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Index
The Harvard Classics in a Year
Introduction
Dr. Eliot's Reading Guide for The Harvard Classics
The Purpose of This Book
What Shall I Read Tonight?
How Dr. Eliot Solved Your Reading Problem
The Harvard Classics Embrace the Sum-Total of Literature and Life
What The Five-Foot Shelf Brings To You
The Magnificent Special Features in The Harvard Classics
Introductory Lectures
The Footnotes
The General Index
The Readers’ Guide
Selections for Boys and Girls From Twelve to Eighteen Years of Age
The Lecture Volume
The Daily Reading Guide
JANUARY
Franklin's Advice for the New Year
School-Day Poems of John Milton
Cicero on Friendship
A Flounder Fish Story
The Soaring Eagle and Contented Stork
Warned by Hector's Ghost
If He Yawned, She Lost Her Head!
Trying the Patience of Job
A Treasure Hunt in Nombre de Dios
Where Love Lies Waiting
Hamilton - Father of Wall Street
What Is Good Taste?
Rousseau Seeks Sanctuary in England
The First Step Toward Independence
"The Moving Finger Writes"
The Old Woman and the Wine Jar
Franklin's Family Tree
Origin of Yale "Brekekekex-Ko-ax"
Poe on Poetry
"Ah! It Is St. Agnes. Eve-"
The Nightingale's Healing Melody
A King's Pleasure Now Yours
Pascal Knew Men and Triangles
Odysseus Silenced the Sirens
A Field Mouse Made Famous
In the Cradle of Civilization
Dante and Beatrice in Paradise
Man's Wings
Visits the Land of Fire
January 30th
First Problem Play Popular
What "Don Quixote" Really Slew
FEBRUARY
King Arthur's Knights Find Holy Grail
"Apparel Oft Proclaims the Man"
A House of Mirth and Revelry
"Genius, a Secret to Itself"
Diamonds, Diamonds Everywhere!
Charles Lamb Suggests To-day's Reading
A Letter from a Lion
Tragic Death of a World-Famous Beauty
Rest Between Wars
No Fancy for a Plain Gentleman
The Queen Freezes Her Philosophy
Oxford Corrects Lincoln's Mistake
The Frank Story of an Amazing Life
Love Always Young
The World Well Lost?
Social Circles Among Ants
Death His Curtain Call
Lasting Peace with Great Britain
Earthly Experience of a Chinese Goddess
Voltaire Observes the Quakers
Does Football Make a College?
An Ode for Washington's Birthday
Pepys' Nose for News
Lights and Shadows of Milton
Punished for Too Sharp a Wit
A David Who Side-stepped Goliath
Poet Apostle of Good Cheer
Spoke Latin First
Goethe's Tale of a Maiden in Love
MARCH
Invented Sir Roger de Coverly
What Sailors Do on Sunday
For Poets and Fishermen
Penn - Pioneer, Thinker, and Builder
Laughed at Locks
West Point's Outcast, America's First Great Poet
Bacon Warns Judges
Dangerous Experiment with a Wife
Common Sense and Good Manners
Beaumont - The Adonis of Elizabethan Playwrights
Gain Gleaned from Suffering
An Irish Bishop's Wit
Before Nobility Ran Tea Rooms
A Maiden's Forfeit
Crabs Climb Trees?
An Old Irish Legend
New Way to Pay Old Debts
Seeing Old Egypt
Apples, Feathers, and Coals
1,000 Years of History on the Surface of a Shield
From Puppet Show to Majestic Drama
First of a Thousand Harem Stories
A Queen Pleads
How Conscience Makes Cowards of Us All
"2,500 Years Ago Æsop Said . . ."
When Is a Lie Not a Lie?
Pins and Other Points
Hero and Goddess Break Engagement
The Plague of Milan
The Ghastly Whim of John Donne
APRIL
"Oh! to Be in England Now That April's There"
A Spoon Dances in the Moonlight
Romance with a Happy Ending
The Mistakes of a Night
You and Your Dreams
Who Is Bad?
Nature Guided His Pen
Beware the Vengeful Hounds!
A Perfect Land in a Wilderness of Waters
Americans - by Will of the King
Danger in Being Young and Fair
The Perfect Argument
Michelangelo His Boon Companion
A Raid on Spanish Treasure in America
O Captain! My Captain!
