| Armance, Stendhal |
| Armenia, An Excursion into, Bodenstedt (Thousand and One Days in the East) |
| Árnason, Jón |
| Arnaut Daniel |
| — de Maroill |
| Arndt, Ernst Moritz |
| Arne, Björnson |
| Arnim, Bettina von |
| Arnljot Gelline, Björnson |
| Arnold, Sir Edwin |
| — Matthew, G. E. Woodberry |
| Arrow and the Song, The (Poem), Longfellow |
| Arsène Guillot, Mérimée |
| Art (Poem), Thomson |
| Art and Architecture. |
| Acropolis of Athens, The, Pausanias |
| Æsthetic Education of Man, The, Schiller (Letter) |
| Architecture, The Law of Proportion in, Blanc (Grammar) |
| Artists made by Accident, Disraeli (Curiosities of Literature) |
| Art Work of the Future, Wagner |
| Blanc’s Début as Art Critic, Blanc (Contemporary Artists) |
| Calamatta’s Studio, Blanc (Contemporary Artists) |
| Casting of Perseus, The, Cellini (Memoirs) |
| Delacroix’s “Bark of Dante,” Blanc (Contemporary Artists) |
| Dome of Brunelleschi, The, Norton (Historical Studies of Church Building) |
| Dürer’s “Melancholia,” Blanc (The Dutch School of Painters) |
| Dutch Masters, The, De Amicis (Holland and Its People) |
| Fascination of the Remote, The, Hamerton (Life of J. M. W. Turner) |
| Function of the Artist, Wagner (Opera and Drama) |
| Genius of Greek Art, The, Symonds (Studies of the Greek Poets) |
| Grammar of Painting and Engraving, Blanc |
| Ingres, Life of, Blanc |
| Italian Art in its Relation to Religion, Symonds (The Renaissance in Italy) |
| Kinship of the Arts, The, Bodmer |
| Landscape, Blanc (Grammar) |
| Michaelangelo, Michelet (The Renaissance) |
| Modernness, Baudelaire |
| Moral Influence of Art, Blanc (Grammar) |
| Ornament, The Uses of, Ruskin (Seven Lamps of Architecture) |
| Orvieto Cathedral, The Building of, Norton (Notes of Travel and Study in Italy) |
| Painter of Modern Life, The, Baudelaire (L’Art Romantique) |
| Painting, Motoori (Tamagatsuma) |
| Poetry and Painting, Bodmer (Holbein) |
| — — — Lessing (Laocoön) |
| Poussin’s “Shepherds of Arcadia,” Blanc (Grammar) |
| Race Characters Expressed in Art, Taine (Art in the Netherlands) |
| Raphael Sanzio, Vasari |
| Rembrandt, Blanc (The Dutch School of Painters) |
| Style, Blanc (Grammar) |
| Temple of Zeus at Olympia, The, Pausanias |
| Trees in Art, Hamerton (Landscape) |
| What is Art, Croce (Breviary of Æsthetic) |
| Art Criticism (Poem), Landor |
| — and Politics (Poem), Bellman |
| — in the Netherlands, Taine |
| — of Poetry, The (Poem), Boileau |
| — — — — (Poem), Horace |
| — Work of the Future, The, Wagner |
| Arthurian Legends, The, Richard Jones |
| Artists, The (Poem), Schiller |
| Artsybashev, Mikhail |
| As Careful Merchants do Expecting Stand (Poem), William Browne |
| — I Laye A-Thynkynge (Poem), Barham |
| — it will Happen (Poem), Geibel |
| — Ships Becalmed (Poem), Clough |
| — the Flowers of the Field, Strato |
| — You Like It, Shakespeare |
| Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen |
| Ascham, Roger |
| Asclepiades |
| Ash-Shanfarà of Azd (Poem) |
