The [Lecture] 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.” —Introductory Notes Charles W.
Harvard Classics, Vol. 51 Lectures on the Harvard Classics William Allan Neilson, General Editor
C ONTENTSBibliographic Record
NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
Editors
Introductory Notes
History
General Introduction , by Professor Robert Matteson JohnstonAncient History , by Professor William Scott FergusonThe Renaissance , by Professor Murray Anthony PotterThe French Revolution , by Professor Robert Matteson JohnstonThe Territorial Development of the United States , by Professor Frederick Jackson Turner
Poetry
General Introduction , by Carleton NoyesHomer and the Epic , by Professor Charles Burton GulickDante , by Professor Charles Hall GrandgentThe Poems of John Milton , by Dr. Ernest BernbaumThe English Anthology , by Carleton Noyes
Natural Science
General Introduction , by Professor Lawrence J. HendersonAstronomy , by Professor Lawrence J. HendersonPhysics and Chemistry , by Professor Lawrence J. HendersonThe Biological Sciences , by Professor Lawrence J. HendersonKelvin on “Light” and “The Tides ”, by Professor W. M. Davis
Philosophy
General Introduction , by Professor Ralph Barton PerrySocrates, Plato, and the Roman Stoics , by Professor Charles Pomeroy ParkerThe Rise of Modern Philosophy , by Professor Ralph Barton PerryIntroduction to Kant , by Professor Ralph Barton PerryEmerson , by Professor Chester Noyes Greenough
Biography
General Introduction , by William Roscoe ThayerPlutarch , by Professor W. S. FergusonBenvenuto Cellini , by Professor Chandler Rathfon PostFranklin and Woolman , by Professor Chester Noyes GreenoughJohn Stuart Mill , by Professor O. M. W. Sprague
Prose Fiction
General Introduction , by Professor W. A. NeilsonPopular Prose Fiction , by Professor F. N. RobinsonMalory , by Dr. G. H. MaynadierCervantes , by Professor J. D. M. FordManzoni , by Professor J. D. M. Ford
Criticism and the Essay
General Introduction , by Professor Bliss PerryWhat the Middle Ages Read , by Professor W. A. NeilsonTheories of Poetry , by Professor Bliss PerryÆsthetic Criticism in Germany , by Professor W. G. HowardThe Composition of a Criticism , by Dr. Ernest Bernbaum
Education
General Introduction , by Professor H. W. HolmesFrancis Bacon , by Dr. Ernest BernbaumLocke and Milton , by Professor H. W. HolmesCarlyle and Newman , by Frank Wilson Cheney HerseyHuxley on Science and Culture , by Professor A. O. Norton
Political Science
General Introduction , by Professor Thomas Nixon CarverTheories of Government in the Renaissance , by Professor O. M. W. SpragueAdam Smith and “The Wealth of Nations ”, by Professor Charles J. BullockThe Growth of the American Constitution , by Professor W. B. MunroLaw and Liberty , by Professor Roscoe Pound
Drama
General Introduction , by Professor George Pierce BakerGreek Tragedy , by Professor Charles Burton GulickThe Elizabethan Drama , by Professor W. A. NeilsonThe Faust Legend , by Professor Kuno FranckeModern English Drama , by Dr. Ernest Bernbaum
Voyages and Travel
General Introduction , by Professor R. B. DixonHerodotus on Egypt , by Professor George H. ChaseThe Elizabethan Adventurers , by Professor W. A. NeilsonThe Era of Discovery , by Professor W. B. MunroDarwin’s Voyage of the Beagle , by Professor George Howard Parker
Religion
General Introduction , by Professor R. B. PerryBuddhism , by Professor C. R. LanmanConfucianism , by Alfred Dwight SheffieldGreek Religion , by Professor Clifford Herschel MoorePascal , by Professor C. H. C. Wright
