THE STUDENT'S COMMON-PLACE BOOK. Hamilton's Phil. Philosophy of Sir William Hamilton, Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in Edinburgh University. Arranged and Edited by O. W. Wright, etc. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1844. Harris's Pre-Adamite Earth. The Pre-Adamite Earth Contributions to Theological Science. By John Harris, D.D., etc. Boston: Gould and Lincoln. 1851. Haven's Sers. National Sermons. Sermons, Speeches, and Letters on Slavery and its War, from the Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law to the Election of President Grant. By Gilbert Haven. Boston: Lee & Shepard. 1869. Herschel's Phy. Geo. Physical Geography of the Globe. Sir John F. W. Herschel, Bart., K.H., etc. etc. Edinburgh: Adams and Charles Black. 1867. Hist. Rationalism. History of Rationalism: Embracing Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology. With an Appendix of Literature. By John F. Hurst, D.D. London: Trübner & Co. 1867. His. Ref. Dutch Church. History and Characteristics of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. By David D. Demarest. New York: Board of Publication of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. 1856. Hobbes' Wks. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes. II vols. London: Longman. 1844. Horne's Intro. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. 4 vols. London: T. Cadell. 1834. Hume's Wks. The Philosophical Works of David Hume. 4 vols. Edinburgh: 1826. Huntington's Christian Believing. Christian Believing and Living. Sermons by F. D. Huntington, D.D., Boston: Crosby, Nichols, Lee and Co. 1860. etc. I. Hart Milman, D.D. 6 vols. London: John Murray 1855. Lect. Eng. His. Lectures on English History. Reed. Philadelphia: Parry and McMillan. 1857. Leigh Hunt's Autobiography. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1860. Leighton's Wks. The Genuine Works of Rt. Leighton, D.D., Archbishop of Glasgow, with a Preface by Philip Doddridge, D.D. 4 vols. London: W. Baynes. 1816. Leland's Wks. The Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation, etc. By John Leland, D.D. 2 vols. London: Richardson & Clark. 1764. Leisure Hours in Town. Leisure Hours in Town. By the Author of The Recreations of a Country Parson. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 1862. Lieber's Great Events. Great Events Described by Distinguished Historians, Chroniclers and other Writers. Collected and in part Translated by Francis Lieber. Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon and Webb. 1840. Life Christmas Evans. Sermons of Christmas Evans. A new Translation from the Welsh. With a Memoir and Portraiture of the Author. By Rev. Joseph Cross. Philadelphia: Leary & Co. 1852. Life of Story. Life and Letters of Joseph Story, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Dane Professor of Law in Harvard University, etc. By his Son, Wm. W. Story. 2 vols. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1851. Lincoln's Lf. The Life of Abraham Lincoln. By J. G. Holland, Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Springfield: Gurdon Bill. 1866. Logic in Theo. Logic in Theology. By Isaac Taylor. New York: William Gowans. 1860. Lyell's Geo. A Manual of Elementary Geology, or the Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants as Illustrated by Geological Monuments. By Sir Charles Lyell, M.A., F.R.S., etc. New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1855. Israel of the Alps. The Israel of the Alps. A History of the Persecutions of the Waldenses. Translated from the French of the Rev. Dr. Alexis Muston. don Ingram Cooke & Co. 1852. Lon J. M. D.D. Jackson's Wks. The Works of Thomas Jackson, 12 vols. Oxford University Press. 1844. Jefferson's Lf. The Life of Thomas Jefferson. By Henry S. Randall, LL.D. 3 vols. New York: Derby and Jackson. 1858. Jefferson's Wks. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, etc. 9 vols. Taylor and Murray. Washington: 1854. Jewel's Wks. The Works of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury. Edited for the Parker Society by the Rev. John Ayre, M.A., etc. Cambridge University Press. 1850. L. Lavater's Wks. Essays on Physiognomy Designed to Promote the Knowledge and Love of Mankind. By John Caspar Lavater, etc. 6 vols. Royal Quarto. London: John Murray. 1789. Lacon. Colton's Lacon. 2 vols. London: Longman & Co 1826. Lamartine's Atheism. Lamartine on Atheism among the People. By Alphonse De Lamartine. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co. 1850. Mach. Wks. The Works of Nicholas Machiavel. 2 vols. London: Thomas Davis. 1762. Mack. Wks. The Miscellaneous Works of the London: Right Hon. Sir James Mackintosh. 3 vols. Longman, Brown, Green and Longman. 1846. Madison Papers. The Papers of James Madison, etc. 3 vols. Washington: Langtree & O'Sullivan. 1840. Man Primeval. Man Primeval, or The Constitution and Primitive Condition of the Human Being, etc. By John Harris, D.D. Boston: Gould and Lincoln. 