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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV

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THE BEST

of the

World's Classics

RESTRICTED TO PROSE

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HENRY CABOT LODGE

Editor-in-Chief

FRANCIS W. HALSEY

Associate Editor

 

With an Introduction, Biographical and
Explanatory Notes, etc.

IN TEN VOLUMES

 

Vol. VI

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND—IV

 

 

 

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

NEW YORK AND LONDON

 

 

 

Copyright, 1909, by

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY


The Best of the World's Classics

VOL. VI

GREAT BRITAIN AND
IRELAND—IV

1801—1909


CONTENTS

Vol. VI—Great Britain and Ireland—IV

Page
John Henry Newman—(Born in 1801, died in 1890.)
I   The Beginnings of Tractarianism.
(From the "Apologia pro Vita Sua") 3
II   On His Submission to the Catholic Church.
(From the "Apologia") 7
III   Of Athens as a True University.
  (From Volume III of the "Historical Sketches") 13
Edward Bulwer Lytton—(Born in 1803, died in 1873.)
  The Descent of Vesuvius on Pompeii.
  (From "The Last Days of Pompeii") 21
Lord Beaconsfield—(Born in 1804, died in 1881.)
  Jerusalem by Moonlight.
  (From "Tancred") 31
Charles Merivale—(Born in 1808, died in 1893.)
  The Personality of Augustus Cæsar.
  (From the "History of the Romans Under the Empire") 37
Alexander W. Kinglake—(Born in 1809, died in 1891.)
I   On Mocking at the Sphinx.
  (From "Eothen") 42
II   The Beginnings of the Crimean War.
  (From "The Invasion of the Crimea") 44
Charles Darwin—(Born in 1809, died in 1882.)
I   On Variations in Mammals, Birds and Fishes.
  (From "The Origin of Species") 47
II   The Genesis of a Great Book.
  (From the "Autobiography," printed in Volume I of the "Life and Letters") 51

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