Connoisseur Edition Vol. XV.

NEW YORK THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY

From 'The Lame Lover'

From 'The Lame Lover'

A Cure for Bad Poetry

The Retort Courteous

On Garrick's Stature

Cape Wine

The Graces

The Debtor

Affectation

Arithmetical Criticism

The Dear Wife

Garrick and the Guinea

Dr. Paul Hifferman

Foote and Macklin

Baron Newman

Mrs. Abington

Garlic-Eaters

Mode of Burying Attorneys in London

Dining Badly

Dibble Davis

An Extraordinary Case

Mutability of the World

An Appropriate Motto

Real Friendship

Anecdote of an Author

Dr. Blair

Advice To a Dramatic Writer

The Grafton Ministry

From 'The Broken Heart'

Amethus and Menaphon

From 'Undine'

From 'Undine'

From 'The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard.' Copyright, 1890, by Harper & Brothers

From 'The Book of My Friend'

(1182-1226)

[Our Lord Speaks]

From the 'Autobiography,' in Bigelow's Edition of Franklin's Works

From the 'Autobiography,' in Bigelow's Edition of Franklin's Works

From the 'Autobiography,' in Bigelow's Edition of Franklin's Works

From Poor Richard's Almanack: 1742

From Poor Richard's Almanack

From the 'Autobiography,' in Bigelow's Edition of Franklin's Works

Fragments from 'La Légende d'un Peuple': translated by Maurice Francis Egan

Paraphrased by Maurice Francis Egan

Paraphrased from 'Les Feuilles Volantes,' by Maurice Francis Egan

Paraphrased from 'Les Feuilles Volantes,' by Maurice Francis Egan

From 'The Damnation of Theron Ware.' Copyright 1896, by Stone & Kimball

From 'Historical Essays of Edward A. Freeman,' Third Series. London, Macmillan & Co., 1879

From 'Historical Essays of Edward A. Freeman,' First Series. London, Macmillan & Co., 1871

From 'Historical Essays of Edward A. Freeman,' First Series. London, Macmillan & Co., 1871

From 'The History of the Norman Conquest of England'

From 'The Lost Manuscript'

From 'The Mottoes and Commentaries of Mother-Play.' Copyright 1895, by D. Appleton & Co.

From 'The Letters of Froebel'

From 'The Letters of Froebel'

From 'The Education of Man.' By permission of Josephine Jarvis, the translator, and A. Lovell & Co., publishers

From the 'Chronicles': Translation of John Bourchier, Lord Berners

How the King of England Rode Through Normandy

Of the Great Assembly that the French King Made to Resist the King of England

Of the Battle of Caen, and How the Englishmen Took the Town

How the French King Followed the King of England in Beauvoisinois

Of the Battle of Blanche-Taque

Of the Order of the Englishmen at Cressy

The Order of the Frenchmen at Cressy, and How they Beheld the Demeanor of the Englishmen

Of the Battle of Cressy, August 26th, 1346

From 'English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century'

From 'Two Chiefs of Dunboy'

From 'Short Studies on Great Subjects'

From 'Short Studies on Great Subjects'

From the 'History of England'

From 'Short Studies on Great Subjects'

From 'With the Procession.' Copyright 1894 by Henry B. Fuller, and reprinted by permission of Harper & Brothers, publishers, New York

(1810-1850)

From 'Memoirs': Paris, ——, 1847

From 'At Home and Abroad'

From 'Memoirs': Paris, ——, 1846

From 'The Worthies of England'

From 'The Worthies of England'

From 'The Worthies of England'

From 'The Holy and Profane State'

From 'The Holy and Profane State'

From 'The Worthies of England'

From 'File No. 113'

From 'File No. 113'

From 'The Court of Charles IV.' Copyright 1888, by W.S. Gottsberger. Reprinted by permission of George G. Peck, publisher, New York

From 'Doña Perfecta.' Copyright 1895, by Harper & Brothers

A FAMILY OF OFFICE-HOLDERS

From 'La de Bringas'

From 'Hereditary Genius'

From 'A Freethinker'

From 'Prairie Songs.' Copyright 1893 by Hamlin Garland, and published by Stone & Kimball

From 'Rose of Dutcher's Coolly.' Copyright 1895 by Hamlin Garland, and published by Stone & Kimball

From 'Cranford'

From 'Cranford'

From 'The Romance of a Mummy'

From 'The Old Guard'

From the 'Fables'

From the 'Fables'

From the 'Fables'

A Ballad

A Ballad