Addison
Mirza
Arabian Nights
Blackmore
Lorna Doone
Boccaccio
Constantia
Federigo
Borrow
Lavengro
Browne, C. F.
The Showman's Courtship
Cellini
Life
Cervantes
Don Quixote
Collins, W. W.
A Terribly Strange Bed
Craik
John Halifax
Dickens
David Copperfield
Pickwick
French Literature
Aucassin
Hale
Man Without a Country
Harte
Truthful James
Hay
Jim Bludso
Henry
Speech
Holinshed
Princes in the Tower
Holmes
Nautilus
Old Ironsides
Hunt
Abou Ben Adhem
Ingelow
High Tide
Jewish Literature
Tobit
Kinglake
Eothen
Le Sage
Gil Blas
Lowell
Sir Launfal
Lytton
Pompeii
McMaster
Settler Life in 1800
Motley
Relief of Leyden
Norse Literature
Discovery of Vinland
Plutarch
Alexander the Great
Prescott
Conquest of Peru
Raleigh
The Fight of the "Revenge"
Reade
Cloister and the Hearth
Southey
Inchcape Rock
Tennyson
The Revenge
The Light Brigade, Etc.
Fifteen and Sixteen Years of Age. The appreciation of poetry is one of the most subtle and difficult developments in the youthful intellect. Yet some enjoyment of poetry, not merely narrative poems, but contemplative verse as well, should manifest itself during these next years. Furthermore, it is high time to form an acquaintance with writers who will be met again and again in days yet to come. No one will maintain for a moment that a sixteen year old lad will fully understand and appreciate Milton's "L'Allegro," with its treasury of allusion; yet, on the other hand, no one will pretend that this same lad should not at least be granted the opportunity to listen for the first time to those immortal lines. For this reason not only Milton, but Lincoln, Cowper, Pepys, Tolstoi, Hodgkin, Gray, and several others are included in the list.
But apart from the more serious and contemplative side of the reading that can be commenced at this age, there is much that will fascinate and delight those who are looking for pastime rather than deep thinking. Barham's "Ingoldsby Legends," of which "The Knight and the Lady" is a most characteristic tale in verse, have long been the joy of all who love laughter and nonsense; and so with Irving's "Knickerbocker's New York," which in many respects is unequaled for wit and delicate fun. Crawford's "The Upper Berth," Doyle's "White Company," and Dumas's "Three Musketeers" furnish thrill enough for the most eager adventure seeker. Tolstoi and Goldsmith will satisfy a quieter mood with their gentle satire on the folly and stupidity and vanity of everyday people, who none the less are the salt of the earth, after all.
Agassiz
Mountains
Audubon
In the Woods
Bancroft
Lexington and Concord
Barham
The Knight and the Lady
Barrie
Lads and Lasses
Bernard, St.
Hymn
Note. The reader should take care to read and even to reread the majority of the selections in the previous lists before attempting further progress.
Bernard of Cluny
Hymns
Brontë
Jane Eyre
Coleridge
Poems
Cowper
Poems
Crawford, F. M.
The Upper Berth
Doyle
The White Company
Dumas
Three Musketeers,
Monte Cristo, etc.
Ewald
King Christian
Franklin
Autobiography
Froude
A Cagliostro of the Second Century
Gilbert
The Nancy Bell
Goldsmith
Vicar of Wakefield
Gray
Elegy
Hawthorne
The Old Manse
Heine
Travel Pictures
Hodgkin
Attila the Hun