IV. AMERICAN HISTORY.
General Histories.
Bancroft:History of the United States(12 vols., from the discovery of America to the adoption of the Constitution).Hildreth:History of the United States(6 vols., from the discovery of America to 1820).Bryant and Gay:History of the United States(from the discovery to 1880).Ridpath:History of the United States.Higginson:Young People’s History of the United States.
Bancroft:History of the United States(12 vols., from the discovery of America to the adoption of the Constitution).
Hildreth:History of the United States(6 vols., from the discovery of America to 1820).
Bryant and Gay:History of the United States(from the discovery to 1880).
Ridpath:History of the United States.
Higginson:Young People’s History of the United States.
Aboriginal America.
Baldwin: Ancient America.Donnelly: Atlantis.Foster: Prehistoric Races of the United States.Short: North Americans of Antiquity.Ellis: The Red Man and the White Man.H. H. Bancroft: Native Races of the Pacific States.Bourke: The Snake Dance of the Moquis of Arizona.
Baldwin: Ancient America.
Donnelly: Atlantis.
Foster: Prehistoric Races of the United States.
Short: North Americans of Antiquity.
Ellis: The Red Man and the White Man.
H. H. Bancroft: Native Races of the Pacific States.
Bourke: The Snake Dance of the Moquis of Arizona.
The Period of the Discovery.
Irving: Columbus and his Companions.Abbott:Christopher Columbus.——Discovery of America.Towle:Vasco da Gama.Helps: The Spanish Conquest of America (4 vols.).Prescott: The Conquest of Mexico (3 vols.).Abbott:Hernando Cortez.Helps: Hernando Cortez.Eggleston:Montezuma.Wallace: *The Fair God, or the Last of the ’Tzins.Prescott: The Conquest of Peru (2 vols.).Towle:Pizarro.——Magellan.Irving: The Conquest of Florida by De Soto.Abbott:De Soto.Simms: *Vasconselos (1538).Towle:Drake, the Sea-King of Devon.——Sir Walter Ralegh.Hale: Stories of Discovery.Simms: *The Lily and the Totem (the story of the Huguenots at St. Augustine).
Irving: Columbus and his Companions.
Abbott:Christopher Columbus.
——Discovery of America.
Towle:Vasco da Gama.
Helps: The Spanish Conquest of America (4 vols.).
Prescott: The Conquest of Mexico (3 vols.).
Abbott:Hernando Cortez.
Helps: Hernando Cortez.
Eggleston:Montezuma.
Wallace: *The Fair God, or the Last of the ’Tzins.
Prescott: The Conquest of Peru (2 vols.).
Towle:Pizarro.
——Magellan.
Irving: The Conquest of Florida by De Soto.
Abbott:De Soto.
Simms: *Vasconselos (1538).
Towle:Drake, the Sea-King of Devon.
——Sir Walter Ralegh.
Hale: Stories of Discovery.
Simms: *The Lily and the Totem (the story of the Huguenots at St. Augustine).
The Colonial Period.
Coffin: Old Times in the Colonies.Simms: Life of John Smith.Kingston: *The Settlers (1607).Eggleston:Pocahontas.Abbott:The Northern Colonies.—— Miles Standish.Longfellow: ‡The Courtship of Miles Standish.Mrs. Child: *The First Settlers of New England.——- *Hobomok.Cheney: *A Peep at the Pilgrims.Clay: Annals of the Swedes on the Delaware.Banvard:Pioneers of the New World.J. G. Holland: *The Bay Path (1638).Paulding: *Koningsmarke (a tale of the Swedes on the Delaware).Arthur:Cabinet History of New York.Abbott:Peter Stuyvesant.Irving: *Knickerbocker’s History of New York.Abbott:King Philip.Markham: King Philip’s War.Cooper: *The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish (1675).Palfrey: History of New England (4 vols.).Hawthorne: *The Scarlet Letter.Spofford: New England Legends.Longfellow: ‡New England Tragedies.Whittier: ‡Ballads of New England.Hale: Stories of Adventure.Abbott:Captain Kidd.Banvard: Southern Explorers.Abbott:The Southern Colonies.Arthur: Cabinet History of Virginia.Simms: *The Cassique of Kiawah (a story of the early settlement of South Carolina, 1684).De Vere: Romance of American History.Abbott:Chevalier de la Salle.Parkman: Discovery of the Great West.—— The Jesuits in North America.Sparks: Life of Father Marquette.Shea: Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi.Parkman: Frontenac, and New France under Louis XIV.Simms: *The Yemassee (1715).Longfellow: ‡Evangeline.Ladd: The Old French War.Parkman: Wolfe and Montcalm.—— The Conspiracy of Pontiac.Paulding: *The Dutchman’s Fireside.Cooper: *The Pathfinder.—— *The Last of the Mohicans.Kennedy: *Swallow Barn.Mrs. Stowe: *The Minister’s Wooing.Thackeray: *The Virginians.
Coffin: Old Times in the Colonies.
Simms: Life of John Smith.
Kingston: *The Settlers (1607).
Eggleston:Pocahontas.
Abbott:The Northern Colonies.
—— Miles Standish.
Longfellow: ‡The Courtship of Miles Standish.
Mrs. Child: *The First Settlers of New England.
——- *Hobomok.
Cheney: *A Peep at the Pilgrims.
Clay: Annals of the Swedes on the Delaware.
Banvard:Pioneers of the New World.
J. G. Holland: *The Bay Path (1638).
Paulding: *Koningsmarke (a tale of the Swedes on the Delaware).
Arthur:Cabinet History of New York.
Abbott:Peter Stuyvesant.
Irving: *Knickerbocker’s History of New York.
Abbott:King Philip.
Markham: King Philip’s War.
Cooper: *The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish (1675).
Palfrey: History of New England (4 vols.).
Hawthorne: *The Scarlet Letter.
Spofford: New England Legends.
Longfellow: ‡New England Tragedies.
Whittier: ‡Ballads of New England.
Hale: Stories of Adventure.
Abbott:Captain Kidd.
Banvard: Southern Explorers.
Abbott:The Southern Colonies.
Arthur: Cabinet History of Virginia.
Simms: *The Cassique of Kiawah (a story of the early settlement of South Carolina, 1684).
De Vere: Romance of American History.
Abbott:Chevalier de la Salle.
Parkman: Discovery of the Great West.
—— The Jesuits in North America.
Sparks: Life of Father Marquette.
Shea: Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi.
Parkman: Frontenac, and New France under Louis XIV.
Simms: *The Yemassee (1715).
Longfellow: ‡Evangeline.
Ladd: The Old French War.
Parkman: Wolfe and Montcalm.
—— The Conspiracy of Pontiac.
Paulding: *The Dutchman’s Fireside.
Cooper: *The Pathfinder.
—— *The Last of the Mohicans.
Kennedy: *Swallow Barn.
Mrs. Stowe: *The Minister’s Wooing.
Thackeray: *The Virginians.
The Period of the Revolution.
Abbott:The War of the Revolution.——George Washington.Irving: Life of George Washington (5 vols.).Headley: Washington and his Generals.Longfellow: ‡Paul Revere’s Ride.Lowell: ‡Grandmother’s Story of the Battle of Bunker Hill.Coffin:The Boys of ’76.Cooper: *The Spy.—— *The Pilot.Neal: *Seventy-Six.Greene: Life of Nathanael Greene.Abbott:Life of Benjamin Franklin.Parton: Life of Benjamin Franklin.Sparks: The Works of Benjamin Franklin.—— Treason of Benedict Arnold.Arnold: Life of Benedict Arnold.Campbell: ‡Gertrude of Wyoming.Mrs. Child: *The Rebels.Paulding: *The Old Continentals.—— *The Bulls and the Jonathans.Simms: *Eutaw.Kennedy: *Horse-Shoe Robinson.Grace Greenwood: *The Forest Tragedy.Lossing: Field Book of the Revolution.Carrington: Battles of the Revolution.Wirt: The Life of Patrick Henry.Dwight: Lives of the Signers.Magoon: Orators of the American Revolution.Greene: Historical View of the American Revolution.
