HUMOR
Browne, C. F.
Harris
Harte
Holmes
Irving
Lowell
TRAVEL
Audubon
Dana
Melville
ORATORY
Choate
Henry
Lincoln
Phillips
Sumner
Washington
Webster
SCIENCE &
PHILOSOPHY
Emerson
Hamilton
Shaler
RELIGION
Bowne
Brooks
Channing
Palmer
Sears
French Literature. A marked love of beauty, almost Greek in its nature, with a feeling for accuracy and organization which is decidedly Latin. These qualities have produced delicacy and clearness of expression; but their tendencies lead to perfection of style and form rather than to depth of thought, giving an effect of lightness and brilliance, and at times of superficiality.
POETRY
French Lit.
La Fontaine
Musset
Ronsard
Rouget de Lisle
Verlaine
Villon
FICTION
Balzac
Bernardin de
Saint-Pierre
Chateaubriand
Daudet
Dumas
Fénelon
Feuillet
French Lit.
Hugo
Laboulaye
Le Sage
Maupassant
Perrault
Zola
HISTORY
French Lit.
Guizot
Michelet
Taine
Voltaire
ESSAY
Montaigne
Sainte-Beuve