The author has endeavored in these pages to sketch, in outline, a
subject that has not, as far as she knows, been treated as an exclusive
work by the schoolmen.
Written more in the narrative style than as a textbook, it is intended
to awaken interest in the subject of the interdependence of the
literatures of all ages and peoples; and with the hope that a larger
and more exhaustive account of a very fascinating subject may some day
be published.
Chicago, Ill., June, 1916.