"THE HARVARD CLASSICS" EDITED BY CHARLES W ELIOT LL D LECTURES ON THE HARVARD CLASSICS BY WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON PHD GENERAL EDITOR AND GEORGE PIERCE BAKER, A. B. ERNEST BERNBAUM, Ph. D. THOMAS NIXON CARVER, Ph. D., LL. D. WILLIAM MORRIS DAVIS, M. E., Ph. D., ROLAND BURRAGE DIXON, A. M., Ph. D. KUNO FRANCKE, Ph. D., LL. D. (Cantab.) M. A. CHARLES ROCKWELL LANMAN, Ph. D., LL. D. GEORGE HOWARD PARKER, S. D. WILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER, A. M. CHARLES HENRY CONRAD WRIGHT, M. A. ASSOCIATE EDITORS PF COLLIER & SON NEW YORK Copyright, 1914 HARVARD COLLEGE Jan 14.1936 Pry. W. B. Newark Designed, Printed, and Bound at CONTENTS I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION. By Robert Matteson Johnston, M. A. (Cantab.), Assistant Professor of Modern History in Har- II. ANCIENT HISTORY. By William Scott Ferguson, Ph. D., Pro- III. THE RENAISSANCE. By Murray Anthony Potter, Ph. D., Assist- ant Professor of Romance Languages in Harvard University. PAGE V. THE TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION. By Carleton Noyes, A. M., formerly Instructor in English in Harvard University. II. HOMER AND THE EPIC. By Charles Burton Gulick, Ph. D., Professor of Greek in Harvard University, and (1911-1912) in the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. III. DANTE. By Charles Hall Grandgent, A. B., Professor of Ro- I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION. By Lawrence Joseph Henderson, III. PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY. By Lawrence Joseph Henderson, 113 118 M. D. IV. THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. By Lawrence Joseph Henderson, V. KELVIN ON "LIGHT" AND "THE TIDES." By William Morris |