| Asinaria, Plautus |
| Aspatia’s Song, Beaumont and Fletcher |
| Aspects of the Pines (Poem), Hayne |
| Aspiration (Poem), Willis |
| — (Poem), Zorrilla y Moral |
| Ass and the Jackal, The |
| — in the Lion’s Skin, The, Vishnu Sharma (Pilpay) |
| Assar and Mirjam, Goldschmidt |
| “Assignation, The,” Song from (Poem), Poe |
| Assyrian Literature |
| Astronomy. |
| Copernicus |
| Laplace, Arago |
| Astrophel and Stella (Poem), Sidney |
| At a Funeral (Poem), Heber |
| — Dusk (Poem), Lampman |
| — Gibraltar (Poem), Woodberry |
| — Home and Abroad, S. M. Fuller |
| — Last the Daylight Fadeth (Poem), Geibel |
| — Penshurst (Poem), Waller |
| — the Back of the North Wind, MacDonald |
| — — Church Gate (Poem), Thackeray |
| — — Fair, Kielland |
| — — Granite Gate (Poem), Carman |
| — — Potter’s (Poem), Spofford |
| Atala, Chateaubriand |
| Athalie, Racine |
| Atharva-Veda, The |
| Athena, The Decree of, Æschylus |
| Athenæus |
| Athens (Poem), Swinburne |
| Atherton, Mrs. Gertrude |
| Atlantic Essays, Higginson |
| Atlas (Poem), Heine |
| Atreus and Thyestes, Crébillon |
| Attack on the Mill, The, Zola |
| Atterbom, Per Daniel Amadeus |
| Attic Nights, Aulus Gellius |
| Au Bord de l’Eau (Poem), Sully Prudhomme |
| — Service de l’Allemagne, Barrès |
| Aubade (Poem), Cawein |
| Auber’s “Parisienne,” Mendelssohn (Letters) |
| Aucassin and Nicolette, F. M. Warren |
| — — — (Poem), Stedman |
| Audaz, El, Galdós |
| Audubon, John James |
| Auerbach, Berthold |
| Augier, Émile |
| Augustine of Hippo, St., Samuel Hart |
| Auld House, The (Poem), Nairne |
| — Licht Idylls, Barrie |
| Aurora Leigh (Poem), E. B. Browning |
| Ausonius, Decimus Magnus |
| Austen, Jane |
| Austin, Alfred, Erskine |
| Austrian Literature. |
| Beethoven, Ludwig van |
| Grillparzer, Franz |
| Hofmannsthal, Hugo von |
| Schnitzler, Arthur |
| Author’s Ambition, The (Poem), Persius |
| — Resolution in a Sonnet, The (Poem), Wither |
| Authorship, Schopenhauer |
| Autobiography, see Diaries, Journals, etc. |
| Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The, Holmes |
| Autumn (Poem), Chisato |
| — (Poem), Thomson |
| — (Poem), Watson |
| Aux Enfants Perdus (Poem), Banville |
| — Italiens (Poem), Lytton |
| Avare, L’, Molière |
| Avebury, John Lubbock, 1st baron, see Lubbock, Sir John. |
| Averroës |
| Avesta, The, A. V. W. Jackson |
| — From The |
| Avicenna, see Ibn Sina. |
| Away (Poem), Riley |
| Axel and Valborg, Oehlenschläger |
| Ayton, Robert |
| Aytoun, William Edmonstoune |
| Azeglio, Massimo Taparelli d’ |
| Bab Ballads (Poems), Gilbert |
| Baber, E. S. Holden |
| Babrius |
| Babylon (Poem), Anon. |
| Babylonian Literature |
| Bacchylides |
| Bach, Berlioz |
| Bacon, Francis, C. T. Lewis |
| Bacon–Shakespeare Craze, The, White |
| Bagehot, Walter, Forrest Morgan |
| Baggesen, Jens |
| Bailey, Philip James |
| Baillie, Joanna |
| Bains, Festival of the Queen of Hungary at, Brantôme (Lives of Courtly Women) |
| Baird, Henry Martyn |
