THE WARNER LIBRARY THE WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE EDITORS JOHN W. CUNLIFFE ASHLEY H. THORNDIKE PROFESSORS OF ENGLISH IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRINTED AT THE KNICKERBOCKER 1917 Copyright, 1896, by R. S. Peale and J. A. Hill Copyright, 1902, by J. A. Hill Copyright, 1913, by Warner Library Company Copyright, 1917, by United States Publishers Association, Inc. All Rights Reserved ADVISORY COUNCIL EDWIN A. ALDERMAN President of the University of Virginia RICHARD BURTON Professor of English in the University of Minnesota MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN American Ambassador to Denmark; Formerly Professor of Literature in the Catholic University of America BRANDER MATTHEWS Professor of Dramatic Literature in Columbia University WILLIAM LYON PHELPS Professor of English in Yale University PAUL SHOREY Professor of Greek in the University of Chicago WILLIAM M. SLOANE Seth Low Professor of History in Columbia University CRAWFORD H. TOY Professor Emeritus of Hebrew in Harvard University WILLIAM P. TRENT Professor of English Literature in Columbia University BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER President of the University of California GEORGE M. WRONG Professor of History in the University of Toronto 382751 |