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  If any Gentleman do want a Man, As I doubt not but some do now and than, I have a Welchman though but meanly clad--


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  An excellent Comedy called the Prince of Priggs Revels or The Practises of that grand Thief Captain James Hind


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  "Life of Samuel Johnson" 120 Painting by Eyre Crowe of Dr. Johnson, Boswell and Goldsmith at the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street 122 Portrait of Daniel Defoe, from an Old Steel Engraving


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  The | | | Hesiod | | Psalms | | | | | | | +-------------------------------+------+----------------+-------------------+


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  | | | | | | +-------------------------------+------+----------------+-------------------+ | | | | | | Mandeville | 1300 | ITALY | ENGLAND | | Langland | | Dante | Chivalry


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  | | | | La Fontain | | +-------------------------------+------+----------------+-------------------+ | | | | | | Addison Cowper Otis | 1700 |FRANCE | 1776


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  | | Munchausen | | | Thomson Johnson Fox | | Lessing | | | Young Boswell Erskine | | | | | Gray Malthus P. Henry.| | | | | Goldsmith Mackintosh | | | | | Sterne Paine | | | | | | | | |


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  The | | Ruskin Twain Hunt | | Taine | Telephone | | Arnold Jerrold Wallace | | | Emancipation of | | Curtis Choate Clarke |


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  | | Holmes Lincoln Landor | | Pushkin | Russia | | Mansel Phillips Tourgée | | Lermontoff | | | Carlyle Everett Holland


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  "The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius,"--these being among the books that in the highest degree possess the quality under discussion


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  The Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites


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id: 15432
title: Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance
author: De la Mare, Walter
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  voice, meeting his eye, touching his hand and cheek, loving him, sheer delight: Rosinante, with her mild face beneath its dark forelock Her thoughts followed my every word, passing upon her face like his garden wall," Jane said, turning sharply on me. wind or water, no sound of voices or footsteps; only far away the Rosinante awaited me at the little green gate, eyeing forlornly the "And now, Sir Traveller," said she of the sparkling eyes, named between the narrow leaves, perceived the cold, bright face of a little eyes fixed strangely on my coming with an intense, I had almost said dark eyes searching my face in the black shadow of night, he answered hare-like face, and the rage in his little active eyes. "Some I know," she answered with a little frown, and looked far out to "It''s amaranth," she said; and I have never seen so old a little look


id: 19157
title: A Mother''s List of Books for Children
author: Arnold, Gertrude Weld
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  "Children must learn to creep before they can go." This little book children who have books at home and mothers who read them.... pictures in color, will delight young children of all lands. Reading picture story-books?_ Very simple and delightful narratives of the life of a little boy (p. These simple stories, written for the girls and boys of a generation These fourteen little stories include some about children and some This fully illustrated little volume gives clear directions for making present-day nature-books for young children, and they still children of eight years, the pictures really tell, the story. This first volume of Andrew Lang''s colored fairy books contains the These eight wonder stories incidentally illustrate the every-day (p. Mrs. Burnett''s well-known story of the little American boy who in the A fully illustrated little book which contains clear directions for The one great story of school-boy life, telling of days at Rugby under


id: 17857
title: Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book
author: Halsey, Rosalie Vrylina
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  first book of any kind written and printed in America for children;--an some Instruction with a little Book upon them." To children accustomed of a little Quakeress furnished the Philadelphia children with a book approach of the little gilt story-books which ten years later were to [Illustration: _John Newbery''s Advertisement of Children''s Books_] and religious books, issued as published in America for children, should "Little Books with Pictures for Children" could be purchased at the "The Famous Tommy Thumb''s Little Story-Book: Containing his Life and had the "following little Books for all good Boys and Girls: by the name of Newbery''s Little Books for Children, are now republished [Illustration: _A page from a Catalogue of Children''s Books printed by suggested in three little books, of two of which the author was Mrs. Pilkington, who had already written several successful stories for young The books for American children therefore Little Book for Children, 17.


id: 16736
title: Books and Culture
author: Mabie, Hamilton Wright
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  individual life through thought, feeling, and action,--an aim often He discovered that the great man was reading a Greek play with such along certain courses of work, but to have no deep life of thought the soul and life of man, the definite literary quality sometimes conception of man''s nature and life, or of the meaning and reality of the art of many countries; but the books of life ought to form the living, and whoever touches the deep life of men in the great works of only the poet''s interpretation of man''s life in the world, but he is life, a disclosure of the nature of man, a synthesis of ideas touched of the ideas about life held by a great race, he has gone a long way of life as that knowledge lies revealed in the experience of the race. to a man''s life or work.


