Appendix
The following is the list of the best hundred books referred to in Chapter XIII. It is by Professor Blackie, Edinburgh, author of Self-Culture, and is given with his kind consent.
I
History and Biography
The Bible.
Homer.
Wilkinson’s Ancient Egyptians.
Max Von Dunche’s History of the Ancient World.
Plutarch’s Lives.
Herodotus.
History of Greece—Grote or Curtius.
History of Rome—Arnold or Mommsen.
Menzel’s History of the Germans.
Green’s History of the English People.
Life of Charlemagne.
Life of Pope Hildebrand.
The Crusades.
Sismondi’s History of the Italian Republics.
Prescott’s America.
Prescott’s Ferdinand and Isabella.
Italy, by Professor Spalding.
Chronicles, by Froissart.
The Normans—Freeman and Thierry.
Motley’s Dutch Republic.
Life of Gustavus Adolphus.
The French Revolution—Thiers, Carlyle, Alison.
Bourrienne’s Life of Napoleon.
Wellington’s Peninsular Campaign.
Southey’s Life of Nelson.
America—Bancroft.
The Stuart Rising of 1745, by Robert Chambers.
Carlyle’s Life of Cromwell.
Foster’s Statesmen of the Commonwealth.
Life of Arnold—Stanley.
Life of Dr. Norman Macleod.
Life of Baron Bunsen.
Neander’s Church History.
Life of Luther.
History of Scottish Covenanters—Dodds.
Dean Stanley’s Jewish Church.
Milman’s Latin Christianity.
II
Religion and Morals
The Bible.
Socrates or Plato and Xenophon.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus’ Meditations.
Epictetus Seneca.
The Hitopadion and Dialogues of Krishna.
St. Augustine’s Confessions.
Jeremy Taylor.
Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress.
Martineau.
Aesop’s Fables.
III
Poetry and Fiction
Homer.
Virgil.
Dante.
The Niebelungen Lay.
The Morte D’Arthur.
Chaucer.
Shakespeare.
Spenser.
Goethe—Faust, Meister, and Eckermann’s Conversations.
Milton.
Pope.
Cowper.
Campbell.
Wordsworth.
Walter Scott.
Burns.
Charles Lamb.
Dean Swift, “Tale of a Tub” and “Gulliver’s Travels.”
Tennyson.
Browning.
Don Quixote.
Goldsmith, “Vicar of Wakefield.”
George Eliot.
Dickens.
Robinson Crusoe.
Andersen’s Fairy Tales, “Mother Bunch.”
Grimm’s Popular Songs and Ballads, especially
Scotch, English, Irish and German.
IV
Fine Arts
Ferguson’s History of Architecture.
Ruskin.
Tyrwhitt.
V
Politics and Political Economy
De Tocqueville.
John Stuart Mill.
Fawcett.
Laveleye.
Adam Smith.
Cornewall Lewis.
Lord Brougham.
Sir J. Lubbock.
VI
Science and Philology
J. G. Wood’s Books on Natural History.
White’s Natural History of Selbourne.
Geology—Hugh Miller, Ramsey, Geikie, Ansted.
Botany—General Elements of British.
Science of Language—Trench and Farrar, Max Müller.
Taylor’s Words and Places.
VII
Voyages and Travel
In every variety; especially the old collections.