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 a 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 Khayyam, 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 Khayyam, who gave the poet a pension, 75, 76. ODYSSEY, THE, one of Homer's great epics, 34. OLD TESTAMENT, its splendid imagery, 10. OMAR KHAYYAM, author of _The Ruba'iyat_, 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. PHAEDO, 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 _Phaedo_, 36.