical Introduction My River Two Lovers An Hour Ere Break of Day John Morley. 1838–1923. Critical and Biographical Introduction Rousseau at Montmorency Condorcet The Church and the ‘Encyclopædia’ William Morris. 1834–1896. Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Morton Payne Shameful Death Hallblithe Dwelleth in the Wood Alone Iceland First Seen From ‘The Earthly Paradise’ The Blue Closet The Day is Coming Kiartan Bids Farewell to Gudrun Moschus? fl. 150 B.C. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Lamentation for Bion William Motherwell. 1797–1835. Critical and Biographical Introduction When I beneath the Cold Red Earth am Sleeping Jeanie Morrison My Heid Is Like to Rend, Willie May Morn Song John Lothrop Motley. 1814–1877. Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Franklin Jameson The Abdication of Charles V. of Spain The Spanish Armada Approaches England The Armada Destroyed The Fate of John of Barneveld John Muir. 1838–1914. Critical and Biographical Introduction A Wind-Storm in the Forests Elisha Mulford. 1833–1885. Critical and Biographical Introduction From ‘The Nation’ From ‘The Republic of God’ Friedrich Max Müller. 1823–1900. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Henry Albert Stimson On the Migration of Fables Wilhelm Müller. 1794–1827. Critical and Biographical Introduction From ‘The Pretty Maid of the Mill’ Vineta Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock). 1850–1922. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Dancin’ Party at Harrison’s Cove Henri Murger. 1822–1861. Critical and Biographical Introduction A Bohemian Evening Party The White Violets Alfred de Musset. 1810–1857. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Alcée Fortier The Grisettes The False Lover Vergiss Mein Nicht From ‘To a Comrade’ From ‘On a Slab of Rose Marble’ From ‘The Wild Mare in the Desert’ To Pépa Juana Frederic William Henry Myers. 1843–1901. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Disenchantment of France Myths and Folk-Lore of the Aryan Peoples. Critical Introduction by William Sharp and Ernest Rhys The Kinvad Bridge The Bridge of Dread The Legend of Bomere Pool The Lake of the Demons Fairy Gifts and their Ill-Luck A Sleeping Army The Black Lamb Death-Bed Superstitions The Witched Churn The Bad Wife and the Demon Hangman’s Rope May-Day Song Old English Charms and Folk Customs Yule-Log Ceremony The Changeling The Magic Sword Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne. 1766–1845. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Davidson The Land o’ the Leal The Hundred Pipers Caller Herrin’ The Auld House The Laird o’ Cockpen Wha’ll Be King but Charlie? Will Ye No Come Back Again? Gude-Nicht, and Joy Be wi’ Ye A’ Would You Be Young Again? Fridtjof Nansen. 1861–1930. Critical and Biographical Introduction An Evening’s Aurora The Polar Night The New Year, 1896: Our Daily Life The Journey Southward

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