Mentioned here as highly prized for accuracy, veracity, and critical judgment. One of the sources of our modern historians.
=WILLIAM OF PALERNE.= _Cir._ 14th century. [or, Wm. the Werwolf].
_Ed._ Prof. W. W. Skeat. Also _Ed._ Madden, Roxburghe Club, 1832. E.E.T.S., 1867.
=WILLIBALD.= _b._ 700?, _d._ 786. Bishop of Eichstadt.
Notices of travels, dictated to and written down by author's kinswoman, a nun of Heidenheim. Bohn. Ant. Lib., 1847.
=WINCKELMANN, JOHN= (=JOHANN JOACHIM=). _b._ 1717, _d._ 1768. =German critic and writer on art.=
HISTORY OF ANCIENT ART. _Tr._ from the German by G. Henry Lodge, 2 v. 1849.
REFLECTIONS ON THE PAINTING AND SCULPTURE OF THE GREEKS: with instructions for the Connoisseur and an Essay on Grace in Works of Art. _Tr._ by Henry Fuseli, 1765.
=XENOPHON.= _b._ 435, _d._ 354 B.C. =Greek historian.=
CYROPÆDIA: The Bookes of Xenophon, containing the Institution, Schole and Education of Cyrus. _Tr._ by William Bercker, 1567. The Bookes of X. containing the discipline ... _Tr._ [to the end of the sixth Book only]. By W. Barkar. [1560?].
ANABASIS. The Historie of Xenophon of the Retreat of the Ten Thousand, by John Bingham, 1623.
HELLENICS. Xenophon's History of Greece. _Tr._ by John Newman, 1685.
MEMORABILIA. The Banquet of X. done from the Greek ... with an introductory Essay concerning the Doctrine and Death of Socrates, by James Welwood, 1710.
XENOPHONS TREATISE OF HOUSHOLDE ryght counnyngly trãslated ... by Gentian Heruet, 1532.
=ZAPPI, GIAMBATTISTA F.= _b._ 1667, _d._ 1719. =Italian poet and jurist.=
=ZEND AVESTA.= 1200-800 B.C. _Translated_ by Arthur Henry Bleek. 3 volumes in 1. 1864.
[Comprises the ancient sacred writings of the Parsees.]
=ZOLA, ÉMILE.= _b._ 1840, _d._ 1902. =French novelist.=
_The Rougon-Macquart Series._ (Les Rougon Macquart; histoire Naturelle et Sociale d'une famille sous le Second Empire. 1871-1893.)
CLAUDE'S CONFESSION. _Tr._ by G. D. Cox, 1888.
1. THE FORTUNES OF THE ROUGONS. (La Fortune de Rougon). (1886.) _Tr._ 1871.
3. THE FAT AND THE THIN. (Le Ventre de Paris). (1888.) _Tr._ 1888.
4. THE CONQUEST OF PLASSONS. (La Conquête de Plassan). (1887.) _Tr._ 1887-8.
5. ABBÉ MOURET'S TRANSGRESSION. (Le Faute de l'Abbé Mouret). _Tr._ 1886-8.
6. HIS EXCELLENCY EUGÈNE ROUGON. _Tr._ 1887-90.