The Lecture Series on the contents of The Harvard Classics ought to do much to open that collection of literary materials to many ambitious young men and women whose education was cut short by the necessity of contributing in early life to the family earnings, or of supporting themselves, "and who must therefore reach the standing of a cultivated man or woman through the pleasurable devotion of a few minutes a day through many years to the reading of good literature" (Introduction to The Harvard Classics.)
It will certainly promote the accomplishment of the educational object I had in mind when I made the collection. - Summary by Charles William Eliot
Chapters
1 History: General Introduction, by Robert Matteson Johnston 41 min 2 Ancient History by William Scott Ferguson 21 min 3 The Renaissance, by Murray Anthony Potter 15 min 4 The French Revolution, by Robert Matteson Johnston 12 min 5 The Territorial Development of the United States, by Frederick Jackson Turner 16 min 6 Poetry: General Introduction, by Carleton Noyes 42 min 7 Homer and the Epic, by Charles Burton Gulick 11 min 8 Dante, by Charles Hall Grandgent 11 min 9 The Poems of John Milton, by Ernest Bernbaum 11 min 10 The English Anthology, by Carleton Noyes 17 min 11 Natural Science: General Introduction, by Lawrence Joseph Henderson 37 min 12 Astronomy, by Lawrence Joseph Henderson 11 min 13 Physics and Chemistry, by Lawrence Joseph Henderson 13 min 14 The Biological Sciences, by Lawrence Joseph Henderson 13 min 15 Kelvin on "Light" and "The Tides", by William Morris Davis 12 min 16 Philosophy: General Introduction, by Ralph Barton Perry 46 min 17 Socrates, Plato and the Roman Stoics, by Charles Pomeroy Parker 11 min 18 The Rise of Modern Philosophy, by Ralph Barton Perry 12 min 19 Introduction to Kant, by Ralph Barton Perry 12 min 20 Emerson, by Chester Noyes Greenough 12 min 21 Biography: General Introduction, by William Roscoe Thayer 38 min 22 Plutarch, by William Scott Ferguson 10 min 23 Benvenuto Cellini, by Chandler Rathfon Post 14 min 24 Franklin and Woolman, by Chester Noyes Greenough 12 min 25 John Stuart Mill, by Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague 12 min 26 Prose Fiction: General Introduction, by William Allan Neilson 46 min 27 Popular Prose Fiction, by Fred Norris Robinson 13 min 28 Malory, by Gustavus Howard Maynadier 13 min 29 Cervantes, by J. D. M. Ford 14 min 30 Manzoni, by J. D. M. Ford 12 min 31 Criticism and the Essay: General Introduction, by Bliss Perry 38 min 32 What the Middle Ages Read, by William Allan Neilson 13 min 33 Theories of Poetry, by Bliss Perry 18 min 34 Æsthetic Criticism in Germany, by William Guild Howard 12 min 35 The Composition of a Criticism, by Ernest Bernbaum 13 min 36 Education: General Introduction, by Henry Wyman Holmes 48 min 37 Francis Bacon, by Ernest Bernbaum 12 min 38 Locke and Milton, by Henry Wyman Holmes 14 min 39 Carlyle and Newman, by Frank W. C. Hersey 13 min 40 Huxley on Science and Culture, by A. O. Norton 14 min 41 Political Science: General Introduction, by Thomas Nixon Carver 40 min 42 Theories of Government in the Renaissance, by Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague 11 min 43 Adam Smith and the "Wealth of Nations", by Charles Jesse Bullock 14 min 44 The Growth of the American Constitution, by William Bennett Munro 14 min 45 Law and Liberty, by Roscoe Pound 11 min 46 Drama: General Introduction, by George Pierce Baker 43 min 47 Greek Tragedy, by Charles Burton Gulick 11 min 48 The Elizabethan Drama, by William Allan Neilson 10 min 49 The Faust Legend, by Kuno Francke 12 min 50 The Modern English Drama, by Ernest Bernbaum 10 min 51 Voyages and Travel: General Introduction, by Roland Burrage Dixon 44 min 52 Herodotus on Egypt, by George H. Chase 12 min 53 The Elizabethan Adventurers, by William Allan Neilson 12 min 54 The Era of Discovery, by William Bennett Munro 10 min 55 Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle, by George Howard Parker 11 min 56 Religion: General Introduction, by Ralph Barton Perry 42 min 57 Buddhism, by Charles Rockwell Lanman 13 min 58 Confucianism, by Alfred Dwight Sheffield 14 min 59 Greek Religion, by Clifford Herschel Moore 12 min 60 Pascal, by Charles Henry Conrad Wright 13 min
