COMTE, AUGUSTE, made the _Imitation_ part of his Positivist
ritual, 72.
CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, THE, 48-55.
Influence on Churchmen, 49.
Reveals marvelous faith in God, 53.
CORSON, PROFESSOR HIRAM,
a great interpreter of Shakespeare, 25.
CRANCH, CHRISTOPHER P., author of one of the best metrical versions of
the _AEneid_, 34.
CULTURE, not confined to college graduates, xix.
An old sea captain's self culture, 5, 6.
DANTE, biography, 86, 87.
His _Divine Comedy_ one of the world's great books, 39.
Love of Beatrice his chief inspiration, 86.
DEFOE, DANIEL, biography, 125, 126.
_Robinson Crusoe_ his greatest work, 128.
_Colonel Jack_, _Moll Flanders_, _Roxana_, _Captain Singleton_,
_Memoirs of a Cavalier_, _Duncan Campbell_ and _Journal of the
Plague Year_, his other best known works, 126, 127.
One of the greatest of pamphleteers, 126.
Secrecy about life puzzle to biographers, 126.
Style formed on study of the Bible, 13.
DE MORGAN, WILLIAM, took up authorship at sixty, 61.
DE QUINCEY, THOMAS, his distinction between the literature of power
and the literature of knowledge, x.
His style full of Biblical phrases, 13.
DERBY, EARL OF, blank verse translation of the _Iliad_, 34.
DICKENS, CHARLES, novelist who gained fame in youth, 61.
DIVINE COMEDY, influence on great poets and prose writers, 89, 90.
Inspiration of Mazzini and New Italy, 84.
Mirrors the Italy of Dante's day, 88.
One of the greatest of the world's poems, 83, 84.
Tributes by Carlyle, Lowell and Longfellow, 89, 90, 91.
DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA, leader under whom Cervantes fought against
Moslems, 59.
DON QUIXOTE, character of hero, 58.
Greatest book in Spanish literature, 57.
Mirrors Spanish life and character, 62.
Written in prison, 61.
DRYDEN, JOHN, his verse, 106.
DUNCAN CAMPBELL, a story of second sight, by Defoe, 126.
DUMAS, ALEXANDRE, the elder, his remarkable literary development, 17.
ELIOT, DR. CHARLES W., his "five-foot shelf of books," xix.
ELIOT, GEORGE, her tribute to Thomas a Kempis, 72.
ELIZABETHAN AGE, its richness in great writers, 17.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO, Essays mosaic of quotations, 30.
How he wrote his essays, 66.
Influenced by Oriental poets, 30.
Recommends translations of classic and modern foreign authors, 85.
EPICTETUS, the Greek stoic, 37.
EMPEDOCLES ON ETNA, one of Matthew Arnold's finest poems, 32.