ELIGION AND MORALS.
The Bible.
Socrates or Plato and Xenophon.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus' Meditations.
Epictetus Seneca.
The Hitopadion and Dialogues of Krishna.
St. Augustine's Confessions.
Jeremy Taylor.
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
Martineau.
Aesop's Fables.
III.
POETRY AND FICTION.
Homer.
Virgil.
Dante.
The Niebelungen Lay.
The Morte D'Arthur.
Chaucer.
Shakespeare.
Spenser.
Goethe--Faust, Meister, and Eckermann's Conversations.
Milton.
Pope.
Cowper.
Campbell.
Wordsworth.
Walter Scott.
Burns.
Charles Lamb.
Dean Swift, "Tale of a Tub" and "Gulliver's Travels."
Tennyson.
Browning.
Don Quixote.
Goldsmith, "Vicar of Wakefield."
George Eliot.
Dickens.
Robinson Crusoe.
Andersen's Fairy Tales, "Mother Bunch."
Grimm's Popular Songs and Ballads, especially
Scotch, English, Irish and German.
IV.
FINE ARTS.
Ferguson's History of Architecture.
Ruskin.
Tyrwhitt.
V.
POLITICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.
De Tocqueville.
John Stuart Mill.
Fawcett.
Laveleye.
Adam Smith.
Cornewall Lewis.
Lord Brougham.
Sir J. Lubbock.
VI.
SCIENCE AND PHILOLOGY.
J. G. Wood's Books on Natural History.
White's Natural History of Selbourne.
Geology--_Hugh Miller, Ramsey, Geikie, Ansted_.
Botany--General Elements of British.
Science of Language--_Trench_ and _Farrar, Max Mueller_.
Taylor's Words and Places.
VII.
VOYAGES AND TRAVEL.
In every variety; especially the old collections.
LIST OF WORKS.
The following is a list of works upon topics treated in this text-book,
which have been consulted in its preparation, and which may be useful
to students:
_Self-Culture_, by John Stuart Blackie. Edinburgh: David Douglas.
Twentieth edition. 1892.
_Plain Living and High Thinking, or Practical Self-Culture--Moral,
Mental and Physical_, by W. H. Davenport Adams. London: John Hogg,
Paternoster Row. 1880.
_The Secret of Success_, by W. H. Davenport Adams. London: John Hogg,
Paternoster Row. 1880.
_The Threshold of Life_, by W. H. Davenport Adams. T. Nelson & Sons,
Paternoster Row. 1876.
_On the Threshold_, by Theodore T. Munger. London: Ward, Lock & Co.
1888.
_Beginning Life_, by John Tulloch, D.D. London: Chas. Burnet & Co.
1883.
_Life: a Book for Young Men_, by J. Cunninghame Geikie. London:
Strahan & Co. 1870.
_The Gentle Life_, by J. Ha
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