Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-04
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

! ney's 'Evelina': Carlyle's "sartor Re-
SartuS"; an anthology, "A Century of
Essays; Cervantes' Don Quixote";
Cooper's "Deerslayer" and Last of the
Mohicans"; Dana's 1.-TWO Years Before
| the Mast; Dickens Great Expecta-
osity Shop" "Pickwick Papers" Tale
OF Two Cities; Forster'S Life of
Charles Dickens; Dostoieffsky's Crime
anu Punishment" Alexandra Dumas
Count of Monte Cristo" and THE
| Three MusketeerS"; Eliot's "Romola"
and "SilaS Manner; Emerson's "Es-
says" 'Everyman"; Everyman's Eng
lish Dictionary Franklin'S "Autobiog-
raphy''; Goethe's Faust; Goldsmith's
Vicar of Wakefield; Hawthorne's
House of Seven Gables" and THE
Scarlet Letter.; Eomer's "Iliad" and
Odyssey; Hugo's LES Miserables";
Ibsen's Ghosts" ard peer Gynt"; Irv-
lng's Sketch Book; William James
selected Papers on Philosophy:
Keats Poems; Kingsleys Westward
Ho"; the Koran; Lambs ESSAYS of
Ella; Lytton's Last Days of Pompeii":
Machiavelli's "The Prince; Malory's
,Morte d'Arthur"; Marlowe's plays and
Poems; Melville's "Typee"; Palgrave's
Golden Treasure; Millions poems.
Pepys' Diary; Plato's Republic:
Plutarch's Lives; Poe's Poems; st.
Augustine'S Confessions: SCOTS
Heart of Midlothian" "Ivanhoe /" ''The
Talisman"; Sheridan's Plays: Smol-
let's "Roderick Random; Sophocles'
Dramas; Spinosa's Ethics; Sterne's
"Tristram Shandy,' Sentimental Jour-
ney'; Stevenson's Master of Ballan-
| trae"; Swift's "Gulliver's Travels; Toll
stoi's Anna Karenina"; Tomlinson's
The Sea and the Jungle; Trollope's
''Barchester Towers" Vasari's Lives of
the Painters, Sculptors and Architects;
Whitman'S Leaves of Grass"
X x X
Lewis CAROLS "Alice in Wonder
land" one of the worlds popular books,
both with adults and children, is not
included among the best sellers. Neither
is Caesars Commentaries"
So the reader may see that there is
nothing terribly definite about such
something or other, but it will not do
to push them too hard The reader
brought up on the tradition of the
American school system will see at a
glance the part the teachers have played
in the sale of such books. Yet he
would be a hardy man, indeed. who
would insist that such lists do not rep
resent the free choice Of the people.
the lover OF books will find much
amusement and some instruction in
matching his own knowledge of the
worlds literature against these 100 most
popular books" Surely a majority of
them ought to have been read by any
one interested in books. 1t is almost
impossible to see how one could have
escaped reading most of them.
Yet the happy thing about the Every
man is that it gives a reader a taste
OF a great many things, and whenever
ne nndS something peculiarly to his
liking he may leave the rest alone and
concentrate on his find.
This, after all, is the great happiness
OF reading. When a boy or girl, reading
| PlckWick Papers" because he has been
told to, discovers that Dickens tastes
good to him, he will go on reading
Dickens because he wants to-
or II, by chance, he reads THE Count
OF Monte Cristo" on a Young com
panion's suggestion, he may decide To
go on with lifelong love for the heroic
man OF French letters who so hanpilv
mas been called "A force of Nature I"
rather than a writer.
The only criticism which has ever been
made against the set of books under
consideration is that the type page is
rather crowded and the margins too
narrow. Yet it is perhaps true that the
young people who mostly buv these
books care little about such things And
When they grow Older and come TO real
lie the gain in fair, large page with
wide margins, they will continue to keen
their shelf of the Everyman in an hon
ored position in the home library he
cause IL deserves to be there.