Aurelius Bacon Carlyle Cicero Darwin Emerson Epictetus Galton Hamilton Kant Lucretius Machiavelli Mill More Pascal Plato Rousseau Ruskin Schopenhauer Seneca Shaler Smith, A. Spencer RELIGION Certain hymns will always linger in the memory from the days of childhood; and certain sermons and devotional works have so feelingly expressed the aspirations of Christian life that they have attained enduring fame. These are here collected without reference to denominational distinction. Also, as it is of interest to note the ideals of thinkers in other than Christian lands, passages are included from the teachings of Confucius, the Chinese scholar; Cleanthes, the Greek poet; the life of Buddha, in Hindoo Literature; the Talmud, in Jewish Literature; and the "Koran" of Mohammed. HYMNS Bernard, St. Bernard of Cluny Bonar Bowring Cowper Faber Heber Herbert Jacopone Keble Luther Lyte Milman Newman Palmer Thomas of Celano Toplady Watts Wesley SERMONS AND DEVOTIONAL WORKS Bowne Brierley Brooks Browne, Sir T. Bunyan Channing Hooker à Kempis Luther Mazzini Robertson Wyclif FROM SEVEN TO TWENTY-ONE Lists of readings for young and old. Showing how to acquire, by easy stages, a knowledge of the best in literature, year by year. Unlike poets, painters, and the rest of the world of artists, booklovers are made, not born. But many a booklover has been spoiled in the making, too; so that we must needs give thought to the process of transforming everyday folk into _willing and skilful readers and lovers of books_. Many boys and girls and many men and women have lost all interest in the realm of books through lack of suitable material for enjoyment and adequate opportunity for practice. What books they could find round the house failed to meet their desires or hold their attention; probably they were technical or 'dry-as-dust.'