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WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE.
Ancient and Modern
CHARLES DUDLEY WARMR
FLITOR
FAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE,
LUCIA GIUSERI ♪
GEORGE H. WAS NLR
ASSOCIATE FEITOKS
THIRTY VOLUMES
VOL. VI
NEW YORK
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LIBRARY
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. VI
NEW YORK
R. S. PEALE AND J. A. HILL
PUBLISHERS
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THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
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,
BRANDER MATTHEWS, A. M. , LL. B. ,
Professor of Literature, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City.
JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D. ,
President of the
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, N. J.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Mich.
WILLARD FISKE, A. M. , PH. D. ,
Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages
and Literatures,
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y.
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,
TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La.
WILLIAM P. TRENT, M. A. ,
Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of
English and History,
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, Sewanee, Tenn.
PAUL SHOREY, PH. D. ,
Professor of Greek and Latin Literature,
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Ill.
WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL. D. ,
United States Commissioner of Education,
BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C.
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Literature in the 7d.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, Washington, D. C.
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PEDRO CALDERON
TABLE OF CONTENTS
JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN
VOL. VI
BY MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN
The Lovers (The Secret in Words')
Cyprian's Bargain (The Wonderful Magician')
Dreams and Realities (Such Stuff as Dreams are Made
Of')
The Dream Called Life (same)
CALLIMACHUS
LIVED
1600-1681'
BY W. P. TRENT
Remarks on the Right of Petition (Speech in the Senate,
1840)
Hymn to Jupiter
Epitaph
Epigram
Epitaph on Heracleitus
State Rights (Speech on the Admission of Michigan, 1837)
On the Government of Poland (A Disquisition on Gov-
ernment')
1782-1850
Urging Repeal of the Missouri Compromise (Speech in
the Senate, 1850)
CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY
Third Century B. C.
Epitaph
The Misanthrope
Epitaph upon Himself
Epitaph upon Cleombrotus
1831-1884
From An Examination Paper,' The Posthumous Papers
of the Pickwick Club'
Ballad (Imitation of Jean Ingelow)
Lovers, and a Reflection (Imitation of Jean Ingelow)
Visions
Changed
PAGE
3071
3087
3101
3107
Thoughts at a Railway Station
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JOHN CALVIN
Prefatory Address to the 'Institutes'
Election and Predestination (Institutes of the Christian
Religion')
Freedom of the Will (same)
LUIZ VAZ DE CAMOENS
BY ARTHUR CUSHMAN MCGIFFERT
From The Lusiads'
The Canzon of Life
Adieu to Coimbra
THOMAS CAMPBELL
vi
CAMPION
Hope (The Pleasures of Hope')
The Fall of Poland (same)
The Slave (same)
Death and a Future Life (same)
Lochiel's Warning
The Soldier's Dream
BY HENRY R. LANG
GEORGE CANNING
A Hymn in Praise of Neptune
Of Corinna's Singing
From 'Divine and Moral Songs'
CESARE CANTÙ
LIVED
1509-1564
BY ERNEST RHYS
To a Coquette
Songs from 'Light Conceits of Lovers'
1777-1844
Lord Ullin's Daughter
The Exile of Erin
Ye Mariners of England
Hohenlinden
1524? -1580
The Execution (Margherita Pusterla')
The Battle of Copenhagen
From the Ode to Winter'
-1619
Rogero's Soliloquy (The Rovers')
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder
On the English Constitution (Speech on Parliamentary
Reform')
On Brougham and South America
1770-1827
PAGE
3117
1807-1895
3129
3159
3184
3189
3199
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GIOSUE CARDUCCI
THOMAS CAREW
A Song
The Protestation
Roma ('Poesie ')
Homer (Levia Gravia')
In a Gothic Church (Poesie ')
On the Sixth Centenary of
Dante (Levia Gravia')
EMILIA FLYGARE-CARLÉN
BY FRANK SEWALL
THOMAS CARLYLE
BLISS CARMAN
The Mother
The Ox (Poesie ')
Dante (Levia Gravia')
To Satan (Poesie')
To Aurora (Odi Barbare')
Ruit Hora
The Inquiry
1807-1892
The Pursuit of the Smugglers (Merchant House among
the Islands')
Hack and Hew
At the Granite Gate
A Sea Child
Song
The Spring
BY LESLIE STEPHEN
Labor ('Past and Present')
The World in Clothes (Sartor Resartus')
Dante (Heroes and Hero-Worship')
Cromwell (same)
The Procession (French Revolution')
The Siege of the Bastille (same)
Charlotte Corday (same)
The Scapegoat (same)
LIVED
1835-
1589? -1639
The Mock Turtle's Education (same)
A Clear Statement (same)
1795-1881
BY CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS
1861-
LEWIS CARROLL (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) 1833-
Alice, the Pig-Baby, and the Cheshire Cat (Alice in
Wonderland')
PAGE
3206
3221
3225
3231
3302
3307
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LEWIS CARROLL - Continued:
The Walrus and the Carpenter (Through the Looking-
Glass')
CASANOVA (De Seingalt)
The Baker's Tale (Hunting of the Snark ')
You are Old, Father William (Alice in Wonderland')
1725-1803
Casanova's Escape from the Ducal Palace ('Escapes of
Casanova and Latude from Prison')
BARTOLOMEO DE LAS CASAS
1474-1566
Of the Island of Cuba ('A Relation of the First Voyage')
1478-1529
BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE
viii
Of the Court of Urbino (I Cortegiano')
CATO THE CENSOR
On Agriculture (De Agricultura')
From the 'Attic Nights' of Aulus Gellius
JACOB CATS
CATULLUS
BY J. W.
Dedication for a Volume of
Lyrics
A Morning Call
Home to Sirmio
Heart-Break
To Calvus in Bereavement
The Pinnace
An Invitation to Dinner
LIVED
Fear after the Trouble
"A Rich Man Loses his Child, a Poor Man Loses his
Cow»
BENVENUTO CELLINI
The Escape from Prison
The Casting of Perseus
A Necklace of Pearls
Benvenuto Loses his Brother
MACKAIL
234-149 B. C.
1577-1660
84-54 B. C. ?