1856. Manual of Philo. A Manual of the History of Philosophy. Translated from the German of Tennemann, By the Rev. Arthur Johnson, M.A. Revised, Enlarged, and Continued by J. R. Morell. London: Henry G. Bohn. 1852. Maudsley's Res. in Ment. Dis. Responsibility in Mental Disease. By Henry Maudsley, M.D., etc. New York: Appleton & Co. 1875. Might and Mirth of Lit. The Might and Mirth of Literature. A Treatise on Figurative Language, etc. By John Walker Vilant Macbeth. New York: Harper Bros. 1875. Milton's Wks. The Works of John Milton. 8 vols. London Pickering. 1851. Mind and Mat. Mind and Matter or Physiological Lat. Chris. History of Latin Christianity. By Henry Inquiries. In a Series of Essays, etc. By Sir Benjamin Brodie, Bart. D.C.L., etc. & Co. 1857. New York: G. P. Putnam Mitchell's Pop. Astro. Popular Astronomy. A Concise Elementary Treatise on the Sun, Planets, Satellites, and Comets. By O. M. Mitchell, LL.D., Director of the Cincinnati and Dudley Observatories. New York: Oakley, Mason & Co. 1870. Montaigne's Wks. The Works of Michael De Montaigne. Edited by W. Hazlett. Philadelphia: J. W. Moore. 1856. Muller's Science of Lang. Lectures on the Science of Language. By Max Muller, etc. New York: Armstrong & Co. 1873. N. Nap. Lf. of Cæsar. History of Julius Cæsar. New York: Harper Bros. 1866. Newman's Rhetoric. A Practical System of Rhetoric. Or the Principles and Rules of Style, Inferred from Examples of Writing, etc. By Samuel P. Newman, Professor of Rhetoric in Bowdoin College. New York: Newman & Co. 1847. Old Red Sandstone. Walks in an Old Field. Johnston. 1842. 0. Old Red Sandstone or New By Hugh Miller. Edinburgh : P. Pepys's Diary. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II., and James II., etc. London: Henry Colburn. 1853. 4 vols. Philo Judæus. The Works of Philo Judæus, the Contemporary of Josephus. Translated from the Greek by C. D. Yonge, B.A. London: Henry G. Bohn. 1855. Phys. Theory Another Lf. By Isaac Taylor. London: Pickering. 1839. Pilgrim's Wallet. The Pilgrim's Wallet, or Scraps of Travel gathered in England, France, and Germany. By Gilbert Haven. New York: Hurd and Houghton. 1866. Pilkington's Wks. The Works of James Pilkington, B.D. I vol. Cambridge University Press. 1842. Plurality of Worlds. Of the Plurality of Worlds. An Essay. London: Parker and Son. 1853. Plymouth Pulpit. Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, etc. By Augusta Moore. New York: Harper Bros. 1865. Preacher and King. The Preacher and the King; or, Bourdaloue in the Court of Louis XIV., etc. Translated from the French of L. Bungener. Paris: 12th Edition, etc. Boston Gould and Lincoln. 1853. Prophets and Kings of Old Test. The Prophets and Kings of the Old Testament. A Series of Sermons Preached in the Chapel of Lincoln's Inn. By Frederick Denison Maurice, Chaplain, etc. Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Co. 1853. Prose. Qu. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. With Indexes, etc. By S. Austin Allibone, etc. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1876. R. Raleigh's Wks. The Works of Sir Walter Raleigh, Kt. Now first Collected. To which are prefixed The Lives of the Author by Oldys and Birch. 8 vols. Oxford: University Press. 1829. Reason and Faith. Reason and Faith, and other Miscellanies of Henry Rogers, Author of The Eclipse of Faith. Boston: Crosby, Nichols & Co. 1853. Reclus' Earth. The Earth: A Descriptive History of the Phenomena of the Life of the Globe. By Elisée Reclus. New York: Harper Bros. 1872. Reclus' Ocean. The Ocean Atmosphere and Life. Being the Second Series of a Descriptive History of the Life of the Globe. By Elisée Reclus, etc. New York: Harper Bros. 1873. Recreations of a Country Parson. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 1862. Reed's Eng. His. Lectures on English History and Tragic Poetry as Illustrated by Shakespeare. By Henry Reed, Late Professor of the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Parry and McMillan. 1857. Renan's Religious Criticism. Studies of Religious Criticism. By Ernest Renan, Member of the Institute of France, etc. New York: Carleton. 1864. Ridley's Wks. The Works of Nicholas Ridley, D.D. I vol. Cambridge: University Press. 1841. Roman Imperialism. By J. R. Seeley. Roberts Bros. 1871. Boston: Ruter's Ch. His. A Concise History of the Christian Church from its First Establishment to the Present Time ; containing a General View of Missions, and Exhibiting the State of Religion in Different Parts of the World. Compiled from the Works of Dr. G. Gregory, with NumerAdditions and Improvements. By Martin Ruter, D.D. New York: Published by B. Waugh and T. Mason, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, ous Sibbes' Wks. The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes, D.D. 7 vols. Edinburgh: James Nichol. 