Inside the Gates of Hell
Benjamin Franklin - Book Salesman
Ready for Adventures and Conquests
Battle of Concord
Byron Gave His Life for Freedom
Books as Windows to the Past
Happiness as a Duty
"If You Have Poison for Me, I Will Drink It"
Nineteen Million Elephants
Mighty Rome Feared These Men
Do Miracles Still Happen
He Dared to See Forbidden Beauty
"Vanity of Vanities," Saith the Preacher
How I Got Rich - by Sindbad the Sailor
Washington's Dictum on Private Life
MAY
What Would You Ask Judas Iscariot?
First Sparks of Electricity
Why "Machiavellian"?
A Champion of Science
Strange Adventures in Man's Clothes
A Poor Artist Defies a Rich Duke
A Bishop Bargains
Behind the Screen in the School for Scandal
Relation of Art to Freedom
A Knight Among Cannibals
Latest Gossip in Malfi
His Wife's Golden Hair Enshrined His Poems
What Does Your Dog Think of You?
Jenner's Amazing Smallpox Cure
Glimpses Into the Beyond
Favorite Superstitions of Celtic Imagination
An Honest Life's Reward
The Night Life of Flowers
Golden Advice on Manners
Shakespeare's Finest Work
An Honest Man Defined
True Love in Difficulty
A Plea for an Unfortunate
They Had No Money - Yet Bought and Sold
Do What You Fear
Daughter Declares Her Love
Lessing's Courageous Stand for Toleration
Master of Melodious Lyrics
Adventures in Bagdad
When the Throb of the War Drum Is Stifl'd
America's Most Surprising Poet
JUNE
Thrilling Play by Tutor of Shakespeare
"Back to Nature" in the Seventeenth Century
Pulse Aids Epochal Discoveries
'Neath the Iron Hand of Spain
The Rent of Land from Human Food
A Shrill Cry in the Night!
"There's Rosemary - that's for Remembrance!"
Eloquence Wins Over Prejudice
Enchanting Songs of David
Horrible Prophecy Fulfilled
He Sang of His Beautiful Elizabeth
Vishnu Holds Up a Battle
Athens Flouts Aristides
A Philosopher Prefers Prison Cell
Strikers Storm the Tower of London
Spirits at the Top of the World
Risked His Scalp in Prayer
Cinderella Lives To-day
Freaks of the Dog Fad in England
No Salt for These Birds
Would You Converse with Royalty?
Pliny Tells Ghost Stories
Greek Scholar at Three
Had No Right Hand
Advice to Virgins from a Wise Man
In the Lair of the Green-Eyed Monster
Do You Take Poison Daily?
Pages from the Pampas Book of Etiquette
"Is That a Dagger I See Before Me?"
Rather King Than Majority
JULY
Darwin Not First Evolutionist
"Julius" Becomes "July"
Gettysburg by an Eyewitness
Some Chose to Remain British Subjects
A Tailor Entertains a King
The Origin of "Utopia"
Scandal That Lurked Behind Lace and Powder
Italy's Fair Assassin
A Little Lying Now and Then
America's First Immigrants
Star Gazing - A Cure for Tired Minds
But He Walked!
Athenians Also Complained of Taxes
The French People Triumph
When Elizabeth Dined
The Mohammedan Jesus
A Throne for Son or Stepson?
They Loved in Vain
She Wanted Heroes All to Herself
A Cobbler in Jail
Scotland's Own Poet
Trapped in a Cave with a Frenzied Giant
Friendship Above Love?
Indian Sorcery Blamed for an Earthquake
A Goddess and Her Mortal Lover
Peace Amid Strife
Once Surgeons Operated in Frock Coats
An Idyl of Agriculture
Stonehenge - England's Unsolved Mystery
The First English Colony in North America
Charm School for Women
AUGUST
His Influence Still Lives
Poems from a Heart of Love
When the Greeks Sacked Troy
World's Greatest Bedtime Stories
Joys of the Simple Life
A Prophet of Aerial Warfare
The Last Golden Words of Socrates
Men Transformed by Circe's Wand
English Bridal Party Jailed
"Give Them Cake," said the Queen
Clever Repartee of Epictetus
Zekle's Courtin'
Too Close to See the Battle
A College Boy Goes to Sea
Into Death's Face He Flung This Song
Inspiring Ritual of Temple Worship
Three Walls Luther Saw
"I Took Her by the Hair and Dragged Her Up and Down"
Roses Boiled in Wine
Plot Against Eve
Hidden Treasures in an Old Book
Aboard the Old Sailing Ships
Which Is a Beautiful Woman?
