Translator names not noted above John Florio and Thomas Kingsmill Abbott. Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name Harvard Classics, this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT 1834-1926, Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume XXXII features works of French, German, and Italian philosophy and literary criticism from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries That We Should Not Judge of Our Happiness Until After Our Death, That to Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die, Of the Institution and Education of Children, Of Friendship, and Of Books, by Montaigne Montaigne and What is a Classic by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve The Poetry of the