1864. Somerville's Phy. Geo. Physical Geography. By Mary Somerville, etc. Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea. 1854. Southey's Com. Pl. Bk. Southey's Common-Place Book. Choice Passages. Collections for English Manners and Literature. Edited by his Son-in-law, John Wood Warter, B.D. London: 4 vols. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1850. Speke's Nile. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile. By John Hanning Speke, Captain H. M. Indian Army, etc. New York: Harper Bros. 1864. Spencer's Sociology. The Study of Sociology. By Herbert Spencer, Author of A System of Philosophy, etc. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1875. Spinoza's Lf. Correspondence and Ethics. By R. Willis, M.D. London: Trubner & Co. 1870. Spinoza, Benedicti de, Opera quæ supersunt omnia. Henr. Eberli: Gottlob Paulus. Vols i, ii. Jenar. 1802. Stewart's Cons. of Energy. The Conservation of Energy. By Balfour Stewart, LL.D., F.R.S., etc. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1875. Story's Lf. Life and Letters of Joseph Story, Associate Justice Supreme Court, U. S., Dane Professor of Law, Harvard University, etc. By his Son, Wm. W. Story. 2 vols. Boston Little, Brown & Co. 1851. THE STUDENT'S COMMON-PLACE BOOK. Salverte's Occult Sciences. The Philosophy of Magic Prodigies and Apparent Miracles. From the French of Eusebe Salverte, etc. By Anthony Todd Thompson, M.D. 2 vols. London: Bentley. 1846. Swift's Wks. The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. 19 vols. London: 1801. Sydney Smith's Lf. A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland, etc. Edited by Mrs. Austin. 2 vols. New York: Harper Bros. 1856. Schl's Phil. of Life. von Schlegel. London: Spiritual Despotism. 1835. Taine's Eng. Lit. By H. A. Taine, D.C.L. Third Edition. 2 vols. Douglas. 1872. The Philosophy of Life. Fred Bohn. 1847. London: Holdsworth & Ball. T. History of English Literature. Theo. Vinet. Pastoral Theology, or The Theory of the Evangelical Ministry. By A. Vinet. Translated and Edited by Thomas H. Skinner, D.D. etc. York: Harper Bros. 1865. New Trail's Lit. Char. of the Bible. Literary Characteristics and Achievements of the Bible. By Rev. W. Trail, A.M., etc. Cincinnati Poe & Hitchcock. 1864. Trench's Eng. Past and Present. By Richard Chenevix Trench, B.D., etc. New York: Redfield. 1855. Trench on Parables. Notes on the Parables of Our Lord. By Richard Chenevix Trench, M.A., Professor of Divinity, King's College, London, etc. New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1853. Trench on Miracles. Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord. By Richard Chenevix Trench, M.A., Professor of Divinity, King's College, London, etc. New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1853. Trench on Provs. On the Lessons in Proverbs, being the Substance of Lectures delivered to Young Men's Societies, etc. By Richard Chenevix Trench, B.D., etc. New York: Redfield. 1853. Trench on Words. On the Study of Words. By Richard Chenevix Trench, B.D., etc. New York: Redfield. 1853. work. W. Ward's Sermons. Sermons and Treatises. By Samuel Ward, B.D., Sydney Sussex, Col., Cambridge; Preacher of Ipswich. Edinburgh: James Nichol. 1862. Washington's Wks. The Writings of George Wash ington, etc. By Jared Sparks. 12 vols. Boston: 1837. Watson's Expos. An Exposition of the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Mark, and some other Detached Parts of Holy Scripture. New York: Lane and Sanford: 1844. Watson's Insts. Theological Institutes; or a View of the Evidences, Doctrines, Morals and Institutions of Christianity. By Richard Watson. 2 vols. New York: Lane & Tippett. 1845. Watson's Wks. The Works of Rev. Richard Watson. 8 vols. London: John Mason. 1835. Webster's Wks. The Works of Daniel Webster. 6 vols. Boston: Little & Brown. 1851. Wesley's Wks. The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M., Sometime Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. 13 vols. London: John Mason. 1829. Wilson's Anti-Sla. Meas. History of Anti-Slavery Measures in Congress. By Henry Wilson. Boston: Walker, Wise & Co. 1864. Wirt's Lf. Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt, Attorney-general of the United States. By John P. Kennedy. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Lee & Blanchard. 1850. Witsius on Creed. Sacred Dissertations on what is commonly called the Apostles' Creed. By Herman Witsius, D.D., Professor of Divinity in the Universities of Franeker, Utrecht, and Leyden. Translated from the Latin, etc. By Donald Fraser, etc. 2 vols. Edinburgh; A. Fullerton and Co. 1823. Whitney's Lf. and Growth of Lang. The Life and Growth of Language: An Outline of Linguistic Science. By William Dwight Whitney, Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology in Yate College. