The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-10

vaunVt Auu anything worm your having
70 Sir John LubboCk's list. Ii Is u very
good list, the chlet fault being that II is
100 long" So, too, Mr., FIOude says:
People must choose their own reading,
and SIR John LubboCk's list will do Tor u
guide as well as Others, ut any rate do
not wish 10 put myself into competition
with him." We may now pass with an
easy conscience to lew Of Sir John l.uO.
books critics,
MR., CHAMBERLAIN,
SIR;-ln reply to your inquiry am
directed by Mr.. chamberlain 10 say that
he does not think he could greatly i'm.
prove the list OF books already submitted
Dy Sir John lubbock. lie would, how.
ever, inquire whether 1t iB by accident or
design tnRt the Bible has been omitted, |
aIn, yours obedtently,
WILLIAM WooDINGs.
SIR. HENRY IRVING,
My DEAR SIR;-In reply to your cour.
teOua request l should say: Before a
hundred books commend me tirst to the
study OF two-the Bible and Shakespeare
Obsdiently yours, HENRY IRVING.
Mr., JAMES PAWN.
Mr.. Payn has had so much 10 do with
turning young men into prigs on their
way to the Literary profession" that he
naturally has no mercy for any similar
manufactures elsewhere. This Is what be
says;
DEAR sIR;-Lhave a great respect for
Sir John Lubbock, but do not agree
with him as to systematic reading. When
q particular object has to be attained
reading cannot bs too special; there IL 2u
enormous waste Of intelligence through o
neglect Of this fact but otherwise reading
should come by nature" When look
through the llst OF books you send me
cannot help saying to myself; "IIere are
the most admirable and varied materials
for the formation Of u prig." There Is no
more common mistake In these days
than the education OF people beyond their
wits. Yours truly, JAMES PAWN.
Mr.. RuRSANR,
Ny DEAR SIR:-How can suggest any
better reading than "Happy Thoughts
"About Buying Horse, F" THE Modem
standt0rd and Merton" "Strapmore,"
"One and Three" and more Happy
ThOush's"? Yours ttuly = p...,.
l should recommend "The Grammar Of
Assent and all Cardinal Newman's
works. Hin lectures on "OatholClsm in
England" are masterpieces,
Mr.. Rurnard's frankneg1 suggegts to us
to give next one or two letters In which
the writer's do not so much as lay down n
standard course OF reading as tell us 'who
prop in these bad days their minds."
Everybody reals Miss BFgddou, and here
We have what Miss brEtdon reads.
MISS BRADDoS.
LITCHPIELD House, RICHMOND, Jan. 10.
DEAR siR;-In reply TO your letter OF
the l3th inst beg to say that my read
Ing has been f)r the most part 30 desulto.
ry and 80 much less In amount than !
could have wished that feel myself In no
way qualified To advise others what they
should read and avoid reading. l can,
however, tell you tho authors whose books
have given me most pleaBurei
In ilCtion-Dlckens, Bulwer, Scott,
Thackeray, Jane Austen, Charles Rsadc,
George Eliot and Wilhe Collins; Balzac
and Dapdet Marlitt and Auerbach,
In poetry-OhauCer, Shakespeare, Mil.
ton, Pope, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennys.
son and llrowningj Victor Hugo and Al
fred de MuSset Heine. All other poets in
lesser degree and at distance from
thpae.
Ii general observation-disclosures Essays,
Millions Prose Works, Jeremy Taylor, Adj
Olson, Steele, De Quincy, jeffrey, MaCau'
ley.s Essays, sonthey's Common Pleas
Book, Buckles Miicellanles, Csrlyle's
MisCellanies, V6haire, Taine, Saint
Beuye, Janin, Renan, Angler, sardou,
Moliere.
In history-Gibbon, Hume, Macauley,
Carlyle, Lord Mahon, Froude and Grote
MiChelet; 6ismond, Lamartine, Voltair0.
In metaphyslcs-Proi. Jewetts Plate,
Victor Cousin. or Goethe's "Faust"
have been q devoted student, but could
not struggle through "Wilhelm Meister.'
Perhaps one quarter Of the time | have
been able, to give to reading in the course
Of a very busy life has been spent upon
the Quarterly and Edinbtuy RevieIcG am,
dear cir, faithfully yours,
N. E. DRADDoN
Our next guide IL Mr.. Il. NJ. Stanley, the
famous traveller, who Is we'll qualified, II
will be seen, to guide one through The
Jingle Of battling books as through q jungle
In the Dark Continent,
Mn. II. N. STANLEY.
DEAR stR:-Ii the list Of books which
YOU have sent me are really the iavorito
books OF Sir John Lubbock. l should be In.
Clined, without further knowledge Of him,
to set him down as being partial 10 classics
philosophy and theology. Out OF biz llBl
Of non.Ohristian moralists we might, fol
tho use Of busy men, altogether exclude
ConiuCius md Mohanmed. They
would DO necessary for the public
library, but l am now consider
Ing what the private library Of ever
the clerk and mechanic should contain
In bis list Of books treating Of theology
and devotion ! do not find the Bible Of
even the New Testament. The "Apostoli,
Fathers" 10 Of doubtful value. Spinosa
10 the ordinary man, isCaviare. The Bible
Matthew Hehfy's OF Barnes Commenta
ries on Il, aud the Limitation Of Christ,
by Thomas a kemplS, are all sufficient FOL
a healthy and simple theology. From Sl
Johns classics would expubge Aristotle
''Polltics' we have too many moderr
essays on The same subject more appro
PIRATE and far more applicable to the need
Of the present generation. .bsop and hi
childish fables, which veil his mlsanthro
ply, can serve no practical purpose. In
stead Of these | wonld recommend Epic
telus or seneCa'B "Moralsn aud Tullyl
"OflCti," which convey sound AdVlOO OF
moral upfightnesS and Just dealings suit
able for oil time.
Not tnany exceptions can he taken Il
Sit Johns choice Of epic poetry, nor yet Il
lls Eastern samples, though they nigh
well be supplemented with SatdIg. X
bic ancient historians ] would by al
means add Cpsar, Livy, and Josephps
His inodefhs are Incomplete without thu
names Of Hallatn, MACaulay, Robertson
buckle, Milman, Motley, and Prescott
Ills philosophical authors, most people
viii admit Gte sufficient lot limited lrl
yaIe library His works Of travel are eE
| tso,,,atv t,nnT and snafit. ONLY Cook AMI