| Bajazet, Racine |
| Baker, Sir Samuel White |
| Baker’s Tale, The (Poem), Carroll |
| Balaustion, Robert Browning |
| Balbuena, Bernardo |
| Balder (Poem), Dobell |
| Balfour, Arthur James, Earl of, C. J. H. Hayes |
| Ballad, The, F. B. Gummere |
| — (Poem), Calverley |
| — against Those Who Missay of France (Poem), Villon |
| — of Agincourt, The (Poem), Drayton |
| — — Bouillabaisse, The (Poem), Thackeray |
| — — Guibour, The (Poem), Mistral |
| — — Old-Time Ladies (Poem), Villon |
| — — — Lords (Poem), Villon |
| — — Prose and Rhyme, The (Poem), Dobson |
| — — the Debate of the Heart and Body (Poem), Villon |
| — — — Outer Life (Poem), Hofmannsthal |
| — — — Women of Paris (Poem), Villon |
| — — Things Known and Unknown (Poem), Villon |
| — — Trees and the Master, A (Poem), Lanier |
| — — in Prison (Poem), Villon |
| — … to Our Lady (Poem), Villon |
| — to Queen Elizabeth, A (Poem), Dobson |
| — upon a Wedding (Poem), Suckling |
| Ballade des Pendus (Poem), Banville |
| — of Midsummer Days and Nights (Poem), Henley |
| — on the Mysterious Hosts of the Forest, Banville |
| Ballads and Songs (Poems), Allingham |
| Balthazar’s Song (Poem), Shakespeare |
| Balzac, Honoré de, W. P. Trent |
| Ban and Arrière Ban, Lang |
| Bancroft, George, Austin Scott |
| Banim, John |
| — Michael |
| Banking, Deposit, Origin of, Bagehot (Lombard Street) |
| Banks o’ Doon, The (Poem), Burns |
| Banquet Song, A (Poem), Alcæus |
| Banville, Théodore de |
| Barbara Frietchie (Poem), Whittier |
| Barbarossa (Poem), Rückert |
| Barbauld, Anna Letitia |
| Barber of Seville, The, Beaumarchais |
| Barchester Towers, Trollope |
| Barclay, Alexander |
| — of Ury (Poem), Whittier |
| Bard, The (Poem), Gray |
| — — (Poem), Pushkin |
| Barefoot Boy, The (Poem), Whittier |
| Barham, Richard Harris (Thomas Ingoldsby) |
| Baring-Gould, Sabine |
| Barlow, Jane |
| — Joel |
| Barnaby Rudge, Dickens |
| Barnavaux et Quelques Femmes, Mille |
| — Général, Mille |
| Barnes, William |
| Barrès, Maurice, Pierre De Bacourt |
| Barricade, La, Bourget |
| Barrie, James Matthew |
| Barzaz-Breiz (Poems), la Villemarqué |
| Bastiat, Frédéric |
| Bastille, The Siege of the, Carlyle (French Revolution) |
| Bastions de l’Est, Les, Barrès |
| Bataille, Henry |
| Battle and Other Poems, Gibson |
| — –Field, The (Poem), Bryant |
| — Hymn of the Republic (Poem), J. W. Howe |
| — of Blenheim, The (Poem), Southey |
| — — Copenhagen, The (Poem), Campbell |
| — — Ivry, The (Poem), Macaulay |
| — — Ivry, Henry Martyn Baird |
| — — Waterloo, The (Poem), Byron |
| Battles, see War. |
| Baucis and Philemon (Poem), Ovid |
| Baudelaire, Charles |
| Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, earl of, I. C. Cabell |
| Béatrix, Balzac |
| Beaumarchais, Brander Matthews |
| Beaumont, Francis, A. H. Thorndike |
| Beaurepaire, Jules Quesnay de, see Quesnay de Beaurepaire. |
| Beauties of Nature, The, Lubbock |
| Beauty (Poem), Baudelaire |
| — (Poem), Jāmī |
| — (Poem), Lodge |
