| Series | The Five-foot shelf of books : "the Harvard classics"
Five-foot shelf of books. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents |
History. General introduction, by R.M. Johnston. Ancient history, by W.S. Ferguson. The renaissance, by M.A. Potter. The French revolution, by R.M. Johnston. The territorial development of the U.S., by F.J. Turner.--Poetry. General introduction, by C. Noyes. Homer and the epic, by C.B. Gulick. Dante, by C.H. Grandgent. The poems of John Milton, by E. Bernbaum. The English anthology, by C. Noyes.--Natural science. General introduction, by L.J. Henderson. Astronomy, by L.J. Henderson. Physics and chemistry, by L.J. Henderson. The biological sciences, by L.J. Henderson. Kelvin on "Light" and "The tides," by W.M. Davis. Philosophy. General introduction, by R.B. Perry. Socrates, Plato and the Roman stoics, by C.P. Parker. The rise of modern philosophy, by R.B. Perry. Introduction to Kant, by R.B. Perry. Emerson, by C.N. Greenough.--Biography. General introduction, by W.R. Thayer. |
| General note | Added t.p., engraved. |
| General note | Plutarch, by W.S. Ferguson. Benvenuto Cellini, by C.R. Post. Franklin and Woolman, by C.N. Greenough. John Stuart Mill, by O.M.V. Sprague.--Prose fiction. General introduction, by W.A. Neilson. Popular prose fiction, by F.N. Robinson. Malory, by G.H. Maynadier. Cervantes, by J.D.M. Ford. Manzoni, by J.D.M. Ford.--Criticism and the essay. General introduction, by Bliss Perry. What the middle ages read, by W.A. Neilson. Theories of poetry, by R.B. Perry. Æsthetic criticism in Germany, by W.G. Howard. The composition of a criticism, by E. Bernbaum.--Education. General introduction, by H.W. Holmes. Francis Bacon, by E. Bernbaum. Locke and Milton, by H.W. Holmes. Carlyle and Newman, by F.W.C. Hersey. Huxley on science and culture, by A.O. Norton. |
| General note | Political science. General introduction, by T.N. Carver. Theories of government in renaissance, by O.M.W. Sprague. Adam Smith and the "Wealth of nations," by C.J. Bullock. The growth of the American constitution, by W.B. Munro. Law and liberty, by R. Pound.--Drama. General introduction, by G.P. Baker. Greek tragedy, by C.B. Gulick. The Elizabethan drama, by W.A. Neilson. The Faust legend, by K. Francke. Modern English drama, by E. Bernbaum.--Voyages and travel. General introduction, by R.B. Dixon. Herodotus on Egypt, by G.H. Chase. The Elizabethan adventurers, by W.A. Neilson. The era of discovery, by W.B. Munro. Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle, by G.H. Parker.--Religion. General introduction, by R.B. Perry. Buddhism, by C.R. Lanman. Confucianism, by A.D. Sheffield. Greek religion, by C.H. Moore. Pascal, by C.H. Wright. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Neilson, William Allan, 1869-1946. Lectures on the Harvard classics. New York, P.F. Collier & Son [©1914] |
| LCCN | a 16000467 |