id: 13852
author: Bennett, Arnold
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  bound to have read somewhere that the style of Sir Thomas Browne is Let us begin experimental reading with Charles Lamb. think of Charles Lamb as a book, because he has arrived at the Charles Lamb was a man, not a book. form an idea of the man behind the book. You will find that, in classical literature, the style always follows But what do those people mean who say: "I read such and such an author influence of literature, there _is_ no such thing as literary style. prose and verse of Charles and Mary Lamb, edited by that unsurpassed learning about literature in general; for books were his hobby, and he little for books and enjoys reading, and knows the classics by name Second: Read William Hazlitt''s essay "On Poetry in library of English literature, in comely and adequate editions. For the purposes of book-buying, I divide English literature, not

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  Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature


id: 13430
title: A Librarian''s Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects
author: Bostwick, Arthur E. (Arthur Elmore)
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  persons begin to read books that fail to hold their attention. good reading is generally a matter of lifelong education. In the case of the public library, for instance, does a man readers of library books in New York shun the public-press, or do they pay heard all the other boys saying it was a good library and that the books friends "told her what nice books were in this library." In one case a electricity; I wanted to read that book and joined the library." Others and I have attempted this in the case of the New York public library for I''ll begin now." Here was a man who had never read a book, who had no use a man "talks like a book," or in other words, uses such language that it public association between its display and the work of the library shall


id: 13435
title: On the Choice of Books
author: Carlyle, Thomas
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  best thing he knew of that country was, that in it a man can have meat individuals, especially one man of letters, his friend, the best mind infinite voices an eternal song of Hope in the soul of man.'' Carlyle Carlyle''s works, and indeed is one of the most remarkable books of the A great deal of information respecting Carlyle''s manner of living and Carlyle''s paper reads like a solemn and touching funeral oration to time when, an unknown young man, Thomas Carlyle wrote articles for conclusion, and it is to be regretted that the admiration which Mr. Carlyle feels for the great men of history will not allow him to at times to appoint a Dictator--a man who had the power of life and thing to what it was in these old times, I could go into a great many of sceptical men had not anything like so clear a mind as that man


id: 16579
title: On The Art of Reading
author: Quiller-Couch, Arthur
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  great University, that the other fair sisters of learning shall VII THE VALUE OF GREEK AND LATIN IN ENGLISH LITERATURE Reading of the best Literature can be taught; and supposing it to The first thing, then, to be noted about the reading of English paper on passages from selected English verse and prose writings The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to Life._ And so I come to my subject--the art of reading _that,_ nay, presumed to _know_ certain things, we aim that our young men deliver courses of lectures on English Literature from the age of examinations in English Language and Literature came to pass, and English Literature to be great, we would point out that an Pass from the child to the working-man as we know him. reads its God--his open mind at once recognises it as poetry and thing the translators wrote was ''And God said, Let there be


id: 18104
title: Among Famous Books
author: Kelman, John
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  life of man, and whose story, told in one form or another, provides the local phase of human life and thought, and it has very little to do with human interest, and all ideas which concern the life of man are immortal common elements of human nature in all lands and times; and these, when this, as in all other things, a man must consent to lose his life in old Greek ideal of a complete earthly life for man, and all that was every man two ways of doing work, of reading a book, of loving a woman. between gods of the earth that are as old as Time, and daring thoughts soul of man and the life of God, but the way in which he tells these of life there is no thought of God or of idealism of any kind.


id: 26312
title: The Lost Art of Reading
author: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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  man shall work to read, that he must win some great delight to do his It would be a great pity if a man could not know the things that have main ideal of living in the world, as long as every man''s life, chasing of all in human life--the days when men grow old, world-gentle, and power to read a great book is the power to glory in these things, and to "To a man," I said, "to whom books are people, and the livest kind of living a real day, I feel as if some Great Book were around me--were a live use of books, not only a man''s education after he is born, but thing in this world for a man''s life is his being original in it. reading for results, that the main thing a book is in a man''s hands for world where there are infinite things to know, a man''s knowledge must


id: 5317
title: Through the Magic Door
author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
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  good company that one may come to think too little of the living. It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good words--"D--was a dirty man," but the books certainly would be It''s a sad book, Lockhart''s "Life." It leaves gloom in the mind. great man takes of old age and death. mentioning his name--and one cannot read the great historian''s life hand, men who have been very great in the short story, Stevenson, all his flaws, the man who, in addition to the great book, of which Most of my books deal with the days of his greatness, but here, you the day might come when his book would be the one great authority, sure there are many good books, possibly there are some great ones, books to put into a young man''s hands if you wished to train him


id: 5957
title: The Art of the Story-Teller
author: Shedlock, Marie L.
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  My objects in urging the use of stories in the education of children I had been telling a class of young children the story of Polyphemus "No; it was a little kitten," said the story-teller decidedly. hears a story artistically told, a little more of the meaning suddenly said, in a most imperative tone: "Tell me the story of a bear came to me once after the telling of this story and said in an awestruck voice: "Do you cor-relate?" Having recovered from the effect been reading with some children of about ten years old the story from Many people think that the dramatization of the story by the children Many people think that the dramatization of the story by the children looking back on the telling of the story, the child often remembers will you tell stories?" "As you will," said Sturla. "The very same," said the Emperor, and he cried like a little child.


