Produced by Al Haines [Frontispiece: Thomas H. Huxley] THE HARVARD CLASSICS EDITED BY CHARLES W ELIOT LL D ESSAYS ENGLISH AND AMERICAN WITH INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS "DR ELIOT'S FIVE-FOOT SHELF OF BOOKS" P F COLLIER & SON NEW YORK [Transcriber's note: This book contains a number of Greek fragments. Most of these fragments (the smaller ones) were transliterated into their English equivalents using the guidelines in Project Gutenberg's "Greek How-To". The three largest fragments were scanned and inserted into the HTML version of this e-book as images. Those three fragments are all in Matthew Arnold's "The Study of Poetry" section of this book, with translations (not transliterations) of them in footnotes 3, 4, and 5.] Copyright 1910 BY P. F. COLLIER & Son Copyright 1886 BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL By arrangement with HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY Copyright 1889 BY THE TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY OF HARTFORD, CONN. Copyright 1891 BY THE TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY CONTENTS JONATHAN SWIFT WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY I. WHAT IS A UNIVERSITY? II. SITE OF A UNIVERSITY III. UNIVERSITY LIFE AT ATHENS JOHN HENRY NEWMAN THE STUDY OF POETRY MATTHEW ARNOLD SESAME AND LILIES LECTURE I--SESAME: OF KINGS' TREASURIES LECTURE II--LILIES: OF QUEENS' GARDENS JOHN RUSKIN JOHN MILTON WALTER BAGEHOT SCIENCE AND CULTURE THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY RACE AND LANGUAGE EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN TRUTH OF INTERCOURSE SAMUEL PEPYS ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ON THE ELEVATION OF THE LABORING CLASSES WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING THE POETIC PRINCIPLE EDGAR ALLAN POE WALKING HENRY DAVID THOREAU ABRAHAM LINCOLN DEMOCRACY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL _INTRODUCTORY NOTE_ _William Makepeace Thackeray, one of the greatest of English novelists, was born at Calcutta, India, on July 18, 1811, where his father held an administrative position. He was sent to England at six for his education, which he received at the Charterhouse and Cambridge, after which he began, but did not prosecute, the study of law. Having lost his means, in part by gambling, he made up his mind to earn his living as an artist, and went to Paris to study. He had some natural gift for drawing, which he had already employed in caricature, but, though he made interesting and amusing illustrations for his books, he never acquired any marked technical skill._ _He now turned to literature, and, on the strength of an appointment as Paris correspondent of a short-lived radical newspaper, he married. On the failure of the newspaper he took to miscellaneous journalism and the reviewing of books and pictures, his most important work appearing in "Fraser's Magazine" and "Punch." In 1840 his wife's mind became clouded, and, though she never recovered, she lived on till 1894._