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The World's
Best Books
Suggestions for the Selection

of a Home Library
COPYRIGHT, 1909. THK GLOBE-WK*NICKK Co..
.CINCINNATI, U. S. A.
The World's Best Books
in the line of your genius," is
Emerson's advice, speaking of books,
and Ruskin conveys the same idea
when he says: "Every man has his own field,
and can only by his own sense discover what
is good for him."
Nevertheless, in the selection of literature the

advice and opinions of scholars have always
been eagerly sought. The discussion which
followed the first publication of Sir John
Lubbock's "One Hundred Best Books," and
which has gone on intermittently ever since,
has done much good for it has resulted in the
formation of many lists from which any reader
may choose without danger of serious error.
The general interest in the subject has been
much intensified of late by the announcement
that President Eliot of Harvard University is
selecting a group of books to fill a five-foot

shelf. This list, so far as made public, is given
in these pages, and also such other lists as
seem best calculated to aid the discriminating
bookbuyer in the judicious assembling of a
home library.
Next in importance to the proper selection of

books is their proper housing. Books should
be chosen like friends, and, like friends, they
should be cherished.
Therefore it becomes the booklover to pay fit-
ting tribute to his favorite authors by housing

them in quarters worthy of their rank and
dignity so inviting indeed, that they will be
frequently consulted, and never know the
lonesomeness of neglect.
THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS
The Best Books for Young People
The choosing of books for a home library is
always a pleasant task. The presence of
children in the house adds to the pleasure
but no less to the responsibility of selection.
The graded list of books for young people
which follows was compiled by Hamilton W.
Mabie. It is printed here by kind permis-
sion of the LADIES' HOME JOURNAL and will
be found of great assistance to teachers as
well as parents.
Books for Children Under Five Years of Age
GIRLS
Mother Goose
Classic Nursery Tales Cinderella; The Three
Bears; Little Red Riding Hood; Hop o'
My Thumb, etc
Fables and Folk Stories H. E. Scudder
. .
The Storyland ....

Elizabeth Harrison
In the Child's World Emilie Poulsson
. .
Small Songs for Small Singers

The Story Hour
Kate D. Wiggin and Nora A. Smith
The Good Fairy and the Bunnies
Allen A. Green
Cat Stories .... Helen Hunt Jackson
Bible Stories . . . , ,
BOYS
Mother Goose (Illustrated edition by Nister)
.
The Book of the Zoo; The Book of the Farm;

The Moo Cow Book; Our Dog Friends
Animal Books by Ernest Nister
[5]
Fables and Folk Stories . H. E. Scudder
Fairy Tales . Grimm's and Andersen's
.
The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children

Jane Andrews
jEsop's Fables
Child's Garden of Verses . R. L. Stevenson
Bible Stories
For Children from Five to Ten Years of Age

GIRLS
Alice in Wonderland ; Through the Looking-
Glass Lewis Carroll
Lullaby-Land Eugene Field
The Seven Little Sisters Jane Andrews .
Primer of Work and Play Edith G. Alger .
Little Goody Two Shoes

Edited by Charles Welsh
Miss Muffet's Christmas Party
Samuel M. Crothers
Goops and How to be Them More Goops and ;
How Not to be Them Gelett Burgess .
Hiawatha Longfellow
Five Minute Stories Laura E. Richards
.
The Little Lame Prince; The Adventures of a

Brownie Dinah Maria Mulock-Craik
.
The Peterkin Papers Lucretia Hale

. .
Legends of King Arthur Frances N. Greene

.
The Rose and the King Thackeray . .
Child Stories from the Masters, Maud Menefee

At the Back of the North Wind
George Macdonald
Ballads for Little Folk Alice and Phoebe Gary
.
BOYS
The King of the Golden River . . Ruskin
Water Babies Kingsley
Just So Stories Kipling
Nights with Uncle Remus Harris ....
Glimpses of Nature for Little Folks, K. A. Griel
[6]
Crib and Fly : A Tale of Two Terriers
Edited by Charles Welsh
The Boy's King Arthur Sidney Lanier .
Wonder Book of Horses Story of Roland Story ; ;
of Siegfried Story of the Golden Age

;
. . . . . . . . James Baldwin
Visit to London E. V. Lucas
Toby Tyler . James Otis
Gods and Heroes R. E. Francillon
. . .
Buz Maurice Noel

The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book
Kipling
Rab and His Friends . Dr. John Brown
Black Beauty Anna Sewell
Ten Boys Who Lived on the Road from Long
Ago to Now .... Jane Andrews
Stories of Great Americans
Edward Eggleston.
Wonder Book; Tanglewood Tales, Hawthorne
For Children from Ten to Fifteen Years of Age
GIRLS
Little Women; Little Men; An Old Fashioned
Girl; Under the Lilacs; Jo's Boys
Louisa M. Alcott
Two Little Waifs; Us Mrs. Molesworth
Tales from Shakespeare Lamb
.
....
.
Franconia Stories Jacob Abbott. . .
Sara Crewe Little St. Elizabeth

;
Mrs. Burnett
Pilgrim's Progress Bunyan
SilasMarner; The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot
Undine Foque
Lorna Doone Blackmore
Hildegard Series (5) Laura E. Richards .
The Little Minister . . . .