1500-1571
An Adventure in Necromancy
Benvenuto Loses Self-Control under Severe Provocation
PAGE
(All the above are from Cellini's Memoirs, Symonds's
Translation)
3321
3333
3339
3347
A Brother's Grave
Farewell to His Fellow Officers
Verses from an Epithalamium
Love is All
Elegy on Lesbia's Sparrow
"Fickle and Changeable Ever"
Two Chords
Last Word to Lesbia
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3371
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CELTIC LITERATURE
I-IRISH
The Miller of Hell
Signs of Home
Oisin in Tirnanoge
CERVANTES
BY WILLIAM SHARP AND ERNEST RHYS
From The Coming of Cuculain ›
The Mystery of Amergin
The Song of Fionn
Vision of a Fair Woman
From The Wanderings of Oisin'
The Madness of King Goll
II-SCOTTISH
St. Bridget's Milking Song
Prologue to Gaul
Columcille Fecit
In Hebrid Seas
III- WELSH
IV-CORNISH
LIVED
From The Poem of the Passion'
From Origo Mundi,' in the Ordinalia
1547-1616
BY GEORGE SANTAYANA
Treating of the Character and Pursuits of Don Quixote
Of What Happened to Don Quixote when he Left the Inn
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Sally Forth: and the
Adventure with the Windmills
Sancho Panza and his Wife Teresa Converse Shrewdly
Of Sancho Panza's Delectable Discourse with the Duchess
Sancho as Governor
The Ending of All Don Quixote's Adventures
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO
1781-1838
The Bargain ('The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl')
From Woman's Love and Life'
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
1780-1842
The Passion for Power (The Life and Character of
Napoleon Bonaparte')
The Causes of War (Discourse before the Congregational
Ministers of Massachusetts')
Spiritual Freedom ('Discourse on Spiritual Freedom')
PAGE
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3503
3513
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GEORGE CHAPMAN
Ulysses and Nausicaa (Translation of Homer's Odyssey)
The Duke of Byron is Condemned to Death (Tragedy of
Charles, Duke of Byron')
FRANÇOIS RENÉ AUGUSTE CHÂTEAUBRIAND
THOMAS CHATTERTON
1768-1848
Christianity Vindicated (The Genius of Christianity')
Description of a Thunder-Storm in the Forest ('Atala')
Mynstrelles Songe
X
Final Chorus from
Goddwyn'
The Farewell of Sir Charles Baldwin to His Wife (The
Bristowe Tragedie ')
An Excelente Balade of Charitie
The Resignation
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
Prologue to the 'Canterbury Tales'
From the Knight's Tale
From the Wife of Bath's Tale
ANDRÉ CHÉNIER
From the Pardoner's Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale
Truth Ballade of Good Counsel
LIVED
1559? -1634
The Young Captive
Ode
VICTOR CHERBULIEZ
BY THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY
LORD CHESTERFIELD
1752-1770
13-? -1400
BY KATHARINE HILLARD
1829-
The Silent Duel (Samuel Brohl and Company')
Samuel Brohl Gives Up the Play (same)
1762-1794
1694-1773
From 'Letters to His Son': Concerning Manners; The
Control of One's Countenance; Dress as an Index to
Character; Some Remarks on Good Breeding
The Choice of a Vocation
PAGE
3523
3531
3539
3551
3601
3609
3625
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THE LITERATURE OF CHINA
RUFUS CHOATE
BY ROBERT K. DOUGLAS
Selected Maxims of Morals, Philosophy of Life, Character,
Circumstances, etc. (From the Chinese Moralists)
1799-1859
BY ALBERT STICKNEY
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
LIVED
The Puritan in Secular and Religious Life (From Address
at Ipswich Centennial, 1834)
The New-Englander's Character (same)
Of the American Bar (From Address before Cambridge
Law School)
Daniel Webster (From Eulogy at Dartmouth College
347-407
BY JOHN MALONE
That Real Wealth is from Within
On Encouragement During Adversity (Letters to Olym-
pias')
Concerning the Statutes (Homily)
PAGE
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3649
3665
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LIST OF PORTRAITS
IN VOL. VI
Pedro Calderon
John Caldwell Calhoun
John Calvin
Luiz Vaz de Camoens
Thomas Campbell
George Canning
Emilia Flygare-Carlén
Thomas Carlyle
Bliss Carman
Jacob Cats
Catullus
Bartolomeo de las Casas
Baldassare Castiglione
Benvenuto Cellini
Cervantes
Adelbert von Chamisso
William Ellery Channing
George Chapman
François René Auguste Châteaubriand
Thomas Chatterton
Geoffrey Chaucer
André Chénier
Victor Cherbuliez
Lord Chesterfield
Confucius
Rufus Choate
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PEDRO CALDERON
(1600-1681)
BY MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN
HE reputation of Pedro Calderon de la Barca has suffered in
the minds of English-speaking people from the injudicious
comparisons of critics, as well as from lack of knowledge of
his works. To put Calderon, a master of invention, beside Shake-
speare, the master of character, and to show by analogies that the
author of 'Othello' was far superior to the writer of The Physician
of His Own Honor,' is unjust to Calderon; and it is as futile as are
the ecstasies of Schultze to the coldness of Sismondi. Schultze com-
pares Dante with him, and the French critics have only recently for-
given him for being less classical in form than Corneille, who in
'Le Cid' gave them all the Spanish poetry they wanted! Fortu-
nately the student of Calderon need not take opinions. Good editions
of Calderon are easily attainable. The best known are Heil's (Leip-
zig, 1827), and that by Harzenbusch (Madrid, 1848). The first
edition, with forewords by Vera Tassis de Villareal, appeared at
Madrid (nine volumes) in 1682-91. Commentaries and translations are
numerous in German and in English; the translations by Denis
Florence MacCarthy are the most satisfactory, Edward Fitzgerald's
being too paraphrastic. Dean Trench added much to our knowledge
of Calderon's best work; George Ticknor in the History of Spanish
Literature,' and George Henry Lewes in The Spanish Drama,' left
us clear estimates of Lope de Vega's great successor. Shelley's
scenes from 'El Magico Prodigioso' are superb.
No analyses can do justice to the dramas, or to the religious
plays, called "autos," of Calderon. They must be read; and thanks to
the late Mr. MacCarthy's sympathy and zeal, the finest are easily
attainable. As he left seventy-three autos and one hundred and
eight dramas, it is lucky that the work of sifting the best from the
mass of varying merit has been carefully done. Mr. Ticknor men-
tions the fact that Calderon collaborated with other authors in the
writing of fourteen other plays.
Calderon was not "the Spanish Shakespeare. " "The Spanish Ben
Jonson" would be a happier title, if one feels obliged to compare
everything with something else. But Calderon is as far above Ben
Jonson in splendor of imagery as he is below Shakespeare in his
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LIBRARY
1 I:L
WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE.
Ancient and Modern
CHARLES DUDLEY WARMR
FLITOR
FAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE,
LUCIA GIUSERI ♪
GEORGE H. WAS NLR
ASSOCIATE FEITOKS
THIRTY VOLUMES
VOL. VI
NEW YORK
R. S. PEALE AND J. A. HILL
PUBLI: HERS
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LIBRARY
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. VI
NEW YORK
R. S. PEALE AND J. A. HILL
PUBLISHERS
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THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
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,
BRANDER MATTHEWS, A. M. , LL. B. ,
Professor of Literature, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City.
JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D. ,
President of the
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, N. J.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Mich.
WILLARD FISKE, A. M. , PH. D. ,
Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages
and Literatures,
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y.