Abbott:The War of the Revolution.
——George Washington.
Irving: Life of George Washington (5 vols.).
Headley: Washington and his Generals.
Longfellow: ‡Paul Revere’s Ride.
Lowell: ‡Grandmother’s Story of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Coffin:The Boys of ’76.
Cooper: *The Spy.
—— *The Pilot.
Neal: *Seventy-Six.
Greene: Life of Nathanael Greene.
Abbott:Life of Benjamin Franklin.
Parton: Life of Benjamin Franklin.
Sparks: The Works of Benjamin Franklin.
—— Treason of Benedict Arnold.
Arnold: Life of Benedict Arnold.
Campbell: ‡Gertrude of Wyoming.
Mrs. Child: *The Rebels.
Paulding: *The Old Continentals.
—— *The Bulls and the Jonathans.
Simms: *Eutaw.
Kennedy: *Horse-Shoe Robinson.
Grace Greenwood: *The Forest Tragedy.
Lossing: Field Book of the Revolution.
Carrington: Battles of the Revolution.
Wirt: The Life of Patrick Henry.
Dwight: Lives of the Signers.
Magoon: Orators of the American Revolution.
Greene: Historical View of the American Revolution.
From the Close of the Revolution.
McMaster: History of the People of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War.Frothingham: Rise of the Republic in the United States.Curtis: History of the Constitution.Von Holst: Constitutional History of the United States.Nordhoff:Politics for Young Americans.Coffin:Building of the Nation.Lodge: Life of Alexander Hamilton.Parton: Life of John Adams.—— Life of Jefferson.Abbott:Life of Daniel Boone.John Esten Cooke: *Leatherstocking and Silk (1800).Cable: *The Grandissimes.Cooper: *The Prairie.Simms: *Beauchampe, or the Kentucky Tragedy.Parton: Life of Aaron Burr.Hale: *Philip Nolan’s Friends.—— *The Man without a Country.Pioneer Life in the West.Lewis and Clarke’s Journey across the Rocky Mountains.Irving: Astoria.—— Adventures of Captain Bonneville.Eggleston: Brant and Red Jacket.Johnson: The War of 1812.Lossing: Field Book of the War of 1812.Iron: *The Double Hero.Gleig: *The Subaltern.Cooper: History of the American Navy.Rives: Life of James Madison.Gilman: Life of James Monroe.Morse: Life of J. Q. Adams.Parton: Life of Andrew Jackson.Curtis: Life of Daniel Webster.Whipple: Webster’s Best Speeches.Schmucker: Life and Times of Henry Clay.Ripley: The War with Mexico.Kendall: The Santa Fé Expedition.Wilson: History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America.King: The Great South.Olmsted: The Sea-Board Slave States.Mrs. Stowe: *Uncle Tom’s Cabin.Hildreth: *The White Slave.Whittier: ‡Voices of Freedom.Greeley: The American Conflict.Lossing: The Civil War in the United States.Draper: History of the American Civil War.Stephens: Constitutional History of the War between the States (Southern view).Harper’s Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion.Young Folks’ History of the Rebellion.Coffin:The Boys of ’61.—— *Winning His Way.Hale: Stories of War.Richardson: Field, Dungeon, and Escape.Swinton: Twelve Decisive Battles of the War.Cooke: Life of General Lee.Whittier: ‡In War Time.Lester: Our First Hundred Years.Lossing: The American Centenary.Tourgee: *A Fool’s Errand.—— *Bricks without Straw.Headley:Heroes of the Rebellion(6 vols.).
McMaster: History of the People of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War.
Frothingham: Rise of the Republic in the United States.
Curtis: History of the Constitution.
Von Holst: Constitutional History of the United States.
Nordhoff:Politics for Young Americans.
Coffin:Building of the Nation.
Lodge: Life of Alexander Hamilton.
Parton: Life of John Adams.
—— Life of Jefferson.
Abbott:Life of Daniel Boone.
John Esten Cooke: *Leatherstocking and Silk (1800).
Cable: *The Grandissimes.
Cooper: *The Prairie.
Simms: *Beauchampe, or the Kentucky Tragedy.
Parton: Life of Aaron Burr.
Hale: *Philip Nolan’s Friends.
—— *The Man without a Country.
Pioneer Life in the West.
Lewis and Clarke’s Journey across the Rocky Mountains.
Irving: Astoria.
—— Adventures of Captain Bonneville.
Eggleston: Brant and Red Jacket.
Johnson: The War of 1812.
Lossing: Field Book of the War of 1812.
Iron: *The Double Hero.
Gleig: *The Subaltern.
Cooper: History of the American Navy.
Rives: Life of James Madison.
Gilman: Life of James Monroe.
Morse: Life of J. Q. Adams.
Parton: Life of Andrew Jackson.
Curtis: Life of Daniel Webster.
Whipple: Webster’s Best Speeches.
Schmucker: Life and Times of Henry Clay.
Ripley: The War with Mexico.
Kendall: The Santa Fé Expedition.
Wilson: History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America.
King: The Great South.
Olmsted: The Sea-Board Slave States.
Mrs. Stowe: *Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Hildreth: *The White Slave.
Whittier: ‡Voices of Freedom.
Greeley: The American Conflict.
Lossing: The Civil War in the United States.
Draper: History of the American Civil War.
Stephens: Constitutional History of the War between the States (Southern view).
Harper’s Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion.
Young Folks’ History of the Rebellion.
Coffin:The Boys of ’61.
—— *Winning His Way.
Hale: Stories of War.
Richardson: Field, Dungeon, and Escape.
Swinton: Twelve Decisive Battles of the War.
Cooke: Life of General Lee.
Whittier: ‡In War Time.
Lester: Our First Hundred Years.
Lossing: The American Centenary.
Tourgee: *A Fool’s Errand.
—— *Bricks without Straw.
Headley:Heroes of the Rebellion(6 vols.).
Courses of Reading in Geography and Natural History
GEOGRAPHY is learned best by the careful reading of books of travel. Pupils would derive infinitely more knowledge by the use, under judicious instructors, of a library of this sort, than by years of drudging through those masses of inanity known as School Geographies. The following list is designed chiefly to aid teachers in the selection of books suitable for geographical study at school, and to assist private readers in the choice of useful and entertaining works on the various subjects of interest in our own and foreign countries.
A good atlas is the first desideratum, and is an indispensable auxiliary to the course of reading here indicated. Rand, McNally, & Co.’s Atlas is one of the latest publications, and perhaps the most accurate and completein the market. Among other very good works of this kind we may mention Gray’s, Johnson’s, Colton’s, and Zell’s, any one of which will answer all the ordinary purposes of the reader. When no complete work is available, the maps in the larger school geographies will render very fair service.
The World.
Coffin:Our New Way round the World.Curtis: Dottings round the Circle.Dana:Two Years before the Mast.Hall:Drifting Round the World.Gerstacker: A Journey round the World.Prime: Around the World.Pumpelly: Across America and Asia.Smiles:A Boy’s Journey round the World.Nordhoff:Man-of-War Life.Knox:The Young Nimrods around the World.Hale:Stories of the Sea, told by Sailors.Verne:Famous Travels and Travellers.——The Great Navigators.——The Explorers of the Nineteenth Century.Figuier: The Ocean World.—— The Insect World.Mrs. Brassey: Voyage in the Sunbeam.Ainsworth: All round the World.Harper:What Darwin Saw.Humboldt: Cosmos.
Coffin:Our New Way round the World.
Curtis: Dottings round the Circle.
Dana:Two Years before the Mast.
Hall:Drifting Round the World.
Gerstacker: A Journey round the World.
Prime: Around the World.
Pumpelly: Across America and Asia.
Smiles:A Boy’s Journey round the World.
Nordhoff:Man-of-War Life.
Knox:The Young Nimrods around the World.
Hale:Stories of the Sea, told by Sailors.
