We have seen on a previous page how Napoleon wished to form a convenient travelling library, in which everything necessary could be presented in a comparatively small number of handy volumes. Few men are like Napoleon in the wish to carry such a library about with them; but where space is scarce there are many who find it necessary to exercise a wise spirit of selection. This, however, each man must do for himself, as tastes differ so widely.
Auguste Comte succeeded in selecting a library in which all that it is necessary for a Positivist to know is included in 150 volumes, but this result is obtained by putting two or more books together to form one volume.
Positivist Library for the 19th Century.
150 Volumes.
I. Poetry. (Thirty Volumes.)
The Iliad and the Odyssey, in 1 vol. without notes.
Æschylus, the King Œdipus of Sophocles, and Aristophanes, in 1 vol. without notes.
Pindar and Theocritus, with Daphnis and Chloe, in 1 vol. without notes.
Plautus and Terence, in 1 vol. without notes.
Virgil complete, Selections from Horace, and Lucan, in 1 vol. without notes.