Century Magazine, 1: 849 (Lang).

Forum, 20: 616.

Scribner's Magazine, 4: 537 (Birrell); 7: 463 (Stedman); 18: 281 (Merriam).

Littell's Living Age, 177: 545 (Myers); 178: 88 (Traill); 182 : 771 (Lord Coleridge); 200: 90 (Stephen); 207: 771 (Gladstone); 208: 46 (A. Austin); 209: 362 (F. Harrison).

RUSKIN.

Collingwood's "Life of John Ruskin.”

Mather's "Life and Teachings of John Ruskin."
Ruskin's "Præterita."

Japp's "Three Great Teachers of Our Time."

Bayne's "Lessons from My Masters.”

Baillie's "Aspects of the Thought and Teaching of John Ruskin."
Century Magazine, 13: 357 (Stillman).

Harper's Monthly, 80: 578 (Ritchie).

Littell's Living Age, 178: 50; 187: 407; 198: 813; 199: 131.

BOOKS WORTH READING

THE following list of books is intended to include a large number of standard works from the various periods of English literature. All the works placed in the list, except a few minor poems, are mentioned in the text, where more or less information concerning them is given. It is hoped that the list will serve as a guide to those who are often at a loss to know what to read or study, and who, for lack of judicious guidance, waste much time on what is poor or hurtful literature. The works specially commended to the student are printed in small capitals. Many excellent works in literary biography and criticism have been given in the foregoing list of "Books of Reference."

"BEOWULF" (Earle's, Garnett's, or Hall's translation).

Bede's "Ecclesiastical History," with Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Bohn). Langland's "Piers the Plowman."

Gower's "Confessio Amantis."

Chaucer's "Compleynt unto Pite," "Truth," "Compleynt to his Purs," "PROLOGUE," "KNIGHT'S TALE," "Clerk's Tale," "Nonne Prestes Tale," "Wife of Bath's Tale."

More's "Utopia.”

Hooker's "Ecclesiastical Polity," Book I.

Sidney's "Defense of Poesie."

OLD ENGLISH BALLADS" (Percy's Reliques).

"Best Elizabethan Plays" (Thayer).

Spenser's "Shepherd's Calendar," "Colin Clout's Come Home Again," "Mother Hubbard's Tale," "Epithalamion." "FAERY QUEENE," BOOK I.

Bacon's " ESSAYS," "Advancement of Learning," "Novum Organum." Shakespeare's "King Henry IV.," "Merry Wives of Windsor," "MERCHANT OF VENICE," "Midsummer Night's Dream," "Taming of the Shrew," "JULIUS CAESAR," "Antony and Cleopatra,” "ROMEO AND JULIET,” “HAMLET," "OTHELLO,” “MACBETH,” "KING LEAR," etc.

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Walton's "Complete Angler."

Taylor's "Holy Living and Dying."

Baxter's "Saints' Everlasting Rest" and "Reformed Pastor."
Clarendon's "History of the Rebellion."

Milton's "Comus," "L'ALLEGRO," "IL PENSEROSO," "Lycidas,"
"AREOPAGITICA,' ” “TRACTATE ON EDUCATION,"
""SAMSON AGO-
NISTES,” “PARADISE LOST,” “Paradise Regained."

Bunyan's "PILGRIM'S PROGRESS."

Evelyn's "Diary.”

Pepys's "Diary."

Locke's "Thoughts Concerning Education" and "Essay on the Human Understanding."

Dryden's "ABSALOM AND Achitophel,” “RELIGIO LAICI,” “Hind and Panther," "AENEID,” “PALAMON AND ARCITE,” “ALEXANDER'S FEAST."

Addison's "Cato,” “Hymns,” and “SPECTATOR.”

Pope's "ESSAY ON CRITICISM,” “Rape of the Lock,” “ILIAD,” “Essay ON MAN," etc.

Swift's "Battle of the Books," "Tale of a Tub," "GULLIVER'S TRAVELS," "Journal to Stella."

Sheridan's The Rivals " and "SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL.”

Burke's "SPEECHES " and "Reflections on the Revolution in France." Hume's "History of England."

Robertson's "History of Scotland" and "History of Charles V.”

Gibbon's "DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE" and "AUTOBIOGRAPHY."

Akenside's "Pleasures of the Imagination."

Gray's "Poems," particularly "DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE," "ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD," and "PROGRESS OF POESY."

Collins's "Ode on the Death of Thomson," "Ode to Evening," and "ODE ON THE PASSIONS."

Crabbe's "The Village.”

Shenstone's "The School-Mistress."

Warton's "History of English Poetry."

Percy's "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry."

Boswell's "LIFE OF JOHNSON."

Smith's "Wealth of Nations."

Macpherson's "Ossian."

Beattie's Minstrel."

Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes," "RAMBLer," "Rasselas,” and "LIVES OF THE POETS."

Goldsmith's "TRAVELLER," "DESERTED VIllage,” "The GoodSHE STOOPS TO CONQUER," and "VICAR OF

Natured Man,"
WAKEFIELD."

