Bowne
Brierley
Brooks
Browne, Sir T.
Bunyan
Channing
Hooker
à Kempis
Luther
Mazzini
Robertson
Wyclif
[FROM SEVEN TO TWENTY-ONE]
Lists of readings for young and old.
Showing how to acquire, by easy stages, a knowledge of the best in literature, year by year.
Unlike poets, painters, and the rest of the world of artists, booklovers are made, not born. But many a booklover has been spoiled in the making, too; so that we must needs give thought to the process of transforming everyday folk into willing and skilful readers and lovers of books. Many boys and girls and many men and women have lost all interest in the realm of books through lack of suitable material for enjoyment and adequate opportunity for practice. What books they could find round the house failed to meet their desires or hold their attention; probably they were technical or 'dry-as-dust.'