JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR, a work of fiction by Defoe which surpasses
any genuine picture of London's great pestilence, 127.
JOWETT, DR. BENJAMIN, an Oxford professor and the best Greek scholar
of his time who made the finest version of Plato's _Phaedo_, 36.
JUAN FERNANDEZ ISLAND, scene of Robinson Crusoe's adventures, 125.
JULIUS CAESAR, one of Shakespeare's greatest historical tragedies, 23.
KEATS, JOHN; without knowing Greek or Latin, he reproduced
most perfectly the spirit of classical life in his _Ode to a Grecian
Urn_, and other poems, 31, 32.
KEMPIS, THOMAS A, author of _The Imitation of Christ_, 65-68.
Biography, 66-68.
KING LEAR, the tragedy of old age and children's ingratitude, 23.
KIPLING, RUDYARD, his great literary success at early age, 61.
KORAN, THE, its inferiority to the Bible, 10.
KRIEMHILD, the heroine in the _Nibelungenlied_, whose revenge resulted
in the slaughter of the Burgundian heroes, 44.
L'ALLEGRO, one of Milton's finest lyrics, 107.
LANE, EDWARD W., who wrote the best translation of the _Arabian
Nights_, 42.
LANG, ANDREW, joint author with Butcher of a prose translation of the
_Iliad_ and the _Odyssey_, 34.
LAPUTA, the floating island in _Gulliver's Travels_, 131.
LEO, BROTHER, Professor of English Literature in St. Mary's College,
Oakland, Calif., the editor of a good cheap edition of _The
Imitation of Christ_, 73.
LILLIPUT, a land in _Gulliver's Travels_ inhabited by pygmies, 131.
LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON, Scott's son-in-law and biographer, who edited a
good edition of _Don Quixote_, 60.
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH, translated the _Divine Comedy_ by working
fifteen minutes every morning, 8.
His tribute to Dante, 90, 91.
LOPE DE VEGA, the most prolific of Spanish playwrights, 58.
LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL, attributed his love of learning to reading
Dante, 90.
LYCIDAS, Milton's exquisite lament over the death of a young
friend, 107.
MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON, his wide reading in India, 8.
Essays rich in allusions to many authors, 104.
Essay on Boswell's Johnson, 122.
MACBETH, Shakespeare's tragedy of guilty ambition, 22, 23.
MANTELL, ROBERT, one of the greatest living interpreters of
Shakespeare on the stage, 15.