. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident. e Philosophers Stone 377 Tlie Lament of Don Roderick 380 March of Bernardo del Carpio 381 Don Juan Manuei^ 382 The Song- Writer and the Shoemaker 382 Juan Riaz 384 Praise of Little Women 384 ABORIGINAL AMERICAN LITERATURE 386 War-Song of the Otomis 390 Aztec Drinking-Song 391 The Downfall of Quetzalcoatl 391 Recital of the Priest Chilan 394 Prophecy of the Priest Peck 394 Ollanta 394 The Lament of the Inca Princess 397 Ollanta Threatens the City of Cuzco 398 The Maidens* Song to the Tuya 399 The Lovers Farewell , 3
. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident. e Philosophers Stone 377 Tlie Lament of Don Roderick 380 March of Bernardo del Carpio 381 Don Juan Manuei^ 382 The Song- Writer and the Shoemaker 382 Juan Riaz 384 Praise of Little Women 384 ABORIGINAL AMERICAN LITERATURE 386 War-Song of the Otomis 390 Aztec Drinking-Song 391 The Downfall of Quetzalcoatl 391 Recital of the Priest Chilan 394 Prophecy of the Priest Peck 394 Ollanta 394 The Lament of the Inca Princess 397 Ollanta Threatens the City of Cuzco 398 The Maidens* Song to the Tuya 399 The Lovers Farewell , 399 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. VOLUME I. ARTIST. PAGE Julian Hawthorne C. Triiscott . Frontispiece Pharaohs Prize 60 Th:E Dying Ravana Mourned by his Wives . F. Cormon 104 Homer and his Guide W. Boiignercau . 150 Achilles Denounces Agamemnon J. Ferris. . 158 Penelope Longing for Odysseus R. von DciUsch . . 176 Reading the Koran W. Genlz 190 Roland at Roncesvaux L. F. Gnesnet ... 201 AucASSiN AND NicoLETE J. L. G. Fcrris . . 224 Judith > ?^. Sichel 254. INTRODUCTION. No one remembers when he began to talk, and therefore, untilwe begin to reflect about it, language seems always to haveexisted, or to come by nature, as the phrase goes. Wordsspring spontaneously to our lips ; we can scarcely imagine a stateof existence in which there were no words to be spoken. Yet, unless we suppose language to have been given to manas a direct Divine revelation, such a period in the dawn of humanhistory there must have been. Man was practically dumb. Hecould feel, he could think ; but speech was unknown to conception of communicating his emotions and perceptionsby modifications of sounds—still less of classifying and organ-izing such sounds—had never presented itself to him. The root and origin of human speech is emotion. The dis-tinction between emotion and thought was artificial and compar-atively recent. They were originally one ; and if we penetratebeneath the surfac
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