MASTER SPIRITS

OF LITERATURE

EDITED BY

GEORGE RAPALL NOYES

"A good book is the precious life-blood of a Master Spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."-MILTON, Areopagitica.

MASTER SPIRITS OF LITERA

DANTE.

TURE

By CHARLES HALL GRANDGENT, Professor of Romance Languages in Harvard University.

CERVANTES.

By RUDOLPH SCHEVILL, Professor of Spanish in the University of California. SHAKESPEARE.

By RAYMOND MACDONALD ALDEN, Professor of English in Stanford University.

TOLSTOY.

By GEORGE RAPALL NOYES, Professor of
Slavic Languages in the University of
California.

VIRGIL.

By H. W. PRESCOTT, Professor of Classical Philology in the University of Chicago. In preparation.

MOLIÈRE.

By CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE, Professor of
English in Dartmouth College.

HOMER.

By PAUL SHOREY, Professor of Greek in the University of Chicago. In preparation.

SHAKESPEARE

"The critic. . . will, indeed, require, as the spirit and substance of a work, something true in human nature itself, and independent of all circumstances; but in the mode of applying it he will estimate genius and judgment according to the felicity with which the imperishable soul of intellect shall have adapted itself to the age, the place, and the existing manners."-Coleridge.