Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-31

NcltffinE 10 your request ihai
prepare a. list Of the books which have
given me most real profit and abiding
pleasure. allow me to say that the
task you suggest Is not an easy one,
indeed, am not sure that it is posi-
bic
Throughout my whole life ! have
been fond of books, and, while my
reading has taken various directions
Il has been mainly in history and BIZ
ography, but 1t would be impossible to
recommend any single list of books on
these subjects, for the reason that so
much depends on the aims and tastes
of the person advised, and 1 will
therefore. simply give list of those
works which, in a general way have
had most influence upon me
bible Came FIRST of All.
First of all, like most American
boys and girls Of my time, ] was
brought mp to read the Bible, and
was nurlured In one Of the religious
bodies which Incorporates into It's
worship very many of the noblest
parts Of our sacred books OF these
the portions which have always seem
ed to me to give the keynote to the
whole have been, for the Old Tesla
mont. the grander Psalms, the noblor
portions OF Isaiah, and above all the
| sixth chapter of Micah; and in the
New Testament, the utterances ass
cfibcd TO Jesus himself, of which the
sermon ON the Mount is supreme, with
50. James definition of pure religion
and undefled," and st. PaW's descrlp-
ton of charity In perfection of
English diction. there is, in the whole
range Of literature, nothing to surpass
the story of Joseph and his Broth
lren"
Next. as to classic writer's, | should
name. in Greek, the more striking
parts of "The Had" and Of Thucydi-
DIES, and IN latin, Caesar, Virgil and
above all, the Odes of Horace, the
l"Agricoa" and "Germania" Of Tacl-
/ tus and the letters of Cicero. The lat
ter work exhibits the Roman repub-
! lie and causes OF Gaesarism more real
/ IN than any other books ever written
and il can best be read in the new
translation, which is just now appear
ling IN the Loeb series.
IN English, would name
of Shakcspeares writing, especially
I"Hamlot," Julius Caesar Macbeth,
Henry w. Henry W. The Merch'
liant of Venice Midsummer Nights
dream. and, on lower plane, 'As
You Like 1t, Much Ado About Moth
ling" Twelfth Night" and "The Mer-
Try wives Of Windsor
Names Milton Next to Shakespeare
As To the great poet in our language
| who, by common consent, stands neXi
to shakespeare and, in my opinion, IN
some respects before him, would
name Milton, especially his "Comus,
ALLEGRO. "penscroso, Christmas
Hymn" and above all the "Sonnets
| OF these latter, that upon THE Per
Isecutions In Piedmont has wrought
IA hatred for religious intolerance in
To my whole being As TO the Para
disc Lost, certain passages in 1t have
strongly impressed me. but have
never read it as whole, and ! doubt
whether | know any other person who
has ever done SO. The passage ~
samson Agonistes" beginning 20!
how comely ii is and how reviving to
the spirits OF just men long Cypress
ed. etc, sank deeply into my mind
when / first read it, and when
quoted il in a speech above the body
.uf Abraham Lincoln rs he lay dead
ia the capitol at Albany il seemed to
enter the hearts and minds of my
hearers better by far than any other
words could have done.
As to Mtons prose the supreme
thing IS his Speech for the Liberty of
Unlicensed PRINTING
Then Wordsworth, Tcnnyson and
NOtton.
Closely after these writings of Mil
ton. should mention Wordsworth $
"mtmations OF Immortality ode TO
Duty" and above all, his Sounets
As 10 longer writings, THE ENcur-
sion and the like, ! have never read
them Next i should name Tenny-
sons In Memoriam.
TO these l should add sundry short
pieces as typical Of those which have
had deep influence upon me, as fol-
fows sir Henry Wotton's Happy
Life" Grcys "Elcgy" Goldsmith's
Deserted Village" Burns "Cotter's
saturday Night" and Tam o shan