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 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

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        NEW YORK              SELMAR HESS              PUBLISHER

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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 CAMÉLIAS                                                      68
 GAVROCHE                          E. BAYARD                         70
 GHENT TO AIX (HOW WE BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM)                    78
 GILDA AND RIGOLETTO               HERMANN KAULBACH                  86
 GLAUCUS AND NYDIA                 W. E. LOCKHART                    94
 GOBBO (LAUNCELOT)                                                   98
 GODIVA                            J. VON LERIUS                    100
 GRACCHI (THE MOTHER OF THE)       SCHOPIN                          108
 GRASSHOPPER (THE) AND THE ANT     J. G. VIBERT                     112
 GREY (LADY JANE), EXECUTION OF    PAUL DELAROCHE                   118
 GULLIVER CHAINED                  J. G. VIBERT                     130
 GUNTHER (KING)                    B. GUTH                          132
 HADWIG (FRAU) INTO THE CONVENT,
   EKKEHARD BRINGING               CARL VON BLAAS                   134
 HAIDÉE                                                             136
 HALIFAX (JOHN) SAVING THE BANK    J. NASH                          138
 HARLOWE (CLARISSA)                C. LANDSEER                      144
 HAROLD (EDITH FINDING THE BODY
   OF)                                                              146
 HAROLD (KING) AND THE ELFINS      ALBERT TSCHAUTSCH                148
 HATTERAICK (DIRK) AND MEG
   MERRILEES                       J.B. MCDONALD                    150
 HEBE                              CANOVA                           154
 HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE             A. MAIGNAN                       156
 HEEP (URIAH)                      FREDERICK BARNARD                158
 HELEN (THE ABDUCTION OF)          R. VON DEUTSCH                   160
 HELOISE                           GLEYRE                           163
 HENRY THE EIGHTH AND ANNE BOLEYN  C. VON PILOTY                    164
 HERMANN AND DOROTHEA              W. VON KAULBACH                  166
 HERMIONE                                                           168
 HERO AND LEANDER                  FERDINAND KELLER                 170
 HETTY (DINAH AND)                                                  174
 HIPPOLYTUS (DEATH OF)             RUBENS                           176
 HOFER (ANDREAS) AT INNSBRUCK      FRANZ VON DEFREGGER              178
 HOP-O’-MY-THUMB                   GUSTAVE DORÉ                     182
 HORATII (THE OATH OF THE)         L. DAVID                         184
 HYPATIA                           A. SEIFERT                       198
 IANTHE                                                             200
 ILSE IN THE FARM-STABLE           PAUL MEYERHEIM                   202
 IMMO AND HILDEGARD                HERMANN KAULBACH                 204
 IMOGEN IN THE CAVE                T. GRAHAM                        206
 INGOMAR (PARTHENIA AND)           G. H. SWINSTEAD                  212
 IPHIGENIA                         EDMUND KANOLDT                   214
 IRENE AND KLEA                    E. TESCHENDORFF                  216
 ISABELLA AND THE POT OF BASIL     HOLMAN HUNT                      218
 ISABELLE OF CROYE AND CHARLES OF
   BURGUNDY (INTERVIEW BETWEEN)    A. ELMORE                        220
 JINGLE (ALFRED)                   FREDERICK BARNARD                240
 JOAN OF ARC                       EMMANUEL FRÉMIET                 242
 JOHN OF LEYDEN                    FERDINAND KELLE                  248
 JOURDAIN (MONSIEUR) AND NICOLE    C.R. LESLIE                      250
 JUAN (DON) IN THE BARQUE          EUGÈNE DELACROIX                 252
 KÄGEBEIN AND BODINUS              CONRAD BECKMANN                  256
 LALLA ROOKH                       A. DE VALENTINE                  292
 LANCELOT AND ELAINE                                                294
 LANTENAC AT THE STONE PILLAR      G. BRION                         296
 LEAR (KING) AND THE FOOL          GUSTAV SCHAUER                   310
 LECOUVREUR (ADRIENNE) AS CORNELIA ANTOINE COYPEL                   312
 LEIGH (SIR AMYAS)                 C. J. STANILAND                  314
 LEONORA AND FERDINANDO            J. B. DUFFAUD                    318
 LOHENGRIN (ELSA AND)                                               336
 LOUIS XI                          M. BAFFIER                       342
 LOUISE, THE GLEE-MAIDEN           ROBERT HERDMAN                   344




                                PREFACE.




An American reprint of “_The Reader’s Handbook of allusions, references,
plots and stories, by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D., of Trinity Hall,
Cambridge_,” has been for several years in the hands of cis-Atlantic
students.

Too much praise cannot be awarded to the erudition and patient diligence
displayed in the compilation of this volume of nearly twelve hundred
pages. The breadth of range contemplated by the learned editor is best
indicated in his own words:

“The object of this _Handbook_ is to supply readers and speakers with a
lucid, but very brief account of such names as are used in allusions and
references, whether by poets or prose writers;—to furnish those who
consult it with the plot of popular dramas, the story of epic poems, and
the outline of well-known tales. The number of dramatic plots sketched
out is many hundreds. Another striking and interesting feature of the
book is the revelation of the source from which dramatists and romancers
have derived their stories, and the strange