From a Mercenary Girl - Petala to Simalion The Night Ward ('Hospital Sketches') Amy's Valley of Humiliation ('Little Women') Thoreau's Flute (Atlantic Monthly) Song from the Suds ('Little Women') ALCUIN (by William H. Carpenter) 735?-804 295 On the Saints of the Church at York (Alcuin and the Disputation between Pepin, the Most Noble and Royal Youth, and Albinus the Scholastic A Letter from Alcuin to Charlemagne HENRY M. ALDEN 1836 A Dedication-To My Beloved Wife ('A Study of Death') Death and Sleep (same) The Parable of the Prodigal (same) THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Destiny 303 The Death of the Year ('An Hour of My Youth') What Meaneth a Tyrant, and How he Useth his Power On the Turks, and Why they are So Called ('La Gran To the Month of Mary (Cantigas") ALFRED THE GREAT 849-901 389 King Alfred on King-Craft Alfred's Preface to the Version of Pope Gregory's 'Pas The Coloration of Flowers ('The Colors of Flowers') JAMES LANE ALLEN 1850 409 A Courtship ('A Summer in Arcady') Old King Solomon's Coronation ('Flute and Violin') A New Undine (from The Book of the Rose') Characteristics of Cattle The Dutch Masters (Holland and Its People') HENRI FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL (by Richard Burton) 1821-1881 Extracts from Amiel's Journal: Christ's Real Message Duty 478 Nature, and Teutonic and Scandinavian Poetry Joubert Greeks vs. Moderns Training of Children Mozart and Beethoven CAXTON. Reduced facsimile of the first page of the only copy extant of GODEFREY OF BOLOYNE or LAST SIEGE AND CONQUESTE OF JHERUSALEM. The Prologue, at top of page, begins: Here begynneth the boke Intituled Eracles, and also Godefrey of Boloyne, the whiche speketh of the Conquest of the holy lande of Jherusalem. Printed by Caxton, London, 1481. In the British Museum. A good specimen page of the earliest English printing. Caxton's first printed book, and the first book printed in English, was "The Game and Play of the Chess," which was printed in 1474. The blank space on this page was for the insertion by hand of an illuminated initial T. |