Index

Addison, Joseph, suggestion of the Spectator given by Defoe, 126.

Agamemnon, The, FitzGerald's version, 79.

Æneid, The, features of great Latin epic, 33, 34.

Æschylus, 36.

Alcott, A. Bronson, introduced Emerson to German philosophy, 30.

Analects of Confucius, 39.

Antigone, the greatest of Sophocles' tragedies, 36.

Antony and Cleopatra, 24.

Apollyon, his famous fight with Christian, 115.

Arabian Nights, 39-43.

Arnold, Matthew, his imitation of Greek lyrics, 32; his fondness for The Imitation of Christ, 71.

Areopagitica, The, one of Milton's finest prose works, 102.

Baconian Theory, its absurdity, 14, 15.

Balzac, Le Pere Goriot, a study of a father's unselfish sacrifices, 23.

Bible, The, xx: 9-13. Comfort in time of sorrow, 11, 12. Culture from study of it, 12, 13. Greatness compared with other books, 10. Men who formed their style on it, 12, 13. Soul of the Bible, The, a fine condensation of the Scriptures, 11. Zophar's words to Job, 12.

Boccaccio's Tales, 39.

Bohn's Translations, 37.

Booth, Edwin, his magnificent interpretation of Hamlet, 24, 25.

Boswell, James, his Life of Dr. Johnson, 117.

Brobdingnag, the land of giants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, 131.

Brunhilde, one of the heroines of The Nibelungenlied, 45.

Bryant, William Cullen, his metrical version of the Iliad and the Odyssey, 34.

Bunyan, John, 100, 109. Biography, 109-111. Comparison between Bunyan and Milton, 108, 109. Holy War, The, a good allegory, 112. Life in Bedford jail, 111. Saturated with the Bible, 114.

Burton, Sir Richard, his unexpurgated edition of the Arabian Nights, 42.

Byron, Lord, epigram on Cervantes, 57.

Calderon, FitzGerald's version of several plays of, 79.

Captain Singleton, one of Defoe's romances dealing with African adventure, 126, 127.

Carlyle, Thomas, Essay on the Nibelungenlied, 46. Essay on Boswell's Johnson, 127. Tribute to Dante, 89, 90.

Cervantes, his adventurous career, 58-60. Life at Rome, 59. Wounded at Lepanto, 59. Wrote Don Quixote at age of fifty-eight, 60.

Chesterfield, Lord, Dr. Johnson dedicated his Dictionary to him, 120. Johnson's bitter satirical letter to him as patron, 121, 122.

Childe Harold, 57.

Cicero, eloquence in his letters, 37.

Cleopatra, pictured by Shakespeare as the greatest siren of history, 24.

Colonel Jack, an entertaining picaresque romance by Defoe, 127.

Comedies of Shakespeare, 19.

Comte, Auguste, made the Imitation part of his Positivist ritual, 72.

Confessions of St. Augustine, The, 48-55. Influence on Churchmen, 49. Reveals marvelous faith in God, 53.

Corson, Professor Hiram, a great interpreter of Shakespeare, 25.

Cranch, Christopher P., author of one of the best metrical versions of the Æneid, 34.

Culture, not confined to college graduates, xix. An old sea captain's self culture, 5, 6.

Dante, biography, 86, 87. His Divine Comedy one of the world's great books, 39. Love of Beatrice his chief inspiration, 86.

Defoe, Daniel, biography, 125, 126. Robinson Crusoe his greatest work, 128. Colonel Jack, Moll Flanders, Roxana, Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a Cavalier, Duncan Campbell and Journal of the Plague Year, his other best known works, 126, 127. One of the greatest of pamphleteers, 126. Secrecy about life puzzle to biographers, 126. Style formed on study of the Bible, 13.

De Morgan, William, took up authorship at sixty, 61.

De Quincey, Thomas, his distinction between the literature of power and the literature of knowledge, x. His style full of Biblical phrases, 13.

Derby, Earl of, blank verse translation of the Iliad, 34.

Dickens, Charles, novelist who gained fame in youth, 61.

Divine Comedy, influence on great poets and prose writers, 89, 90. Inspiration of Mazzini and New Italy, 84. Mirrors the Italy of Dante's day, 88. One of the greatest of the world's poems, 83, 84. Tributes by Carlyle, Lowell and Longfellow, 89, 90, 91.

Don John of Austria, leader under whom Cervantes fought against Moslems, 59.

Don Quixote, character of hero, 58. Greatest book in Spanish literature, 57. Mirrors Spanish life and character, 62. Written in prison, 61.

