Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-17

i Tragedy" John Nebster's Duchess OF
Mail Il Drydei,,s All for Love. ~ Shell
leS's "Cenci, Browningis Blot on the
I scutcheon.' Tennyson's Beckett"
Goethe,s @Faust,r Marlows Pr.
Faustus::,, Adam Smiths Wealth OF
Nations; y Letters Of Cicero and Pliny;
Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress" Burns
Tam o'shanter.1 Walton's Complete
Angler, and Lives OF Dome and Her
bert Autobiography Of st. Angus
tine: Plutarch's Lives; Dryden's
.'Aeneid;'' Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales Limitations of Christ. by
Thomas II kempis; Dante's Divine
Comedy. Darwin's Origin OF spe-
cies.r and arabian Nights"
Some Harvard men, as Prof Eaton
OF the High school, decline to discuss
the matter, saying they do not care to
express an opinion. But graduates of,
other colleges are not so reticent. The
coneensus of opinion seems to be that
such a library4as this is Just q bit one
sided that it reaches out over the
heads of the average reader who must;
have a liberal education to begin with,
In order to understand works of so high.
an order. such library is too SCI.
Nerely classical. except for persons all
ready with trained minds. Then again
it runs mostly to poetry and the
drama; the absence of standard histor-
ical works is very noticeabie; and
wonder is expressed at leaving Spen
Ger out rs complement to Darwin.
The Bible is left o,lt---the Book of
Books. the basis of all literature that
can be called great and enduring.
Then where is Shakespeare, and
Homer,s Had? Where is Don Quix-
#ote, Irf.-"-----, Les Miserables. Popo's Es-
say on Man? Some scholars would In
cnde Richardson's What and How to
Read, GREEN'S History of the English
People, Prescott and Motley: also,
Hegel, Fichte, Kant. Hamilton. Por-
ter and other great modern philoso-#
phical writer's. IN fact the schools of
philosophy appear to be confined to an
Gent philosophers. There are no
works on modern science. or archeolog-
ical discoveries. many of which are of
the most startling character, corrobor-
alive of historical statement made
when the human race was young.
The idea seems to be that this library
OF President Eliot's is not a fairly rep
resentative one: and the pertinent sug-
'gestion is made from the salt Lake :.
City library that the most satisfactory
way to settle such II question would
be to have noted representing Diff
ferent fields OF thought and research, s
make out a list of what they consld 4
cred a representative library should be
composed of, and then select books
found in a majority of the lists sub
mitted. A News reporter in inquiring
about town has been unable to find
any one competent to judge Of such
things supporting President Ialiot's
y. A. Callahan. the we'll known
BiblioDhilist. who by the way is a
Yale man, has made out. this list of
books as an addendum to the list cited
as President Eliot's choice OF desira-
DtS lt'lha W iiiftNt IL iiittIl
wealthy and wise. and MAJ
tetially aiding IN providing all all
round mental equipment for the gen
efal sstudent reader. Victor Hugo's
Les tMiserables, Dickens Tale@of Two
Cities, Bulwer Lytton's Last of the
Barons. Zanonl by the same author
Ellot's Adam Bede, Johnson's Rasselas
Eugene Sues Mysteries OF Paris. Wan
dering jew by the same author, Tho
Koran Gin part), Josephus, The Bible.
Analects OF confucius, Hesiod, the
Medea Of Euripides, Horace, Herod
otus, Gibbons Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire, Grote's History Of
Greece, GREEN'S History Of England,
McAndrews' History Of the United
States, Bacon's Essays. Carlyle, Elmer
son, Hammerton's Intellectual Life,
Humbolt's Travels, Haeeters Evolu-.
ton of Man, History of the Creation
by the same author Risks cosnic
Philosophy.