Verne:Famous Travels and Travellers.
——The Great Navigators.
——The Explorers of the Nineteenth Century.
Figuier: The Ocean World.
—— The Insect World.
Mrs. Brassey: Voyage in the Sunbeam.
Ainsworth: All round the World.
Harper:What Darwin Saw.
Humboldt: Cosmos.
North America.
Butterworth:Zigzag Journeys in the Occident.Knox:The Young Nimrods in North America.Rideing:Boys in the Mountains.Hawthorne:American Nights’ Entertainment.Ingersoll:Friends Worth Knowing; Glimpses of American Natural History.Hale:Stories of Discovery.Say: Insects of North America.Drake: Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast.Flagg: The Woods and By-Ways of New England.Nordhoff: *Cape Cod and all along Shore.Thoreau: The Maine Woods.—— A Week on the Concord.—— Cape Cod.—— Excursions in Field and Forest.Samuels: The Birds of New England.Scudder:The Bodleys Afoot.Drake:Around the Hub; A Boy’s Book about Boston.Longfellow: Poems of Places, vol. xxvi.Murray: Adventures in the Wilderness; or, Camp Life in the Adirondacks.Warner: The Adirondacks Verified.Bromfield: Picturesque Journeys in America.Jordan: Vertebrates of the Northern States.Appleton: Picturesque America.—— Our Native Land.Howells: *Their Wedding Journey.Longfellow: Poems of Places, vol. xxvii.King: The Great South.Olmsted: The Sea-Board Slave States.Baldwin: The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi.Pollard: The Virginia Tourist.Twain: Life on the Mississippi.Lanier: Florida; its Scenery.Porte Crayon: Virginia Illustrated.Longfellow: Poems of Places, vol. xxviii.Lewis and Clarke’s Expedition across the Rocky Mountains.Irving: Astoria.—— Adventures of Captain Bonneville.—— A Tour on the Prairies.Meline: Two Thousand Miles on Horseback.Richardson: Beyond the Mississippi.Browne: Crusoe’s Island.Nordhoff: Northern California.Taylor: Eldorado.Codman: The Round Trip.Bird: A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains.Ingersoll: Knocking round the Rockies.Cozzens: The Marvellous Country; or, Three Years in Arizona and New Mexico.Browne: The Apache Country.Taylor: Colorado; A Summer Trip.Richardson: Wonders of the Yellowstone.Longfellow: Poems of Places, vol. xxix.Robinson: The Great Fur Land.Butler: The Great Lone Land.—— The Wild North Land.Hartwig: The Polar World.Hayes: The Land of Desolation.Blake: Arctic Experiences.Nourse: American Explorations in the Ice Zones.Burton: Ultima Thule.Stephens:Off To the Geysers.Haven: Our Next-Door Neighbor.Wilson: Mexico; its Peasants and Priests.Ruxton: Adventures in Mexico.Stephens: Travels in Yucatan.—— Travels in Central America.Squier: The States of Central America.Ober: *The Silver City.Kingsley: A Christmas in the West Indies.Hurlbert: Gan Eden; or, Pictures of Cuba.Dana: To Cuba and Back.
Butterworth:Zigzag Journeys in the Occident.
Knox:The Young Nimrods in North America.
Rideing:Boys in the Mountains.
Hawthorne:American Nights’ Entertainment.
Ingersoll:Friends Worth Knowing; Glimpses of American Natural History.
Hale:Stories of Discovery.
Say: Insects of North America.
Drake: Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast.
Flagg: The Woods and By-Ways of New England.
Nordhoff: *Cape Cod and all along Shore.
Thoreau: The Maine Woods.
—— A Week on the Concord.
—— Cape Cod.
—— Excursions in Field and Forest.
Samuels: The Birds of New England.
Scudder:The Bodleys Afoot.
Drake:Around the Hub; A Boy’s Book about Boston.
Longfellow: Poems of Places, vol. xxvi.
Murray: Adventures in the Wilderness; or, Camp Life in the Adirondacks.
Warner: The Adirondacks Verified.
Bromfield: Picturesque Journeys in America.
Jordan: Vertebrates of the Northern States.
Appleton: Picturesque America.
—— Our Native Land.
Howells: *Their Wedding Journey.
Longfellow: Poems of Places, vol. xxvii.
King: The Great South.
Olmsted: The Sea-Board Slave States.
Baldwin: The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi.
Pollard: The Virginia Tourist.Twain: Life on the Mississippi.
Lanier: Florida; its Scenery.
Porte Crayon: Virginia Illustrated.
Longfellow: Poems of Places, vol. xxviii.
Lewis and Clarke’s Expedition across the Rocky Mountains.
Irving: Astoria.
—— Adventures of Captain Bonneville.
—— A Tour on the Prairies.
Meline: Two Thousand Miles on Horseback.
Richardson: Beyond the Mississippi.
Browne: Crusoe’s Island.
Nordhoff: Northern California.
Taylor: Eldorado.
Codman: The Round Trip.
Bird: A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains.
Ingersoll: Knocking round the Rockies.
Cozzens: The Marvellous Country; or, Three Years in Arizona and New Mexico.
Browne: The Apache Country.
Taylor: Colorado; A Summer Trip.
Richardson: Wonders of the Yellowstone.
Longfellow: Poems of Places, vol. xxix.
Robinson: The Great Fur Land.
Butler: The Great Lone Land.
—— The Wild North Land.
Hartwig: The Polar World.
Hayes: The Land of Desolation.
Blake: Arctic Experiences.
Nourse: American Explorations in the Ice Zones.
Burton: Ultima Thule.
Stephens:Off To the Geysers.
Haven: Our Next-Door Neighbor.
Wilson: Mexico; its Peasants and Priests.
Ruxton: Adventures in Mexico.
Stephens: Travels in Yucatan.
—— Travels in Central America.
Squier: The States of Central America.
Ober: *The Silver City.
Kingsley: A Christmas in the West Indies.
Hurlbert: Gan Eden; or, Pictures of Cuba.
Dana: To Cuba and Back.
South America.
Holton: New Granada.Orton: The Andes and Amazon.Agassiz: Journey in Brazil.Ewbank: Life in Brazil.Fletcher: Brazil and the Brazilians.Bishop:A Thousand Miles’ Walk across South America.Marcoy: Travels across South America.Hassaurek: Four Years among Spanish Americans.Squier: Peru.Orton: *The Secret of the Andes.Stephens:On the Amazons.Dixie: Across Patagonia.Reid: *The Land of Fire.Longfellow: Poems of Places, vol. xxx.
Holton: New Granada.
Orton: The Andes and Amazon.
Agassiz: Journey in Brazil.
Ewbank: Life in Brazil.
Fletcher: Brazil and the Brazilians.
Bishop:A Thousand Miles’ Walk across South America.
Marcoy: Travels across South America.
Hassaurek: Four Years among Spanish Americans.
Squier: Peru.
Orton: *The Secret of the Andes.
Stephens:On the Amazons.
Dixie: Across Patagonia.
Reid: *The Land of Fire.
Longfellow: Poems of Places, vol. xxx.
Europe.
