=Nineteen and Twenty Years of Age.= Unquestionably, as the years pass on, we read again the books that have already given us so many hours of happiness and amusement. For this reason it is well for the young booklover to return to the lists for the previous years and renew acquaintanceships there. No doubt some of the authors whom he found but moderately amusing then will now win far more favor in his sight. Meanwhile, among the fresh material history and criticism naturally find a prominent place. Mommsen's estimate of Julius Cæsar and Chesterton's appreciative critique of Dickens stand among the foremost studies of great men that the world has yet produced. In the field of poetry it is high time to spend some quiet hours with Emerson, Browning, Shakespeare, Shelley, and Wordsworth. These five poets represent perhaps the very best that English verse has produced in the way of meditation--insight into the depths of nature and humanity. At this point the reader will do well to consider other chapters in this Handbook, notably that on Literary Criticism, and the rest of Part II, which deals with the general principles underlying a fuller comprehension of literature. Part III, Studies of Great Authors, will be of even greater help to those readers who are finding increased pleasure in reading as students rather than for the sake of recreation or light reading alone. By following out the lines of thought presented in Parts II and III, especially if one does not attempt to carry too heavy a quantity of reading at a time, the enjoyment of books and thought will be immensely stimulated and broadened. ALDRICH Poems ALFRED THE GREAT Poems ASCHAM The Schoolmaster AUSTEN Pride and Prejudice BEECHER Industry and Idleness BERANGER Poems BOSWELL Life of Johnson BROWNING, R. Poems BURKE Speech BYRON Poems CHANNING Self-culture CHESTERTON Dickens DE QUINCEY Dreams Our Ladies of Sorrow ELIOT Brother Jacob Poems EMERSON Poems FARRAR Corruption of Rome FERRERO Empire Building FIELDING Selections FREEMAN The World Romeless GIBBON Roman Empire HAWKINS Dolly Dialogues HEARN In Japan HOLMES The Autocrat HOWELLS Essay HUNT Autobiography JOHNSON Rasselas KEATS Poems KIPLING Mandalay Man Who Would be King LOCKHART Life of Scott MACAULAY Milton MILTON Poems MIRABEAU Franklin MOMMSEN Julius Cæsar MORRIS, W. Poem PAUSANIAS Description of Greece PLATO Trial of Socrates PLINY Letters POE Poems POPE Poems RILEY Poems ROSTAND Cyrano SCHILLER Wilhelm Tell SHAKESPEARE Selections SHELLEY Poems SHERIDAN The Rivals The School for Scandal STEPHEN Hawthorne STEVENSON Selections SUETONIUS Roman Emperors SUMNER Grandeur of Nations