he Eumenides')

AESOP (by Harry Thurston Peck) Seventh Century B.C.
The Fox and the Lion The Belly and the Members
The Ass in the Lion's Skin The Satyr and the Traveler
The Ass Eating Thistles The Lion and the other Beasts
The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing The Ass and the Little Dog
The Countryman and the Snake The Country Mouse and the
The Dog and the Wolf City Mouse

JEAN LOUIS RODOLPHE AGASSIZ 1807-1873
The Silurian Beach ('Geological Sketches')
Voices ('Methods of Study in Natural History')
Formation of Coral Reefs (same)

AGATHIAS A.D. 536-581
Apostrophe to Plutarch

GRACE AGUILAR 1816-1847
Greatness of Friendship ('Woman's Friendship')
Order of Knighthood ('The Days of Bruce')
Culprit and Judge ('Home Influence')

WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH 1805-1882
Students of Paris ('Crichton')

MARK AKENSIDE 1721-1770
From the Epistle to Curio
Aspirations after the Infinite ('Pleasures of the Imagination')
On a Sermon against Glory

PEDRO ANTONIO DE ALARCON 1833-1891
A Woman Viewed from Without ('The Three-Cornered Hat')
How the Orphan Manuel gained his Sobriquet ('The Child of the
Ball')

ALCAEUS Sixth Century B.C.
The Palace
A Banquet Song
An Invitation
The Storm
The Poor Fisherman
The State
Poverty

BALTAZAR DE ALCAZAR 1530?-1606
Sleep
The Jovial Supper

ALCIPHRON (by Harry Thurston Peck) Second Century
From a Mercenary Girl--Petala to Simalion
Pleasures of Athens--Euthydicus to Epiphanio
From an Anxious Mother--Phyllis to Thrasonides
From a Curious Youth--Philocomus to Thestylus
From a Professional Diner-out--Capnosphrantes to Aristomachus
Unlucky Luck--Chytrolictes to Patellocharon

ALCMAN Seventh Century B.C.
Poem on Night

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT 1832-1888
The Night Ward ('Hospital Sketches')
Amy's Valley of Humiliation ('Little Women')
Thoreau's Flute (Atlantic Monthly)
Song from the Suds ('Little Women')

ALCUIN (by William H. Carpenter) 735?-804
On the Saints of the Church at York ('A