Chapter XXXIX: Epilogue

In the cloister of Malvern Priory schoolboys hummed and buzzed. The sick man heard them.

"I have had a vision," he said, "I must sing it." And after: "Nay,--I had forgot. 'T was long ago."

He lay on a pallet in the midst of the cloister garth, close by the sun-dial. At dusk of the day past he had knocked at the gate and fallen in the arms of the porter. All night a brother watched beside him, and after Lauds the prior came to the door of the cell.

"'T is not the Black Death, or such-like malady?" he queried.

"Nay, Father, but a bodily weakness only. Hath scaped the dawn, but I doubt not his spirit will flit at sunset."

"A friar?" 'T would seem as the word stank in the nostrils of the good Father.

"Nay,--a clerk,--belike a priest secular."

"A Wyclifite preacher?" the prior questioned sharply. "We may not harbour these Worcester Lollards."

"Hath a breviary, with prayers for the dead well thumbed. Likewise a parchment. 'T is here."

The prior unrolled the parchment beneath the window. The sky was a-flush with the coming up of the sun.

"Nay," quoth he presently, "'t is naught harmful. A poem."

The brother was peering over his prior's shoulder:--

"Here 's Holy Writ," said he.

"In Latin, brother, as is meet."

"'T is very bad Latin," the brother made answer.

The sick man spoke: "I will go up on the Hills," said he, "the Malvern Hills," and he made as to rise; but this he might not do.

The brother gave him to drink, and wiped the sweat from his brow.

"Here 's an exhortation to King Richard II.," said the prior at the window. "But Richard 's dead."

"Ay," spake the sick man. "Death and Dishonour ran a race for Richard. Dishonour caught him first, but Death hath finished him. Mine exhortation came too late, wherefore I broke off in the midst. I was ever too late or too early, all my life long."

The prior came to the bed.

"I will go up on the Hills," said the man, and sat upright, but immediately a faintness seized him and he swooned.

"Two-score and ten year, sayst thou?" quoth the prior. "Haply Brother Owyn will know him."

When the sick man was come out of his swoon he said again, "I will go a-wandering on the Malvern Hills. Let me forth,--the Hills. 'T is dark,--let me forth to the sun.--Dost mind how I said, 'The prior of Malvern shall not clap me in cloister'?--I am come home to the Hills."

"Let him be borne into the cloister garth," said the prior. "There may he fresh him in the sun."

At noon, when there was no shadow on the face of the sun-dial, Brother Owyn came hobbling slow over the grass betwixt two young monks that guided his steps. For Brother Owyn was very old and bent and blind. He had a beard like a snowdrift.

"Two-score and ten year," he mumbled, "and a poet, sayst 'ou?"

They sat him down beside the sick man's pallet, and one brought a cushion for his feet, and the other drew his hood over his head, lest the wind harm him,--howbeit 't was June. Then they went away and left him with the stranger.

"Two-score and ten year," said the old man, "and 't is as yesterday.--I go forth a pilgrimage to Truth, said he,--I have had a vision concerning Peter the Ploughman."

The sick man opened his eyes. "The ploughman knoweth the way to Truth," quoth he.

Brother Owyn lifted up his face to the sunlight, as he were listening:--

"Will Langland, art thou there?" he asked.

At the sound of his own name the sick man's wandering wits came back. He was 'ware of the old monk beside him.

"Thou canst not see?" he questioned.

"Nay, I do see very clear," said Brother Owyn, in that high, protesting voice of age. "I see a river, shineth as the sun, and on the farther side my daughter awaiteth me.--Her locks shine as bright pure gold,--loose on her shoulders so softly they lie."

"My daughter hath likewise golden hair," murmured Long Will, "and my granddaughter."

"The Lord, the King of Heaven, hath ta'en my daughter, my pearl, to be his bride," said the old man. He held his head upright, very proud, but then it began to shake and shake, till it dropped again, and his chin was sunk in his breast.

"My daughter is wife to truest man in England; might have been courtier to the King; but he 's a shepherd in Yorkshire,--and his son 's a shepherd. They be free labourers, no villeins," cried Will.

One in the cloister heard him and came running.

"Ay," assented Brother Owyn, his head ever a-nod, "the King's Son of Heaven, he is the Good Shepherd."

The other monk poured wine between the sick man's white lips and smoothed his pillow. Then he drew aside Brother Owyn's cowl and shouted in his ear, "Dost know him, brother, dost remember him?"

