The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
FIFTY BOOKS FOR GIRLS.
Good Standard Works That May Be
Probably Read.

FIFTY BOOKS FOR GIRLS.
Good Standard Works That May Be
Probably Read.
Philadelphia Record.
What shall my daughter read? is a ques-
ton often asked by busy mothers And a
perplexing one, truly, 1T is to the average
woman whose domestic duties and family
cares feave but little time for even light
reading. and to whom the great world of
literature is an unknown and unexpected
region.
Well, indeed, would it be for the daugh-
terS If the mother exercised greater care
in the choice of their reading matter; but
as rule the growing girl is allowed to
borrow she will either in the home book
cases or the public libraries, and there is
absolutely no restriction placed upon her
In the mind of the average woman there
fingers a pleasant recollection of her girl
hood days when Louisa NJ. Alcott and Jane
Austen We're to her the sumum bonum Of all
that was delightful; when the joys and Sor-
rows of the Little Woman" and the every
day doings of Emma filled very impor-
tant part in her life, and were real as her
own WOrk-a-day experiences. But when
she recommends the perusal of those
daughter she is given an fndulgent smile,
and she realizes IN her own mind the I'M
spoken thought that mother doesn't
know.
Here then is a list of books-fction biog-
raphy Chat most valuable or all literature),
history and travels, which may assist the
perpleXed ones who would fain exercise a
wholesome supervision over her daughters
reading as she does over her diet or her
wardrobe; one, too, which may be safely
put in the hands OF girls from the ages of
ten to sixteen.
Tstsr Ba6es Sharl MaT Kngse{B
"A Flock of Girls" Nora Perry.
"Old-Fashoned Girl" l.. M Alcott.
Mansfield Park Jane Austen.
Castle Rackrent," Maria Edgeworth.
THE First Violin" Jesse Fothergill.
"A Bow of Orange Ribbon" Amelia w.
AN American Girl in London" s. j..
"A Cathedral Courtship," Kate Douglas
The Story of Avis" Elizabeth Stuart
Boots and Saddles" Mrs. Custer.
STRAY Pearls" Charlotte Yonge.
unknown in History. Charlotte Yonge
"Undine and Sintram," De la Motto
"A Stormy Life" Lady Georgiana Fuller
ton.
Last Days of Pompei,' Bulwer Lytton.
Last of the Barons," Bulwer Lytton.
"Kenilworth," Scott.
Scottish Chiefs" Jane Porter
"Corinne," Nine. De Stael:
Prince and Pauper," Mark Twain.
Henry Esmond,,", Thackeray.
The Virg;i,4qianis5' NJ, Tha GEai,s
The Marble Faun;," lHawth4Hrinie et
"Rom9las" George Eliot. n,,o
Ramona, Helen Hunt Jackson.
Lily of the Valley" Honore de Balzac.
John IngIesant," j. H. Shorthouse.
"Memoirs of the Pretenders," Jesse.
Queens of England of the House of Han
over" DIR. Doran.
"The Four Georges" Thackeray.
"Ivanhoe" Scott
. Lii" L cot Of L. M. Alcott," E. D. Cheney.
Life Of Phoebe and Alice Cary Mary
Oi LIE of Margaret Fuller" Julia Ward
life of Emily Bronte."
Life of Mary Lamb.
Makers of Florence" Mrs Oliphant
Makers of Rome" Mrs. Oliphant.
eTangIewood Tales" Hawthorne.
Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
Tales from Shakespeare" Charles and
a wide range. it will be seen, is covered
by the above list, ranging from grave 10
gay, embracing, as it does hctlon' history
The novels given are in almost every case
suggested with a special object Those nav
ing for their basis an Tori 3o desre
to know more of that special perloo or per-
sonage and so unconsclously she Is leo 10
charming little story. Unknown to His
torv. leads to the perusal of a life of Mary
Stuart KenwoFnt d Tes 'Ag and hoW little
Of that absorbing tale is founded on fact;
"A Stormy Life the history OF MAJ Margaret RET
of Anjou, will insensibly direct the
does also Lyttons splendid historical novel,
1.-THE Last of the Barons.
What bow or girl ever read Conan Doyle S
"Refugees" and was content to know no
more of the Grand Monarque or france !
And dull indeed, is the reader VINO VINO a t,r
with eagerness to the records of the reign
of Good Queen Anne and the adventures OF
"The Virginians" in America.
t. he fauy bOpra miles selected the lives
of some of the nohleSt of American women
are depicted in so easy and charming a
stvIe that even the most captious reader
cannot fail to find them interesting, While
the few historical works selected are OF so
interesting character that h Ihey nold tne
ing romances of Scott or Weyman or
Doyle. -
MAKERS of Florence" and Makers of
Rome" are not selected at random. the
former embracing. as 1t does. spirited ac-
sance: a charming sketch of Dante, Michael
Angelo and Savonarola in the same works
leads to a wide and varied field OF reading.
while no schoolgirl will be content TO lay
down 1.-The Makers of Rome" without
knowing something further of the former
mistress of the world. T..
does with the times of Savonarola; admira-
bly, supplements tho Makers of FLORENCE
delightfully."- that the charming story itself
is almost lost sight of in the glowing de-
scrptions of the Eternal City Thus fic-
ton. history and biography are so inter-
woven in the above list of fifty books that
her daughter NAV safely feel that it will
Iead 70 p, wider field than that of fiction
and if she be a wise woman as well she Will
encourage the love of good novels. which Is
literature. the cultivation of which in time
makes that most charming and delightful
of companions-a well-read woman.
Chi OHtaQrs