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1875. Y. Yr. Bk. The Year Book. By William Hone. vols. London: Tegg. 1850. Where the references have not been frequent, the full title is given with the reference in the body of the xi METHOD OF USING A COMMON-PLACE BOOK. "Multum legendum esse non muta." 1. When reading a book, mark what is specially striking or important by running a line down the margin. Then select out of the passage so marked, a key-word or sentence, and enter it in one of the blank pages of the appendix. Thus Life and Letters of Joseph Story. Associate Justice, Supreme Court, U. S. By his son Wm. W. I Vol. p. 31. | Admiration of Dickens. 43. College (key word) life. 57. Renounces Calvinism (key word) for Unitarianism. 68. Manner of reading. 75. Advice to students, "Live like hermits, work like horses." 119. Pored over black-letter folios, common-placing and digesting. 342. Charge, setting forth the horrors of the slave trade. 441. His statement of Unitarian doctrine. 511. 514. II. Vol. p. 12. 46 English literature studied without the light of classical learning, loses half the charm of its statement and style." The election of the President may be the overthrow of the republic. John Q. Adams criticises his use of "inosculated." 16. Asks him to read Plato's Republic. If the book read is your own, all that needs to be transcribed to your blank leaves is the key-word or sentence, giving with it volume and page. Thus 174. CALVINISM.-Renounced by Story. Life I. 57. 211. CLASSICS.-Knowledge of, essential to the study of English literature. Story's Life I. 511. Transcribe at your earliest convenience. If possible have stated times for so doing. Any great accumulation of work of this kind may become a temptation to an abandonment of the plan, and thus involve irreparable loss. 2. If the book you are reading is not your own, then take a card, or what is better, a long narrow strip of stiff writing paper, which you can use as a book mark, and as you read make a note of the pages containing matter of special interest. After reading the book through, go back to the pages of which you have kept a record, and enter in your METHOD OF USING A COMMON-PLACE BOOK. common-place book fully or briefly, as you may choose, the passage you may deem worthy of being so preserved. Thus 360. EUPHEMISMS.—“ An indirect and allusive way of speaking of anything which, for any reason, it is thought improper or disagreeable to name in a straightforward way." Liv. Age. lxxiv. 215. . . . "strange to say, no more frequent or offensive examples are to be found than in the writings of Washington." Ib. 217. "If any thing should happen" euphemism for death. "That esculent which has recently failed" for potatoes. Several other good illustrations. Ib. It will save the student an infinite amount of labor, to learn, and use in his commonplace book, some approved system of stenography, or tachygraphy. The system introduced by David Philip Lindsley, and elucidated in the Note-Taker published by Otis Clapp and Son, Boston, stands in the front rank. RULES FOR GOOD WRITING, FROM AUTHOR OF "FRIENDS IN COUNCIL." 1. Let the subject be one that you really care about. 2. Never throw away an adjective. Never use one that does not add to the meaning of the noun, 3. Take care that your relatives clearly and distinctly relate to your antecedents. In seven cases out of ten, obscurity is the result of a violation of this rule. 4. Do not fear repetition. 5. Avoid parentheses. 6. Do not attempt to abbreviate, or suppose that general statements will be understood by your reader. 7. Try to master what is the idea of a sentence, how it should be a thing of a certain completeness in itself. 8. Attend to method. Exhaust each subject by itself. 9. Let your choice of words, your length of sentences, and all the delicacies of writing be adapted to the subject. 10. While you are writing do not think of these or any rules. The substance of Bishop Potter's "CAUTIONS AND COUNSELS," from his Hand-book for Readers and Students. 1. Always have some useful and pleasant book ready to take up in “ odd ends" of time. 2. Be not alarmed because so many books are recommended. 3. Do not attempt to read too much or fast. 4. Do not be so enslaved by any system or course of study, as to think it may not be altered. 5. Beware on the other hand, of frequent changes in your plan of study. 6. Read always the least and most recent book on the subject you wish to investigate. 7. Study subjects rather than books. 8. Seek opportunities to write and converse on subjects about which you read. 9. Refer what you read to the general head under which it belongs; if a fact to the principle involved; if a principle to the facts which follow. 10. Try to use your knowledge in practice. 11. Keep your knowledge by reviewing it as much as you can. 12. Dare to be ignorant of many things. WHITAKER'S THREE RULES. 1. Study, chiefly, standing or walking. 2. Never study at a window. DR. BETHUNE'S RULE. Never read, much less attempt to speak, in tight boots. |