A Guide to the Choice of Books 4CLJND CWW 96 /<* arW9619 Cornell University Library of books for sfucje The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924031423233 A GUIDE CHOICE OF BOOKS O for a Booke and a shadie nooke eyther in-a-doore or out ; With the grene leaves whisp'ring overhede, or the Streete cryes all about. Where I maie Reade all at my ease, both of the Newe and Olde ; For a jollie goode Booke wherein to looke is better to me than Golde. A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS FOR STUDENTS & GENERAL READERS EDITEb BY ARTHUR H" D:\ACLAND, M.P. HONORARY FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are ; . .1 know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous Dragons' teeth ; and being sown up and down may chance to spring up armed men. — Milton. The point is not that men should have a great many books, but that they should have the right ones, and that they should use those that they have.— John Morley. LONDON: EDWARD STANFORD 26 & 27 COCKSPUR STREET, CHARING CROSS, S.W. 1891 /f SSD3J Read not to contradict and confute ; nor to believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider. Bacon. Books are no more education than laws are virtue ; and, just as profligacy is easy within the strict limits of law, a boundless knowledge of books may be found with a narrow education. A man may be, as the poet saith, ' ' deep vers'd in books and shallow in himself. " F. Harrison. There are three classes of readers ; some enjoy without judgment, others judge without enjoyment, and some there are who judge while they enjoy and enjoy while they judge. Goethe. PREFACE For those who have competent advisers at hand who can tell them "What to read" this little book is not intended. They are fortunate persons in an enviable position, more fortunate and more envied than they often know. The making of these lists arose from the frequent demands made upon myself 'and some of my friends by two different classes of persons. There were those with no advisers, who asked for the names of some of the best books on the subjects in which they were interested ; and there were those who were responsible for pro- viding libraries of books for popular or general use. It has been impossible to discharge the task satisfactorily, and I am not sure whether the result in any way justifies the great amount of labour that has been given to the work, or whether those whose needs we have tried to meet will not be disappointed. Possibly only those who make the attempt know what the difficulties of the task really are. But whether the result is bad or good, I owe the best parts of the book to my Oxford and Cambridge friends and others who have so kindly helped me, and they are not to blame if its general arrangement is unsatisfactory, or if there are bad omissions and mistakes. I hope that the book will be useful to the Committees of the smaller Free Libraries, to the Educational Departments of Working Men's Co-operative and other Societies, to some of those who are attend- ing University Extension Lectures, to Home Reading Circles and Mutual Improvement Societies, and also to a good many isolated students engaged in efforts to educate themselves. Few people who have had a good education realise how great are the difficulties of many whose opportunities have been narrowly limited, who desire guidance, but vi PREFACE who are unable, in an age when books pour forth from the printing presses in an unceasing torrent, to discriminate between the good, the bad, and the indifferent. There are still in many provincial towns and many out of the way homes those who cannot get at any good advisers, who want to use libraries or buy books intelligently, but know not how. Except in London and a very few large towns, readers cannot get sufficient help from booksellers, and too many circulating or public libraries are inadequately furnished with the books which are best adapted to the needs of students who desire to inform themselves upon literary, scientific, historical, and economical subjects. The experience of University Extension Lecturers and others has shown again and again that time is disastrously wasted by those who read antiquated and second-rate books because they know no better. Some read antiquated books on scientific and similar subjects, when the newer books would be far more useful. Others who read general literature jump at " the latest book out," and know little of the stores of interest and wisdom to be found in the masterpieces of older writers. I have some hope too that the book will be of special service in Public Libraries to those many librarians who so industriously try to lift by degrees the taste of their readers from the indifferent and second-rate books to the good. The grants for Free Library salaries given by many of the municipal bodies are often so small, and the amount of mechanical duty therefore so great, that there is little opportunity for librarians to help their readers in the choice of books as much as they would wish to do. But as a truer conception of municipal life and duty grows among us, the better recognition of such work may be confidently expected. The number of subjects on which lists have been given is, when compared with the ordinary library catalogue, very limited, and the principle on which the selection has been made is arbitrary. This was inevitable if the book was to be moderate in size and cheap. The case of the ordinary reader or student of certain subjects of litera- ture, history, art, science, economics, philosophy, has been kept in view, with some consideration for children and "the home." Large classes of books have inevitably been ruled out altogether. There are practically no technical books on trades, professions, amusements, sport. There are no theological books. The list of works of fiction is limited, and a great deal of what is called light literature of all sorts is omitted, because it is just on this point that information is very easy to obtain. There are no foreign books unless translated (except in the books for beginners in languages), and hardly any books which are out of print, this last being a rule which keeps out a grievously large number of important works. The question of advice as to the merit of different books is a PREFACE vii difficult matter, and it may be said that there is very little guidance in a book of this sort after all. I can only say that I have studied many lists which profess to describe books or to classify them according to their merits, which exhaust and repeat all the epithets of praise, faint or unmeasured, and those which mark with asterisks certain selected books. I believe little that is of practical value can be gained by such means, unless comments are given at far greater length than would be possible here. A few words of suggestion or advice have been given here and there where it seemed advisable at the beginning of the lists. In certain cases the books are classified into Elementary, Advanced, and Reference books. The price of a book frequently gives some guidance as to its character. Beyond this it is difficult to go with any satisfactory results. , It is no doubt the case that, notwithstanding all efforts to keep out bad or indifferent books, in some of the lists — such, for instance, as Biography — it is not easy to exclude books of very moderate value. But, on the whole, a biography of even moderate merit is better than none. Ladders must be built for miscellaneous readers to lead them on to the higher and better books. Mr. Frederic Harrison, in his wise essay on the Choice of Books, has uttered many wholesome warnings against the "cataract of printed stuff which honest compositors set up." But he could not withstand the temptation in his younger days, as he tells us himself. And however true and sane his advice may be, the lesser books must continue for many to be the starting-points from which a desire for the greater books will arise. Thus children's books, domestic economy books, popular biography and history, elementary science books, popular or indifferent books on social economy, even blue books, may become stepping-stones to something better. I fear that it is a very humble measure of assistance which this book will give to those who need advice and guidance. But I hope that those who may use it will remember that whatever devotion they may give to science, political economy, philosophy, or history, they will always need the help which comes from a study of the great books which will be found mainly under the head of Literature, with a few additions from the other lists. Unless they would be one-sided men and women, let them not fail to turn again and again to the great masterpieces of all time, to the books which are strong, dignified, inspiring, in which the wisdom and experience of many generations is enshrined. It should be added that none of those who have kindly given their advice in the selection of books are to be regarded as solely responsible for the lists as finally printed. Several friends of acknowledged authority have helped me, whose names I do not feel at liberty to give, as for want of space and other reasons the lists have had to be viii PREFACE modified since passing out of their hands. I have to thank various friends at Oxford and Cambridge, and at the University College, Ban- gor, and the Yorkshire College, Leeds, for invaluable help. To the following, among others, I desire to make special acknowledgments : — Mr. G. N. Richardson, Mr. Charles W. Sutton, Mr. D. S. Maccoll, Mr. H. J. Mackinder, Mr. S. Alexander, Mr. D. G. Ritchie, Mr. F. York Powell, Mr. O. Elton, Mr. M. E. Sadler, Mr. G. R. Benson, Mr. H. Llewellyn Smith, Miss Sharp. To my wife and Miss M. Roberts I owe a great deal of assistance, without which the book would never have been brought to completion. The grouping of the books under large headings, which is a more educational method than a mere alphabetical list of each minor subject apart from its proper surroundings, may lead to a little difficulty in finding a subject or a book. This can only be remedied by a constant use of the Index (which is, I hope, pretty complete) or the Table of Contents, till those who use the book are familiar with its arrangement. There is room for criticism in every page of the book by those who miss in each of the lists some of the books which they know and which they like. But, in a small and handy work of this sort, if only the books that are in the lists are in the main fairly good, this is the best that can be hoped for. For after all, to read all the books even in two or three only of the larger subjects would be quite out of the reach of those for whom these lists are intended. To be on friendly terms with one-tenth part of them would be an achievement difficult enough. I shall be much indebted to those who will suggest improvements or correct mistakes in case a new edition of the book should be required. Clynnog, Carnarvon, January 1891. Mark there. We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits, — so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth — 'Tis then we get the right good from a book. Mrs. Browning. NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS The Index must be habitually used by those who have any difficulty in finding a book or a subject. The Index contains the names of all the subjects dealt with in the book, and of all the authors (with a few exceptions in the case of Biography) whose books are in the lists. The Table of Contents gives an outline (with sub-headings) of the main subjects on which lists are given. These are arranged in alphabetical order in the body of the book, and the name of the subject is given on the top of each page. Those who are familiar with the Table of Contents will find little necessity for using the Index as far as subjects are concerned. In the choice of Editions of the cheaper books, especially under the heading Literature, the object has been to choose those which were both cheap and fairly good, not necessarily the cheapest in every case. Some excellent cheap series of books which contain short single works or small selections have been hardly noticed in these lists for want of space, as, for instance, Cassett's National Library (each volume 3d. in paper, 6d. in cloth), which, in a form really available for the pocket, contains much excellent matter from great authors, both English and foreign. The Standard Library Editions of the works of the great authors are not always mentioned in these lists, as the object of the book is to draw the reader to study the masterpieces in the handiest available form. Many of the standard editions of collected works are out of print. But in a large number of cases they can be obtained second-hand at very moderate prices. It is outside the scope of this book to give the prices of second-hand books, but the information can easily be obtained from any of the larger booksellers. In the choice of Manuals on various subjects it should be clearly understood that the best, on the whole, within the knowledge of the person making the selection has been chosen, and that sometimes the advantage in favour of one manual which is chosen over one which is left out may be but slight. Abbreviations. ed. = edited by. O. P. = out of print, but probably to be procured second-hand. sep. = separately. trans. = translation, or translated by. NOTICE All the books in this list remaining in print and published in Great Britain (with a few exceptions in the case of those not published on the usual terms) can be supplied at a discount of 25 per cent for cash by Edward Stanford, 26 and 27 Cockspur Street, London, S.W. Adjust your proposed amount of reading to your time and inclination — this is per- fectly true to every man ; but whether that amount be large or small, let it be varied in its kind, and widely varied. If I have a confident opinion on any one point connected with the improvement of the human mind, it is on this. Dr. Arnold. TABLE OF CONTENTS BOOKS OF REFERENCE, DICTIONARIES, ETC. ANTIQUITIES AND ARCHAEOLOGY I. Egyptian and Oriental II. Greek . III. Roman . IV. General and British ART I. Painting II. Sculpture III. Architecture . IV. Decorative Art V. Practice of Drawing and Painting PAGE xvii, xviii i-3 i 2 2 3 4-8 4 6 6 7 7 BIOGRAPHY (INCLUDING LETTERS, SPEECHES, AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES) 9-23 I. Artists ...... 9 II. Economists ..... 10 III. Leaders of Industry and Inventors ii IV. Men and Women of Letters . ... 11 V. Men and Women of Science ..... 15 VI. Musicians . . ■ • • • • I 5 VII. Religious Leaders and Writers .... 16 VIII. Soldiers and Sailors ...... 18 Xll CONTENTS BIOGRAPHY— Continued. PAGE IX Statesmen and Sovereigns .... 19 X Travellers and Discoverers 21 XI General ...... 22 CHILDREN'S BOOKS 24-26 I. Stories and Tales .... 24 II. Poetry ....... 25 III. Picture Books ..... 26 IV. Science Books ...... 26 DOMESTIC ECONOMY . 27, 28 I. Care of Children ..... 27 II. Cookery ...... 27 III. Gardening ..... 28 IV. Health and the House 28 EDUCATION . . . . . . • 29, 30 I. Elementary 29 II. Technical 29 III. Secondary 30 IV. Universities 30 V. Educational Methods 30 VI. History of Education 30 GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL .... • 31-36 I. General 31 II. Physical .... 32 III. Historical 32 IV. Commercial ... 33 V. Travels ... 33 1. General . ... 33 2. Europe ...... 3. Asia .... 34 34 34 35 35 4. Africa . . . 5. America 6. Arctic and Antarctic VI. Guide Books ... . 35 36 36 36 36 36 VII. Maps ....... 1. English Atlases 2. German Atlases .... 3. Wall Maps ...... 4. Government Maps ..... CONTENTS GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS .... [Reports of Commissions, Statistical Abstracts, etc.] PAGE 37, 38 HISTORY . ■ 39-54 I. Ancient History 39 1. General and Oriental 39 z. Egyptian 40 3- Jewish 40 4- Greek . . . . 4i 5- Roman . . . . 41 II. Medieval and Modern History 42 1. Europe 42 a. Great Britain and Ireland 43 i. England 43 (A) Political 43 (B) Constitutional 46 ii. Scotland 47 iii. Ireland 48 b. Austria and Hungary . 49 c. France 49 d. Germany 49 c. Italy 50 f. Netherlands 50 g. Russia 51 h. Scandinavia Si i. Spain and Portugal Si k. Switzerland 51 /. Turkey and Greece 52 2. British Colonies and India . 52 3- America 54 LANGUAGES (BOOKS FOR BEGINNE1 *S) . . . 55-57 I. Greek .... 55 II. Latin 55 III. French .... 56 IV. German .... 56 LITERATURE .... • 58-73 I. Introductory (Historical and Crit ical) ... 58 II. Poetry . 60 1. Collections of Poems 60 2. Best Cheap Editions of English Poe ts 60 3- Foreign Poets, Ancient and Modern (translations) . . 63 CONTENTS LITERATURE— Continued. III. Fiction . 1. Novels a. English b. American c Foreign (translations) . 2. Historical Novels and Tales IV. Essays, Lectures, and Studies i. English 2. American V. Some Famous Books PHILOSOPHY . I. Metaphysics II. Ethics . III. Logic IV. Psychology V. Miscellaneous Books VI. History of Philosophy 64 64 64 67 67 68 70 70 72 72 74-77 74 75 76 76 76 77 POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ECONOMY . I. General 1. Economic Theory 2. Standard Works 3. Economic and Commercial History 4. Method and History of Economic Science II. Organisation of Industry . 1. Division of Labour and Modern Production 2. Factory System 3. Guilds 4. Trades Unions and Strikes . 5. The Wages Question 6. Conciliation and Adjustment of Wages 7. Profit-Sharing 8. Co-operation III. Land, Agriculture, and Mining 1. Land Tenure 2. Land Transfer 3. Rent and Tenancy . 4. Commons and Enclosures . 5. Allotments and Cottage Farming . 6. Mining and Royalties 7. Village Communities 78-89 78 78 79 79 79 79 79 80 80 80 So 81 81 81 81 82 82 82 S2 83 CONTENTS POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ECONOMY— Continued. IV. Condition of the People 1. General ..... 2. Population and Vital Statistics 3. Thrift and Temperance 4. Poor Law and Pauperism . 5. Charities and Charity Organisation . V. Currency, Banking, and Trade 1. Money, Credit, and Banking 2. Speculation, Markets, and Exchanges 3. Prices .... 4. Foreign Trade and Foreign Exchanges VI. Financial Policy 1. Taxation 2. National Finance 3. National Debts VII. Free Trade and Protection 1. Protection to Trade j.. Protection to Labour VIII. Private Enterprise and Public Control 1. Individualism .... 2. Socialism ..... 3. The Province and Policy of State Intervention IX. Literary Works Dealing with Economic Problems X. Works of Reference and Periodical Literature 82 S2 83 83 83 84 84 84 85 85 85 85 85 86 86 86 86 86 87 87 87 88 POLITICAL SCIENCE . I. Sociology .... II. Politics General Political Science Special Political Questions . Famous Older Books of Political Theory English Constitution and Practical Works British Colonies American Constitution Various Constitutions of the World 1. 2. 3- 4- 5- 6. 7- 90-93 90 91 9i 9i 9i 92 93 93 93 SCIENCE . . • ■ I. Mathematics . 1. Pure Mathematics . 2. Mixed Mathematics 3. Histories and Miscellaneous 94-112 94 95 96 CONTENTS SCIENCE — Continued. II. Physics . I. General Physics m. Mechanics (including Dynamics and 3. Sound 4. Heat 5. Light 6. Electricity and Magnetism 7. The Theory of Energy 8. Miscellaneous 9. Method III. Chemistry 1. General 2. Applied IV. Biology . 1. Zoology a. Zoology (general) b. Evolution c. Anatomy and Physiology d. Natural History 2. Botany 3. Anthropology V. Geology 1. General 2. Paleontology 3. Mineralogy . VI. Astronomy 1. Popular and Descriptive 2. Mathematical 3. Historical Hydrostatics) 98 98 99 99 100 100 101 101 102 102 102 102 103 104 104 104 104 105 105 108 109 no no in in 112 112 112 112 If time is precious no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. — Carlyle. BOOKS OF REFERENCE, DICTIONARIES, ETC. {This list includes a few of the more essential books for a small Public Library. ,] I. GENERAL £ s. d. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 24 vols, and Index. Black 37 o o Chambers's Encyclopaedia. 10 vols. (New edition in course of publication.) Chambers 500 The Encyclopaedic Dictionary. 7 vols. Cassell 770 II. DICTIONARIES, ETC. Skeat, Etymological Dictionary of the English Language. Clarendon Press 240 „ Concise Edition. 056 Ogilvie's Imperial Dictionary. 4 vols. Blackie 500 Webster's International Dictionary. Bell 1 1 1 6 Murray, New English Dictionary (in course of publication). Vol. I. Clarendon Press 2 12 6 Brachet, Etymological Dictionary of French. Clarendon Press 076 "Whitney, Compendious German Dictionary. Macmillan 076 Baretti, Italian Dictionary. Houlston 1 1 o Neuman and Baretti, Spanish Dictionary. Houlston 1 8 o „ Abridged Edition. Houlston 060 Liddell and Scott, Greek-English Lexicon. Clarendon Press 116 o Abridged Edition. Clarendon Press 012 6 Lewis and Short, Latin Dictionary. Clarendon Press 1 5 o Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases. Longmans o 10 6 III. CHRONOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, AND BIOGRAPHY Haydn, Dictionary of Dates. Ward, Lock 018 o Lippincott, Gazetteer of the World. Lippincott 330 Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles. Black 1 16 o Stephen, L., Dictionary of National Biography. 2 5 vols, published. Smith, Elder. Each 015 o Haydn, Universal Index of Biography (in course of publication). Hole, Brief Biographical Dictionary. Macmillan 046 BOOKS OF REFERENCE IV. CONTEMPORARY EVENTS, STATISTICS, ETC. £ s. d. Irving, Annals of Our Time. 2 vols. Macmillan 116 o Annual Register. Yearly. Longmans 018 o Hazell's Annual. Hazell 036 Whitaker's Almanack. Whitaker 026 The Statistical Abstract (United Kingdom). Eyre, Spottiswoode 010 The Statesman's Year-book. Macmillan 010 6 Sergeant, The Government Handbook. Unwin 010 6 The Royal Kalendar. Allen 070 The County Councils and Municipal Corporations Companion. Water low o 10 o The Metropolitan Year-book. Cassell o 1 o Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed, and Official Classes. Kelly o 16 o Men and "Women of the Time. Routledge 015 o [For various Colonial and Foreign Year-books see the Lists of Books of Reference in the Statesman's Year-book under the different Countries. ] V. BOOKS OF REFERENCE FOR LIBRARIANS Allibone, Dictionary of Authors. 3 vols. Lippincott 580 Poole, Index to Periodical Literature. Triibner 313 6 „ First Supplement, 1882-87. Triibner 1 16 o English Catalogue of Books, 1835-80, 3 vols. (Vols. I. and II. O.P., Vol. III. 42s.) Index, 1837-80, 3 vols. (Vol. I. O.P., Vol. II. 42s., Vol. III. 18s.) 1881 and after annually. Low. Each 050 Reference Catalogue of Current Literature (published every four or five years, latest vol. 1889). Whitaker o. P. Lowndes, Bibliographer's Manual. 4 vols. Bell 220 Sonnenschein, The Best Books. Swan Sonnenschein 1 1 1 6 Greenwood, Public Libraries. Simpkin, Marshall 026 [For Classical, Historical, and other Dictionaries see the various lists. For Trade, Com- mercial and Technical Dictionaries reference vnist be made to other catalogues.'] We talk of food for the mind, as of food for the body : now a good book contains such food inexhaustibly ; it is a provision for life, and for the best part of us ; yet how long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it ! — RUSKIN. ANTIQUITIES AND ARCHEOLOGY [Notes and Suggestions. — A few leading books only have been mentioned under this heading. For further books larger catalogues must be consulted. Much of the best information is to be found scattered in periodicals. ] Antiquity ! thou wondrous charm, what art thou ? that being nothing, art every- thing ! When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity — then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration ; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern ! What mystery lurks in this retroversion ? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert ! — Charles Lamb. I. EGYPTIAN AND ORIENTAL i. EGYPTIAN £ t. d. Maspero, Egyptian Archaeology (trans.) Grevel o 10 6 Mariette, Monuments of Upper Egypt {trans.) Trubner 076 Perrot and Ohipiez, History of Art in Ancient Egypt (trans.) 