IL PENSEROSO, one of Milton's finest lyrics, 107. IMITATION OF CHRIST, THE, by Thomas a 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 _Phaedo_, 36. JUAN FERNANDEZ ISLAND, scene of Robinson Crusoe's adventures, 125. JULIUS CAESAR, 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 A, 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.