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,
TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La.
WILLIAM P. TRENT, M. A. ,
Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of
English and History,
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, Sewanee, Tenn.
PAUL SHOREY, PH. D. ,
Professor of Greek and Latin Literature,
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Ill.
WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL. D. ,
United States Commissioner of Education,
BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C.
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Literature in the 7d.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, Washington, D. C.
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PEDRO CALDERON
TABLE OF CONTENTS
JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN
VOL. VI
BY MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN
The Lovers (The Secret in Words')
Cyprian's Bargain (The Wonderful Magician')
Dreams and Realities (Such Stuff as Dreams are Made
Of')
The Dream Called Life (same)
CALLIMACHUS
LIVED
1600-1681'
BY W. P. TRENT
Remarks on the Right of Petition (Speech in the Senate,
1840)
Hymn to Jupiter
Epitaph
Epigram
Epitaph on Heracleitus
State Rights (Speech on the Admission of Michigan, 1837)
On the Government of Poland (A Disquisition on Gov-
ernment')
1782-1850
Urging Repeal of the Missouri Compromise (Speech in
the Senate, 1850)
CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY
Third Century B. C.
Epitaph
The Misanthrope
Epitaph upon Himself
Epitaph upon Cleombrotus
1831-1884
From An Examination Paper,' The Posthumous Papers
of the Pickwick Club'
Ballad (Imitation of Jean Ingelow)
Lovers, and a Reflection (Imitation of Jean Ingelow)
Visions
Changed
PAGE
3071
3087
3101
3107
Thoughts at a Railway Station
"Forever"
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JOHN CALVIN
Prefatory Address to the 'Institutes'
Election and Predestination (Institutes of the Christian
Religion')
Freedom of the Will (same)
LUIZ VAZ DE CAMOENS
BY ARTHUR CUSHMAN MCGIFFERT
From The Lusiads'
The Canzon of Life
Adieu to Coimbra
THOMAS CAMPBELL
vi
CAMPION
Hope (The Pleasures of Hope')
The Fall of Poland (same)
The Slave (same)
Death and a Future Life (same)
Lochiel's Warning
The Soldier's Dream
BY HENRY R. LANG
GEORGE CANNING
A Hymn in Praise of Neptune
Of Corinna's Singing
From 'Divine and Moral Songs'
CESARE CANTÙ
LIVED
1509-1564
BY ERNEST RHYS
To a Coquette
Songs from 'Light Conceits of Lovers'
1777-1844
Lord Ullin's Daughter
The Exile of Erin
Ye Mariners of England
Hohenlinden
1524? -1580
The Execution (Margherita Pusterla')
The Battle of Copenhagen
From the Ode to Winter'
-1619
Rogero's Soliloquy (The Rovers')
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder
On the English Constitution (Speech on Parliamentary
Reform')
On Brougham and South America
1770-1827
PAGE
3117
1807-1895
3129
3159
3184
3189
3199
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GIOSUE CARDUCCI
THOMAS CAREW
A Song
The Protestation
Roma ('Poesie ')
Homer (Levia Gravia')
In a Gothic Church (Poesie ')
On the Sixth Centenary of
Dante (Levia Gravia')
EMILIA FLYGARE-CARLÉN
BY FRANK SEWALL
THOMAS CARLYLE
BLISS CARMAN
The Mother
The Ox (Poesie ')
Dante (Levia Gravia')
To Satan (Poesie')
To Aurora (Odi Barbare')
Ruit Hora
The Inquiry
1807-1892
The Pursuit of the Smugglers (Merchant House among
the Islands')
Hack and Hew
At the Granite Gate
A Sea Child
Song
The Spring
BY LESLIE STEPHEN
Labor ('Past and Present')
The World in Clothes (Sartor Resartus')
Dante (Heroes and Hero-Worship')
Cromwell (same)
The Procession (French Revolution')
The Siege of the Bastille (same)
Charlotte Corday (same)
The Scapegoat (same)
LIVED
1835-
1589? -1639
The Mock Turtle's Education (same)
A Clear Statement (same)
1795-1881
BY CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS
1861-
LEWIS CARROLL (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) 1833-
Alice, the Pig-Baby, and the Cheshire Cat (Alice in
Wonderland')
PAGE
3206
3221
3225
3231
3302
3307
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LEWIS CARROLL - Continued:
The Walrus and the Carpenter (Through the Looking-
Glass')
CASANOVA (De Seingalt)
The Baker's Tale (Hunting of the Snark ')
You are Old, Father William (Alice in Wonderland')
1725-1803
Casanova's Escape from the Ducal Palace ('Escapes of
Casanova and Latude from Prison')
BARTOLOMEO DE LAS CASAS
1474-1566
Of the Island of Cuba ('A Relation of the First Voyage')
1478-1529
BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE
viii
Of the Court of Urbino (I Cortegiano')
CATO THE CENSOR
On Agriculture (De Agricultura')
From the 'Attic Nights' of Aulus Gellius
JACOB CATS
CATULLUS
BY J. W.
Dedication for a Volume of
Lyrics
A Morning Call
Home to Sirmio
Heart-Break
To Calvus in Bereavement
The Pinnace
An Invitation to Dinner
LIVED
Fear after the Trouble
"A Rich Man Loses his Child, a Poor Man Loses his
Cow»
BENVENUTO CELLINI
The Escape from Prison
The Casting of Perseus
A Necklace of Pearls
Benvenuto Loses his Brother
MACKAIL
234-149 B. C.
1577-1660
84-54 B. C. ?