Dryden, John, his verse, 106.

Duncan Campbell, a story of second sight, by Defoe, 126.

Dumas, Alexandre, the elder, his remarkable literary development, 17.

Eliot, Dr. Charles W., his "five-foot shelf of books," xix.

Eliot, George, her tribute to Thomas à Kempis, 72.

Elizabethan Age, its richness in great writers, 17.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Essays mosaic of quotations, 30. How he wrote his essays, 66. Influenced by Oriental poets, 30. Recommends translations of classic and modern foreign authors, 85.

Epictetus, the Greek stoic, 37.

Empedocles on Etna, one of Matthew Arnold's finest poems, 32.

Euripides, 36.

Fitzgerald, Edward, Biography, 77, 78. Friend of Tennyson and Thackeray, 77. His version of the Rubá'iyát made Omar's work famous, 78, 79. Other translations, 79.

Five-foot Shelf of Books, xix, 93.

Fox's Book of Martyrs, 109.

Galland, Antoine, introduced the Arabian Nights to Europe, 42.

Garrick, David, the famous English actor who, as a youth, tramped to London with Dr. Johnson, 119.

Gibbon, Edward, in advance of his age, 116, 117. On love of reading, ix. Member of Dr. Johnson's Club, 120.

Goethe, his Faust ranks with Shakespeare's best plays, 16. Comparison between Mephistopheles and Iago, 23.

Goldsmith, Oliver comment on Dr. Johnson's method in argument, 118.

Gordon, General, influence over barbarous races, 51, 52. Had the Imitation in his pocket when he fell at Khartoum, 72.

Grace Abounding, one of Bunyan's minor works, 110.

Grenfell, Dr. Wilfred T., medical missionary to Labrador and one of the most stimulating of the writers of the day, 51. What the Bible Means to Me; full of helpful suggestions, 52.

Gulliver's Travels, Swift's greatest work, 129-131. Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the land of the Houyhnhnms, 131.

Hamlet, the finest creative work of Shakespeare, 20, 22, 24, 96.

Helen of Troy, 35.

Holy War, The, one of Bunyan's religious allegories, 112.

Homer, 31, 33, 34, 35. The Iliad leads all classical works, 33, 34. Many translators of the Iliad, 34. Pictures of old Greek Life, 35.

Horace, no satisfactory translation of his odes, 31.

Houyhnhnms, The, Land in Gulliver's Travels, in which the Horse is King and men are vile slaves called Yahoos, 131.

Iliad, The, the greatest literary masterpiece of antiquity, 34.

Il Penseroso, one of Milton's finest lyrics, 107.

Imitation of Christ, The, by Thomas à Kempis, 39, 64-71. Appeal for the spiritual life, 70. Best editions, 73. Famous writers bear testimony to its influence, 71, 72. Its inspiration drawn directly from the Bible, 68. Some quotations, 71.

Ivanhoe, 113.

Jefferies, Richard, a young English writer who reproduced the very spirit of classical life, 31. The Story of My Heart, 32.

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 116-122. Biography, 118-120. His best poems, London and The Vanity of Human Wishes, 119, 121. His best prose, The Lives of the Poets, and Life of Richard Savage, 119, 120. His famous letter to Lord Chesterfield, 121, 122. Rare qualities of old Doctor's character, 123. Boswell's Life of, 117, 122, 123.

Johnson, Esther (Stella) one of the two women Swift loved to their cost, 129.

Jonson, Ben, 15.

Journal of the Plague Year, a work of fiction by Defoe which surpasses any genuine picture of London's great pestilence, 127.

Jowett, Dr. Benjamin, an Oxford professor and the best Greek scholar of his time who made the finest version of Plato's Phædo, 36.

Juan Fernandez Island, scene of Robinson Crusoe's adventures, 125.

Julius Cæsar, one of Shakespeare's greatest historical tragedies, 23.

Keats, John; without knowing Greek or Latin, he reproduced most perfectly the spirit of classical life in his Ode to a Grecian Urn, and other poems, 31, 32.

Kempis, Thomas à, author of The Imitation of Christ, 65-68. Biography, 66-68.

King Lear, the tragedy of old age and children's ingratitude, 23.

Kipling, Rudyard, his great literary success at early age, 61.

Koran, The, its inferiority to the Bible, 10.

Kriemhild, the heroine in the Nibelungenlied, whose revenge resulted in the slaughter of the Burgundian heroes, 44.

