The Book-lover: A Guide to the Best Reading

by James Baldwin

• Addison, Joseph, [32], [78].
• Æschylus, [74].
• Alcott, A. Bronson, [63].
• Allegory, [183].
• American Fiction, [195].
• Areopagitica, [78].
• Aristophanes, [74].
• Axon, William, [62].
  
• Bacon, Lord, [53], [78].
• Ballads, [186].
• Banking, [164].
• Battle Songs, [186].
• Baxter, Richard, [159].
• Beaumont and Fletcher, [71].
• Beecher, Henry Ward, [60].
• Bennoch, Francis, [17].
• Bible, The, [153].
• Borrowed Books, [58].
• Boswell’s Johnson, [79].
• Bright, John, [17], [63].
• Brontë, Charlotte, [82].
• Brown, Dr. John, [148].
• Browne, Matthew, [49].
• Browne, Sir Thomas, [78].
• Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, [72].
• Bryant, William Cullen, [73].
• Bulwer Lytton, [82].
• Burke, Edmund, [78].
• Burns, Robert, [72].
• Burton, Robert, [21].
• Bury, Richard de, [9].
  
• Carlyle, Thomas, [15], [29], [79].
• Carr, Frank (“Launcelot Cross”), [61].
• Cervantes, [80].
• Chambers, William and Robert, [93].
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, [70].
• Children’s Books, [84].
• Chivalry, Tales of, [102].
• Choice of Books, [23], [165].
• Christian Year, The, [72].
• Cicero’s Orations, [79].
• Clarke, James Freeman, [19].
• Cobbett, William, [33].
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, [53], [72].
• Collier, Jeremy, [13].
• Collyer, Robert, [25], [95].
• Colton, Charles C., [54].
• Constitutional History, [162].
• Cooper, James Fenimore, [81].
• Craik, Dinah Mulock, [82].
• Crusoe, Robinson, [80], [104].
• Currency and Wealth, [163].
  
• Dante’s Divina Commedia, [75].
• Dawson, George, [64].
• Defoe, Daniel, [80].
• Demosthenes, [79].
• Descriptive Poetry, [189].
• Dickens, Charles, [81].
• Didactic Fiction, [195].
• Didactic Poetry, [185].
• Dryden, John, [71].
• Dyer, George, [63].
  
• Elegies, [188].
• Eliot, George, [81], [156].
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, [16], [46], [79].
• English Literature, [168].
• Epic Poetry, [177].
  
• Fabulous Voyages, [193].
• Fairy Stories, [99].
• Fénelon’s Telemaque, [81].
• Fiction, English Prose, [192].
• Fielding, Henry, [81].
• Franklin, Benjamin, [85].
• Froude, James Anthony, [79].
  
• Geography, [138].
• Gibbon, Edward, [51].
• Gilfillan, George, [46].
• Goethe, [54], [75], [81].
• Goldsmith, Oliver, [72], [80].
• Government, Science of, [161].
  
• Hale, Sir Matthew, [153].
• Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, [54].
• Hare, Julius C., [45].
• Harrison, Frederic, [34], [76].
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, [81].
• Helps, Sir Arthur, [47].
• Herbert, George, [71].
• Historical Romances, [194].
• History, Courses of Reading in, [113].
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell, [70], [79].
• Homer, [74], [90].
• Horace, [74].
• Hugo, Victor, [81].
• Humor, Wit and, [190].
• Hunt, Leigh, [82].
• Hymns, [186].
  
• Irving, Washington, [79], [96].
  
• Johnson, Samuel, [79].
• Jonson, Ben, [71].
  
• Keats, John, [72].
• Keble, John, [72].
• Kempis, Thomas à, [156].
• Kingsley, Charles, [22], [81].
  
• Labor and Wages, [164].
• Lamb, Charles, [79].
• Libraries [56], [108].
• Locke, John, [44].
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, [72].
• Love Lyrics, [187].
• Luther, Martin, [44].
• Lyric Poetry, [186].
  
• Macaulay, Thomas Babington, [73], [79], [96].
• Marlowe, Christopher, [71].
• Miller, Hugh, [88].
• Milton, John, [12], [71], [78].
• Montaigne’s Essays, [78].
• Morse, James Herbert, [37].
• Mythology, [101].
  
• Natural History, [138].
• Nibelungen Lied, [101].
• Novels, [194].
  
• Odes, [187].
• Oriental Romances, [193].
  
• Parker, Theodore, [17], [148].
• Pastoral Poetry, [189].
• Patmore, Coventry, [76].
• Patriotism, Songs of, [186].
• Pauperism, [166].
• Petrarca, Francesco, [10].
• Philosophy and Religion, [148].
• Plutarch’s Lives, [79], [86].
• Political Economy, [161].
• Pope, Alexander, [71].
• Population, 163. Praise of Books, [9].
• Prefaces always to be read, [51].
• Procter, Bryan Waller, [51], [56].
  
• Rantzau, Henry, [22].
• Religious Books, [148].
• Religious Poetry, [186].
• Rhodiginus, Balthasar Bonifacius, [12].
• Richardson, Charles F., [49].
• Richter, Jean Paul, [64].
• Romances, [179], [193].
• Romances of the Middle Ages, [101].
• Rules for Reading, [42], [46].
• Ruskin, John, [36], [59], [76].
  
• Satire, [190].
• Scholar, Books for every, [69].
• School Libraries, [108].
• Schopenhauer, Arthur, [28], [35].
• Scott, Sir Walter, [81].
• Searle, January, [18].
• Seneca, [44].
• Shakspeare, [70].
• Smith, Alexander, [66].
• Socialism, [165].
• Sonnets, [187].
• South, Robert, [44].
• Southey, Robert, [27].
• Spectator, The, [78], [86].
• Spenser, Edmund, [70].
• Story-telling Poetry, [181].
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, [81].
  
• Tariff, Books on the, [166].
• Taxation, [166].
• Tennyson, Alfred, [72].
• Thackeray, William Makepeace, [81].
• Theological Literature, [157].
• Travels and Adventure, [138].
• Twain, Mark, [81].
  
• Value and Use of Libraries, [56].
• Virgil’s Æneid, [74].
  
• Wages and Labor, [164].
• Wealth and Currency, [163].
• Webster, Daniel, [78].
• Webster, John, [71].
• Whipple, Edwin P., [20].
• Whittier, John G., [73].
• Wit, Humor, and Satire, [190].
• Wordsworth, William, [72].
  
• Young Folks, Books for, [84].
  

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Robert Collyer: Addresses and Sermons.

[2] The Doctor, Interchapter V., 1856.

[3] Arthur Schopenhauer: Parerga und Paralipomena, 1851.

[4] The Elements of Drawing, in Three Letters to Beginners, 1857.

[5] The Spectator, No. 166.

[6] Fortnightly Review (April, 1879),—“On the Choice of Books.”