Chapter Xiii. It Is by Professor Blackie, Edinburgh, Author of

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

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.

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 Mueller. 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.