Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 2: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

The original volume promised many illustrations. However, the edition used here had none of them. The List of Illustrations is retained; however, the pages indicated are not valid. The text was printed with two columns per page, which could not be reproduced in this format. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. The following less-common characters are found in this book: ă (a with breve), ā (a with macron), ĕ (e with breve), ē (e with macron), ĭ (i with breve), ī (i with macron), ŏ (o with breve), ō (o with macron), ŭ (u with breve), ū (u with macron). If they do not display properly, please try changing your font. The scope of this volume includes topics from ‘Falkland’ to ‘Mark’. There are numerous cross-references between topics, many of themm to be found in other volumes of this edition. Several of these are already provided by Project Gutenberg, but without the mechanism of allowing for external hyperlinks. To avoid any confusion, none of the references were linked. Corrections are indicated using an underline highlight. Placing the cursor over the correction will produce the original text in a small popup. Any corrections are indicated as hyperlinks, which will navigate the reader to the corresponding entry in the corrections table in the note at the end of the text. HARACTER SKETCHES OF ROMANCE, FICTION AND THE DRAMA:::: A REVISED AMERICAN EDITION OF THE READER’S HANDBOOK BY THE REV. E. COBHAM BREWER, LL.D. EDITED BY MARION HARLAND NEW YORK SELMAR HESS PUBLISHER MDCCCXCII Copyright, 1892, by SELMAR HESS. PHOTOGRAVURES PRINTED ON THE HESS PRESS. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PHOTOGRAVURES AND ETCHINGS. Illustration Artist LA CIGALE ( colored ) E. Metzmacher Frontispiece FATES (THE) Paul Thumann 6 GABRIEL AND EVANGELINE Frank Dicksee 56 GANYMEDE F. Kirchbach 64 HAMLET AND THE GRAVEDIGGER P.A.J. Dagnan-Bouveret 140 HAMLET AND HIS FATHER’S GHOST E. von Hofften 142 HERODIAS Benjamin Constant 172 LORELEI (THE) W. Kray 340 WOOD ENGRAVINGS AND TYPOGRAVURES. FALSTAFF AND MRS. FORD. 2 FARIA ENTERS DANTES’S CELL Janet Lange 4 FATIMA AND ANNA Gustave Doré 8 FATINITZA Adrien Marie 10 FATMÉ N. Sichel 12 FAUNTLEROY (LITTLE LORD) F. M. Spiegle 14 FAUST AND MARGARET IN THE GARDEN Gabriel Max 16 FITZJAMES AND RODERICK DHU J. B. McDonald 22 FITZWALTER…