Volume I: Dedication

TO EDWIN R. A. SELIGMAN, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN RECOGNITION OF HIS WARM INTEREST AND VALUABLE SERVICES IN PROMOTING THE STUDY OF LITERATURE, AND HIS GREAT INSTRUMENTALITY IN ASSISTING YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN TO BROADEN THEIR MINDS, AND REACH A HIGHER SOCIAL PLANE, AND FOR HIS MANY WORKS FOR THE COMMUNAL WELFARE, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN BEHALF OF THE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE THIS VOLUME IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR MICHAEL L. RODKINSON. June 15, 1901. New York City.