2 vols. Chapman, Hall 220 2. ASSYRIAN, &C. Perrot and Ohipiez, History of Art in Chaldaea and Assyria (trans.) 2 vols. Chapman, Hall 220 3. PHOENICIAN Perrot and Ohipiez, History of Art in Phoenicia and its Dependencies (trans.) 2 vols. Chapman, Hall 220 4. COPTIC Butler, A. J., The Coptic Churches of Egypt. 2 vols. Chapman, Hall 140 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Antiquities and Archaeology — Egyptian and Oriental, continued 5. SARACENIC £ s d. Lane-Poole, S., The Art of the Saracens in Egypt. Chapman, Hall 040 Smith, R. Murdoch, Persian Art. Chapman, Hall 020 6. INDIAN Prinsep, Indian Antiquities. 2 vols. Murray o. P. Fergusson, History of Architecture. Vol. III. Murray 220 Thomas, Pathan Kings of Delhi. Triibner 1 8 o BircVwood, Industrial Arts of India. Chapman, Hall o 14 o Cunningham, Reports of the Archaeological Survey of India. Vols. I. to XXIII. Triibner. Each 10s. and 12s. 7. NUMISMATICS Lane-Poole and Others, Coins and Medals. 3 vols. Stock 116 o British Museum Catalogue of Oriental, Persian, and Indian Coins. 1 3 vols. 7 vols. (Oriental) out of print, 6 vols. British Museum 670 II. GREEK 1. ELEMENTARY. Mahaffy, Greek Antiquities. Macviillan 010 Harrison, J. E., Introductory Studies in Greek Art. Unwin 076 Collignon, Manual of Greek Archaeology {trans.) Cassell 050 TJpcott, An Introduction to Greek Sculpture. Clarendon Press 046 2. ADVANCED. Newton, Sir C. T., Essays on Art and Archaeology. Macmillan 012 6 Mitchell, History of Ancient Sculpture. Kegan Paul 220 Gardner, Types of Greek Coins. Cambridge Press 1 1 1 6 Hicks, Manual of Greek Historical Inscriptions. Clarendon Press o 10 6 Pausanias, Description of Greece (trans.) 2 vols. Bell o 10 o Becker, Charicles (trans.) Longmans 076 Mahaffy, Social Life in Greece from Homer to Menander. Macmillan 090 Sehomann, Antiquities of Greece : the State. Rivington 0. P. III. ROMAN 1. ELEMENTARY. Wilkins, Roman Antiquities. Macmillan o 1 o A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Antiquities and Archaeology — Roman, continued 2. ADVANCED. Becker, Gallus. Longmans 076 Ramsay, Roman Antiquities. Griffin 086 Middleton, Ancient Rome in 1888. Black 1 1 o Burn, Old Rome. Bell o 10 6 Dyer, Pompeii. Bell 076 IV. GENERAL AND BRITISH Jewitt, LI, Half hours among English Antiquities. Allen 050 Lubbock, Prehistoric Times. Norgate 018 o Hildebrand, The Industrial Arts of Scandinavia in Pagan Times. Chapman, Hall 026 Worsaae, Industrial Arts of Denmark from the Earliest Times to the Danish Conquest of England. Chapman, Hall 036 Montelius, Civilisation of Sweden in Heathen Times {trans?) Macmillan o 14 o Greerrwell, British Barrows, Excavations, etc. A Record of the Examination of Sepulchral Mounds in various parts of England. Clarendon Press 1 5 o Evans, The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, and Orna- ments of Great Britain and Ireland. Longmans 1 8 o „ The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons, and Orna ments of Great Britain and Ireland. Longmans 1 5 o Rhys, Celtic Britain. S.P.C.K. o 3 Scarth, Roman Britain. S.P.C.K. 026 Allen, Grant, Anglo-Saxon Britain. S.P.C.K. 026 Evans, The Coins of the Ancient Britons. (Engraved by F. W. Fairholt.) / R- Smith 1 Akerman, Coins of the Romans. /. R. Smith o 10 6 Henfrey, A Guide to the Study and Arrangement of English Coins (edited by C. F. Keary). Bell 060 Allen, Romilly, Early Christian Symbolism. Whiting 015 o „ Monumental History of the British Church. S.P.C.K. 030 SCOTCH. Anderson, Scotland in Pagan Times. 2 vols, (illus.) Douglas. Each o 12 o „ Scotland in Early Christian Times. 2 vols, (illus.) Douglas. Each o 12 o IRISH. Wilde, Descriptive Catalogues in the Museum of Royal Irish Academy. 2 vols. Williams, Norgate 013 6 Stokes, M., Early Christian Architecture in Ireland. Bell 1 1 o „ „ Early Christian Art in Ireland. Chapman, Hall 076 o o ART For don't you mark ? we're made so that we love First, when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times, nor cared to see. And so they are better painted — better to us, Which is the same thing : Art was given for that. "R. Browning : Fra Lippo Lippi. Let our artists be those who are gifted to discern the true nature of beauty and grace ; then will our youth dwell in the land of health, amid fair sights and sounds ; and beauty, the effluence of fair works, will visit the eye and ear, like a healthful breeze from a purer region, and insensibly draw the soul even in childhood into harmony with the beauty of reason. Plato's Republic. I. PAINTING [Notes and Suggestions. — The reading about Pictures is useless without the study of paintings also. For this purpose a particular master should be fixed upon in any accessible gallery, and his works compared with those in other galleries by means of prints and photographs. The most recent historical catalogues of foreign galleries should be made use of in visiting them to correct older information given in text-books ; other books will give information about the life, training, and subjects of the Painters, and the derivation of their style.} I. HANDBOOKS TO GALLERIES £ s . d. Thompson, Kate, Handbook to the Galleries of Europe. Macmillan O. P. Cook, E. T., A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery. Macmillan o 14 o 2. WORKS OF REFERENCE AND GENERAL HISTORY Middleton, Article " Painting " in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Woltmann, and Woermann, K., History of Painting (to the Renaissance). 2 vols. Kegan Paul 310 o A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Art — Painting, continued £ *. d. Bryan, Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, (ed. Graves and Armstrong). 2 vols. Bell 330 Eastlake, Materials for a History of Oil Painting (technical). 2 vols. Longmans 160 Jameson, Mrs., Sacred and Legendary Art (on Christian Paintings). Legends of the Saints and Martyrs. 2 vols. Longmans 100 Legends of the Monastic Orders. Longmans 010 o Legends of the Madonna. Longmans 010 o History of our Lord. 2 vols. Longmans 1 o o Husenbeth, Emblems of Saints, in works of Art. Longmans O. P. Ruskin, Modern Painters. 5 vols. G. Allen 660 „ Studies of Mountain Form. In Montibus Sanctis. Parts I. and II. G. Allen. Each o 1 6 „ Studies of Cloud Form. Cceli Enarrant. Parti. G.Allen o 1 6 Gilbert, Landscape in Art, to the time of Claude and Salvator. Murray 1 10 o 3. HANDBOOKS TO SEPARATE SCHOOLS Kugfler (ed. Layard), Handbook to Italian Schools. 2 vols. Murray 1 10 o Vasari, Lives of Painters. (Italian). 6 vols. Bell. Each 036 Wauters, Flemish School of Painting (trans.) Cassell 050 Conway, Early Flemish Painters. Seeley 076 Buxton, Wilmot, and Poynter, German, Flemish, and Dutch Painting. Low 050 Havard, Dutch School of Painting {trans') Cassell 050 Smith, G-., Spanish and French Artists. Low 050 Redgrave, R. and S., A Century of English Painters. Low o 10 6 Chesneau, English School of Painting (trans.) Cassell 050 4 INDIVIDUAL PAINTERS See Biography (Artists) [For fuller lists of books on the whole subject see Catalogue of Library, South Kensington Museum, viz. List of Works on Painting (is.) and List of Biographies of Artists (is. 4<£), to be bought at the Museum.'] A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Art, continued II. SCULPTURE [Notes and Suggestions. — It is quite necessary in studying this subject to have photographs. A good library shoidd contain a portfolio of mounted photographs, if possible platinotypes, at least of the groups from the pediments, metopes, and frieze of the Parthenon in the British Museum. These can be got from the British Museum, or, with other good Greek examples, from Mansell's in Oxford Street. Photo- graphs of Italian Sculpture should be obtained from Alinari, Via Tornabuoni, Florence. A selection from the following works is suggested : Niccolo Pisano, Pulpit in the Baptistery at Pisa ; Giacomo delta Querela, sculpture Dooi"way at S. Petronio, Bologna, and Boys with Garlands, Bargello, Florence ; Ghiberti, Gates of Baptistery, Florence ; Donatello, Bronze David, St. George, and one of his groups of Madonna and Child ; the Delia Robbias, some of the glazed terra cotta groups in the Bargello ; Luca delta Robbia, Dancing Boys and Girls {Bargello) ; Mino da Fiesole, Madonna {Bargello) ; a Monument of Bishop Salutati, Cathedral, Fiesole ; Verrocchio, David {Bargello) ; Sansovino, Baptism of Christ, Baptistery, Florence; Michael Angela, sculptures on Medici Tomb, Florence. .]. £ s. d. Bedford, Sculpture. Low 050 Mullins, Roscoe, Primer of Sculpture. Cassell 026 Murray, History of Greek Sculpture. 2 vols. Murray 116 o Newton, Essays on Art and Archaeology. 2 vols. Macmillan 012 6 Parry, Gambier, The Ministry of the Fine Arts. Murray o 14 o Waldstein, Catalogue of Casts in Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Macmillan 016 Parry, Catalogue of Casts in South Kensington Museum. Depart- ment of Science and Art. 006 Guides to the Department of Greek and Roman Anti- quities, the Vase Booms, and the Department of Coins and Medals in the British Museum. Various prices Perkins, Historical Handbook of Italian Sculpture. Remington 015 o [For Mediceval Sculpture the best authority is the article {in French) on Sculpture in the Dictionnaire Raisonnee de V Architecture, Viollet le Due] III. ARCHITECTURE [Notes and Suggestions. — In Architecture, as z« other Arts, books alone will carry the student only a very little way. Only by a careful study of good examples, of which fortunately there are many in this country, can progress be made and real knowledge secured.] ELEMENTARY. Parker, Concise Glossary. Parker 076 ,, A B C of Gothic Architecture {illus.) Parker 030 „ Introduction to Study of Gothic Architecture {illus.) Parker 050 Rosengarten, Handbook of Styles (illus.) Chatto 076 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Art — Architecture, continued ADVANCED. £ s. d. Fergusson, History of Architecture of all Countries {illus.) 4 vols. Murray 6 16 6 Or separately — I and II, Ancient and Mediaeval. 3 3° III, Indian and Eastern. 220 IV, Modern. ill 6 Freeman, Historical and Architectural Sketches, chiefly Italian {illus.) Macmillan o 10 6 Ruskin, Seven Lamps of Architecture {illus.) G. Allen 076 ,, Stones of Venice. 3 vols, (illus.) G. Allen 490 ,, ,, Selections. 2 vols. G. Allen. Each 050 „ Examples of the Architecture of Venice (15 plates). G.Allen 330 „ The Bible of Amiens. G. Allen 060 SPECIAL. Viollet le Due, Lectures on Architecture {trans.) {illus.) 2 vols. Low 330 „ Habitations of Man in all Ages {trans.) Low 016 o Pugin, A. W. Principles of Pointed or Christian Archi- tecture. Weale 015 o Stanley, Dean, Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey {illus.) Murray 015 o Mackmurdo, Wren's City Churches. G. Allen 050 IV. DECORATIVE ART o Jones, Owen, Grammar of Ornament. Quaritch 5 5 Redgrave, R., A Manual of Design. Chapman, Hall 026 Day, Lewis, Everyday Art. Batsford 076 „ Anatomy of Pattern. Batsford 036 Collingwood, Philosophy of Decoration. G. Allen 050 Poynter, B. J., Ancient Decorative Art, in " Lectures on Art." Chapman, Hall 090 Wornum, Analysis of Ornament. Chapman, Hall 080 Moody, Lectures on Art. Bell 046 Mahew, Decorative Composition. Virtue 060 V. PRACTICE OF DRAWING AND PAINTING 1. GENERAL Ruskin, Laws of Fe"sole. G.Allen 010 o Gulliok and Timbs, Painting popularly explained. Crosby Lockwood 050 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Art — Practice of Drawing and Fainting, continued £ s. d. Taylor, E. R., Elementary Art Teaching. Chapman, Hall o 10 6 Hamerton, Landscape in Nature, Literature, and Painting. Seeley 550 „ Imagination in Landscape Painting. Seeley 1 1 o Da Vinci, Leonardo, Treatise on Painting (trans. Rigaud). Bell 050 2. PERSPECTIVE Dennis, H. J. Second Grade Perspective. Bailliere 026 „ Third Grade Perspective. Bailliere 015 o James, H. A., Handbook to Perspective. Chapman, Hall 026 Puckett, R. C, Sciography or Radial Projection of Shadows. Chapman, Hall 060 3. GEOMETRICAL, ARCHITECTURAL, AND MECHANICAL DRAWING Burchett, Practical Plane Geometry. Chapman, Hall 050 Bradley, T., Elements of Geometrical Drawing. 2 vols. Chapman, Hall 112 o Binns, Elementary Orthographic Projection. Spon o 9 o „ Second Course of „ „ Spon o 10 6 Heather, Descriptive Geometry. Lockwood 020 „ A Treatise on Mathematical Instruments. Lockwood 016 4. ETCHING AND ENGRAVING Ruskin, Ariadne Florentina (Wood and Metal Engraving). G. Allen 076 „ Lecture on Leech and Tenniel, " The Art of England." G. AIU71 010 Short, Treatise on Etching. Dunthorne 050 Conway, The Woodcutters of the Netherlands in the Fifteenth Century. Cambridge Press 010 6 Wedmore, Four Masters of Etching. Fine Art Society 1 1 o Hamerton, Etching and Etchers. Macmillan 770 5. COLOUR Church, A. H., Colour. Cassell 036 Chevreul, The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours. Bell 050 Field, Chromatography. Modernised by Taylor. Winsor, Newton 050 6. ANATOMY Marshall, John, Anatomy for Artists. Smith, Elder 1 1 1 6 Sparkes, Artistic Anatomy. Bailliere 076 BIOGRAPHY INCLUDING LETTERS, SPEECHES, AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES ♦ [Notes and Suggestions. — The number of first-rate biographies in the English language could probably be counted on the fingers of one hand. But after all an indifferent biography is, on the whole, better than none. Some good biographies are unfortunately out of print. ~\ " Let us now praise famous men." — Ecclesiasticus. I. ARTISTS It's not your chance to have a bit of chalk, A wood-coal or the like ? or you should see ! Yes, I'm the painter since you style me so. R. Browning : Fra Lippo Lifpi. £ *. d. Cellini, Benvenuto, Autobiography (trans, by J. A. Symonds) Nimnio 090 Correggio, Heaton. Low 026 Delia Robbia and Cellini, Scott. Low 026 Durer, Albrecht, Heath. Low 036 ,, Scott. Longmans o 16 o Fra Angelico, Masaocio, and Botticelli, Scott. Low 036 Fra Bartolommeo, Albertinelli, and Andrea del Sarto, Scott. Low 036 Gainsborough and Constable, Arnold. Low 036 G-hiberti and Donatello, Scott. Low 026 G-iotto, Quilter. Low 036 „ „ Low o 15 o Hogarth, Dobson. Low 036 Holbein, Cundall. Low 036 „ Woltman (trans.) Bentley 1 11 6 Landseer, Stevens. Low 036 Lawrence and Romney, Gower. Low 026 Leonardo da Vinci, Richter. Low 036 Lorrain, Claude le, Dullea. Low 036 Mantegna and Francia, Dullea. Low 036 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Biography— -Artists, continued d. 6 Meissonier, Mollett. Low s. 2 Michelangelo, Clement. Low 3 6 ,, Grimm. 2 vols. Smith, Elder 1 4 Millet, Sensier. Macmillan 16 Murillo. Minor. Low 2 6 Overbeck, Atkinson. Low 3 6 Raphael, d'Anvers. Low 3 6 „ Crowe and Cavalcaselle :. 2 vols Murray 1 13 Rembrandt, Mollett. Low 3 6 Reynolds, Pulling. Low 3 6 Rossetti, D. C, Sharp. Macmillan 10 6 Rubens, Kett. Low 3 6 Thorvaldsen, Thiele {trans.) Chapman, Hall 9 Tintoretto, Osier. Low 3 6 Titian, Heath. Low 3 6 „ Crowe and Cavalcaselle. 2 vols. Murray 1 1 Turner, Monkhouse. Low 3 6 „ Hamerton. Seeley 7 6 Vandyok and Hals, Head. Low 3 6 Velasquez, Stowe. Low 3 6 Vernet and Delaroche, Rees. Low 3 6 Watteau, Mollett. Low 2 6 Wilkie, Mollett. Low 3 6 Crowe and Cavalcaselle, Lives of the Early Flemish Painters. Murray 076 Jameson, Mrs., Memoirs of the Early Italian Painters (Cimabue to Bassano). Murray 012 o Vasari, Lives of Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. 6 vols. Bell. Each 036 II. ECONOMISTS A person is not likely to be a good economist who is nothing else. A. & M. P. Marshall Fawcett, Leslie Stephen. Smith, Elder 12 6 ,, Speeches. Macmillan 10 6 Jevons (Letters and Journal), Mrs. Jevons. Macmillan 14 Malthus, Bonar. Macmillan 12 6 Mill, James, Bower. Low 3 6 Mill, John Stuart, Courtney. Walter Scott 1 „ „ Autobiography. Longmans 7 6 Ricardo (Letters to Malthus), Bonar. Clarendon Press 10 6 „ M'Culloch. Murray 16 Smith, Adam, Haldane. Walter Scott 1 » ,, Farrer. Low 3 6 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Biography, continued III. LEADERS OF INDUSTRY INVENTORS AND To be a noble Master, among noble workers, will again be the first ambition with some few : to be a rich Master only the second. — Carlyle. £ s. d. Brassey, Helps. Belli ° Triibner o I 6 6 o Caxton, Blades. 5 o Denny, Bruce. Hill, Sir Rowland, Birkbeck Hill. Hodder, Stoughton o De La Rue o 12 16 o o Moore, George, Smiles. Nasmyth, Smiles. ■ Stephenson, Smiles. Routledge o Murray o Murray o 6 6 2 o o 6 Men of Invention and Industry, Smiles. Murray o 6 o Industrial Biography, or Iron-workers and Tool-makers, Smiles. Murray o 6 o Heroes of Industry, Major Jones. Low 076 Lives of the Engineers, Smiles. 5 vols. Mterray. Each 076 IV. MEN AND WOMEN OF LETTERS O thou who art able to write a book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is n man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inex- pressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner ! Thou too art a con- queror and victor, but of the true sort — namely, over the Devil. — Carlyle. Addison, Courthope. Austen, Jane, Mrs. Madden. „ „ Tytler. ,, ,, Goldwin Smith. Bacon, Abbott. „ Church. „ Letters and Life, Spedding. 7 vols. Bentley, Jebb. Blake, Gilchrist. 2 vols. Bronte, Charlotte, Mrs. Gaskell. Reid. Birrell. „ Emily, Robinson. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, Ingram. Browning, Robert, Sharp. Buckle, Huth. 2 vols. Bunyan, Froude. Venables, Macmillan 1 6 Allen 3 6 Cassell 3 6 Walter Scott 1 Macmillan 14 Macmillan 1 6 Longmans 4 4 Macmillan ■ 1 6 Macmillan 2 2 Smith, Elder 2 6 Macmillan 6 Walter Scott 1 Allen 3 6 Allen 3 6 Walter Scott 1 Low 1 12 Macmillan 1 6 Walter Scott 1 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Biography — Men and Women of Letters, continued Burke, J. Morley. Macmillan „ A Historical Study, J. Morley. Macmillan Burns, Carlyle. Essays. Vol. II. Chapman, Hall „ Blackie. Walter Scott „ Shairp. Macmillan Byron, Nichol. Macmillan „ Noel. Walter Scott ,, Letters and Journals, Moore. Chatto Carlyle, R. Garnett. Walter Scott ,, Froude. History of First Forty Years of Carlyle's Life (i 795-1 835). 2 vols. Longmans „ Froude. History of Carlyle's Life in London (1834-1! 2 vols. Longmans „ Froude. Cheap edition of above. 4 vols. Longmans Casaubon, Pattison. Chaucer, A. W. Ward. Clarendon, Life by himself. 2 vols. Coleridge, Traill. ,, Caine. Congreve, Gosse. Corneille, Trollope. Cowper, Goldwin Smith. Orabbe, Kebbel. Dante, Mrs. Oliphant. „ Symonds. Introduction to the Study of. Defoe, Minto. De Quincey, Masson. ,, Page. 2 vols. Dickens, A. W. Ward. „ Marzials. „ Forster. Diderot and the Encyclopaedists, J Longmans Macmillan Clarendon Press Macmillan Walter Scott Walter Scott Blackwood Macmillan Walter Scott Blackwood Smith, Elder Macmillan Macmillan Hogg Macmillan Walter Scott Chapman, Hall Morley. 2 vols. Dryden, Saintsbury. Edge-worth, Maria, Zimmern. Eliot, George, Blind. „ Cross. „ Oscar Browning. Emerson, Conway. „ Garnett. Ewing, Mrs., and her books, Gatty. Fielding, Dobson. Gibbon, Autobiography and Correspondence ,, Morison. Godwin, Kegan Paul. 2 vols. Goethe, Autobiography. 2 vols. Macmillan. Each Macmillan Allen Allen Blackwood Walter Scott Triibner Walter Scott S.P.C.K. Macmillan Ward, Lock Macmillan Kegan Paul Bell Each 1 12 81). 1 12 14 18 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 7 1 1 12 1 1 7 5 1 3 3 7 1 10 1 1 1 3 1 d. 6 o o o 6 6 o 6 o o o o 6 o 6 o o 6 6 o 6 6 6 6 o 6 o o o 6 6 6 6 o 6 o o 6 6 6 o 6 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 13 Biography — Men and Women of Letters, continued Goethe, Hayward. „ Sime. „ Lewes (abridged). Goldsmith, Black. „ Dobson. ,, J. Forster. Life and Times of. Gray, Gosse. Grote, Mrs. Grote. Hawthorne, Henry James. „ Conway. Heine, Stigand. 2 vols. „ Sharp. Hugo, Victor, Barnett Smith. ,, „ Marzials. Hume, Huxley. Johnson, Dr., Boswell, ed. Napier. 6 vols. >; >) „ „ ed. by Birkbeck Hill. 6 vols. ,, Symonds. „ Leslie Stephen. „ Grant. Keats, Colvin. ,, Rossetti. Kingsley, Edited by his Wife. Lamb, Ainger. Landor, Colvin. „ Forster. Lessing, Rolleston. ,, Sime. 2 vols. Locke, Fowler. Longfellow, Robertson. Macaulay, Morison. ,, Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches. ,, Life and Letters. Trevelyan. Marryat, Hannay. Martineau, Harriet, Mrs. Miller. „ ,, Autobiography. 3 vols. Milton, Pattison. „ Stopford Brooke. ,, Garnett. ,, Masson. 6 vols. Moliere, Mrs. Oliphant and Tarver. More, Sir Thomas, Roper. Motley, O. W. Holmes. Motley, Letters of. 2 vols. Pascal, Tulloch, £ s. d. Blackwood 2 6 Walter Scott I Smith, Elder 7 6 Macmillan 1 6 Walter Scott 1 Ward, Lock 2 Macmillan 1 6 Murray 12 Macmillati 1 6 Walter Scott 1 Longmans 1 8 Walter Scott 1 Ward, Downey 6 Walter Scott 1 Macmillan 1 6 Bell 1 1 Nimmo 5 Clarendon Press 3 3 Longmans 1 6 Macmillan 1 6 Walter Scott 1 Macmillan 1 6 Walter Scott 1 Kegan Paul 6 Macmillan 1 6 Macmillan 1 6 Chapman, Hall 12 Walter Scott 1 Triibner 1 1 Macmillan 1 6 Walter Scott 1 Macmillan 1 6 hes. Longmans 2 6 Longmans 2 6 Walter Scott 1 Allen 3 6 Smith, Elder 1 12 Macmillan 1 6 Macmillan 1 6 Walter Scott 1 Macmillan 5 8 Blackwood 2 6 Cambridge Press 3 6 Triibner 6 Murray 1 10 Blackwood 2 6 14 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Biography — Men and Women of Letters, continued Petrarch, Reeve. Blackwood Poe, Woodberry. Low Pope, Leslie Stephen. Macmillan „ Elwin and Courthope, Vol. V. of Works. Murray Rabelais, Walter Besant. Blackwood Rossetti, D. G. (see Artists) Rousseau, J. Morley. 2 vols. Macmillan Ruskin, Praeterita : Scenes of my Past Life. 2 vols. £ o o o o o d. 6 6 6 6 6 G eorge Allen. Each 13 Sand, George, Thomas. Allen 3 6 Schiller, Carlyle. Chapman, Hall 1 ,, Nevinson. Walter Scott 1 ,, Sime. Blackwood 2 6 Scott, Sir W., Hutton. Macmillan 1 6 „ Yonge. Walter Scott 1 „ Lockhart. Black. 10 vols., ,£1 : 1 os., and abridged 6 ,, Journal. 2 vols. Douglas 1 12 Sevigne, Miss, Thackeray. Blackwood 2 6 Sidney, Sir Philip, Symonds. Macmillan 1 6 Shakespere, Hudson. 2 vols. Boston. Each 12 ,, Halliwell-Phillipps. 2 vols. Longmans 1 1 Shelley, Dowden. 2 vols. Kegan Paul 1 16 „ Sharp. Walter Scott 1 ,, Symonds. Macmillan 1 6 Sheridan, Mrs. Oliphant. Macmillan 1 6 Smith, Sydney, Lady Holland. Longmans 3 6 Smollett, Hannay. Walter Scott 1 Southey, Dowden. Macmillan 1 6 Spenser, Church. Macmillan 1 6 Steele, Dobson. Longmans 1 6 Sterling, Carlyle. Chapman, Hall 1 Sterne, Traill. Macmillan 1 6 Swift, Leslie Stephen. Macmillan 1 6 ,, Craik. Murray 18 Thackeray, Trollope. Macmillan 1 6 „ Letters. Smith, Elder 12 6 Thoreau, H. A. Page. Chatto 2 6 Voltaire, J. Morley. Macmillan 5 Walpole, Horace, Letters. 9 vols. Bentley 4 14 6 "Wordsworth, Myers. Macmillan 1 6 Johnson, Lives of the Poets, Selected (M. Arnold) Macmillan 046 (For Ancient Writers reference should be made to Ancient Classics for English Readers, Blackwood, each 2s. 6d., which contahi some biographical matter. For some of the Philosophers see Philosophy. The English Men of Letters Series ptdilished by Macmillan, quoted above at is. 6d., can also be had at is. in paper covers.) A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 15 Biography, continued V. MEN AND WOMEN OF SCIENCE Who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter. Milton : Areopagitica. £ s. Macmillan 018 Douglas o 2 Smith, Elder o 5 Longmans o 1 Walter Scott o 1 Murray 1 16 Murray o 7 Routledge Agassiz, Louis, Agassiz. 2 vols. Brewster, By his daughter. Buckland, Bompas. Darwin, Charles, Grant Allen. „ Bettany. „ „ F. Darwin. 3 vols. „ Erasmus, Charles Darwin. Davy, Mayhew. Faraday, Life and TLetters. Bence Jones. 2 vols. Longmans 1 8 As a Discoverer. Tyndall. Galileo, Private Life of. Herschel, Mrs. Herschel. Humboldt, A., Bruhns. 2 vols. Linnaeus, Miss Brightwell. Lyell, Mrs. Lyell. 