J. M. Barrie
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate D. Wiggin
111
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm; New Chroni-
cles of Rebecca Kate D. Wiggin . .
Adventures of Dorothy Jocelyn Lewis . .
Gypsy Books Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

.
Little Pussy Willow Harriet Beecher Stowe

.
Six to Sixteen . .
Juliana Horatia Ewing
Memories of a London Doll Mrs. Fairstar .
Toinette's Philip . . C. V. Jamison .
Abbe Constantin .... Ludovic Halevy

The Daisy Chain ;
Pillars of the House
Charlotte M. Yonge
BOYS
Arabian Nights Lang edition
J.Fenimore Cooper's Novels
Stockton
Jolly Fellowship
The Nurnberg Stove
The Hoosier School-Boy
Ouida
Edward Eggleston
.... .
The Land of the Midnight Sun Du Chaillu .
Tom Brown's School Days Hughes . .
Two Years Before the Mast R. H. Dana . .
Two Little Savages E. Thompson Seton . .
Boy's Life of Lincoln Helen Nicolay . . .
The Hill H. A. Vachell

Stories ofAdventure Boys' Heroes E. E. Hale
;
Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers; Birds and

Bees Burroughs
Treasure Island Stevenson .
....
. . . .
The Story of a Bad Boy Aldrich

Masterman Ready F. Marryat
The Swiss Family Robinson J. R. Wyss .
Rip Van Winkle; The Legend of Sleepy Hol-

low Irving
Around the World in the Sloop "Spray"
J. Slocum
Boys of Other Countries Bayard Taylor .
Two Little Confederates, Thomas Nelson Page

Aztec Treasure House Thomas A. Janvier .
Westward Ho! Kingsley

[8]
Birds Through an Opera Glass
F. A. Merriam Bailey
Translation of the Odyssey G. H. Palmer .
Three Greek Children The Young Macedonian

;
Story of the Iliad Church . . .
The Travels of Marco Polo T. W. Knox . .
Cadet Days Charles King

Life at West Point H. I. Hancock
. . .
Knocking 'Round the Rockies

Ernest Ingersoll
Hans Brinker .
Mary Mapes Dodge
. .
The Half Back; Behind the Line

Ralph Henry Barbour
Life of Garfield . W. O. Stoddard
. .
The Man Without a Country E. E. Hale .
Blue Jackets of 1898; Battle Fields of '61

W. J. Abbot
Plutarch for Boys and Girls John S. White .
Heart, a Schoolboy's Journal (trans, by Isabel

Hapgood) . . Edmondo De Amicis
Lays of Ancient Rome . . .
Macaulay
Harold Lytton
For Young People From Fifteen to Twenty Years of Age.

GIRLS
John Halifax, Gentleman Mrs. Mulock-Craik .
New England Nun and Other Stories

Mary E. Wilkins
T. B. Aldrich's Short Stories
Jane Austen's Novels
Charles Reade's Novels
Essays of Elia Lamb
Sesame and Lilies; Crown of Wild Olive
Ruskin
Little Rivers ; The Ruling Passion
Henry van Dyke
Uarda; Homo Sum Ebers
Gold Elsie E. Marlitt
[9]
To Have and to Hold . .
Mary Johnston
Thomas Nelson Page's Short Stories
Sant Ilario; Saracinesca; Corleone; Marietta
F. Marion Crawford
Penelope in England Penelope's Progress Pen-
; ;
elope in Ireland Kate Douglas Wiggin

.
The Rise of Silas Lapham; An Indian Summer

Howells
Little Masterpieces of English Poetry by Brit-
ish and American Authors
. .
Henry van Dyke and Hardin Craig
American Anthology Victorian Anthology
;
Stedman
BOYS
Ben Hur Lew Wallace
Rob Roy; Ivanhoe; The Heart of Midlothian;
The Abbot; Kenilworth; The Pirate;
Boys' and Girls' Plutarch
Sir Walter Scott
The Sketch Book Washington Irving
.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Holmes .
Representative Men Emerson

Fenimore Cooper's Novels
Kim; Captain Courageous Kipling . .
Jack Hazard J. T. Trowbridge

Kidnaped David Balfour The Master of Bal-
; ;
lantrae Stevenson
Henry Esmond; The Virginians; The New-
comes; Pendennis Thackeray . . .
David Copperfield; Nicholas Nickleby; Martin

Chuzzlewit Tale of Two Cities
;
Dickens
Francis Parkman's Histories
Biographies in the Great Writers Series
Biographies in the American Statesmen Series
Biographies in the American Men of Letters
Series
Three Guardsmen; The Black Tulip . Dumas
[ 10]
The Call of the Wild .
Jack London . .
The Put Yourself in

Cloister and the Hearth;
His Place .... Charles Reade
The Man with the Broken Ear The King of the ;
Mountains . .Edmond About .
The Virginian Owen Wister

Short Stories of the English People
J. R. Green
John Fiske's Histories
The Rise of the Dutch Republic .
J. L. Motley
Brave Little Holland . . . W. E. Griffis
Ferdinand and Isabella . . . Prescott
Charles the Fifth . William Robertson
. .
American Revolution G. O. Trevelyan . .
Charles the Bold J. F. Kirk

