_Head of Department of English, Cleveland School of Education Lecturer in the Harvard Summer School_ FOR those readers who have from early childhood been taught that the best things are the old things, it is oftentimes difficult to revert in imagination to the times when such classics as _Paradise Lost_, _Pilgrim’s Progress_, and _Robinson Crusoe_, new and unread, were just beginning to make their first tentative steps in the march toward the unknown and unseen goal of enduring fame. Yet the intrinsic literary worth of these classics was obviously just as firm in those far-off days of their initial appearance as in these present days of their acquired renown.…
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