2 vols. Maxwell, Clerk, Campbell and W. Garnett. Murchison and his Contemporaries, Geikie. Newton, I., Brewster. Somerville, Mary, Personal Recollections. Longmans Macmillan Murray Longmans Van Voorst Murray Macmillan 2 vols. Murray Te gg Murray o 3 o 7 7 1 16 3 1 10 1 10 o 6 o 12 Astronomers, Morton. S.P.C.K. Botanists, Zoologists, and Geologists, Duncan. S.P.C.K. Chemists, Muir. S.P.C.K. Mechanicians, Lewis. S.P.C.K. Physicists, W. Garnett. S.P.C.K. VI. MUSICIANS I can always leave off talking when I hear a Master play. R. Browning : A Toccata of Galuppts. Bach, R. Lane Poole. Low ° 3 Beethoven, Nohl. W. Reeves o 3 Chopin, Liszt. w - Peeves o 6 Handel, Marshall. Low o 3 „ Hadden. -Allen o 1 Rockstro. Macmillan o 10 Liszt, De Beaufort. Ward, Downey o 6 „ Ramann {trans.) 2 vols. Allen 1 1 Mendelssohn, Rockstro. Low o 3 „ Hadden. Allen o 1 C o 6 o o 6 6 o o o 6 i6 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Biography — Musicians, continued Mendelssohn, Letters. 2 vols. Mozart, Gehring. „ Otto. Purcell, Cummings. Schubert, Kreisle. Schumann, Balfe. "Wagner, Hueffer. Hueffer, Musical Studies. £ j. d. Macmillan 10 O Allen 1 6 Novello 1 1 1 6 Low 3 Allen 6 Low 3 Low 3 Black 6 VII. RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND WRITERS Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men. Milton : Samson Asronistcs. Religious Tract Society S.P.C.K. Macmillan S.P.C.K. Hodder, Stoughton S.P.C.K. Macmillan S.P.C.K. Athanasius, Reynolds. „ Bush. Anselm, R. W. Church. Augustine, Cutts. Baxter, Boyle. Bede (The Venerable), Browne. Bernard, Morison. Buddha, Rhys Davids. Bunyan. See " Men of Letters.'' Calvin, Guizot. In " Great Christians of France " (St. Louis and Calvin). Macmillan ,, Early Years of, McCrie and Ferguson. Douglas Chalmers, Hanna. 2 vols. Douglas Channing, Memoirs and Correspondence. 2 vols. Routledge Chrysostom, Stephens. Murray „ Bush. Religious Tract Society Erasmus, Seebohmin " Oxford Reformers of 1498." Longmans „ Drummond. 2 vols. Smith, Elder Francis Of Assisi, Mrs. Oliphant. Macmillan Francis de Sales, Mrs. Lear. Longmans Francis Xavier, H. J. Coleridge. 2 vols. Burns, Oates Hook, Dean, Stephens. Bentley Hutten, Ulrich von, Strauss. Daldy Irving, Edward, Mrs. Oliphant. Hurst, Blackett Jerome, Cutts. S.P.C.K. Keble, J. T. Coleridge. Parker Ken, Plumptre. 2 vols. Isbister Kingsley. See " Men of Letters." Knox, McCrie. Blackwood „ Portraits of, Carlyle. Chapman, Hall Latimer, Demaus. Religious Tract Society 6 6 12 7 7 S H 1 6 3 18 6 10 5 2 6 12 036 o 1 o 050 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 17 Biography — Religious Leaders and Writers, continued £ s- d. Luther, Froude. Longmans o 1 o „ Koestlin (trans.') Longmans o 16 o „ Tulloch in " Leaders of the Reformation." Blackwood 076 „ Rae. Hodder, Sioughton 076 Maurice, F. D. 2 vols. Macmillan o 16 o Memoirs of the Oxford Methodists, L. Tyerman. Hodder, Stoughton o 10 6 Mohammed, Wollaston. Allen 060 „ Muir. Smith, Elder 014 o „ „ Religious Tract Society 050 Mohammed and Mohammedanism, Bosworth Smith. Smith, Elder 086 Newman, J. H., Apologia Pro Vita Sua. Longmans 036 ,, ,, Hutton. Methiten 026 Parker, Theodore, Frothingham. Boston 015 o Patteson, Yonge. Macmillan 012 o Penn, Stoughton. Hodder, Stoughton 076 Robertson, F. W., Stopford Brooke. Kegan Paul 060 Savonarola, Villari. 2 vols, {trans.) Unwin 1 1 o Selwyn, Tucker. 2 vols. Wells Gardner 140 Simeon, Charles, Seeley. Seeley 050 Stanley, Dean, Recollections of, Bradley. Murray 036 "Wesley, John, Tyerman. 3 vols. Hodder, Stoughton 018 o ,, ,, Southey. Life of Wesley, and Rise and Pro- gress of Methodism. Bell 050 „ Samuel, Tyerman. Hodder, Stoughton 076 ,, „ Stevenson. Memorials of the Wesley Family. Partridge 076 „ Susanna, Eliza Clarke. Allen 036 Whitfield, Gledstone. Longmans o 14 o Wiclif, J. E. T. Rogers. In " Historical Gleanings." Vol. II. Macmillan 060 „ Lechler (trans.) Religious Tract Society 080 „ Pennington. S.P.C.K. 030 „ Matthew. S.P.C.K. 006 Wilberforce, Bishop, Ashwell and R. Wilberforce. 3 vols. Murray 2 5 Walton, Izaac, Lives (Herbert, etc.) S.P.C.K. 026 Christian Leaders of Last Century, Ryle. Nelson 076 Chief Actors in Puritan Revolution, Bayne. Clarke 012 o Oxford Reformers of 1498 (Colet, Erasmus, More), Seebohm. Longmans o 14 o Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography, Sir J. Stephen. Longmans 076 English Puritanism and its Leaders, Tulloch. Blackwood o. P. (See also under Men and Women of Letters.) A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Biography, continued VIM. SOLDIERS AND SAILORS I J. d. Longmans o I 6 Longmans o 3 6 Bell o i 6 Bentley o 12 o Macmillan o 2 6 And is not War a youthful king, A stately hero clad in mail ? Beneath his footsteps laurels spring ; Him earth's majestic monarchs hail, Their friend, their playmate ; and his cold bright eye Compels the maiden's love-confessing sigh. — Coleridge. Blake, Admiral, Hannay. Caesar, Froude. Charles XII., Voltaire. „ By the King of Sweden (Irans.) Clive, Wilson. Columbus. See " Travellers and Discoverers Cook. „ „ Cromwell. See " Statesmen." Clyde, Phillips. Dampier, Clark Russell. Drake, Corbett. Frederick the Great. See " Statesmen." Garibaldi, Autobiography. 3 vols. „ Blackett. Gordon, General, Butler. „ „ Barnes. Gustavus Adolphus, Stephens. „ ,, Trench. Havelock, Forbes. „ Marshman. Hawke, Burrows. Henry "V, Church. Howe, Barrow. Marlborough, Saintsbury. „ Coxe. 3 vols. ,, Butler. Monk, Corbett. Montcalm and Wolfe, Parkman. 2 vols. Macmillan. Each Moore, Sir John, Maurice. Macmillan Montrose, Morris. Macmillan Napier, Sir Charles, Bruce. Murray „ Butler. Macmillan Napoleon, Bingham. Selections from Letters and Despatches 3 vols. Chapman, Hall „ Lanfrey. 4 vols, {trans.) Macmillan Cassell Macmillan Macmillan Smith, Innes Walter Scott Macmillan Macmillan Bentley Kegan Paul Macmillan Longmans Allen Macmillan Murray Longmans Bell. Each Macmillan Macmillan o 1 o 026 026 1 1 2 2 1 15 4 2 3 1 2 12 1 3 2 2 o 12 o 2 O 2 O 12 O 2 6 6 6 o o o 6 6 o 6 o 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 o 6 220 0. P. A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 19 Macmillan Longmans Chapman, Hall Murray. Each £ s. d. 050 050 O. P. Biography — Soldiers and Sailors, continued Napoleon, Seeley. Seeley Nelson, Southey. Bell „ Clarke and MacArthur. 3 vols. Jackson „ Despatches and Letters (selected), Laughton. Longmans o 1 6 Outram, Goldsmid. 2 vols. Peterborough, Stebbing. Raleigh, Gosse. Roberts, Sir Frederick, Low. Rodney, Hannay. Suvoroff, Spalding. Washington. Stee " Statesmen." Wellington, Hooper. „ Gleig. „ Yonge. 2 vols. ,, Despatches, etc. 23 vols. William III. See " Statesmen." Smith, Elder 1 12 Macmillan o 2 Longmans o 1 Allen o 7 Macmillan o 2 Chapman, Hall o o o 6 6 6 6 o 6 6 o o Lives of Indian Officers, Kaye. 2 vols. Allen. Each Four Famous Soldiers (Sir H. Edwardes, Hodson of Hod- son's Horse, Sir C. Napier, and Sir W. Napier) Holmes. Allen IX. STATESMEN AND SOVEREIGNS When you separate the common sort of men from their chieftains, so as to form them into an adverse army, I no longer know that venerable object called the People. — Burke. Althorp, Myers. Bacon. See " Men and Women of Letters." Beaconsfleld, Kebbel. ,, Froude. Bismarck, Lowe. 2 vols. Bolingbroke, Hassall. „ Collins. „ Macknight. Bentley 036 Allen Low Cassell Allen Murray Chapman, Hall Bright, John, Barnett Smith. Hodder, Stoughton „ Speeches. Macmillan Brougham, Life of, written .by himself. 3 vols. Blackwood. Each Burke. See " Men and Women of Letters." Canning, Hill. Longmans Clarendon. See " Men of Letters." Cobden, J. Morley. Chapman, Hall I A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Biography — Statesmen and Sovereigns, continued Oobden, Speeches, etc., edited by J. Bright. Macmillan Coligny, Besant. M. Ward Cromwell, F. Harrison. Macmillan „ Goldwin Smith in " Three English Statesmen." Macmillan „ Carlyle. (Letters and Speeches.) 5 vols. Chapman, Hall. Each ; j. d. 036 026 026 Allen Clarendon Press Allen Macmillan (forthcoming) Macmillan Dalhousie, Trotter. „ Hunter. Derby, Kebbel. Elizabeth, Beesley. Edward I., York Powell. Fawcett. See Economists. Forster, Reid. Chapman, Hall Fox, Wakeman. Allen „ Life and Times of, Lord John Russell. Bentley „ Early History of (1749-74), Trevelyan. Longmans Frederick the Great, Brackenbury. Chapman, Hall „ ,, Carlyle. 10 vols. Chapman, Hall Gambetta, Marzials. Allen Gladstone, Barnett Smith. Cassell I Grattan, Dunlop. Allen „ Speeches, edited by Madden. Duffy Hampden, Lord Nugent. Bell „ Goldwin Smith in " Three English Statesmen." Macmillan Hastings, "Warren, Trotter. Clarendon Press „ ,, Lyall. Macmillan Henry II., Mrs. Green. Macmillan Henry V. See " Soldiers." Henry VII., Gairdner. Macmillan Linpoln, Abraham, Stoddard. Sonnenschein Mary Queen of Scots, Mignet. Bentley „ „ Leland. M. Ward Mazarin, Gustave Masson. S.P.C.K. Melbourne, Torrens. Ward, Lock „ Dunckley. Low Metternich, Prince, Malleson. Allen Mirabeau, Carlyle in " Essays." Vol. V. Chapman, Hall „ Macaulay. ,, Longmans Northcote, S. (Lord Iddesleigh), Lang. Blackwood O'Oonnell, Hamilton. Alle?i „ Speeches. Duffy Palmerston, Sanders. Allen „ Dalling and Bulwer, and Ashley. 2 vols. Bentley 1 2 2 2 2 2 10 2 12 6 4 10 2 3 1 2 2 3 2 IS 6 2 3 2 3 2 1 2 7 2 2 2 12 050 026 026 026 6 o o 6 6 o 6 6 o 6 6 6 o 6 o A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Biography — Statesmen and Sovereigns, continued d Peel, Thursfield. Macmillan 2 6 „ Dalling and Bulwer. Bentley 7 6 „ Montague. Allen 2 6 Peter the Great, Schuyler. 2 vols. Low 1 12 Pitt, Stanhope. 3 vols. Murray 1 16 ,, Macaulay in " Essays." Longmans 2 6 „ Goldwin Smith in " Three English Statesmen." Macmillan 2 6 Pym, ,, .. Macmillan 2 6 Richelieu, Gustave Masson. S.P.C.K. 3 6 Russell, Lord John (Earl), Walpole. 2 vols. Longmans 1 16 Shaftesbury (First Earl), Traill. Longmans 1 6 ,, *„ Christie. s : vols. Macmillan 1 4 Sherburne, Fitzmaurice. 3 vols. Macmillan. Each 12 Stein, Seeley. 3 vols. Cambridge Press 1 10 Strafford, Traill. Macmillan 2 6 Walpole, Sir R., J. Morley. Macmillan 2 6 „ Coxe. 4 vols. Longmans 0. P Washington, Washington Irving. 4 vols. Bell 14 ,, Marshall. 2 vols. Philadelphia 1 5 Wellesley, Malleson. Allen 2 6 William the Conqueror, Freeman. Macmillan 2 6 William III., Traill. Macmillan 2 6 „ Torriano. Allen 2 6 Wolsey, Cardinal, Creighton. Macmillan 2 6 (See also under History, De Montfort, Machiavelli, Cavour, and others.) X. TRAVELLERS AND DISCOVERERS Go from the east to the west, as the sun and the stars direct thee, Go with the girdle of man, go and encompass the earth. _ Not for the gain of the gold ; for the getting, the hoarding, the having, But for the joy of the deed ; but for the Duty to do.— A. H. Clough. Barents. Batuta, Ibn. Bruce, Scott Keltie. Cartier, Jacques. Columbus, Washington Irving. Helps. Cook, Walter Besant. Dampier. Davis, John, Markham. Erikson, Leif. (forthcoming) Philip „ Philip Philip (forthcoming) Philip vols. Bell Bell Macmillan (forthcoming) Philip Philip (forthcoming) Philip 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Philip £ o s. 4 6 Philip o 4 6 (forthcoming) Philip o 4 6 Macmillan o 2 6 Philip o 4 6 Murray o 6 o Philip o 4 6 Philip o 4 6 (forthcoming) Philip o 4 6 Philip o 4 6 Philip o 4 6 Biography — Travellers and Discoverers, continued Franklin, Markham. Grama, Vasco de, Ravenstein. Humboldt. Livingstone, Thomas Hughes. „ Johnston. ,, Blaikie. Magellan, Guillemard. Park, Mungo, Thomson. Polo, Marco. Ross, Mackinder. Saussure, Freshfield. XI. GENERAL Albert, Prince, Martin. Smith, Elder 050 ,, „ 5 vols. Smith, Elder. Each 018 o Arnold, Dr., Stanley. 2 vols. Murray 012 o ,, „ Ward, Lock 020 Buxton, Sir T. F., C. Buxton. Murray 050 Oarlyle, Jane "Welsh, Letters of, Froude. 3 vols. Longmans 116 o Chambers, Robert, W. Chambers. Chambers 036 Cooper, Thomas, Life, by himself. Hodder, Stoughton 036 Davis, Thomas (Ireland), G. Duffy, Kegan Paul 012 o Dick, Robert (geologist), Smiles. Murray 012 o Dora, Sister, Margaret Lonsdale. Kegan Paul 026 Edward, Thomas (naturalist), Smiles. Murray 060 Fox, Caroline, Extracts from Journals. Smith, Elder 076 Fry, Elizabeth, Mrs. Pitman. Allen 036 Houghton, Lord, Reid. 2 vols. Cassell 112 o Howard (Prison Reformer), Stoughton. Hodder, Stoughton 076 Kemtale, Frances (" Fanny "), Records of my Girlhood. Bentley o 6,0 ,, ,, Records of Later Life. Bentley 060 Lawrence, Henry, Edwards and Merivale. Smith, Elder 012 o ,, Temple. Macmillan 026 Lawrence, Lord, Bosworth Smith. 2 vols. Smith, Elder 1 1 o Mazzini, Joseph, Life and Writings. 6 vols. Smith, Elder. Each 046 More, Hannah, Charlotte Yonge. Allen 036 Osborne, Dorothy, Letters. Griffith, Farran 060 Roland, Mme., Mathilde Blind. Allen 036 Shaftesbury, 7th Earl, Hodder. Cassell 076 Siddons, Mrs., Mrs. Kennard. Allen 036 Stael, Madame de, Miss Duffy. Allen 036 Tyndale, Demaus. Religious Tract Society 050 Wilberforce, William, Bishop Wilberforce. Murray 060 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 23 Biography — General, continued £ *. d. Lives of Archbishops of Canterbury, Hook. 1 2 vols. Bentley 900 Lives of the Lord Chancellors, Campbell. 10 vols. Murray. Each 060 Lives of the Judges of England, Foss. 9 vols. Murray o. p. Lives of the Chief Justices, Campbell. 4 vols. Murray. Each 060 Plutarch's Lives, Stewart and Long. 4 vols. (Bonn's Library) Bell. Each 036 [For Dictionaries of Biography see Books of Reference. ] CHILDREN'S BOOKS [Notes and Suggestions. — It has been possible to make only a small selection from the multitude of children's books in existence. The books named have been care- fully chosen as being either old-established favourites or new books which bid fair to become so ; and all have passed the test of having been actually enjoyed by intelligent children.1 I. STORIES AND TALES £. s. d. Alcott, Little Women (and others). Routledge o i o Andersen, Hans, Fairy Tales. Bell 030 Arabian Nights. Paterson 050 Austin, Stella, Stumps. Masters 026 „ Rags and Tatters. Masters 030 Ballantyne, The Coral Island. Nelson 036 „ The Dog Crusoe and his Master (and others). Nelson 036 Blue Fairy Book, A. Lang. Longmans 060 Burnett, Mrs. F. H., Little Lord Fauntleroy. Warne 060 Brock, Mrs. Oarey, Children at Home. Seeley 050 Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Macmillan 026 ,, Through the Looking Glass. Macmillan 026 Cedar Creek. Religious Tract Society 020 Charlesworth, Miss, Ministering Children. Seeley. 026 Church, A. J., Stories from Homer. Seeley 050 „ Stories from Virgil. Seeley 050 „ Stories from Herodotus. Seeley 050 ,, Stories from the Greek Tragedians. Seeley 050 ,, Three Greek Children. Seeley 036 ,, Heroes and Kings. Seeley 016 Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (and others). Routledge o 1 o Defoe, Robinson Crusoe. Macmillan 046 Elliott, Miss, Copsley Annals, preserved in Proverbs. Seeley 050 Ewing, Mrs., Jan of the Windmill (and others). Bell. Each 030 G-atty, Mrs., Aunt Judy's Tales. Bell 036 Grimm, Fairy Tales. Warne 026 Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates. Low 010 Hawthorne, N., Tanglewood Tales. Routledge 020 ,, The Wonder Book. Routledge 020 Henty, Facing Death (and others). Blackie 050 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 25 Children's Books — Stories and Tales, continued Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days. Macmillan Keary, Miss, The Heroes of Asgard. Macmillan Kingsley, C, The Water Babies. Macmillan ,, Madam How and Lady Why. Macmillan „ The Heroes. Macmillan Kingston, Three Midshipmen (and others). Griffith, Farran Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare. Marryat, Children of the New Forest. „ Masterman Ready. „ Settlers in Canada. Martineau, Miss, Feats on the Fiord. ,, Peasant and Prince. „ Settlers at Home. Mayne Reid, Boy Hunters (and others). Molesworth, Mrs., Macmillan Routledge Routledge Routledge Routledge Routledge Routledge Routledge Macmillan. Each Carrots. Us. Rosy. A Christmas Child. The Cuckoo Clock. Grandmother Dear. £ o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o „ Four Winds Farm. Macmillan o Ouida, Bimbi. Chatto o „ Dog of Flanders. Chatto o Paget, The Charcoal Burners. Masters o „ The Hope of the Katzekopfs. Masters o Stevenson, Treasure Island. Cassell o „ Kidnapped. Cassell o Thackeray, The Rose and the Ring. Smith, Elder o The Bishop's Little Daughter. Masters o The Children of Blackberry Hollow. Nisbet o The Cherry Stones. Routledge o The Swiss Family Robinson. Routledge o Tip Cat. Smith, Innes o Verne, Tigers and Traitors (and others). Low o "Warner, Miss, The Christmas Stocking. Nisbet o „ Mr. Rutherford's Children. Nisbet o Wilberforce, Bishop, Agathos (and other Sunday Stories) Seeley o "Witt, Myths of Hellas {trans. Younghusband). Longmans o Yonge, Miss, A Book of Golden Deeds. Macmillan o ,, The Little Duke (and others). Macmillan o (See also Historical Novels and Tales.) II. PO'ETRY Patmore, The Children's Garland from the Best Poets. Macmillan o Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses. Longmans o Woods, Miss, Three School Poetry Books, (i) Macmillan o „ ,, ,, (2) and (3) Macmillan. Each o d. o 6 6 6 6 6 6 o o o o o o 6 6 4 6 5 o 2 6 4 6 26 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Children's Books, continued III. PICTURE BOOKS £ s. d. Oaldecott, 16 Picture Books. Routkdge. Each o I o n „ in 2 vols. Routledge. Each o 10 6 „ „ in 4 vols. Routledge. Each 050 Crane, The Baby's Opera. Routledge 050 The Baby's Bouquet. Routledge 050 The Baby's Own vEsop. Routledge 050 Aladdin's Picture Book. Routledge 050 S Picture Books. Routledge. Each 010 21 ,, on linen. Routledge. Each o 1 o Greenaway, Kate, Marigold Garden. Routledge 060 „ The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Routledge 060 „ The Language of Flowers. Routledge 036 „ Under the Window (Rhymes). Routledge 060 „ A Day in a Child's Life. Routledge 050 „ Little Ann and other Poems. Routledge 050 „ Mother Goose. Routledge is., is. 6d., and 020 Lear, Nonsense Drolleries. Warne 016 Book of Nonsense. Warne 060 IV. SCIENCE BOOKS Common objects of the Country. Routledge o 1 o Buckland, F. T., Curiosities of Natural History, 4 series. Bentley. Each 036 Buckley, Arabella, Life and Her Children. Stanford 060 ,, Winners in Life's Race. 2 vols. Stanford. Each 046 „ Fairy Land of Science. Stanford 060 „ Through Magic Glasses. Stanford 060 Giberne, Agnes, The World's Foundations. Seeley 050 „ Sun, Moon, and Stars. Seeley 050 „ Among the Stars. Seeley 050 Henslow, Botany for Beginners. Stanford 026 Kingsley, C, Madam How and Lady Why. Macmillan 036 ,, Glaucus, or Wonders of the Sea Shore. Macmillan 036 Kitchener, A Year's Botany. Longmans 050 Wood, J. G., Homes without Hands. Longmans 010 6 „ Romance of Animal Life. Isbister 036 „ Insects at Home. Longmans o 10 6 (For other books see Natural History and Botany. ) DOMESTIC ECONOMY To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. Dr. Johnson. I. CARE OF CHILDREN A mother is only a woman ; but she needs the love of Jacob, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Moses, the foresight of Joseph, and the firmness of Daniel. — Anon. £ .. d Babies and how to Rear them, Sonnenschei?i 006 Barrett, Howard, Management of Infancy. Routledge 026 West, Dr. Charles, Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases. Longmans 026 Suggestions to Mothers on the Management of their Children, by a Mother. Revised by a Physician. Churchill 010 6 Mason, Home Education. Kegan Paul 036 II. COOKERY "Mind me and mark me; don't neglect your cookery. Kissing don't last, cookery do." — Mrs. Berry in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. Buckton, Mrs., Health in the House. Longmans 020 „ . Food and Home Cookery. Longmans 026 Tegetmeier, Household Management and Cookery. Macmillan o 1 o Church, A. H., Food. Chapman, Hall 030 Buck, Mrs., The Little Housewife. Simpkin o 1 o Williams, Mattieu, The Chemistry of Cookery. Chatto 060 Lincoln, Boston School Kitchen Text Book. Roberts Brothers 026 Thompson, Sir H., Food and Feeding. Warne 036 Wright, Miss Guthrie, The School Cookery Book. Macmillan o 1 o 28 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Domestic Economy, continued III. GARDENING To have a garden well ordered needs memory, decision, and forethought. — Anon. £ s. d. Watts, Flowers and the Flower Garden. Warne o i o Jerrold, Our Kitchen Garden. Chatto o i 6 "Wood, Hardy Perennials and Old-Fashioned Garden Flowers. Upcott Gill 050 Buckton, Mrs., Window Gardening. Longmans 036 „ My Lady's Garden. M. Ward 010 Robinson, The English Flower Garden. Murray 015 o IV. HEALTH AND THE HOME The House is a fine house when good folks are within. — George Herbert. Barnett, Mrs., The Making of the Home. Cassell o 1 6 Buckton, Mrs., Health in the House. Longmans 020 Chambers, Manual of Diet in Health and Disease. Smith, Elder 010 6 Combe, Physiology applied to Health and Education. Simpkin 046 Corfleld, Health. . Kegan Paul 060 „ The Laws of Health. Longmans 016 Health Lectures for the People, Birmingham, Edinburgh, and Manchester Series. Heywood. Each o 1 o Kingsley, C, Sanitary and Social Essays. Macmillan 036 Miller, Mrs., The House of Life. Chatto 026 Newsholme, A Manual of Personal Hygiene and Public Health. Sonnenschein 026 Parkes, Personal Care of Health. S.P. C.K. 010 Richardson, Dr., Health and Life. Daldy 076 „ Health and Occupation. S.P. C.K. 010 "Wilson, Healthy Life and Healthy Dwellings. Churchill 050 „ Handbook of Hygiene and Sanitary Science. Churchill 010 6 Handicrafts for Handy People. Simpkin, Marshall 020 EDUCATION [Notes and Suggestions. — There are a large number of books about Education, of which the following are among the best. A very complete list of books on the subject will be found at the end of the Cyclopadia of Education (Sonnenschein, 12 parts, Jd. each, or complete, 7s. 6d.) The Blue-books and Reports quoted here refer mainly to England and Wales.] Be sure everybody suffers when education goes wrong. The failures are the lives of men. The teacher's workshop floor is strewed, not with shavings and wasted wood, but with wasted years and broken lives. — Thring. I. ELEMENTARY £ s. d. Craik, The State and Education. Macmillan 036 Arnold, Matthew, Reports on Elementary Schools. Macmillan 036 „ Essay on " Schools " in vol. ii. " Reign of Queen Victoria." 2 vols. Smith, Elder 1 12 o Owen, Elementary Education Acts (England and Wales). Knight 015 o Royal Commission on Elementary Education, 1886, Final Report. Eyre, Sfiottiswoode o 1 o (Nine other volumes contain evidence, returns, etc. ) Annual Report of Committee of Council on Education. Eyre, Sfiottiswoode. About 030 The Education Code, published annually. Eyre, Sfiottiswoode. About 006 Instructions to Inspectors, published annually. Eyre, Sfiottiswoode. About 006 II. TECHNICAL Magnus, Industrial Education. Kegan Paul 060 Playfair, Subjects of Social Welfare. Cassell 076 Technical Education in England and Wales, o 1 o [For the above and other pamphlets and leaflets apply to the National Association for the Promotion of Technical and Secondary Education, 14 Dean's Yard, Westminster.] Royal Commission on Technical Instruction, 1 88 1, General Report. Eyre, Sfiottiswoode 032 Science and Art Department Directory, Eyre, Sfiottiswoode About 006 ,, ,, „ Annual Report. Eyre, Sfiottiswoode 016 ,, „ „ Calendar and General Directory. Eyre, Sfiottiswoode o 1 4 3P A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Education, continued III. SECONDARY £ s. d. Arnold, M., " Porro Unum" in "Mixed Essays." Smith, Elder 090 „ Higher Schools and Universities in France. Macmillan 060 Royal Commission on Public Schools, 1864, Report. Eyre, Spottiswoode 036 (Three other volumes of evidence, etc.) Schools Enquiry Commission (Endowed and Middle Class Schools), Report. Eyre, Spottiswoode 046 ( Twenty other volumes, containing Reports on England and Foreign Countries, Evidence, etc.) Annual Report of Charity Commission. Eyre, Spottiswoode About 010 IV. UNIVERSITIES Laurie, Lectures on the Rise of Universities. Kegan Paul 060 Mullinger, History of the University of Cambridge. Longmans 026 Brodrick, „ „ Oxford. Longmans 026 Boase, Oxford (Historic Towns). Longmans 036 [Tor Reports of Examinations of Schools by Oxford, Cambridge, London University, and the College of Pj'eceptors ; Reports of Local Examinations of Oxford and Cambridge; Reports of Extension Work of Oxford, Cambridge, and London {address Charterhouse), apply to the various Secretaries. For general information about Universities and University Colleges, see the various Calendars published locally. ] V. EDUCATIONAL Abbott, B. A, Hints on Home Teaching. Ascham, Scholemaster. Bain, Education as a Science. Colbeck, Teaching of Modern Languages. Fearon, School Inspection. Fitch, Lectures on Teaching. Geikie, A., The Teaching of Geography. Landon, School Management (Elementary) Locke, Thoughts on Education (Ed. Quick) Shirreff, Miss, The Kindergarten. Spencer, Herbert, Education. Sully, Teacher's Handbook of Psychology. Thring, Theory and Practice of Education. „ Addresses. VI. HISTORY Compayre, History of Pedagogy. Quick, Essays on Educational Reformers. METHODS Seeley Bell 3 1 Kegan Paul Cambridge Press Macmillan 5 2 2 6 Cambridge Press Macmillan 5 2 Kegan Paul 1. Cambridge Press Sonnenschein 6 3 1 6 4 Williams, Norgate Longmans Cambridge Press Unwin *Y 2 6 4 5 6 6 6 Sonnenschein 6 Longmans 5 GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS [Notes and Suggestions. — In Section 5, " Travels" some books out of print are set down. Very feiv of the best books of Travel are now to be had new. They must be read at a Library, or bought second hand. In the same section, the sub-section ' ' Europe " appears very incomplete. The ordinary Guide Books {section 6) to a large extent take the place of Narratives. In section 7, " Atlases" some German works are put down. German maps are the finest, and the German names will present few difficulties to any one with the very slightest knowledge of a few German words, .] Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Daniel xii. 4. I. GENERAL 1. TEXT-BOOKS £ s. d. Grove, Sir George, Primer of Geography. Macmillan o 1 o Geikie, Elementary Geography of the British Isles. Macmillan 010 Green, J. R. & A. S., Short Geography of the British Isles. Macmillan 036 Chisholm, Longman's School Geography. Longmans 036 Mill, H. R., Elementary General Geography. Macmillan 036 Johnston, Keith, Physical, Historical, Political, and De- scriptive Geography. Stanford 012 o 2. REFERENCE Reolus, Universal Geography, translated. Europe, 5 vols. ; Asia, 4 vols. ; Africa, 3 vols. ; more to follow. Virtue Each 1 1 o Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel. 6 vols. 1. "Europe," by Rudlerand Chisholm; 2. "Asia," by Keane ; 3. "Africa," by Keith Johnston and Raven- stein ; 4. " N. America," by Hayden and Selwyn ; 5. " S. America," by Bates ; 6. " Australasia," by Wallace. Stanford Each 1 1 o Hunter, Imperial Gazetteer of India. 2d edition. 1 4 vols. Triibner 330 Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles. Black 1 16 o D 32 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Geography and Travels, continued II. PHYSICAL i. GENERAL TEXT-BOOKS „ . . £ s. d. Geikie, A., Primer of Physical Geography. Macmillan o i o ,, Elementary Lessons in Physical Geography. Macmillan 046 Hinman, Eclectic Physical Geography. Van Antwerp N. York 060 Reclus, The Earth, translated by Keane. Virtue 1 1 o „ The Ocean, translated by Keane. Virtue 1 1 o 2. SPECIAL SUBJECTS Findlay, Text-book of Ocean Meteorology, edited by Martin. Laurie 012 o Wallace, A. R., Tropical Nature. Macmillan 012 o „ Island Life. Macmillan 018 o „ The Geographical Distribution of Animals. 2 vols. Macmillan 220 3. SPECIAL REGIONS Ramsay, Sir A, The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain. 5th edition. Stanford 015 o G-eikie, A, The Scenery of Scotland. Macmillan o 12 6 Hull, The Physical Geology and Geography of Ireland. Stanford 070 Blanford, Climates and Weather of India. Macmillan 012 6 III. HISTORICAL 1. GEOGRAPHY APPLIED TO HISTORY Taylor, I., Words and Places. Macmillan 060 Freeman, The Historical Geography of Europe. 2 vols. Longmans 1 1 1 6 „ English Towns and Districts. Macmillan o 14 o Lucas, Introduction to a Historical Geography of the British Colonies. Clarendon Press 046 „ Historical Geography of the British Colonies. Vol. I. 5s. ; vol. II. 7s. 6d. Clarendon Press 012 6 2. HISTORY OF GEOGRAPHY a. ANCIENT. Tozer, Primer of Classical Geography. Macmillan Kiepert, Manual of Ancient Geography. Macmillan Bunbury, A History of Ancient Geography. 2 vols. Murray A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 33 Geography and Travels — History, continued b. MEDIEVAL. £ s. d. Yule, Book of Sir Marco Polo. 2 vols. Murray 330 Marco Polo, Wright Bell o 5 o o c. MODERN. Major, Prince Henry the Navigator. Asher 1 5 Markham, Threshold of the Unknown Region. Low 076 The World's Great Explorers and Explorations. Philip 1. John Davis, by C. Markham. 2. Palestine, by Major Conder. 3. Magellan, and the Pacific, by Dr. Guillemard. 4. Mungo Park and the Niger, by J. Thomson (and others). Each 046 Markham, Fifty Years' Work of the Royal Geographical Society. Murray O. P. Palestine Exploration Fund. Twenty-one Years' Work in the Holy Land. Bent ley 036 IV. COMMERCIAL 1. TEXT-BOOKS Mill, Elementary Commercial Geography. Cambridge Press o 1 o Ohisholm, Handbook of Commercial Geography. Longmans 016 o 2. REFERENCE Yeats, Manuals of Commerce. Philip. Each 060 1. Natural History of the Raw Materials of Commerce. 2. Technical History of Commerce. 3. Growth and Vicissitudes of Commerce. 4. Recent and Existing Commerce. Yeats, The Golden Gates of Trade. Philip 046 „ Map Studies of the Mercantile World. Philip 046 V. TRAVELS (See also Travellers and Discoverers under Biography. ) i. GENERAL Cook, Captain, First Voyage by Hawksworth, Second and Third by Himself. Black ° 3 6 Darwin, C, Naturalist's Voyage round the World. Murray 036 also Ward, Lock 020 34 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Geography and Travels — Travels, continued £ s. Moseley, Notes of a Naturalist on the Challenger. Macmillan I I Dilke, Greater Britain. Macmillan o 6 „ Problems of Greater Britain. Macmillan o 1 2 Galton, Vacation-Tourists. 3 vols. Macmillan O. P. 2. EUROPE Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. 3 vols. Longmans Gilbert and Church, The Dolomite Mountains. Longmans King, Italian Valleys of the Alps. Longmans Freshfleld, The Italian Alps. Longmans Whymper, Scrambles amongst the Alps. Murray Tyndall, Hours of Exercise in the Alps. Longmans Borrow, The Bible in Spain. Murray "Wallace, D. Mackenzie, Russia. Cassell Forbes, Norway and its Glaciers. Black Seebohm, H., Siberia in Europe. Murray 3. ASIA Preshfleld, The Central Caucasus and Bashan. Longmans Grove, The Frosty Caucasus. Longmans Bryce, Transcaucasia and Ararat. Macmillan Stanley, Dean, Sinai and Palestine. Murray Kinglake, Eothen. Blackwood Tristram, Land of Israel. 5. P. C. K. Palmer, Desert of the Exodus. 2 vols. Deighton, Bell Palgrave, W. G, Central and Eastern Arabia. Macmillan Burnaby, A Ride to Khiva. Cassell Curzon, Russia in Central Asia. Longmans Vambery, Travels in Central Asia. Murray Seebohm, H., Siberia in Asia. Murray Tennent, Ceylon. 2 vols. Longmans Hooker, Himalayan Journals. 2 vols. Murray Williams, The Middle Kingdom. 2 vols. Allen Gill, The River of Golden Sand. Murray Guillemard, Voyage of the Marchesa. Murray Wallace, A. R., The Malay Archipelago. Macmillan O. P. O. P. O. P. O. P. O. P. O. P. O 2 ° 5 O. P. O. P. O. P. O. P. o 9 O 12 o 6 o 10 O. P. o 6 I 1 I 1 I o 14 O. P. O. P. 2 2 7 1 I o 6 4. AFRICA Hooker and J. Ball, Morocco and the Great Atlas. Macmillan Thomson, Joseph, Travels in the Atlas. Philip Livingstone, Missionary Travels in South Africa. Murray ,, Expedition to the Zambesi, Murray „ Last Journals. 2 vols. Murray 1 1 o 090 076 076 o 15 o A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 35 Geography and Travels— Travels— Africa, continued Thomson, Through Masai Land. Low < Burton, Sir R., Zanzibar. 2 vols. Tinsley Speke, Source of the Nile. W. Blackwood Baker, Sir S., Great Basin of the Nile. 2 vols. Macmillan Stanley, H. M., Through the Dark Continent. Low „ In Darkest Africa. 2 vols. Low Schweinfurth, The Heart of Africa. 2 vols. Low Drummond, Tropical Africa. Hodder, Stoughton ■ Galton, Travels in South Africa. Ward, Lock • s. d. 7 6 o. p. O. P. O. P. 3 6 2 o 15 o 3 6 2 o Low Low Murray Murray 7 7 12 2 12 o 15 5. AMERICA Butler, W. P., The Great Lone Land. Marshall, W. G, Through America. Belt, Naturalist in Nicaragua. Bates, Naturalist on the Amazons. 2 vols. ,, Cheaper Edition, but not complete. Wallace, A. R., Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro. Ward, Lock Wells, Three thousand miles through Brazil. 2 vols. Low Ball, Notes of a Naturalist in South America. Kegan Paul Humboldt, Personal Narrative of Travels in America. 3 vols. (Bonn's Library.) Bell 6. ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC Ross, Sir James, Voyage in the Southern and Ant- arctic Regions. 2 vols. Murray Dufferin, Lord, Letters from High Latitudes. Murray Osborn, Discovery of a N. W. passage by Captain M'Clure. Blackwood M'Olintock, Fate of Sir John Franklin. Murray Nordenskiold, The Voyage of the Vega. 2 vols. (Popular Edition, 6s.) Macmillan Payer, New Lands within the Arctic Circle. 2 vols. Macmillan VI. GUIDE BOOKS Ball, J., The Alpine Guide. 3 vols. (Separately — East, 10s. 6d. ; West, 6s. 6d. ; Central, 7s. 6d.) Longmans Baedeker's Guides are perhaps best for the beaten tracks, and contain the best maps. Dulau Various Murray's Guides are perhaps best for the towns and out-of- the-way places. Murray Hare's Volumes on Italy, France, Spain, etc., are also useful. G. Allen Various 0. P. 7 6 0. P. 7 6 4 6 Various 36 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Geography and Travels — Guide Books, continued £ o. d. Baddeley and "Ward's Thorough Guides are the best for the Tourist districts of the British Isles. Dulau Various Galton, The Art of Travel. Murray 076 Freshfield and "Wharton, Hints to Travellers. Royal Geographical Society 060 VII. MAPS 1. ENGLISH ATLASES "MurtuminParvo"oftheWorld. W. and A. K.Johnston 026 Pocket Atlases, England, Scotland, Ireland. J. Walker and Co. Each o 1 o ,, World, British Colonies. J. Walker and Co. Each 026 " Handy Reference " of "World /. Walker and Co. o 7 6 Longman's "New." Edit. Chisholm. Longmans o 12 6 " Cosmographic." W. and A. K. Johnston 1 1 o "London." Stanford 1 10 o " Handy Royal." W. and A. K. Johnston 212 6 "Royal." W. and A. K. Johnston 660 "Imperial." Philip 800 " Historical." W. and A. K. Johnston 026 2. GERMAN ATLASES Andree's Atlas. Velhagen and Klasing, Leipzig 200 Droysen's Historischer Hand Atlas. Velhagen and Klasing, Leipzig 250 Stieler's Hand Atlas. Perthes, Gotha 315 o „ New Edition coming out in 32 parts. Each 020 Berghaus Physikalischer Atlas. Perthes, Gotha 660 „ ,, New Edition coming out in 25 parts. Each 036 Spruner-Menke Historischer Atlas. 3 vols. Perthes, Gotha 900 3. WALL MAPS Either Stanford's or Philip's or W. and A. K. Johnston's Library Maps, — a Map of the World, a Continent, or one of the three Kingdoms, mounted on rollers, costs from one to two guineas. 4. GOVERNMENT MAPS The Agents for the Ordnance and Geological Maps are — In England and Wales, Edward Stanford ; in Scotland, J. Menzies & Co. ; in Ireland, HODGES, Figgis, & Co. The Agent for the Admiralty Charts is S. C. Potter. Official Catalogues are published both of the Maps and the Charts, also Index-Maps. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS In proportion as the structure of a Government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened. Washington. * A convenient list of some of the more important Parliamentary papers, Reports of Commissions and Committees, Acts of Parliavient, and the like, can be obtained for 6d. from Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode, East Harding Street, London, E. C, to whom all correspondence about Government Publications should be addressed, if local booksellers are not willing or able to procure what is required ; and from whom all the publi- cations mentioned below can be obtained by post. The annual amount of matter published is enormous. Thus for the year 1888 the papers printed for the House of Commons alone are spread over 1 1 1 large volumes, divided as follows : — Volumes 1-7. — Public Bills introduced by the Government or by private Members, most of which do not become law. Volumes 8-23. — Reports from Select Committees, specially ap- pointed by Parliament on subjects such as Army and Navy Estimates, Poor Law Relief, Sea Fisheries, Sunday Closing Acts, Sweating System, Town Holidays, and the like. These include as a rule a great deal of evidence from witnesses. Volumes 24-65. — Reports from Royal Commissions and De- partments. These include Reports from Royal Commissions on e.g. Elementary Education Acts, Market Rights and Tolls ; reports from Permanent Government Departments, such as the Education Department or the Local Government Board ; and Reports as to Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Factories, Prisons, Police, and the like. Volumes 66-1 11. — Accounts, Returns, and Miscellaneous Reports and Statistics. These include the Army and Navy and Civil Service Estimates for the Year ; Commercial Reports from our Consuls and others ; Railway, Trade, Friendly Society, etc. Returns ; and some valuable volumes of general statistics. A full list of all the above will be found in an annual volume called Numerical List of Sessional Papers, price about 2s. 3d. A few words only as to the above mass of printed material and other blue-books can be given here. 38 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Government Publications, continued 1. Copies of Bills which are before Parliament in either House can be obtained during the Session from Eyre and Spottiswoode, by post, at prices from id. upwards. 2. Acts of Parliament are bound up after the Session in volumes, price about 3s. ; but all modern Acts of Parliament can be bought singly at prices from id. upwards, seldom exceeding is. A cheap edition of all the Statutes from the beginning is being published at 7s. 6d. a volume ; the whole, down to the present time, to cost about 8 guineas. 3. Reports of Select Committees and Royal Commissions. — The actual Reports are published separately as a rule, and do not cost much, say from 3d. to 4s. But the volumes of evidence, which are often more valuable than the Reports themselves, may rise to 8s. or more, the price depending on the size and number of maps or tables. Any one ordering these should insist on having the Index to the Evidence, (sometimes published separately) which is a most valuable help. Many valuable Reports of past Commissions and Committees may still be had, e.g. Technical Instruction, Friendly Societies, Ordnance, Forestry, Housing of the Working Classes, Irish Industries, National Insurance, Depression of Trade, Intemperance, and the like. 4. Reports of Departments published annually. — The Report of the Local Government Board costs about 3s. 6d. ; that of the Education Department about 4s. 6d. There are many others. 5. Miscellaneous Papers. — There are many papers, such as Consular Reports from abroad, Reports on Agriculture, Mining, Merchant Shipping, Poor Rates, Building and Friendly Societies, particulars of which can be had from Eyre and Spottiswoode on inquiry. 6. Statistics. — There are some very useful volumes published annually on many subjects. The Labour Statistics (Trade Unions, etc.) should be specially noted. The following cheap collections of statistics, taken from the larger volumes and published annually, should be in every public library ; and the first, commonly called the Statistical Abstract, should be more widely known, as it gives many interesting and valuable tables about the United Kingdom. £ s. d. Statistical Abstract, United Kingdom. Eyre, Spottiswoode 010 „ ,, British India. Eyre, Spottiswoode 010 „ „ Colonies. Eyre, Spottiswoode 010 ,, „ Foreign Countries. Eyre, Spottiswoode 010 HISTORY [Notes and Suggestions. — "No one can really study any particular period of history unless he knows a great deal about what preceded and what came after it. He cannot seriously study a generation of men as if it could be isolated and examined like a piece of inorganic matter. He has to bear in mind that it is a portion of a living whole which is under his observation. The work of the constructive imagination comes in where the work of investigation ends. In the end this is a work which every man must do for himself. He will have to pick out from the manifold facts of history those which seem to him to be more important than the others, and it will never happen that any two men will be precisely agreed as to the relative importance of any set of facts." S. R. Gardiner. Some books on the History of Civilisation will be found under II. I. Europe. Neither the History of Religion nor Military and Naval History are dealt with in detail here, but a few of the best books will be found in the following list. See also Biography, Religious Leaders and Soldiers and Sailors.] The years teach much which the days never know. — Emerson. Before man parted for this earthly strand, While yet upon the verge of heaven he stood, God put a heap of letters in his hand, And bade him make with them what word he could. And man has turned them many times ; made Greece, Rome, England, France ; — yes, nor in vain essay'd Way after way, changes that never cease ! The letters have combined, something was made. Matthew Arnold. I. ANCIENT HISTORY i. GENERAL AND ORIENTAL i. ELEMENTARY BOOKS. Smith, Philip, Student's Ancient History of the East. Murray 076 Bosworth Smith, Carthage and the Carthaginians. Smith, Elder 050 Sayce, Light from Ancient Monuments. Religious Tract Society 026 £ s. d. 4 o A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS History — Ancient, continued £ *. d. Sayce, Assyria, her Princes and People. Religious Tract Society 026 „ Ancient Empires of the East. Macmillan 060 See also Non-Christian Systems, Buddhism, and others. S.P.C.K. Each 026 2. MORE ADVANCED BOOKS. Duncker, History of Antiquity {trans. Abbott). 6 vols. Bentley. Each 1 1 o Layard, Nineveh and its Remains. Murray 076 Banke, Von, Universal History {trans.) Vol. I. Kegan Paul 016 o Ra-wlinson, Five Great Monarchies. 3 vols. Murray 220 Records of the Past. 1 2 vols. Bagster. Each 036 „ New series. Bagster. Each 046 2. EGYPTIAN Birch, Egypt from the Earliest Times to B.C. 300. Rawlinson, Ancient Egypt. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Article " Egypt." Brugsch-Bey, Egypt under the Pharaohs. 2 vols. 3. JEWISH (The Revised Versions of the Old and New Testaments can be purchased separately at various prices. The Oxford Bible for Teachers (Clarendon Press), the notes to which can be had separately, will be found very useful). Maclear, A Class Book of Old Testament History. Macmillan 046 Student's Old Testament History. Murray 076 Edersheim, The Bible History. 7 vols. Religious Tract Society. Each 026 G-eikie, C, Hours with the Bible. 6 vols. Cassell. Each 060 Stanley, Dean, Lectures on the Jewish Church. 3 vols. Murray o 18 o „ Sinai and Palestine. Murray. 012 o Men of the Bible Series. Nisbet. Each 026 Ewald, History of Israel {trans.) 8 vols. Longmans S 18 o Wellhausen, Prolegomena to the History of Israel (with a reprint of the Article " Israel " from the Encyclopaedia Britannica). Black o 15 o Schurer, The Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ. 3 vols. T. & T. Clark 1 1 1 6 Milman, History of the Jews. 3 vols. (Vol. III. includes the Period from the Christian era.) Murray 012 o S.P.C.K. 2 Unwin S Black Murray 1 12 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 41 History — Jewish, continued £ ,. d. Outlines of Jewish History from B.C. 586 to Christian era 1885. Longmans 036 Smith, Dr. W., Dictionary of the Bible. 3 vols. Murray 550 . „ abridgedj \ J ° Josephus, Whiston's Translation. 2 vols. Bell 070 4. GREEK , ELEMENTARY. Fyffe, Greek History. Macmillan Cox, Athenian Empire. Longmans Sankey, Spartan and Theban Supremacies. Longmans Plutarch, Lives (trans. Langhorne). 4 vols. Warne Smith, Dr. W., Student's History of Greece. Murray Mahafly, Social Life in Greece. Macmillan „ Alexander's Empire. Unwin ADVANCED. Abbott, E„ History of Greece. Grote, History of Greece. 10 vols. Curtius, History of Greece {trans. Ward) Longmans o 10 6 Murray. Each 050 5 vols. Bentley. Each o 18 o "Wordsworth, Greece, edited by Tozer (Geography). Murray I 1 1 6 Herodotus, Translated by G. C. Macaulay. 2 vols. Macmillan o 18 o Thuoydides, Translated by Jowett. 2 vols. (2d vol. being notes on Greek). Clarendon Press 112 o Xenophon, Translated by Dakyns. Vol. I. Macmillan 010 6 3. REFERENCE. Schomann, Antiquities of Greece. Rivington o. P. Harrison, J. E., Monuments and Mythology of Athens. Macmillan o 10 o Abbot, E., Skeleton Outline of Greek History. Longmans 026 Tozer, Lectures on Greek Geography. Murray 090 5. ROMAN . ELEMENTARY. Creighton, Roman History. Merivale, A general History of Rome. Ihne, Rome to its Capture by the Gauls. Arnold, Dr., The Second Punic War, ed. W. T Macmillan Longmans Longmans Arnold. Macmillan 010 076 026 086 Longmans £ o s. 2 d. 6 Longmans o 2 6 Longmans o 2 6 Murray o 7 6 Griffin 8 6 Longmans o 2 Bell 5 o Bell o io 6 42 ^ GZ7/ZJ.E TO 77ZE CHOICE OF BOOKS History — Roman, continued Merivale, The Roman Triumvirates. Capes, Early Roman Empire. ,, Age of the Antonines. The Student's Gibbon. 2. ADVANCED. Mommsen, History of Rome (trans. Dickson). 4 vols. Vols. I. and II. 21s. ; Vol. III. 10s. 6d. ; Vol. IV. 15 s. Bentley 266 „ History of the Roman Provinces. 2 vols. Bentley 1 16 o Merivale, The Romans under the Empire. 8 vols. Longmans. Each 060 G-ibbcm, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 8 vols. (Also Warne. 4 vols. Each 2s.) Murray 300 3. REFERENCE, CHRONOLOGY, ETC. Ramsay, Manual of Roman Antiquities. Matheson, Skeleton outline of Roman History. Dyer, History of the City of Rome. Burn, Old Rome. {See for both Greek and Roman History — Smith's Classical Dictionary, Murray, \%s., and Dictionaiy of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 2 Vols., Murray, 3W. 6d. each {cheaper editions of both Js. 6d.); also the Public School Atlas of Ancient Geography, Longmans, "]s. 6d.) II. MEDI/EVAL AND MODERN HISTORY 1. EUROPE ELEMENTARY. Freeman, General Sketch of European History. Macmillan 036 Church, R. W., The Beginning of the Middle Ages. Longmans 026 Gibbon, The Student's Gibbon. Murray 076 Seebohm, The Era of the Protestant Revolution. Longmans 026 Lodge, R., Modern Europe. Murray 076 Nichol, Tables of European Literature, History, and Art, 200-1882. Maclehose 076 . ADVANCED. Gibbon, Complete Edition. 8 vols. Murray 300 Hallam, Middle Ages. 3 vols. Murray o 12 o Bryce, Holy Roman Empire. Macmillan 076 Freeman, Historical Essays. Series I. Macmillan o 10 6 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 43 History — Europe, continued £ s. d. Oreighton, Papacy during the Reformation. 4 vols. Longmans 2 14 o Banke, Latin and Teutonic Nations. Bell 036 Hausser, Period of the Reformation. 2 vols. Strahan 018 o Gardiner, Thirty Years' War. Longmans 026 Dyer, Modern Europe. 6 vols. Bell 212 6 Fyffe, Modem Europe, 1 792-1 848. 3 vols. Cassell. Each 012 o Rose, A Century of Continental History, 1 780-1 880. Stanford 060 (For the relation of Europe to the Saracens see Freeman, The Saracens, Mac- millan, y, ; and Bosworth Smith, Mohammed and Mohammedanism, Smith, Elder, &s. 6d.) 3. HISTORY OP CIVILISATION. Guizot, History of Civilisation from the fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution. 3 vols. Bell Each 036 Leoky, History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne. 2 vols. Longmans 016 o Lecky, History of Rationalism in Europe. 2 vols. Longmans 016 o Burckhardt, Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy. Sonnenschein o 15 o Symonds, The Renaissance in Italy. 7 vols. Smith, Elder 512 o a. GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND i. ENGLAND (A) POLITICAL 1. ELEMENTARY. u. General Gardiner, Outline of English History. Longmans 026 Ransome, A Short History of England. Longmans 036 Gardiner, A Student's History of England. 