1500-1571
An Adventure in Necromancy
Benvenuto Loses Self-Control under Severe Provocation
PAGE
(All the above are from Cellini's Memoirs, Symonds's
Translation)
3321
3333
3339
3347
A Brother's Grave
Farewell to His Fellow Officers
Verses from an Epithalamium
Love is All
Elegy on Lesbia's Sparrow
"Fickle and Changeable Ever"
Two Chords
Last Word to Lesbia
3353
3359
3371
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CELTIC LITERATURE
I-IRISH
The Miller of Hell
Signs of Home
Oisin in Tirnanoge
CERVANTES
BY WILLIAM SHARP AND ERNEST RHYS
From The Coming of Cuculain ›
The Mystery of Amergin
The Song of Fionn
Vision of a Fair Woman
From The Wanderings of Oisin'
The Madness of King Goll
II-SCOTTISH
St. Bridget's Milking Song
Prologue to Gaul
Columcille Fecit
In Hebrid Seas
III- WELSH
IV-CORNISH
LIVED
From The Poem of the Passion'
From Origo Mundi,' in the Ordinalia
1547-1616
BY GEORGE SANTAYANA
Treating of the Character and Pursuits of Don Quixote
Of What Happened to Don Quixote when he Left the Inn
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Sally Forth: and the
Adventure with the Windmills
Sancho Panza and his Wife Teresa Converse Shrewdly
Of Sancho Panza's Delectable Discourse with the Duchess
Sancho as Governor
The Ending of All Don Quixote's Adventures
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO
1781-1838
The Bargain ('The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl')
From Woman's Love and Life'
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
1780-1842
The Passion for Power (The Life and Character of
Napoleon Bonaparte')
The Causes of War (Discourse before the Congregational
Ministers of Massachusetts')
Spiritual Freedom ('Discourse on Spiritual Freedom')
PAGE
3403
3451
3503
3513
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GEORGE CHAPMAN
Ulysses and Nausicaa (Translation of Homer's Odyssey)
The Duke of Byron is Condemned to Death (Tragedy of
Charles, Duke of Byron')
FRANÇOIS RENÉ AUGUSTE CHÂTEAUBRIAND
THOMAS CHATTERTON
1768-1848
Christianity Vindicated (The Genius of Christianity')
Description of a Thunder-Storm in the Forest ('Atala')
Mynstrelles Songe
X
Final Chorus from
Goddwyn'
The Farewell of Sir Charles Baldwin to His Wife (The
Bristowe Tragedie ')
An Excelente Balade of Charitie
The Resignation
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
Prologue to the 'Canterbury Tales'
From the Knight's Tale
From the Wife of Bath's Tale
ANDRÉ CHÉNIER
From the Pardoner's Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale
Truth Ballade of Good Counsel
LIVED
1559? -1634
The Young Captive
Ode
VICTOR CHERBULIEZ
BY THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY
LORD CHESTERFIELD
1752-1770
13-? -1400
BY KATHARINE HILLARD
1829-
The Silent Duel (Samuel Brohl and Company')
Samuel Brohl Gives Up the Play (same)
1762-1794
1694-1773
From 'Letters to His Son': Concerning Manners; The
Control of One's Countenance; Dress as an Index to
Character; Some Remarks on Good Breeding
The Choice of a Vocation
PAGE
3523
3531
3539
3551
3601
3609
3625
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THE LITERATURE OF CHINA
RUFUS CHOATE
BY ROBERT K. DOUGLAS
Selected Maxims of Morals, Philosophy of Life, Character,
Circumstances, etc. (From the Chinese Moralists)
1799-1859
BY ALBERT STICKNEY
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
LIVED
The Puritan in Secular and Religious Life (From Address
at Ipswich Centennial, 1834)
The New-Englander's Character (same)
Of the American Bar (From Address before Cambridge
Law School)
Daniel Webster (From Eulogy at Dartmouth College
347-407
BY JOHN MALONE
That Real Wealth is from Within
On Encouragement During Adversity (Letters to Olym-
pias')
Concerning the Statutes (Homily)
PAGE
3629
3649
3665
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LIST OF PORTRAITS
IN VOL. VI
Pedro Calderon
John Caldwell Calhoun
John Calvin
Luiz Vaz de Camoens
Thomas Campbell
George Canning
Emilia Flygare-Carlén
Thomas Carlyle
Bliss Carman
Jacob Cats
Catullus
Bartolomeo de las Casas
Baldassare Castiglione
Benvenuto Cellini
Cervantes
Adelbert von Chamisso
William Ellery Channing
George Chapman
François René Auguste Châteaubriand
Thomas Chatterton
Geoffrey Chaucer
André Chénier
Victor Cherbuliez
Lord Chesterfield
Confucius
Rufus Choate
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PEDRO CALDERON
(1600-1681)
BY MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN
HE reputation of Pedro Calderon de la Barca has suffered in
the minds of English-speaking people from the injudicious
comparisons of critics, as well as from lack of knowledge of
his works. To put Calderon, a master of invention, beside Shake-
speare, the master of character, and to show by analogies that the
author of 'Othello' was far superior to the writer of The Physician
of His Own Honor,' is unjust to Calderon; and it is as futile as are
the ecstasies of Schultze to the coldness of Sismondi. Schultze com-
pares Dante with him, and the French critics have only recently for-
given him for being less classical in form than Corneille, who in
'Le Cid' gave them all the Spanish poetry they wanted! Fortu-
nately the student of Calderon need not take opinions. Good editions
of Calderon are easily attainable. The best known are Heil's (Leip-
zig, 1827), and that by Harzenbusch (Madrid, 1848). The first
edition, with forewords by Vera Tassis de Villareal, appeared at
Madrid (nine volumes) in 1682-91. Commentaries and translations are
numerous in German and in English; the translations by Denis
Florence MacCarthy are the most satisfactory, Edward Fitzgerald's
being too paraphrastic. Dean Trench added much to our knowledge
of Calderon's best work; George Ticknor in the History of Spanish
Literature,' and George Henry Lewes in The Spanish Drama,' left
us clear estimates of Lope de Vega's great successor. Shelley's
scenes from 'El Magico Prodigioso' are superb.
No analyses can do justice to the dramas, or to the religious
plays, called "autos," of Calderon. They must be read; and thanks to
the late Mr. MacCarthy's sympathy and zeal, the finest are easily
attainable. As he left seventy-three autos and one hundred and
eight dramas, it is lucky that the work of sifting the best from the
mass of varying merit has been carefully done. Mr. Ticknor men-
tions the fact that Calderon collaborated with other authors in the
writing of fourteen other plays.
Calderon was not "the Spanish Shakespeare. " "The Spanish Ben
Jonson" would be a happier title, if one feels obliged to compare
everything with something else. But Calderon is as far above Ben
Jonson in splendor of imagery as he is below Shakespeare in his
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3072
knowledge of the heart, and in that vitality which makes Hamlet
and Orlando, Lady Macbeth and Perdita, men and women of all
time. They live; Calderon's people, like Ben Jonson's, move. There
is a resemblance between the autos of Calderon and the masques of
Jonson. Jonson's are lyrical; Calderon's less lyrical than splendid,
ethical, grandiose. They were both court poets; they both made
court spectacles; they both assisted in the decay of the drama; they
reflected the tastes of their time; but Calderon is the more noble,
the more splendid in imagination, the more intense in his devotion
to nature in all her moods. If one wanted to carry the habit of
comparison into music, Mozart might well represent the spirit of
Calderon. M. Philarète Chasles is right when he says that 'El
Mágico Prodigioso' should be presented in a cathedral. Calderon's
genius had the cast of the soldier and the priest, and he was both
soldier and priest. His comedias and autos are of Spain, Spanish. To
know Calderon is to know the mind of the Spain of the seventeenth
century; to know Cervantes is to know its heart.
The Church had opposed the secularization of the drama, at the
end of the fifteenth century, for two reasons.
The dramatic specta-
cle fostered for religious purposes had become, until Lope de Vega
rescued it, a medium for that "naturalism" which some of us fancy
to be a discovery of M. Zola and M. Catulle Mendès; it had escaped
from the control of the Church and had become a mere diversion.