Survivor's Story of Vesuvius
Britain Saved by a Full Moon
The Prince of Wales Wins His Spurs
Priceless Treasures of Memory
The World's Love Tragedy
Cleopatra Bewitches Mark Antony
Simple Life in a Palace
America's Greatest Thinker
SEPTEMBER
Expelled from College, Founded a City
Too Great a Price for Love
Seven Years to Reach England
Voltaire Criticizes
Survival of the Fittest
The Pride of All Scotchmen
The King's Love
When Europe Lay Under Ice
When Nature Beckons
Famous Poet-Physician
Wages - Why and How Much?
Love Letters of Elizabeth Browning
Good That Came from a Game Pit
Dante and St. Peter
Refused to Serve Three Terms
Penalty for Silence
Romance on a New England Farm
Home After Storms and Adventures
Humor That Survived Slavery
Women's Rights in the Harem
Æneas and the Old Witch
A King for a Souvenir
Dying Concerns Every Man
Citizens Lured from Their Homes
A Courtship of Twenty Years
And the World Rocked with Laughter
Pascal's Fundamentals of Religion
He Introduced the Germ
Prophet of 400 Million People
A Gentleman According to Emerson
OCTOBER
Princes To-day and Yesterday
Veteran Tells of Indian War
Good Enough for Chaucer
His Mouth Full of Pebbles
Amateur Athlete in Old Athens
The Atrocious Spectacle of October 6th
An Uncanonized American Saint
Fielding's Parody Becomes History
Songs Shake the Walls of Jericho
A Fugitive in Boy's Clothes
Æneas Flees from an Inconsolable Love
Columbus' Letter Miraculously Found
Pagan Virtue Perpetuated
No Spice and Little Gold
First Families of America
When Medicine Was a Mystery
Reason His Only Religion
"If Winter Comes"
Virtue in Smiles
Odysseus Adrift on a Raft
No Fault to Find with Old Age
Swift's Love Problems
When Cæsar Turned the Tables
Clytemnestra Meets Her Rival
It Greatly Encouraged Intrigue
Franklin Learned the Secret
Fruit of Seven Years' Silence
How Dice Taught Spelling
Genius Rises from a Stable
Geology's Greatest Benefactor
Witches Walk To-night
NOVEMBER
Last Strokes of Shakespeare's Pen
Journey Through a Hot Country
Letters to an Emperor
Gold or Glory?
Costly Opinion on Divorce
A Genius Needs Few Tools
The Voice from a Stone-Dead City
Blind But Unconquered
Once War Songs, Now Pious Prayers
A Poet Who Piped for His Supper
America's Doughboy Glorified
Story of the First Dresses
When Carthage Was Monte Carlo
He Worried About It
Food Profiteers 300 Years Ago
Just Before the Gold Rush
At Thirty Scott Began to Write
Apple or Son the Arrow's Mark
No Man Knows His Resting Place
Old Stories Ever New
Bargains in Wives
How a Queen Died for Love
Less Than Star Dust
The Book that Upset Tennessee
Cupid as a Shoemaker
Shakespeare Should Be Heard
What Land is This?
Poems Made from Visions
How Ideas Originate
"Dont's" for Conversation
DECEMBER
Are Skeptics Faulty Thinkers?
Practical Jokes in King Arthur's Day
Met the Gods of Ten Thousand Worlds
The Queen Weds a Poor Stranger
Poems by an Artist's Model
Moralizing as a Seductive Art
What Cicero Least Expected
Dream Women Shaped His Destiny
Slavery's Last Stand
Benvenuto Boasts of Gallantry
The Most Dashing Figure in Athens
How the Glorious News was Carried to Aix
To the South Seas with the Gallant Drake
Pastoral Poems and Politics
Odysseus Talks with Ghosts
How Man's Courtship Differs from Animal's
Dies on the Eve of Her Son's Conversion
For a Gentleman
Samson Finds a Champion
Egypt Visited by the First Reporter
"Madam Bubble" Not to Be Discouraged
Rubbing Noses in New Zealand
Saved from a Bonfire of Books
Christmas Made a Dull Day
The Christmas Story
Silence Cost Her a Kingdom
Million-Year-Old Islands
Ho! for the Spanish Main!
These Guests Outstayed Their Welcome
Dana Meets a Tattooed Sailor
Curiosity and Interest as Guides to Reading
Editor's Note
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