RUDYARD KIPLING. _Plain Tales from the Hills._ _Many Inventions._ _Wee Willie Winkie._ _Life’s Handicap._ _Soldiers Three._ _In Black and White._ _The Story of the Gadsbys._ _The Light that Failed._ _The Jungle Book._ _The Second Jungle Book._ _The Day’s Work._ _Captains Courageous._ _Kim._ In spite of a curiously eager disposition on the part of current writers to regard Kipling’s career as over and done, he is the foremost living writer of short stories in English, and of no other young living writer can it be so safely averred that he has become one of the established classics of his race. FRIEDRICH HEINRICH KARL DE LA MOTTE FOUQUÉ (1777-1843). _Undine._ PIERRE LOTI (L. M. J. Viaud). _An Iceland Fisherman._ This and the autobiographical “Romance of a Child,” and several of Loti’s books of travel are in English. EDWARD G. E. L. BULWER-LYTTON (1801-72). _Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings._ _Last Days of Pompeii._ Lord Lytton is one of the Victorian novelists whose great reputation is growing rapidly less, and deservedly so, but his historical novels are more than worth reading. GEORGE MACDONALD (1824-1905). _David Elginbrod._ _Robert Falconer._ _Sir Gibbie._ _At the Back of the North Wind._ A novelist whose popularity among younger readers is probably less than his great merits. XAVIER DE MAISTRE (1764-1852). _La Jeune Sibérienne._ ALESSANDRO MANZONI (1785-1873). _The Betrothed Lovers._ There are several English translations of this most famous of Italian historical romances. FREDERICK MARRYAT (1792-1848). _Jacob Faithful._ _Peter Simple._ _Mr. Midshipman Easy._ _Masterman Ready._ A. E. W. MASON. _The Four Feathers._ A story of bravery and cowardice of unusual merit. GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850-93). _The Odd Number._ This is an English translation of some of Maupassant’s best tales. GEORGE MEREDITH (1828-1909). _Harry Richmond._ _Beauchamp’s Career._ _Rhoda Fleming._ _Evan Harrington._ At his death the foremost English man of letters. A noble poet and a novelist who easily stands among the few greatest of the century. A taste for Meredith grows on the individual as it has grown on the general world of readers. The novels in this list include not all the greatest but the best for the new reader to try first. PROSPER MÉRIMÉE (1803-70). _Colomba._ In easy French, and has been translated into English. SILAS WEIR MITCHELL. _Hugh Wynne._ _Roland Blake._ MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (1786-1855). _Our Village._ WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-96). _The Well at the World’s End._ Readers who chance to like this prose poem by a devoted apostle of liberty and beauty will be led to his other romances in prose and verse. MARY NOAILLES MURFREE (“Charles Egbert Craddock”). _In the Tennessee Mountains._ _Down the Ravine._ _In the Clouds._ _In the Stranger People’s Country._