Herodotus.
Xenophon, Anabasis.
Thucydides.
Tacitus, Germania.
Livy.
Gibbon, Decline and Fall.
Hume, England.
Grote, Greece.
Carlyle, French Revolution.
Green, Short History of England.
Bacon, Novum Organum.
Mill, Logic and Political Economy.
Darwin, Origin of Species.
Smith, Wealth of Nations (part of).
Berkeley, Human Knowledge.
Descartes, Discours sur la Méthode.
Locke, Conduct of the Understanding.
Lewes, History of Philosophy.
Cook, Voyages.
Humboldt, Travels.
Darwin, Naturalist in the Beagle.
Shakespeare.
Milton, Paradise Lost, and the shorter poems.
Dante, Divina Commedia.
Spenser, Faerie Queen.
Dryden's Poems.
Chaucer, Morris's (or, if expurgated, Clarke's or Mrs. Haweis's) edition.
Gray.
Burns.
Scott's Poems.
Wordsworth, Mr. Arnold's selection.
Heine.
Pope.
Southey.
Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield.
Swift, Gulliver's Travels.
Defoe, Robinson Crusoe.
The Arabian Nights.
Cervantes, Don Quixote.
Boswell, Johnson.
Burke, Select Works (Payne).
Essayists:—Bacon, Addison, Hume, Montaigne, Macaulay, Emerson.
Molière.
Sheridan.
Voltaire, Zadig.
Carlyle, Past and Present.
Goethe, Faust, Wilhelm Meister.
White, Natural History of Selborne.
Smiles, Self Help.
Miss Austen, either Emma or Pride and Prejudice.
Thackeray, Vanity Fair and Pendennis.
Dickens, Pickwick and David Copperfield.
George Eliot, Adam Bede.
Kingsley, Westward Ho!
Bulwer-Lytton, Last Days of Pompeii.
Scott's Novels.