Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

Professor of Literature, Columbia University , New York City. JAMES B. ANGELL, LL.D., President of the University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Mich. WILLARD FISKE, A.M., PH.D., Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages and Literatures, Cornell University , Ithaca, N.Y. EDWARD S. HOLDEN, A.M., LL.D., Director of the Lick Observatory, and Astronomer, University of California , Berkeley, Cal. ALCÉE FORTIER, LIT.D., Professor of the Romance Languages, Tulane University , New Orleans, La. WILLIAM P. TRENT, M.A., Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of English and History, University of the South , Sewanee, Tenn. PAUL SHOREY, PH.D., Professor of Greek and Latin Literature, University of Chicago , Chicago, Ill. WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL.D., United States Commissioner of Education, Bureau of Education , Washington, D.C. MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A.M., LL.D., Professor of Literature in the Catholic University of America , Washington, D.C. TABLE OF CONTENTS VOL. XI RICHARD HENRY DANA, SENIOR — 1787-1879 The Island ('The Buccaneer') The Doom of Lee (same) Paul and Abel ('Paul Felton') RICHARD HENRY DANA, JUNIOR — 1815-1882 A Dry Gale ('Two Years Before the Mast') Every-Day Sea Life (same) A Start; and Parting Company (same) DANTE — 1265-1321 BY CHARLES ELIOT NORTON From 'The New Life': Beginning of Love The First Salutation of His Lady Her Praise Her Loveliness Her Death The Anniversary of Her Death The Hope to Speak More Worthily of Her From the 'Banquet': Consolation of Philosophy Desire of the Soul The Noble Soul at the End of Life From the 'Divine Comedy': Hell—Entrance on the Journey Through the Eternal World Hell—Punishment of Carnal Sinners Purgatory—The Final Purgation Purgatory—Meeting with His Lady in the Earthly Paradise Paradise—The Final Vision JAMES DARMESTETER — 1849-1894 Ernest Renan ('Selected Essays') Judaism (same) CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN — 1809-1882 BY E. RAY LANKESTER Impressions of Travel ('A Naturalist's Voyage') Genesis of 'The Origin of Species' ('Life and Letters') Curious Atrophy of Æsthetic Taste (same) Private Memorandum concerning His Little Daughter (same) Religious Views (same) Letters: To Miss Julia Wedgwood ; To J. D. Hooker ; To T. H. Huxley ; To E. Ray Lankester ; To J. D. Hooker The Struggle for Existence ('Origin of Species') Geometrical Ratio of Increase (same) Of the Nature of the Checks to Increase (same) Complex Relations of All Animals and Plants to Each Other in the Struggle for Existence (same) Of Natural Selection: or the Survival…