VII.
+Didactic Fiction.+
MORE’S _Utopia_.
HARRINGTON’S _Oceana_.
DISRAELI’S _Coningsby_.
BULWER-LYTTON’S _The Coming Race_.
BUNYAN’S _Pilgrim’s Progress_.
HANNAH MORE’S Novels.
JOHNSON’S _Rasselas_.
The modern didactic novel.
See Hallam’s _Literary History_; and references given in the preceding schemes.
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An After Word.
_HERE let us face the last question of all: In the shade and valley of Life, on what shall we repose? When we must withdraw from the scenes which our own energies and agonies have somewhat helped to make glorious; when the windows are darkened, and the sound of the grinding is low,—where shall we find the beds of asphodel? Can any couch be more delectable than that amidst the Elysian leaves of Books? The occupations of the morning and the noon determine the affections, which will continue to seek their old nourishment when the grand climacteric has been reached._
THE AUTHOR OF “HESPERIDES.”
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INDEX.
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Addison, Joseph, 32, 78.
Æschylus, 74.
Alcott, A. Bronson, 63.
Allegory, 183.
American Fiction, 195.
Areopagitica, 78.
Aristophanes, 74.
Axon, William, 62.
Bacon, Lord, 53, 78.
Ballads, 186.
Banking, 164.
Battle Songs, 186.
Baxter, Richard, 159.
Beaumont and Fletcher, 71.
Beecher, Henry Ward, 60.
Bennoch, Francis, 17.
Bible, The, 153.
Borrowed Books, 58.
Boswell’s Johnson, 79.
Bright, John, 17, 63.
Brontë, Charlotte, 82.
Brown, Dr. John, 148.
Browne, Matthew, 49.
Browne, Sir Thomas, 78.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 72.
Bryant, William Cullen, 73.
Bulwer Lytton, 82.
Burke, Edmund, 78.
Burns, Robert, 72.
Burton, Robert, 21.
Bury, Richard de, 9.
Carlyle, Thomas, 15, 29, 79.
Carr, Frank (“Launcelot Cross”), 61.
Cervantes, 80.
Chambers, William and Robert, 93.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 70.
Children’s Books, 84.
Chivalry, Tales of, 102.
Choice of Books, 23, 165.
Christian Year, The, 72.
Cicero’s Orations, 79.
Clarke, James Freeman, 19.
Cobbett, William, 33.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 53, 72.
Collier, Jeremy, 13.
Collyer, Robert, 25, 95.
Colton, Charles C., 54.
Constitutional History, 162.
Cooper, James Fenimore, 81.
Craik, Dinah Mulock, 82.
Crusoe, Robinson, 80, 104.
Currency and Wealth, 163.
Dante’s Divina Commedia, 75.
Dawson, George, 64.
Defoe, Daniel, 80.
Demosthenes, 79.
Descriptive Poetry, 189.
Dickens, Charles, 81.
Didactic Fiction, 195.
Didactic Poetry, 185.
Dryden, John, 71.
Dyer, George, 63.
Elegies, 188.
Eliot, George, 81, 156.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 16, 46, 79.
English Literature, 168.
Epic Poetry, 177.
Fabulous Voyages, 193.
Fairy Stories, 99.
Fénelon’s Telemaque, 81.
Fiction, English Prose, 192.
Fielding, Henry, 81.
Franklin, Benjamin, 85.
Froude, James Anthony, 79.
Geography, 138.
Gibbon, Edward, 51.
Gilfillan, George, 46.
Goethe, 54, 75, 81.
Goldsmith, Oliver, 72, 80.
Government, Science of, 161.
Hale, Sir Matthew, 153.
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 54.
Hare, Julius C., 45.
Harrison, Frederic, 34, 76.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 81.
Helps, Sir Arthur, 47.
Herbert, George, 71.
Historical Romances, 194.
History, Courses of Reading in, 113.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 70, 79.
Homer, 74, 90.
Horace, 74.
Hugo, Victor, 81.
Humor, Wit and, 190.
Hunt, Leigh, 82.
Hymns, 186.
Irving, Washington, 79, 96.