Calderon was the one man who could unite the spirit of religion to
the form of the drama which the secular renaissance imperiously
demanded. He knew the philosophy of Aristotle and the theology of
the 'Summa' of St. Thomas as well as any cleric in Spain, though
he did not take orders until late in life; and in those religious spec-
tacles called autos sacramentales he showed this knowledge wonder-
fully.
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THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
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,
BRANDER MATTHEWS, A. M. , LL. B. ,
Professor of Literature, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City.
JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D. ,
President of the
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, N. J.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Mich.
WILLARD FISKE, A. M. , PH. D. ,
Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages
and Literatures,
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y.
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,
TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La.
WILLIAM P. TRENT, M. A. ,
Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of
English and History,
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, Sewanee, Tenn.
PAUL SHOREY, PH. D. ,
Professor of Greek and Latin Literature,
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Ill.
WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL. D. ,
United States Commissioner of Education,
BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C.
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Literature in the 7d.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, Washington, D. C.
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PEDRO CALDERON
TABLE OF CONTENTS
JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN
VOL. VI
BY MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN
The Lovers (The Secret in Words')
Cyprian's Bargain (The Wonderful Magician')
Dreams and Realities (Such Stuff as Dreams are Made
Of')
The Dream Called Life (same)
CALLIMACHUS
LIVED
1600-1681'
BY W. P. TRENT
Remarks on the Right of Petition (Speech in the Senate,
1840)
Hymn to Jupiter
Epitaph
Epigram
Epitaph on Heracleitus
State Rights (Speech on the Admission of Michigan, 1837)
On the Government of Poland (A Disquisition on Gov-
ernment')
1782-1850
Urging Repeal of the Missouri Compromise (Speech in
the Senate, 1850)
CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY
Third Century B. C.
Epitaph
The Misanthrope
Epitaph upon Himself
Epitaph upon Cleombrotus
1831-1884
From An Examination Paper,' The Posthumous Papers
of the Pickwick Club'
Ballad (Imitation of Jean Ingelow)
Lovers, and a Reflection (Imitation of Jean Ingelow)
Visions
Changed
PAGE
3071
3087
3101
3107
Thoughts at a Railway Station
"Forever"
## p. 3058 (#16) ############################################
JOHN CALVIN
Prefatory Address to the 'Institutes'
Election and Predestination (Institutes of the Christian
Religion')
Freedom of the Will (same)
LUIZ VAZ DE CAMOENS
BY ARTHUR CUSHMAN MCGIFFERT
From The Lusiads'
The Canzon of Life
Adieu to Coimbra
THOMAS CAMPBELL
vi
CAMPION
Hope (The Pleasures of Hope')
The Fall of Poland (same)
The Slave (same)
Death and a Future Life (same)
Lochiel's Warning
The Soldier's Dream
BY HENRY R. LANG
GEORGE CANNING
A Hymn in Praise of Neptune
Of Corinna's Singing
From 'Divine and Moral Songs'
CESARE CANTÙ
LIVED
1509-1564
BY ERNEST RHYS
To a Coquette
Songs from 'Light Conceits of Lovers'
1777-1844
Lord Ullin's Daughter
The Exile of Erin
Ye Mariners of England
Hohenlinden
1524? -1580
The Execution (Margherita Pusterla')
The Battle of Copenhagen
From the Ode to Winter'
-1619
Rogero's Soliloquy (The Rovers')
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder
On the English Constitution (Speech on Parliamentary
Reform')
On Brougham and South America
1770-1827
PAGE
3117
1807-1895
3129
3159
3184
3189
3199
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vii
GIOSUE CARDUCCI
THOMAS CAREW
A Song
The Protestation
Roma ('Poesie ')
Homer (Levia Gravia')
In a Gothic Church (Poesie ')
On the Sixth Centenary of
Dante (Levia Gravia')
EMILIA FLYGARE-CARLÉN
BY FRANK SEWALL
THOMAS CARLYLE
BLISS CARMAN
The Mother
The Ox (Poesie ')
Dante (Levia Gravia')
To Satan (Poesie')
To Aurora (Odi Barbare')
Ruit Hora
The Inquiry
1807-1892
The Pursuit of the Smugglers (Merchant House among
the Islands')
Hack and Hew
At the Granite Gate
A Sea Child
Song
The Spring
BY LESLIE STEPHEN
Labor ('Past and Present')
The World in Clothes (Sartor Resartus')
Dante (Heroes and Hero-Worship')
Cromwell (same)
The Procession (French Revolution')
The Siege of the Bastille (same)
Charlotte Corday (same)
The Scapegoat (same)
LIVED
1835-
1589? -1639
The Mock Turtle's Education (same)
A Clear Statement (same)
1795-1881
BY CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS
1861-
LEWIS CARROLL (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) 1833-
Alice, the Pig-Baby, and the Cheshire Cat (Alice in
Wonderland')
PAGE
3206
3221
3225
3231
3302
3307
## p. 3060 (#18) ############################################
LEWIS CARROLL - Continued:
The Walrus and the Carpenter (Through the Looking-
Glass')
CASANOVA (De Seingalt)
The Baker's Tale (Hunting of the Snark ')
You are Old, Father William (Alice in Wonderland')
1725-1803
Casanova's Escape from the Ducal Palace ('Escapes of
Casanova and Latude from Prison')
BARTOLOMEO DE LAS CASAS
1474-1566
Of the Island of Cuba ('A Relation of the First Voyage')
1478-1529
BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE
viii
Of the Court of Urbino (I Cortegiano')
CATO THE CENSOR
On Agriculture (De Agricultura')
From the 'Attic Nights' of Aulus Gellius
JACOB CATS
CATULLUS
BY J. W.
Dedication for a Volume of
Lyrics
A Morning Call
Home to Sirmio
Heart-Break
To Calvus in Bereavement
The Pinnace
An Invitation to Dinner
LIVED
Fear after the Trouble
"A Rich Man Loses his Child, a Poor Man Loses his
Cow»
BENVENUTO CELLINI
The Escape from Prison
The Casting of Perseus
A Necklace of Pearls
Benvenuto Loses his Brother
MACKAIL
234-149 B. C.
1577-1660
84-54 B. C. ?