"Hath a daughter," the old man answered, "but so have I. Her name 's Margaret,--which is to mean a pearl."

"Calote is my daughter called," the sick man made known very clear.

The young monk shrugged his shoulders and went back to the cloister.

After a little while Brother Owyn spoke:--

"Will Langland had a daughter called Calote. She stood t' other side the brook, and the light o' the sun blinded mine eyen. Methought 't was mine own daughter come to take me home. I mind it as 't were yesterday. 'In the city where the wall is jasper and the gates are twelve pearls,' quoth she, 'will there be any villeins to labour while other men feast?' I mind it as 't were yesterday."

"I am Will Langland," said the sick man.

"Yea, thou art he," returned the old monk. "I had forgot."

A little while they slept in the sun, but betwixt the hours of sext and nones, Will moved his head on his pillow:--

"If any goeth into Yorkshire, I would have him seek out Stephen Fitzwarine, and Calote his wife, and say to them that Will Langland hath gone home to the Hills of Malvern for a little space. They would have had me stay. My daughter wept when she bade good-by, and the babe on her arm held me by my hair.--All 's not failure,--brother."

The old man dozed and did not hear him.

"She stood in her cottage doorway,--my daughter,--and the wolds stretching far like the billows of the sea. But they 're not the Hills of Malvern.

"'We 'll watch for thee, father,' she said, 'bide not long away. Here 's thy corner by the fireside. Here 's home.'--But I was born in the Malvern Hills, my daughter.

"Stephen saw me as I crossed the wold.--He stood in the midst of his flock; and young Will ran and gave me his shepherd's crook,--'Thou hast no staff, gran'ther,' he said, 'I 'll fashion me another.' 'T was early morn,--springtime. But I 've come back to Malvern--for a little"--

"Here is a safe refuge for them that wait," the old man answered.

Long Will moved his head, restless. "But I may not wait long," he said, "I go forth a pilgrimage to Truth, that dwelleth in the Kingdom of Rightwisnesse."

"My daughter dwelleth therein,--I prythee tell her I 'm an old man now. I am fain to cross the river."

"I will," said the sick man.

So they were silent until the setting of the sun. Then said Long Will out aloud:--

"By Christ--I will become a pilgrim,
And wander as wide as the world reaches,
To seek Piers the Ploughman that Pride might destroy--
... Now Kynde me avenge,
And send me success and salvation till I have Piers Ploughman."

So, after the sun was set, that other brother came forth, and the prior.

"Said I not so, that he would be gone about now?" quoth the brother.

"Yea," smiled Brother Owyn. "Hath gone on pilgrimage. This long-legged lad 's more than he seems. Prythee let him go, prior. He 's a poet,--will one day bring honour to Malvern Priory."

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Æschylus's Lyrical Dramas, 62

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Aimard's The Indian Scout, 428

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" Windsor Castle, 709
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" More Fairy Tales, 822

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" Atheist's Mass, etc., 229
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" Quest of the Absolute, 286
" Cat and Rachet, etc., 349
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" Lost Illusions, 656
" The Country Parson, 686
" Ursule Mirouet, 733

Barbusse's Under Fire, 798

Barca's (Mme C. de la) Life in Mexico, 664

Baxter's (Richard) Autobiography, 868

Bates's Naturalist on the Amazon, 446

Beaumont and Fletcher's Selected Plays, 506

Beaumont's (Mary) Joan Seaton, 597

Bede's Ecclesiastical History, 479

Belt's Naturalist in Nicaragua, 561

Berkeley's (Bishop) Principles of Human Knowledge, New Theory of
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Berlioz (Hector), Life of, 602

Binns's Life of Abraham Lincoln, 783

Björnson's Plays, 625, 696

Blackmore's Lorna Doone, 304
" Springhaven, 350

Blackwell's Pioneer Work for Women, 667

Blake's Poems and Prophecies, 792

Boccaccio's Decameron, 845, 846

Boehme's The Signature of All Things, etc., 569

Bonaventura's The Little Flowers, The Life of St. Francis, etc., 485

Borrow's Wild Wales, 49
" Lavengro, 119
" Romany Rye, 120
" Bible in Spain, 151
" Gypsies in Spain, 697

Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1, 2
" Tour to the Hebrides, 387

Boult's Asgard and Norse Heroes, 689

Boyle's The Sceptical Chymist, 559

Bright's (John) Speeches, 252

Brontë's (A.) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and Agnes Grey, 685

