Hood
Poems
Irving
Knickerbocker's New York
Josephus
Destruction of the Temple
Kingsley
Poems
La Fontaine
Fables
Lincoln
Gettysburg Speech
Longfellow
Poems
Mahaffy
Alexander the Great
Milton
L'Allegro
Il Penseroso
Pepys
Diary
Phillips
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Rouget de Lisle
The Marseillaise
Scott
Selections
Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tolstoi
Where Love Is
Whittier
Poems
Seventeen and Eighteen Years of Age. With increasing maturity we may naturally expect the mind to enjoy the more calm and meditative moods of life: for example, the essays of Addison and Lamb, the more forceful historical reflections of such writers as Green, Froissart, and Parkman, the "Utopia" of Sir Thomas More, Thoreau's "Walden," and Washington's "Farewell Address." These form an excellent introduction to the deeper thoughts which will shortly be forced upon youth as it goes out into the world to fight for a career.
At this time, too, interest is stirred to attempt an understanding of the 'reason for things'—the mind endeavors to arrive at some law or principle beneath the varied course of life and action in the world. In other words, boyhood and girlhood are past, and an older view of life and its responsibilities must naturally take the place of the carefree spirit of earlier days. The qualities of friendship that appear in "Tennessee's Partner" and the search for spiritual as well as intellectual companionship and understanding that is emphasized in Tennyson or Matthew Arnold are at this time beginning to be more fully appreciated and understood.
Addison
Punning
Good Nature
Westminster Abbey
Aldrich
Père Antoine
Anglo-Saxon Literature
Beowulf
Arnold, M.
The Forsaken Merman
Balzac
The Purse
Björnson
Railroad and Churchyard
Brooks
Lincoln
Caine
The Bondman
Campbell
Poems
Creasy
Decisive Battles
Daudet
Tartarin
Edgeworth
Castle Rackrent
Field
Poems
Froissart
Battles of Otterbourne and Crécy
Gaskell
Cranford
Green
English History
Hardy
The Three Strangers
Harte
Tennessee's Partner
Hindoo Literature
Hugo
Selections
Jerrold
Mrs. Caudle
Lamb
Essays
Lever
Charles O'Malley
Lincoln
Second Inaugural
Lowell
The Courtin'
More
Utopia
Ovid
Philemon and Baucis
Parkman
La Salle
The Plains of Abraham
Poe
Tales
Shorthouse
John Inglesant
Steele
Essays
Swift
Selections
Tennyson
Poems
Thoreau
Walden
Tyndall
Ascent of Mont Blanc
Voltaire
Charles XII
Washington
Farewell Address
Nineteen and Twenty Years of Age. Unquestionably, as the years pass on, we read again the books that have already given us so many hours of happiness and amusement. For this reason it is well for the young booklover to return to the lists for the previous years and renew acquaintanceships there. No doubt some of the authors whom he found but moderately amusing then will now win far more favor in his sight. Meanwhile, among the fresh material history and criticism naturally find a prominent place. Mommsen's estimate of Julius Cæsar and Chesterton's appreciative critique of Dickens stand among the foremost studies of great men that the world has yet produced. In the field of poetry it is high time to spend some quiet hours with Emerson, Browning, Shakespeare, Shelley, and Wordsworth. These five poets represent perhaps the very best that English verse has produced in the way of meditation—insight into the depths of nature and humanity.