Makers of Florence; Makers of Venice; Royal
Edinburgh .... Mrs. Oliphant
Ave Roma Immortalis F. Marion Crawford .
Story of Germany . .. S. B. Gould .
Story of Norway . . . H. H. Boyesen

.
The Conquest Mexico

of Prescott . . .
Heroes of the Middle West Mrs. Catherwood

The Conquest Dye
Beginnings of a Nation Edward Eggleston
...
.
Americans of 1776 . Schouler

The Winning of the West Roosevelt
Life of Caesar Froude
Life of Johnson Boswell
Early Life of Charles James Fox; Life of Ma-
caulay Trevelyan
Life of Scott Lockhart
Life of Nelson Southey
The Four Georges Thackeray
Life of Lincoln .... Nicolay and Hay
Life of Robert E. Lee
.
John Esten Cook or W. P. Trent
George Washington Horace E. Scudder
.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes

Oliver Cromwell .... John Morley
. . .
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One Hundred Best Books For
Boys and Girls
Here is another splendid list of "best books"
for young people. It was prepared especi-
ally for this collection by W. D. Howe, Ph. D.
English Department Indiana University.
The Bible
Julius Caesar (or selections) .
Shakespeare
x^Robinson Crusoe Defoe
.-Treasure Island Stevenson
Gulliver's Travels Swift
Kenilworth Scott
The Talisman Scott
Ivanhoe Scott
W-Oliver Twist Dickens
J*. A Tale of Two Cities
*^T)avid Copperfield
.... Dickens
Dickens
vThe Old Curiosity Shop .... Dickens
Christmas Stories Dickens
The Mill on the Floss . . .
_
. Eliot
Marner
<^?:>i\as Eliot
^ Water Babies Kingsley
The Last Days of Pompeii . .
Lytton
i^The Vicar of Wakefield . . Goldsmith
K'Ths Pilgrim's Progress . . .
Bunyan
Fairy Tales Grimm
..
t Fairy Tales Andersen
Hans Brinker Dodge
The Prince and the Pauper . Mark Twain
t x Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
Autobiography Franklin
TheVision of Sir Launfal . . Lowell
Tom Brown at Rugby Hughes
Tom Brown at Oxford . . . Hughes
>S Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . Carroll
[12]
Two Little Confederates
...... .... Page
Cudjo's Cave Trowbridge
A Watcher in the Woods . . .
Sharp
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Wake Robin
Birds and Poets
......
.....
.
Browning
Burroughs
Burroughs
The Ancient Mariner . . .
Coleridge
Arabian Nights
/Csop's Fables
.......
Child Rhymes
.... Wyss
Swiss Family Robinson
Rebecca .........
Have Known
Wild Animals
Riley
Wiggin
.......
........
I
Thompson-Seton
Jackanapes Ewing
The Age ....
of Fable Bulfinch-Hale
Rudder
The
......
Grange
..... Parkman Stockton
Oregon Trail
Norse Stories ........
Stories from the Odyssey
Mabie
Church
. . .
Old Greek Folk Stories .

Peabody . .
...
Black Beauty.......
Captain Courageous . Kipling
Sewell
True Stories from History and Biography
......... Hawthorne
Folks' History of the United States
Young
.........
Columbus .... Higginson
Abbott
Christopher
Hero Tales from American History
Lodge
Boy
The
Life of ......
Napoleon Foa
.
Brooks
Story of Washington . . .
The Life of Lincoln for Boys and Girls

..........
..... Moores
Lost in the Jungle Chaillu
Golden Numbers .... Wiggin and Smith
Lullaby Land
Uncle Remus
........
........ Field
Harris
A Dog of Flanders
Don Quixote
......Cervantes
...... Ouida
[ 13]
King of the Golden River Ruskin
/The Little
The Queens
Lame Prince
of England
..... .
.
Craik
Strickland
^The Child's Garden of Verses . Stevenson
XTales from Shakespeare . . . Lamb
The Man Without a Country Hale
^-
'""The Jungle Book
The Story of My Life
......
.....
. .
Kipling
Keller
Up from Slavery ..... Washington
Memoirs .........
Bad ....
Grant
Story of aBoy Aldrich
.......
atha
...... Longfellow
Evangeline
Snow-Bound .......
Longfellow
Whittier
The Alhambra .......
Sketch
..'The Book ......
.... Hawthorne
Irving
Irving
"O'Tanglewood Tales
^,-Twice Told Tales ..... Hawthorne
^
The Wonder Book
Women .......
Little
.... Hawthorne Alcott
Crewe ........
.Sara Burnett
^ Little Lord Fauntleroy Burnett
Marmion
The
.........
The Lake ....
of
. . .
Scott
Scott
Lady
Lays of Ancient Rome
Arthur Bonnicastle ..... Macaulay
Childe Harold, Cantos III-IV
.
Holland
. .
Byron
King ..... Tennyson
.
Idylls of the
Being a Boy
The Hoosier School-Boy
....... Warner
........Eggleston
. .
The Spy
1*.
'
Sesame and Lilies

.
Last of the Mohicans ....