Brontë's (C.) Jane Eyre, 287
" Shirley, 288
" Villette, 351
" The Professor, 417

Brontë's (E.) Wuthering Heights, 243

Brown's (Dr. John) Rab and His Friends, etc., 116

Browne's (Frances) Grannie's Wonderful Chair, 112

Browne's (Sir Thos.) Religio Medici, etc., 92

Browning's Poems, 1833-44, 41
" 1844-64, 42
" The Ring and the Book, 502

Buchanan's Life and Adventures of Audubon, 601

Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, 472
" Legends of Charlemagne, 556

Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, 204
" Grace Abounding, and Mr. Badman, 815

Burke's American Speeches and Letters, 340
" Reflections on the French Revolution, etc., 460

Burnet's History of His Own Times, 85

Burney's Evelina, 352

Burns's Poems and Songs, 94

Burton's East Africa, 500

Burton's (Robert) Anatomy of Melancholy, 886-888

Butler's Analogy of Religion, 90

Butler's (Samuel) Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited, 881

Butler's The Way of All Flesh, 895

Buxton's Memoirs, 773

Byron's Complete Poetical and Dramatic Works, 486-8

Cæsar's Gallic War, etc., 702

Calderon's Plays, 819

Canton's Child's Book of Saints, 61

Canton's Invisible Playmate, etc., 566

Carlyle's French Revolution, 31, 32
" Letters, etc., of Cromwell, 266-8
" Sartor Resartus, 278
" Past and Present, 608
" Essays, 703, 704
" Reminiscences, 875

Carroll's (Lewis) Alice in Wonderland, etc., 836

Castiglione's The Courtier, 807

Cellini's Autobiography, 51

Cervantes' Don Quixote, 385, 386

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, 307

Chesterfield's Letters to his Son, 823

Chrétien de Troyes's Arthurian Romances, 698

Cibber's Apology for his Life, 668

Cicero's Select Letters and Orations, 345

Clarke's Tales from Chaucer, 537
" Shakespeare's Heroines, 109-11

Cobbett's Rural Rides, 638, 639

Coleridge's Biographia, 11
" Golden Book of Poetry, 43
" Lectures on Shakspeare, 162

Collins's Woman in White, 464

Collodi's Pinocchio, 538

Converse's Long Will, 328

Cook's (Captain) Voyages, 99

Cooper's The Deerslayer, 77
" The Pathfinder, 78
" Last of the Mohicans, 79
" The Pioneer, 171
" The Prairie, 172

Cowper's Letters. 774
" Poems, 872

Cox's Tales of Ancient Greece, 721

Craik's Manual of English Literature, 346

Craik (Mrs.). _See_ Mulock.

Creasy's Fifteen Decisive Battles, 300

Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer, 640

Curtis's Prue and I, and Lotus, 418

Dana's Two Years Before the Mast, 588

Dante's Divine Comedy, 308

Darwin's Origin of Species, 811
" Voyage of the Beagle, 104

Dasent's Story of Burnt Njal, 558

Daudet's Tartarin of Tarascon, 423

Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, 59
" Captain Singleton, 74
" Memoirs of a Cavalier, 283
" Journal of Plague, 289
" Tour through England and Wales, 820, 821
" Moll Flanders, 837

De Joinville's Memoirs of the Crusades, 333

Demosthenes' Select Orations, 546

Dennis's Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, 183. 184

De Quincey's Lake Poets, 163
" Opium-Eater, 223
" English Mail Coach, etc., 609

De Retz (Cardinal), Memoirs of, 735, 736

Descartes' Discourse on Method, 570

Dickens's Barnaby Rudge, 76
" Tale of Two Cities, 102
" Old Curiosity Shop, 173
" Oliver Twist, 233
" Great Expectations, 234
" Pickwick Papers, 235
" Bleak House, 236
" Sketches by Boz, 237
" Nicholas Nickleby, 238
" Christmas Books, 239
" Dombey and Son, 240
" Martin Chuzzlewit, 241
" David Copperfield, 242
" American Notes, 290
" Child's History of England, 291
" Hard Times, 292
" Little Dorrit, 293
" Our Mutual Friend, 294
" Christmas Stories, 414
" Uncommercial Traveller, 536
" Edwin Drood, 725
" Reprinted Pieces, 744

