Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 16
Part 39
Translation of J.W. Mackail.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
1. Passages in italics are surrounded by _underscores_.
2. Images have been moved from the middle of a paragraph to the closest paragraph break. Also the footnotes have been moved to the end of the paragraph/poem in which they are referred.
3. Some selections for Richard Watson Gilder are different from those mentioned in the Table of Contents.
4. The frontispiece "The Alexander Romance" and the photogravure "The Bride's Toilet" mentioned in the "Full-Page Illustrations" list are missing.
5. The words Coeli, Phoenician, Phoenicians, Phoebus, coenaeque, Soeur and POENITENTIUM use "oe" ligature in the original.
6. The original text includes Greek characters. For this etext version these letters have been replaced with transliterations.
7. Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, hyphenation, and ligature usage have been retained.