XIII.--SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY 260 List of Works in Science and Philosophy 267 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE Milton _Frontispiece_ Dickens 30 Thackeray 46 Scott 56 Hawthorne 68 Cooper 76 Eliot 84 Shelley 104 Tennyson 120 Longfellow 134 Wordsworth 142 Emerson 196 A CHILD’S GUIDE TO READING CHAPTER I OF GUIDES AND RULES FOR READING If you ever go into the Maine woods to hunt and fish you will have as your companion a veteran of forest and stream, a professional guide. It will be his duty to show you where the game and fish are most plentiful; to see that you do not get into trouble with the authorities by breaking the game laws; to make your camp comfortable; and if you are very green, to keep a watchful eye on you lest you accidentally shoot him or mistake another sportsman for a deer. If you are the right sort--the Maine guide is almost certain to be the right sort--you will get a great deal more from your companion than the simple services for which you pay him. He will be not only guide, but friend and philosopher, and will grudge you nothing of his stores of wisdom, kindliness, and humor. If, however, you are to receive most profit and pleasure from life in the woods with this good comrade, you must do your part of the work, use what wits you have, and not show a disposition to lean too limply on his strength. There are some things that the best guide cannot do. Not only will he be unable to think for you, but if you are too ready to let him do all the paddling, he will give you only perfunctory help and sulky advice. If, on the contrary, you are handy, he will be doubly handy. The more you learn, the more he can tell you. The more rapidly you approach the time when you are qualified to set up as professional guide yourself, the more you will enjoy the niceties of his theories of hunting, fishing, and wood lore.