L'Allegro, one of Milton's finest lyrics, 107.

Lane, Edward W., who wrote the best translation of the Arabian Nights, 42.

Lang, Andrew, joint author with Butcher of a prose translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey, 34.

Laputa, the floating island in Gulliver's Travels, 131.

Leo, Brother, Professor of English Literature in St. Mary's College, Oakland, Calif., the editor of a good cheap edition of The Imitation of Christ, 73.

Lilliput, a land in Gulliver's Travels inhabited by pygmies, 131.

Lockhart, John Gibson, Scott's son-in-law and biographer, who edited a good edition of Don Quixote, 60.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, translated the Divine Comedy by working fifteen minutes every morning, 8. His tribute to Dante, 90, 91.

Lope de Vega, the most prolific of Spanish playwrights, 58.

Lowell, James Russell, attributed his love of learning to reading Dante, 90.

Lycidas, Milton's exquisite lament over the death of a young friend, 107.

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, his wide reading in India, 8. Essays rich in allusions to many authors, 104. Essay on Boswell's Johnson, 122.

Macbeth, Shakespeare's tragedy of guilty ambition, 22, 23.

Mantell, Robert, one of the greatest living interpreters of Shakespeare on the stage, 15.

Manzoni, 84.

Marcus Aurelius, his Meditations, 33. Simplicity of character when master of the Roman world, 37.

Marlowe, Christopher, a contemporary of Shakespeare, whose plays are almost unreadable today, 15.

Mazzini, Giuseppe, the the Italian patriot who regarded Dante as the prophet of the New Italy, 84, 89.

Medea, one of the greatest of the tragedies of Euripides, 36.

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, one of the famous Latin classics that is very modern in feeling, 33.

Memoirs of a Cavalier, one of Defoe's graphic romances of the time of Cromwell, 126.

Merchant of Venice, one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, 21.

Mill on the Floss, one of George Eliot's best novels, in which Maggie Tulliver feels the influence of Thomas à Kempis, 72.

Milton, John, 100-103. Biography, 101-103. Paradise Lost, dictated in blindness, 103. Sonnet on his blindness, 107.

Moll Flanders, the romance of a London courtesan, by Defoe, 127.

Morris, William, his Sigurd the Volsung, 46.

Naishapur, the home of Omar Khayyám, 75.

Nibelungenlied, The, a German epic poem of the first half of the Thirteenth Century, 44, 47. Story of the murder of Siegfried and the revenge of Kriemhild told in Wagner's operas, 45, 46.

Nizam ul Mulk, Vizier of Persia and school friend of Omar Khayyám, who gave the poet a pension, 75, 76.

Odyssey, The, one of Homer's great epics, 34.

Old Testament, its splendid imagery, 10.

Omar Khayyám, author of The Rubá'iyát, 74-77. Biography, 75-77.

Othello, Shakespeare's tragedy of jealousy, 23.

Paradise Lost, 100-106. Modeled on the classical epics, 104. Richness of imagery and allusions to classical mythology, 104. Blank verse of the poem unsurpassed in English literature, 106. Specimens of style, 106.

Payne, John, translator of the Arabian Nights for the Villon Society, 42.

Pepys' Diary, description of the great plague in London, 127.

Phædo, Plato's version of the Dialogues of Socrates, 36.

Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan's great romance, 108-113. Evidences of close study of the Bible in this book, 114. Fight between Christian and Apollyon, 115. A literary masterpiece by a poor, self-educated English tinker, 115.

Pigskin Library, The, a collation of books carried by Colonel Roosevelt on his African game-hunting trip, 9.

Plato, the Dialogues of Socrates, 31. Jowett's translation of the Phædo, 36.

Pliny, his letters bring the classical world very near to us, 37.

Plutarch's Lives, 36.

Pope, Alexander, translation of the Iliad, 33, 34. Artificial verse of, 106.

Prometheus, Bound, a tragedy of Æschylus, 36.

Pusey, Dr. E. B., leader of the Tractarian movement in England, who translated the Confessions of St. Augustine, 51.

Rambler, The, weekly journal written and published by Dr. Johnson, which suggested the Spectator to Addison, 119.

Reading Clubs, suggestions for forming them, 97, 98.

Republic, The, Plato's picture of an ideal commonwealth, 36.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, famous artist and associate of Dr. Johnson, 120.

Robinson Crusoe, 124-128. The world's greatest book of adventure for children, 124, 125. Instant success of the book, 126. Materials furnished by a castaway on Juan Fernandez Island, 128. Art shown in describing Crusoe's solitude and his moral and religious reflections, 128, 129.

Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's great tragedy of unhappy love, 21.

Roosevelt, Col., his Pigskin library, 9. His best literary work done in African Game Trails, 9.

Roxana, one of Defoe's romances of a woman of London's tenderloin, 127.

Rubá'iyát, The, Omar Khayyám's great poem, 39, 74, 78-81. Its world-wide vogue due to FitzGerald's splendid free version, 74, 75. Its Oriental imagery, 75. Omar's Epicureanism largely imaginary, 80. Specimen quatrains from FitzGerald's version, 81.

Ruskin, John, his splendid diction due to early Bible study, 13.

Sancho Panza, squire to Don Quixote, 56.

St. Augustine, the most famous father of the Latin church of the fourth century, author of the Confessions, 39, 49, 50, 54, 55. Biography, 53-55. Influence of the Confessions, 54. His tribute to his mother, Monica, 55.

Scott, Sir Walter, among English authors next to Shakespeare in creative power, 20.

Selkirk, Alexander, the English sailor whose adventures gave Defoe the materials for Robinson Crusoe, 128.

Shakespeare, 14-28. Ranks next to Bible, 14. His plays very modern, 15. Robert Mantell in his finest roles, 15, 16. Rhymes in the blank verse give clue to order of the plays, 18. Comedies the work of his early years, 19. The period of great tragedies, 19, 20. His last three plays, The Tempest, Cymbeline, and The Winter's Tale, 20. Enormous creative activity, 20. Hamlet sums up human life, 20, 21, 22. Romeo and Juliet, 21. The Merchant of Venice, 21. As You Like It, 22. Macbeth, 22, 23. Julius Cæsar, 23. Othello, 23. Antony and Cleopatra, 24. Best means of studying Shakespeare, 25. Some of the best editions of Shakespeare, 26, 27.

Sheherezade, the Queen in The Arabian Nights who saved her life by relating the tales of The Thousand and One Nights to her husband, Sultan Schariar of India, 41.

Siegfried, one of the heroes of The Nibelungenlied who is foully slain by Prince Hagen, 45.

Smollett, Tobias, an English novelist who wrote Humphrey Clinker and Roderick Random, 60.

Socrates, 36.

Sophocles, Œdipus, 31.

Soul of the Bible, The, a condensed version of the Old and New Testaments which will be found useful by Bible students, 11.

Story of My Heart, The, an eloquent book by Richard Jefferies in which the spiritual aspirations of a self-educated young man are vividly described, 32.

Strayed Reveler, A, one of Matthew Arnold's finest lyrical poems, 32.

Stanley, Henry M., his autobiography records the great work done by a poor foundling whose spirit in boyhood was nearly crushed by cruelty, 53.

Stella, the pet name given by Dean Swift to Esther Johnson, a young woman whom he immortalized by his journal, written for her amusement, 129, 130, 131.

Swift, Jonathan, Dean of St. Patrick's, one of the greatest of English writers and author of Gulliver's Travels, 129, 130.

Tale of a Tub, The, a vitriolic satire in verse by Swift, 130.

Temple, Sir William, an English statesman and author and patron of Swift, 129.

Tennant, Dorothy, widow of Stanley, who edited his Autobiography, 53.

Uttoxeter, a Staffordshire town where Dr. Johnson did penance for harsh words spoken years before to his father, 123.

Vanessa, the name given by Swift to Esther Vanhomrigh, a brilliant pupil who fell in love with him and was ruined, like "Stella," 129, 130.

Vedder, Elihu, the American artist who illustrated the Rubá'iyát, 82.

Virgil, difficulty in translating his work, 33. Story of the Æneid, 35, 36.

Wagner, Richard, his great operas drawn from the principal incidents of The Nibelungenlied and allied Norse epics, 45, 46.

Woodberry, George E., his opinion that Dante is untranslatable, 85.

Yahoo, in Gulliver's Travels a race of slaves with the form of men but with none their of virtues, 131.

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

Minor punctuation corrections have been made without comment.

Corrected spelling on p. 46, "Sigura" to "Sigurd" (Sigurd the Volsung, by William Morris).

Added page number (82) to "Index" listing for "VEDDER, ELIHU" on p. 171.

Word Variations:

"Alexander" (1) and "Alexandre" (1) (---- Dumas)

"every-day" (2) and "everyday" (3)

"Scheherezade" (3) and "Sheherezade" (1)