au's Origin and Place in History.

(From Book I of the "History of the Girondists."
Translated by T. Ryde)

LOUIS ADOLPH THIERS--(Born in 1797, died in 1877.)

The Burning of Moscow.

(From the "History of the Consulate and the Empire")

HONORE DE BALZAC--(Born in 1799, died in 1850.)

I The Death of Pere Goriot.

(From the concluding chapter of "Pere Goriot." Translated by Helen
Marriage)

II Birotteau's Early Married Life.

(From "The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau." Translated by
Helen Marriage)

ALFRED DE VIGNY--(Born in 1799, died in 1863.)

Richelieu's Way with His Master.

(From "Cinq-Mars; or, The Conspiracy under Louis XIII." Translated by
William C. Hazlitt)

VICTOR HUGO--(Born in France in 1802, died in 1885.)

I The Battle of Waterloo.

(From Chapter XV of "Cosette," in "Les Miserables." Translated
by Lascelles Wraxall)

II The Beginnings and Expansions of Paris.

(From Book III, Chapter II, of "Notre-Dame de Paris")

ALEXANDER DUMAS--(Born in 1802, died in 1870.)

The Shoulder, the Belt and the Handkerchief.

(From "The Three Musketeers")

GEORGE SAND--(Born in 1804, died in 1876.)

Lelia and the Poet.

(From "Lelia")

EARLY CONTINENTAL WRITERS

354 A.D.--1471 A.D.

ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE

Born in Numidia, Africa, in 354 A.D., died in 430; educated
at Carthage; taught rhetoric at Carthage; removed to Rome in
383; going thence to Milan in 384, where he became a friend
of St. Ambrose; converted from Manicheanism to Christianity
by his mother Monica, and baptized by St. Ambrose in 387;
made Bishop of Hippo in North Africa in 395; became a
champion of orthodoxy and the most celebrated of the fathers
of the Latin branch of the Church; his "Confessions"
published in 397.

IMPERIAL POWER FOR GOOD AND BAD MEN[1]

Let us examine the nature of the spaciousness and continuance of
empire, for which men give their gods such great thanks; to whom also
they exhibited plays (that were so filthy both in actors and the
action) without any offense of honesty. But, first, I would make a
little inquiry, seeing you can not show such estates to be anyway
happy, as are in continual wars, being still in terror, trouble, and
guilt of shedding human blood, tho it be their foes; what reason then
or what wisdom shall an