.....
Cooper
Cooper
Ruskin
John Halifax ..... Mulock-Craik
Scottish Chiefs Porter
14]
Farrar's Famous List of Five
In his book on "Books that Have Helped

little
Me" Canon Frederick W. Farrar names the

following authors and books, besides the
Bible, as the most helpful:
Bunyan Shakespeare
Dante Milton
Imitation of Christ
Canon Farrar's List of Twelve
Canon Farrar, also said: "If all the books

in theworld were in a blaze, the first twelve
which I would snatch out of the flames would
be:
The Bible Imitation of Christ

Homer Êschylus
Thucydides Tacitus
Virgil Marcus Aurelius
Dante Shakespeare
Milton Wadsworth
rt S
Of would save first the works
living authors I
of Tennyson, Browning and Ruskin."
[ 15]
The Hundred Best Books
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK'S LIST
This, the first of the many lists of "the hun-
dred best books," was the result of the interest
aroused by a lecture on the subject of books
and reading delivered by John Lubbock
Sir
Work-
at the opening, in January, 1886, of the
ing Men's College, London. The list was first
published in an incomplete form by the PALL
MALL GAZETTE, and caused much discussion,
participated in by eminent British and Amer-
ican scholars. Later the complete list, as
finally revised by Sir John Lubbock, was pub-
lished in the CONTEMPORARY REVIEW. Here
are the books which that noted scholar, after
careful deliberation, pronounced the "best
worth reading:"
The Bible.
NON-CHRISTIAN MORALISTS
Meditations Marcus Aurelius
Epictetus
Analects Confucius
Le Bouddha et sa Religion (St. Hilaire)
Ethics Aristotle
Koran Mahomet
THEOLOGY AND DEVOTION
Apostolic Fathers . . Wakes Collection
Confessions St. Augustine
Imitation of Christ . . Thomas a Kempis
[16]
Pensees Pascal
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus Spinoza .
Catechism of Positive Philosophy (Congreve)

Compte
Analogy Butler
Holy Living and Holy Dying .
Jeremy Taylor
Christian Year Keble
CLASSICS
Politics Aristotle
Plato's Dialogues at any rate the Phaedo and
Republic.
De Corona Demosthenes
Lucretius
Plutarch
Horace
De Officiis ; De Amicitia De
; Senectute . Cicero
EPIC POETRY
Iliad and Odyssey Homer
Hesiod
Virgil
Nibelungen Lied
Morte d'Arthur Malory
EASTERN POETRY
Maha-Bharata, Ramayana, eptomized by Tal-
boys Wheeler in the first two volumes of
his History of India
Shah-Nameh (trans, by Atkinson) . Firdusi
She-King (Chinese Odes)
GREEK DRAMATISTS
Prometheus House of Atreus Trilogy or Persae
; ;
iEschylus
CEdipus, Trilogy Sophocles
Medea Euripides
The Knights Aristophanes
[ 17 ]
HISTORY
Herodotus
Thucydides
Germania Tacitus
Decline and Fall Gibbon
Greece Grote
Short History of the English People Green .
Anabasis Xenophon
Tacitus
Livy
England Hume
French Revolution Carlyle
PHILOSOPHY
Novum Organum Bacon
Logic and Political Economy .... Mill
Origin of Species Darwin
Wealth of Nations (part of) . . Smith
Human Knowledge Berkeley
Discours sur la Methode . . . Descartes
Conduct of the Understanding . Locke
History of Philosophy Lewes
TRAVELS
Voyages Cook
Travels Humboldt
Naturalist in the Beagle . . . Darwin
POETRY AND GENERAL LITERATURE
Shakespeare
Paradise Lost and the shorter poems . Milton
Divina Commedia Dante
Faerie Queene Spenser
Poems Dryden
Morris* (or if expurgated, Clarke's or Mrs.
Haweis' edition) .... Chaucer
Gray
Burns
Poems , Scott
[18]
Mr. Arnolds' Selection . . . Wordsworth
Heine
Pope
Southey
Vicar of Wakefield Goldsmith
Gulliver's Travels Swift
Robinson Crusoe Defoe
The Arabian Nights
Don Quixote Cervantes
Johnson Boswell
Selected Works (Payne) Burke
Bacon; Addison; Hume; Montaigne; Macau-
lay; Emerson Essayists
Moliere
Sheridan
Zadig Voltaire
Past and Present Carlyle
Faust Wilhelm Meister
; . . . Goethe
Natural History of Selbourne . . White
Self-Help Smiles
MODERN FICTION
Either Emma or Pride and Prejudice
Miss Austen
Vanity Fair and Pendennis . .
Thackeray
Pickwick and David Copperfield . Dickens
Adam Bede George Eliot
Last Days of Pompeii . . .
Bulwer-Lytton
Scott's Novels
John Ruskin's Opinion
The publication of Sir John Lubbock's list
gave rise, as any list of the kind by anybody
of note is sure to do at any time, to much con-
troversy. Mr. Ruskin, for instance, when
asked to comment on it, said: "Putting my
pen lightly through the needless and blot-
tesquely through the rubbish and poison of
Sir John's list I leave enough for a life's lib-
eral reading, and choice

