One of the practical merits of Green’s England as an introduction to the reading of historic literature is that at the head of each chapter he gives the works from which he has drawn. And as his nature and ideals of history led him to the most fertile and interesting of other historians, his lists contain the titles of readable books rather than dry and obscure sources. So that if a reader finds one part of the story of England especially fascinating he can turn aside to those historians who have treated it more fully, to the authorities whom Green read and enjoyed. For instance, see the wealth of books which Green mentions at the head of the chapter that most concerns us, The Independence of America. There are Lord Stanhope’s “History of England from the Peace of Utrecht,” Bancroft’s “History of the United States,” Massey’s “History of England from the Accession of George the Third,” Lecky’s “History of England in the Eighteenth Century”; the letters and memoirs of individuals who witnessed the struggle, or took part in it, such as the “Letters” of Junius, “Life and Correspondence of Charles James Fox,” Burke’s speeches and pamphlets. And we should add the newest important authority on the conflict, Trevelyan’s “American Revolution.” These books in turn will lead to others as far as the reader cares to go. Indeed it is one of the delights and excitements of reading that one book suggests another, and the eager reader, who is under no obligation to go along a definite course, finds himself in a glorious tangle of bypaths. A book like Green’s may lead into any corner of literature; one may follow, as it were, over the intellectual ground where he got his education. We may begin with Gibbon’s “Rome” which he read at sixteen (other boys of sixteen can read it with as much pleasure as he found in it, even if they do not become historians), and we can go on through his early studies of the English church. If one reads only the poets and men of letters to whom he gives a place in his chronicle of English life one will be, before one knows it, a cultivated man--even a learned man. Let us dwell a moment on this aspect of leadership in books. No two persons will ever follow the same course of reading; no list will prove good for everybody; but any book which has interested you, and which you have reason to think the product of a great mind, will constitute itself a guide to reading;[3] it will throw out a hundred clues, far-leading and profitable to take up, clues which show what has been the reading of the author whose work suggests them. And there must always be safety in following where a great man has gone in his literary pilgrimages.