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The plan and composition of the book were mine; the work of my colleagues, F. E. Crawford and H. T. Richardson, consisting of criticism, verifications, and assistance in gathering materials for the appendix,--services of great value to me, and of which I wish to express my hig...
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1. Part 1The plan and composition of the book were mine; the work of my colleagues, F. E. Crawford and H. T. Richardson, consisting of criticism, verifications, and assistance in gatheri...
4. Part 4The student of AEschylus will find much of value to him in Mahaffy's "Greek Literature," "Old Greek Life," and "Social Life in Greece;" Schlegel's "Dramatic Literature;" Donalds...
13. Part 13=Definitions and Divisions=.--Literature is life pulsing through life upon life; but only when the middle life imparts new beauty to the first is literature produced in any true...
14. Part 14_Second_, the Period of Chaucer, from 1066 to the death of Chaucer in 1400. The great books of this period were _Mandeville's Travels_, Langland's "Piers the Ploughman." Wycliff...
6. Part 6Some critics think that no characters in Shakspeare are better drawn than those of Dumas. "Monte Cristo," "The Vicomte de Bragelonne" (Stevenson's favorite), "The Three Musketee...
10. Part 10=The Age of Stories=.--It is not necessary or proper to wait until a child can read, before introducing it to the best literature. Most of the books written for children have no...
5. Part 5Biography carefully read will cast a flood of light before us on the path of life. Read Longfellow's "Psalm of Life," and try to find the teachings he refers to in the lives of...
16. Part 16=Phelps, E. J=. (United States Minister to the Court of St. James). "I cannot think the _finis et fructus_ of liberal reading is reached by him who has not obtained in the best...
3. Part 3Scott[213] Rousseau[235] Eliot[214] Saintine[235] Dickens[215] Coffin[236] Hawthorne[216] Reade[236] Goldsmith[217] Warren[236] Bulwer[218] Landor[237] MacDonald[219] Turgenieff...
2. Part 210. =Good Books=.--=A Short Sermon=.--If you are a scholar, professor or lawyer, doctor or clergyman, do not stay locked in the narrow prison of your own department, but go out...
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7. Part 7[318] Froissart's "Chronicles" constitute a graphic story of the States of Europe from 1322 to the end of the 14th century. Scott said that Froissart was his master. Breadth dem...
11. Part 11The Spectator. One of the very best books to study, in order to form a good style. Franklin and others attribute their success largely to reading it carefully in boyhood.
17. Part 17_Latin._--Allen & Greenough's Latin Grammar. [Roxbury, W. Roxbury, and Brighton High Schools.] Harkness' Latin Grammar. [English, Girls', Dorchester, Charlestown, and East Bosto...
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12. Part 12+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | GREECE | B.C. | ISRAEL | | | Homer | 1000 | David, The | | | Hesiod | | Psalms | | | |...