MODERN EPOCH.--At the time of writing, Poland continues to be a literary nation well worthy of attention. She presents an example to the races which incur the risk of perishing as nations because of their political incapacity; by preserving their tongue and by sanctifying it with a worthy literature they guard their country and, like the Greeks and Italians, hope to reconquer it some day through the sudden turns of fortune shown in history. INDEX OF NAMES CITED A About Addison Aeschines Aeschylus Aesop Aicard Alarcon Alcasus Alcamo, Ciullo of Aleman Alexander Alfieri Alphonso X Alphonso XI Alvarez Ambrose, St. Amyot Anacreon Anaxagoras Andocides Anne, Queen Annunzio, Gabriel d' Antiphon Antonina Antonius Diogenes Apollonius Appian Apuleius Aratus Arcadius Archilochus Aretino Ariosto Aristophanes Aristotle Arnauld Arrian Asclepiades Athanasius, St. Attius Aubigné, Agrippa d' Augier Augustine, St. Augustus Aulard Aurispa Ausonius Avienus B Babrius Bacon, Francis Baldi Balzac, G. de Balzac, H. de Bandello Banville, T. de Barnave Barthari Basil, S. Bataille Batiouchkov Baudelaire Bayle Bazin Beaumarchais Beaumont Beccaria Belisarius Bellay, Joachim du Belleau Bembo Benserade Bentkowski Béranger Bergerac, Cyrano de Bergson Bernard, Tristan Bernardes Bernatowicz Berni Bernstein Bertaut Bielski, Joachim Bielski, Martin Bion Boccaccio Bodmer Boëtie, La Bogulawski Boileau Bojardo Bordeaux Bordello Bossuet Bourdaloue Bourget Boutroux Boylesve Brantôme Brieux Brontë, C. Brontë, E. Browning, E. B. Browning, Robert Brueys, de Brunetière Brunetto Buddha Buffon Bulwer-Lytton Bunyan Bürger Burgundy, Duke of Burns Burton, Robert Byron C