Disraeli's Coningsby, 535

Dodge's Hans Brinker, 620

Donne's Poems, 867

Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, 501
" The House of the Dead, 533
" Letters from the Underworld, etc., 654
" The Idiot, 682
" Poor Folk, and the Gambler, 711
" The Possessed, 861, 862
" The Brothers Karamazov, 802, 803

Dowden's Life of R. Browning, 701

Dryden's Dramatic Essays. 568

Dufferin's Letters from High Latitudes, 499

Dumas' The Three Musketeers, 81
" The Black Tulip, 174
" Twenty Years After, 175
" Marguerite de Valois, 326
" The Count of Monte Cristo, 393 394
" The Forty-Five, 420
" Chicot the Jester, 421
" Vicomte de Bragelonne, 593-5
" Le Chevalier de Maison Rouge, 614

Du Maurier's Trilby, 863

Duruy's Heroes of England, 471
" History of France, 737, 738

Edgar's Cressy and Poictiers, 17
" Runnymede and Lincoln Fair, 320

Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, etc., 410

Eighteenth-Century Plays, 818

Eliot's Adam Bede, 27
" Silas Marner, 121
" Romola, 231
" Mill on the Floss, 325
" Felix Holt, 353
" Scenes of Clerical Life, 468
" Middlemarch, 2 vols., 854-5

Elyot's Gouernour, 227

Emerson's Essays, 12
" Representative Men, 279
" Nature, Conduct of Life, etc., 322
" Society and Solitude, etc., 567
" Poems, 715

Epictetus's Moral Discourses, 404

Erckmann-Chatrian's The Conscript and Waterloo, 354
" Story of a Peasant, 706, 707

Euclid's Elements, 891

Euripides' Plays, 63, 271

Evans's Holy Graal, 445

Evelyn's Diary, 220, 221

Everyman and other Interludes, 381

Ewing's (Mrs.) Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances, etc., 730
" Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot, and
The Story of a Short Life, 731

Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity, 576

Ferrier's (Susan) Marriage, 816

Fielding's Amelia, 2 vols., 852-3
" Tom Jones, 355, 356
" Joseph Andrews, 467
" Jonathan Wild and the Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, 877

Finlay's Byzantine Empire, 33
" Greece under the Romans, 185

Flaubert's Madame Bovary, 808
" Salammbo, 869

Fletcher's (Beaumont and) Selected Plays, 506

Ford's Gatherings from Spain, 152

Forster's Life of Dickens, 781, 782

Fox's (George) Journal, 754

Fox's (Charles James) Selected Speeches, 759

Francis's (Saint), The Little Flowers, etc., 485

Franklin's Journey to the Polar Sea, 447

Freeman's Old English History for Children, 540

French Mediaeval Romances, 557

Froissart's Chronicles, 57

Froude's Short Studies, 13, 705
" Henry VIII., 372-4

Froude's Edward VI, 375
" Mary Tudor, 477
" History of Queen Elizabeth's Reign, 583-7
" Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield, 666

Galt's Annals of the Parish, 427

Galton's Inquiries into Human Faculty, 263

Gaskell's Cranford, 83
" Life of Charlotte Brontë, 318
" Sylvia's Lovers, 524
" Mary Barton, 598
" Cousin Phillis, etc., 615
" North and South, 680

Gatty's Parables from Nature, 158

Geoffrey of Monmouth's Histories of the Kings of Britain, 577

George's Progress and Poverty, 560

Gibbon's Roman Empire, 434-6, 474-6
" Autobiography, 511

Gilfillan's Literary Portraits, 348

Giraldus Cambrensis, Wales, 272

Gleig's Life of Wellington, 341
" The Subaltern, 708

Goethe's Conversations with Eckermann, 851
" Faust, 335
" Wilhelm Meister, 599, 600

Gogol's Dead Souls, 726
" Taras Bulba, 740

Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, 295
" Poems and Plays, 415

Goncharov's Oblomov, 878

Gorki's Through Russia, 741

Gotthelf's Ulric the Farm Servant, 228

Gray's Poems and Letters, 628

Green's Short History of the English People, 727, 728. The cloth
edition is in 2 vols. All other editions are in 1 vol.

