| | [*] | Manner
of
Reading. | Where found. |
| 16. Lincoln. | | | |
| Gettysburg Oration. Famous
for its calm, clear, simple
beauty, breadth, and power | m. | R.C. | No. 2. |
| Irving, our greatest
master of style;
his prose is poetry. | | | |
| Rip Van Winkle | e. | R.D.C. | Sketch Book. |
| The Spectre Bridegroom | e. | R.D.C. | Sketch Book. |
| The Art of Book-Making | e. | R.D.C. | Sketch Book. |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | e. | R.D.C. | Sketch Book. |
| 17. Bacon. | | | |
| Essay on Studies. Note the
clearness and completeness
of Bacon, and his tremendous
condensation of thought | m. | R.D.C. | Bacon's Essays. |
| Carlyle. | | | |
| Apostrophe to Columbus, p.
193 of Past and Present,—
Carlyle's finest passage | m. | R.D.C. | |
| Await the Issue | m. | R.D.C. | Monroe. |
| The account of the
conversational powers of
Coleridge, given in
Carlyle's Life of Sterling | e. | R.D.C. | |
| 18. Webster. | | | |
| Liberty and Union,—a
selection from the answer to
Hayne in the United States
Senate, on the question of
the power of a State to
nullify the acts of
Congress, and to withdraw
from the Union,—the
greatest of American
orations, and worthy to
rank side by side with the
world's best | m. | R.D.C. | No. 1. |
| Phillips. | | | |
| Comparison of Toussaint
L'Ouverture with Napoleon,
in his oration on Toussaint | m. | R.D.C. | Phillips's Speeches. |
| 19. Everett. | | | |
| Discoveries of Galileo | m. | R. | No. 1. |
| Burritt. | | | |
| One Niche the Highest | e. | R. | No. 7. |
| 20. Hugo. | | | |
| The Monster Cannon, one of
the great Frenchman's master
strokes,—a very thrilling
scene, splendidly painted | e. | R. | No. 11. |
| Rome and Carthage | m. | R. | No. 6. |
| De Quincey. | | | |
| Noble Revenge | m. | R. | No. 7. |
| 21. Poe. | | | |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue | d. | R. | Little Classics. |
| Ingersoll. | | | |
| Oration at the funeral of his
brother | m. | R. | Ingersoll's Prose Poems. |
| 22. Scott. | | | |
| Thirty-sixth chapter of the
Heart of Midlothian | m. | R. | |
| Curtis. | | | |
| Nations and Humanity | m. | R. | No. 11. |
| 23. Taylor. | | | |
| The sections on Temperance
and Chastity in the Holy
Living and Dying | m. | R.D. | |
| Brooks. | | | |
| Pamphlet on Tolerance,—the
best book in the world on a
most vital subject | m. | R.D. | |
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:—