The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature

by Frank Parsons

TABLE IV.

SUPPLEMENTARY GENERAL READING.

In addition to the short courses set forth in Tables II. and III., at the same time, if the reader has a sufficiency of spare hours, but always in subordination to the above courses, it is recommended that attention be given to the following books:—

Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. (e. R. D.)
Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. (e. S.)
Dickens' Christmas Carol (m. R. D.); Cricket on the
Hearth. (m. R. D.)
Ruskin's Crown of Wild Olive (m. R. D.); Ethics of
the Dust (m. R. D.); Sesame and Lilies. (m. R. D.)
Emerson's Essays (d. R. D. C.); especially those on
Manners, Gifts, Love, Friendship, The Poet, and on Representative
Men.
Demosthenes on the Crown. (m. R. D. C. G.)
Burke's Warren Hastings Oration. (m. R. D. C. G.)
Phillips' Speeches on Lovejoy and Garrison. (m. R.
D. C. G.)
La Fontaine's Fables. (m. R. D.)
Short Biographies of the World's Hundred Greatest Men.
(m. R. D.)
Marshall's Life of Washington. (m. R. D. G.)
Carlyle's Cromwell. (m. R. D. G.)
Tennyson's In Memoriam. (d. R. D. C.)
Byron's Childe Harold. (m. R. D. C.)
Burns' Cotter's Saturday Night. (m. R. D.)
Keats' Endymion. (d. R. D. C.)
Shelley's Prometheus Unbound. (d. R. D. C. G.)
Campbell's Pleasures of Hope. (m. R. D. C.)
Goldsmith's Deserted Village. (m. R. D. C.)
Pope's Essay on Man. (m. R. D. C.)
Thomson's Seasons. (m. R. D. C.)

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