for any true worker's
loyal reading." He
then proceeded to cut
out all the works on morals and theology at
the head of the list with the exception of
Jeremy Taylor and "The Pilgrim's Progress."
He also eliminated Sophocles, Euripides, Gib-
bon, Voltaire, Hume, Grote, Southey, Swift,
Macaulay, Emerson, Thackeray, George Eliot,
Kingsley and Bulwer-Lytton. Of the phil-
osophers, he kept only one Bacon; of the
novelists only two Scott and Dickens; and
of the essayists only Montaigne and Addison.
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The Best Fifty Books
For "Best Fifty Books of the Greatest Au-
thors Condensed for Busy People," by Ben-
jamin R. Davenport, the author selected the
following:
Iliad Homer
Inferno Dante
Decameron Boccaccio
Plays Shakespeare
The Arabian Nights
Paradise Lost Milton
Robinson Crusoe . Defoe
Travels of Lemuel Gulliver . . Swift
Essay on Man Pope
Gil Bias Le Sage
Tom Jones Fielding
Zadig Voltaire
Rasselas Dr. Johnson
Tristram Shandy Sterne
Vicar of Wakefield Goldsmith
Paul and Virginia St. Pierre
Life of Johnson Boswell
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship . Goethe
Ivanhoe Scott
The Antiquary Scott
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage .
Byron
. .
Confessions of an English Opium Eater

De Quincey
The Legend of SleepyHollow .
Irving
The Last of the Mohicans . .
Cooper
Sartor Resartus Carlyle
Vivian Grey Disraeli
Cousin Pons Balzac
Ten Thousand a Year .... Warren
Consuelo George Sand
[21 ]
The Wandering Jew Eugene Sue
The Last Days of Pompeii .
Bulwer-Lytton
My Novel Bulwer-Lytton
The Count of Monte Cristo . . Dumas
Vanity Fair Thackeray
Henry Esmond ....... Thackeray
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
The Scarlet Letter
Uncle Tom's Cabin
....
.... Hawthorne
Mrs. Stowe
Essays Macaulay
David Copperfield Dickens
Tale of Two Cities Dickens
John Halifax, Gentleman . . Mulock-Craik
Education Spencer
Les Miserables Victor Hugo
The Woman in White Collins
Middlemarch George Eliot
Ben Hur .... Lew Wallace
[22]
Great Works of 25 Greatest Authors
James Baldwin, in his book "The Book Lover"

(Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.) gives the
following list of 27 books by 25 authors
"each, in his own line of thought and endeavor,
first in the long line of immortals:"
Dialogues (Jowett's translation) . . . Plato

Orations on the Crown . . . Demosthenes
Essays Bacon
Orations and Political Essays .Burke
Essays Macaulay
Essays Carlyle
Select Speeches Webster
Essays Emerson
Essays of Elia Charles Lamb
Ivanhoe Scott
Hypatia Kingsley
The Mill on the Floss . . .
George Eliot
The Marble Faun . . Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Sketch Book . .
Washington Irving
Wilhelm Meister (Carlyle trans.) Goethe .

Iliad (Derby's or Chapman's trans.) Homer .
Divina Commedia (Longfellow's trans.) Dante

Paradise Lost Milton
Shakespeare
Poems Mrs. Browning
Poetical Works Longfellow
Faust (Bayard Taylor's trans.) Goethe .
Odyssey (Bryant's trans.) . Homer .
[23]
The Ten Best Novels
Arranged in the order of their popularity, as de-
cided by the readers of the LITERARY NEWS
some years ago, the following are the world's
ten best novels:
Ivanhoe Scott
Adam Bede Eliot
Scarlet Letter Hawthorne
Jane Eyre Bronte
Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe
The Newcomes Thackeray
John Halifax, Gentleman . Mulock-Craik
The Twenty Best Novels

The ten next best novels, as decided by the
same constituency, and constituting, with the
foregoing list of ten, the world's most popular
twenty, are:
Kenilworth Scott
.Henry Esmond Thackeray
uRomola George Eliot
-Last Days of Pompeii
-Middlemarch
.... Lytton
Eliot
Marble Faun Hawthorne
Pendennis .
Thackeray
Hypatia Charles Kingsley
of Seven Gables . . . Hawthorne
on the Floss George Eliot
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Stories of American and English Life
The following list of high-grade novels por-
traying the life of different sections of the
United States and England, was prepared
by Hamilton W. Mabie for the LADIES' HOME
JOURNAL:
NOVELS OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE
Cape Cod Folks Greene
Vesty of the Basin Greene
House of Seven Gables . . . Hawthorne
ElsieVenner Holmes
Country Doctor Jewett
Deephaven Jewett
Oldtown Folks Stowe
Ministers'
Wooing Stowe
Wood Carver of 'Lympus . . . Waller
v
Doctor Zay . . . . . . . . Ward
Jane Field Wilkins
NOVELS ABOUT THE SOUTH

Kentucky Cardinal Allen
The Kentuckians Fox
Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come . Fox
.
The Battleground Glasgow

