mann on Assemblies of the Athenians; Webster's Speeches. 2. Hazlitt's Characters of Shakespeare; Eclectic Magazine; Bacon's Essays; Eclectic Review; Thirlwall's Greece; Scott's Heart of Midlothian; Uhland's Gedichte; Christian Examiner; New York Review; British Poets; Shakespere's Dramatic Art; Chatterton's Poems; Campbell's British Poets; Chace on The Relation of Divine Providence to Physical Laws. 3. Blackwood's Magazine; Maury's Physical Geography; Eclectic Magazine; Spenser's Works; British Poets; Dunlop's History of English Fiction; More's Utopia; British Statesmen; Westminster Review; Foreign Quarterly Review; Wordsworth; Hawkins and Burney's History of Music; Democratic Review; North American Review; Christian Review; Hazlitt's Characters of Shakespeare; Retrospective Review; Quarterly Review; History of Switzerland; Moore's View of Society and Manners in France; Classical Museum; Becker's Gallus; Early English Writers; Lives of Englishmen. 4. Strutt's Sports and Pastimes of England; Phi Beta Kappa Discourses; Christian Examiner; Steele on Old Age; Alison's History of Europe; Pope's Poems; Pope's Homer's Iliad. No book in this list bespeaks the future writer on surgery; but who will say that the great surgeon, still vigorous at eighty eight, would have won the same success without the mental equipment of this reading? ROBERT HENRY THURSTON, 1859 Engineer, professor of mechanical engineering in the Stevens Institute of Technology and in Cornell University, voluminous writer on engineering. He was graduated after a three years' course, having entered at seventeen. 1. Pope's Iliad; Walton's Angler; Irving's Bracebridge Hall, Mahomet, Astoria, Columbus, Crayon Miscellany, and Washington; Fénelon; Silliman's Journal; Thomson's Heat and Electricity; Lamartine's Girondists; Pope's Odyssey; Hugo's Notre Dame; Lyall's Geology; Ritson's Fairy Tales; Layard's Babylon; La Fontaine's Fables; Godwin's Necromancers; Combe's Phrenology; Annals of Phrenology; Racine's Works; Lander's Niger; Swainson's Geography and Classification of Animals; American Biblical Repository; Le Sage's Gil Blas; Gentleman's Magazine; Stewart's Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind; Béranger; Law's Civil Engineering; Villemain's Moyen Age; La Harpe's Cours de Littérature; Jay's Mexican War; Creasy's Decisive Battles; Carlyle's Frederick the Great; Montaigne; Park's Life and Travels; Parkyns's Abyssinia; Naturalist's Companion; Pambour's Locomotive Engines; Gordon's Railway Economy; Chorley's Music and Manners, France and Germany; Pyne's Perspective. Mathe 2. Châteaubriand; Heather on 3. Freiligrath; Scott's Waverley Novels, two volumes; Germany and the Germans; Quarterly Review; North American Review; London Quarterly Review; Blackwood's Magazine; Macaulay's Miscellanies; American Eclectic; Smiles's Life of George Stephenson; Gray's Poems; Swift's Works; Monthly Review; Guizot's Shakespeare and his Times; Renwick on The Steam Engine; Fraser's Magazine; Carlyle's Life of Schiller; Williams's Pelagian Heresy; Chaucer; Llorente's Inquisition; Béranger; Westminster Review; Jackson's Geology of Rhode Island; Songs of the American Revolution; Bartlett on Optics; Scott's Poetical Works; Italy in 1848; Napoleonic Ideas; Encyclopædia Metropolitana; Murray's Guide to North Germany, to France. The kingdom of learning suffereth violence and the violent take it by storm. Professor Thurston might have been as great an engineer without this reading in college, but he never would have been the standard and favorite writer on engineering that he became. ELMER LAWRENCE CORTHELL, 1867 Engineer, associate of James B. Eads in constructing the Mississippi jetties, head of important river and harbor engineering works in North and South America, writer on engineering topics. He entered college in 1859 at the age of nineteen. He served in the army, 1861-5, and then completed his college course. 1. Arnold's Rome; Life of Judson by Wayland; Hemans's Poems; Grote's Greece; Dante by Carey; Burns; Shakespeare; Cowper; Combe on Health; Prescott's Mexico; Macaulay's Miscellanies; Spurzheim on Insanity; Conybeare and Howson's Life of St. Paul; Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella. 2. Macaulay's Miscellanies; Irving's Works; Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature; Rudimentary Architecture; Motley's Dutch Republic; Montgomery's Poems; Williams's Missionary Enterprises; Macaulay's England. 