Grettir Saga, 699

Grimm's Fairy Tales, 56

Grote's History of Greece, 186-197

Guest's (Lady) Mabinogion, 97

Hahnemann's The Organon of the Rational Art of Healing, 663

Hakluyt's Voyages, 264, 265, 313, 314, 338, 339, 388, 389

Hallam's Constitutional History, 621-3

Hamilton's The Federalist, 519

Harte's Luck of Roaring Camp, 681

Harvey's Circulation of Blood, 262

Hawthorne's Wonder Book, 5
" The Scarlet Letter, 122

Hawthorne's House of Seven Gables, 176
" The Marble Faun, 424
" Twice Told Tales, 531
" Blithedale Romance, 592

Hazlitt's Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, 65
" Table Talk, 321
" Lectures, 411
" Spirit of the Age and Lectures on English Poets, 459
" Plain Speaker, 814

Hebbel's Plays, 694

Heimskringla: the Olaf Sagas, 717
" Sagas of the Norse Kings, 847

Helps' (Sir Arthur) Life of Columbus, 332

Herbert's Temple, 309

Herodotus, 405, 406

Herrick's Hesperides, 310

Hobbes's Leviathan, 691

Holinshed's Chronicle, 800

Holmes's Life of Mozart, 564

Holmes's (O. W.) Autocrat, 66
" Professor, 67
" Poet, 68

Homer's Iliad, 453
" Odyssey, 454

Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, 201, 202

Horace's Complete Poetical Works, 515

Houghton's Life and Letters of Keats, 801

Howard's (E.), Rattlin the Reefer, 857

Howard's (John) State of the Prisons, 835

Hughes's Tom Brown's Schooldays, 58

Hugo's (Victor) Les Misérables, 363, 364
" Notre Dame, 422
" Toilers of the Sea, 509

Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, etc., 548, 549

Hunt's (Leigh) Selected Essays, 829

Hutchinson's (Col.) Memoirs, 317

Huxley's Man's Place in Nature, 47
" Select Lectures and Lay Sermons, 498

Ibsen's The Doll's House, etc., 494
" Ghosts, etc., 552
" Pretender, Pillars of Society Rosmersholm, 659
" Brand, 716
" Lady Inger, etc., 729
" Peer Gynt, 747

Ingelow's Mopsa the Fairy, 619

Irving's Sketch Book, 117
" Conquest of Granada, 478;
" Life of Mahomet, 513

Italian Short Stories, 876

James's (G. P. R.) Richelieu, 357

James (Wm.), Selections from, 739

Jefferies' (Richard) Bevis, 850

Johnson's (Dr.) Lives of the Poets, 770-1

Jonson's (Ben) Plays. 489, 490

Josephus's Wars of the Jews, 712

Kalidasa's Shakuntala, 629

Keats's Poems, 101

Keble's Christian Year, 690

King's Life of Mazzini, 562

Kinglake's Eothen, 337

Kingsley's (Chas.) Westward Ho!, 20
" Heroes, 113
" Hypatia, 230
" Water Babies, and Glaueus, 277
" Hereward the Wake, 206
" Alton Locke, 462
" Yeast, 611
" Madam How and Lady Why, 777
" Poems, 793

Kingsley's (Henry) Ravenshoe, 28
" Geoffrey Hamlyn, 416

Kingston's Peter the Whaler, 6
" Three Midshipmen, 7

Kirby's Kalevala, 259-60

Koran, 380

Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, 8
" Essays of Elia, 14
" Letters, 342, 343

Landor's Imaginary Conversations and Poems, 890

Lane's Modern Egyptians, 315

Langland's Piers Plowman, 571

Latimer's Sermons, 40

Law's Serious Call, 91

Layamon's (Wace and) Arthurian Chronicles, 578

Lear (Edward). _See under_ Anthologies

Le Sage's Gil Blas, 437, 438

Leslie's Memoirs of John Constable, 563

Lessing's Laocoön, etc., 843

Lever's Harry Lorrequer, 177

Lewes' Life of Goethe, 269

Lincoln's Speeches, etc., 206

Livy's History of Rome, 603, 609 670, 749, 755, 756

Locke's Civil Government, 751

Lockhart's Life of Napoleon, 3
" Life of Scott, 55
" Life of Burns, 156

Longfellow's Poems, 382

Lönnrott's Kalevala, 259, 260

Lover's Handy Andy, 178

Lowell's Among My Books, 607

Lucretius's Of the Nature of Things, 750

Lützow's History of Bohemia, 432

Lyell's Antiquity of Man, 700

Lytton's Harold, 15
" Last of the Barons, 18
" Last Days of Pompeii, 80
" Pilgrims of the Rhine, 390
" Rienzi, 532

