The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-01-25
OAKLEY, CAssIA COUNTY, IDAHO
Cut Our This List Of Books asgd
Keep II For Reference

Requests have come in that this
list of inexpensive paper-bount
books be reprinted, together with thu
suggestion that readers cut it GU
ready reference. So we are printins
. more complete list this week Any
one of the volumes may be purchas
ed at Quillian's Pharmacy, Oakley
at the rate of two for 15c.
The little blue books series opens
literary treasures to everybody thai
once were available only to million'
aires. While tastes vary, anybody
will be able to find many titles in
the list from which he will be able
to get a kick.
Contrary to a common opinion
the classics are not dry or uninter-
esting when you make selection
that is suited to your temperament,
Literature is the work of largs q
number of really live fellows who
represent almost every type OF hui
man nature. The great books were
not written to be studied as required
ic-.ding9 in school. They were writ
ten to produce thrills. Whenever a.
reader fails to get the thrills FROM d
great book, it sign there's some
thing wrong somewhere; either the
wrong fellow has the right book, or
ese his approach to it has been set
"A d fa.se light by the tradition of
.c.uued" readings.
! Re1ding- can't take the place of
actual contact with life. Perhaps
no one in this age would relish the
idea of becoming a "book-worm. Z"
Someone has said that moment
of passion may teach us more than
years of meditation and reading,
No doubt he was right. And yet we
will be able to get a greater kick
out of the experiences of real life
on account of reading
Literature
The Strange .le;e.' of Samuel 6et-
l.. Gum.
egends of GfecL and Roman IL
~os Smith.
Essays on Euripides Alexander
Harvey.
Dsnte: An Aesthetic View Isaac
Goldberg.
Art of Reading. E. Haldemar-
Juiius.
Guide to Cervantes. Isaac Cold
berg.
Essay On Conversation De Quln-
cy.
Truth of Masks Wilde.
Critic as Artist Parts 1 and 2.
Wilde.
Need of Art in Life. Holborn.
Essays on Montaigne, Pascal and
Voltaire. Powys.
Essays on Rousseau, Balzac and
Fugo. Powys.
Essays on De Maupassant, Anatole
France and William Blake. Powys. |
Essays on Remy De Gourmont |
and Byron. Powys.
Essays OH DiOntc anu ilcii-
~ James. Powys.
Essays on Joseph Conrad and Os-
car Wilde. Powys.
Literary Essays. Haldeman-Jul-
Ius
Is Progress an Illusion? Halde- /
Essays on Aeschylus. Harvey.
Essays on Sophocles. Harvey.
Representative Men. Vols. l to
T. Emerson.
Significance of Georg Bpandes.
Noritzen.
Oscar Wilde in Outline. Finger.
Machiavelli. Macaulay.
virginibus Puerisqque. Steven.
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Literary Stars on the Scandinavia
IN Firmament. Moritzen.
Hundred Best Books. Powys.
Dante and other Waning Classics
yol. l and 2. Mordell.
An Apology for Idlers. Steven son.
Aucassin and Nicolete. Lang
Friendship and other Essays.
'holeau.
Thoughts on Nature. Thoreal
England in Shakespeare's ri'.:e.
'jnger.
Lod Chesterfield's Letters.
y Defenseof Poetry. Shelley.
Love Letters of King Heniy VIII
Eighteen Essays. Voltaire.
Toleration. Voltaire.
Love eLtters of Men and Women
Genius.
Love, an Essay. Montaigne.
Emerson's Essays.
Tolstoi's Essays.
Essays on Chesterfield and Rabe-
lis. Sainte-Beuve.
he Prince of ePace. Bryan.
On Reading. Brandes.
Confessions of an Opium Eater.