BOOTH, EDWIN, his magnificent interpretation of Hamlet, 24, 25.
BOSWELL, JAMES, his _Life of Dr. Johnson_, 117.
BROBDINGNAG, the land of giants in Swift's _Gulliver's Travels_, 131.
BRUNHILDE, one of the heroines of _The Nibelungenlied_, 45.
BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN, his metrical version of the _Iliad_ and the
_Odyssey_, 34.
BUNYAN, JOHN, 100, 109.
Biography, 109-111.
Comparison between Bunyan and Milton, 108, 109.
_Holy War, The_, a good allegory, 112.
Life in Bedford jail, 111.
Saturated with the Bible, 114.
BURTON, SIR RICHARD, his unexpurgated edition of the _Arabian
Nights_, 42.
BYRON, LORD, epigram on Cervantes, 57.
CALDERON, FitzGerald's version of several plays of, 79.
CAPTAIN SINGLETON, one of Defoe's romances dealing with African
adventure, 126, 127.
CARLYLE, THOMAS, Essay on the _Nibelungenlied_, 46.
Essay on _Boswell's Johnson_, 127.
Tribute to Dante, 89, 90.
CERVANTES, his adventurous career, 58-60.
Life at Rome, 59.
Wounded at Lepanto, 59.
Wrote _Don Quixote_ at age of fifty-eight, 60.
CHESTERFIELD, LORD, Dr. Johnson dedicated his Dictionary to him, 120.
Johnson's bitter satirical letter to him as patron, 121, 122.