EDUCATION-Continued II. FRANCIS BACON. By Ernest Bernbaum, Ph. D., Instructor in English, III. LOCKE AND MILTON. By Henry Wyman Holmes, A. M., Assistant Pro- PAGE . 292 297 IV. CARLYLE AND NEWMAN. By Frank W. C. Hersey, A. M., Instructor in 304 V. HUXLEY ON SCIENCE AND CULTURE. BY A. O. Norton, A. M., Professor of 309 314 314 POLITICAL SCIENCE I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION. By Thomas Nixon Carver, Ph. D., LL. D., David III. ADAM SMITH AND THE "WEALTH OF NATIONS." By Charles J. Bullock, V. LAW AND LIBERTY. By Roscoe Pound, Ph. D., LL. M., Carter Professor DRAMA 332 337 342 347 352 I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION. By George Pierce Baker, A. B., Professor of 352 II. GREEK TRAGEDY. By Charles Burton Gulick, Ph. D., Professor of Greek, 369 374 III. THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMA. By William Allan Neilson, Ph. D. V. MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA. By Ernest Bernbaum, Ph. D., Instructor in VOYAGES AND TRAVEL I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION. By Roland Burrage Dixon, A. M., Ph. D., Assist- 379 384 389 389 II. HERODOTUS ON EGYPT. By George H. Chase, Ph. D., Assistant Professor 407 III. THE ELIZABETHAN ADVENTURERS. By William Allan Neilson, Ph. D. I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION. By Ralph Barton Perry, Ph. D., Professor of 427 RELIGION-Continued II. BUDDHISM. By Charles Rockwell Lanman, Ph. D., LL. D., Professor of III. CONFUCIANISM. By Alfred Dwight Sheffield, A. M., Instructor in Wellesley IV. GREEK RELIGION. By Clifford Herschel Moore, Ph. D., Professor of Latin V. PASCAL. By Charles Henry Conrad Wright, M. A., Professor of French PAGE 446 451 457 462 The Lecture Series on the contents of The Harvard Classics ought to do much to open that collection of literary materials to many ambitious young men and women whose education was cut short by the necessity of contributing in early life to the family earnings, or of supporting themselves, "and who must therefore reach the standing of a cultivated man or woman through the pleasurable devotion of a few minutes a day through many years to the reading of good literature.” (Introduction to The Harvard Classics.) The Series will also assist. many readers to cultivate "a taste for serious reading of the highest quality outside of The Harvard Classics as well as within them." (Ibid.) It will certainly promote the accomplishment of the educational object I had in mind when I made the collection. CHARLES W. ELIOT. The Harvard Classics provided the general reader with a great storehouse of standard works in all the main departments of intellectual activity. To this storehouse the Lectures now open the door. Through the Lectures the student is introduced to a vast range of topics, under the guidance of distinguished professors. The Five-Foot Shelf, with its introductions, notes, guides to reading, and exhaustive indexes, may thus claim to constitute with these Lectures a reading course unparalleled in comprehensiveness and authority. WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON. H HISTORY I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION BY PROFESSOR ROBERT MATTESON JOHNSTON ISTORY alone, of all modes of thought, places the reader above his author. While the historian more or less diligently plods along his own narrow path, perhaps the one millionth part of all history, every avenue opens wide to the imagination of those who read him. To them history may mean anything that concerns man and that has a past; not politics only, but art, and science, and music have had their birth and growth; not institutions only, but legends and chronicles and all the masterpieces of literature, reflect the clash of nations and the tragedies of great men. And it is just because the reader is merely a reader that the full joy of history is open to him. He wears no fetters, so that even were he bent on mastering the constitutional documents of the United States he could turn aside with a calm conscience to listen to the echoes of dying Roland's horn in the gorge of Roncevaux or to stand by Cnut watching the North Sea tide as it lapped the old Dane's feet. In all directions, in almost every branch of literature, history may be discovered, a multiform chameleon; and yet history does not really exist. No one has yet composed a record of humanity; and no one ever will, for it is beyond man's powers. Macaulay's history covered forty years; that of Thucydides embraced only the Peloponnesian war; Gibbon, a giant among the moderns, succeeded in spanning ten centuries after a fashion, but has found no imitators. The truth is there is no subject, save perhaps astronomy, that is quite so vast and quite so little known. Its outline, save in the sham history of text books, is entirely wanting. Its details, where really known to students, are infinitely difficult to bring into relation. For this reason it may be worth while to attempt, in the space of one short |