Chapter 17

Self-Culture, and is given with his kind consent.

I.

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.

The Bible. Homer. Wilkinson's Ancient Egyptians. Max Von Dunche's History of the Ancient World. Plutarch's Lives. Herodotus. History of Greece--_Grote_ or _Curtius_. History of Rome--_Arnold_ or _Mommsen_. Menzel's History of the Germans. Green's History of the English People. Life of Charlemagne. Life of Pope Hildebrand. The Crusades. Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics. Prescott's America. Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella. Italy, by _Professor Spalding_. Chronicles, by _Froissart_. The Normans--_Freeman_ and _Thierry_. Motley's Dutch Republic. Life of Gustavus Adolphus. The French Revolution--_Thiers, Carlyle, Alison_. Bourrienne's Life of Napoleon. Wellington's Peninsular Campaign. Southey's Life of Nelson. America--_Bancroft_. The Stuart Rising of 1745, by _Robert Chambers_. Carlyle's Life of Cromwell. Foster's Statesmen of the Commonwealth. Life of Arnold--_Stanley_. Life of Dr. Norman Macleod. Life of Baron Bunsen. Neander's Church History. Life of Luther. History of Scottish Covenanters--_Dodds_. Dean Stanley's Jewish Church. Milman's Latin Christianity.

II.

RELIGION 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 Müller_. 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. Hain Friswell. London: Sampson Low & Marston. 1870.

_Self-Culture_, by James Freeman Clarke. Boston: J. R. Osgood & Co. 1881.

_Life Questions_, by M. J. Savage. Boston: Lockwood, Brooks & Co. 1879.

_Elements of Morality, for Home and School Teaching_, by Mrs. Chas. Bray. London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1863.

_The Family and its Duties_, by Robert Lee, D.D. London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1863.

_Christianity in its Relation to Social Life_, by Rev. Stephen J. Davis. London: Religious Tract Society.

_Home Life_, by Marianne Farningham. London: James Clarke & Co.

_The Domestic Circle_, by the Rev. John Thomson. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 1886.