Let the student take up a book that’s new to him and read it by himself, afterward writing a report of it to be read to the class. When he comes to write his report he must keep in the forefront of his mind this one thing: To tell the others accurately enough about that book so that each one of them will know whether or not _he_ wants to read it. That is all the book reporter ever tries for. No book is intended for everybody, but almost every book is intended for somebody. The problem of the book reporter is to find the reader. Comparison may help. For instance, those who enjoy Milton’s pastoral poetry will probably enjoy the long poem in Robert Nichols’s _Ardours and Endurances_. Those who like Thackeray will like Mary S. Watts. Those who like Anna Katharine Green will thank you for sending them to _The Moonstone_, by one Wilkie Collins. Most stories depend upon suspense in the action for their main effect. You must not “give away” the story so as to spoil it for the reader. In a mystery story you may state the mystery and appraise the solution or even characterize it--but you mustn’t reveal it. Tell ’em that Mr. Hergesheimer’s _Java Head_ is an atmospheric marvel, but will disappoint many readers who put action first. Tell ’em that William Allen White writes (often) banally, but so saturates his novel with his own bigheartedness that he makes you laugh and cry. Tell ’em the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth as well as you can make it out--and for heaven’s sake ask yourself with every assertion: “Is this a fact or is it my personal opinion?” _And a fact, for your purpose, will be an opinion in which a large majority of readers will concur._ 23 “Give me a list of books published during the last ten years that should be included in college English laboratory classes in literature. I want your list. I have my own, but fear it is too academic.” The following list is an offhand attempt to comply with this request. It is offered merely for the suggestions it may contain. If the ten year restriction is rigid we ask pardon for such titles as may be a little older than that. Strike them out. For Kansans: Willa Sibert Cather’s novels, _O Pioneers!_ and _My Antonia_, chronicling people and epochs of Kansas-Nebraska. William Allen White’s _A Certain Rich Man_ and _In the Heart of a Fool_, less for their Kansas-ness than for their Americanism and humanity.