The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-14
BIBLE Is PUT FIRST
BY ANDREW D. WHITE
Ex-Ambassador Gives List of
Best Literature for Cornell
Students.
PICKS TWAIN AND HARTE

1AChS lNaIN ND ia II
ITHACA. March 13.-Dr. Andrew u.
White. the noted diplomat and states
man, and the first president of Cornell
University. has compiled a list of the
books which have given him the most
profit and abiding pleasure. Tho list
was made at the request of the Cornell
Era for the purpose of stimulating the
interest Of students at Cornell Uni
versity in good reading.
Among the books which have infu-
enced his life he places nrst the Bible.
Among the passages of the Bible which
he especially recommends are the
erander Psalms. the nobler portions of
Isaiah. and above all, the sixth chapter
OF Micah and in the New Testament,
the utterances sscribed to Jesus himself.
Of which the Sermon on the Mount Is
supreme. with st. James's definition of
pure religion and undefled." and ST.
Paul's description of charity" lie
says that In perfection OF English de
,ion there Is in the whole range OF lit
srature nothing to surpass the story or
Joseph and his brethren.
As TO classic writer's Dr. White names
in Greek the more striking parts OF the
Had and OF Thucydldes. and In Latin
Caesar. Virgil. and above all. the Odes
Of Horace, the Agricola and Germanis
Of Tacitus and the letters OF Cicero.
In English he names. from shake
speare's writings. Hamlet" Julius
Cesar" Macbeth" Henry ""
Henry w., "A Midsummer Nights
Dream" and. on a lower plane. AS
You Like It," Much Ado About,
Nothing Twelfth Night" and THE
Merry Wive of Windsor"
Millions works Recommended.
From Milton he names "Comus,"
"Allegro." "Penseroso.' christmas
Hymn and above all the "Sonnets.'
He also recommends certain passages
from Paradise Lost" and from SAM
son Agonistes.' From Millions prose
he recommends Speech for the Liberty
Of Unlicensed Printing
After Milton he suggests Words
worth's ordinations OF Immortality
and especially his "Scnnets." Next he
names T~ennyson's "Memoriam." Among
other English writings he suggests Sir
Henry wotton's Happy Life Grey's
''Elegy." t;oldsnith's Deserted VII
lage,' Burns's "Cottar's Saturday Night
and Tam o. Shanter." Keats's ode TO a
Grecian Urn" Bryant's "~Thanatopsi>,"
LowelI's "Massaccio" and his "Biglow
Papers
As TO oratorical writings, Dr. White
says that the three greatest speeches In
the English language are: Daniel Web
ster's Reply to Hayne." Burke's plea
for THE Cancellation OF America" and
Abraham Lincoln's Address az Gettys-
burg
In fiction he gives the foremost place
10 Walter Scottis Quentin Outward"
"~Ivanhoe." Guy Mannering." "Peveril
OF the Peak" Rob Roy" "kenilworth,"
The MONASTERY" TIVE Abbot" "Count
Robert Of Paris" and "The Talisman."
In the list of modern English fiction
h 2 selects Thackeray's Vanity Far"
'ThAcacames.and Henry t.smond"
Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter" Charles
Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth"
Explosions "Hoosier Schoolmaster.'
Kingsley's Westward Ho" and In pres
ent fiction. Kipling's books. Iangwirs
Jewish novels. Countess Arniin's ELIZA
beth IN Her German Garden and
her other stories. and two or three re-
cent publications of w. d Howells ana
Winston Churchill.
The best short stories in English DR.
White says are Mark Twain's Jump
ing Frog and Bret Harte's Luck of
Roaring Camp and "Outcasts OF Poker
Fiat"
Picks ~"Hunchback of Notr~
In French fiction lie picks Victor
Hugo's "Hunchback OF Sotre Dame
and as the best short story, Anatole
Frances Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard.'
The most profound and penetrating
historical novel In any Language he con-
sfders .Anatole Frances Les DleuN ont
Soft"
In German he picks Lessing's Ma
thar the Wise Goethe's Faust and
Schiller's great plays.
In the whole realm OF historical hc-
ton. he says II would name one
romance which has seemed 20 me the
creates, ever written in any %language,
Manzoni's 'Promessi Sposi.'"
Or. White also recommends Macau-
lays Essays Carlyle's writings and
sydney smiths ESSAYS" In the field
o. biographies he favors Starley's Life
OF Thomas Arnold and the writings OF
Goodwin Smith. and also suggests as
essay writer's James Anthony Froude
and Matthew Arnold.
In the field OF history and biography
Or. White suggests Lecky's History or
R~atlonalism in Europe and Guizot's
History OF Civilization in France He
says the most practical and attractive
History of the United states Is thht
by Schulcr. and also recommends THE
Life of Washington" by Lodge and
Lincoln by Hay and Nicolay.
The best short book OF American his
tory recently published he says Is
.'Tl,e Hundred Years OF Peace by
Senator Henry cabot Lodge.
In conclusion Dr. White suggests Dd-
vid starr Jordan's book on the war en-
titled "The Human Harvest" the Rev.
Harry Fosdick's The Assurance OF lm-
mortality" and Mooriield Siorey's The
Reform Of Legal Procedure
THE MONTROSE ASHORE AGAIN.