Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-31
The FdUOrite Books of Noted
Diplomat and Great Educator
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Ter Keats 'Odc 10 a tifeCian Urn
various passages ia Byrons "Childo
Harold especially the apostrophc &c
The ocean and the Night and
Tempest Bryants "Thanatopsis
Lowclls "Maa-acrio,' which ! think
Is the most profound of his short pc.
ems, ana his "Bigelow Papers" alsC
love and admire Whittier's THE Eter-
nal Goodness from which various Sc
lections have been made in the col
lection of hymns used in our univer-
sity chapel
The Three Greatest Speeches.
As to oratorioal writings, the three
greatest 81 eeches, to my mind, in the
English language, and perhaps in any
language are panie Webster's Reply
10 Hayne' Burke's plea for The
Cancellation of America and Abra-
ham Lincons Address at Gettys-
burg Those should all be read
.again AMI again
In fiction I have read much, but
would give Che foremost place in Eng
lsh to Walter SCOTS quentin Dur
ward. "Iyanhoe." "Kenilworth, =
'r1eart Of Midlothian Guy Manner
ing" "Pevcril Of the Peak, Rob
Roy. The Monastery THE Abbot,
Count Robert Of Paris" and THE
Talismau. ] give these not as in all
cases the best, for | am aware that
the four last named are considered by
inany ass inferior 10 some others, but
/ simply name those which have most
impressed me. probably on account of
their historical connections. Scott is
somewhat out Of fashion today but
the fascination which he may still cX-
ercise was shown few years since by
James Russell Lowell upon his death
bed oliver Wendell Holmes came in
to see him and said: We'll James,
how do YOU feel this morning ?' to
which Lowell answered, "Oliver,
don't know and don't care am
reading Rob Roy,
Modern English Fiction.
In the lost list of modern English
fiction would select Thackerays
Vanity Fair" THE Newcomes. and
Henry Esmond;' Hawthorne's Scar
let Letter. Charles Reade's The
Cloister and the Hearth" Edward Fig
glestons NHoosier Sohoolmaster, -
IKingsey's Westward Ho,' and in
contemporary fiction Kipling's stories,
IZangwilIs Jewish novels, Countess Ar
MINIS Elizabeth in Her German Gar
dem and her other stories and two
or three recent publications of w. D.
Howels and Winston Churchill
The best short stories in English
have ever read are Mark Twain's
jumping Frog and Bret Hartes
Luck of Roaring Camp and out
casts of Poker Flat"
Sidney smiths Essays" for Ium0r.
OF writings in which wit and hui
NOR do wonderful service for right
reason ! would name Sidney Smiths
Essays
Of works showing marvellous in
sight into the aims of various great
men Of modern times I would place
first H. u Trails New Lucian,' and
as mastery short biographies of re-
cent English statesmen those given by
James Bryce in his single volume up-
on that subject
In journalism | would name, as the
best letters by newspaper correspon-
dent known to me- those OF George
Washburn Smallcy from America to
the London Times and from England
to the New York Tribune They have
been gathered into several volumes
under various titles, and are still go
ing ON in the sunday edition of the
latter newspaper | would also cou-
pie with these letters those of Frank
r.. Sanborn to the Springfield Re
publican
OF the very great number Of
biographies read by me | was per-
haps most happily influenced by
Stanleys Life of Thomas Arnold, 80
and, in general by Goodwin smiths
various writings, as for example those
i'm which he defended the United
states during the civil war, his short
History of the United States and
his book on Canada senator Charles
Sumner. though at the time a bitter
opponent of Goodwin smith in various
respects, said TO me, just after the lat
ter arrived at Cornell You have
brought over the foremost writer in
the English language at the present
time. as regards style
| would also n4ae as essay writer's
James Anthony Eoad'. whose a'-