Butterworth:Zigzag Journeys in Europe.Champney:Three Vassar Girls Abroad.Scudder:The English Bodley Family.Hawthorne: Our Old Home.Taine: Notes on England.Escott: England.Miller: First Impressions of England and its People.Emerson: English Traits.Hoppin: Old England; Its Scenery, Art, and People.Abbott: A Summer in Scotland.Miller: Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland.White: Natural History of Selborne.Longfellow: Poems of Places, vols. i.-v.Longfellow: Outre Mer.Taylor: Views Afoot.Macquoid: Through Normandy.Hamerton: Round My House.Hale:A Family Flight through France, Germany, and Switzerland.Walworth:The Old World seen through Young Eyes.Bulwer: France, Literary, Social, and Political.Longfellow: Poems of Places, vols. vi.-x.Taine: Tour through the Pyrenees.Hale:A Family Flight through Spain.De Amicis: Spain and the Spaniards.Bodfish: Through Spain on Donkey-Back.Hare: Wanderings in Spain.Hay: Castilian Days.Irving: The Alhambra.—— Spanish Papers.Andersen: Pictures of Travel.Latouche: Travels in Portugal.Longfellow: Poems of Places, vols. xiv., xv.Butterworth:Zigzag Journeys in Classic Lands.Browne: Yusef; Travels on the Shores of the Mediterranean.Eustis: Classical Tour through Italy.Dickens: Pictures from Italy.Hare: Cities of Northern and Central Italy.—— Days near Rome.Hawthorne: English and Italian Notes.Howells: Italian Journeys.—— Venetian Life.Taine: Italy (Florence and Venice).—— Italy (Rome and Naples).Di Cesnola: Cyprus.Longfellow: Poems of Places, vols. xi.-xiii.Stephens: Travels in Greece and Turkey.Mahaffy: Rambles and Studies in Greece.Baird: Modern Greece.Townsend: A Cruise in the Bosphorus.De Amicis: Constantinople.Gautier: Constantinople.Longfellow: Poems of Places, vol. xix.Waring: Tyrol and the Skirt of the Alps.Whymper: Scrambles among the Alps.Taylor: The By-Ways of Europe.Hugo: Tour on the Rhine.Browne: An American Family in Germany.Hawthorne: Saxon Studies.Hugo: Home-Life in Germany.Baring-Gould: Germany, Past and Present.De Amicis: Holland.Scudder:The Bodleys in Holland.Dodge: *Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates.Havard: Picturesque Holland.Butterworth:Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands.Taylor: Northern Europe.Browne: Land of Thor.Du Chaillu: The Land of the Midnight Sun.Andersen: Pictures of Travel in Sweden.MacGregor: Rob Roy on the Baltic.Longfellow: Poems of Places, vols. xvii., xviii.Butterworth:Zigzag Journeys in the Orient.Gautier: A Winter in Russia.Wallace: Russia.Richardson: Ralph’s Year in Russia.Morley: Sketches of Russian Life.Dixon: Free Russia.
Butterworth:Zigzag Journeys in Europe.
Champney:Three Vassar Girls Abroad.
Scudder:The English Bodley Family.
Hawthorne: Our Old Home.
Taine: Notes on England.
Escott: England.
Miller: First Impressions of England and its People.
Emerson: English Traits.
Hoppin: Old England; Its Scenery, Art, and People.
Abbott: A Summer in Scotland.
Miller: Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland.
White: Natural History of Selborne.
Longfellow: Poems of Places, vols. i.-v.
Longfellow: Outre Mer.
Taylor: Views Afoot.
Macquoid: Through Normandy.
Hamerton: Round My House.
Hale:A Family Flight through France, Germany, and Switzerland.
Walworth:The Old World seen through Young Eyes.
Bulwer: France, Literary, Social, and Political.
Longfellow: Poems of Places, vols. vi.-x.
Taine: Tour through the Pyrenees.
Hale:A Family Flight through Spain.
De Amicis: Spain and the Spaniards.
Bodfish: Through Spain on Donkey-Back.
Hare: Wanderings in Spain.
Hay: Castilian Days.
Irving: The Alhambra.
—— Spanish Papers.
Andersen: Pictures of Travel.
Latouche: Travels in Portugal.
Longfellow: Poems of Places, vols. xiv., xv.
Butterworth:Zigzag Journeys in Classic Lands.
Browne: Yusef; Travels on the Shores of the Mediterranean.
Eustis: Classical Tour through Italy.
Dickens: Pictures from Italy.
Hare: Cities of Northern and Central Italy.
—— Days near Rome.
Hawthorne: English and Italian Notes.
Howells: Italian Journeys.
—— Venetian Life.
Taine: Italy (Florence and Venice).
—— Italy (Rome and Naples).
Di Cesnola: Cyprus.
Longfellow: Poems of Places, vols. xi.-xiii.
Stephens: Travels in Greece and Turkey.
Mahaffy: Rambles and Studies in Greece.
Baird: Modern Greece.
Townsend: A Cruise in the Bosphorus.
De Amicis: Constantinople.
Gautier: Constantinople.
Longfellow: Poems of Places, vol. xix.
Waring: Tyrol and the Skirt of the Alps.
Whymper: Scrambles among the Alps.
Taylor: The By-Ways of Europe.
Hugo: Tour on the Rhine.
Browne: An American Family in Germany.
Hawthorne: Saxon Studies.
Hugo: Home-Life in Germany.
Baring-Gould: Germany, Past and Present.
De Amicis: Holland.
Scudder:The Bodleys in Holland.
Dodge: *Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates.
Havard: Picturesque Holland.
Butterworth:Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands.
Taylor: Northern Europe.
Browne: Land of Thor.
Du Chaillu: The Land of the Midnight Sun.
Andersen: Pictures of Travel in Sweden.
MacGregor: Rob Roy on the Baltic.
Longfellow: Poems of Places, vols. xvii., xviii.
Butterworth:Zigzag Journeys in the Orient.
Gautier: A Winter in Russia.
Wallace: Russia.
Richardson: Ralph’s Year in Russia.
Morley: Sketches of Russian Life.
Dixon: Free Russia.
Asia.
Kennan: Tent Life in Siberia.McGahan: Campaigning on the Oxus.Burnaby: A Ride to Khiva.Schuyler: Turkistan.Taylor: Central Asia.Arnold: Through Persia by Caravan.Stack: Six Months in Persia.Vámbéry: Travels in Central Asia.O’Donovan: The Merv Oasis.Curtis: The Howadji in Syria.Kinglake: Eöthen.MacGregor: Rob Roy on the Jordan.Prime: Tent Life in the Holy Land.Taylor: Travels in Arabia.Blunt: The Bedouin Tribes.Keane: Six Months in Mecca.Baker: Rifle and Hound in Ceylon.Butler: The Land of the Vedas.French:Our Boys in India.Knox:The Boy Travellers in India and Ceylon.——The Boy Travellers in Siam and Java.Vincent: The Land of the White Elephant.Leonowens: An English Governess at the Siamese Court.Kingston: *In Eastern Seas.Wilson: The Abode of Snow.Markham: Thibet.Gordon: The Roof of the World.Williams: The Middle Kingdom.Taylor: India, China, and Japan.French:Our Boys in China.Eden: China, Japan, and India.Oppert: Corea.Knox:The Boy Travellers in Japan and China.Miller:Little People of Asia.——Child Life in Japan.Greey:The Wonderful City of Tokio.——The Bear Worshippers.Griffis: The Mikado’s Empire.Bird: Unbeaten Tracks in Japan.Longfellow: Poems of Places, vols. xxi.-xxiii.
Kennan: Tent Life in Siberia.
McGahan: Campaigning on the Oxus.
Burnaby: A Ride to Khiva.
Schuyler: Turkistan.
Taylor: Central Asia.
Arnold: Through Persia by Caravan.
Stack: Six Months in Persia.
Vámbéry: Travels in Central Asia.
O’Donovan: The Merv Oasis.
Curtis: The Howadji in Syria.
Kinglake: Eöthen.
MacGregor: Rob Roy on the Jordan.
Prime: Tent Life in the Holy Land.
Taylor: Travels in Arabia.
Blunt: The Bedouin Tribes.
Keane: Six Months in Mecca.
Baker: Rifle and Hound in Ceylon.
Butler: The Land of the Vedas.
French:Our Boys in India.
Knox:The Boy Travellers in India and Ceylon.
——The Boy Travellers in Siam and Java.
Vincent: The Land of the White Elephant.
Leonowens: An English Governess at the Siamese Court.
Kingston: *In Eastern Seas.
Wilson: The Abode of Snow.
Markham: Thibet.
Gordon: The Roof of the World.
Williams: The Middle Kingdom.
Taylor: India, China, and Japan.
French:Our Boys in China.
Eden: China, Japan, and India.
Oppert: Corea.
Knox:The Boy Travellers in Japan and China.
