The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-01

secure his and ether standard authors
works in exquisite bindings, at the
marked-dAWn sales of the large book
shops.
However, in forming a home library,
It is not worth while to attach too
much Importance to fine bindings. The
book itself is the thing to seek for
and good cloth binding satisfies most
people. Rich and ornate bindings are
for those who can pay for them with
cut missing the money.
A full set of Dickens AMI &c Thack-
cray a set of Balzac and of Robert
Louis Stevenson, should be added TO
the library which is TO be an integral
part Of the household life. If one can
| not purchase set all at once, buy
single book at a time, setting aside
part of the weekly or monthly income
for the purpose. Very tempting o.
ferS are mace by publish ers in the lire
of subscription books and it is difficult
to resist the sueve urbanity of the
agent who sets forth the reasons why
one should avail himself of these in
ducements. But be warned in time.
Unless one is very certain of the flu
ture, anything bought on the INSTALL
ment plan will probably hang like a
milestone around the neck in the DAYS
to come
BoswelPs life of Johnson is never
failing source of pleasure to the read
er who enjoys biography at its best.
shelf should be set aside for the
lives and letters of men ard women
who have done good service to their
periods. Here we would find. were we
setting out to form library, wide
room for wise selection. AS a rule.
choose the lives Of these who have
done something for their time, and
around whom great movements have
focused. The life of William e. Glad
stone S IN its way a political history
of Mr.. Gladstone's England the life
of George Washington is the story of
the American revolution. The lives
of Ulysses s. Grant and of Robert E.
Lee arc the histories of the civil war
in the United States, in some of its
issues the most trem endous and far
reaching conflict of the nineteenth
century. The life of Herbert Spencer
is contribution to the story of mod
ern education and contrasts with an
tfque ideas. The life of Sir Edward
Burne-JO les is the story of wonder
full movement in modern art So we
might proceed indefinitely, since biog-
raphy is the story of the human race
represented by its foremost men.
A home library will be incomplete
without poetry. Do not consider po-
etry as merely decorative; it is the fit
food for the cultured mind If one does
not care for it, ne is to be pitied. Among
the poets whose works SHOULD be added
to the shelves are Homer Dante, Mil
ton, Wordsworth, Shelley. Keats, Ten
nyson. Browning. Lolgfellow. Whittier,
Lowell Kipling and Stephen Phillips
This is very short list for the poets
are many. but these would make an ex-
cellent beginning.
Every home library should be fur
nished with some sacred literature.
The Modern Readers Bible. in little
volumes, arranged not i'm chapters and
verses. but by subjects and paragraphs,
should belong to the store of books in
every household. An alarming is
norance of the Bible is "a characters 1
tic of our day. To this cause, more
than to any other. may be attributed
the prevalence of graft, the Increase OF !
corruption in politics and the general
lowering of old-fashioned ideas of hon |
or. We shall never be independent of |
the Ten Commandments. The founda- |
ton stone of a good home library |
should be the Modern Readers Bible. |
1t costs little in money, but it will pay
well in the long run.