Aunt Jane of Kentucky Hall
Audrey Johnston
Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains
Craddock
The Choir Invisible Allen
Old Gentleman of the Black Stock .
Page
Red Rock Page
Colonel Carter of Cartersville . . . Smith
Alice of Old Vincennes . . .
Thompson
Lady Baltimore Wister
Doctor Sevier (HVle
[26]
A
The Grandissimes Cable
The Partisan Simms
NOVELS OF THE WEST
Isidro Austin
Hoosier Schoolmaster .... Eggleston
John Bodewin's Testimony . . . Foote
Led-Horse Claim Foote
The Plow- Woman Gates
Ramona Jackson
Whispering Smith Spearman
Blazed Trail White
The Virginian Wister
The Spoilers Beach
Log of a Cowboy Adams
Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop . Garland
A Country Town Howe
A Certain Rich Man White
NOVELS WHICH PICTURE ENGLISH LIFE
Adam Bede Eliot
Middlemarch Eliot
John Halifax, Gentleman . . Mulock-Craik
Diana of the Crossways Meredith
Beauchamp's Career
Divine Fire
.... . . .
Meredith
Sinclair
Marriage of William Ashe.... Ward
Sir George Tressady Ward
The Country House .... Galsworthy
The Man of Property . . .
Galsworthy
Exton Manor Marshall
NOVELS OF THE SEA

The Typhoon Conrad
Lord Jim Conrad
~
Toilers of the Sea . . . . . , .
Hugo
Dr. Luke of the Labrador . . . Duncan
The Way of the Sea . . . . . Duncan
The Seiners Connolly
[26]
Water Witch k Cooper
Marooned Russell
Tides of Barnegat Smith
Iceland Fisherman Loti
The Pilot Cooper
HISTORICAL NOVELS
Harold Bulwer-Lytton
Ivanhoe Scott
Kenilworth Scott
The Crisis Churchill
Tale of Two Cities Dickens
White Company Doyle
Ninety-Three .
Hugo
Hugh Wynne, Mitchell
Seats of the Mighty Parker
Ben Hur Wallace
Henry Esmond
St. Ives
...... Thackeray
Stevenson
The Spy Cooper
[27]
Novels of Plot and Problem
To those who enjoy novels with strong under-
lying themes, this prepared by Hamilton
list,
W. Mabie for the LADIES' HOME JOURNAL,

will offer a delightful range for selection:
"PROBLEM" NOVELS
Red Pottage Cholmondeley
Awakening of Helena Richie Deland
Philip and His Wife
The Patriot
.... .
Deland
.
Fogazzaro
The Saint Fogazzaro
The Sinner Fogazzaro
The Undercurrent Grant
Unleavened Bread Grant
Tess of the D'Urbervilles . . .
Hardy
Common Lot Herrick
Her Son Vachell
House of Mirth Wharton
Fruit of the Tree Wharton
NOVELS OF SOCIOLOGICAL SUBJECTS
Put Yourself in His Place . . . Reade
It is Never Too Late to Mend . . Reade
Felix Holt, the Radical Eliot
All Sorts and Conditions of Men . Besant
The Pit Norris
Fathers and Sons
Truth
.... Turgenief
Zola
Looking Backward Bellamy
Beggars All Dougall
Les Miserables Hugo
Uncle Tom's Cabin . . - . . Stowe
NOVELS OF PLOT
The Moonstone Collins
Treasure Island . . . . . Stevenson
[28]
Jane Eyre Bronte
Heart of Midlothian Scott
Notre Dame de Paris Hugo
Never Too Late to Mend . . . Reade
Mill on the Floss . . . ... Eliot
Under the Greenwood Tree
Our Mutual Friend
The Three Musketeers
....
....
. . .
Hardy
Dickens
Dumas
Monte Cristo . . . . ,. . Dumas
NOVELS OF CHARACTER STUDY

Pride and Prejudice Austen
Sentimental Tommy . . , . . Barrie
Middlemarch Eliot
Anna Karenina Tolstoi
Joseph Vance Morgan De
Mayor of Chesterbridge
Scarlet Letter
....Hawthorne
Hardy
Rise of Silas
Portrait of a
Lapham
. . .
....
.....
. . .
Howells
Lady James
The Egoist Meredith
Sanctuary Wharton
Divine Fire Sinclair
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ... Stevenson
NOVELS OF REALISM
Anna Karenina
Daisy Miller .
......
... . .
Tolstoi
James
The Bostonians . . . . . .
James
Adam Bede ... ;.-
. Eliot
...
. . . .
Mill on the Floss . . . Eliot

Oliver Twist . .
... . . . Dickens
A Pair of Blue Eyes Hardy
Hazard of New Fortunes Howells
The House of Mirth
The Common Lot
.... . . .
Wharton
Herrick
[29]
ROMANTIC NOVELS
Notre Dame de Paris Hugo
David Balfour Stevenson
St. Ives Stevenson
Prince Otto Stevenson
To Have and to Hold .... Johnston
Charles O'M alley Lever
Guy Mannering Scott
Quentin Durward Scott
Marble Faun Hawthorne
Mr. Isaacs Crawford
NOVELS OF HUMOR
Vcar of Wakefield Goldsmith
Under the Greenwood Tree . . .
Hardy
Deephaven Jewett
Rudder Grange Stockton
Oldtown Folks Stowe
[30]
Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Library
Dr. Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of

