At this point the reader will do well to consider other chapters in this Handbook, notably that on Literary Criticism, and the rest of Part II, which deals with the general principles underlying a fuller comprehension of literature. Part III, Studies of Great Authors, will be of even greater help to those readers who are finding increased pleasure in reading as students rather than for the sake of recreation or light reading alone. By following out the lines of thought presented in Parts II and III, especially if one does not attempt to carry too heavy a quantity of reading at a time, the enjoyment of books and thought will be immensely stimulated and broadened.
Aldrich
Poems
Alfred the Great
Poems
Ascham
The Schoolmaster
Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Beecher
Industry and Idleness
Beranger
Poems
Boswell
Life of Johnson
Browning, R.
Poems
Burke
Speech
Byron
Poems
Channing
Self-culture
Chesterton
Dickens
De Quincey
Dreams
Our Ladies of Sorrow
Eliot
Brother Jacob
Poems
Emerson
Poems
Farrar
Corruption of Rome
Ferrero
Empire Building
Fielding
Selections
Freeman
The World Romeless
Gibbon
Roman Empire
Hawkins
Dolly Dialogues
Hearn
In Japan
Holmes
The Autocrat
Howells
Essay
Hunt
Autobiography
Johnson
Rasselas
Keats
Poems
Kipling
Mandalay
Man Who Would be King
Lockhart
Life of Scott
Macaulay
Milton
Milton
Poems
Mirabeau
Franklin
Mommsen
Julius Cæsar
Morris, W.
Poem
Pausanias
Description of Greece
Plato
Trial of Socrates
Pliny
Letters
Poe
Poems
Pope
Poems
Riley
Poems
Rostand
Cyrano
Schiller
Wilhelm Tell
Shakespeare
Selections
Shelley
Poems
Sheridan
The Rivals
The School for Scandal
Stephen
Hawthorne
Stevenson
Selections
Suetonius
Roman Emperors
Sumner
Grandeur of Nations
Tacitus
The Histories
Thackeray
Selections
Whitman
O Captain
Wordsworth
Poems
Twenty-one and After. During these years, through respect for wisdom and experience, maturity rapidly quickens into being. Once we get a few hard knocks in the battle of life, our regard for the learning and understanding of our elders soon increases. We likewise can enter more thoroughly into the work of such thinkers as Carlyle, Galton, Emerson, Ruskin, Shaler, or of such poets as Chaucer and Goethe. For these men have spent the best of their lives in studying and probing into the causes and developments of our moods and characters. Carlyle has given us the most terrific and stirring account ever written of the battle that is waged in every man's soul between the forces of good and evil. Goethe has dramatized this same problem, revealing the wretchedness of him who only thinks of self, who drags his nearest and dearest down to ruin simply to gratify his lusts or his whims. Ruskin searches architecture, painting, or even the workmanship of everyday trades in order to discover their true merit—their greatness and their weakness. From such writings we can learn more and yet more each time we peruse them. There is no end to the richness and wealth of thought and experience to be gained from these alone.
Alcott
Thoreau's Flute
Arnold, E.
Poems
Bacon
Essays
Barnard
Robin Gray
Benson
Games
Blake
Poems
Bourdillon
Light
Bryant
Poems
Burns
Poems
Carlyle
Selections
Chaucer
Poems
Choate
Webster
Dante
Divine Comedy
Emerson
Essays
Evelyn
Diary
Fields
Dickens