3 vols. Vol. I. (55-1509), Vol. II. (1 509-1689), Vol. III. (forthcoming). Longmans. Each 040 Green, J. R., Short History of the English People. Macmillan 086 Powell, Maokay, and Tout, History of England to 1887. 3 parts. Longmans. Each 026 Bright, J. F, History of England. 4 vols. Separately, Vol. I. 4s. 6d. ; II. 5s. ; III. 7s. 6d. ; IV. 6s. Longmans 130 b. Special Freeman, Old English History. Macmillan 06 o English History from Contemporary "Writers, edited by F. York Powell. Nutt. Each o 1 o [Already published, Edward III. and his Wars, 1327-1360; Misrule of Henry III. 1236-1251 ; Simon of Montfort, 1251-1265; Crusade of Richard I. (2s.); Strongbow's Conquest of Ireland ; Church and State under Henry II. ; England under Charles II.] 44 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS History — England, continued £ s. d. Epochs of Modern History. Longmans. Each 026 (Note especially Stubbs, The Early Plant agenels ; Seebohm, The Era of the Protestant Revolution; Creighton, The Age of Elizabeth ; Gardiner, The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution.) Twelve English Statesmen, edited by Professor M. Creighton. Macmillan. Each 026 [Already published, William the Conqueror, Henry II. Henry VII. Wolsey, Oliver Cromwell, William III. Walpole.] Historic Towns, edited by Professor Freeman and W. Hunt. Longmans. Each 036 [Already published, London, Exeter, Bristol, Oxford, Cinque Ports, Colchester, Carlisle, Winchester.] Cordery and Phillpotts, King and Commonwealth. Seeley 050 Molesworth, History of England, 1 832-1 874, abridged. Chapman, Hall 076 For Chronology — Acland and Ransome, Handbook of English Political History, from B.C. 55 to a.d. 1890. Longmans 060 (Abridged editions is. 6d. and 9d.) 2. ADVANCED BOOKS (arranged in chronological order). Gardiner and Mullinger, Introduction to the Study of English History. Kegan Paul 090 Early Britain, A series of books dealing with English History before 1100. S.P.C.K. Each 026 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, with Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England {tran s.) Bell 050 Green, J. R., Making of England. Macmillan 016 o „ Conquest of England. Macmillan 018 o Bright, W., Early English Church History. Clarendon Press 012 o Freeman, History of the Norman Conquest. 6 vols. Clarendon Press 5 9 6 „ Reign of William Rufus. 2 vols. Clarendon Press Church, R. W., Life of S. Anselm. Macmillan Norgate, The Angevin Kings. 2 vols. Macmillan Prothero, Simon de Montfort. Longmans Longman, History of Edward III. 2 vols. Longmans Wylie, History of England under Henry IV. 1st vol. published. Longmans Gairdner, The Paston Letters. 3 vols, Arber „ History of Richard III. Lo7igmans I 16 5 I 12 9 I 8 10 6 I 1 10 6 c a. d. o 3 6 o 12 o o 3 6 3 o i IO o o i o o 14 o A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 45 History — England, continued More, Sir Thos., History of Richard III. (ed. Lumby). Cambridge Press Jusserand, English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages. Unwin Oman, The Art of War in the Middle Ages. Unwin Bacon, Lord, History of the Reign of Henry VII. (ed. Lumby). Cambridge Press Brewer, Reign of Henry VIII. 2 vols. Murray Cavendish, Life of Wolsey. Routledge Seebohm, The Oxford Reformers. Longmans Frou.de, History of England (1529 to 1588). 12 vols. Longmans 220 Dixon, History of the Church of England during the Refor- mation. 3 vols. Routledge. Each 016 o Gardiner, History of England, 1603-1642. 10 vols. Each 6s. Longmans 300 ,, History of the Great Civil War, 1 642-1 647. 2 vols. .Vol. I. 2 is. ; II. 24s. Long?/ians 250 Ranke, History of England in the 17th Century {trans.) 6 vols. Clarendon Press 330 Clarendon, History of the Great Rebellion, edited Macray. 6 vols. Clarendon Press 250 Masson, Life and Times of Milton. 6 vols. Macmillan 580 Carlyle, Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell. 5 vols. Chapman, Hall 050 Hutchinson, Mrs., Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchin- son, edited Firth. 2 vols. Nimmo 220 Pepys, Diary. 4 vols. Sell. Each 050 Evelyn, Diary. 4 vols. Bell. Each 050 Burnet, Bishop, History of his own Times ( 1 6 _, 9- 1 7 1 3). Reeves 018 o Macaulay, History of England (latter part 17th Century). 2 vols. Longmans 050 ,, „ 8 vols. Longmans 280 ,, Essays. Longmans 026 Stanhope, Earl, History of the Reign of Queen Anne. 2 vols. Murray o 10 o „ „ History of England, 1 713-1783. 7 vols. Murray 115 o ,, Life of Pitt. 3 vols. Murray 1 16 o Lecky, History of England in the 18th Century. 8 vols. Longmans 740 Seeley, Expansion of England. Macmillan 046 Massey, History of England during the reign of George III. 4 vo ls. Longmans 140 Abbey and Overton, The English Church in the 18th Century. Longmans 076 46 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS History — England, continued £ s. d. Thackeray, The Four Georges. Smith, Elder o I 6 Napier, History of the Peninsular War. 6 vols. Warne I I o Martineau, Miss, History of England, 1800-1815. Bell 036 Walpole, Spencer, History of England, from 1 8 1 5. 6 vols. Longmans. Each 060 Cory, Guide to Modern English History (181 5-1835). 2 vols. Kegan Paul 140 M'Carthy, J., History of our own Times (1837-1880). 2 vols. Chatto 015 o Molesworth, History of England, 1 832-1 874. 3 vols. Chapman, Hall o 18 o Kinglake, History of the Invasion of the Crimea. 9 vols. Blackwood. Each 060 Greville's Journals. 8 vols. Longmans 280 The Annual Register. Longmans. Yearly 018 o (See also under Biography, especially Statesmen, and for Social History, etc. , see Political and Social Economy, Political Science, and Government Publications. ) 3. REFERENCE. Pulling and Low, Dictionary of English History. Cassell 1 1 o Stephen, L., Dictionary of National Biography. 25 vols. Published. Smith, Elder. Each 015 o Doyle, Official Baronage of England. 3 vols. Longmans 550 Haydn, Book of Dignities. Allen 1 10 o „ Dictionary of Dates. Ward, Lock 018 o Colbeck, Historical Atlas. Longmans 050 (B) CONSTITUTIONAL 1. ELEMENTARY. Freeman, Growth of the English Constitution. Macmillan 050 Hassall and Wakeman, Constitutional Essays. Longmans 050 Smith, P. V., English Institutions. Longmans 036 Langinead, Taswell, Constitutional History. Stevens, Haynes 1 1 o 2. ADVANCED. Stubbs, Constitutional History of England (to 1485). 3 vo l s - Clarendon Press 116 o Hallam, Constitutional History of England (1485-1760). 3 vols- Murray 012 o May, Constitutional History of England (1 760-1 870). 3 v °l s - Longmans o 18 o G-neist, History of the English Constitution {trans.) 2 vols. Clowes 1 12 o Bagehot, The English Constitution. Kegan Paul 076 Hearn, The Government of England. Longmans o 16 o {See also Political Science. ) A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 47 History, continued ii. SCOTLAND [NOTES AND SUGGESTIONS. — A picturesque and vivid, if not always trust- worthy, elementary view of Scottish History can be got from Scott's delightful Tales of a Grandfather, which should be supplemented by a more recent and less imaginative summary, such as MacArthur's. Burton's History is the best general authority after the thirteenth century ; for the earlier period, hoivever, Skene and Robertson should be substituted for it. Many periods of Scottish History are fully treated of in books on English History, such as Froude, Macaulay, and Lecky. By far the best account of the seventeenth century is in S. JZ. Gardiner's History of England, 1 603- 1642, and History of the Great Civil War.] 1. ELEMENTARY. £ >. d. Rhys, Celtic Britain. S.P.C.K. 030 MacArthur, Scotland. Macmillan 020 Armitage, The Connection between England and Scotland. Longmans o 1 6 Scott, Sir Walter, Tales of a Grandfather. 2 vols. Black 070 Mackenzie, History of Scotland. Nelson 050 The Scottish Church from the Earliest Times to 1881. (St. Giles's Lectures. First Series.) Chambers 050 2. ADVANCED. Skene, Celtic Scotland : a History of Ancient Albion. 3 vols. Douglas. Each 015 o Robertson, Scotland under her Early Kings. 2 vols. Douglas 1 16 o Burton, J. H., History of Scotland (up to 1748). 9 vols. Blackwood 330 Innes, Sketches of Early Scottish History. Edmonston, Douglas O. P. „ Lectures on Scottish Legal Antiquities. Edmonston, Douglas O. P. M'Crie, Life of John Knox. Blackwood 036 Life of Andrew Melville. Blackwood 060 Mignet, Mary Stuart {trans, by Scoble). Bentley 060 Hosack, Mary Queen of Scots and her Accusers. 2 vols. Blackwood I I o Skelton, Maitland of Lethington. Blackwood 012 6 Chambers, Domestic Annals of Scotland. 3 vols. CJiambers 200 Napier Mark, Life and Times of Montrose. 2 vols. ' Blackwood O. P. Memorials of Dundee. 3 vols. Blackwood o. P. E 48 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS History — Scotland, continued £ o. J. Stewart, Sketches of the Characters of the Highlanders of Scotland and of the Highland Regiments. 2 vols. Longmans o. P. Story, William Carstares (1649-1715). Macmillan 0120 Grub, Ecclesiastical History of Scotland. 4 vols. Hamilton 220 Annals of the Disruption. Simpkin 050 iii. IRELAND [Notes and Suggestions. — Hallam, Froude, Gardiner, Macaulay, and Lecky have each devoted special attention to the History of Ireland, so far as it synchronises with the periods of English History of which they treat, and the student will do well to consult their works as part of his advanced reading.] i. ELEMENTARY. Lawless, Miss, Ireland. Unwin 050 Walpole, C. &., Short History of Ireland. Kegan Paul 060 Thursfield, England and Ireland. Longmans o 1 6 Sullivan, New Ireland. Cameron o 1 o 2. ADVANCED. Stokes, G-. T., Ireland and the Celtic Church. Hodder, Stoughton 090 „ Ireland and the Anglo-Norman Church. Hodder, Stoughton 090 O'Curry, Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish. (Edited Dr. Sullivan.) 3 vols. Williams 220 Richey, Short History of the Irish People. Hodges, Figgis o 14 o Bagwell, Ireland under the Tudors. 2 vols. Longmans 112 o Hassencamp, Dr., History of Ireland {trans.) Sonnenschein 090 Beid, History of the Presbyterian Church. 3 vols. Griffin 012 6 Carte, Life of the Duke of Ormond. 6 vols. Clarendon Press 150 Hickson, Ireland in the 17th Century. 2 vols. Longmans 180 Prendergast, Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland. Longmans O. P. „ Ireland 1 660-1 690. Longmans O. P. Froude, English in Ireland. 3 vols. Longmans 018 o Lecky, Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland. Longmans O. P. Two Centuries of Irish History. Ed. Bryce. Kegan Paul o 16 o O'Brien, Barry, Fifty Years of Concessions to Ireland. 2 vols. Low. Each 016 o Duffy, Young Ireland. Simpkin, Marshall 050 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 49 History — Ireland, continued £ s. d. De Beaumont, Ireland, Social, Political, Religious (trans.) 2 vols. Bentley O. P. Kane, Industrial Ireland. Murray 060 Gilbert, J. T., Viceroys of Ireland. Duffy o 16 o (See especially Lecky's History of England in the \%th Century. ) *. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY Coxe, House of Austria. 4 vols. Bell 014 o Vambery, Hungary. Unwin 050 Ward, House of Austria during the Thirty Years' War. Macmillan 026 Leger, History of Austro-Hungary (trans.) Longmans o 10 6 .. FRANCE 1. ELEMENTARY. Jervis, Student's History of France. Murray 076 Yonge, Miss, History of France. Macmillan 036 Gardiner, Mrs., French Revolution. Longmans 026 Browning, Oscar, Modern France. Longmans o 1 o 2. ADVANCED. Kitchin, History of France to 1789. 3 vols. Clarendon Press 1 1 1 6 Guizot, Popular History of France (trans.) 8 vols. Low 440 Stephen, Sir J., Lectures on the History of France. 2 vols. Longmans 0. P. Poole, R. L., Dispersion of the Huguenots. Macmillan 060 Morley, John, Rousseau. 2 vols. Macmillan o 10 „ ,, Voltaire. Macmillan 050 De Tocqueville, France before the Revolution (trans.) Murray o 14 o Oarlyle, History of the French Revolution. 3 vols. Chapman, Hall 030 Mignet, History of the French Revolution (trans.) Bell 036 Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution. Clarendon Press 050 Stephens, Morse, The French Revolution. Vol. I. 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Tennyson, Works. ,, Lyrical Poems. Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night. Thomson, James, Poems. Vaughan, Poems. Whitman, "Walt, Poems (Selected). „ ,, Selections. Whittier, Poems. Wordsworth, Poems (ed. J. Morley). „ Selections. (M. Arnold.) ,, (Prof. Knight.) Chatto £ 6 d. O Kegan Paul Macmillan 3 7 6 6 Macmillan 4 6 eves, Turner 5 Routledge Bell 2 1 6 Chatto 6 W. Scott 1 Macmillan 4 6 Macmillan 7 6 Macmillan 4 6 Kegan Paul W. Scott 4 6 TRANSLATIONS OF ANCIENT AND MODERN FOREIGN POETS Aeschylus: in verse by Morshead (House of Atreus). Simpkin Aristophanes : in verse by Frere. (4 Plays.) Routledge Dante : in verse by Plumptre. 2 vols. Carv ' „ „ Longfellow. „ in prose by J. A. Carlyle. (Inferno.) A. J. Butler. Isbister Bell Routledge Bell Goethe : Faust, Bayard Taylor. Anster. 3) Homer (Purgatorio and Paradiso). Macmillan. Each Ward, Lock Routledge Iliad and Odyssey. Pope. Routledge. Each Iliad. Chapman. Routledge '„ Iliad. Lord Derby. 2 vols. Murray ", Iliad, in prose by Lang, Leaf, and E.Myers. Macmillan Odyssey, in prose by Butcher and Lang. Macmillan Horace : Conington. 2 vols. Lucretius : Munro. Omar Khayyam : The Rubaiyat. Fitzgerald. Pindar : in prose by Myers. Schiller : Wallenstein. Sophocles : in verse by Whitelaw. „ Campbell. Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus : in prose by Lang Macmillan Virgil : jEneid in verse, by Dryden. Routledge vEneid in prose, by Mackail. Macmillan ," Georgics in verse, by Rhoades. Kegan Paul Bell Bell Quaritch Macmillan Bell Longmans Kegan Paul 64 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Literature, continued II I. FICTION i. NOVELS AND TALES [Notes and Suggestions.—.!^™ other Novels which do not appear in this list will be found under Historical Novels and Tales and under Children's Books. The separate books actually named as tinder Scott and Dickens indicate those which are best worth reading /irst.~\ ' ' What are you reading, Miss — ? " " Oh ! it's only a novel ! ' ' replies the young lady ; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. " It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda"; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed ; in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language. — Jane Austen : Northanger Abbey. a. ENGLISH. £ ,. d. Ainsworth, Tower of London. Routledge 020 ,, Lancashire Witches, and others. Routledge 020 Austen, Jane, 5 vols. (Sep. 2s.) Routledge o 10 o Pride and Prejudice. Sense and Sensibility. Emma. Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park. Persuasion. Beaconsfield, Longmans. Each o 1 6 Coningsby. Sybil. Vivian Grey. Lothair. Tancred. Besant, W., All Sorts and Conditions of Men. Chatto 026 ,, Children of Gibeon. Chatto 026 Besant, W., and Rice. Ready Money Mortiboy. Chatto 026 ,, ,, Monks of Thelema. Chatto 026 ,, ,, The Golden Butterfly, and others. Chatto 026 Black, A Princess of Thule. Macmillan 060 „ Macleod of Dare, and others. Macmillan 060 Blackmore, Lorna Doone. Low 026 ,, The Maid of Sker, and others. Blackwood 060 Borrow, Lavengro. Murray 026 „ Romany Rye. Murray 026 Bronte, Charlotte, 4 vols. Smith, Elder. Each 026 Jane Eyre. Shirley. I Villette. The Professor, f Also at ° : 6 Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights. Smith, Elder 026 Burnett, F. H., Through one Administration. Warne 020 Burney, F., Evelina. Ward, Lock 020 Collins, W., The Moonstone. Chatto 026 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 65 Literature — Fiction, continued Chatto Collins, W., The Woman in White, and others. Craik, Mrs., John Halifax, Gentleman, and others. Hurst, Blackett Crawford, F. M., Mr. Isaacs. „ Dr. Claudius. Dickens, 32 vols. A Tale of Two Cities. Bleak House (2 vols.) David Copperfield (2 vols.) Dombey and Son (2 vols.) Macmillan Macmillan Chapman, Hall. Each Martin Chuzzlewit (2 vols.) Nicholas Nickleby (2 vols.) Old Curiosity Shop (2 vols.) Pickwick Papers (2 vols.) and others. Edgeworth, The Absentee, Stories of Ireland, and others. Routledge. Each £ o o o o o Eliot, George, Adam Bede. Daniel Deronda. Felix Holt. Middlemarch. Romola. Scenes of Clerical Life. Silas Marner. The Mill on the Floss. Fielding, Tom Jones. 2 vols. ,, Amelia, and others. Gaskell, Mrs., 7 vols. Cranford. Ruth. North and South. Sylvia's Lovers. Blackwood Blackwood Blackwood Blackwood Blackwood Blackwood Blackwood Blackwood Low Routledge Smith, Elder. Each Alton Locke. Two Years Ago. Hypatia. Westward Ho ! and others Kingsley, H., Ravenshoe, and others. Lallan, Flitters, Tatters, and the Counsellor. Lever, Harry Lorrequer. „ Charles O'Malley, and others. Lover, Handy Andy. Lytton, Kenelm Chillingly. My Novel (2 vols.) Marryat, Midshipman Easy. Peter Simple, and others. Ward, Lock Macmillan Routledge Cassell Routledge. Each The Last Days of Pompeii. The Caxtons, and others. Routledge Routledge d. 6 Also each o 1 6 Mary Barton. Wives and Daughters. ) Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield. Macmillan o 1 o Gould, Baring, Mehalah. Smith, Elder 026 „ Red Spider, and others. Chatto 036 Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd. Low 026 „ The Woodlanders, and others. Macmillan 036 Kingsley, C, 6 vols. Macmillan. Each 036 Also each 006 3 6 66 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Literature — Fiction, continued £ s. d. Meredith, 9 vols. Chapman, Hall. Each 036 Beauchamp's Career. Rhoda Fleming. Diana of the Crossways. The Egoist. Evan Harrington. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, and others. Oliphant, Mrs., A Beleaguered City, and others. Macmillan 060 ,, Salem Chapel. Blackwood 026 Reade, O. Chatto. Each 036 Hard Cash. The Cloister and the Hearth. It is Never too Late to Mend. Peg Woffington, and others. Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe. Routledge 020 Sehreiner, O., The Story of an African Farm. Chapman, Hall o 1 6 Scott, Sir W., 2 5 vols. Black. Each o 1 6 Guy Mannering. The Antiquary. Ivanhoe. The Bride of Lammermoor. Kenilworth. The Fortunes of Nigel. Old Mortality. The Heart of Midlothian. Quentin Durward. The Legend of Montrose. Redgauntlet. Waverley. Rob Roy. Woodstock, and others. Shorthouse, John Inglesant. Macmillan 060 Smollett, Roderick Random. Routledge 036 ,, Humphrey Clinker. Routledge 036 Sterne, Tristram Shandy. Routledge o 1 o Stevenson, R. L., The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Longmans o 1 6 „ ,, Treasure Island. Cassell 050 „ „ Kidnapped. Cassell 050 „ ,, The Master of Ballantrae. Cassell 050 Thackeray, Miss, Miss Angel. Smith, Elder 060 ,, „ The Village on the Cliff. Smith, Elder 060 ,, ,, Old Kensington, and others. Smith, Elder 060 Thackeray, W. M., Works, 26 vols. Smith, Elder. Each 036 „ „ Works. 27 vols. Smith, Elder. Each 016 Barry Lyndon. The Newcomes (2 vols.) Esmond. The Virginians (2 vols.) Pendennis (2 vols.) Vanity Fair (2 vols.), and others. Trollope, A., Barchester Towers. Longmans o 1 6 ,, Framley Parsonage. Smith, Elder 026 ,, Last Chronicle of Barset, 2 vols. Chapman, Hall 012 o „ Orley Farm, and others. Ward, Lock 026 „ Phineas Finn. Ward, Lock 026 Woods, Mrs., A Village Tragedy. Bentley 036 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 67 Literature — Fiction, continued b. AMERICAN. Cable, Old Creole Days. Harte, Bret, Selected Works. Hawthorne, N., House of the Seven Gables. ,, The Scarlet Letter. „ The Blithedale Romance. ,, Transformation, and others. Holmes, A Mortal Antipathy. ,, Elsie Venner. „ The Guardian Angel, and others. Howells, A Chance Acquaintance. ,, A Foregone Conclusion. ,, The Rise of Silas Lapham. 2 vols. ,, The Undiscovered Country, and others. James, H., Roderick Hudson. 2 vols. ,, The American. 2 vols. ,, The Europeans. „ The Portrait of a Lady. 3 vols Poe, E. A., Tales of Mystery. Stowe, Mrs. Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin The Minister's Wooing. Douglas Chatto £ s. I 7 d. O 6 Paterson 2 Paterson 2 Paterson 2 Smith, Elder Paterson 2 2 6 Paterson 2 Low 1 Douglas Douglas Douglas s. Douglas Macmillan 1 1 2 1 4 Macmillan 4 Macmillan 2 Macmillan 6 Ward, Lock 2 Routledge \. Low 1 1 c. FOREIGN (Translations.) Auerbach, On the Heights. 3 vols. Balzac, Eugenie Grandet. „ Pere Goriot. Bjornsen, Fisher Maiden. „ Synnove Solbakken, and others, Cervantes, Don Quixote. Dostoieffsky, Crime and Punishment. ,, Injury and Insult. Dumas, A. pere, Chicot the Jester. Monte Cristo. And others. Low Routledge Bickers Bickers Routledge Vizetelly Vizetelly Routledge Routledge Routledge ■e „ ,, Three Musketeers. „ „ Twenty Years After. ,, „ Vicomte de Bragelonne, and others. Routledge Fouque, Tales. Low Goethe, Wilhelm Meister. 3 vols. Chapman, Hall Hillern, The Vulture Maiden. Low Hugo, Les Miserables. Routledge „ Notre Dame. Routledge „ Ninety-Three. Routledge „ Toilers of the Sea. Routledge o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o 6 6 6 6 o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o 68 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Literature — Fiction, continued £ d Lesage, Gil Bias. Bell 6 Manzoni, Promessi Sposi. Ward, Lock 2 Prevost, Manon Lescaut. Routledge 1 Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel. 2 vols. Rontledge 2 Sand, Gr., Consuelo. Weldon 2 „ La Petite Fadette. Weldon 2 „ Mauprat. Weldon 2 Sue, Mysteries of Paris. Routledge 2 ,, Wandering Jew. Routledge 2 Tolstoi, Anna Karenina. 2 vols. Walter Scott 5 „ War and Peace. 4 vols., and others. Walter Scott 10 Turgenieff, 5 vols. Ward, Lock. Each 2 6 Dimitri Roudine. Smoke. Fathers and Sons. Virgir 1 Soil. Liza, and others. Voltaire, Candide. Routledge 1 2. HISTORICAL NOVELS AND TALES [Notes and Suggestions. — The avwtmt of actual history contained i?i a his- torical tale may range from a slight sketch of some notable character, or a narrative of obscure local incidents, to a carefd study of events of world-wide importance ; some are concerned with the facts of social or domestic life ; others with the fate of kingdoms or nations. Their truthfulness to the facts dealt with must also lie expected to vary indefinitely with the purpose and ability of the writer, and the exigencies of his tale. The one advantage common, in a greater or less degree, to all worthy books of the kind, is that of helping us to realise vividly the characters, surroundings, and events of other times than our own. Not to replace, but to stimulate and enliven the pursuit of serious historical study, is the object of Historical Novels'; and to do it by giving us that insight into the human interest of bygone events which many of us find it hard to discover for ourselves in the annals of history. Our best writers have shown how possible it is to do this, and at the same time to fulfil those demands upon the writers of ordinary fiction which require their books to be, in George Eliofs phrase, " The cup of self-forgetting excitement to the busy who can snatch an hour of entertainment."] 1st cent. Lytton, Last Days of Pompeii. Routledge 036 „ Whyte-Melville, The Gladiators. Longmans 010 2,d cent. Pater, Marius the Epicurean. 2 vols. Macmillan 012 o i,th cent. Bbers, Homo Sum. (Monks in Arabia.) 2 vols. Low 040 5M cent. Kingsley, C, Hypatia. (Christians and Neo- Platonists in Alexandria.) Macmillan 036 6th cent. Ebers, An Egyptian Princess. 2 vols. Low 040 1 \th cent. Kingsley, C, Hereward the Wake. Macmillan 036 ,, Lytton, Harold. (Norman Conquest.) Routledge 036 ,, Scott, W., Count Robert of Paris. (First Crusade.) Black o 1 6 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 69 Literature — Historical Novels and Tales, continued £ s. d. \ithcent. Scott,W.,Ivanhoe. ] {Black o 1 6 „ ,, The Talisman. > (Third Crusade.) ' Black 016 „ ,, The Betrothed. ) ( Black o 1 6 14th cent. Yonge, C, The Lances of Lynwood. (Black Prince.) Macmillan 026 ,, Lytton, Rienzi. (Last Roman Tribune.) Routledge 036 1 t>th cent. Soott, "W., Quentin Durward. (Louis XI. of France.) Black o 1 6 Fair Maid of Perth. (Scottish Clans.) 