Nor can one go wrong in recommending Berkeley's _Human Knowledge_, Descartes' _Discours sur la Méthode_, Locke's _Conduct of the Understanding_, Lewes' _History of Philosophy_; while, in order to keep within the number one hundred, I can only mention Moliere and Sheridan among dramatists. Macaulay considered Marivaux's _La Vie de Marianne_ the best novel in any language, but my number is so nearly complete that I must content myself with English: and will suggest Thackeray (_Vanity Fair_ and _Pendennis_), Dickens (_Pickwick_ and _David Copperfield_), G. Eliot (_Adam Bede_ or _The Mill on the Floss_), Kingsley (_Westward Ho!_), Lytton (_Last Days of Pompeii_), and last, not least, those of Scott, which indeed constitute a library in themselves, but which I must ask, in return for my trouble, to be allowed, as a special favor, to count as one. To any lover of books the very mention of these names brings back a crowd of delicious memories, grateful recollections of peaceful home hours, after the labors and anxieties of the day. How thankful we ought to be for these inestimable blessings, for this numberless host of friends who never weary, betray, or forsake us! LIST OF 100 BOOKS. _Works by Living Authors are omitted_. The Bible The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Epictetus Aristotle's Ethics Analects of Confucius St. Hilaire's "Le Bouddha et sa religion" Wake's Apostolic Fathers Thos. à Kempis' Imitation of Christ Confessions of St. Augustine (Dr. Pusey) The Koran (portions of) Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus Comte's Catechism of Positive Philosophy Pascal's Pensées Butler's Analogy of Religion Taylor's Holy Living and Dying Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress Keble's Christian Year * * * * * Plato's Dialogues; at any rate, the Apology, Crito, and Phaedo Xenophon's Memorabilia Aristotle's Politics Demosthenes' De Corona. Cicero's De Officiis, De Amicitia, and De Senectute Plutarch's Lives Berkeley's Human Knowledge Descartes' Discours sur la Methode Locke's On the Conduct of the Understanding * * * * * Homer Hesiod Virgil Maha Bharata |Epitomized in Talboys Wheeler's Ramayana |History of India, vols. i. and ii. The Shahnameh The Nibelungenlied Malory's Morte d'Arthur * * * * * The Sheking Kalidasa's Sakuntala or The Lost Ring Aeschylus' Prometheus Trilogy of Orestes Sophocles' OEdipus Euripides' Medea Aristophanes' The Knights and Clouds Horace * * * * *