The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-01-24
BOOKS PERSONS
|nDl LIKE.
BIBLE, PLUTiIsGH AND PHI
GRIsisS PRO GREsss HEAD @
4s THE LIST.
ESSAY AN 8 POETRY
Shakespeare Comes In for Share
I Ut Honors Among the

Boston, Mass, The current
I;ChEistmas Endeayor, World presents
ta symposium i'm which ~ set forth
.he cooks which noted persons say
have been those most helpful to them
during life. Z.
The late. Julia Ward Howe wrote
isix days before her death:
y am so deeply Indebted to books
that 1t Is difficult for me, SO late In
Size, 80 discriminate among them In
the way You would wish. 4 do re-
member reading Bunyon's 'Pii-
grfm's Progress when between Is and
~ years DID. II made ayivid In.
preston Oh my mind ana Id the IRA
parties which I attended in early So
cial life j seemed to find ALI Of
Bunyap's sinners, and but few ot TIE
saints. Leaving school I Y read Glib
sons decline and Fail OF the Roman
Empire N latter studies OF sphilo-
sophy I was much impressed /. BY.
Spinoza. Theodore Parker's 4 preach.
Ing was iFery helpful 70 me-, 4.
IoRailinsstiller the poet d. the;
Sterras, declares: Il !
Il am frank to say that pintarchsi
Lives and This comparable comhaft
cons is the one book, save the Bible.
In which 1'have found; the mort pleas
rrc and profit e
lol:n Burroughs, the emlnein |, ma
taral!ss, gives his choice to Emersonf
essays and to poems Of Wadsworti
and Walt Whitman,
SM view of his Five Foot Shelf 8,
Books, ex-Presldent Eliot Of Har
yard Z. presents most Interesting
reply. a Z i s.9ss y ~
In reply to the lettet asking mt
to name. books outside the Bible. / cal
only say. that, the books that have.
telped mo are. very numerous. anc
secondly. that ] Cannot name. any
tample number Of books which thlnb
have helped me most, becauM Ut IL
passages III books rather than whole
books which 4 have most frequentl,
found Helpful. + Nevertheless, I sper.
ceive on reflection that the books
70 which SST. have most frequentl,
gone for counsel or wisdom are
iBacon.s Essays and .Enerson's Es.
says. 4 s,s-{ Ssil a59' u
Henry Cabot Lodge says y;
There are many hooks in whIcf5
i have found much that Il cared for,
and II fear = cannot pick out ont
from the list with any sense Of salts.
faction e: d V, 4
Speaker Cannon wrote: -. l u,
"On the Wabasl sixty Or seyent,
years ago books We're not plentiful /
and ! had access to but few. Anon,
them were "Plltarch's Lives. ani
Rollins Ancient, History, both q
which I found very useful: In POET.
ry, after Shakespeare, Tread ant
treread Burns with great profit. Scot
! and Dickens were my favorlte nj
thors Of fiction; and In later yearsi
learned much from McMaster's His.
tory of the People OF the United
States, and Motley's Rise q III,
Dutch Republic" III, - IS
4 win Carleton; poet, editor and lee ecs!
turer. says That In his Youthful day.
ne received the most ssbeneHt fror
The Philosophy ofHeaith,,s b. L: b
Coles, Al. D.. but he placed as a clos,
second sthe plays OF Shakespeare. n,
Songressman-elect Henry George
il. gives credit to hisafather's 'worl
when he says: $50 St.Ii'' = '5t&
The book which has helped nj
most after The Bible, is Progress and
Poverty, by Henry George Y
Erward w. Box, magazine editor
says he has been helped greatly b;
"Emerson's Essays 80 NJ e