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400 development of the, 22-23; forces exerted by and upon the, 23-25 ; mythology of the, 25-26 ; heroic epic of the, 26-27 ; sprung from the desert, 27-28 ; the epic of Antara, 28 ; chief glory of the, 40.

Semitic Literatures (R. J. H. Gottheil), 21-41 : Divine origin of writing, 21 ; characterization of, difficult, 22 ; forces that have influenced, 23-25 ; have developed no drama, 25-26 ; nor epic poetry, 26-28 ; lyric poetry at its fullest expression in, 28-29 ; Hebrew poetry, 29-31 ; Arabic poetry, 31- 34 ; rhymed prose, 34-35 ; Hebrew Literature, 35-36 ; Syriac a Church language, 36-37 ; Arabic prose, 38-39 ; polite literature, 39 ; the Koran and the Bible, 40- 41.

Semitic prose-writing. The charm of, 35.

Seneca, a Spaniard, 7, 230; model for drama, 181.

Senoussis of the desert, 28.

Serfdom established in Russia, 314.

Serial story. The earliest, 15.

Settecento, The, 215.

Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, 37.

Sex or gender assigned to every object of nature, 73-74.

Shadow-play, The Turkish Karakoz or, in Syria and Egypt, 25.

"Shah Namah," The, of Firdausi, 60-61.

Shakspere, an Elizabethan Englishman, 6 ; Havelock Ellis on S. and Bacon, 7 ; Milton on, 19 ; in

Semitic translation, 24 ; paralleled in India, 54 ; on Death, 166-167 ; reincarnates the Greek spirit, 173 ; a complete Humanist, 174 ; Rymer on, 196-197 ; discountenanced by Gottsched, 201 ; grandfather to French dramatists, 216; founder of English theater, 247 ; power and glory of style of, 260 ; a dramatic giant, 279 ; naturalized on French stage, 281.

Shchedrin on poetry, 328.

Shelley, Classical aspects of, 214 ; poems of, 260 ; Godwinism of, 264.

Shi, "Historians," 71, 81-83.

Shi-huang-ti, the "burner of the books," 80.

Shi-ki, The, translated by Ed. Chavannes, 82.

Shi-king, the "Canon of Odes," 76-77.

Shu-king, the "Canon of History," 75-76 ; only source of the most ancient history, 75, 81.

Shui-king, or "Water Classic," 84.

Sidney, Sir Philip, condemned the English drama, 181 ; larger minded than the strict classicist, 182 ; artificial hexameters of his "Arcadia," 183; liked " Chevy Chase," 197.

Sidney's "Defense of Poesy" imitated from the Italians, 19.

Simonides, Longest fragment of, 96 ; wrote in Doric dialect, 100 ; an Ionian, 102 ; employed to write odes, 109.

Sir Roger de Coverley, earliest of serial stories, 15.

Sita, the heroine of the Ramayana, 50.

Sky-scraper, The, a reversion to an ancient type, 19.

Slavs, The ancient, were longheads, 313.

Socrates, on love, 163.

"Sohrab and Rustum," The, of Matthew Arnold, 60-61.

Solomon, King of wisdom, on border line of mythology, 27.

Soma-plant, Laudation of the, 144.

"Song of Solomon," 25.

Sophists, Style of the, 112.

Sophocles, Joy in a lasting friendship with, 10 ; surviving tragedies of, 95 ; transformed the drama, 109 ; one of the great classic masters, 257.

Sophron, "Mimes" of, 98, 113.

South African Poetry and Verse, A Treasury of, 339.

Sovereign, Absolute sway of the, and freedom of the people, 285.

Spain, Literature of, deserves consideration, 233 ; the ' ' Poem of the Cid," 236-239; epico-lyric period