Johnson, Samuel, 79.
Jonson, Ben, 71.
Keats, John, 72.
Keble, John, 72.
Kempis, Thomas à, 156.
Kingsley, Charles, 22, 81.
Labor and Wages, 164.
Lamb, Charles, 79.
Libraries 56, 108.
Locke, John, 44.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 72.
Love Lyrics, 187.
Luther, Martin, 44.
Lyric Poetry, 186.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 73, 79, 96.
Marlowe, Christopher, 71.
Miller, Hugh, 88.
Milton, John, 12, 71, 78.
Montaigne’s Essays, 78.
Morse, James Herbert, 37.
Mythology, 101.
Natural History, 138.
Nibelungen Lied, 101.
Novels, 194.
Odes, 187.
Oriental Romances, 193.
Parker, Theodore, 17, 148.
Pastoral Poetry, 189.
Patmore, Coventry, 76.
Patriotism, Songs of, 186.
Pauperism, 166.
Petrarca, Francesco, 10.
Philosophy and Religion, 148.
Plutarch’s Lives, 79, 86.
Political Economy, 161.
Pope, Alexander, 71.
Population, 163.
Praise of Books, 9.
Prefaces always to be read, 51.
Procter, Bryan Waller, 51, 56.
Rantzau, Henry, 22.
Religious Books, 148.
Religious Poetry, 186.
Rhodiginus, Balthasar Bonifacius, 12.
Richardson, Charles F., 49.
Richter, Jean Paul, 64.
Romances, 179, 193.
Romances of the Middle Ages, 101.
Rules for Reading, 42, 46.
Ruskin, John, 36, 59, 76.
Satire, 190.
Scholar, Books for every, 69.
School Libraries, 108.
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 28, 35.
Scott, Sir Walter, 81.
Searle, January, 18.
Seneca, 44.
Shakspeare, 70.
Smith, Alexander, 66.
Socialism, 165.
Sonnets, 187.
South, Robert, 44.
Southey, Robert, 27.
Spectator, The, 78, 86.
Spenser, Edmund, 70.
Story-telling Poetry, 181.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 81.
Tariff, Books on the, 166.
Taxation, 166.
Tennyson, Alfred, 72.
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 81.
Theological Literature, 157.
Travels and Adventure, 138.
Twain, Mark, 81.
Value and Use of Libraries, 56.
Virgil’s Æneid, 74.
Wages and Labor, 164.
Wealth and Currency, 163.
Webster, Daniel, 78.
Webster, John, 71.
Whipple, Edwin P., 20.
Whittier, John G., 73.
Wit, Humor, and Satire, 190.
Wordsworth, William, 72.
Young Folks, Books for, 84.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Robert Collyer: _Addresses and Sermons_.
[2] _The Doctor_, Interchapter V., 1856.
[3] Arthur Schopenhauer: _Parerga und Paralipomena_, 1851.
[4] _The Elements of Drawing, in Three Letters to Beginners_, 1857.
[5] _The Spectator_, No. 166.
[6] _Fortnightly Review_ (April, 1879),—“On the Choice of Books.”
[7] _Parerga und Paralipomena_ (1851).
[8] _The Critic_ (July 5, 1884),—“Leisure Reading.”
[9] John Ruskin: _Sesame and Lilies_.
[10] _Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers_, 1848.
[11] _Society and Solitude_,—“Books.”
[12] George Gilfillan.
[13] _Friends in Council._
[14] _Views and Opinions_, by Matthew Browne (W. H. Rands).
[15] _The Choice of Books._
[16] _Temple Bar_ (September, 1884),—“Barry Cornwall on the Reading of Books.”
[17] _Sesame and Lilies._
[18] _Meliora_ (October, 1867).
[19] Sparks’s _Life of Franklin_, part i.
[20] _My Schools and Schoolmasters._
[21] _Memoir of Robert Chambers: with Autobiographic Reminiscences of William Chambers._
[22] _Chinese Classics_, by J. Legge. 3 vols.
[23] Frederic Harrison: _Fortnightly Review_ (April, 1879), “On the Choice of Books.”
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