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The International library of famous literature : selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes and with introductions

Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. · 20 volumes (xxi, 9822 pages) : 25 cm · V. 1. Ancient Indian hymns / Monier Monier-Williams -- The stupid Rakshas / John Thackray Bunce -- Prince Siddârtha's marriage / Edwin Arnold -- The cup of water / Charlotte M. Yonge -- The clay cart / King Sudraka -- Tubal Cain / Charles Mackay -- The Princess of the Madras / From the Mahabharata -- The mother / Trans. by George Borrow -- Hymn to the God Merodach -- Manners and customs of the Egyptians / Charles Rollin -- The mirage in Egypt / Theodore Watts-Dunton -- The oldest story in the world -- The seventh plague of Egypt / George Croly -- the burial of Moses / Mrs. C. F. Alexander -- The temples of Rameses -- Eros and Psyche / John Thackray Bunce -- A happy life / Charles Merivale -- The conduct of life / From the Mahabharata -- Aphorisma on life / Francis Bacon -- The death of a son / From the Ramayana -- Sohrab and Rustum / Matthew Arnold -- After reading Arnold's "Sphrab and Rustum" / Edith M. Thomas -- The story of Damon and Pythias / Charlotte M. Yonge -- Homer and his translators / Matthew Arnold -- Beauty

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