Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-04-01
oURRENr LITeRArURE.

CURRENT LITER1TURE.
A late number Of LITTEIL calls particular
attention to boys reading. The run of
their magazine literature ("this is English,
you know y is cheap and vicious. or book
makers Ballantyne, Kingston and Henty are
to be admitted with all honors, also Jules
Verne and Mayne Reid, II boys will take In
so much science. OF oil boys books "Tom
Brown" is the crown. This is from The Fort
nightly. To '"rom Brown, the rather carping
critic of the Saturday Repieto takes no ex-
eeption. He thinks meanly, however, of tho
drawing" attractions of the authors above
named, though morally he casts no asper-
sions. ''rreas ure Island" and "King Solo
mons Mines" he places high and makes
amends for a rather III natured tone by
calling attention to the glorious works OF
Scott, Cooper, Thackeray = Dickens, too,
with some caution. These should be in
woven with ehildren's earliest recollectiops.
En- passant, il seems strange that more is
not heard of don Quixote" in this CON
neetion, taken, of course, like Dickens.
Another paper gives Sir John Lubbock's
famous hundred books" culled as the
quintessence Of literature from all ages and
nations. The list has been widely and In
correctly given. Properly they stand as
follows; The Bible, The Meditations Of
Marcus Aureltus Q4ong's translatlon),
Epictetus, Aristotle's Ethics, Analects Of
Coniucius Oegge's translation) st. Hilalre's
La Bouddha ct sa Religion. Wakes Apos.
tolic Fathers, Thomas Kempis Imita-
ton OF Christ, Confessions of St. Augustine
CDR. Pusey) The Koran (portions of Spino-
za's Iractatus Theological Politicus. Comte's
Catechism of Positive Philosophy Con
greye). Paseal's Pensees, Buffers Analogy
OF Religion, Taylor's Holy Living aud
Dying, Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress, Keble's
Christian Year.
Plato's Dialogues; at any rate, the Repub-
lie and Observation-Disclosures Politics, Demos
themes De Corona, Cicero's De Offlciis, De
Amicitia and De Senectute, Plutarch's Lives
Berkeley's Human Knowledge, Descartes
Diseours sur Ia Methodo, Locke's On the
Conduct OF the Understanding.
Homer, Hesiod, Virgil, Mahabharata and
Rainayana( epitomized in Talboyes Wheeler's
History of India, volumes / and q The
Shahnameh, The Nibelungenlied Ma.
lory,s Morte d. Arthur, The Sheking
Esehylus' Prometheus, Trilogy of Orestes
Sophocles' Gdipus, Euripides Medea
Aristophanes' The knights, Horace Lucre
thus, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, (perhap.
| in Morris edition; or, II expureated. Ii
Mrs. Haweis). Shakespeare, Millions Para
disc Lost, Lycidas, and the shorter poems
Dante's Divina Commedia, Sponsors Faeri,
Queen, Dryden's Poems, SCOTS Poems
Wordsworth (hlr. Arnold's selection.
Southey's Thalaba the DESTROYER. nh
Curse of Kehama, Popes Essay on Crit
cism, Essay on Man, Rape OF the Lock
Burns, Heine, Gray, Herodotus, Xenophon'
Anabasis, Ihucydides, Tacitus' Germania
Livy, Gibbons Decline and Fall, Hume
History of England, Grote's History q
Greece, Carlyle's French Revolution Green
of Philosophy.
Arabian Nights, Swlft's Gulliyer's Travels
Defoes robinson Crusoe, Goldsmith
Vicar Of Wakefield, Cervantes' Don Quixott
Boswell's Life Of Johnson, Moliere. Sher
dams The Critic, School for Scandal, an
The Rivals, Carlyle's Past and Pr, sen
Smiles Self-Help.
Bacons Novum Organum, Smiths Wealt
OF Nations, (part of Mills Political Ecor
omy, Cooks Voyages, Humboldt's Travel
Whites Natural History OF Selborne.
Darwins Origin of Species. and Naturl
lists Voyage, Mtll's Logic, Bacon's Essay,
Montaignes Essays, Hume's Essays, nj,
caulay's Essays, Addison's Essays, Emo
sons Essays, Burke's Select Work PAYNE
noltaires ladig, Gethe's Faust an
Wilhelm Meister, Miss Auston's Emma, I
Pride and Prejudice, Thackeray's Vnnit
Fair, Pendennis, Dickens Pickwick, Davi
Gopperiield, Lytton's Last Days of Pompei
7 George Eliot's Adam Bede, Kingsley
4 | Westward Ho, SCOTS Novels.
This it will be conceded, Is literary Wor
for pretty active Lifetime. As 1t exclud,
. tho works Of living authors, though pm
teular indebtedness Is acknowledged |
, sir John to Ruskln and Tennyson. a too ii
: tense devotion to 1t, to their exclusio
a might be unwise. A noticeable omission
Essays Of Ella"
q Other remarkable late contributions n,
Y Freeman's on Home Rule, bright ane
dotal paper on Bishop Thirlwall, one orty
discussions OF Lord Melbourne and u rece
v wayfarer's impressions of .the States
: Than this, nothing is more amusing nj
readable,
a The April ST. NICHOLAS winds up the tlr
= part OF the thirteenth volume, replete III
Its predecessors with visa Thoughts, gene
GUS promptings, coplous instructions, fires
= kindly humane stories, fun and rhyme.
y Little Lord Fauntleroy," is charmI,
u u from the fresh righteousness of the chi
and the ludicrous gabble of the servan
y 1t goes without saying that the terrible q
grandfather is to fall completely under I
y sway of his boy heir. Historic Girls"
u this number, gives the Empress Woo
y China, an Elizabeth or Maria Theresa
70 the East
l. Frank Stockton has study Of Alpi
climbing Mt. Blanc it always difficult a
le dangerous but any one can 20 up /
higi, Its railroad arrangements being Iieal
% identical with those Of Mt. Washington.
l. sketch Of Washington's early militia
II career and the subsequent peaceful int
AZ Jude Of planter life at Mt. Vernon, puts
tt strong light that method, diligence, sc
n command and promptness, which broul
to successful issue the great historic tru
le of later years.
mr. The account Of Boston Vacation Sehoo
a. Is an Incentive e, further good works O.
er similar basis, with scope more or less
if tended as circumstances may permit,
az The Magazine of ART for April gives so
IN noted and characteristic features of q
:, time architecture. Noticeable are ga
and staircases from Styled, Surrey,
o. lightful old house, what there is left of
~ In one Of the loveliest Of English count
- FireplaceS abound. One OF WedRewt
a and alabaster, Of the last century, is ha
he some, but monumental, tomb-like and frtl
One from Spike Hall, Elizabethan style
70, large enough to roast the whole family
If once.
~ The difference In temper between ca
and modern art is exemplifled In treatm
Of the annunciation. One shows In
Virgin only "lowly surrender and will
los response" the other perplexity, ankle
90 varied thoughts, complex emotions.
de A well illustrated paper traces the I'll
ar to Its source, a chapter on american 1
broideries" decribes the graceful and no
ty designs emanating from the firm OF Il
n artists In New York. In Franz Defreg
!. of Munich a strong depieter Of Tyrol,
mt peasant life is recognized.
on An exhibition of Holman Hunts wo
-. is In prospect, and new French maga2
Ut has been started at subscription OF I
CHI month. The monthly record Is further
ad with rumors OF monuments to lats genel
here, there and everywhere.
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