STACK 5 021 81*7 _ 11JU SUOSESTICWS FO^ THE OF. . '1OME 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] THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS 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] THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS 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 Silas Marner; 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 THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS 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 Jolly Fellowship Stockton The Nurnberg Stove .... Ouida The Hoosier School-Boy . 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 of Adventure ; 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] THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS 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] THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS 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 WORLD'S BEST BOOKS The Call of the Wild . . . Jack London The Cloister and the Hearth; Put Yourself in 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 of Mexico . . . 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 [ 11 1 THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS 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 .... Dickens *^T)avid Copperfield Dickens vThe Old Curiosity Shop .... Dickens Christmas Stories Dickens The Mill on the Floss . . . _ . Eliot <^?:>i\as Marner Eliot Westward Ho! Kingsley ^ 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 The Vision of Sir Launfal . . Lowell Tom Brown at Rugby Hughes Tom Brown at Oxford . . . Hughes >S Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . Carroll [12] THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS Two Little Confederates .... Page Cudjo's Cave ...... Trowbridge A Watcher in the Woods . . . Sharp The Pied Piper of Hamelin . Browning Wake Robin ...... Burroughs Birds and Poets ..... Burroughs The Ancient Mariner . . . Coleridge Arabian Nights /Csop's Fables Swiss Family Robinson .... Wyss Child Rhymes ....... Riley Rebecca ......... Wiggin Wild Animals I Have Known ....... Thompson-Seton Jackanapes ........ Ewing The Age of Fable .... Bulfinch-Hale Rudder Grange ...... Stockton The Oregon Trail ..... Parkman Norse Stories ........ Mabie Stories from the Odyssey . . . Church Old Greek Folk Stories . . . Peabody Captain Courageous . ... Kipling Black Beauty ....... Sewell True Stories from History and Biography ......... Hawthorne Young Folks' History of the United States ......... Higginson Christopher Columbus .... Abbott Hero Tales from American History . Lodge Boy Life of Napoleon ...... Foa The Story of Washington . . . Brooks The Life of Lincoln for Boys and Girls .......... Moores Lost in the Jungle ..... Chaillu Golden Numbers .... Wiggin and Smith Lullaby Land ........ Field Uncle Remus ........ Harris A Dog of Flanders ...... Ouida Don Quixote ...... Cervantes [ 13] THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS King of the Golden River . Ruskin /The Little Lame Prince .... Craik The Queens of England . . Strickland ^The Child's Garden of Verses . Stevenson XTales from Shakespeare . . . Lamb ^- The Man Without a Country . . Hale '""The Jungle Book ...... Kipling The Story of My Life ..... Keller Up from Slavery ..... Washington Memoirs ......... Grant Story of a Bad Boy .... Aldrich atha ....... Longfellow Evangeline ...... Longfellow Snow-Bound ....... Whittier The Alhambra ....... Irving ..'The Sketch Book ...... Irving "O'Tanglewood Tales .... Hawthorne ^,-Twice Told Tales ..... Hawthorne The Wonder Book .... Hawthorne ^ Little Women ....... Alcott .Sara Crewe ........ Burnett ^ Little Lord Fauntleroy . . . Burnett Marmion ......... Scott The Lady of The Lake .... Scott Lays of Ancient Rome . . . Macaulay Arthur Bonnicastle ..... Holland Childe Harold, Cantos III-IV . Byron Idylls of the King ..... Tennyson Being a Boy ....... Warner The Hoosier School-Boy . . Eggleston 1*. The Spy . ........ Cooper ' Last of the Mohicans .... Cooper Sesame and Lilies ..... Ruskin John Halifax ..... Mulock-Craik Scottish Chiefs Porter 14] THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS Farrar's Famous List of Five In his little book on "Books that Have Helped 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 the world were in a blaze, the first twelve which I would snatch out of the flames would be: The Bible Imitation of Christ Homer ^Eschylus Thucydides Tacitus Virgil Marcus Aurelius Dante Shakespeare Milton Wadsworth S rt Of living authors I would save first the works of Tennyson, Browning and Ruskin." [ 15] THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS 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 Sir John Lubbock at the opening, in January, 1886, of the Work- 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] THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS Pensees Pascal Tractatus Theologico-Politicus . Spinoza Catechism of Positive Philosophy (Congreve) Compte Analogy Butler Holy Living and Holy Dying . Jeremy Taylor Pilgrim's Progress Bunyan 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 ] THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS 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] THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS 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 Westward Ho! Kingsley Last Days of Pompeii . . . Bulwer-Lytton Scott's Novels THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS 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. [201 THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS 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 Don Quixote Cervantes Paradise Lost Milton Pilgrim's Progress Bunyan 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 Sleepy Hollow . 