tory of India_.
Firdusi, _Shah-nameh_. Translated by Atkinson.
_She-king_ (Chinese Odes).

* * * * *

AEschylus, _Prometheus_, _House of Atreus_, Trilogy, or _Persae_.
Sophocles, _OEdipus_, Trilogy.
Euripides, _Medea_,
Aristophanes, _The Knights_.

* * * * *

Herodotus.
Xenophon, _Anabasis_.
Thucydides.
Tacitus, _Germania_.
Livy.
Gibbon, _Decline and Fall_.
Hume, _England_.
Grote, _Greece_.
Carlyle, _French Revolution_.
Green, _Short History of England_.
Bacon, _Novum Organum_.
Mill, _Logic_ and _Political Economy_.
Darwin, _Origin of Species_.
Smith, _Wealth of Nations_ (part of).
Berkeley, _Human Knowledge_.
Descartes, _Discours sur la Methode_.
Locke, _Conduct of the Understanding_.
Lewes, _History of Philosophy_.

* * * * *

Cook, _Voyages_.
Humboldt, _Travels_.
Darwin, _Naturalist in the Beagle_.

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Shakespeare.
Milton, _Paradise Lost_, and the shorter poems.
Dante, _Divina Commedia_.
Spenser, _Faerie Queen_.
Dryden's Poems.
Chaucer, Morris's (or, if expurgated, Clarke's or Mrs. Haweis's) edition.
Gray.
Burns.
Scott's Poems.
Wordsworth, Mr. Arnold's selection.
Heine.
Pope.
Southey.

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Goldsmith, _Vicar of Wakefield_.
Swift, _Gulliver's Travels_.
Defoe, _Robinson Crusoe_.
_The Arabian Nights._
Cervantes, _Don Quixote_.
Boswell, _Johnson_.
Burke, _Select Works_ (Payne).
Essayists:--Bacon, Addison, Hume, Montaigne, Macaulay, Emerson.
Moliere.
Sheridan.

Voltaire, _Zadig_.
Carlyle, _Past and Present_.
Goethe, _Faust_, _Wilhelm Meister_.
White, _Natural History of Selborne_.
Smiles, _Self Help_.

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Miss Austen, either _Emma_ or _Pride and Prejudice_.
Thackeray, _Vanity Fair_ and _Pendennis_.
Dickens, _Pickwick_ and _David Copperfield_.
George Eliot, _Adam Bede_.
Kingsley, _Westward Ho_!
Bulwer-Lytton, _Last Days of Pompeii_.
Scott's Novels.

FOOTNOTES:

[69] The whole of the correspondence has been reissued as a _Pall Mall
"Extra"_ No. 24, and threepence will be well laid out by the purchaser of
this very interesting pamphlet.

INDEX.

Abbotsford Club, 187.

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