| — (Poem), Shakespeare |
| — (Poem), Very |
| — Unadorned (Poem), Propertius |
| Bébée, Ouida |
| Becket, Thomas, The Death of, Froude (Short Studies) |
| Beckford, William |
| Bed in Summer (Poem), Stevenson |
| Bede, Alfred the Great |
| Bedouin Song (Poem), Taylor |
| Bee, Life of the, Maeterlinck |
| Beecher, Henry Ward, Lyman Abbott |
| Beethoven, Ludwig van, E. I. Stevenson |
| Before the Convent of St. Just (Poem), Platen |
| — — Sacrament (Hymn), Heber |
| — — Storm (Poem), Dehmel |
| Beginners of a Nation, Eggleston |
| Behind the Arras (Poems), Carman |
| Behold the Meads (Poem), Guillaume de Poitiers |
| Belasco, David |
| Beleaguered City, A, Oliphant |
| — — The (Poem), Longfellow |
| Belfast Address, Tyndall |
| Belfry of Bruges, The (Poem), Longfellow |
| — Pigeon, The (Poem), Willis |
| Belgian Literature. |
| Cammaerts, Émile |
| Conscience, Hendrik |
| Eekhoud, Georges |
| Kistemaeckers, Henry |
| Maeterlinck, Maurice |
| Verhaeren, Emile |
| Believe It Not (Poem), Tolstoy |
| — Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms (Poem), Thomas Moore |
| Belle Dame Sans Merci, La (Poem), Keats |
| — of the Ball, The (Poem), Praed |
| Bellman, Carl Michael, Olga Flinch |
| Bello, Andrés |
| Bells, The (Poem), Poe |
| Beloved Youth, The (Poem), Theognis |
| Ben-Hur, Wallace |
| Benavente, Jacinto |
| Benefits (Poem), Lessing |
| Bennett, Arnold, Allan Nevins |
| Bentham, Jeremy |
| Benvenuto Cellini, Birrell |
| Beowulf (Poem), Anon. |
| Béranger, Jean-Pierre de, Alcée Fortier |
| Bergson, Henri Louis, W. P. Montague |
| Bergström, Hjalmar |
| Berkeley, George |
| Berlin, The Philistine of, Heine (Italy) |
| Berlioz, Hector |
| Bernal Díaz del Castillo, see Díaz del Castillo, Bernal. |
| Bernard de Ventadour |
| — of Clairvaux, Saint |
| — — Cluny, W. C. Prime |
| — — Morlay, see Bernard of Cluny |
| Berners, Juliana |
| Bernstein, Henry |
| Bertrand d’ Aamanon |
| Besant, Sir Walter |
| Beside the Hearth (Poem), Wagner |
| — — Winter Sea (Poem), Roberts |
| Bessie Bell and Mary Gray (Poem), Anon. |
| Bessy Bell and Mary Gray (Poem), Ramsay |
| Best Thing in the World, The (Poem), E. B. Browning |
| — Wines, The (Poem), Hermippus |
| Bestiaries and Lapidaries, L. O. Kuhns |
| Bethlehem, From Hebron to, Mandeville (Adventures) |
| Betrothed, The, Manzoni |
| Better Answer, A (Poem), Prior |
| — Part, The (Poem), Matthew Arnold |
| Bewildered Guest, The (Poem), Howells |
| Bible, see also Old Testament, New Testament; Apocrypha. |
| — in Spain, The, Borrow |
| — of the Dadu Panthis, The |
| — — Zoroaster, The, see Avesta. |
| — Wycliffe’s: Luke xv. 11–32; 1 Corinthians xiii.; John xx. 1–31; Apocalypse v. 1–14 |
| Big Words for Small Thoughts, White |
| Biglow Papers, The (Poem), Lowell |
| Bilderdijk, Willem |
| Bill and Joe (Poem), Holmes |
| Billy and Hans, Stillman |
| Binyon, Lawrence, Erskine |
| Biographical Essays, De Quincey |
| Biography, see Names of Persons; also Anecdotes; Characterizations; Diaries; Letters. |
