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EDWIN BOOTH DANTE TORQUATO TASSO SHAKSPERE—Stratford Bust SHAKSPERE—Kesselstadt Mask DAVID GARRICK EDMUND KEAN JOHN M'CULLOUGH DION BOUCICAULT LAWRENCE BARRETT HENRY EDWARDS EDWIN BOOTH MRS. SIDDONS LOUISE OF PRUSSIA MARIA F. MALIBRAN FREDERICK SCHILLER LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN—From Life LUDWIG VON...

George Gordon Byron (Noel) or Lord Byron was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty". Byron is regarded as one of the greatest British poets,...

BOYESEN, H. H. Ibsen's New Play BURROUGHS, JOHN Bits of Criticism DeKOVEN, MRS. REGINALD Verlaine: A Feminine Appreciation EARLE, ALICE MORSE Degeneration The Pleasures of Historiography The Bureau of Literary Revision GATES, LEWIS E. Mr. Meredith and his Aminta GOSSE, EDMUND The Popularity of Poetry...

Captain Roquefinette The Meeting The Chevalier A Bal-Masque of the Period.--The Bat The Arsenal The Prince de Cellamare Alberoni The Garret A Citizen of the Rue du Temps-Perdu The Agreement Pros and Cons The Denis Family The Crimson Ribbon The Rue des bons Enfants Jean Buvat Bathilde First Love The Consul...

The researches of Niebuhr and several other distinguished German scholars have thrown a new light on Roman History, and enabled us to discover the true constitution of that republic which once ruled the destinies of the known world, and the influence of whose literature and laws is still powerful in...

ZERAH COLBURN, BARATIERE, GASSENDI, PASCAL, GROTIUS, NEWTON, MAGLIABECCHI, CRICHTON, BERONICIUS, MASTER CLENCH, JEDEDIAH BUXTON, WILLIAM GIBSON, EDMUND STONE, RICHARD EVELYN, QUENTIN MATSYS, WEST, BERRETINI, HENRY KIRK WHITE, MOZART, ELIHU BURRITT, GEORGE MORLAND, WILLIAM PENN, JOHN SMITH, ETHAN ALLEN,...

Chelmsford, one of the youngest of the Essex Boroughs, and almost a suburb of Greater London by means of the Great Eastern Railway, was, when I first knew it, a dignified county town, the leading people of which considered a second post from London as a daily nuisance, and had no taste for what is practically...

The great value of contemporary History—that is, history written by actual witnesses of the events which they narrate,—is now beginning to be appreciated by general readers. The improved character of the journalism of the present day is the best evidence of this advancement, which has been a work...

The poems of Leaves of Grass are loosely connected, with each representing Whitman's celebration of his philosophy of life and humanity. This book is notable for its discussion of delight in sensual pleasures during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral. Where much previous poetry,...

The plan of arrangement used in this book has in view a combination of the recitation and lecture systems, and affords an opportunity for teachers to apply the best principles of both. The paragraph headings should be thoroughly fixed in mind and close attention should be given to the words in heavy...

PARSIFALIA, A Pure Fool in the New World, Ethics and Æsthetics, The National Religious Drama, DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, A Futile God and a Potent Devil, The Woman and the Serpent, Back-worlds Gods and Over-Woman, ISOLDE'S SERVING-WOMAN, RICHARD STRAUSS, The Historical Survey, The Æsthetic View, What...

George Washington William Penn John Paul Jones John Singleton Copley Benjamin Franklin Louis Agassiz Dorothea Lynde Dix Ulysses Simpson Grant Clara Barton Abraham Lincoln Robert Edward Lee John James Audubon Robert Fulton George Peabody Daniel Webster Augustus St. Gaudens Henry David Thoreau Louisa May...

In May 1845, Sir John Franklin sailed from England with the ships Erebus and Terror, on an expedition to attempt the discovery of a “North-West Passage,” or water communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, to the North of the American Continent. No intelligence was received from him after...

William Andrus Alcott (August 6, 1798 – March 29, 1859), also known as William Alexander Alcott, was an American educator, educational reformer, physician, and author of 108 books. His works, which include a wide range of topics including educational reform, physical education, school house design, family life, and diet, are still widely cited today.