Harvard University, lately announced (New
York, P. F. Collier & Son) his intention of
selecting a group of books to fill a five-foot
shelf, in the belief that "the faithful and con-
siderate reading of these books will give any
man a liberal education even if he can devote
to them but fifteen minutes a day." The
titles of the books so far selected are:
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Journal of John Woolman
Some Fruits of Solitude .William Penn
-The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito (translated by
Benjamin Jowett) ....
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Plato
(translated by
H. Crossley)
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (trans-
lated by J. S. Long)
The Essays of Francis Bacon
The New Atlantis (Spedding Text)
........
.......
Francis Bacon
Areopagitica John Milton
Tractate on Education . . .
John Milton
Religio Medici .... Sir Thomas Browne
-The Complete Poems of John Milton
Essays and English Traits
..... Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Poems of Robert Burns
The Confessions of St. Augustine (Pusey Text)
The Imitation of Christ . Thomas a Kempis
Nine Greek Dramas: Agamemnon, The Liba-
tion-Bearers, The Furies (translated by
E. D. A. Morshead . .
.dEschylus
[31]
'
Prometheus Bound (translated by E. H.
Plumptre) Êschylus
CEdipus the King, Antigone (translated by E.
H. Plumptre) .
Sophocles
. .
,
Hippolytus, The Bacchae (translated by Gilbert
Murray) Euripides
The Frogs (translated by B. B. Rogers)
Aristophanes
The Letters of Cicero (translated by E. S.
Shuckburgh)
'Cicero's Treatises on Friendship and Old Age
(translated by W. Melmoth)
The Letters of Pliny (revised by F. C. T.
Bosanquet)
The Wealth of Nations (edited by Professor J.
C. Bullock, Harvard University)
Adam Smith
The Origin of Species . Charles Darwin
.
Lives of Themistocles Pericles, Aristides,

,
Alcibiades, Coriolanus, Demosthenes,

Cicero, Caesar, Antony (from the
translation known as Dryden's corrected
and revised by Arthur Hugh Clough)
Plutarch
The JEneid (translated by John Dryden)
Virgil
Don Quixote (translated by Thomas Shelton)
Cervantes
Pilgrim's Progress .... John Bunyan
The Lives of Donne and Herbert
Izaak Walton
Stories from the Arabian Nights (Stanley Lane-
Poole translation)
Folk-Lore and Fables:
Êsop's Fables, 82 titles

Grimm's Household Tales, 41 titles
Tales from Hans Christian Andersen, 20 titles
[32]
Modern English Drama:
All for Love John Dryden

The School Scandal
for
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
She Stoops to Conquer Oliver Goldsmith .
The Cenci .
Percy Bysshe Shelley
. .
A Blot in the 'Scutcheon Robert Browning .
Manfred Lord Byron

Faust (translated by Anna Swanwick)
Goethe
Hermann and Dorothea (translated by Ellen
Frothingham) Goethe ....
Egmont (translated by Anna Swanwick)
Goethe
Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe
. .
The Divine Comedy (Gary's translation)

Dante
I Promessi Sposi . .
,
Alessandro Manzoni
The Odyssey of Homer (Butcher and Lang
translation)
Two Years Before the Mast
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Essays on Taste on the Sublime and Beautiful
; ;
Reflections on the French Revolution;

Letter to a Noble Lord
Edmund Burke
Essays on Liberty; Autobiography
John Stuart Mill .
Inaugural Address as Lord Rector of Edinburgh

University; Characteristics; Essay on
Scott Thomas Carlyle
Continental Drama:
Calderon Moliere
Corneille Racine
Lessing
[33]
English Essays:
Abraham Cowley Charles Lamb
John Locke Thomas de Quincey
Jonathan Swift Joseph Addison
Samuel Johnson Sir Richard Steele
Sydney Smith Daniel Defoe
William Hazlitt David Hume
Coleridge Percy Bysshe Shelley
Leigh Hunt Thomas B. Macaulay
English and American Essays:
Cardinal Newman Dean Swift
John Ruskin Matthew Arnold
James A. Froude Walter Bagehot
Edward A. Freeman Thomas H. Huxley
Edgar Allan Poe Robert Louis Stevenson
James Russell Lowell Henry D. Thoreau
. William Makepeace Thackeray
. .
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin

.
Scientific Papers Chemistry, Physics, As-

tronomy:
Faraday Helmholtz
Lord Kelvin Newcomb
Essays French, German, Italian
Montaigne Mazzini
Renan Sainte-Beuve
Schiller Lessing
Grimm Goethe
Kant
Ancient and Elizabethan Voyages and Travels:
Herodotus Tacitus
Sir Francis Drake SirWalter Raleigh
Sir Humphrey Gilbert Magellan
Coronado Captain John Smith
[34]
Descartes, Voltaire, etc.
ScientificPapers Biology, Medicine, etc., in-

cluding articles by Sir John Lister and
Ambroise Pare
Famous Prefaces
Caxton Spenser
Raleigh Calvin
John Knox Bacon
Heminge and Condell Dryden
Fielding Johnson
Schiller Taine
Whitman Wordsworth
Berners Newton
American Historical Documents, containing 40

important documents, such as
Cabots' Voyage
Columbus's Letter
First Charter of Virginia
Mayflower Compact
Cornwallis's Proposal of Surrender
Washington's First Inaugural
Monroe Doctrine
Lincoln's First Inaugural
Lincoln's Second Inaugural
Chronicles
National Epics
iMachiavelli, More, and others
Comparative Religions and Hymns

