. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident. s well as to a thorough comprehension of the English-speaking colonies of England, for instance, haveonly just begun their literary work, but they have done enoughto show that a great career is before them, and this new edi-tion is especially intended to call the attention of the outerworld to the genuineness of their claims upon our admirationand our hopes. The idea to which I gave expression in the opening of thisintroduction, that the English language is destined during thetwentieth century to make the
. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident. s well as to a thorough comprehension of the English-speaking colonies of England, for instance, haveonly just begun their literary work, but they have done enoughto show that a great career is before them, and this new edi-tion is especially intended to call the attention of the outerworld to the genuineness of their claims upon our admirationand our hopes. The idea to which I gave expression in the opening of thisintroduction, that the English language is destined during thetwentieth century to make the intellectual conquest of theworld is an idea which ought not to excite any hostile feelingamong any of the peoples who speak a different tongue. Wewho speak English are not jealous of the countries or the gen-erations which gave us Homer, Virgil, Dante and Tasso, Cer-vantes, Moliere and Victor Hugo, Goethe and Schiller, Tolstoi,Turgenieff, and Ibsen. Every triumph of the English languagewill be a triumph for the conquered as well as for the con-queror. J^^^^dz^ JTlf, ^A^^tf^. PAGE INTRODUCTION 7 The Worlds Graiihide to Authors 16 EGYPTIAN LITERATURE 17 The Oldest Book in the World 22 The Book OF The Dead 27 The Voyage of the Soul 29 The SouFs Declaration oj Innocence 31 Tales of the Magicians 33 The Magical Crocodile 33 The Lost Jewel 35 Festal Dirge of Antef 38 Adventures of the Exile Sanehat 39 Song of the Harper 47 The Greatest of the Pharaohs 49 The Poem of Pentaur 51 Tale of the Two Brothep-s 55 Lament of the Dead Wife 65 ASSYRIAN LITERATURE 67 The Book-Stamp cf Sardanapahis 71 Chaldeati Account of the Deluge 71 Descent of Ishtat to Hades 73 Gyges and Assurbatiipal 77 THE LITERATURE OF INDIA 79 Hymns of the Veda 85 Hymn t,o Varujta 85 Indra, Lord of Heaven 86 Agni, God of Fire 87 The Prowess of Indra 88 Indra Invited to Dt ink the 88 Ushas, Goddess of the Dawn 90 Hymn to the Sun-God 91 Indian Stoty oj the Deluge 92 THE LITERATURE OF INDIA—Period II 94 The Sanskrit
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