1500-1571
An Adventure in Necromancy
Benvenuto Loses Self-Control under Severe Provocation
PAGE
(All the above are from Cellini's Memoirs, Symonds's
Translation)
3321
3333
3339
3347
A Brother's Grave
Farewell to His Fellow Officers
Verses from an Epithalamium
Love is All
Elegy on Lesbia's Sparrow
"Fickle and Changeable Ever"
Two Chords
Last Word to Lesbia
3353
3359
3371
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ix
CELTIC LITERATURE
I-IRISH
The Miller of Hell
Signs of Home
Oisin in Tirnanoge
CERVANTES
BY WILLIAM SHARP AND ERNEST RHYS
From The Coming of Cuculain ›
The Mystery of Amergin
The Song of Fionn
Vision of a Fair Woman
From The Wanderings of Oisin'
The Madness of King Goll
II-SCOTTISH
St. Bridget's Milking Song
Prologue to Gaul
Columcille Fecit
In Hebrid Seas
III- WELSH
IV-CORNISH
LIVED
From The Poem of the Passion'
From Origo Mundi,' in the Ordinalia
1547-1616
BY GEORGE SANTAYANA
Treating of the Character and Pursuits of Don Quixote
Of What Happened to Don Quixote when he Left the Inn
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Sally Forth: and the
Adventure with the Windmills
Sancho Panza and his Wife Teresa Converse Shrewdly
Of Sancho Panza's Delectable Discourse with the Duchess
Sancho as Governor
The Ending of All Don Quixote's Adventures
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO
1781-1838
The Bargain ('The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl')
From Woman's Love and Life'
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
1780-1842
The Passion for Power (The Life and Character of
Napoleon Bonaparte')
The Causes of War (Discourse before the Congregational
Ministers of Massachusetts')
Spiritual Freedom ('Discourse on Spiritual Freedom')
PAGE
3403
3451
3503
3513
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GEORGE CHAPMAN
Ulysses and Nausicaa (Translation of Homer's Odyssey)
The Duke of Byron is Condemned to Death (Tragedy of
Charles, Duke of Byron')
FRANÇOIS RENÉ AUGUSTE CHÂTEAUBRIAND
THOMAS CHATTERTON
1768-1848
Christianity Vindicated (The Genius of Christianity')
Description of a Thunder-Storm in the Forest ('Atala')
Mynstrelles Songe
X
Final Chorus from
Goddwyn'
The Farewell of Sir Charles Baldwin to His Wife (The
Bristowe Tragedie ')
An Excelente Balade of Charitie
The Resignation
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
Prologue to the 'Canterbury Tales'
From the Knight's Tale
From the Wife of Bath's Tale
ANDRÉ CHÉNIER
From the Pardoner's Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale
Truth Ballade of Good Counsel
LIVED
1559? -1634
The Young Captive
Ode
VICTOR CHERBULIEZ
BY THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY
LORD CHESTERFIELD
1752-1770
13-? -1400
BY KATHARINE HILLARD
1829-
The Silent Duel (Samuel Brohl and Company')
Samuel Brohl Gives Up the Play (same)
1762-1794
1694-1773
From 'Letters to His Son': Concerning Manners; The
Control of One's Countenance; Dress as an Index to
Character; Some Remarks on Good Breeding
The Choice of a Vocation
PAGE
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3531
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THE LITERATURE OF CHINA
RUFUS CHOATE
BY ROBERT K. DOUGLAS
Selected Maxims of Morals, Philosophy of Life, Character,
Circumstances, etc. (From the Chinese Moralists)
1799-1859
BY ALBERT STICKNEY
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
LIVED
The Puritan in Secular and Religious Life (From Address
at Ipswich Centennial, 1834)
The New-Englander's Character (same)
Of the American Bar (From Address before Cambridge
Law School)
Daniel Webster (From Eulogy at Dartmouth College
347-407
BY JOHN MALONE
That Real Wealth is from Within
On Encouragement During Adversity (Letters to Olym-
pias')
Concerning the Statutes (Homily)
PAGE
3629
3649
3665
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LIST OF PORTRAITS
IN VOL. VI
Pedro Calderon
John Caldwell Calhoun
John Calvin
Luiz Vaz de Camoens
Thomas Campbell
George Canning
Emilia Flygare-Carlén
Thomas Carlyle
Bliss Carman
Jacob Cats
Catullus
Bartolomeo de las Casas
Baldassare Castiglione
Benvenuto Cellini
Cervantes
Adelbert von Chamisso
William Ellery Channing
George Chapman
François René Auguste Châteaubriand
Thomas Chatterton
Geoffrey Chaucer
André Chénier
Victor Cherbuliez
Lord Chesterfield
Confucius
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PEDRO CALDERON
(1600-1681)
BY MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN
HE reputation of Pedro Calderon de la Barca has suffered in
the minds of English-speaking people from the injudicious
comparisons of critics, as well as from lack of knowledge of
his works. To put Calderon, a master of invention, beside Shake-
speare, the master of character, and to show by analogies that the
author of 'Othello' was far superior to the writer of The Physician
of His Own Honor,' is unjust to Calderon; and it is as futile as are
the ecstasies of Schultze to the coldness of Sismondi. Schultze com-
pares Dante with him, and the French critics have only recently for-
given him for being less classical in form than Corneille, who in
'Le Cid' gave them all the Spanish poetry they wanted! Fortu-
nately the student of Calderon need not take opinions. Good editions
of Calderon are easily attainable. The best known are Heil's (Leip-
zig, 1827), and that by Harzenbusch (Madrid, 1848). The first
edition, with forewords by Vera Tassis de Villareal, appeared at
Madrid (nine volumes) in 1682-91. Commentaries and translations are
numerous in German and in English; the translations by Denis
Florence MacCarthy are the most satisfactory, Edward Fitzgerald's
being too paraphrastic. Dean Trench added much to our knowledge
of Calderon's best work; George Ticknor in the History of Spanish
Literature,' and George Henry Lewes in The Spanish Drama,' left
us clear estimates of Lope de Vega's great successor. Shelley's
scenes from 'El Magico Prodigioso' are superb.
No analyses can do justice to the dramas, or to the religious
plays, called "autos," of Calderon. They must be read; and thanks to
the late Mr. MacCarthy's sympathy and zeal, the finest are easily
attainable. As he left seventy-three autos and one hundred and
eight dramas, it is lucky that the work of sifting the best from the
mass of varying merit has been carefully done. Mr. Ticknor men-
tions the fact that Calderon collaborated with other authors in the
writing of fourteen other plays.
Calderon was not "the Spanish Shakespeare. " "The Spanish Ben
Jonson" would be a happier title, if one feels obliged to compare
everything with something else. But Calderon is as far above Ben
Jonson in splendor of imagery as he is below Shakespeare in his
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WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE.
Ancient and Modern
CHARLES DUDLEY WARMR
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THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
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,
BRANDER MATTHEWS, A. M. , LL. B. ,
Professor of Literature, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City.
JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D. ,
President of the
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, N. J.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Mich.
WILLARD FISKE, A. M. , PH. D. ,
Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages
and Literatures,
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y.
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,
TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La.
WILLIAM P. TRENT, M. A. ,
Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of
English and History,
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, Sewanee, Tenn.
PAUL SHOREY, PH. D. ,
Professor of Greek and Latin Literature,
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Ill.
WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL. D. ,
United States Commissioner of Education,
BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C.
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Literature in the 7d.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, Washington, D. C.