| Bion |
| Bird Let Loose, The (Poem), Thomas Moore |
| — Parliament, The, Faríd-Uddín Attar |
| — Voices (Poem), Lampman |
| Birds, see also Fables. |
| Bestiaries and Lapidaries, Kuhns |
| Birds, De Amicis (Constantinople) |
| Bluebird, The, Wilson (American Ornithology) |
| Fish-Hawk, The (Poem), Wilson (American Ornithology) |
| Heron’s Haunt, The, Grant Allen (Vignettes from Nature) |
| House-Swallow, The, White (Natural History of Selborne) |
| Humming-Bird, The, Buffon (Natural History) |
| Sharp Eyes, Burroughs (Locusts and Wild Honey) |
| Wild Pigeon, The (Poem), Wilson (American Ornithology) |
| Birds, Aristophanes |
| — (Poem), R. H. Stoddard |
| — in the Night (Poem), Verlaine |
| Birrell, Augustine |
| Birthday, A (Poem), C. G. Rossetti |
| — — (Poem), Watson |
| Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo, The (Poem), Gilbert |
| Bismarck, Otto Edward Leopold von, Munroe Smith |
| Bit o’ Writin’, and Other Tales, The, Banim |
| Bits of Travel, Jackson |
| Bittersweet (Poem), Holland |
| Björnson, Björnstjerne, Brandes |
| — — W. M. Payne |
| Black, William |
| Black Forest Village Stories, Auerbach |
| Black Maskers, The, Andreyev |
| — Regiment, The (Poem), Boker |
| — Shawl (Poem), Pushkin |
| Blackmore, Richard Doddridge |
| Blackmwore, Maidens (Poem), Barnes |
| Blake, William |
| Blanc, Charles |
| Blanchette, Brieux |
| Blessèd Damozel, The (Poem), D. G. Rossetti |
| Blicher, Steen Steensen |
| Blind, Mathilde |
| Blind Bard of Chios (Poem), Pascoli |
| — Girl of Castel-Cuillé, The (Poem), Jasmin |
| Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind (Poem), Shakespeare |
| Blue Beard, Perrault |
| — Closet, The (Poem), Morris |
| Bluebird, The (Poem), Wilson |
| Boarding-House Geometry, Leacock |
| Boat Life in Egypt and Nubia, Prime |
| — Race, The, Hughes (Tom Brown at Oxford) |
| Boatman’s Song, The (Poem), Carmen Sylva |
| Bobbo and Other Fancies, Wharton |
| Boccaccio, Giovanni, W. J. Stillman |
| Boccaccio’s “Decameron,” Sismondi (Literature of the South of Europe) |
| Bodenstedt, Friedrich Martin von |
| Bodmer, Johann Jakob |
| Boethius (Poem), Alfred the Great |
| Boethius |
| Bohemianism, Hamerton (Human Intercourse) |
| Bohemians of the Latin Quarter, The, Murger |
| Bohémiens, Les (Poem), Béranger |
| Boileau-Despreaux, Nicholas |
| Boissier, Gaston |
| Boker, George H. |
| Bolingbroke, Bagehot |
| Bon Gaultier Ballads (Poems), W. E. Aytoun |
| Bonaventura, Saint, Thomas Davidson |
| Bonduca, Fletcher |
| Bonnie George Campbell (Poem), Anon. |
| Bonny Dundee (Poem), Scott |
| — Earl of Murray, The (Poem), Anon. |
| Book Le Grand, Heine |
| — of a Thousand Nights and a Night, The, R. F. Burton |
| — — My Friend, The, France |
| — — the Dead |
| — — — Native, Roberts |
| — — — Rose, The, Almqvist |
| Book-Stores and Books, Beecher |
| Bookman’s Purgatory, A, Lang |
| Books and Bookmen, Lang |
| Books and Reading, see also Literature. |
| Alexandrian Library, The, Gibbon |
