Reading Help How to speak and write correctly Ch.VII-XV
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` INDISPENSABLE BOOKS `
` `
` Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Goethe. `
` `
` (The best translation of _Homer_ for the ordinary reader is by Chapman. `
` Norton's translation of _Dante_ and Taylor's translation of Goethe's `
` _Faust_ are recommended.) `
` `
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` A GOOD LIBRARY `
` `
` Besides the works mentioned everyone should endeavor to have the following: `
` `
` _Plutarch's Lives_, _Meditations of Marcus Aurelius_, _Chaucer_, _Imitation `
` of Christ_ (Thomas a Kempis), _Holy Living and Holy Dying_ (Jeremy Taylor), `
` _Pilgrim's Progress, Macaulay's Essays, Bacon's Essays, Addis on s Essays, `
` Essays of Elia_ (Charles Lamb), _Les Miserables_ (Hugo), _Heroes and Hero `
` Worship_ (Carlyle), _Pal-grave's Golden Treasury_, _Wordsworth_, _Vicar of `
` Wake field_, _Adam Bede_ (George Eliot), _Vanity Fair_ (Thackeray), `
` _Ivanhoe_ (Scott), _On the Heights_ (Auerbach), _Eugenie Grandet_ (Balzac), `
` _Scarlet Letter_ (Hawthorne), _Emerson's Essays_, _Boswell's Life of `
` Johnson_, _History of the English People_ (Green), _Outlines of Universal `
` History, Origin of Species, Montaigne's Essays, Longfellow, Tennyson, `
` Browning, Whittier, Ruskin, Herbert Spencer_. `
` `
` A good encyclopoedia is very desirable and a reliable dictionary `
` indispensable. `
` `
` `
` MASTERPIECES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE `
` `
` _Scarlet Letter, Parkman's Histories, Motley's Dutch Republic, Grant's `
` Memoirs, Franklin's Autobiography, Webster's Speeches, Lowell's Bigelow `
` Papers_, also his _Critical Essays_, _Thoreau's Walden_, _Leaves of Grass_ `
` (Whitman), _Leather-stocking Tales_ (Cooper), _Autocrat of the Breakfast `
` Table_, _Ben Hur_ and _Uncle Tom's Cabin_. `
` `
` `
` TEN GREATEST AMERICAN POETS `
` `
` Bryant, Poe, Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell, Emerson, Whitman, Lanier, `
` Aldrich and Stoddard. `
` `
` `
` TEN GREATEST ENGLISH POETS `
` `
` Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, `
` Tennyson, Browning. `
` `
` `
` TEN GREATEST ENGLISH ESSAYISTS `
` `
` Bacon, Addison, Steele, Macaulay, Lamb, Jeffrey, De Quincey, Carlyle, `
` Thackeray and Matthew Arnold. `
` `
` `
` BEST PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE `
` `
` In order of merit are: _Hamlet_, _King Lear_, _Othello_, _Antony and `
` Cleopatra_, _Macbeth_, _Merchant of Venice_, _Henry IV_, _As You Like It_, `
` _Winter's Tale_, _Romeo and Juliet_, _Midsummer Night's Dream_, _Twelfth `
` Night_, _Tempest_. `
` `
` `
` ONLY THE GOOD `
` `
` If you are not able to procure a library of the great masterpieces, get `
` at least a few. Read them carefully, intelligently and with a view to `
` enlarging your own literary horizon. Remember a good book cannot be read `
` too often, one of a deteriorating influence should not be read at all. `
` In literature, as in all things else, the good alone should prevail. `
`
` INDISPENSABLE BOOKS `
` `
` Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Goethe. `
` `
` (The best translation of _Homer_ for the ordinary reader is by Chapman. `
` Norton's translation of _Dante_ and Taylor's translation of Goethe's `
` _Faust_ are recommended.) `
` `
` `
` A GOOD LIBRARY `
` `
` Besides the works mentioned everyone should endeavor to have the following: `
` `
` _Plutarch's Lives_, _Meditations of Marcus Aurelius_, _Chaucer_, _Imitation `
` of Christ_ (Thomas a Kempis), _Holy Living and Holy Dying_ (Jeremy Taylor), `
` _Pilgrim's Progress, Macaulay's Essays, Bacon's Essays, Addis on s Essays, `
` Essays of Elia_ (Charles Lamb), _Les Miserables_ (Hugo), _Heroes and Hero `
` Worship_ (Carlyle), _Pal-grave's Golden Treasury_, _Wordsworth_, _Vicar of `
` Wake field_, _Adam Bede_ (George Eliot), _Vanity Fair_ (Thackeray), `
` _Ivanhoe_ (Scott), _On the Heights_ (Auerbach), _Eugenie Grandet_ (Balzac), `
` _Scarlet Letter_ (Hawthorne), _Emerson's Essays_, _Boswell's Life of `
` Johnson_, _History of the English People_ (Green), _Outlines of Universal `
` History, Origin of Species, Montaigne's Essays, Longfellow, Tennyson, `
` Browning, Whittier, Ruskin, Herbert Spencer_. `
` `
` A good encyclopoedia is very desirable and a reliable dictionary `
` indispensable. `
` `
` `
` MASTERPIECES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE `
` `
` _Scarlet Letter, Parkman's Histories, Motley's Dutch Republic, Grant's `
` Memoirs, Franklin's Autobiography, Webster's Speeches, Lowell's Bigelow `
` Papers_, also his _Critical Essays_, _Thoreau's Walden_, _Leaves of Grass_ `
` (Whitman), _Leather-stocking Tales_ (Cooper), _Autocrat of the Breakfast `
` Table_, _Ben Hur_ and _Uncle Tom's Cabin_. `
` `
` `
` TEN GREATEST AMERICAN POETS `
` `
` Bryant, Poe, Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell, Emerson, Whitman, Lanier, `
` Aldrich and Stoddard. `
` `
` `
` TEN GREATEST ENGLISH POETS `
` `
` Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, `
` Tennyson, Browning. `
` `
` `
` TEN GREATEST ENGLISH ESSAYISTS `
` `
` Bacon, Addison, Steele, Macaulay, Lamb, Jeffrey, De Quincey, Carlyle, `
` Thackeray and Matthew Arnold. `
` `
` `
` BEST PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE `
` `
` In order of merit are: _Hamlet_, _King Lear_, _Othello_, _Antony and `
` Cleopatra_, _Macbeth_, _Merchant of Venice_, _Henry IV_, _As You Like It_, `
` _Winter's Tale_, _Romeo and Juliet_, _Midsummer Night's Dream_, _Twelfth `
` Night_, _Tempest_. `
` `
` `
` ONLY THE GOOD `
` `
` If you are not able to procure a library of the great masterpieces, get `
` at least a few. Read them carefully, intelligently and with a view to `
` enlarging your own literary horizon. Remember a good book cannot be read `
` too often, one of a deteriorating influence should not be read at all. `
` In literature, as in all things else, the good alone should prevail. `
`