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PEDRO CALDERON
TABLE OF CONTENTS
JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN
VOL. VI
BY MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN
The Lovers (The Secret in Words')
Cyprian's Bargain (The Wonderful Magician')
Dreams and Realities (Such Stuff as Dreams are Made
Of')
The Dream Called Life (same)
CALLIMACHUS
LIVED
1600-1681'
BY W. P. TRENT
Remarks on the Right of Petition (Speech in the Senate,
1840)
Hymn to Jupiter
Epitaph
Epigram
Epitaph on Heracleitus
State Rights (Speech on the Admission of Michigan, 1837)
On the Government of Poland (A Disquisition on Gov-
ernment')
1782-1850
Urging Repeal of the Missouri Compromise (Speech in
the Senate, 1850)
CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY
Third Century B. C.
Epitaph
The Misanthrope
Epitaph upon Himself
Epitaph upon Cleombrotus
1831-1884
From An Examination Paper,' The Posthumous Papers
of the Pickwick Club'
Ballad (Imitation of Jean Ingelow)
Lovers, and a Reflection (Imitation of Jean Ingelow)
Visions
Changed
PAGE
3071
3087
3101
3107
Thoughts at a Railway Station
"Forever"
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JOHN CALVIN
Prefatory Address to the 'Institutes'
Election and Predestination (Institutes of the Christian
Religion')
Freedom of the Will (same)
LUIZ VAZ DE CAMOENS
BY ARTHUR CUSHMAN MCGIFFERT
From The Lusiads'
The Canzon of Life
Adieu to Coimbra
THOMAS CAMPBELL
vi
CAMPION
Hope (The Pleasures of Hope')
The Fall of Poland (same)
The Slave (same)
Death and a Future Life (same)
Lochiel's Warning
The Soldier's Dream
BY HENRY R. LANG
GEORGE CANNING
A Hymn in Praise of Neptune
Of Corinna's Singing
From 'Divine and Moral Songs'
CESARE CANTÙ
LIVED
1509-1564
BY ERNEST RHYS
To a Coquette
Songs from 'Light Conceits of Lovers'
1777-1844
Lord Ullin's Daughter
The Exile of Erin
Ye Mariners of England
Hohenlinden
1524? -1580
The Execution (Margherita Pusterla')
The Battle of Copenhagen
From the Ode to Winter'
-1619
Rogero's Soliloquy (The Rovers')
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder
On the English Constitution (Speech on Parliamentary
Reform')
On Brougham and South America
1770-1827
PAGE
3117
1807-1895
3129
3159
3184
3189
3199
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vii
GIOSUE CARDUCCI
THOMAS CAREW
A Song
The Protestation
Roma ('Poesie ')
Homer (Levia Gravia')
In a Gothic Church (Poesie ')
On the Sixth Centenary of
Dante (Levia Gravia')
EMILIA FLYGARE-CARLÉN
BY FRANK SEWALL
THOMAS CARLYLE
BLISS CARMAN
The Mother
The Ox (Poesie ')
Dante (Levia Gravia')
To Satan (Poesie')
To Aurora (Odi Barbare')
Ruit Hora
The Inquiry
1807-1892
The Pursuit of the Smugglers (Merchant House among
the Islands')
Hack and Hew
At the Granite Gate
A Sea Child
Song
The Spring
BY LESLIE STEPHEN
Labor ('Past and Present')
The World in Clothes (Sartor Resartus')
Dante (Heroes and Hero-Worship')
Cromwell (same)
The Procession (French Revolution')
The Siege of the Bastille (same)
Charlotte Corday (same)
The Scapegoat (same)
LIVED
1835-
1589? -1639
The Mock Turtle's Education (same)
A Clear Statement (same)
1795-1881
BY CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS
1861-
LEWIS CARROLL (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) 1833-
Alice, the Pig-Baby, and the Cheshire Cat (Alice in
Wonderland')
PAGE
3206
3221
3225
3231
3302
3307
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LEWIS CARROLL - Continued:
The Walrus and the Carpenter (Through the Looking-
Glass')
CASANOVA (De Seingalt)
The Baker's Tale (Hunting of the Snark ')
You are Old, Father William (Alice in Wonderland')
1725-1803
Casanova's Escape from the Ducal Palace ('Escapes of
Casanova and Latude from Prison')
BARTOLOMEO DE LAS CASAS
1474-1566
Of the Island of Cuba ('A Relation of the First Voyage')
1478-1529
BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE
viii
Of the Court of Urbino (I Cortegiano')
CATO THE CENSOR
On Agriculture (De Agricultura')
From the 'Attic Nights' of Aulus Gellius
JACOB CATS
CATULLUS
BY J. W.
Dedication for a Volume of
Lyrics
A Morning Call
Home to Sirmio
Heart-Break
To Calvus in Bereavement
The Pinnace
An Invitation to Dinner
LIVED
Fear after the Trouble
"A Rich Man Loses his Child, a Poor Man Loses his
Cow»
BENVENUTO CELLINI
The Escape from Prison
The Casting of Perseus
A Necklace of Pearls
Benvenuto Loses his Brother
MACKAIL
234-149 B. C.
1577-1660
84-54 B. C. ?