Macaulay's England, 34-6
" Essays, 225, 226
" Speeches on Politics, etc., 399
" Miscellaneous Essays, 439

MacDonald's Sir Gibbie, 678
" Phantastes, 732

Machiavelli's Prince, 280
" Florence, 376

Maine's Ancient Law, 734

Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur. 45, 46

Malthus on the Principles of Population, 692, 693

Mandeville's Travels, 812

Manning's Sir Thomas More, 19
" Mary Powell, and Deborah's Diary, 324

Marlowe's Plays and Poems, 383

Marryat's Mr. Midshipman Easy, 82
" Little Savage, 159
" Masterman Ready, 160
" Peter Simple, 232
" Children of New Forest, 247
" Percival Keene, 358
" Settlers in Canada, 370
" King's Own, 580
" Jacob Faithful, 618

Martinean's Feats on the Fjords, 429

Martinengo-Cesaresco's Folk-Lore and other Essays, 673

Marx's Capital, 848, 849

Maurice's Kingdom of Christ, 146-7

Mazzinl's Duties of Man, etc., 224

Melville's Moby Dick, 179
" Typee, 180
" Omoo, 297

Mérimée's Carmen, etc., 834

Merivale's History of Rome, 433

Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz, 842

Mignet's French Revolution, 713

Mill's Utilitarianism, Liberty, Representative Government, 482
" Rights of Woman, 825

Miller's Old Red Sandstone, 103

Milman's History of the Jews, 377, 378

Milton's Areopagitica and other Prose Works, 795
" Poems, 384

Molière's Comedies, 830-1

Mommsen's History of Rome, 542-5

Montagu's (Lady) Letters, 69

Montaigne's Essays, 440-2

More's Utopia, and Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, 461

Morier's Hajji Baba, 679

Morris's (Wm.) Early Romances, 261
" Life and Death of Jason, 575

Morte D'Arthur Romances, 634

Motley's Dutch Republic, 86-8

Mulock's John Halifax, 123

Neale's Fall of Constantinople, 655

Newcastle's (Margaret, Duchess of) Life of the First Duke of
Newcastle, etc., 722

Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua, 636
" On the Scope and Nature of University Education, and a Paper on
Christianity and Scientific Investigation, 723

Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, 892

Oliphant's Salem Chapel, 244

Omar Khayyam, 819

Osborne (Dorothy), Letters of, 674

Owen's (Robert) A New View of Society, etc., 799

Paine's Rights of Man, 718

Palgrave's Golden Treasury, 96

Paltock's Peter Wilkins, 673

Park's (Mungo) Travels, 205

Parkman's Conspiracy of Pontiac, 302, 303

Pascall's Pensees, 874

Paston Letters, 752, 753

Peacock's Headlong Hall, 327

Penn's The Peace of Europe, Some Fruits of Solitude, etc., 724

Pepys's Diary, 53, 54

Percy's Reliques, 148, 149

Pitt's Orations, 145

Plato's Republic, 64
" Dialogues, 456, 457

Plutarch's Lives, 407-409
" Moralia, 565

Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 336
" Poems and Essays. 791

Polo's (Marco) Travels, 306

Pope's Complete Poetical Works, 760

Prescott's Conquest of Peru, 301
" Conquest of Mexico, 397, 398

Prévost's Manon Lescaut, etc., 834

Procter's Legends and Lyrics, 150

Quiller-Couch's Hetty Wesley, 864

Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel, 26, 827

Radcliffe's (Mrs. Ann) The Mysteries of Udolpho, 865, 866

Ramayana and Mahabharata, 403

Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth, 29
" Peg Woffington, 299

Reid's (Mayne) Boy Hunters of the Mississippi, 582
" The Boy Slaves, 797

Renan's Life of Jesus, 805

Reynold's Discourses, 118

Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, 590

Richardson's Pamela, 683, 684
" Clarissa, 882-5

Roberts' (Morley) Western Avernus, 762

Robertson's Religion and Life, 37
" Christian Doctrine, 38
" Bible Subjects, 39

Robinson's (Wade) Sermons, 637

Roget's Thesaurus, 630, 631

Rossetti's (D. G.) Poems, 627

Rousseau's Confessions, 859, 860
" Emile, 518
" Social Contract and other Essays, 660

Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture, 207
" Modern Painters, 208-212
" Stones of Venice, 213-215
" Unto this Last, etc., 216
" Elements of Drawing, etc., 217
" Pre-Raphaelitism, etc., 218
" Sesame and Lilies, 219
" Ethics of the Dust, 282
" Crown of Wild Olive, and Cestus of Aglaia, 323
" Time and Tide, etc., 450
" The Two Boyhoods, 683

Russell's Life of Gladstone, 661

Sand's (George) The Devil's Pool, and François the Waif, 534

Scheffel's Ekkehard, 529

Scott's (M.) Tom Cringle's Log, 710

Scott's (Sir W.) Ivanhoe, 16
" Fortunes of Nigel, 71
" Woodstock, 72
" Waverley, 75
" The Abbot, 124
" Anne of Geierstein, 125
" The Antiquary, 126
" Highland Widow, and Betrothed, 127
" Black Dwarf, Legend of Montrose, 128
" Bride of Lammermoor, 129
" Castle Dangerous, Surgeon's Daughter, 130
" Robert of Paris, 131
" Fair Maid of Perth, 132
" Guy Mannering, 133
" Heart of Midlothian, 134
" Kenilworth, 135
" The Monastery, 136
" Old Mortality, 137
" Peveril of the Peak, 138
" The Pirate, 139
" Quentin Durward, 140
" Redgauntlet, 141
" Rob Roy, 142
" St. Ronan's Well, 143
" The Talisman, 144
" Lives of the Novelists, 331
" Poems and Plays, 550, 551

Seebohm's Oxford Reformers, 665

Seeley's Ecce Homo, 305

Sienkiewiez's Tales, 871

Sewell's (Anna) Black Beauty, 748

Shakespeare's Comedies, 153
" Histories, etc., 154
" Tragedies, 155

Shelley's Poetical Works, 257, 258

Shelley's (Mrs.) Frankenstein, 616
" Rights of Women, 825

Sheppard's Charles Auchester, 505

Sheridan's Plays, 95

Sismondi's Italian Republics, 250

Smeaton's Life of Shakespeare, 514

Smith's Wealth of Nations, 412, 413

Smith's (George) Life of Wm. Carey, 395

Smollett's Roderick Random, 790
" Peregrine Pickle, 838, 839

Sophocles' Dramas, 114

Southey's Life of Nelson, 52

Spectator, 164-7

Speke's Source of the Nile, 50

Spencer's (Herbert) Essays on Education, 503

Spenser's Faerie Queene, 443, 444
" The Shepherd's Calendar, 879

Spinoza's Ethics, etc., 481

Spyri's Heidi, 431

Stanley's Memorials of Canterbury, 89
" Eastern Church, 251

Steele's The Spectator, 164-7

Sterne's Tristram Shandy, 617
" Sentimental Journey and Journal to Eliza, 796

Stevenson's Treasure Island and Kidnapped, 763
" Master of Ballantrae and the Black Arrow, 764
" Virginibus Puerisque and Familiar Studies of Men and Books, 765
" An Inland Voyage, Travels with a Donkey, and Silverado
Squatters, 766
" Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Merry Men, etc., 767
" Poems, 768
" In the South Seas and Island Nights' Entertainments, 769

St. Francis, The Little Flowers of, etc., 485

Stow's Survey of London, 589

Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, 371

Strickland's Queen Elizabeth, 100

Surtees' Jorrocks' Jaunts, 817

Swedenborg's Heaven and Hell, 379
" Divine Love and Wisdom, 635
" Divine Providence, 658
" The True Christian Religion, 893

Swift's Gulliver's Travels, 60
" Journal to Stella, 757
" Tale of a Tub, etc., 347

Swiss Family Robinson, 430

Tacitus's Annals, 273
" Agricola and Germania, 274

Taylor's Words and Places, 517

Tennyson's Poems, 44, 626

Thackeray's Esmond, 73
" Vanity Fair, 298
" Christmas Books, 359
" Pendennis, 425, 426
" Newcomes, 465, 466
" The Virginians, 507, 508
" English Humorists, and The Four Georges, 610
" Roundabout Papers, 687

Thierry's Norman Conquest, 198, 199

Thoreau's Walden, 281

Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, 455

Tolstoy's Master and Man, and Other Parables and Tales, 469
" War and Peace, 525-7
" Childhood, Boyhood and Youth, 591
" Anna Karenina, 612, 613