| Bookman’s Purgatory, A, Lang |
| Books, Fuller (Holy and Profane State) |
| — Montaigne |
| — and Reading, Schopenhauer |
| Book-stores and Books, Beecher |
| Choice of Books, The, Harrison |
| Early Reading, Bagehot (Edward Gibbon) |
| Library, The, Maistre (Journey round My Room) |
| Pleasures of Reading, The, Balfour (Rectorial Address) |
| — — — — Eliot (The Happy Life) |
| Professional Reviewer, The, Bennett (The Truth about an Author) |
| Reading, Voltaire (Philosophical Dictionary) |
| Booth, Edwin, “Hamlet” at the Boston Theatre, Howe |
| — — (Poem), Winter |
| Border Minstrelsy |
| Boris Godunov, Pushkin |
| Borrow, George, Julian Hawthorne |
| Boscán, Juan |
| Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, Adolphe Cohn |
| Boswell, James, C. F. Johnson |
| Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich, The (Poem), Clough |
| Bourdeille, Pierre de, see Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille. |
| Bourget, Paul, Pierre de Bacourt |
| Bowmen’s Song, The (Poem), Doyle (The White Company) |
| Bowring, Sir John |
| Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth |
| Boy’s Wonderhorn, The (Poems), Brentano |
| Bracco, Roberto |
| Braddon, Mary Elizabeth |
| Brandes, Georg, W. M. Payne |
| Brant, Sebastian |
| Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille |
| Branwen the Daughter of Llyr, Mabinogion |
| “Break, Break, Break” (Poem), Tennyson |
| Bremer, Fredrika |
| Brentano, Clemens |
| Bretonne, The, Theuriet |
| Breviary of Æsthetic, The, Croce |
| Bride of Abydos, The (Poem), Byron |
| Bridge, The (Poem), Longfellow |
| — of Dread, The (Poem) |
| — — Sighs, The (Poem), Hood |
| Bridges, Robert, F. H. Giddings |
| Brief is Pain (Poem), Carpenter |
| — Life is Here our Portion (Hymn), Bernard of Cluny |
| Briefness of Life, The (Poem), William Drummond |
| Brieux, Eugène, Clayton Hamilton |
| Bright, John |
| Brignall Banks (Poem), Scott |
| Brillat-Savarin |
| Bristowe Tragedie, The (Poem), Chatterton |
| Britannia’s Pastorals (Poems), William Browne |
| Brittany, The Heroic and Legendary Literature of, William Sharp |
| Broken Bell, The (Poem), Baudelaire |
| — Heart, The, Ford |
| — Jug, The, Kleist |
| — Music (Poem), Aldrich |
| — Pitcher, The (Poem), W. E. Aytoun |
| Brontë, Anne |
| Brontë, Charlotte, Ritchie (Memoirs) |
| Brontë, Charlotte, and her Sisters |
| Brontë, Emily |
| Brook, The (Poem), Tennyson |
| Brooks, Phillips |
| Brotherhood of Man, The, Marcus Aurelius (Meditations) |
| Brother’s Grave, A (Poem), Catullus |
| Brougham and South America, On, Canning |
| Brown, Charles Brockden |
| — John |
| Browne, Sir Thomas, Francis Bacon |
| — William |
| Brownell, Henry Howard |
| Browning, Elizabeth Barrett |
| — Robert, E. L. Burlingame |
| — — in Florence, Curtis |
| Browning’s Poetry, Birrell |
| Brownson, Orestes Augustus |
| Bruce to his Men at Bannockburn (Poem), Burns |
| Brunetière, Ferdinand, Adolphe Cohn |
| Bruno, Giordano |