1500-1571
An Adventure in Necromancy
Benvenuto Loses Self-Control under Severe Provocation
PAGE
(All the above are from Cellini's Memoirs, Symonds's
Translation)
3321
3333
3339
3347
A Brother's Grave
Farewell to His Fellow Officers
Verses from an Epithalamium
Love is All
Elegy on Lesbia's Sparrow
"Fickle and Changeable Ever"
Two Chords
Last Word to Lesbia
3353
3359
3371
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CELTIC LITERATURE
I-IRISH
The Miller of Hell
Signs of Home
Oisin in Tirnanoge
CERVANTES
BY WILLIAM SHARP AND ERNEST RHYS
From The Coming of Cuculain ›
The Mystery of Amergin
The Song of Fionn
Vision of a Fair Woman
From The Wanderings of Oisin'
The Madness of King Goll
II-SCOTTISH
St. Bridget's Milking Song
Prologue to Gaul
Columcille Fecit
In Hebrid Seas
III- WELSH
IV-CORNISH
LIVED
From The Poem of the Passion'
From Origo Mundi,' in the Ordinalia
1547-1616
BY GEORGE SANTAYANA
Treating of the Character and Pursuits of Don Quixote
Of What Happened to Don Quixote when he Left the Inn
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Sally Forth: and the
Adventure with the Windmills
Sancho Panza and his Wife Teresa Converse Shrewdly
Of Sancho Panza's Delectable Discourse with the Duchess
Sancho as Governor
The Ending of All Don Quixote's Adventures
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO
1781-1838
The Bargain ('The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl')
From Woman's Love and Life'
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
1780-1842
The Passion for Power (The Life and Character of
Napoleon Bonaparte')
The Causes of War (Discourse before the Congregational
Ministers of Massachusetts')
Spiritual Freedom ('Discourse on Spiritual Freedom')
PAGE
3403
3451
3503
3513
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GEORGE CHAPMAN
Ulysses and Nausicaa (Translation of Homer's Odyssey)
The Duke of Byron is Condemned to Death (Tragedy of
Charles, Duke of Byron')
FRANÇOIS RENÉ AUGUSTE CHÂTEAUBRIAND
THOMAS CHATTERTON
1768-1848
Christianity Vindicated (The Genius of Christianity')
Description of a Thunder-Storm in the Forest ('Atala')
Mynstrelles Songe
X
Final Chorus from
Goddwyn'
The Farewell of Sir Charles Baldwin to His Wife (The
Bristowe Tragedie ')
An Excelente Balade of Charitie
The Resignation
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
Prologue to the 'Canterbury Tales'
From the Knight's Tale
From the Wife of Bath's Tale
ANDRÉ CHÉNIER
From the Pardoner's Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale
Truth Ballade of Good Counsel
LIVED
1559? -1634
The Young Captive
Ode
VICTOR CHERBULIEZ
BY THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY
LORD CHESTERFIELD
1752-1770
13-? -1400
BY KATHARINE HILLARD
1829-
The Silent Duel (Samuel Brohl and Company')
Samuel Brohl Gives Up the Play (same)
1762-1794
1694-1773
From 'Letters to His Son': Concerning Manners; The
Control of One's Countenance; Dress as an Index to
Character; Some Remarks on Good Breeding
The Choice of a Vocation
PAGE
3523
3531
3539
3551
3601
3609
3625
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xi
THE LITERATURE OF CHINA
RUFUS CHOATE
BY ROBERT K. DOUGLAS
Selected Maxims of Morals, Philosophy of Life, Character,
Circumstances, etc. (From the Chinese Moralists)
1799-1859
BY ALBERT STICKNEY
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
LIVED
The Puritan in Secular and Religious Life (From Address
at Ipswich Centennial, 1834)
The New-Englander's Character (same)
Of the American Bar (From Address before Cambridge
Law School)
Daniel Webster (From Eulogy at Dartmouth College
347-407
BY JOHN MALONE
That Real Wealth is from Within
On Encouragement During Adversity (Letters to Olym-
pias')
Concerning the Statutes (Homily)
PAGE
3629
3649
3665
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LIST OF PORTRAITS
IN VOL. VI
Pedro Calderon
John Caldwell Calhoun
John Calvin
Luiz Vaz de Camoens
Thomas Campbell
George Canning
Emilia Flygare-Carlén
Thomas Carlyle
Bliss Carman
Jacob Cats
Catullus
Bartolomeo de las Casas
Baldassare Castiglione
Benvenuto Cellini
Cervantes
Adelbert von Chamisso
William Ellery Channing
George Chapman
François René Auguste Châteaubriand
Thomas Chatterton
Geoffrey Chaucer
André Chénier
Victor Cherbuliez
Lord Chesterfield
Confucius
Rufus Choate
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3071
PEDRO CALDERON
(1600-1681)
BY MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN
HE reputation of Pedro Calderon de la Barca has suffered in
the minds of English-speaking people from the injudicious
comparisons of critics, as well as from lack of knowledge of
his works. To put Calderon, a master of invention, beside Shake-
speare, the master of character, and to show by analogies that the
author of 'Othello' was far superior to the writer of The Physician
of His Own Honor,' is unjust to Calderon; and it is as futile as are
the ecstasies of Schultze to the coldness of Sismondi. Schultze com-
pares Dante with him, and the French critics have only recently for-
given him for being less classical in form than Corneille, who in
'Le Cid' gave them all the Spanish poetry they wanted! Fortu-
nately the student of Calderon need not take opinions. Good editions
of Calderon are easily attainable. The best known are Heil's (Leip-
zig, 1827), and that by Harzenbusch (Madrid, 1848). The first
edition, with forewords by Vera Tassis de Villareal, appeared at
Madrid (nine volumes) in 1682-91. Commentaries and translations are
numerous in German and in English; the translations by Denis
Florence MacCarthy are the most satisfactory, Edward Fitzgerald's
being too paraphrastic. Dean Trench added much to our knowledge
of Calderon's best work; George Ticknor in the History of Spanish
Literature,' and George Henry Lewes in The Spanish Drama,' left
us clear estimates of Lope de Vega's great successor. Shelley's
scenes from 'El Magico Prodigioso' are superb.
No analyses can do justice to the dramas, or to the religious
plays, called "autos," of Calderon. They must be read; and thanks to
the late Mr. MacCarthy's sympathy and zeal, the finest are easily
attainable. As he left seventy-three autos and one hundred and
eight dramas, it is lucky that the work of sifting the best from the
mass of varying merit has been carefully done. Mr. Ticknor men-
tions the fact that Calderon collaborated with other authors in the
writing of fourteen other plays.
Calderon was not "the Spanish Shakespeare. " "The Spanish Ben
Jonson" would be a happier title, if one feels obliged to compare
everything with something else. But Calderon is as far above Ben
Jonson in splendor of imagery as he is below Shakespeare in his
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3072
knowledge of the heart, and in that vitality which makes Hamlet
and Orlando, Lady Macbeth and Perdita, men and women of all
time. They live; Calderon's people, like Ben Jonson's, move. There
is a resemblance between the autos of Calderon and the masques of
Jonson. Jonson's are lyrical; Calderon's less lyrical than splendid,
ethical, grandiose. They were both court poets; they both made
court spectacles; they both assisted in the decay of the drama; they
reflected the tastes of their time; but Calderon is the more noble,
the more splendid in imagination, the more intense in his devotion
to nature in all her moods. If one wanted to carry the habit of
comparison into music, Mozart might well represent the spirit of
Calderon. M. Philarète Chasles is right when he says that 'El
Mágico Prodigioso' should be presented in a cathedral. Calderon's
genius had the cast of the soldier and the priest, and he was both
soldier and priest. His comedias and autos are of Spain, Spanish. To
know Calderon is to know the mind of the Spain of the seventeenth
century; to know Cervantes is to know its heart.
The Church had opposed the secularization of the drama, at the
end of the fifteenth century, for two reasons.
The dramatic specta-
cle fostered for religious purposes had become, until Lope de Vega
rescued it, a medium for that "naturalism" which some of us fancy
to be a discovery of M. Zola and M. Catulle Mendès; it had escaped
from the control of the Church and had become a mere diversion.
Calderon was the one man who could unite the spirit of religion to
the form of the drama which the secular renaissance imperiously
demanded. He knew the philosophy of Aristotle and the theology of
the 'Summa' of St. Thomas as well as any cleric in Spain, though
he did not take orders until late in life; and in those religious spec-
tacles called autos sacramentales he showed this knowledge wonder-
fully.
