tions as this. At the close of each chapter is appended a reference list of easily obtainable works in history, literature, and criticism. Since the impulse of the book is to encourage the reader to investigate the literature itself, good editions and translations of the classics are cited. Topics for special study are suggested as well.

For the shortcomings of this book the authors must, of course, accept full responsibility. It is pleasant, however, to record in this place our appreciation of the helpful advice and criticism of a number of friends, especially the following: Dean Roy C. Flickinger and Professor William F. Bryan, of Northwestern University; Reverend P. F. O'Brien, Professor of Latin in the St. Paul Seminary; Miss Carolina Marcial Dorado, of Columbia University; Dr. Edwin H. Lewis and Mlle. Lea De Lagneau, of Lewis Institute, Chicago; Mlle. Bertha de C. Favard, of Hyde Park High School, Chicago; Dr. Philip S. Allen, of The University of Chicago; and Professor Frederick W. Roe, of the University of Wisconsin. In particular we are indebted to Brother Leo, Professor of Literature in St. Mary's College, Oakland, California, and to Mr. Walter Taylor Field for time most generously taken in reading the entire manuscript.

For the permission to use copyrighted material we heartily thank the following publishers:

United States Publishers Association (several extracts from the Warner Library, University Edition, Cunliffe and Thorndike, Editors, 1917). Oxford University Press (quotation from "Count Arnaldos," in Miss Farnell's "Spanish Prose and Poetry"; extracts from the Gilbert Murray translations of Euripides' "Trojan Women" and "Baccha"; and the H. W. Garrod translation from Catullus).

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Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons (two quotations from Barrett Wendell's "Traditions of European Literature from Homer to Dante"; extracts from Douglas Hyde's "Literary History of Ireland" and from Dowden's "History of French Literature").

The John Lane Company (Paul Verlaine's "Chanson d'Automne," translation by Arthur Symons; extract from "When I was Oneand-Twenty," from Housman's "A Shropshire Lad").

Messrs. D. Appleton and Company (extract from the Cary translation of Herodotus).

Messrs. Little, Brown and Company (Emily Dickinson's "Autumn"). The Thomas Y. Crowell Company (extract from Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina," English translation).

Messrs. Longmans, Green & Company (three epigrams from Mackail's "Greek Anthology").

Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Company (sonnet from Sewall's "Poems of Carducci").

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The Houghton Mifflin Company (quotations from Williams's "Eneid"; from the Charles Eliot Norton translation of Dante; and from the Isabel Butler translation of "The Song of Roland"; and from the writings of Lowell, Longfellow, Emerson, Whittier, and Holmes). The David McKay Company (extracts from Walt Whitman). The Century Company (a passage from Gorky's "My Childhood"). The Macmillan Company (two stanzas from George W. Russell's "Hermit"; Padraic Colum's "Cradle Song"; a portion of John Masefield's "Wanderer's Song," in "Saltwater Ballads"; one stanza of Christina Rossetti's "A Birthday"; D. G. Rossetti's "Beauty" and his translation of Villon's "Ballade of Dead Ladies").

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