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 _AEneid_, 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.