THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF

FAMOUS LITERATURE

A page from a MS. of the Comedies of Terence, in the Library of the Arsenal, Paris.

LIBRARY OF

FAMOUS LITERATURE

SELECTIONS FROM THE WORLD'S GREAT WRITERS
ANCIENT, MEDIÆVAL, AND MODERN, WITH BIO-
GRAPHICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES

AND

CRITICAL ESSAYS

BY

MANY EMINENT WRITERS.

EDITED BY

DR. RICHARD GARNETT, C.B.

of the British Museum

(1851-1899)

IN ASSOCIATION WITH

M. LEON VALLÉE
Librarian of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

DR. ALOIS BRANDL

Professor of Literature in the Imperial University, Berlin

AND

DONALD G. MITCHELL

(IK MARVEL)

the Author of "Reveries of a Bachelor."

With Nearly Five Hundred Full-page Ellustrations and Colored Plates

IN TWENTY VOLUMES

VOLUME X

LONDON

ISSUED BY

The Standard

1899