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
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, Conn.

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
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y.

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
English and History,

MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A. M., LL. D.,

Professor of Literature in the

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, Washington, D. C.