That Men Are Not to Judge of Our Happiness Till After Death.

(From the essay with that title. The Cotton translation)

RENE DESCARTES--(Born in 1596, died in 1650.)

Of Material Things and of the Existence of God.

(From the "Meditations." Translated by John Veitch)

DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD--(Born in France in 1613, died in 1680.)

Selections from the "Maxims."

(Translated by Willis Bund and Hain Friswell)

BLAISE PASCAL--(Born in 1623, died in 1662.)

Of the Prevalence of Self-Love.

(From the "Thoughts." Translated by C. Kegan Paul)

MADAME DE SEVIGNE--(Born in Paris in 1626, died in 1696.)

I Great News from Paris.

(From a letter dated Paris, December 15, 1670)

II An Imposing Funeral Described.

(From a letter to her daughter, dated Paris, May 6,1672)

ALAIN RENE LE SAGE--(Born in 1668, died in 1747.)

I In the Service of Dr. Sangrado.

(From "Gil Blas." Translated by Tobias Smollett)

II As an Archbishop's Favorite.

(From "Gil Blas." Translated by Tobias Smollett)

DUC DE SAINT-SIMON--(Born in 1675, died in 1755.)

I The Death of the Dauphin.

(From the "Memoirs." Translated by Bayle St. John)

II The Public Watching the King and Madame.

(From the "Memoirs." Translated by Bayle St. John)

BARON DE MONTESQUIEU--(Born in 1689, died in 1755.)

I Of the Causes Which Destroyed Rome.

(From the "Grandeur and Decadence of the Romans")

II Of the Relation of Laws to Human Beings.

(From the "Spirit of Laws." Translated by Thomas Nugent)

FRANCOIS AROUET VOLTAIRE--(Born in Paris in 1694, died in 1778.)

I Of Bacon's Greatness.

(From the "Letters on England")

II England's Regard for Men of Letters.

(From the "Letters on England")

JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU--(Born in 1712, died in 1778.)

I Of Christ and Socrates

II Of the Management of Children.

(From the "New Heloise")

MADAME DE STAEL--(Born in 1763, died in 1817.)

Of Napoleon Bonaparte.

(From "Considerations on the French Revolution")

VISCOUNT DE CHATEAUBRIAND--(Born in 1768, died in 1848.)

In an American Forest.

(From the "Historical Essay on Revolutions")

FRANCOIS GUIZOT--(Born in 1787, died in 1874.)

Shakespeare as an Example of Civilization.

(From "Shakespeare and His Times")

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE--(Born in 1790, died in 1869.)

Of Mirabe