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 a 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 _Ruba'iyat_ 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.