- Addison, Joseph, suggestion of the Spectator given by Defoe, 126.
- Agamemnon, The, FitzGerald's version, 79.
- Æneid, The, features of great Latin epic, 33, 34.
- Æschylus, 36.
- Alcott, A. Bronson, introduced Emerson to German philosophy, 30.
- Analects of Confucius, 39.
- Antigone, the greatest of Sophocles' tragedies, 36.
- Antony and Cleopatra, 24.
- Apollyon, his famous fight with Christian, 115.
- Arabian Nights, 39-43.
- Arnold, Matthew, his imitation of Greek lyrics, 32;
- his fondness for The Imitation of Christ, 71.
- Areopagitica, The, one of Milton's finest prose works, 102.
- Baconian Theory, its absurdity, 14, 15.
- Balzac, Le Pere Goriot, a study of a father's unselfish sacrifices, 23.
- Bible, The, xx: 9-13.
- Comfort in time of sorrow, 11, 12.
- Culture from study of it, 12, 13.
- Greatness compared with other books, 10.
- Men who formed their style on it, 12, 13.
- Soul of the Bible, The, a fine condensation of the Scriptures, 11.
- Zophar's words to Job, 12.
- Boccaccio's Tales, 39.
- Bohn's Translations, 37.
- Booth, Edwin, his magnificent interpretation of Hamlet, 24, 25.[160]
- Boswell, James, his Life of Dr. Johnson, 117.
- Brobdingnag, the land of giants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, 131.
- Brunhilde, one of the heroines of The Nibelungenlied, 45.
- Bryant, William Cullen, his metrical version of the Iliad and the Odyssey, 34.
- Bunyan, John, 100, 109.
- Biography, 109-111.
- Comparison between Bunyan and Milton, 108, 109.
- Holy War, The, a good allegory, 112.
- Life in Bedford jail, 111.
- Saturated with the Bible, 114.
- Burton, Sir Richard, his unexpurgated edition of the Arabian Nights, 42.
- Byron, Lord, epigram on Cervantes, 57.
- Calderon, FitzGerald's version of several plays of, 79.
- Captain Singleton, one of Defoe's romances dealing with African adventure, 126, 127.
- Carlyle, Thomas, Essay on the Nibelungenlied, 121, 122.
- Rare qualities of old Doctor's character, 123.
- Boswell's Life of, 117, 122, 123.
Johnson, Esther (Stella) one of the two women Swift loved to their cost, 129. Jonson, Ben, 15. Journal of the Plague Year, a work of fiction by Defoe which surpasses any genuine picture of London's great pestilence, 127. Jowett, Dr. Benjamin, an Oxford professor and the best Greek scholar of his time who made the finest version of Plato's PhÆdo, 36. Juan Fernandez Island, scene of Robinson Crusoe's adventures, 125. Julius CÆsar, one of Shakespeare's greatest historical tragedies, 23. - Keats, John; without knowing Greek or Latin, he reproduced most perfectly the spirit of classical life in his Ode to a Grecian Urn, and other poems, 31, 32.[165]
- Kempis, Thomas À, author of The Imitation of Christ, 65-68.
- King Lear, the tragedy of old age and children's ingratitude, 23.
- Kipling, Rudyard, his great literary success at early age, 61.
- Koran, The, its inferiority to the Bible, 10.
- Kriemhild, the heroine in the Nibelungenlied, whose revenge resulted in the slaughter of the Burgundian heroes, 44.
- L'Allegro, one of Milton's finest lyrics, 107.
- Lane, Edward W., who wrote the best translation of the Arabian Nights, 42.
- Lang, Andrew, joint author with Butcher of a prose translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey, 34.
- Laputa, the floating island in Gulliver's Travels, 131.
- Leo, Brother, Professor of English Literature in St. Mary's College, Oakland, Calif., the editor of a good cheap edition of The Imitation of Christ, 73.
- Lilliput, a land in Gulliver's Travels inhabited by pygmies, 131.
- Lockhart, John Gibson, Scott's son-in-law and biographer, who edited a good edition of Don Quixote, 60.
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, translated the Divine Comedy by working fifteen minutes every morning, 8.
- His tribute to Dante, 90, 91.
- Lope de Vega, the most prolific of Spanish playwrights, 58.
- Lowell, James Russell, attributed his love of learning to reading Dante, 90.
- Lycidas, Milton's exquisite lament over the death of a young friend, 107.[166]
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington, his wide reading in India, 8.
- Essays rich in allusions to many authors, 104.
- Essay on Boswell's Johnson, 122.
- Macbeth, Shakespeare's tragedy of guilty ambition, 22, 23.
- Mantell, Robert, one of the greatest living interpreters of Shakespeare on the stage, 15.
- Manzoni, 84.
- Marcus Aurelius, his Meditations, 33.
- Simplicity of character when master of the Roman world, 37.
- Marlowe, Christopher, a contemporary of Shakespeare, whose plays are almost unreadable today,
HERE ENDS COMFORT FOUND IN GOOD OLD BOOKS, BEING A SERIES OF ESSAYS ON GREAT BOOKS AND THEIR WRITERS, BY GEORGE HAMLIN FITCH. PUBLISHED BY PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY AND PRINTED FOR THEM BY THEIR TOMOYÉ PRESS IN THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO UNDER THE DIRECTION OF JOHN HENRY NASH IN THE MONTH OF JUNE AND THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED & ELEVEN TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES Minor punctuation corrections have been made without comment. Corrected spelling on p. 46, "Sigura" to "Sigurd" (Sigurd the Volsung, by William Morris). Added page number (82) to "Index" listing for "VEDDER, ELIHU" on p. 171. Word Variations: - "Alexander" (1) and "Alexandre" (1) (---- Dumas)
- "every-day" (2) and "everyday" (3)
- "Scheherezade" (3) and "Sheherezade" (1)
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