Miller:Little People of Asia.
——Child Life in Japan.
Greey:The Wonderful City of Tokio.
——The Bear Worshippers.
Griffis: The Mikado’s Empire.
Bird: Unbeaten Tracks in Japan.
Longfellow: Poems of Places, vols. xxi.-xxiii.
Africa.
Hale:A Family Flight over Egypt and Syria.Knox:The Boy Travellers in Egypt.——The Boy Travellers in Central Africa.McCabe:Our Young Folks in Africa.Du Chaillu:Wild Life under the Equator.——The Country of the Dwarfs.Baker: *Cast up by the Sea.Stanley: *My Kalulu.Baker: Ismailia.—— Albert N’Yanza.Speke: Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile.Edwards: A Thousand Miles up the Nile.Taylor: Central Africa.Schweinfurth: The Heart of Africa.Livingstone: Last Journals.Stanley: How I found Livingstone.—— Through the Dark Continent.Du Chaillu: Explorations in Central Africa.—— Journey to Ashango Land.Anderson: Southwestern Africa.Livingstone: South Africa.Cumming: Hunter’s Life in South Africa.MacLeod: Madagascar and its People.Longfellow: Poems of Places, vol. xxiv.
Hale:A Family Flight over Egypt and Syria.
Knox:The Boy Travellers in Egypt.
——The Boy Travellers in Central Africa.
McCabe:Our Young Folks in Africa.
Du Chaillu:Wild Life under the Equator.
——The Country of the Dwarfs.
Baker: *Cast up by the Sea.
Stanley: *My Kalulu.
Baker: Ismailia.
—— Albert N’Yanza.
Speke: Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile.
Edwards: A Thousand Miles up the Nile.
Taylor: Central Africa.
Schweinfurth: The Heart of Africa.
Livingstone: Last Journals.
Stanley: How I found Livingstone.
—— Through the Dark Continent.
Du Chaillu: Explorations in Central Africa.
—— Journey to Ashango Land.
Anderson: Southwestern Africa.
Livingstone: South Africa.
Cumming: Hunter’s Life in South Africa.
MacLeod: Madagascar and its People.
Longfellow: Poems of Places, vol. xxiv.
Australia and the Pacific.
Grant: Bush Life in Australia.Cook: Voyages round the World.Gironierre: Twenty Years in the Philippine Islands.Nordhoff: Stories of the Island World.Cheever: The Island World of the Pacific.Lamont: Wild Life among the Pacific Islanders.Bird: Six Months among the Sandwich Islands.Dana: Corals and Coral Islands.
Grant: Bush Life in Australia.
Cook: Voyages round the World.
Gironierre: Twenty Years in the Philippine Islands.
Nordhoff: Stories of the Island World.
Cheever: The Island World of the Pacific.
Lamont: Wild Life among the Pacific Islanders.
Bird: Six Months among the Sandwich Islands.
Dana: Corals and Coral Islands.
Philosophy and Religion.
A littlephilosophy inclineth a man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.—Bacon.
A littlephilosophy inclineth a man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.—Bacon.
THE books which help you most are those which make you think the most,” says Theodore Parker. “The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so.”
And apropos of this, I present the following list of books recommended by Dr. John Brown as suitable for the reading of young medical students. Yet not only medical students, but students of other special subjects, and teachers as well, will find it profitable to dig into and through, to “energize upon” and master, such books as these—
1. Arnauld’s Port Royal Logic; translated by T. S. Baynes.2. Thomson’s Outlines of the Necessary Laws of Thought.3. Descartes on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences.4. Coleridge’s Essay on Method.5. Whately’s Logic and Rhetoric (new and cheap edition).6. Mill’s Logic (new and cheap edition).7. Dugald Stewart’s Outlines.8. Sir John Herschel’s Preliminary Dissertation.9. Isaac Taylor’s Elements of Thought.10. Sir William Hamilton’s edition of Reid: Dissertations and Lectures.11. Professor Fraser’s Rational Philosophy.12. Locke on the Conduct of the Understanding.
1. Arnauld’s Port Royal Logic; translated by T. S. Baynes.
2. Thomson’s Outlines of the Necessary Laws of Thought.
3. Descartes on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences.
4. Coleridge’s Essay on Method.
5. Whately’s Logic and Rhetoric (new and cheap edition).
6. Mill’s Logic (new and cheap edition).
7. Dugald Stewart’s Outlines.
8. Sir John Herschel’s Preliminary Dissertation.
9. Isaac Taylor’s Elements of Thought.
10. Sir William Hamilton’s edition of Reid: Dissertations and Lectures.
11. Professor Fraser’s Rational Philosophy.
12. Locke on the Conduct of the Understanding.
“Taking up a book like Arnauld, and reading a chapter of his lively, manly sense,” says Rab’s friend, “is like throwing your manuals, and scalpels, and microscopes, and natural (most unnatural) orders out of your hand and head, and taking a game with the Grange Club, or a run to the top of Arthur Seat. Exertion quickens your pulse, expands your lungs, makes your blood warmer and redder, fills your mouth with the pure waters of relish, strengthens and supples your legs; and though on your way to the top you may encounter rocks, and baffling débris, and gusts of fierce winds rushing out upon you from behindcorners, just as you will find, in Arnauld and all truly serious and honest books of the kind, difficulties and puzzles, winds of doctrine, and deceitful mists, still you are rewarded at the top by the wide view. You see, as from a tower, the end of all. You look into the perfections and relations of things; you see the clouds, the bright lights, and the everlasting hills on the horizon. You come down the hill a happier, a better, and a hungrier man, and of a better mind. But, as we said, you must eat the book,—you must crush it, and cut it with your teeth, and swallow it; just as you must walk up, and not be carried up, the hill, much less imagine you are there, or look upon a picture of what you would see were you up, however accurately or artistically done; no,—you yourself mustdoboth.”
The same may be said of all books that are the most truly helpful to us, and mind-lifting. It is the hard reading that profits most, provided, always, that due care be taken to digest that which is read. Yet I would not recommend the same strong diet or the same severe exercise to every person, or even to any considerable proportion of readers. One man may be a palm, as says Dr. Collyer, and another a pine; that which is wisdom to theone may be incomprehensible folly to the other. But those whose mental constitutions are sufficiently vigorous to digest and assimilate the food which the philosophers offer, may find comfort and health, not only in the works above recommended, but in the following—
Plato’s Works: Jowett’s translation.G. H. Lewes: A Chapter from Aristotle.Lord Bacon: Novum Organum.Butler: Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed.Hume: A Treatise on Human Nature.Hamilton: Discussions on Philosophy and Literature.Mill: Examination of Hamilton’s Philosophy.Lewes: Problems of Life and Mind.Cousin: Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good.Martineau: The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte.Mill: Comte and Positivism.Mahaffy: Kant’s Critical Philosophy for English Readers.Fichte: The Science of Knowledge.Meiklejohn: Kant’s Critique of the Pure Reason (published in Bohn’s Philosophical Library).Spencer: First Principles of Philosophy.Bowen: Essays on Speculative Philosophy.Porter: Elements of Intellectual Science.—— The Human Intellect.McCosh: Intuitions of the Mind.—— System of Logic.Fiske: Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy.Everett: Science of Thought.Wallace: The Logic of Hegel.Hegel: The Philosophy of History (translated by J. Sibree, in Bohn’s Philosophical Library).Schopenhauer: Select Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (translated by Droppers and Dachsel).Lewes: Biographical History of Philosophy.Morell: An Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Century.Ueberweg: History of Philosophy.Masson: Recent British Philosophy.Lecky: History of European Morals.—— History of Rationalism in Europe.Draper: History of the Intellectual Development of Europe.
Plato’s Works: Jowett’s translation.
G. H. Lewes: A Chapter from Aristotle.
Lord Bacon: Novum Organum.
Butler: Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed.
Hume: A Treatise on Human Nature.
Hamilton: Discussions on Philosophy and Literature.
Mill: Examination of Hamilton’s Philosophy.