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 WORLD'S BEST BOOKS 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 .... Hawthorne Uncle Tom's Cabin .... Mrs. Stowe Essays Macaulay David Copperfield Dickens Tale of Two Cities Dickens Westward Ho! Kingsley John Halifax, Gentleman . . Mulock-Craik Education Spencer Les Miserables Victor Hugo The Woman in White Collins Middlemarch George Eliot Ben Hur .... Lew Wallace [22] THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS 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 David Copperfield Dickens Vanity Fair Thackeray Hypatia Kingsley The Mill on the Floss . . . George Eliot The Marble Faun . . Nathaniel Hawthorne The Sketch Book . . Washington Irving Les Miserables Victor Hugo Wilhelm Meister (Carlyle trans.) . Goethe Don Quixote Cervantes 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 WORLD'S BEST BOOKS 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: David Copperfield Dickens Ivanhoe Scott Adam Bede Eliot Scarlet Letter Hawthorne Vanity Fair Thackeray Jane Eyre Bronte Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe The Newcomes Thackeray Les Miserables Victor Hugo 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 .... Lytton -Middlemarch Eliot Marble Faun Hawthorne Pendennis . Thackeray Hypatia Charles Kingsley of Seven Gables . . . Hawthorne on the Floss George Eliot [241 THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS 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 Elsie Venner Holmes Country Doctor Jewett Deephaven Jewett Oldtown Folks Stowe Ministers' Wooing Stowe Wood Carver of 'Lympus . . . Waller Doctor Zay . . . . v . . . . 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] THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS 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 .... Meredith Divine Fire 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] THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS Water Witch k Cooper Westward Ho! Kingsley 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 Westward Ho! Kingsley Hugh Wynne, Mitchell Seats of the Mighty Parker Ben Hur Wallace Henry Esmond ...... Thackeray St. Ives Stevenson The Spy Cooper [27] THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS Novels of Plot and Problem To those who enjoy novels with strong under- lying themes, this list, prepared by Hamilton 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 .... Deland The Patriot 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 .... Turgenief Truth 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] THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS 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 . . . Hardy Our Mutual Friend .... Dickens The Three Musketeers .... Dumas Monte Cristo . . . . ,. . Dumas NOVELS OF CHARACTER STUDY Pride and Prejudice Austen Sentimental Tommy . . , . . Barrie Middlemarch Eliot Anna Karenina Tolstoi Joseph Vance De Morgan Mayor of Chesterbridge .... Hardy Scarlet Letter . . . . . . Hawthorne Rise of Silas Lapham .... Howells Portrait of a Lady ..... James The Egoist Meredith Sanctuary Wharton Divine Fire Sinclair Vanity Fair Thackeray Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ... Stevenson NOVELS OF REALISM Anna Karenina ...... Tolstoi Daisy Miller . . . ... 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 .... Wharton The Common Lot Herrick [29] THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS 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 Don Quixote Cervantes [30] THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS 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) .... Plato The Golden Sayings of Epictetus (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] THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS ' Prometheus Bound (translated by E. H. Plumptre) ^Eschylus 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: ^Esop's Fables, 82 titles Grimm's Household Tales, 41 titles Tales from Hans Christian Andersen, 20 titles [32] THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS Modern English Drama: All for Love John Dryden The School for Scandal 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] THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS 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 . 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