OF THE WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE Ancient and Modern CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER EDITOR HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE, LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE, GEORGE H. WARNER ASSOCIATE EDITORS THIRTY VOLUMES VOL. XXIII NEW YORK R. S. PEALE AND J. A. HILL PUBLISHERS 19277 CRAWFORD H. TOY, A. M., LL. D., Professor of Hebrew, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Mass. THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, LL. D., L. H. D., Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of WILLIAM M. SLOANE, PH. D., L. H. D., Professor of History and Political Science, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, N. J. BRANDER MATTHEWS, A. M., LL. B., Professor of Literature, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City. JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D., President of the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Mich. WILLARD FISKE, A. M., PH. D., Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages and Literatures, EDWARD S. HOLDEN, A. M., LL. D., Director of the Lick Observatory, and Astronomer, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, Cal. ALCÉE FORTIER, LIT. D., Professor of the Romance Languages, WILLIAM P. TRENT, M. A., TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La. Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A. M., LL. D., Professor of Literature in the CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, Washington, D. C. |