EUROPEAN LITERATURE FROM HOMER TO DANTE BY BARRETT WENDELL PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ENGLISH IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS HARVARD COLLEGE NOV 22 1920 COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY Published November, 1920 NOTE Separately to acknowledge my debts to the friends, colleagues, and assistants who have helped this book take form would at once demand undue space and perhaps now and then commit them to views other than their own. I cannot refrain, however, from expressing my gratitude to Mr. Charles Knowles Bolton, of the Boston Athenæum, for his constant and considerate kindness during the seasons when I have written there almost daily. The preparation of the Bibliographic Suggestions was originally undertaken by Dr. Frederic Schenck. After his untimely death it was taken up by Mr. Daniel Sargent. When Mr. Sargent was called to Europe, it was completed by Mr. Edward Motley Pickman, who has also made the Index. I cannot too heartily acknowledge my deep sense of what they have done for me; nor too gravely express the sorrow brought to all his friends by Frederic Schenck's death. If I felt sure that the book deserved such honour, it should be dedicated to his brave and happy memory. Portsmouth, New Hampshire 15 August, 1920. B. W. |