id: 6884
title: Sleeping Fires: a Novel
author: Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
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  Madeleine Talbot at this time was very happy, or, at least, too busy to Langdon Masters arrived in San Francisco during Madeleine''s third Such was Langdon Masters when he came to San Francisco and Madeleine To him, a far better judge of men than of women, Langdon Masters was seen a good many women in love in her time. end!" And for the first time in her life she felt like fainting. Madeleine sat at the end of the long double room behind a table and Masters turned after a time and his face looked as old as Talbot''s. imitation of the old Madeleine Talbot, and even mentioned Masters'' name he was leaving San Francisco for good and all, he looked like a man who man like Masters can quit cold no matter how far he has gone if the that Madeleine was in love with Langdon Masters.


id: 11483
title: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)
author: Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson
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  two books I have seen was the answer of a little girl whom Lewis revelation to the undergraduate who heard for the first time that Mr. Dodgson of Christ Church and Lewis Carroll were identical. Death of Archdeacon Dodgson--Lewis Carroll''s rooms at Christ Death of Archdeacon Dodgson--Lewis Carroll''s rooms at Christ time (knowing the sad end of the dear little boy), the funny parts A little book, published during this year, "Alice (a dramatic version "For auld lang syne" the author sent a copy of his book to Mrs. Hargreaves (Miss Alice Liddell), accompanied by a short note. A letter written about this time to his friend, Miss Edith Rix, gives The following letter written to a child-friend, Miss E. In December, the Logical controversy being over for a time, Mr. Dodgson invented a new problem to puzzle his mathematical friends


id: 12244
title: In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays
author: Birrell, Augustine
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  Sir Thomas Bodley''s Library at Oxford is, all will admit, a great and The good Bishop, known to all book-hunters as the author of the library a great register-book, containing the names and titles of things besides books and strangely-written manuscripts in old tongues; Some years later Dr. Garnett, who has spent a long life obliging men of letters, sent Mr. Blades two Athenian worms, which had travelled to this country in a of late years a good deal of sham book-collecting. Were an author to turn the pages of _Book Prices men of old, to breathe the prayer, ''May my books some day be found a public library, where beautiful and rare books will be kept for time--so much, at least, an old book-collector may be allowed to For a long time past the trades of bookselling and book-publishing one of the greatest book-buyers of his time, a man whose library it


id: 7167
title: The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII
author: nan
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  Books for Study and Reading Books for Study and Reading Why do we read books is one of those vast questions that need no to be argued into the belief that the reading of books is good for us; The man who does not like to read any books is, I am confident, seldom Franklin''s advice to read much but not too many books; the list of We must read a book for all there is in it or we shall get little or reading is to give a book its due and a little more. of a book read at twenty is just the passages I did not mark. The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend; when I read over a book I have perused before, Many times the reading of a book has made the fortune of a man--has


id: 12914
title: One Hundred Best Books With Commentary and an Essay on Books and Reading
author: Powys, John Cowper
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  This selection of "One hundred best books" is made after a different and any list of books which they made would exclude the writers here different list--the curious way certain books and writers have of imagination works upon, that certain among modern artists, if not those other moments when the best books in the world seem irrelevant, Milton''s work witnesses to the value in art of what is ancient and in the "Scott Library." A good short life of Heine in the "Great poems, with his prose works and Mr. Traubel''s books about him as a Balzac''s books create a complete world, which has many points of Life of--Great Writers Series .... was only the second book issued by a new publisher. The author of "Visions and Revisions" says of this new book of essays: The object of Mr. Holborn''s little book is to show that the peculiar


id: 35113
title: Comfort Found in Good Old Books
author: Fitch, George Hamlin
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  _These short essays on the best old books in the world were inspired by Next to the Bible in the list of great books of the world stands like the Bible, the great plays of Shakespeare are little read. In choosing the great books of the world, after the Bible and broad-minded in regard to reading books in good translations that he In reading the great books of the world one must be guided largely by not be able to read this year may become the greatest book in the world Every page of this great book reveals that the author had made the Bible comment by the best editors, the text of the great books of the world In beginning with the great books of the modern world two works stand _Notes on the Historical and Best Reading Editions of Great Authors._


id: 37795
title: The World''s Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature
author: Parsons, Frank
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  means of training them to good habits of reading, and the books best [10] The little book on "Tolerance" by Phillips Brooks ought to be read Art of Shakspeare" (books that once read by a lover of poetry will ever critical, philosophic work, an era-making book, and should be read by [97] Read Wood''s beautiful and interesting books on Natural History; (France, 19th cent.) are among the greatest books of the world; and with Mackenzie''s "History of the Nineteenth Century" is the best English book _read all_ these books, but it is practicable by means of general works, reading books used in primary and grammar schools contain little or no good books the child can be induced to read each year, the better of The great English books of this time were THE BEST THOUGHTS OF GREAT MEN ABOUT BOOKS AND READING. THE BEST THOUGHTS OF GREAT MEN ABOUT BOOKS AND READING.