Trench's On the Study of Words and English Past and Present, 788

Trollope's Barchester Towers, 30
" Dr. Thorne, 360
" Framley Parsonage, 181
" Golden Lion of Granpere, 761
" Last Chronicles of Barset, 391, 392
" Phineas Finn, 832-3
" Small House at Allington, 361
" The Warden, 182

Trotter's The Bayard of India, 396
" Hodson of Hodson's Horse, 401
" Warren Hastings, 452

Turgenev's Virgin Soil, 528
" Liza, 677
" Fathers and Sons, 742

Tyndall's Glaciers of the Alps, 98

Tytler's Principles of Translation, 168

Vasari's Lives of the Painters, 784-7

Verne's (Jules) Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, 319
" Dropped from the Clouds, 367
" Abandoned, 368
" The Secret of the Island, 369
" Five Weeks in a Balloon, and Around the World in Eighty Days, 779

Virgil's Æneid, 161
" Eclogues and Georgics, 222

Voltaire's Life of Charles XII, 270
" Age of Louis XIV, 780

Wace and Layamon's Arthurian Chronicles, 578

Wakefield's Letter from Sydney, etc., 828

Walpole's Letters, 775

Walton's Compleat Angler, 70

Waterton's Wanderings in South America, 772

Wesley's Journal, 105-108

White's Selborne, 48

Whitman's Leaves or Grass, and Democratic Vistas, etc., 573

Whyte-Melville's Gladiators, 523

Wilde's Plays, Prose Writings and Poems, 858

Wood's (Mrs. Henry) The Channings, 84

Woolman's Journal, etc., 402

Wordsworth's Shorter Poems, 203
" Longer Poems, 311

Xenophon's Cyropædia, 67

Yellow Book, 503

Yonge's The Dove in the Eagle's Nest, 329
" The Book of Golden Deeds, 330
" The Heir of Redclyffe, 362

Yonge's The Little Duke, 470
" The Lances of Lynwood, 570

Young's (Arthur) Travels in France and Italy, 720

_Anthologies, Dictionaries, etc._:

A Book of English Ballads, 572

A Book of Heroic Verse, 574

A Book of Nonsense, by Edward Lear, and Others, 806

A Century of Essays, An Anthology, 653

American Short Stories of the Nineteenth Century, 840

A New Book of Sense and Nonsense, 813

An Anthology of English Prose: From Bede to Stevenson, 675

An Encyclopædia of Gardening, by Walter P. Wright, 555

Ancient Hebrew Literature, 4 vols., 253-6

Anglo-Saxon Poetry, 794

Annals of Fairyland, 365, 366, 541

Anthology of British Historical Speeches and Orations, 714

Atlas of Classical Geography, 451

Atlases, Literary and Historical: Europe, 496;
America, 553;
Asia, 633;
Africa and Australasia, 662

Dictionary, Biographical, of English Literature, 449
" of Dates, 554
" Everyman's English, 776
" of Non-Classical Mythology, 632
" Smaller Classical, 495
" of Quotations and Proverbs, 809-10

English Short Stories. An Anthology, 743

Fairy Gold, 157

Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights, 249

French Short Stories, 896

Golden Treasury of Longer Poems, 746

Minor Elizabethan Drama, 491, 492

Minor Poets of the Eighteenth Century, 844

Minor Poets of the 17th Century, 873

Mother Goose, 473

Muses' Pageant, The, 581, 606, 671

New Golden Treasury, 695

New Testament, The, 93

A Poetry Book for Boys and Girls, 894

Political Liberty, a Symposium, 745

Prayer Books of King Edward VI. 1st and 2nd, 448

Prelude to Poetry, 789

Reader's Guide to Everyman's Library, by R. Farquharson Sharp and E.
Rhys, 889

Restoration Plays, 604

Russian Short Stories, 758

Shorter Novels: Elizabethan, 824
" Jacobean and Restoration, 841
" Eighteenth Century, 856

Theology in the English Poets, 493

Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, Roget's, 630, 631

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Transcriber's Notes:

Punctuation, use of hyphens, and accent marks were standardized. Spaces were retained in contractions of verbs. Obsolete and alternative spellings were not changed.

The following were corrected:

'jolyf' to 'joly' ... I would I were that joly gentil one, ...
'wherefor' to 'wherefore' ... the gold wherefore the people ...
'Thorough' to Through' ... Through parliament doth the King ...
duplicate 'the' removed ... Ballantrae and the Black Arrow ...