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[Illustration]



 CHARACTER SKETCHES
 OF ROMANCE, FICTION
 AND THE DRAMA::::




                       A REVISED AMERICAN EDITION
                        OF THE READER’S HANDBOOK


                                   BY


                    THE REV. E. COBHAM BREWER, LL.D.

                               EDITED BY

                             MARION HARLAND

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                               VOLUME II

[Illustration: colophon]

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        NEW YORK              SELMAR HESS              PUBLISHER

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                               MDCCCXCII

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                          Copyright, 1892, by
                              SELMAR HESS.
















PHOTOGRAVURES PRINTED ON THE
       HESS PRESS.




                         LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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                               VOLUME II.

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PHOTOGRAVURES AND ETCHINGS.

          _Illustration_                 _Artist_
 LA CIGALE (_colored_)             E. METZMACHER         _Frontispiece_
 FATES (THE)                       PAUL THUMANN                       6
 GABRIEL AND EVANGELINE            FRANK DICKSEE                     56
 GANYMEDE                          F. KIRCHBACH                      64
 HAMLET AND THE GRAVEDIGGER        P.A.J.
                                   DAGNAN-BOUVERET                  140
 HAMLET AND HIS FATHER’S GHOST     E. VON HOFFTEN                   142
 HERODIAS                          BENJAMIN CONSTANT                172
 LORELEI (THE)                     W. KRAY                          340

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                   WOOD ENGRAVINGS AND TYPOGRAVURES.
 FALSTAFF AND MRS. FORD.                                              2
 FARIA ENTERS DANTES’S CELL        JANET LANGE                        4
 FATIMA AND ANNA                   GUSTAVE DORÉ                       8
 FATINITZA                         ADRIEN MARIE                      10
 FATMÉ                             N. SICHEL                         12
 FAUNTLEROY (LITTLE LORD)          F. M. SPIEGLE                     14
 FAUST AND MARGARET IN THE GARDEN  GABRIEL MAX                       16
 FITZJAMES AND RODERICK DHU        J. B. MCDONALD                    22
 FITZWALTER (ALURED) AND ROSE HIS
   WIFE BEAR HOME THE FLITCH OF
   BACON;—JOHN GILPIN              THOMAS STOTHARD                   24
 FLAVIO AND HILARIA                                                  26
 FLORESTAN SAVED BY LEONORA        EUGEN KLIMSCH                     30
 FRANZ, ADELAIDE AND THE BISHOP OF
   BAMBERG                         CARL BECKER                       46
 FRITHIOF AND INGEBORG             R. BENDEMANN                      50
 FRITHIOF AT THE COURT OF KING
   RING                            FERD. LEEKE                       52
 FROU-FROU                         GEORGES CLAIRIN                   54
 GAMP (SAIREY)                     FREDERICK BARNARD                 60
 GANN (CAROLINE), THE LITTLE
   SISTER                          FREDERICK BARNARD                 62
 GARRICK (DAVID) AS ABEL DRUGGER   JOHANN ZOFFANY                    66
 GAUTHIER (MARGUÉRITE), LA DAME
   AUX