id: 32172
title: Children''s Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860
author: Wright, Henrietta Christian
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  The man who was reading the old story was John Eliot, an English chapter of the life history of John James Audubon, the American Here, when three years old, Bryant often stood book in hand and with and romance as a preparation for his life work, and two years after In an old New England farm-house kitchen, a barefoot boy, dressed in This old phase of New-England life has now passed away, but he has Hawthorne was forty-six years old, appeared his first great romance. in public records and church histories, was given new life. America, was born at Litchfield, Conn., in those old New England days published his first book of verse under the title _A Year''s Life_, a forest life and with the pictures which the old stories called up, Six or eight times during the year the Great Spirit was called upon,


id: 32633
title: Time Enough at Last
author: Venable, Lyn
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  For a long time, Henry Bemis had had an ambition. wanted to read the whole thing, all the way through from beginning to Henry was down in the vault of the Eastside Bank & Trust when it second Henry thought of a story he had started to read once called Henry saw a pink splash that he knew was his hand, and a something inside of it that Henry could not look at, something that Numbly, Henry realized that the rest of Mr. Carsville was under that of course, Henry knew Agnes wasn''t No, that was a thought Henry didn''t want to think, he forced it from his mind and turned his thoughts back to Agnes. wasn''t exactly her fault if people didn''t have time to read nowadays. Agnes continued, "Henry, tonight is the Jones'' bridge He thought that now he would have time to read all the newspapers he


id: 38873
title: The Gentle Reader
author: Crothers, Samuel McChord
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  things too hard, having long since come to "the years that bring the That was the way books were written and read in the good old days before The book then becomes a person, and reading comes to be a kind of He knows a score of good old authors who have lived long in the happy pleasure like that which comes when a friend is received into a learned In like manner he believes in interesting things that great men must interested in a great many things he knows little about there is no such The Gentle Reader''s liking for histories that might be read to the "When a learned person asks one," says the Gentle Reader, "to accompany "What is your favorite character, Gentle Reader?" "I like to read about "I cannot make it appear so," says the Gentle Reader, who has come under


id: 48800
title: Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century With Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction
author: Ashton, John
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  Come Sirs, to kill young Joseph is not good, Said good old Jacob, and the man will show that Place, not so long as a Day. After having view''d the Castle round he observed to his great and shews that a woman will be beloved of great Men. A Mole under the right loin, signifies an industrious man, and good to said, I do not fear death; I saw my father die, and he soon vanished; said the Queen, the King shall spare thy life--Madam, replied the Who cares for you, said Tom, you shall not find me like one of them. said the Giant, you are like to do great things with these One day, an old man came to him and begged for food, on which Jack Jack also asked for a pipe, and the old man said-He went and brought a man''s head that was bare, and said here


id: 35535
title: Feeding the Mind
author: Carroll, Lewis
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  you reply, "I do it to save _time_." A very good object, no doubt, but _Rule 5._--''If your friend makes a severe remark, either leave it friendly remark, tending towards making up the little difference that has _three-eighths_ of the way, and if in making friends, each was ready to go may be thoroughly digested; both which rules, for the body, are also four hours'' rest before it is ready for another meal, the mind will in once an hour, leaving off for five minutes only each time, but taking care to this is simply _thinking over_ what we read. greater exertion of mind than the mere passive taking in the contents of books we read; I mean the arranging and ''ticketing,'' so to speak, of the subjects in our minds, so that we can readily refer to them when we want interest to ''read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest'' the good books that


id: 44133
title: The Girl Warriors: A Book for Girls
author: Williams, Adene
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  But it was only her little brother Ralph, who said: "''Innie, mamma says But presently her father and older brother came home; little Ralph ran have liked to remain up an hour longer, but of direct disobedience Mrs. Burton''s children were seldom guilty, so Winnie gathered up her books, As Miriam lived only a square away, Mrs. Burton and Winnie walked over Ralph said he liked to see the little boys and girls After Miriam had finished the chapter, Winnie said, "Oh, girls, I must "Why, that sounds like a description of Ernestine Alroy!" said Fannie. "I like that, too," said Gretta; "but I think Miss Benton''s pretty card "That''s papa, I think," said Fannie, and she went with Ernestine to the "Oh, I must go right home and tell mamma!" said Winnie, and she went "Oh, Ralph," said Winnie, "you tell everything you know, besides much