3 (a half year). Thackeray's English Humorists; Scott's Poetical Works; Bibliotheca Sacra; D'Israeli's Amenities of Literature; Addison; Parnell's Poems; Chaucer; Bishop Hall's Works; Recreations of a Country Parson; Fuller's Worthies; Jeremy Taylor; Emmons's Works; Newman's Sermons. 4. Neander's Church History; Benedict and the Benedictines; Jamieson's Sacred and Legendary Art; Rawlinson's Evidence of Scripture Records; Bulwer's Last of the Barons; Browning's Poems; Rougemont's Christ et ses Témoins. One would hardly guess that the reader of this list immediately on graduation entered an engineering office and so began one of the most famous engineering careers led by an American. He had originally intended to enter the ministry, and his college reading to the very end reflects this interest. BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER, 1875 Philologist, professor in Cornell, president of the University of California, now president emeritus and professor of comparative philology, author of a history of Alexander the Great. He entered college at seventeen. 1. Scott's Pirate; Chalmers's English Poets; Macaulay's Miscellanies; Harper's Magazine; Niebuhr's Rome; British Poets; Bryant's Iliad; Thackeray's Virginians; Goldsmith's Works. 2. Merivale's Roman Empire; Goldsmith's Works; Lytton's Last Days of Pompeii; Pope's Works; American Nautical Almanac; Froude's Short Studies; White's England; Bulwer's Harold; Shakespeare; Froude's England; Oxford English Prize Essays; Blackwood's Magazine; Catholic World; Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance; Dickens's David Copperfield. 3. Frick's Physical Technics; Thomson's Laws of Thought; Paget's Hungary; Eclectic Magazine; Bohn's Proverbs; London Quarterly Review; Barnum's Romanism; Dickens's Oliver Twist; Church Review; Cramp's Textbook of Popery; Thackeray's Pendennis; Congress of Nations; Beattie on Truth, Poetry and Music; Mill on Hamilton; Shakespeare; Bowen's Logic; Craik's English Literature; Farrar's Chapters on Lan guage; Bowen's Political Economy; Chaucer; Smith's Political Economy; Tacitus; Rolleston's Forms of Animal Life; Blackwood's Magazine; Eclectic Magazine; North American Review; Cooke's Religion and Chemistry; Angus's Handbook of the English Tongue; Wiseman's Science and Religion; Darwin's Descent of Man; Fraser's Magazine; Hannah's Bampton Lecture; Catholic World; Ellis's Early English Pronunciation; Wordsworth's Pictorial Greece; Byles's Sophisms of Free-Trade; Fawcett's Political Economy; Schlegel's Dramatic Literature; Everett's Orations; Morley's English Literature. 4. Student's Gibbon; Wayland's Intellectual Philosophy; Cousin's Philosophy of History; Porter's Human Intellect; Froude's Short Studies; Adam's Theories of History; Democratic Review; Eclectic Museum; Milman's Latin Christianity; Thackeray's Henry Esmond; Tacitus; Hopkins's Study of Man; Dickens's Christmas Books; Liebke's Ecclesiastical Art; Fergusson's Architecture; Hopkins's Law of Love; Carlyle's Hero Worship; Stephens's France; Buckle's Civilization in England; Stephen's Ecclesiastical Essays; Lewis's History of Germany; Tocqueville's Democracy in America; Hale's United States; Mahaffy's Social Life in Greece; Wordsworth's Pictorial Greece; Fraser's Magazine; Cambridge Essays; Curtius's Greece; Scott's Kenilworth. The reading of a genuine scholar who had not yet centred his mind on one field of interest. It is no wonder that in his third decade after graduation he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from nine leading American universities. WILLIAM H. P. FAUNCE, 1880 For ten years pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York City, for the last twenty six years president of Brown University, lecturer and author. He entered college at seventeen. 1. Garnett's Philosophical Essays; Thirlwall's Greece; Grote's Greece; Scott's Kenilworth, Red Gauntlet, Betrothed, and Talisman; Napoleon; Edinburgh Review; Plutarch's Lives; Bucke's Ruins of Ancient Cities; Rawlinson's Ancient Monarchies; Biblia Polyglotta; Irving's Alhambra; Jesse's Court of England; Knight's England; Student's Hume; Becker's Gallus, and Charicles; Coleridge; Shakespeare; Memoir of Norman Macleod; Ware's Zenobia; Anderson's Foreign Missions; Bible Commentary; Ticknor's Life; Eaton's Rome; Pope's Iliad; Wayland's Gospel Ministry; Wordsworth; Hessey's Bampton Lecture; Thackeray's Pendennis; Basil's Shakespeare; Dickens's Bleak House; Prescott's Peru; Grote's Utilitarian Philosophy. 