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Black Church, A. J., With the King at Oxford. Seeley „ Manzoni, The Betrothed. (Milan.) Ward, Lock „ Lyall, E., In the Golden Days. (Charles II.) Hurst, Blackett „ Besant, For Faith and Freedom. (Monmouth's Rebellion.) Chatto „ Blackmore, Lorna Doone. (Exmoor.) Low i8tk cent. Thackeray, Esmond. (Queen Anne.) Smith, Elder 3 6 6 3 6 1 6 1 6 1 6 1 6 1 6 5 2 6 3 6 2 6 3 6 £ s. d. o I 6 o I 6 o I 6 o I 6 70 .4 GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Literature — Historical Novels and Tales, continued 18th cent. Scott, W., Waverley. (Jacobite Conspiracies.) Black ,, ,, Rob Roy. (Jacobite Conspiracies.) Black „ „ Redgauntlet. (Jacobite Conspiracies.) Black „ „ Heart of Midlothian. (Porteous Riots.) Black „ Besant, W., Dorothy Forster. (Derwentwater's Rebellion.) Chatto o -> 6 „ „ The Chaplain of the Fleet. (Social Life.) Chatto 026 „ Thackeray, The Virginians. (America, George II and George III.) 2 vols. Smith, Elder 070 ,, Cooper, The Spy. (American War.) Routledge o 1 o ,, Thackeray, Miss, Miss Angel. (Reynolds.) Smith, Elder 060 FRENCH REVOLUTION— Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. Chapman, Hall o 1 6 Hugo, Victor, Ninety-three, [trans.] Routledge 020 Kingsley, H„ Mademoiselle Mathilde. Bradbury 026 Roberts, Miss, Atelier du Lys. Longmans 026 ,, On the Edge of the Storm. Warne 036 Erckmann-Chatrian, The Blockade of Phalsburg. Ward, Lock 026 NAPOLEON— Tolstoi, War and Peace, [trans.] 4 vols. Walter Scott o 10 o Erckmann-Chatrian, The Conscript, [trans.] Ward, Lock 026 „ Waterloo, [trans.] Ward, Lock 026 [For a much fuller list see "A Descriptive Catalogue of Historical Novels and Tales," by H. Courthope Bowen. Stanford, is. 6d.] IV. ESSAYS, LECTURES, AND STUDIES Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him. — John Locke. 1. ENGLISH. Addison, Selections (ed. T. Arnold). Clarendon Press 046 » » (ed. J. R. Green.) Macmillan 046 Arnold, M., Essays in Criticism. Macmillan 090 ,, Culture and Anarchy. 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Kegan Paul 060 Dowden, Shakespeare, his Mind and Art. Kegan Paul 012 o Dryden, Select Essays. Macmillan 026 Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects. 4 vols. Longmans 140 Hamerton, The Intellectual Life. Macmillan 010 6 „ Human Intercourse. Macmillan 086 Harrison, F., The Choice of Books. Macmillan 060 Hazlitt, Essays. IV. Scott o 1 o ,, Selections (ed. Ireland). Warm 036 Helps, Friends in Council. 2 series. Smith, Elder. Each 076 Hudson, Life, Art, and Characters of Shakespeare. 2 vols. Arnold o 16 o Hutton, R. H., Literary Essays. Macmillan 060 Huxley, Critiques and Addresses. Macmillan 010 6 Kingsley, C, Prose Idylls. Macmillan 036 Lamb, Works and Letters. 6 vols. Macmillan. Each 050 „ Elia. Routledge 010 Landor, Selections. Macmillan 046 Maeaulay, Essays. Longmans 026 „ Miscellaneous Writings. Longmans 026 Mazzini, Essays. W. Scott o 1 o Mtiller, Max, Lectures on the Science of Language. 2 vols. Longmans o 16 o Morley, J., Compromise. Macmillan 050 „ Miscellanies. 3 vols. Macmillan. Each 050 „ Studies in Literature. Macmillan 050 Morris, W., Hopes and Fears for Art. Reeves, Turner 046 Myers, F., Essays. 2 vols. Macmillan. Each 046 Pater, Marius the Epicurean. 2 vols. Macmillan 012 o The Renaissance. Macmillan o 10 6 72 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Literature — Essays, Lectures, and Studies, continued £ ■ s. d. Robertson, F. W., Lectures, Addresses, etc. Kegan Paul 050 Ruskin, Frondes Agrestes. George Allen 030 „ Sesame and Lilies. George Allen 050 ,, Crown of Wild Olive (and others). George Allen 050 Seeley, Lectures and Essays. Macmillan o 10 6 Shairp, Studies in Poetry and Philosophy. Douglas 076 Smith, Sydney, Essays. Routledge 020 Steele, Selections. Clarendon Press 050 Stephen, L., Hours in a Library. 3 vols. Smith, Elder. Each 090 Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books. Chatto 060 „ Memories and Portraits. Chatto 060 ,, Virginibus Puerisque. Chatto 060 Swift, Works, Selections. Nimmo 050 ,, Selections. IV. Scott 010 Swinburne, Essays and Studies. Chatto 012 o Symonds, Studies of the Greek Poets. Smith, Elder 010 6 Thackeray, The Four Georges and English Humourists. Smith, Elder 036 „ Roundabout Papers, and others. Smith, Elder 036 Thring, Addresses. Univin 050 2. AMERICAN. Emerson, Works. 6 vols. Macmillan. Each 050 „ Selections. W. Scott 010 Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Paterson 020 ,, The Professor at the Breakfast Table. Paterson 020 Lowell, My Study Windows. Low o 1 o „ Essays and Addresses. 6 vols. Macmillan. Each 060 Thoreau, Walden. IV. Scott o 1 o Whitman, Specimen Days. W. Scott o 1 o V. SOME FAMOUS BOOKS Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion — all in one. — Ruskin. JEsop's Fables. Bell 1 Plato, Trial and Death of Socrates. Macmillan 4 6 Bpictetus, Selections. Bell 5 Plutarch, Lives. Scott 1 Marcus Aurelius, Selections. W. Scott 1 Chronicle of the Cid. Routledge 1 Arabian Nights. W. Scott 1 The Imitation of Christ. Kegan Paul 1 Malory, Morte D'Arthur. Macmillan 3 6 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 73 Literature— Some Famous Books. Machiavelli, The Prince. Luther, Table Talk. Erasmus, Praise of Folly. More, Utopia. (Ideal Commonwealths.) Sidney, Arcadia. Montaigne, Essays. Hooker, Ecclesiastical Polity, Book 1. Milton, Areopagitica. ,, Selected Prose Works. Pascal, Thoughts. Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress. La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. Walton, The Complete Angler. Le Sage, Gil Bias. Browne, Religio Medici. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe. „ History of the Plague. Swift, Gulliver's Travels. Spectator, The. Lessing, Laokoon. Letters of Junius. Chesterfield, Letters. Johnson, Rasselas. Burke, 'Selections. 3 vols. ,, Thoughts on Present Discontent. Goethe and Schiller, Correspondence. G-oethe, Conversations with Eckermann. Heine, Prose Writings. (For complete editions of the, works of several of the authors above mentioned see larger catalogues. See also in connection with this group, besides the books under the head of Poetry, Fiction, Essays, etc., Boswell (Biography), Plato and Aristotle (Philosophy), Herodotus, Thucydides, Gibbon (History), Adam Smith (Political Economy), Dai~ivin (Science), and others.) )oks, continued Routledge Low £ 1 3 6 Reeves, Turner 1 2 Routledge Low 1 6 Low 2 6 Clarendon Press 2 Arber 6 Kegan Paul Low 6 3 6 Macmillan 4 6 Whittingham Warm 1 2 Warne 2 IV. Scott 1 Macmillan 4 6 Routledge Routledge Routledge Bell 2 3 1 6 6 Routledge Low 3 2 6 6 Low 2 6 Claretidon Press 14 6 Cassell 3 vols. Bell 7 Bell 3 6 W. Scott 1 PHILOSOPHY [Noi'ES and Suggestions. — It is impossible for a mere list of books to give the guidance which, in nearly all cases, must be needful for tlie prosperous study of philosophy. The difficulties are so great, the divergence on fundamental principles is so serious, that it is to be feared any who tried to gain a knowledge of Ethics or Meta- physics only by steadily reading through the books recofmnended would be likely to end in confusion instead of a clear grasp of the subject. No one must suppose that the following list is considered an adequate substitute for personal guidance. Two rules should be kept in mind by the student : ( I ) Philosophers are always thinking of facts, and usually very familiar facts. The student should check his reading by his own experience of men and things. In reading a philosopher of a past age he should ask himself, ' ' What does this correspond to, and how must it be modi- fied at the present time. " Remember also that a philosopher even when erroneous may be imperfectly and mistakenly representing a truth. (2) Head great philosophers themselves, and only use books about them afterwards, or with them as a help. The history of philosophy can never be a substitute for philosophy; but it is useful for understanding minor thinkers whom there is no time to study, and to show tlie connec- tion between great thinkers (see especially Schwegler). But one great philosopher studied carefully is worth any amount of miscellaneous knowledge about philosophy. The best preparation for philosophy is to have read reflective works in general literature, history, science, poetry. A student will do well to read by way of intro- duction some of the works under V. I. Most, however, will probably find it ttseful to proceed as soon as possible to Ethics.} Who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity ? — Milton. Sure, He that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused. — Shakespeare. I. METAPHYSICS [See "also V.] Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations (trans. Veitch). Blackwood 066 Spinoza, Chief Works (trans.) 2 vols. Bell o 10 o Locke, Essay on the Human Understanding. Ward, Lock 036 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 75 Philosophy — Metaphysics, continued £ ». tf. Berkeley, Works (especially " Three Dialogues "). 4 vols. Clarendon Press 218 o Hume, Inquiry on the Human Understanding, in Essays. Ward, Lock 036 „ Treatise of Human Nature (ed. Selby-Bigge). Clarendon Press 090 Mill, J. S., Examination of Hamilton's Philosophy. Longmans o 16 o Lewes, Problems of Life and Mind, 1st and 2d series. Triibner. Each o 16 o Spencer, H., First Principles. (See also under V.) Williams, Norgate 016 o „ „ 3rd Series. 2 vols. Triibner 1 2 6 Kant, Selections by Watson. Maclehose 076 ,, Critique of Pure Reason {traits. Meiklejohn). Bell 050 Stirling, Text-Book to Kant. Edinburgh O. P. Caird, B., Philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Maclehose 1 12 o Adamson, Philosophy of Kant. Douglas 060 Fichte, Popular Works {trans. Smith). 2 vols. Triibner 1 1 o Hegel. (See under III. V. and VI.) Lotze, Metaphysic (trans.) 2 vols. Clarendon Press 012 o ,, Mikrokosmus (trans!) 2 vols. T. and T. Clark 116 o Green, T. H., Introduction to Hume in Vol. I. of Collected Works. (See also under II.) Longmans o 16 o Grote, John, Exploratio Philosophica. Deigkton, Bell 060 II. ETHICS 1. INTRODUCTORY. Butler, Sermons. Bell 036 Mill, J. S., Utilitarianism. Longmans 050 Fowler, T., Progressive Morality. Macmillan 050 Calderwood, Handbook of Moral Philosophy. Macmillan 060 2. SYSTEMATIC WORKS. Green, T. H., Prolegomena to Ethics. Clarendon Press 012 6 Martineau, Dr., Types of Ethical Theory. 2 vols. Clarendon Press 015 o Sidgwiok, H., Methods of Ethics. Macmillan o 14 o Spencer, H., Data of Ethics. Williams, Norgate 080 Stephen, Leslie, Science of Ethics. Smith, Elder 016 o Wilson and T. Fowler, Principles of Morals. 2 vols. Clarendon Press 014 o Hume, Essays : Enquiry concerning Morals. Ward, Lock 036 Kant, Theory of Ethics (trans. Abbott). Longmans o 10 6 Aristotle, Ethics (trans. Peters). Kegan Paid 060 Grote, John, A Treatise on the Moral Ideals. Deigkton, Bell 012 o 76 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Philosophy — Ethics, continued 3. HISTORY OF ETHICS. Sidgwick, H., Outlines of the History of Ethics. Macmillan o d. 6 III. LOGIC Macmillan o* 3 6 Clarendon Press 036 Clarendo7i Press 060 Macmillan o 10 6 Longmans Macmilla?i Clarendo?i Press Clarendon Press Kegan Paul . ELEMENTARY. Jevons, Elementary Lessons in Logic. Fowler, T., Deductive Logic. „ Inductive Logie. Keynes, Formal Logic. . ADVANCED. Mill, J. S., System of Logic. Jevons, Principles of Science. Bacon, Novum Organum (trans. Kitchin). Lotze, Logic (trans.) 2 vols. Bradley, H., Principles of Logic. Bosanquet, Logic or the Morphology of Knowledge. Clarendon Press Venn, Empirical or Inductive Logic. Macmillan Hegel, Logic {trans. Wallace). Clarendon Press IV. PSYCHOLOGY ELEMENTARY. Sully, Outlines of Psychology. Longmans „ The Teacher's Handbook of Psychology. Longmans Murray, Handbook of Psychology. Alex. Gardner Lotze, Outlines of Psychology (trans. Ladd). Chicago Kirchner, Psychology. Sonnenschein 2. ADVANCED. "Ward, Article " Psychology '' in Ency. Brit. separately. Lewes, The Study of Psychology. ,, The Physical Basis of Mind. Bain, The Senses and the Intellect. „ The Emotions and the Will. Spencer, H., Principles of Psychology. 2 vols. Part 77 Black Triibner Triibner Longmans Longmans 5 12 9 12 16 1 18 14 12 6 7 5 4 7 7 16 IS iS Williams, Nor gale 116 o V. MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS 1. INTRODUCTORY. Ferrier, Lectures on Early Greek Philosophy. Blackwood o 10 Plato, The Republic (trans. Davies and Vaughan). Macmillan o 4 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 77 Philosophy — Miscellaneous, continued £ s d. Plato, The Republic (trans. Jowett with Introduction). Clarendon Press 012 6 [Other dialogues translated with introductions by Jowett. See especially Gorgias, Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, Theaetetus.] Berkeley, Selections by Fraser. Clarendon Press 076 Clifford, Lectures and Essays. Macmillan 086 Green, T. H., Collected Works, vol. III., with Memoir. Longmans o 16 o 2. BOOKS ON MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS. Hegel, Philosophy of History (trans.) Bell 050 ,, Introduction to Philosophy of Fine Art (trans. Bosanquet). Kegan Paid 050 Allen, Grant, Physiological ^Esthetics. King O. P. Mill, J. S., Three Essays on Religion. Longmans 050 Martineau, Dr., A Study of Religion. 2 vols. Clarendon Press 140 Pfleiderer, Philosophy of Religion (trans.) 4 vols. Williams, Norgate 220 Caird, J., Introduction to Philosophy of Religion. Maclehose o 10 6 VI. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 1. ELEMENTARY AND SPECIAL. Zeller. Outlines of Greek Philosophy (trans. Alleyne and Abbott). Longmans o 10 6 Seth, Scottish Philosophy. Blackwood 050 Philosophical Classics for English Readers : — Descartes, Butler, Berkeley, Fichte, Kant, Hegel, Leibnitz, Hobbes, Hume, Spinoza, Bacon, Locke. Blackwood. Each 026 Stephen, L., History of English Thought in 18th century. 2 vols. Smith, Elder 1 8 o 2. SYSTEMATIC. Schwegler, History of Philosophy (trans. Stirling). Oliver, Boyd 060 Ueberweg, History of Philosophy (trans.) 2 vols. Hodder 1 19 o Brdmann, History of Philosophy (trans.) 3 vols. Sonnenschein 220 ( The last two give references to the literature of philosophy. ) POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ECONOMY [Notes and Suggestions. — There are very great difficulties in the way of any attempt to provide a good list of books on Political and Social Economy. There has been a great deal of writing of general treatises, — some very good, — and compaj'atively little writing of first-rate books on special subjects in English. Probably in the next few years much will be done to improve this state of things. At present many of the best sources of information are either foreign works or else scattered papers in Reviews or Scientific Journals or Pamphlets, copies of which cannot be procured. Political partisanship, again, affects the vahie of many books by capable men. This list is in many ways very incomplete, but it may be hoped that the publications of each succeeding year will, to some extent, remedy this defect. Students who are beginning the subject might read Jevons 1 Primer and then take a Textbook, like Walkers First Lessons in Political Economy or Marshall's Economics of Industry, and read it carefully through, referring timier the various heads to some of the books mentioned in this list.] The stock of materials by which any nation is rendered flourishing and prosperous are its industry, its knowledge or skill, its morals, its execution of justice, its courage, and the national union in directing these powers to one point, and making them all centre in the public benefit. Other than these I do not know, and scarcely can con- ceive, any means by which a community may flourish. — Burke. I. GENERAL i. ECONOMIC THEORY ELEMENTARY. £ s. d. Jevons, Primer of Political Economy. Macmillan o i o Symes, Political Economy. Longmans 026 Marshall, A., and M. P., Economics of Industry. Macmillan 026 Walker, Political Economy. Macmillan 012 6 „ ,, (Abridged). Macmillan 066 ,, First Lessons in Political Economy. Macmillan 050 ADVANCED. Wicksteed, Alphabet of Economic Science. Macmillan 026 Marshall, A., Principles of Economics. Vol.1. Macmillan o 12 6 Sidgwick, H., Principles of Political Economy. Macmillan 016 o Jevons, Theory of Political Economy. Macmillan o 10 6 Bohm Bauwerk, Capital and Interest. Macmillan 014 o Cairnes, Leading Principles-of Political Economy. Macmillan o 14 o £ s. d. i's Edition). Nelson 040 Reeves and Turner 080 Macmillan 012 6 Murray 016 Longmans 050 2 vols. (Chicago) Callaghan 1 12 Macmillan 0106 Macmillan Various A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 79 Political and Social Economy, continued 2. STANDARD WORKS Malthus, The Principle of Population. Bonar, Malthus and his Work. Bioardo, Works (M'Culloch's Edition). Mill, J. S., Political Economy. Roecher, Principles of Political Economy. Cairnes, Essays on Political Economy. Jevons, Works. 3. ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL HISTORY Ashley, Economic'History. Longmans 050 Cunningham, W., Growth of English Industry and Commerce. Cambridge Press 016 o Levi, History of British Commerce, 1 763-1 878. Micrray o 18 o Rogers, J. E. T., Economic Interpretation of History. Unwin o 16 o ,, Six Centuries of Work and Wages. Sonnenschein o 10 6 „ „ (Abridged. 1 vol.) 036 Toynbee, The Industrial Revolution. Longmans 010 6 "Wells, Recent Economic Changes. Appleton, New York o 10 6 (See also under Special Subjects. ) 4. METHOD AND HISTORY OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE Cossa, Guide to the Study of Political Economy. Macmillan 046 Ingram, A History of Political Economy. Black 060 Blanqui, History of Political Economy. Bell o 1 2 Cairnes, Logical Method of Political Economy. Macmillan 060 Keynes, The Scope and Method of Political Economy. Macmillan 070 Leslie, Cliffe, Essays in Political and Moral Philosophy. Longmans o 10 6 Bagehot, Economic Studies. Longmans o 10 6 (Part has been republished under title, The Postulates of English Political Economy). Marshall, A., The Present Position of Economics. Macmillan 020 Sidgwiok, H., The Scope and Method of Economic Science. Macmillan 026 o II. ORGANISATION OF INDUSTRY 1. DIVISION OF LABOUR AND MODERN PRODUCTION Babbage, Economy of Machines and Manufactures. Murray O. P. Young, Labor in Europe and America. 1876. Washington Government Printing Office o 10 G 80 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Political and Social Economy, continued £ s. d. Nicholson, The Effects of Machinery on Wages. Bell 026 Hearn, Plutology. Longmans O. P. 2. FACTORY SYSTEM Taylor, Cooke, Introduction to the History of the Factory System. Bentley o 16 o Von Plener, The English Factory System. Chapman, Hall 030 Physical and Moral Condition of Children, etc., em- ployed in Manufactures : Abstract of Reports of Com- missioners, 1843. Parker o. P. Pidgeon, Old-World Questions and New- World Answers. 1884. Warne 076 3. GUILDS Brentano, The History of Gilds and The Origin of Trade Unions. 1870. Triibner 036 Bain, Ebenezer, Merchant and Craft Gilds. (Aberdeen.) Edmond, Spark 076 Smith, Toulmin, English Gilds : their Ordinances. Early English Text Society I 1 o Gross, The Gild Merchant. 2 vols. Clarendon Press 140 4. TRADES UNIONS AND STRIKES Howell, Conflicts of Capital and Labour. Macmillan 076 Trades Societies and Strikes : Report of the Committee of Social Science Association, i860. Parker o. P. Reports of the Labour Correspondent of the Board of Trade. Eyre, Spottiswoode Various. Reports of the Principal Trades Unions Paris, Comte de, Trades Unions of England. Smith, Elder 076 Smith, Llewellyn, and Nash, The Story of the Dockers' Strike Unwin 010 5. THE WAGES QUESTION Walker, The Wages Question. Macmillan 014 o Brassey, Foreign Work and English Wages. Longmans 010 6 Levi, Leone, Wages and Earnings of the Working Classes. Murray 036 Fawcett, The Economic Position of the British Labourer. Macmillan 050 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Political and Social Economy, continued 6. CONCILIATION AND ADJUSTMENT OF WAGES £ s. ■ Price, Industrial Peace. Macmillan 06 .. Munro, Sliding Scales in the Coal Industry. Heywood 010 „ „ „ Iron Industry. Heywood 010 Crompton, Industrial Conciliation. • King 026 7. PROFIT-SHARING Oilman, Profit-Sharing between Employer and Employed. Macmillan 076 Taylor, Sedley, Profit-Sharing between Capital and Labour. Kegan Paul 026 8. CO-OPERATION Aoland and Jones, Working Men Co-operators. Cassell o 1 o Hughes and Neale, A Manual for Co-operators. Co-operative Union, Manchester o 1 o Holyoake, History of Co-operation. 2 vols. Trubner 014 o Adams, History of Co-operation in the United States. Macmillan 015 o Oo-operative Life : A Series of Lectures. Co-operative Printing Society, London 016 The Co-operative Wholesale Society's Annual. Manchester Various. Statistical Report, Annual. Co-operative Union, Manchester o 1 o III. LAND, AGRICULTURE, AND MINING 1. LAND TENURE Systems of Land Tenure in Various Countries. Cassell 036 Pollock, The Land Laws. Macmillan o 3 6 Brodrick, English Land and Landlords. Cassell 012 6 Leslie, Cliffe, Land Systems of England and Scotland. Longmans o 12 o 2. LAND TRANSFER Land Transfer. Published by order of the Bar Committee. Butterworths 010 Brickdale, Registration of Title to Land. Stanford o 5 o Kay J , Free Trade in Land. Preface by John Bright. *' ■' Cassell o 1 6 82 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Political and Social Economy — Land, etc., continued 3. RENT AND TENANCY £ s. d. "Walker, Land and its Rent. Macmillan 036 Nicholson, Tenants' Gain not Landlords' Loss. Douglas 050 Prothero, Pioneers and Progress of English Farming. Longmans 050 Lloyd, Science of Agriculture. Longmans o 12 o Caird, The Landed Interest. Cassell 050 Town Holdings : Parliamentary Reports and Evidence. Eyre, Spottiswoode Various 4. COMMONS AND ENCLOSURES Six Essays on Commons Preservation. Sampson Low 014 o Elton, Charles, Observations on the Bill for the Improvement and Regulation of Commons. Wildy and Sons 060 5. ALLOTMENTS AND COTTAGE FARMING Onslow, Lord, Landlords and Allotments. Longmans 020 Hall, The Law of Allotments. Longmans 076 Stubbs, The Land and the Labourers. Sonnenschein 010 Small Holdings : Parliamentary Reports and Evidence. Eyre, Sfiottiswoode 048 6. MINING AND ROYALTIES Sorley, Mining Royalties. Clarendon Press 016 Price, West Barbary, Work and Wages in the Cornish Mines (Statistical Society's Journal, Vol. 51, Pt. 3). Stanford 050 Jevons, The Coal Question. Macmillan o 10 6 7. VILLAGE COMMUNITIES Nasse, Agricultural Community of the Middle Ages. Macmillan 050 Seebohm, The English Village Community. Longmans 016 o Maine, Village Communities. Murray 090 IV. CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE 1. GENERAL Eden, State of the Poor. 3 vols. O. P. Porter, Progress of the Nation. O. P. Ludlow and Lloyd Jones, Progress of the Working Classes, 1832-67. Strahan o. P. A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 83 Political and Social Economy, continued £ J. d. Engels, The Condition of the Working Classes in 1844 (trans). New York, J. W. Lovell 050 Giffen, Progress of the Working Classes [and in his Essays in Finance]. Bell o. p. Booth, Charles, Labour and Life of the People (Vol. I. East London). Williams, Norgate o 10 6 Booth, Charles, Occupations of the People — Tower Hamlets. Stanford O. P. Hill, Ootavia, Homes of the London Poor. Macmillan 010 Graham, W., The Social Problem. Kegan Paul 014 o Pox-well and Otjiers, The Claims of Labour. Edinburgh Co-operative Printing Society 010 Booth, General, In Darkest England. Salvation Army Offices 036 2. POPULATION AND VITAL STATISTICS Malthus, Essay on Population. Ward, Lock 050 Newsholme, The Elements of Vital Statistics. Sonnenschein 076 Farr, Vital Statistics. Stanford 1 10 o Longstaff, Studies in Statistics. Stanford 1 1 o 3. THRIFT AND TEMPERANCE Blaokley, Collected Essays on the Prevention of Pauperism. Kegan Paul 010 Baernreither, English Associations of Working Men. Sonnenschein 1 1 o Wilkinson, The Friendly Society Movement. Longmans 026 Lewins, A History of Banks for Savings. Low o 1 5 Intemperance, Report of Lords' Committee on. 2 vols. Eyre, Spottiswoode O. P. Richardson, Dr., Alcohol (Cantor Lectures). Macmillan o 1 o „ Total Abstinence. Macmillan 036 4. POOR LAW AND PAUPERISM Fowle, The Poor Law (English Citizen Series). Macmillan 036 Aschrott, The English Poor Law System. Knight and Co. o 9 o Turner, Ribton, A History of Vagrants and Vagrancy, and Beggars and Begging. Chapman, Hall I 1 o Report on the Elberfeld Poor Law System. Eyre, Spottiswoode 009 Poor Law Relief (Lords' Committee Evidence). Eyre, Spottiswoode o 7 10 (See also under " General Condition" "Pauperism," etc.) o 84 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Political and Social Economy, continued 5. CHARITIES a. ORGANISATION. £ *. d. Loch, Charities Register and Digest. CO. S., 15 Buckingham Street, W.C. o 10 6 Hornsby and "Wright, Thoughts and Experiences of a Charity Organisationist. Hunt 036 Loch, Charity Organisation. Sonnenschein 026 Chalmers, The Christian and Civic Economy of Large Towns (in Life and Works, also separate). O. P. b. ENDOWMENTS. Charity Commission Acts (edited Mitcheson). Stevens 018 o Hobhouse, Lord, The Dead Hand. Chatto 050 Kenny, Courtney, Endowed Charities. Reeves, Turner 076 V. CURRENCY, BANKING, AND TRADE 1. MONEY, CREDIT, AND BANKING o Jevons, Money. Kegan Paul o 5 Walker, Money, Trade, and Industry. Macmillan 076 Nicholson, Money and Monetary Problems. Blackwood 010 6 Bagehot, Lombard Street. Kegan Paul 076 Grilbart, On Banking (ed. Michie). 