CLASSIC

THE

AND THE

BEAUTIFUL

FROM THE

LITERATURE

OF

THREE THOUSAND YEARS.

BY THE

AUTHORS AND ORATORS OF ALL COUNTRIES.

HENRY COPPÉE, LL.D.,

EDITOR.

COMPLETE IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

PHILADELPHIA:

CARSON & SIMPSON,

1896.

Character more Desirable than Wealth (From the Greek of Xenophon) Trans. J. S. Watson.
Charmed Maiden, The

Child of the Flaxen Locks, The

William Gilmore Simms
Mrs. M. Abdy

Chivalry (From "View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages") Henry Hallam
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, The

Circuit, The (From "Sam Slick the Clockmaker ")

Comfort in the Middle Ages (From "History of the Middle Ages")

J. T. Bannister.

Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Henry Hallam

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Frederic W. Farrar (Archdeacon Farrar) 442