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 AEschylus, 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. RUBA'IYAT, THE, Omar Khayyam'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 Caesar_, 23. _Othello_, 23. _Antony and Cleopatra_, 24. Best means of studying Shakespeare, 25. Some of the best editions of Shakespeare, 26, 27.