2 vols. Bell o 10 o Rae, The Country Banker. Murray 076 Crump, Manual of Banking. Longmans 012 o ADVANCED. "Walker, Money. Macmillan o 16 o Graham, History of the One Pound Note in Scotland, etc. Simpkin, Marshall 076 Barbour, Theory of Bimetallism. Cassell 060 Howell, Synopsis of the Report of Gold and Silver Com- mission. Heywood o 1 o Rogers, J. B. T., First Nine Years of the Bank of England. Clarendon Press 086 Journal of the Institute of Bankers. Per No. 016 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 85 Political and Social Economy — Currency, etc., continued 2. SPECULATION, MARKETS, AND EXCHANGES £ s- d. G-iffen, Stock Exchange Securities. Bell 086 Crump, Theory of Stock Exchange Speculation. Longmans 010 6 Melsheimer and Lawrence, The Law and Customs of the Stock Exchange. Henry Sweet 050 The Rationale of Market Fluctuations. Effingham Wilson 076 Mathieson's Highest and Lowest Prices (Annual). Mathieson 026 The Economist, Weekly. Per No. 008 The Statist, Weekly. Per No. o o 6 3. PRICES Poxwell, Employment and Prices (in Claims of Labour), 1886. Edinburgh Co-operative Printing Society o 1 o Jevons, Investigations in Currency and Finance. Macmillan 1 1 o Griffen, Essays in Finance. 2 vols. (Vol. I. 10s. 6d., Vol. II. 14s.) Bell 1 4 6 Tooke and Newmarch, History of Prices. 6 vols. o. p. Rogers, Thorold, History of Agriculture and Prices. 6 vols. Clarendon Press 720 4. FOREIGN TRADE AND FOREIGN EXCHANGES Goschen, Foreign Exchanges. Wilson 050 Seyd, Bullion and Foreign Exchanges. Wilson 1 o o Bastable, Theory of International Trade. Simpkin 036 Phear, Foreign Trade. Macmillan 026 Giflfen, Use of Export and Import Statistics (in Essays in Finance, Vol. II.) Bell o 14 o Dymes, The Trade of the United Kingdom with the World, 1889. Stock 36 The Year-Book of Commerce. Cassell 050 VI. FINANCIAL POLICY 1. TAXATION M'Culloch, On Taxation and Funding. Black O. P. Baxter, Dudley, The Taxation of the United Kingdom. Macmillan O. P. 86 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Political and Social Economy — Financial, continued £ s. d. Noble, The Queen's Taxes. Longmans O. P. Wright and Hobhouse, An Outline of Local Government and Taxation. P.S. King O. P. Goschen, Local Taxation. Macmillan 050 Local Government and Taxation in the United Kingdom (Cobden Club). Cassell 050 Dowell, History of Taxes and Taxation. 4 vols. Longmans 220 Oossa, Taxation in its Principles and Methods. Putnam 036 2. NATIONAL FINANCE Northcote, Stafford, Financial Policy 1862. Saunders, Otley o. P. Gladstone, Financial Statements of 1853, 1860-1863, etc. Murray o. P. Baxter, Dudley, National Income. Macmillan o. P. Buxton, S., Finance and Politics. Murray 1 6 o Giffen, Growth of Capital. Bell 076 3. NATIONAL DEBTS "Wilson, A. J., The National Budget, National Debts, etc. Macmillan 036 Baxter, Dudley, National Debts. Bush 046 Adams, Public Debts. New York, Appleton 012 6 VII. FREE TRADE AND PROTECTION 1. PROTECTION TO TRADE Fawcett, Free Trade and Protection. Macmillan 026 Smith, Adam, Wealth of Nations (book iv.) Nelson 040 List, National System of Political Economy. Routledge 050 Baden-Powell, State Aid and State Interference. Chapman, Hall 090 Sumner, History of American Protection. New York 050 Taussig, The Tariff History of the United States. Putnam 066 Rawson, Synopsis of the Tariffs and Trade of the British Empire. Imperial Federation League 026 Farrer, Free Trade v. Fair Trade. Cassell 050 MacNeill, English Interference with Irish Industries. Cassell 010 2. PROTECTION TO LABOUR Seward, Chinese Immigration, and its Social and Economical Aspects. San Francisco, Bosqui and Co. 012 6 Immigration of Foreigners, Report of Parliamentary Com- mittee on. Eyre, Spottiswoode 036 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 87 Political and Social Economy, continued VIII. PRIVATE ENTERPRISE AND PUBLIC CONTROL 1. INDIVIDUALISM £ s. d. Spencer, H., The Man v. the State. Williams, Norgate o 1 o Sumner, What Social Classes owe to each other. Trubner 036 Donisthorpe, Individualism : a System of Politics. Macmillan o 14 o Bastiat, Harmonies of Political Economy. Simpkin, Marshall 076 Maokay, A History of the English Poor. Murray 076 ,, A Plea for Liberty (Essays by various writers). Murray o 12 o 2. SOCIALISM a. HISTORICAL, DESCRIPTIVE, AND CRITICAL. Rae, Contemporary Socialism. Isbister 076 Laveleye, Socialism of To-day. Simpkin 060 Ely, French and German Socialism. Trubner 036 Schaeffle, Quintessence of Socialism. Sonnensckein 026 NordhofT, Communistic Societies of the United States. Murray 015 o Noyes, History of American Socialism. Lippincott o 15 o Lloyd-Jones, Life of Robert Owen. Sonnensckein 060 Smith, Llewellyn, Economic Aspects of State Socialism. Simpkin, Marshall 036 b. EXPOSITORY AND PROPAGANDIST* Marx, Capital. Cheap edition. Gronlund, The Co-operative Commonwealth. Webb, S., Socialism in England. Bax, Belfort, Essays in Socialism. Fabian Essays in Socialism. Bellamy, Looking Backward. George, Henry, Progress and Poverty. Hyndman, Historical Basis of Socialism in England. Kegan Paul 086 Morris, W., Signs of Change. Reeves, Turner 046 * The books in this list are of very different degrees of merit, some of them being from the economical point of mew of very small value ; but the English Socialistic Movement at the present time is many-sided, and it is necessary, in order to understand it, to be acquainted with the views of Socialists of various schools. Sonnensckein 10 6 Sonnensckein 2 6 Sonnensckein 2 6 Sonnensckein 2 6 Scott 1 Reeves 1 Kegan Paul 2 6 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Political and Social Economy, continued 3. THE PROVINCE AND POLICY OF STATE INTERVENTION a. GENERAL. £ s. d. Mill, J. S., Liberty. Longmans o 1 4 Jevons, Methods of Social Reform. Macmillan 010 6 Cunningham, W., Politics and Economics. Kegan Paul 050 Sidgwick, H., Principles of Political Economy. (Book III.) Macmillan o 16 o Green, T. H. Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract in Vol. III. of Works. Longmans o 16 o b. REGULATION OF INDUSTRY. Jevons, The State in Relation to Labour. Macmillan 036 Von Plener, The English Factory Legislation. Chapman, Hall 030 Redgrave, The Factory and Workshop Act 1879. 2d edition. Shaw 050 c. REGULATION OP TRADE AND MARKETS, ETC. Farrer, The State in Relation to Trade. Macmillan 036 d. COMMUNICATION. Adams, C, Railroads and Railroad Questions Putnam 050 Hadley, Railroad Transportation. 1885. Putnam 060 Grierson, Railway Rates : English and Foreign. Stanford 050 Jeans, Railway Problems. Longmans 012 6 IX. LITERARY WORKS DEALING WITH ECONOMIC PROBLEMS Carlyle, Past and Present. Chapman, Hall o 1 „ Chartism (Critical Essays, Vol. VI.) Chapman, Hall o 1 o Cobbett, Rural Rides. 2 vols. Reeves, Turner 012 6 Ruskin, Unto this Last. George Allen o 3 „ Crown of Wild Olive. George Allen 050 „ Munera Pulveris. George Allen 050 Kingsley, C, Alton Locke. Macmillan 036 „ Yeast. Macmillan 036 Tolstoi, What must we do then ? W. Scott 026 Young, A, Travels in France. Bell 036 o o A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 89 Political and Social Economy, continued X. WORKS OF REFERENCE AND PERIODICAL LITERATURE £ *. d. Palgrave, R. H., Inglis, Dictionary of Political Economy (in preparation — to be issued in quarterly parts). Macmillan. Each 036 M'Oullooh, Literature of Political Economy. O. P. Maopherson, Annals of Commerce. 4 vols. o. p. Eden, Sir F. M., State of the Poor. 3 vols. O. p. Rucling, Annals of the Coinage. 3 vols. O. P. Tooke and Newmarch, History of Prices. 6 vols. o. p. Rogers, J. E. T., History of Agriculture and Prices. 6 vols. Clarendon Press 720 M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce (Reid's edition). Longmans 330 Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Stanford. Yearly 1 o o Political Science Quarterly. Clarendon Press. Yearly 013 o Quarterly Journal of Economics. Macmillan. Yearly o 10 o Annual Review of the Economist. 340 Strand. o 1 4 Board of Trade Journal. Eyre, Spottiswoode. Monthly 006 Reports of the Labour Correspondent of the Board of Trade. Eyre, Spottiswoode Various. Publications of the American Economic Association. The Economist. Weekly 008 The Statist. Weekly 006 {For Statistical Abstracts {Eyre, Spottiswoode), see Government Publications.) POLITICAL SCIENCE [Notes and Suggestions. — It is well to begin the study of this subject with books about our own constitution, and then to take those of a more general and less ijnmediately practical kind. Many of the books in this list can be used for reference, withotit being read through. The student of this subject is advised to consult the books given under " Constitutional History '' (under History), for political questions can only be properly studied in connection with history. ] Come, let us talk a little of the affairs of the nation, or some such subject that we can all of us understand. Squire Western. Let any one take to pieces the brains of any twenty persons he knows well, and think how little accurate knowledge, how little definite opinion, how little settled notion of state policy, there is in any of them. We all want more knowledge. The lukewarm politician wants knowledge to give him interest. The violent partisan wants knowledge to give him moderation. The corrupt voter wants knowledge to awaken his responsibility. If constituencies knew more, members would have to know more, and the standard of intelligence of the House of Commons would be raised. Bagehot. I. SOCIOLOGY i. ELEMENTARY £ s. d. Spencer, H., Study of Sociology. Kegan Paul 050 Tylor, Anthropology. Macmillan 076 2. ADVANCED Bagehot, Physics and Politics. Kegan Paul 050 Letourneau, Sociology (trans.) Chapman, Hall o 10 o Lubbock, Origin of Civilisation. Longmans 018 o Maine, Ancient Law. Murray 090 „ Early History of Institutions. Murray 090 „ Early Law and Custom. Murray 090 „ Village Communities. Murray 090 Tylor, Primitive Culture. 2 vols. Murray 1 4 o A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 91 Political Science — Sociology, continued 3. REFERENCE £ s. d M'Lennan, Studies in Ancient History. Macmillan 016 o Morgan, Ancient Society. Macmillan O. P. Spencer, H., Principles of Sociology. 2 vols. Williams, Norgate 220 ,, Descriptive Sociology (parts 1 to 8 inclusive). Williams, Norgate 715 o II. POLITICS 1. GENERAL POLITICAL SCIENCE a. ELEMENTARY. Raleigh, Elementary Politics. Clarendon Press o 1 o Kinnear, Principles of Civil Government. Smith, Elder 076 b. ADVANCED. Amos, Sheldon, The Science of Politics. Kegan Paul 050 Bluntsohli, Theory of the State {trans.) Clarendon Press o 12 6 Freeman, Comparative Politics. Macmillan o 14 o Green, T. H., Lecture on Political Obligation, in Philo- sophical Works. Vol. II. Longmans 016 o Lewis, Sir Gh C, Use and Abuse of Political Terms. Thornton, Oxford 060 Woolsey, Political Science. 2 vols. Sampson Low 1 1 o o 2. SPECIAL POLITICAL QUESTIONS Mill, J. S., Liberty. Longmans o 1 4 „ Representative Government. Longmans 020 ', Subjection of Women. Longmans O. P. Spencer, H., The Man versus the State. Williams, Norgate o 1 o Stephen, Sir J. Fitsgames, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Smith, Elder o 14 o 3. FAMOUS OLDER BOOKS OF POLITICAL THEORY Plato, The Republic (trans, by Jowett). Clarendon Press 012 6 ( ,, Davies and Vaughan) (Golden Treasury Series). Macmillan 046 92 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Political Science — Politics, continued £ s. d. Aristotle, The Politics {trans, by Jowett). 2 vols. Clarendon Press 1 1 o „ ,, (trans, by Welldon). Macmillan 0106 „ Essays on the Politics, by Lang. Longmans 026 Dante, On Monarchy {trans, by Church). Macmillan 046 Machiavelli, The Prince, trans. Routledge 010 ,, Essay on, by Macaulay. Longmans 006 More, Sir T., Utopia, in " Ideal Commonwealths.'' Routledge 010 Harrington, Oceana. Routledge 010 Hobbes, Leviathan. Routledge 010 Locke, Civil Government. Routledge 010 Milton, Areopagitica. Arber 016 Montesquieu, Spirit of Laws (trans.) 2 vols. Bell 070 Rousseau, J. Morley. 2 vols. Macmillan o 10 o Burke, Select Works (ed. Payne). 3 vols. Clarendon Press 014 6 „ J. Morley. Macmillan 010 Bentham, A Fragment on Government. Clarendon Press 076 Comte, Positive Polity (trans.) 4 vols. Longmans 400 „ The Social Philosophy of, by Caird. Maclehose 050 Mazzini, Essays. W. Scott 010 ,, Life and Writings. 6 vols. Smith, Elder. Each 046 4. ENGLISH CONSTITUTION AND PRACTICAL WORKS (See also books on "English Constitutional History,'" p. 46). i. ELEMENTARY. Escott, England, its People, Polity, etc. Fonblanque, How we are Governed. Rogers, J. E. T., The British Citizen. 2. ADVANCED. Anson, Law and Custom of the Constitution. Part I. Par- liament. Clarendon Press 010 6 Bagehot, The English Constitution. Kegan Paul 076 Blackstone, The Students' Blackstone (edited by Kerr). Clowes 076 Dicey, The Law of the Constitution. Macmillan 012 6 Hearn, The Government of England. Longmans 016 o 'man, Hall 8 Warne 1 6 S.P.C.K. 1 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 93 Political Science — Politics, continued 3. REFERENCE. £ ,. d. Buxton, S., Handbook to Political Questions of the Day. Murray 076 „ (edited by), The Imperial Parliament Series. Sonnenschein. Each o 1 o Protayn (edited by), Local Government and Taxation in the United Kingdom (Cobden Club). Cassell 050 The English. Citizen Series. Macmillan. Each 036 Parliamentary Atlas and Handbook of England and "Wales. Stanford 1 8 o (See also Government Publications and Political Economy. ) 5. BRITISH COLONIES (See also books on " History of the Colonies") Acton, Our Colonial Empire. Cassell o 1 o Cotton and Payne, India and Colonies. Macmillan 036 The Colonial Year-Book (Annual). Low 060 6. AMERICAN CONSTITUTION (See also books on " History of America") Macy, Our Government (Elementary). Boston 016 Bryce, The American Commonwealth. 2 vols. Macmillan 1 5 o De Tocqueville, Democracy in America (trans. Reeve). 2 vols. Longmans o 16 o The Federalist. Unwin 010 6 Bannatyne, Republican Institutions of the United States. Blackwood 076 7. VARIOUS CONSTITUTIONS OF THE WORLD Sergeant, L., The Government Handbook. Unwin o 10 6 The Statesman's Year-Book. Macmillan 010 6 SCIENCE [Notes and Suggestions. — No works introductory to the whole range of scientific study have been included in the following list. The best introduction to the study of a group of sciences, and indeed to the study of science generally, is a sound grasp and appreciation of the fundamental principles of some special branch. In the attainment of such preliminary knowledge the student will insensibly acquire something of that fair and open mind, unbiassed by preconceptions, seeking only unmixed truth for its own sake, which is characteristic of the genuine scientific investigator. In scientific study books must be regarded merely as aids to observation and reflection. They furnish the scientific student with a knowledge of what has been observed, or discovered by experiment, and with excellent expositions of modern scientific theories. But let the student take no statement on trust which he has the means of verifying, and pass over finally no point of theory which does not commend itself to his judgment and intelligence. He should not, however, allow a difficulty to be a bar to further progress. His best course, if the difficulty does not disappear after careful consideration, is to make a note of it, and pass 071. Frequently, some further 7-emark of the author will throw light on the meaning which formerly seemed obscure, and the difficulty when returned to will vanish. In the experimental sciences practical laboratory work is of the greatest importance for making the knowledge of the student real and living ; but even in these sciences the man whose eyes are open to the phenomena of nature finds all around him illustrations of scientific principles, and food for the profoundest reflection. The motions of the stars, the rise and fall of the tide, the changes of the seasons, summer's sun and winter's snow and ice, bird and beast and plant, all teach him their lessons, and furnish him with a continual delight which the man whose eyes are shut to natural things knows nothing of. The student will do well to limit the choice of subjects of study at first to one or two at most, and then enlarge the range of his reading, as his stock of ideas and power of working increase. But ever let his aim be to become no student of mere "paper science," but one whose knowledge is a real living part of himself , and whose books are his servants and friends, not the controllers of his scientific faith and conscience.] " It won't do. I went into science a great deal myself at one time ; but I saw it would not do. It leads to everything; you can let nothing alone." — Mr. Brooke in Middlemarch. There rolls the deep where grew the tree : O Earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There, where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. — In Memoriam. I. MATHEMATICS [Notes and Suggestions.— It is almost essential that the student of this sub- ject should obtain some personal help and superintendence in his work. If unable A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 95 Science — Mathematics, continued to do so, he is recommended to procure the key in the case of those books which are marked K in the following list. In no case, however, should the key be consulted, until the problem whose solution is sought .has been attempted by the student. The Elementary Books on Mixed Mathematics do not require a knowledge of pure mathe- matics beyond that supplied by the Elementary Books of that branch."] I. PURE MATHEMATICS ELEMENTARY. £ o. d. Smith, Barnard, Arithmetic (K. 8s. 6d.) Macmillan 046 Hall and Knight, Elementary Algebra. Macmillan 036 (With answers, 4s. 6d.) Todhunter, Elements of Euclid. Macmillan 036 "Wilson, J. M., Elementary Geometry. Books I.-V. Macmillan 046 Lock, Trigonometry for Beginners. (K. 8s. 6d.) Macmillan 046 Smith, Hamblin, Elementary Trigonometry. (K. 7s. 6d.) Longmans 046 ADVANCED. Algebra, etc. Hall and Knight, Higher Algebra. (K. 10s. 6d.) Macmillan 076 Todhunter, Higher Algebra. (K. 10s. 6d.) Macmillan 076 Ohrystal, Algebra. Part I. Black o 10 6 Salmon, Modern Higher Algebra. Hodges, Figgis 010 6 Muir, Thomas, Treatise on the Theory of Determinants. Macmillan 076 Todhunter, Theory of Equations. Macmillan 076 Burnside and Panton, Theory of Equations. Hodges, Figgis o 12 6 Whitworth, Choice and Chance. (On Probability.) Bell 060 Trigonometry. Todhunter, Plane Trigonometry. (K. 10s. 6d.) Macmillan 050 Lock, Higher Trigonometry. Macmillan 046 Todhunter, Spherical Trigonometry. Macmillan 046 Pure Geometry. A. I. G-. T., A Syllabus of Modern Plane Geometry. Macmillan 010 Casey, Sequel to Euclid. Hodges, Figgis 036 Oockshott and "Walters, Geometrical Treatise on Conies. Macmillan 050 96 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Science — Pure Mathematics, continued £ s. d. Besant, Geometrical Conic Sections. (K. 4s.) Bell 046 Cremona, Luigi, Elements of Projective Geometry {trans. by C. Leudesdorf). Clarendon Press 012 6 Cremona, Luigi, Elementary Geometry of Conies. Bell 046 Analytical Geometry. Smith, C, Conic Sections. (K. 10s. 6d.) Macmillan 076 Salmon, Conic Sections. Longmans 012 o ,, Higher Plane Curves. Hodges, Figgis 012 o Smith, C, Elementary Solid Geometry. Macmillan 096 Salmon, Solid Geometry. Hodges, Figgis 015 o Calculus, etc. Edwards, Differential Calculus. Macmillan o 10 6 Todhunter, Differential Calculus. (K. 10s. 6d.) Macmillan 010 6 "Williamson, Differential Calculus. Longmans o 10 6 Rice and Johnson, Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus. Macmillan o 18 o or abridged 090 Todhunter, Integral Calculus. (K. 10s. 6d.) Macmillan 010 6 Grreenhill, Differential and Integral Calculus with Applications. Macmillan 076 Forsyth, Differential Equations. Macmillan o 14 o Boole, Finite Differences. Macmillan 010 6 Cayley, Elliptic Functions. Bell 015 o Kelland and Tait, Introduction to Quaternions. Macmillan 076 2. MIXED MATHEMATICS. ELEMENTARY. Smith, Hamblin, Elementary Statics. Longmans 030 G-arnett, Elementary Dynamics. Bell 060 Robinson, Elements of Dynamics. Longmans 060 Sanderson, Hydrostatics for Beginners. Macmillan 046 Todhunter, Mechanics for Beginners. Macmillan 046 ADVANCED. Mechanics. Minchin, Statics. Vol. I . Equilibrium of Coplanar Forces. Clarendon Press 090 „ Vol. II. Statics. Clarendon Press 014 o ,, Uniplanar Kinematics of Solids and Fluids. Clarendon Press 076 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 97 Science — Mixed Mathematics, continued £ s. d. Loney, Elementary Dynamics. Cambridge Press 076 Tait and Steele, Dynamics of a Particle. Macmillan 012 o Routh, Rigid Dynamics. Vol. I. Elementary. Macmillan o 14 o „ Vol. II. Advanced. Macmillan o 14 o Hydromechanics. Besant, Hydromechanics. Vol. I. Hydrostatics. Bell 050 „ Vol. II. Hydrodynamics. Not published yet. Basset, Hydrodynamics. 2 vols. Vol. I. Bell 010 6 „ „ Vol. II. Bell 012 6 Optics. Airy, Undulatory Theory of Optics. Macmillan o. p. Lloyd, Elementary Treatise on the Wave Theory of Light. Longmans o 10 6 Parkinson, A Treatise on Optics. Macmillan 010 6 Acoustics. Rayleigh, The Theory of Sound. 3 vols. (Vol. III. not yet published.) Macmillan. Each 012 6 Donkin, Theoretical Acoustics. Clarendon Press 076 Thermodynamics. Baynes, Lessons on Thermodynamics. Clarendon Press 076 Tait, Sketch of Thermodynamics. Douglas o 5 Thomson, Sir W., Mathematical and Physical Papers. Vol. I. Cambridge Press o 18 o Electricity and Magnetism. Maxwell, Clerk, Elementary Treatise on Electricity. Clarendon Press 076 Maxwell, Clerk, Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. 2 vo i s Clarendon Press 1 1 1 6 Astronomy. Bain, Introduction to Plane Astronomy. Bell 040 Chauvenet, Spherical and Practical Astronomy. 2 vols. Lippincott 1 11 6 G-odfray, A Treatise on Astronomy. Macmillan 012 6 Cheyne, Elementary Treatise on the Planetary Theory. Macmillan 076 Godfray „ „ Lunar Theory Macmillan 050 o 98 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Science — Mathematics, continued 3. HISTORIES AND MISCELLANEOUS. £ ,. d. Ball, Short History of Mathematics. Macmillan 010 6 Todhunter, History of the Mathematical Theory of Proba- bility. Macmillan O. P. De Morgan, Arithmetical Books from the Invention of Printing to 1847. Layton 050 Newton, I., " Principia," ed. Thomson and Blackburn. Maclehose in 6 „ „ (parts), ed. Evans and Bain. Bell 040 Thomson, Sir W., and Tait, Treatise on Natural Philosophy. Parti. 