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LIBRARY OF

FAMOUS LITERATURE

SELECTIONS FROM THE WORLD'S GREAT WRITERS

ANCIENT, MEDIÆVAL, AND MODERN, WITH BIO-
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AND

CRITICAL ESSAYS

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MANY EMINENT WRITERS.

EDITED BY

DR. RICHARD GARNETT, C.B.

of the British Museum
(1851-1899)

IN ASSOCIATION WITH

M. LEON VALLÉE
Librarian of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

DR. ALOIS BRANDL

Professor of Literature in the Imperial University, Berlin

AND

DONALD G. MITCHELL

(IK MARVEL)

the Author of "Reveries of a Bachelor."

With Nearly Five Hundred Full-page Illustrations and Colored Plates

IN TWENTY VOLUMES

VOLUME XVI

LONDON

ISSUED BY

The Standard

1899

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
FROM THE LIARY OF
ROBERT MATTESON OHNSTON
SEPT. 10, 1920

NOTE.

IT has been the Editor's continual endeavour to render due acknowledgment, in the proper place, for permission generously granted to make use of extracts from copyrighted publications. Should any error or omission be found, he requests that it may be brought to his notice, that it may be corrected in subsequent editions.

R. Gamett.

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