Cowper's "THE TASK," "Iliad," "JOHN GILPIN," "FRIENDSHIP," "Verses," "MY MOTHER'S PICTURE," "The Poplar Field," "The Shrubbery," ," "The Castaway," and "Letters."

Burns's "COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT," "MARY MORISON," "To A
MOUSE," ""Address to the Deil," "MAN WAS MADE TO MOURN,"
"MOUNTAIN DAISY," "A MAN'S A MAN FOR A' THAT," "ON
SEEING A WOUNDED HARE," "TALE O' TAM O'SHANTER," "To
MARY IN HEAVEN," "Bruce's Address," "EPISTLE TO A YOUNG
FRIEND," "Address to the Unco Guid," etc.

Lamb's "Tales from Shakespeare " and " ESSAYS OF ELIA.”
Lockhart's "Life of Burns" and "LIFE OF Scott."

Hallam's "Middle Ages" and "Literature of Europe."

Mitford's "History of Greece."

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Jane Austen's "SENSE AND SENSIBILITY,” “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE," and "Emma."

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Jane Porter's "Thaddeus of WARSAW" and "The Scottish Chiefs." Mrs. Hemans's "Poems."

Maria Edgeworth's "Castle Rackrent."

Campbell's "PLeasures of HopE,” “Gertrude of Wyoming," "O'ConLOCHIEL'S WARNING," "Battle of the Baltic," "Ye

nor's Child,"

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Mariners of England," "HOHENLINDEN," "SOLDIER'S DREAM,” "LAST MAN," "HALLOWED GROUND," etc.

Keats's "Endymion," "LAMIA," "EVE OF ST. AGNES," "Hyperion," "NIGHTINGALE," "GRECIAN URN," and "Autumn."

Southey's "LIFE OF NELSON," and select poems, particularly “LoDORE," "WELL OF ST. KEYNE," "MARY THE MAID OF THE INN," "MARCH TO MOSCOW," "THE SCHOLAR," "AULD CLOOTS,"

etc.

Moore's "LALLA ROOKH," "IRISH MELODIES," and "Life of Byron." Hood's "Poems" and "UP THE RHINE."

Keble's "Christian Year."

Rogers's "Pleasures of Memory."

Scott's "LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL," "MARMION," "LADY OF THE LAKE." "Waverley," "OLD MORTALITY," "HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN," "Kenilworth," "IVANHOE," "Quentin Durward," etc.

Byron's "ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH Reviewers," "Childe HAROLD," ," "PRISONER OF CHILLON," "GIAOUR," "Bride of Abydos," “Corsair,” “Lara,” “Manfred," "THE DREAM,” “FARE THEE WELL,” “Vision of Judgment," "Hebrew Melodies," etc. Wordsworth's "We are Seven," "Expostulation and Reply," "The Tables Turned," "TINTERN ABBEY," "Lucy Gray," "Ruth," "Nutting," "Poet's Epitaph," "MICHAEL," "THE HAPPY WARRIOR," "My Heart Leaps Up," "She Was a Phantom of Delight,” "To the Daisy," "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways," "ODE TO DUTY," "ODE ON IMMORTALITY," "The Prelude," "The Excursion" (extracts), "Sonnets." Coleridge's "BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA,' ," "Table Talk," " Æolian Harp,” "Reflections on Leaving a Place of Retirement," "Religious Musings," "The Destiny of Nations," " Ode to France," "TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH," "The Nightingale," "THE ANCIENT MARINER," 66 LOVE," ‚” “Christabel," "Ode to Dejection," "Hymn before Sunrise," "Wallenstein."

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Shelley's "THE LAMENT," "HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY," "Alastor," "The Revolt of Islam," "Julian and Maddalo," "Ode to the West Wind," "Prometheus Unbound," "The CENCI," ," "Ode to Naples," "Ode to Liberty," "TO A SKYLARK,” "THE CLOUD," "ADONAIS," "Defence of Poetry."

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De Quincey's "LITERARY REMINISCENCES," "CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM EATER," "ON MURDER CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS," "Suspiria de Profundis," "The English Mail Coach,” "Revolt of the Tartars," "On War," "Style," "JOAN OF ARC," "Autobiographical Sketches."

Bulwer's "LAST DAYS OF POMPEII," "My Novel," "THE LADY OF
LYONS," "RICHELIEU," etc.

Disraeli's" VIVIAN GREY," 66 Coningsby,"
‚” “Endymion,” etc.

Kingsley's "HYPATIA," "WESTWARD Ho," "Hereward the Wake,”

etc.

Marryat's "Peter Simple," "MR. MIDSHIPMAN EASY," etc.

Trollope's "The Warden," "FRAMLEY PARSONAGE," "Can You Forgive Her," "AUTOBIOGRAPHY," etc.

Reade's "Peg Woffington," "IT IS NEVER TOO LATE to Mend," "The Cloister and the Hearth," etc.

Collins's "The Woman in White," "No Name," "THE MOONSTONE." Stevenson's "TREASURE ISLAND," "Kidnapped," "The Master of Ballantrae," etc.