1 6s. Part II. 18s. Cambridge Press 1 14 o Clifford, Mathematical Papers, ed. Tucker. Macmillan 1 10 o Wolstenholme, Mathematical Problems (Pure and Mixed). Macmillan o 18 o Abbott, E. A., Flatland : a Romance. Seeley 046 II. PHYSICS [Notes and Suggestions. — A knowledge of the Elements of Algebra and of the Geometry of the Straight Line and Circle is highly desirable before beginning the study of these subjects. The student should begin with Mechanics, and should gain an elementary knowledge of branches 3,4, 5,6 before passing to a more detailed study of any one of them. He should supplement his reading, when possible, by work in a Physical Laboratory, also by attendance at Experimental Lectures on the subject. For the higher branches of Physics, a knowledge of Analytical Geometry and of the Differential and Integral Calculus is necessary. For the more Mathematical treatises, the list given under the head "Mixed Mathematics" should also be consulted.] I. GENERAL PHYSICS 1. ELEMENTARY. Stewart, Balfour, Primer of Physics. Macmillan o 1 o ,, Elementary Lessons in Physics. Macmillan 046 Ganot, Natural Philosophy for General Readers. Longmans 076 Deschanel, Natural Philosophy {trans.) 4 parts. Blackie. Each 046 2. ADVANCED. Daniell, Text-Book of the Principles of Physics. Macmillan 1 1 o Tait, Properties of Matter. Black 076 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 99 Science — Physics, continued 3. REFERENCE. £ *. d. Thomson, Sir W., Popular Addresses and Lectures. Vol. I. Macmillan 060 Everett, Units and Physical Constants. Macmillan 050 2. MECHANICS 1. ELEMENTARY. Blaikie, The Elements of Dynamics. Lodge, O. J., Mechanics. Ball, Experimental Mechanics. Simpkin 036 Chambers 030 Macmillan 060 2. ADVANCED. Maxwell, Clerk, Matter and Motion. Rankine, Applied Mechanics. S.P.C.K. o 1 o Griffin o 12 6 3. REFERENCE. Thomson, Sir W., and Tait, Treatise on Natural Philosophy. 2 V ols. Cambridge Press 114 o (See also under " Mixed Mathematics.") 3. SOUND 1. ELEMENTARY. Mayer, Sound. Stone, Elementary Lessons on Sound. Tyndall, Sound. Taylor, S., Sound and Music. Macmillan 036 Macmillan 036 Longmans o 10 6 Macmillan 086 2. ADVANCED. Donkin, Theoretical Acoustics. Clarendon Press 076 Helmholtz, Sensations of Tone (trans. Ellis). Longmans 1 8 o Blaserna, Theory of Sound in Relation to Music. Kegan Paul 050 3. REFERENCE. Rayleigh, Theory of Sound. 3 vols. (Vol. III. not yet published.) Macmillan. Each o 12 6 IOO A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Science — Physics, continued HEAT i. ELEMENTARY. Baynes, The Book of Heat. Stewart o G-arnett, Elementary Treatise on Heat. Bell o Stewart, B., Elementary Treatise on Heat. Clarendon Press o Tait, Heat. Macmillan o Tyndall, Heat as a Mode of Motion. Longmans o s. d. I o ADVANCED. Maxwell, Clerk, Theory of Heat. Baynes, Thermodynamics. Sharm, Heat in Relation to Steam. Longmans 036 Clarendon Press 076 Macmillan 046 3. REFERENCE. Fourier, Analytical Theory of Heat {trans. Freeman). Cambridge Press 016 o 5. LIGHT 1. ELEMENTARY. Aldis, Geometrical Optics. Lloyd, Wave Theory of Light. Stokes, Sir G\, " Burnett Lectures " on Light. Spottiswoode, Polarisation of Light. Glazebrook, Physical Optics. "Wright, Light : a Course of Experiments. Rood, Ogden, Modern Chromatics. Bell 4 Longmans 10 6 Macmillan 7 6 Macmillan 3 6 Longmans 6 Macmillan 7 6 Kegan Paul 5 2. ADVANCED. Parkinson, Optics. Macmillan o 10 Heath, Geometrical Optics. Cambridge Press 012 Airy, Undulatory Theory of Optics. Macmillan O. P. Aldis, Fresnel's Theory of Double Refraction. Bell o 2 Pendlebury, Lenses and Systems of Lenses. Bell o 5 3. REFERENCE. Glazebrook, Report on Physical Optics, in British Associa- tion Report for 1885. Murray 1 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Science — Physics, continued 6. ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM I. THEORETICAL i. ELEMENTARY. £ s. d. Thompson, S. P., Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism. Macmillan 046 Larden, Electricity. Longmans 060 2. ADVANCED. Maxwell, Clerk, Elementary Treatise on Electricity. Clarendon Press 076 Mascart and Joubert, Electricity and Magnetism {trans. Atkinson). 2 vols. De La Rue 1 1 o Gray, A., Absolute Measurements. Vol.1. Macmillan o 12 6 3. REFERENCE. Maxwell, Clerk, Electricity and Magnetism. 2 vols. Clarendon Press 1 1 1 6 Thomson, Sir W., Papers on Electrostatics and Magnetism. Macmillan o 18 o Thomson, Sir W., Report on Electrical Theories (British Association Report 1885). Murray 1 4 o II. APPLIED Ayrton, Practical Electricity. Cassell 076 Thompson, S. P., Dynamo-Electric Machinery. Spon 016 o Gordon, J., Practical Treatise on Electric Lighting. Sampson Low 018 o Urbanitzky, Electricity in the Service of Man. Cassell 090 Fleming, Alternating Currents. " Electrician " Office 076 Martin and Wetzler, Electrical Motors. Spon 012 6 7. THE THEORY OF ENERGY Stewart, Balfour, The Conservation of Energy. Kegan Paul 050 Helmholtz, The Conservation of Force (Scientific Memoirs, ed. Tyndall and Francis). Taylor, Francis 03° Helmholtz, Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects. 2 vols. Longmans. Each 076 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Science — Physics, continued £ s. d. Tait, Recent Advances in Physical Science. Macmillan 090 Thomson, J. J., Applications of Dynamics to Physics and Chemistry. Macmillan 076 8. MISCELLANEOUS Tyndall, Fragments of Science. 2 vols. Longmans 016 o 9. METHOD Jevons, Principles of Science. Macmillati o 12 6 III. CHEMISTRY [Notes and Suggestions. — The student of Chemistry, after having read the primers, should try to gain admission into a good laboratory, and should, if possible, attend a full course of Experimental Lectures on Inorganic Chemistry. Before beginning the study of Organic Chemistry, he should attend, if possible, a course of Elementary Lectures on the general features of that branch, as without help it is most difficult to begin the study of Organic Chemistry. The progress oj the science is so rapid that it is necessary to obtain the latest editions of modem works. ] I. GENERAL 1. ELEMENTARY. Odling, Chemistry Primer. Roscoe, Primer of Chemistry. ,, Lessons in Elementary Chemistry. Tilden, Practical Chemistry. Wurtz, Elements of Modern Chemistry. Remsen, Inorganic Chemistry. Ward, Lock 006 Macmillan o I o Macmillan 046 Longmans 016 Lippincott o 10 6 Macmillan 066 , ADVANCED. Roscoe and Schorlemmer, C, Treatise on Chemistry. Vols. I.-III. in 8 Parts. Macmillan Miller, Elements of Chemistry. 3 vols. Longmans Watts, Inorganic Chemistry (ed. Tilden). Churchill Clowes, Practical Chemistry. Churchill Thorpe, Quantitative Chemical Analysis. Longmaiis Fresenius, Quantitative Analysis. Churchill 16 1 1 8 7 4 IS A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 103 binued £ s. d. Churchill 15 O Blackie 9 O Longmans 3 6 Longmans 18 Macmillan 10 Longmans 4 6 Kegan Paul 5 Kegan Paid 5 Science- Fresenius, Qualitative Analysis. Bernthsen, Organic Chemistry. Armstrong, Organic Chemistry. Meyer, Modern Theories of Chemistry. Ostwald, Outlines of General Chemistry. Tilden, Introduction to Chemical Philosophy. Wurtz, The Atomic Theory. Cooke, Josiah P., The New Chemistry. Richter, Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds. Philadelphia 012 6 REFERENCE. Q-melin, Handbook of Chemistry (trans. H. Watts). 19 vols. Cavendish Society 10 3 o Watts, Dictionary of Chemistry. 9 vols. Longmans 15 2 6 (New edition now appearing, ed. Morley and Muir. 4 vols., each £2, 2s.) Carnelley, Physico-Chemical Constants. 2 vols. Harrison 440 Journal of the Chemical Society. Gurney, Jackson. Yearly 1 1 o o 2. APPLIED (It is impossible to give a satisfactory list of works on Applied Chemistry without including foreign, books. For the great number of technical books under this head larger catalogues must be consulted. ) Thorpe's Dictionary of Applied Chemistry. Vol. I. Longmans Allen, Commercial Organic Analysis. 3 vols. Churchill Lunge, Coal-Tar and Ammonia. Gurney, Jackson „ Sulphuric Acid and Alkali. 3 vols. Gurney, Jackson Hummel, Dyeing. Cassell Benedikt and Knecht, Coal-Tar Colours. Bell Phillips, Metallurgy. Griffin Percy, Metallurgy. 3 vols. (Fuel, Lead, Silver.) Murray. Each Procter, H. B., Tanning. Span Abney, Photography. Longmans Roscoe, Spectrum Analysis. Macmillan "Winkler and Lunge, Gas Analysis. Gurney, Jackson "Wagner, Handbook of Chemical Technology. Churchill Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry. Yearly 2 2 I 12 I 1 1 6 4 16 5 5 1 16 1 10 10 6 3 6 1 1 7 1 5 1 10 io4 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Science, continued IV. BIOLOGY [Notes and Suggestions. — In this as in other branches of Science, the more carefully the study is followed up in the laboratory or out of doors, the more real and living will the hiowledge of the subject become.] i. ZOOLOGY a. ZOOLOGY (General) ELEMENTARY. £ *. d. . Huxley and Martin, Elementary Practical Biology. Macmillan o 10 6 Nicholson, The Study of Biology. Blackwood 050 Macalister, Zoology of Invertebrate Animals, and of Verte- brate Animals. Longmans. Each o 1 6 ADVANCED. • Mivart, The Cat. Murray 1 10 o Marshall, Milnes, The Frog. Smith, Elder 036 Lankester, Notes on Embryology and Classification. Churchill o. P. , Claus and Sedgwick, An Elementary Text-Book of Zoology. 2 vols. (Vol. I., Protozoa to Insects, ,£1, is. ; Vol. II., Mollusca to Man, 16s.) Sonnenschein 1 17 o Macalister, Introduction to Morphology and Systematic Zoology of Invertebrates. Hodges o 10 6 ,, Do. of Vertebrates. Hodges o 10 6 Foster and Balfour, Elements of Embryology (ed. Sedgwick). Macmillan o 10 6 - Rolleston, Forms of Animal Life. Clarendon Press 116 o Marshall, Milnes, Practical Zoology (a Laboratory Handbook). Smith, Elder o 10 6 Huxley, Manual of the Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals. Churchill o 12 o i) „ In vertebrated. Churchill o 16 o b. EVOLUTION Darwin, C, The Origin of Species. Murray 060 „ Descent of Man. Murray 076 Lankester, Degeneration— Chapter in Darwinism. Macmillan 026 Mivart, Contemporary Evolution. Kegan Paul 076 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 105 Science — Biology — Evolution, continued £ *. d. Romanes, Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution. Macmillan 026 Wallace, A. R., Darwinism. Macmillan 090 "Weismann, Studies in the Theory of Descent. 2 vols. Low 200 Allen, Grant, The Evolutionist at Large. Chatto 060 c. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY ELEMENTARY. Foster, Physiology Science Primer. Macmillan o 1 o Huxley, Elementary Lessons in Physiology. Macmillan 046 Yeo, Manual of Physiology. Churchill 014 o Kirko, Handbook of Physiology. Murray 014 o Heath, Practical Anatomy. Churchill 015 o ADVANCED. Foster, Text-book of Physiology. Macmillan 1 1 o M'Kendriek, Text-Book of Physiology. Vol. I. — General. Maclehose o 16 o „ „ Vol. II — Special. Maclehose 1 4 o Quain, Anatomy with Histology. Longmans 116 o For an extensive Bibliography of the subject, see the end of Landois's Text-Book of Physiology, translated, with additions, by W. Stirling. Griffin 114 o SPECIAL. Gamgee, Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body. Vol. I. Macmillan o 18 o Rosenthal, The General Physiology of Muscles and Nerves. Kegan Paul 050 Marckwald, Respiration {trans, by M'Kendriek). Blackie o 10 o Stirling, W., Physiology. Griffin 086 d. NATURAL HISTORY 1. ELEMENTARY. Huxley, Introduction to Classification of Animals. Churchill O. P. Nicholson, H. A., Introductory Text-Book of Zoology. Blackwood 030 Buckley, Arabella, Life and Her Children. Stanford 060 106 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Science — Biology — Natural History, continued 2. GENERAL MANUALS. £ s. d. Nicholson, H. A., Manual of Zoology (illus.) Blackwood o 18 o Ooues and Kingsley, Standard Natural History (by lead- ing American Scientific writers — illus.) 6 vols. Boston 5 5° Wood, J. Gk, Natural History (illus.) 3 vols. 14s. each. Cassell, New Natural History (ed. by E. M. Duncan). 6 vols. Cassell. Each 090 G-osse, Manual of Marine Zoology. Parts I. and II. Gurney, Jackson. Each 076 „ A Year on the Shore. Daldy o 9 o Taylor, J. E., The Aquarium : its Inhabitants, Structure, and Management (illus.) Allen 036 3. MICROSCOPE. Carpenter, The Microscope and its Revelations. (Reprint- ing, probable price not less than £1, is.) Churchill 4. SPECIAL. Romanes, Jellyfish, Starfish, and Sea Urchins. Kegan Paul 050 Darwin, C, Vegetable Mould and Earth- Worms. Murray 060 Huxley, The Crayfish. Kegan Paul 050 Staveley, British Spiders. Lovell Reeve o 10 6 5. INSECTS. Lubbock, Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects Macmillan 036 "Wood, J. GK, Insects at Home. Longmans o 10 6 „ Insects Abroad. Longmans 010 6 Staveley, British Insects : Form, Structure, Habits. Lovell Reeve 014 o Kir by, W. E., Handbook of Entomology. Sonfienschein o 15 o Piguier, Insect World Cassell 036 Kirby, British Butterflies, Moths, and Beetles (illus.) Sonnenschein 010 Coleman, British Butterflies. Routledge 010 „ „ Coloured Plates. Routledge 036 Wood, J. G-., British Moths. Routledge o 1 o „ ,, „ Coloured Plates. Routledge 036 Newman, E., British Butterflies. Allen 076 ,, British Moths (illus.) Allen 100 Or, both vols. 150 Stainton, Manual of British Butterflies and Moths. (Vol. I. 4s. 6d., Vol. II. 5s. 6d.) Gurney, Jackson o 10 o £ s. d. o IO 6 o 3 6 o 5 o o 5 o A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 107 Science— Biology — Natural History, continued Rye, Beetles. Lovell Reeve Wood, J. G\, Common British Beetles. Routledge Lubbock, Ants, Bees, and Wasps. Kegan Paul "White, W. F., Ants and Their Ways. Religious Tract Society 6. FISHES. Couch, History of the Fishes of the British Islands. 4 vols. Bell 2 12 o Yarrell, History of British Fishes. 2 vols. £3 : 3s. 1st supplement, 7s. 6d. ; 2d supplement 5s. Gurney, Jackson 315 6 7. REPTILES. Bell, History of British Reptiles. Gurney, Jackson 012 o 8. BIRDS. Morris, F. O., Nests and Eggs of British Birds. 3 vols. Bell O. P. Johns, British Birds in Their Haunts. S. P. C. K. o 6 „ Birds, Nests, and Eggs. 5. P. C. K. o 3 o Morris, History of British Birds. 6 vols. Nimmo 660 Seebohm, A History of British Birds. 3 vols. Dulau 660 Yarrell, British Birds. 4 vols. Gurney, Jackson 400 9 o MAMMALS. Bell, History of British Quadrupeds. Gurney, Jackson 1 6 o Schmidt, The Mammalia. Kegan Paul o 5 o 10. FAMOUS OLD BOOKS. ■White, Gilbert, Natural History of Selborne (ed. by Halting, with illus. by Bewick). Sonnenschein 076 Walton, Izaak, Complete Angler. Bell o 5 o 11. MISCELLANEOUS. Jefferies, Wood Magic. Cassell 060 Knight, F., By Leafy Ways. Elliot Stock 050 Fowler' Warde, A Year with the Birds. Macmillan 036 Batty, Practical Taxidermy. New York o 6 Wood, The Field Naturalist's Handbook. Cassell o 5 Natural History Handbooks for Collectors (various Authors). 8 vols. Sonnenschein. Each o I o 108 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Science — Biology, continued 2. BOTANY [Notes and Suggestions. — The study of this subject should be, from the first, practical. The student should begin by obtaining, with the assistance of the elementary books, a thorough acquaintance, based on the examination of specimens, of the plants growing in his neighbourhood. Having obtained this, he may then proceed to study the anatomy and physiology of plants with the assistance of the microscope and. of the books on practical study. Should he ultimately devote himself to the study of one particular group of plants, he will find references to the special literature of the groups in the reference books mentioned below. ,] i. ELEMENTARY. £ s. d. Kitchener, A Year's Botany. Longmans 050 Hooker, Primer of Botany. Macmillan 010 Oliver, Elementary Lessons in Botany. Macmillan 046 BRITISH FLORA Hayward, The Botanist's Pocket-Book. Bell 046 Hooker, Student's Flora of the British Islands. Macmillan o 10 6 ' Bentham, British Flora. Lovell Reeve 010 6 „ Illustrations of British Flora. Lovell Reeve o 10 6 PRACTICAL STUDY (Microscope) Strasburger and Hillhouse, Practical Botany. Sonnenschein 090 Bower, Course of Practical Instruction in Botany (Parts I. and II. in one vol.) Macmillan 010 6 2. ADVANCED. Prantl, and Vines, Text-Book of Botany. Sonnenschein 090 Thome and Bennett, Structural and Physiological Botany. Longmans 060 Gray, Asa, Structural Botany. Macmillan 010 6 SPECIAL \ Darwin, C, Variation of Animals and Plants under Domes- tication. 2 vols. Murray 015 o ,, Fertilisation of Orchids. Murray 076 „ Insectivorous Plants (illus.) Murray 090 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS 109 Science — Biology— Botany, continued Darwin, C, Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants {illus.) Murray 060 „ Effects of Cross and Self-Fertilisation. Murray 090 „ Different forms of Flowers. Murray 076 De Oandolle, Origin of Cultivated Plants. Kegan Paul 050 Dawson, Geological History of Plants. Kegan Paul 050 • Henslow, Floral Structures. Kegan Paul 050 3. REFERENCE. G-oebel, Outlines of Classification. ■ De Bary, Comparative Anatomy of Plants, „ Fungi. 1 Sachs, Lectures on Physiology of Plants, t Vines, Lectures on Physiology of Plants. Clarendon Press 1 1 o Clarendon Press Clarendon Press Clarendon Press Cambridge Press 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 3. ANTHROPOLOGY [Notes and Suggestions. — The reader is recommended to gain from one of the introductory manuals a general view of the scope of the science of man, as he will then more easily find his way into the branches of the study most congenial to him. These lie in very different directions, including portions of subjects as different as anatomy, philology, and history. Any of these would give occupation for a life, but the attempt to become acquainted with such parts of them as bear most directly on man's life and thought is not only feasible, but advantageous in leading the student into lines of culture profitable for their own sake. History of Civilisation will be found under History (Europe). Travels must be referred to for Cook's Voyages, etc. The books of Mariner, Catlin, Burton, Grey, Wallace, Ellis, Turner, St. John, Sibree, Im Thurn, and the like, are full of An- thropological knowledge. It is not desirable to mention here more abstruse works which the advanced student will find referred to in the course of his reading.} INTRODUCTORY. " Tylor, Anthropology. * Pescriel, Races of Man. De Quatrefages, The Human Species. Macmillan 076 Kegan Paul 090 Kegan Paul 050 PHYSICAL. Topinard, Anthropology. Chapman, Hall 036 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS £ j. d. Kegan Paul o S O Williams, Norgate o i« O Longmans i 8 O Macmillan i i O Science — Biology — Anthropology, continued PREHISTORIC ARCHEOLOGY, etc. (See also Antiquities and Arc/neology.) • Joly, Man before Metals. , Lubbock, Prehistoric Times. Evans, Ancient Stone Implements. Dawkins, Cave-Hunting. CIVILISATION. (See Civilisation, History of, under Etiropean History.) . Lubbock, Origin of Civilisation. Longmans o 1 8 o i Tylor, Early History of Mankind. Murray 012 o „ Primitive Culture. 2 vols. Murray 140 Wood, J. G., Illustrated History of Man. 2 vols. Routledge 180 Brown, Peoples of the World. 6 vols. Cassell. Each 076 V. GEOLOGY [Notes and Suggestions. — The greater part of the study of Geology must be carried on in the open air. Some amount of reading is of course necessary at the first start, but as soon as a knowledge of the rudiments has been acqidred, the beginner should procure the best description he can of the Geology of his own district, and com- pare its statements with what he sees in quarries, railway cuttings, beds of brooks, cliffs, or even ditches. He should always try to realise the connection between the physical features of the neighbourhood and its geological structure. For points of which he camwt find illustratioji round his oivn home, he should as far as possible fall back upon Musewns. The student should not be content with the mere collection and naming of geological specimens, valuable as this may be — for the end of Geology is not a well- filled cabinet, but the deciphering of the records in which the early history of the earth is written. For local details, the memoirs and maps of the Geological Survey may be used. Catalogues can be obtained of Mr. E. Stanford, 26 and 27 Cockspur Street, S. W. Every Geological student ought to have the one-inch Geological Map of his neighbour- hood, and the descriptive explanation of it, where this is published. ] I. GENERAL 1. INTRODUCTORY. Geikie, A., Primers of Geology and Physical Geography. Macmillan. Each o A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Science — Geology, continued 2. ELEMENTARY. £ s. d. Page and Lapworth, Introductory Text-Book of Geology. Blackwood 036 Jukes-Browne, Student's Handbook of Historical Geology. Bell 060 Geikie, A., Class-Book of Geology. Macmillan 046 3. ADVANCED. Lyell, Student's Elements of Geology. Murray 090 Geikie, A., Text-Book of Geology. Macmillan 1 8 o Green, A. H., Physical Geology. Longmans 1 1 o Prestwich, Geology : Chemical, Physical, and Stratigraphical. 2 vols. Clarendon Press 3 1 o Bamsay, Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain. Stanford 015 o Hull, Physical History of the British Isles. Stanford o 12 6 2. PAL/EONTOLOGY 1. ELEMENTARY. Nicholson, H. A., Ancient Life-History of the Earth. Blackwood o 10 6 2. ADVANCED. Nicholson, H. A., and Lydekker, Palaeontology. 2 vols. Blackwood 330 {The best book is in German, by Zittel.) 3. MINERALOGY 1. ELEMENTARY. Rutley Mineralogy (Murby's Science and Art Department Series of Text-Books). Murby 020 Dana, Manual of Mineralogy. New York 086 2. ADVANCED. Bauerman, Systematic Mineralogy. Longmans 060 Dana, A System of Mineralogy. New York 2 2 o ii2 A GUIDE TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS Science, continued VI. ASTRONOMY i. POPULAR AND DESCRIPTIVE £ s. d. Airy, Lectures on Astronomy. Macmillan 046 Ball, R., Starland. Cassell 060 „ Elements of Astronomy. Longmans 060 „ Story of the Heavens. Cassell 012 6 Chambers, G-. F., Astronomy. 3 vols. Clarendon Press 2 16 o G-uillemin, The Heavens. Bentley 012 o Herschel, Outlines of Astronomy. Longmans 012 o Lardner and Dunkin, Handbook of Astronomy. Crosby, Lockwood 096 Lockyer, Lessons in Astronomy. Macmillan 056 Newcomb, Popular Astronomy. Macmillan 018 o Proctor, The Sun. Longmans 014 o ,, The Moon. Long?nans 050 ,, Saturn and its System. Chatto o 10 6 „ A New Star Atlas. Longmans 050 2. MATHEMATICAL (See Mixed Mathematics — Astronomy. ) 3. HISTORICAL Gierke, Agnes, History of Astronomy during the 1 9th Century. Black o 12 6 (See also several good articles in the latest edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica for the whole subject of Astronomy and its History. ) Of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. — ECCLESIASTES, INDEX [The names of all the subjects on which lists of books are given, and of all the authors, with the exception of a few authors of biographies, are included in the index. The names of the principal subjects are given in darker type for greater convenience. Whenever initials of authors are not likely, in the case of several authors of the same name, to be of much use, the subject on which the author writes has been given.] Abbey and Overton, 45 Abbott, E. A. (Life of Bacon), 11 (Education), 30 (Mathematics), 98 Abbott, E., 41, 58 Abbott and Mansfield, 55 Abbott and Seeley, 59 Abney, 103 Accounts, Government, 37 Acland and Jones, 81 Acland and Ransome, 44 Acoustics, 97 Acton, 93 Acts of Parliament, 37, 38 Adam Smith, 79, 86 Adams (Co-operation), 81 Adams (Finance), 86 Adams, C. (Railroads), 88 Adams and Cunningham, Si Adamson, 75 Addison, 70 life of, 1 1 Adventures (see Children's Books) .lEschylus, 63 ,