What All Ought to Read.
A member living in the South asks for a list of books that persons of all ages ought to read in order to begin further reading—books that ought to be read, no matter in what direction a later taste might lead.
Here is a list prepared last year to fit this very question. It was prepared by some one well qualified for the task:
| Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb. |
| Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Lady of the Lake, and Marmion. |
| Tennyson's Idyls of the King. |
| Macaulay's History of England. |
| Higginson's Young Folks' History of the United States. |
| Thackeray's The Virginians. |
| Walter Besant's For Faith and Freedom. |
| Dickens's Tale of Two Cities. |
| Brave Little Holland, and what She taught Us, by W. E. Griffis. |
| Lew. Wallace's Ben-Hur. |
| Bible Characters, by Charles Reade. |
| Recreations in Botany, by Caroline A. Creevey. |
| The History of a Mouthful of Bread, by Jean Macé. |
| Laboulaye's Fairy-Tales. |
| Life and Letters of Louisa M. Alcott. |
| John Halifax, Gentleman, by Mrs. Craik. |
| Longfellow's Evangeline. |
| Irving's Life of Washington. |
| Whittier's Snow-Bound. |
| Hawthorne's House of Seven Gables and Tanglewood Tales. |
| Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales and Last of the Mohicans. |
| Amelia E. Barr's Bow of Orange Ribbon. |
| Alexander Johnston's American Politics. |
How many of these have you read? And why may not a Chapter take up this list?