Lewes: Problems of Life and Mind.
Cousin: Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good.
Martineau: The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte.
Mill: Comte and Positivism.
Mahaffy: Kant’s Critical Philosophy for English Readers.
Fichte: The Science of Knowledge.
Meiklejohn: Kant’s Critique of the Pure Reason (published in Bohn’s Philosophical Library).
Spencer: First Principles of Philosophy.
Bowen: Essays on Speculative Philosophy.
Porter: Elements of Intellectual Science.
—— The Human Intellect.
McCosh: Intuitions of the Mind.
—— System of Logic.
Fiske: Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy.
Everett: Science of Thought.
Wallace: The Logic of Hegel.
Hegel: The Philosophy of History (translated by J. Sibree, in Bohn’s Philosophical Library).
Schopenhauer: Select Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (translated by Droppers and Dachsel).
Lewes: Biographical History of Philosophy.
Morell: An Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Century.
Ueberweg: History of Philosophy.
Masson: Recent British Philosophy.
Lecky: History of European Morals.
—— History of Rationalism in Europe.
Draper: History of the Intellectual Development of Europe.
To the foregoing list the following may be added—
Plutarch’s Morals (translated by Goodwin).Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (in the “Wisdom Series”).Selections from Fénelon.Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy.Sydney Smith’s Sketches of Moral Philosophy.Watts on the Mind.Taine on Intelligence.
Plutarch’s Morals (translated by Goodwin).
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (in the “Wisdom Series”).
Selections from Fénelon.
Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy.
Sydney Smith’s Sketches of Moral Philosophy.
Watts on the Mind.
Taine on Intelligence.
A course of reading which shall include any number of the works here mentioned will be no child’s play; it will involve the severest exercise of the thinking powers, but it will enable you “to look into the perfections and relations of things, and to see the clouds, the bright lights, and the everlasting hills on thehorizon.” The reading of such books is like the training of a gymnast; it will lead to the healthy development of the parts most skillfully exercised, but the strength of him who exercises should never be too severely tested. Would you prefer a lighter course of reading, but one which will probably lead you into pleasanter paths of contemplation and reflection, and finally open up to your view a prospect equally boundless and grand? Allow me to suggest the following, which is neither philosophical nor religious, in the strictest acceptation of these terms, but which leads us to an acquaintance with that which is best in both.
We shall begin with the Bible, and throughout the course we shall make that book our grand rallying-point. “Read the Bible reverently and attentively,” says Sir Matthew Hale; “set your heart upon it, and lay it up in your memory, and make it the direction of your life: it will make you a wise and good man.” From the reverential reading of the Bible, which to most of us is rather an act of religious duty than of intellectual effort, we turn to the great masterpieces of antiquity. In the Phædo and the Apology and Crito of Plato, we find the ripest thoughts of the world’sgreatest thinker; then we turn to Aristotle’s Ethics, and, afterwards, we compare the doctrines of the Greek philosophers with the Teachings of Confucius and of Mencius.22If we have supplemented these readings with the proper acquaintance with ancient history, we shall now be ready to understand the great poems of antiquity, and to read them in a light different from that which we have hitherto known. We read the Iliad, and the Odyssey, and the Greek tragedians; then the old Indian epics, Arnold’s “The Light of Asia,” and Swamy’s “Dialogues and Discourses of Gotama Buddha.” Descending now to more modern times,—for we would not make this course a long one,—we turn again to our Bible, and thoroughly acquaint ourselves with “the unsurpassedly simple, loving, perfect idyls of the life and death of Christ,” as we find them in the New Testament. After this, we shall obtain more exalted ideas of the brotherhood of the human race and the “hope of the nations,” if we spend some time in the study of the majestic expressions of the universal conscience found in such works as the “Vishnu Sarma” of the Hindoos, the “Gulistan” of Saadi, the “Sentences”of Epictetus, and the “Thoughts” of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Then, to get at the poetic interpretation of the teachings of Mohammed, we read the “Pearls of Faith; or, Islam’s Rosary,” and Lane Poole’s “Selections from the Koran.” Returning to the study of Christian ethics and poetry, we take up the “Confessions of Saint Augustine,” and the “Discourse” of Saint Bernard, and then the “Imitation of Christ,” by Thomas à Kempis. We read Milton’s “Paradise Lost” again, and Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress;” and we enjoy the wealth of imagery in Jeremy Taylor’s “Holy Living and Holy Dying.” Holy George Herbert’s “Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations” claim our attention for a time, and then we take up Pascal’s “Thoughts,” and selections from Fénelon’s “Telemachus” and “Dialogues of the Dead.” Finally, we read Wordsworth’s “Excursion,” and Keble’s “Christian Year,” and return after all to a further perusal of the Bible and the poems of antiquity.
You may say that this course is rather fragmentary, and so it is; but it differs from the other courses which I have indicated, in that it is undertaken as a heart-work rather than a head-work. Unlike the course just preceding,it has to do with our emotional and devotional natures rather than with our highest powers of thinking and reasoning. With few exceptions only, the books here mentioned are voices out of the past, speaking to us of the human soul’s belief and experience in different ages of the world and under different dispensations. “I suppose,” says George Eliot, speaking of the “Imitation of Christ,”—“I suppose that is the reason why the small old-fashioned book, for which you need only pay sixpence at a book-stall, works miracles to this day, turning bitter waters into sweetness; while expensive sermons and treatises, newly issued, leave all things as they were before. It was written down by a hand that waited for the heart’s prompting; it is the chronicle of a solitary, hidden anguish, struggle, trust, and triumph,—not written on velvet cushions to teach endurance to those who are treading with bleeding feet on the stones. And so it remains to all time a lasting record of human needs and human consolations; the voice of a brother who, ages ago, felt and suffered and renounced,—in the cloister, perhaps with serge gown and tonsured head, with much chanting and long fasts, and with a fashion of speech different from ours,—but under thesame silent far-off heavens, and with the same passionate desires, the same strivings, the same failures, the same weariness.”
Writing of works like these, Emerson says: “Their communications are not to be given or taken with the lips and the end of the tongue, but out of the glow of the cheek, and with the throbbing heart.... These are the Scriptures which the missionary might well carry over prairie, desert, and ocean, to Siberia, Japan, Timbuctoo. Yet he will find that the spirit which is in them journeys faster than he, and greets him on his arrival,—was there long before him. The missionary must be carried by it, and find it there, or he goes in vain. Is there any geography in these things? We call them Asiatic, we call them primeval; but perhaps that is only optical, for Nature is always equal to herself, and there are as good eyes and ears now in the planet as ever were. Only these ejaculations of the soul are uttered one or a few at a time, at long intervals, and it takes millenniums to make a Bible.”
We are brought now naturally to the subject of Theological Literature. The number of books in this department is very great, and there are wide differences of opinion withregard to the merits of many of the best-known works. Without attempting to select always the best, I shall name only a sufficient number of books necessary for the use of such non-professional readers as may desire to acquire a moderate knowledge of the commonly accepted theological doctrines—
McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature (10 vols.).Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible.Young’s Analytical Concordance to the Bible.Barrow’s Sacred Geography and Antiquities.Dean Stanley’s Sinai and Palestine in connection with their History.Clark’s Bible Atlas, with Maps and Plans.Bissel’s Historic Origin of the Bible.Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures.Alford’s The Greek Testament; and The New Testament for English Readers.Oehler’s Theology of the Old Testament.Weiss’s Biblical Theology of the New Testament.Geikie’s Hours with the Bible.Lenormant’s The Beginnings of History, according to the Bible and the Traditions of Oriental Peoples.Dean Stanley’s Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church.Geikie’s Life and Works of Christ.Farrar’s Life of Christ.Farrar’s Life and Work of St. Paul.Conybeare and Howson’s Life and Epistles of St. Paul.Schaff’s History of the Christian Church.Dean Milman’s History of Latin Christianity (8 vols.).Dean Stanley’s Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church.Maurice’s Religions of the World.James Freeman Clarke’s Ten Great Religions.Moffatt’s Comparative History of Religions.Trench’s Lectures on Mediæval Church History.Ullman’s Reformers before the Reformation.Fisher’s History of the Reformation.Ranke’s History of the Popes during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.Griesinger’s History of the Jesuits.Baird’s Rise and Progress of the Huguenots in France.Stevens’s History of Methodism.Tyerman’s Life and Times of John Wesley.Hagenbach’s History of Christian Doctrines (translated by C. W. Buch).Fisher’s Faith and Rationalism.McCosh’s Christianity and Positivism.Farrar’s Critical History of Free Thought in reference to the Christian Religion.Smith’s Faith and Philosophy.Calderwood’s Relations of Science and Religion.Max Müller’s Science of Religion.Christlieb’s Counteracting Modern Infidelity.Trench’s Shipwrecks of Faith.Walker’s Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation.Smyth’s Old Faiths in New Light.Brooks’s Yale Lectures on Preaching.Dorner’s System of Christian Doctrine.Goulburn’s Thoughts on Personal Religion.
McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature (10 vols.).
Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible.
Young’s Analytical Concordance to the Bible.
Barrow’s Sacred Geography and Antiquities.
Dean Stanley’s Sinai and Palestine in connection with their History.
Clark’s Bible Atlas, with Maps and Plans.
Bissel’s Historic Origin of the Bible.
Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures.
Alford’s The Greek Testament; and The New Testament for English Readers.
Oehler’s Theology of the Old Testament.
Weiss’s Biblical Theology of the New Testament.
Geikie’s Hours with the Bible.
Lenormant’s The Beginnings of History, according to the Bible and the Traditions of Oriental Peoples.
Dean Stanley’s Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church.
Geikie’s Life and Works of Christ.
Farrar’s Life of Christ.
Farrar’s Life and Work of St. Paul.
Conybeare and Howson’s Life and Epistles of St. Paul.
Schaff’s History of the Christian Church.
Dean Milman’s History of Latin Christianity (8 vols.).
Dean Stanley’s Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church.
Maurice’s Religions of the World.
James Freeman Clarke’s Ten Great Religions.
Moffatt’s Comparative History of Religions.
Trench’s Lectures on Mediæval Church History.
Ullman’s Reformers before the Reformation.
Fisher’s History of the Reformation.
Ranke’s History of the Popes during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
Griesinger’s History of the Jesuits.
Baird’s Rise and Progress of the Huguenots in France.
Stevens’s History of Methodism.
Tyerman’s Life and Times of John Wesley.
Hagenbach’s History of Christian Doctrines (translated by C. W. Buch).
Fisher’s Faith and Rationalism.
McCosh’s Christianity and Positivism.
Farrar’s Critical History of Free Thought in reference to the Christian Religion.
Smith’s Faith and Philosophy.
Calderwood’s Relations of Science and Religion.
Max Müller’s Science of Religion.
Christlieb’s Counteracting Modern Infidelity.
Trench’s Shipwrecks of Faith.
Walker’s Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation.
Smyth’s Old Faiths in New Light.
Brooks’s Yale Lectures on Preaching.
Dorner’s System of Christian Doctrine.
Goulburn’s Thoughts on Personal Religion.
Richard Baxter, speaking of this class of books, says: “Such books have the advantage in many other respects: you may read anable preacher when you have but a mean one to hear. Every congregation cannot hear the most judicious or powerful preachers; but every single person may read the books of the most powerful and judicious. Preachers may be silenced or banished, when books may be at hand; books may be kept at a smaller charge than preachers: we may choose books which treat of that very subject which we desire to hear of. Books we may have at hand every day and hour, when we can have sermons but seldom, and at set times. If sermons be forgotten, they are gone. But a book we may read over and over until we remember it; and if we forget it, may again peruse it at our pleasure or at our leisure.”
Political Economy and the Science of Government.
Thisis that noble Science of Politics, which is equally removed from the barren theories of the utilitarian sophists, and from the petty craft, so often mistaken for statesmanship by minds grown narrow in habits of intrigue, jobbing, and official etiquette,—which of all sciences is the most important to the welfare of nations,—which of all sciences most tends to expand and invigorate the mind,—which draws nutriment and ornament from every part of philosophy and literature, and dispenses in return nutriment and ornament to all.—Macaulay.
Thisis that noble Science of Politics, which is equally removed from the barren theories of the utilitarian sophists, and from the petty craft, so often mistaken for statesmanship by minds grown narrow in habits of intrigue, jobbing, and official etiquette,—which of all sciences is the most important to the welfare of nations,—which of all sciences most tends to expand and invigorate the mind,—which draws nutriment and ornament from every part of philosophy and literature, and dispenses in return nutriment and ornament to all.—Macaulay.
TO the student of Political Economy and the Science of Government I offer the following lists of books, embracing the best works on the various subjects connected with this study. The classification has been made solely with reference to the subject-matter, without any attempt to indicate the order in which the books are to be studied,—as this would be impossible.
Constitutional History, etc.
Freeman: Growth of the English Constitution.Creasy: Rise and Progress of the English Constitution.Stubbs: Constitutional History of England.Hallam: Constitutional History of England (1485-1759).Curtis: History of the Constitution of the United States.Von Holst: Constitutional History of the United States.De Tocqueville: Democracy in the United States.Townsend:Analysis of Civil Government.Nordhoff:Politics for Young Americans.Andrews: Manual of the United States Constitution.Mulford: The Nation.Story: Familiar Exposition of the United States Constitution.Bancroft: History of the United States (vol. xi.).Amos: The Science of Politics.
Freeman: Growth of the English Constitution.
Creasy: Rise and Progress of the English Constitution.
Stubbs: Constitutional History of England.
Hallam: Constitutional History of England (1485-1759).
Curtis: History of the Constitution of the United States.
Von Holst: Constitutional History of the United States.
De Tocqueville: Democracy in the United States.
Townsend:Analysis of Civil Government.
Nordhoff:Politics for Young Americans.
Andrews: Manual of the United States Constitution.
Mulford: The Nation.
Story: Familiar Exposition of the United States Constitution.
Bancroft: History of the United States (vol. xi.).
Amos: The Science of Politics.
General Works on Political Economy.
Perry:An Introduction To Political Economy.Jevons:A Primer of Political Economy.Fawcett:A Manual of Political Economy.John Stuart Mill: Principles of Political Economy (People’s edition).Cairnes: Some Leading Principles of Political Economy Newly Expounded.Walker: The Elements of Political Economy.Perry: Elements of Political Economy.Bastiat: Essays on Political Economy.Bowen: American Political Economy.Mason and Lalor: Primer of Political Economy.
Perry:An Introduction To Political Economy.
Jevons:A Primer of Political Economy.
Fawcett:A Manual of Political Economy.
John Stuart Mill: Principles of Political Economy (People’s edition).
Cairnes: Some Leading Principles of Political Economy Newly Expounded.
Walker: The Elements of Political Economy.
Perry: Elements of Political Economy.
Bastiat: Essays on Political Economy.
Bowen: American Political Economy.
Mason and Lalor: Primer of Political Economy.
On Population.
Malthus: The Principles of Population.
Malthus: The Principles of Population.
Mr. Malthus’s doctrines are opposed in the following works—
Godwin: On Population (1820).Sadler: The Law of Population (1830).Alison: The Principles of Population, and their Connection with Human Happiness (1840).Doubleday: The True Law of Population shown to be connected with the Food of the People (1854).Herbert Spencer: The Principles of Biology (vol. ii.).Rickards: Population and Capital (1854).Greg: Enigmas of Life (1872).
Godwin: On Population (1820).
Sadler: The Law of Population (1830).
Alison: The Principles of Population, and their Connection with Human Happiness (1840).
Doubleday: The True Law of Population shown to be connected with the Food of the People (1854).
Herbert Spencer: The Principles of Biology (vol. ii.).
Rickards: Population and Capital (1854).
Greg: Enigmas of Life (1872).