Elizabethan Dramas
[35]
Roosevelt's Pigskin Library
Selected by Ex-President Theodore Roose-
velt for his famous African trip, as published
in SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE:
Bible
Apocrypha
Bible in Spain; Zingali; Lavengro; Wild Wales;
The Romany Rye . . . Borrow
Shakespeare
Faerie Queene Spenser
Marlowe
Sea Power Mahan
History; Essays; Poems . .
Macaulay
Iliad; Odyssey Homer
La Chanson de Roland
Nibelungen Lied
Frederick the Great
Poems
.... Carlyle
Shelley
Essays Bacon
Literary Essays; Biglow Papers . Lowell
Poems Emerson
Longfellow
Tennyson
Tales; Poems Poe
Keats
Paradise Lost (Books I & II) Milton
. .
Inferno (Carlyle's translation) * Dante

Autocrat; Over the Teacups . Holmes .
Poems; Tales of the Argonauts; Luck of Roar-

ing Camp Bret Harte
Selections Browning
Gentle Reader Crothers
Huckleberry Finn; Tom Sawyer . Mark Twain
Hippolytus; Bacchae (Murray's translation)
Euripides
The Federalist
[36]
Rome Gregorovius
Legend Montrose; Guy Mannering; Waverly
of
Rob Roy; Antiquary Scott
Pilot; Two Admirals
Froissart
.... .
Cooper
.
Percy's Reliques
Vanity Fair; Pendennis . .
Thackeray
Mutual Friend; Pickwick . . . Dickens
"There was one other bit of impedimenta, less

usual for African travel, but perhaps almost as
essential for real enjoyment even on a hunting
trip, if it is to be of any length. This was the
'pigskin library,' so called because most of the
books were bound in pigskin. They were car-
ried in a light aluminum and oilcloth case,
which, with its contents, weighed a little less
than sixty pounds, making a load for one
porter.
"The list represents in part Kermit's taste, in

part mine; and, need hardly say, it also rep-
I
resents in no way all the books we most care

for, but merely those which, for one reason or
another, we thought we should like to take on

this particular trip."
[37]
True books have been written in all ages by
their greatest men; by great leaders, great
statesmen, and great thinkers. These are all
at your choice; and life is short. Will you
jostle with the common crowd, for entree here,
and audience there, when all the while this
eternal court open to you, with its society as

is
the world, multitudinous as its days, the

chosen and the mighty, of every place and
time?
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Suggestions for the Selection

Nevertheless, in the selection of literature the

selecting a group of books to fill a five-foot

Next in importance to the proper selection of

ting tribute to his favorite authors by housing

The Storyland ....

Small Songs for Small Singers

The Book of the Zoo; The Book of the Farm;

The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children

For Children from Five to Ten Years of Age

Primer of Work and Play Edith G. Alger .

Little Goody Two Shoes

How Not to be Them Gelett Burgess .

The Little Lame Prince; The Adventures of a

The Peterkin Papers Lucretia Hale

Legends of King Arthur Frances N. Greene

The Rose and the King Thackeray . .

Child Stories from the Masters, Maud Menefee

Wonder Book of Horses Story of Roland Story ; ;

of Siegfried Story of the Golden Age

Buz Maurice Noel

For Children from Ten to Fifteen Years of Age

Franconia Stories Jacob Abbott. . .

Sara Crewe Little St. Elizabeth

The Little Minister . . . .

Adventures of Dorothy Jocelyn Lewis . .

Gypsy Books Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Little Pussy Willow Harriet Beecher Stowe

Toinette's Philip . . C. V. Jamison .

Abbe Constantin .... Ludovic Halevy

The Land of the Midnight Sun Du Chaillu .

Tom Brown's School Days Hughes . .

Two Years Before the Mast R. H. Dana . .

Two Little Savages E. Thompson Seton . .

Boy's Life of Lincoln Helen Nicolay . . .

The Hill H. A. Vachell

Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers; Birds and

The Story of a Bad Boy Aldrich

Rip Van Winkle; The Legend of Sleepy Hol-

Two Little Confederates, Thomas Nelson Page

Westward Ho! Kingsley

Three Greek Children The Young Macedonian

Story of the Iliad Church . . .

The Travels of Marco Polo T. W. Knox . .

Cadet Days Charles King

Knocking 'Round the Rockies

The Half Back; Behind the Line

The Man Without a Country E. E. Hale .

Blue Jackets of 1898; Battle Fields of '61

Heart, a Schoolboy's Journal (trans, by Isabel

For Young People From Fifteen to Twenty Years of Age.

New England Nun and Other Stories

elope in Ireland Kate Douglas Wiggin

The Rise of Silas Lapham; An Indian Summer

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Holmes .

Representative Men Emerson

Jack Hazard J. T. Trowbridge

David Copperfield; Nicholas Nickleby; Martin