^**^***«^^^^ttiAi ^^ MmSG^ PRIVATE LIBRARY OF >^'^ / CHARLES A. KOTOID. GIFT OF ^ THE Choice of Books A K-^^ BY CHARLES F. RICHARDSON NEW YOKE: JOHN B. ALDEN, PUBLISHEB, 1883. ^v ^^ CONTENTS. PAGE The Motive op Reading 7 The Reading Habit 12 What Books to Read 27 The Best Time to Read 45 How Much to Read , 57 Remembering What One Reads 76 The Use o^ Note-Books 85 The Cultivation of Taste 95 Poetry no The Art of SiarpiNG 121 The Use of Translations 129 How TO Read Periodicals 138 Reading Aloud and Reading Clubs 149 What Books to Own 163 The Use of Public Libraries 182 The True Service op Reading 195 247481 (3> Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2007 witii funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation littp://www.archive.org/details/choiceofbooksOOrichrich QUOTATIONS FROM AUTHORS CITED. PAGE Abbott 167 About 169 Adams 188 Addison 198 Alcott 124 Allibone 23 Aristotle 112 Arnold. , 34, 113 Atkinson. .58, 90, 99, 112, 140 Bacon.. . .60, 99, 112, 122, 125 Baxter 200 Beecher 57, 88, 163 Bible, the 7. 99, i54 Blackwood's Magazine. 79 BoARDiiAN 178 Boswell - 173 Eraitiiwaite 49, 60 Bulwer 96 Burns 10 Butler 35 Carlyle. 29, 197 Cato 202 Channing 25 Chaucer 167 Christian Union 155 •( PAGE Clarke 201 Coleridge 60, 201 CoLLYER - 19 CONGDON 1 70 cowper ii Cutter 187 De Quincey 32 Disraeli 8 Durfee 92 Emerson.. . .27, 102, 127, 130, 177, 202 Fenelon 26 Fuller 90 Gibbon 26, 1 73 GoscHEN 114 Hale 18, 66, 160, 190 Hamerton. 47, 51, 54, 79, 126, 131, 138, 144 Harrison 35, 37, 39, 61 Helps 168 Herrick 199 Herschel 24 Holmes 168 Homes 191 Hovey 87 5)