Comfort Found in Good Old Books. George Hamlin Fitch

	Facing Page
Title Page of the Celebrated First Folio Edition of Shakespeare	Title
A Page from the Gutenberg Bible (Mayence, 1455)	4
A Page from the Coverdale Bible, being the First Complete English Bible	14
Chandos' Portrait of Shakespeare	16
Shakespeare's Birthplace at Stratford-on-Avon before the Restoration	22
The Anne Hathaway Cottage	22
Bust of Homer in the Museum of Naples	32
Portrait of Virgil, taken from a Bust by L. P. Boitard	34
Plato, after an Antique Bust	36
Edmund Dulac's Conception of Queen Scheherezade, who told the "Arabian Nights" Tales	40
The Jinnee and the Merchant—A Vignette Woodcut by William Harvey	42
Portrait of St. Augustine by the Famous Florentine Painter, Sandro Botticelli	50
A Page from St. Augustine's "La Cite de Dieu"	54
Portrait of Cervantes, from an Old Steel Engraving	58
Don Quixote Discoursing to Sancho Panza	62
Thomas à Kempis, the Frontispiece of an Edition of "The Imitation of Christ"	64
The Best-Known Portrait of Edward FitzGerald, Immortalized by his Version of the "Rubá'iyát"	74
A Page from an Ancient Persian Manuscript Copy of the "Rubá'iyát" with Miniatures in Color	78
One of the Gilbert James Illustrations of the "Rubá'iyát"	80
Portrait of Dante, by Giotto di Bondone	84
Page from "Dante's Inferno," printed by Nicolo Lorenzo near the Close of the Fifteenth Century	88
Portrait of Milton, after the Original Crayon Drawing from Life by William Faithorne, at Bayfordbury, Herts	100
Milton Dictating to his Daughters—After an Engraving by W. C. Edwards, from the Famous Painting by Romney