For Middle Westerners: Meredith Nicholson’s _The Valley of Democracy_. Zona Gale’s _Birth_. Carl Sandburg’s _Chicago Poems_. Edgar Lee Masters’s _Spoon River Anthology_. Vachel Lindsay’s longer poems. Mary S. Watts’s _Nathan Burke_ and _Van Cleve: His Friends and His Family_. Lord Charnwood’s life of Lincoln. William Dean Howells’s _The Leatherwood God_. Booth Tarkington’s _The Conquest of Canaan_ (first published about fourteen years ago) and _The Magnificent Ambersons_. Gene Stratton-Porter’s _A Daughter of the Land_, her _Freckles_ and her _A Girl of the Limberlost_. One or two books by Harold Bell Wright. _The Passing of the Frontier_, by Emerson Hough, and other books in the Chronicles of America series published by the Yale University Press. For Americans: Mary S. Watts’s _The Rise of Jennie Cushing_. Owen Wister’s _The Virginian_ (if not barred under the ten year rule). Booth Tarkington’s _The Flirt_. Novels with American settings by Gertrude Atherton and Stewart Edward White. Mary Johnston’s _The Long Roll_ and _Cease Firing_. Willa Sibert Cather’s _The Song of the Lark_. Edith Wharton’s _Ethan Frome_. Alice Brown’s _The Prisoner_. Ellen Glasgow’s _The Deliverance_. Corra Harris’s _A Circuit-Rider’s Wife_. All of O. Henry. Margaret Deland’s _The Iron Woman_. Earlier novels by Winston Churchill. Ernest Poole’s _The Harbor_. Joseph Hergesheimer’s _The Three Black Pennys_, his _Gold and Iron_ and his _Java Head_. Historical books by Theodore Roosevelt. American biographies too numerous to mention. _From Isolation to Leadership: A Review of American Foreign Policy_ by Latané (published by the educational department of Doubleday, Page & Company). Essays, such as those of Agnes Repplier. Each of these enumerations presupposes the books already named, or most of them. Don’t treat them as pieces of literary workmanship. Many of them aren’t. Those that have fine literary workmanship have something else, too--and it’s the other thing, or things, that count. Fine art in a book is like good breeding in a person, a passport, not a Magna Charta. “Manners makyth man”--yah! 24 We are also asked: “What are some of the things which should enter into the training of teachers of high school English?” We reply: A regard for literature, not as it reflects life, but as it moulds lives. A profound respect for an author who can find 100,000 readers, a respect at least equal to that entertained for an author who can write superlatively well. For instance: Get it out of your head that you can afford to condescend toward a best seller, or to worship such a writer as Stevenson for his sheer craftsmanship. An instinct for what will nourish the ordinary man or woman as keen as your perception of what will be relished by the fastidious reader. Don’t insist that people must live on what you, or any one else, declare to be good for them. It is not for nothing that they “don’t know anything about literature, _but know what they like_.”