TACITUS The Histories THACKERAY Selections WHITMAN O Captain WORDSWORTH Poems =Twenty-one and After.= During these years, through respect for wisdom and experience, maturity rapidly quickens into being. Once we get a few hard knocks in the battle of life, our regard for the learning and understanding of our elders soon increases. We likewise can enter more thoroughly into the work of such thinkers as Carlyle, Galton, Emerson, Ruskin, Shaler, or of such poets as Chaucer and Goethe. For these men have spent the best of their lives in studying and probing into the causes and developments of our moods and characters. Carlyle has given us the most terrific and stirring account ever written of the battle that is waged in every man's soul between the forces of good and evil. Goethe has dramatized this same problem, revealing the wretchedness of him who only thinks of self, who drags his nearest and dearest down to ruin simply to gratify his lusts or his whims. Ruskin searches architecture, painting, or even the workmanship of everyday trades in order to discover their true merit--their greatness and their weakness. From such writings we can learn more and yet more each time we peruse them. There is no end to the richness and wealth of thought and experience to be gained from these alone. ALCOTT Thoreau's Flute ARNOLD, E. Poems BACON Essays BARNARD Robin Gray BENSON Games BLAKE Poems BOURDILLON Light BRYANT Poems BURNS Poems CARLYLE Selections CHAUCER Poems CHOATE Webster DANTE Divine Comedy EMERSON Essays EVELYN Diary FIELDS Dickens FRANKLIN Poor Richard's Almanac GOETHE Faust, etc. GOLDSMITH Deserted Village HAMERTON Intellectual Life HARRISON Choice of Books HAZLITT Great and Little Things HEINE The Romantic School HENLEY Out of the Night IBSEN A Doll's House JACOPONE Stabat Mater JEWISH LITERATURE The Talmud JOUBERT Essays LANG The Divining Rod LANIER Marshes of Glynn LOWELL Chaucer LUTHER Table Talk Ein Feste Burg MCCARTHY Disasters of Cabul MARLOWE Dr. Faustus MAUPASSANT The Piece of String MILTON Areopagitica MITCHELL Dream Life MOLIÈRE Imaginary Invalid ROSSETTI, D. G. Poems RUSKIN Selections SAINTE-BEUVE Mme. de Staël SHALER The Last of Earth and Man SIENKIEWICZ Quo Vadis STERNE Selections THOMAS OF CELANO Dies Iræ WALTON Compleat Angler