The author and publishers acknowledge indebtedness and give sincere
thanks to the following authors and publishers for permission to use selec-
tions from their writings: Mary F. Nixon-Roulet, Margaret M. H. Halvey,
Margaret E. Jordan, Anna T. Sadlier, Fannie E. Newberry, Mary Elizabeth
Blake, James Jeffrey Roche, and Francis Miles Finch.

Rev. Daniel C. Hudson, C.S.C., editor, has given permission to use
selections, which have appeared in the Ave Maria, from writings by Francesca
and Anna T. Sadlier. Rev. J. J. Wynne, S. J., editor, has given permission to
use "The Story of a Noble Life," by Margaret M. Halvey. Rev. A. P. Doyle,
C.S.P., editor, has permitted the use of "A Little Sister of the Roses," by Mar-
garet M. Halvey. Permission to use a selection from the writings of P. W. Joyce
has been granted by Longmans, Green & Company, and a selection from the
writings of Mary Elizabeth Blake by Lee & Shepard.

Selections from Alice Cary, Longfellow, Whittier, Emerson, and Hawthorne
are used by permission of and special arrangements with Houghton, Mifflin &
Company.

Thanks are due to Sara Cecelia Cotter for permission to copy the statue
of "St. John the Evangelist," now in the Cincinnati Art Gallery. The super-
intendents of the City Parks of New York and Chicago, the mayors of Boston
and Salem, Massachusetts, and the librarian of the Congressional Library,
Washington, D. C., have given much valuable assistance in securing pictures
and giving information about statuary in parks and other public places.

INTRODUCTION

BOOK FIVE OF THE BURKE LITERATURE AND ART READERS is a continuation of the subjects treated of in Book FOUR. Patriotism, heroism, and chivalry have always been considered worthy themes for the greatest of thinkers and writers.

Compare the way in which different authors and artists treat the same subject. Compare "Victory" and "The Last Fight in the Coliseum." Compare the pictures of different monuments. One man te'ls of his hatred of sin by using the words which express the feelings of hate; another represents sin as an offensive looking dragon, and the mailed warrior crushes him to death, or the gentle maiden causes him to flee by making the sign of the cross. Pictures, statuary, and literature each contribute messages which tell us sin is hateful and is to be detested.

The full page illustrations in this book are from photographs of statues and famous buildings. Michael Ange'o said Architecture was the greatest of all the Arts—that scu'rture and painting were the handmaids of Architecture. We have learned that great thoughts are preserved and transmitted by words and by paintings; and we shall, in Book Five, learn some of the stories told by stone.

Beautiful and grand statues are found in many galleries