The Malthusian doctrine is supported wholly or in part by—
Macaulay, in his Essay on Sadler’s Law of Population;Rev. Thomas Chalmers, in Political Economy in connection with the Moral State and Moral Prospects of Society;David Ricardo, in Principles of Political Economy; and some other writers. See, also, Roscher’s Political Economy.
Macaulay, in his Essay on Sadler’s Law of Population;
Rev. Thomas Chalmers, in Political Economy in connection with the Moral State and Moral Prospects of Society;
David Ricardo, in Principles of Political Economy; and some other writers. See, also, Roscher’s Political Economy.
On Wealth and Currency.
Adam Smith: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of Wealth.Probably the most important book that has ever been written, and certainly the most valuable contribution ever made by a single man towards establishing the principles on which government should be based.—H. T. Buckle.Jevons: Money and the Mechanism of Exchange.A. Walker: The Science of Wealth.F. A. Walker: Money.Bagehot: Lombard Street; a Description of the Money Market.Bonamy Price: Principles of Currency.—— Currency and Banking.Chevalier: Essay on the Probable Fall in the Value of Gold (translated by Cobden).Ricardo: Proposals for an Economical Currency.Poor: Money; its Laws and History.McCulloch: On Metallic and Paper Money, and Banks.Newcomb: The A B C of Finance.Wells: Robinson Crusoe’s Money.Harvey: Paper Money, the Money of Civilization.Sumner: History of American Currency.Maclaren: History of the Currency.Linderman: Money and Legal Tender of the United States.Bolles: Financial History of the United States, from 1789 to 1860.
Adam Smith: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of Wealth.
Probably the most important book that has ever been written, and certainly the most valuable contribution ever made by a single man towards establishing the principles on which government should be based.—H. T. Buckle.
Jevons: Money and the Mechanism of Exchange.
A. Walker: The Science of Wealth.
F. A. Walker: Money.
Bagehot: Lombard Street; a Description of the Money Market.
Bonamy Price: Principles of Currency.
—— Currency and Banking.
Chevalier: Essay on the Probable Fall in the Value of Gold (translated by Cobden).
Ricardo: Proposals for an Economical Currency.
Poor: Money; its Laws and History.
McCulloch: On Metallic and Paper Money, and Banks.
Newcomb: The A B C of Finance.
Wells: Robinson Crusoe’s Money.
Harvey: Paper Money, the Money of Civilization.
Sumner: History of American Currency.
Maclaren: History of the Currency.
Linderman: Money and Legal Tender of the United States.
Bolles: Financial History of the United States, from 1789 to 1860.
On Banking.
Macleod: The Elements of Banking.—— Theory and Practice of Banking.Bonamy Price: Currency and Banking.Gibbons: The Banks of New York.Atkinson: What is a Bank?Gilbart: Principles and Practice of Banking.Bagehot: Lombard Street.Morse: Treatise on the Laws relating to Banks and Banking.
Macleod: The Elements of Banking.
—— Theory and Practice of Banking.
Bonamy Price: Currency and Banking.
Gibbons: The Banks of New York.
Atkinson: What is a Bank?
Gilbart: Principles and Practice of Banking.
Bagehot: Lombard Street.
Morse: Treatise on the Laws relating to Banks and Banking.
On Labor and Wages.
Henry George: Progress and Poverty.Mallock: Property and Progress.Walker: Wages and the Wages Class.Brassey: Work and Wages.Jevons: The State in relation to Labor.Jervis: Labor and Capital.Thornton: On Labor; its Wrongful Claims and Rightful Dues.Wright: A Practical Treatise on Labor.Young: Labor in Europe and America.Bolles: Conflict of Labor and Capital.About: Hand-Book of Social Economy.
Henry George: Progress and Poverty.
Mallock: Property and Progress.
Walker: Wages and the Wages Class.
Brassey: Work and Wages.
Jevons: The State in relation to Labor.
Jervis: Labor and Capital.
Thornton: On Labor; its Wrongful Claims and Rightful Dues.
Wright: A Practical Treatise on Labor.
Young: Labor in Europe and America.
Bolles: Conflict of Labor and Capital.
About: Hand-Book of Social Economy.
On Socialism and Co-operation.
Nordhoff: Communistic Societies of the United States.Noyes: History of American Socialism.Ely: French and German Socialism in Modern Times.Holyoake: History of Co-operation.Woolsey: Socialism.Barnard: Co-operation as a Business.
Nordhoff: Communistic Societies of the United States.
Noyes: History of American Socialism.
Ely: French and German Socialism in Modern Times.
Holyoake: History of Co-operation.
Woolsey: Socialism.
Barnard: Co-operation as a Business.
The student of socialism will doubtless be interested in reading some of the philosophical fictions and other works, written in various ages, describing fanciful or ideal communities and governments. The following are the best—
Plato’s Republic.Sir Thomas More’s Utopia.Bacon’s New Atlantis.Hall’sMundus Alter et Idem.Harrington’s Oceana.Defoe’s Essay on Projects.Disraeli’s Coningsby, or the New Generation.Bulwer’s The Coming Race.
Plato’s Republic.
Sir Thomas More’s Utopia.
Bacon’s New Atlantis.
Hall’sMundus Alter et Idem.
Harrington’s Oceana.
Defoe’s Essay on Projects.
Disraeli’s Coningsby, or the New Generation.
Bulwer’s The Coming Race.
On Taxation and Pauperism.
Peto: Taxation; its Levy and Expenditure.Cobden Club Essay,—On Local Government and Taxation.Encyclopædia Britannica: The Article on Taxation.Fawcett: Pauperism; its Causes and Remedies.Sir George Nicholl: Histories of the English, Scotch, and Irish Poor Laws.Lecky: History of European Morals (vol. ii.).
Peto: Taxation; its Levy and Expenditure.
Cobden Club Essay,—On Local Government and Taxation.
Encyclopædia Britannica: The Article on Taxation.
Fawcett: Pauperism; its Causes and Remedies.
Sir George Nicholl: Histories of the English, Scotch, and Irish Poor Laws.
Lecky: History of European Morals (vol. ii.).
On the Tariff Question.
The following works favor, more or less strongly, the doctrine of Free Trade—
Adam Smith: On the Wealth of Nations.Walter: What is Free Trade?Sumner: Lectures on the History of Protection in the United States.Mongredien: History of the Free-Trade Movement.Grosvenor: Does Protection Protect?Bastiat: Sophisms of Protection.Fawcett: Free Trade and Protection.Butts: Protection and Free Trade.
Adam Smith: On the Wealth of Nations.
Walter: What is Free Trade?
Sumner: Lectures on the History of Protection in the United States.
Mongredien: History of the Free-Trade Movement.
Grosvenor: Does Protection Protect?
Bastiat: Sophisms of Protection.
Fawcett: Free Trade and Protection.
Butts: Protection and Free Trade.
The following are the most important works favoring Protection—
Horace Greeley: The Science of Political Economy.E. Peshine Smith: A Manual of Political Economy.R. E. Thompson: Social Science and National Economy.H. C. Carey: Principles of Social Science.Byles: Sophisms of Free Trade.
Horace Greeley: The Science of Political Economy.
E. Peshine Smith: A Manual of Political Economy.
R. E. Thompson: Social Science and National Economy.
H. C. Carey: Principles of Social Science.
Byles: Sophisms of Free Trade.
Works of Reference.
McCulloch: Literature of Political Economy.Macleod: A Dictionary of Political Economy, Biographical, Historical, and Practical.Lalor: Cyclopædia of Political Science and Political Economy.McCulloch: Dictionary of Commerce.Tooke: History of Prices, 1793 to 1856.Rogers: History of Agriculture and Prices in England.
McCulloch: Literature of Political Economy.
Macleod: A Dictionary of Political Economy, Biographical, Historical, and Practical.
Lalor: Cyclopædia of Political Science and Political Economy.
McCulloch: Dictionary of Commerce.
Tooke: History of Prices, 1793 to 1856.
Rogers: History of Agriculture and Prices in England.