2. Jones's Right of Suffrage; Landor; Carlyle's Hero Worship; Brachet's Historical French Grammar; Dryden; DeQuincey's Essays; Channing's Lectures; Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter and Blithedale Romance; Bacon's Works; Mill's Utilitarianism; Grote's Utilitarian Philosophy; Milton's Works; Bacon's Manual of Gesture; Bulfinch's Age of Fable; Pictorial History of England; Foster's Cromwell; Blackie's Horæ Hellenica; Gervinus's Shakspere; Boswell's Johnson; Hazlitt's English Poets; Shakespeare; Donaldson's Antigone; Scott's Old Mortality; Wordsworth's Greek Testament; Life of Eliot. 3. Freeman's Old English History; Bulwer's Last of the Barons; Müller's Lectures on Religion; Moon's The Dean's English; Wordsworth's Greece; Leeds's Architecture; Ganot's Physics; Nichol's Architecture of the Heavens; Blaserna's Theory of Sound; Tyndall on Sound; Roscoe's Spectrum Analysis; Stewart's Conservation of Energy; Middleton's Life of Cicero; Plutarch's Lives; Masson's Three Devils; Hullah's Cultivation of the Speaking Voice; Stewart's Elementary Treatise on Heat; Spenser's Poetical Works; Percy's Reliques; Taylor's Whole Works; Songs of England and Scotland; Emerson's Essays; Browne's Works; Scott's Waverley; Walker's Science of Wealth; Nicholson's Zoology; Schmidt's Descent and Darwinism; Mill's Logic; Jowett's Plato; Fénelon's Preacher and Pastor; Whately's Logic; Hunt's Poetry of Science; Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies; Plato's Apology; Hazlitt's Shakespeare's Plays; Angus's Bible Handbook; Tennyson's Idylls of the King; Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables; Abbott's Shakesperian Grammar; Descartes's Method; Boston Lectures, 1870; Whitney's Growth of Language; Cooke's Religion and Chemistry; Bain's Mind and Body; Paley's Works; Hutton's Scott; Shairp's Burns; Morison's Gibbon; Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity; Milton's Areopagitica; Addison on Paradise Lost. 4. Seelye's Philosophy; Locke's Essays; Wayland's Intellectual Philosophy; Maudsley's Physiology of Mind; Mill's Logic; Moral Freedom and Causation; Mansell's Metaphysics; Carpenter's Mental Physiology; Cousin's History of Philosophy; Outline Study of Man; Combe's Constitution of Man; Oersted's Soul in Nature; Bain's Mental and Moral Science; Hume's Philosophical Works; Maurice's Claims of Science and of the Bible; Study of History; Machiavelli's Works; Webster's Works; Noel's Union of Church and State; Sellar's Poets of the Augustan Age; Lange's Materialism; Modern Pantheism; Tacitus; Whewell's Elements of Morality; Martineau's Essays; Hunt's Poetry of Sci ence; Nepos's Lives; Duncan's Cæsar; Bray's Philosophy of Necessity; Edwards on The Will; Fleming's Moral Philosophy; Schlegel's Dramatic Literature; Donaldson's Theatre of the Greeks. The reading of a high grade student who had early chosen his profession. He won a reputation in college for rapidity in mastering the contents of a book, an ability that still marks him among men. CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, 1881 Lawyer, counsel to the Armstrong Insurance Committee of the New York Legislature, Governor of New York, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, candidate for the presidency, Secretary of State. He entered Brown as a sophomore at the age of sixteen. 2. Thackeray's Pendennis, Vanity Fair, Newcomes, Virginians, Henry Esmond, and Miscellanies; Dickens's Dombey and Son, Little Dorrit, Tale of Two Cities, Barnaby Rudge, and Martin Chuzzlewit; Irving's Sketchbook and Alhambra;_ Champlin's Demosthenes; Macaulay's Essays; Ben Jonson's Works; Howitt's English and Foreign Life; Gray's Poems; Hugo's Ninetythree; Elder's Questions of the Day; Merchant's Magazine; Bulwer's Rienzi; Scott's Pirate; DeQuincey's Opium Eater; Edinburgh Review; Lamb's Works; DeMille's Helena's Household; Spectator; Emerson's Essays; Bulwer's Harold, and Last of the Barons; Palgrave's Normandy and England; Thierry's Norman Conquest; North American Review, six volumes; Scott's Woodstock; Carlyle's Hero Worship; Smith's Three English Statesmen; Foster's Statesmen of the Commonwealth; Old Plays. 3. Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby, Bleak House, and Our Mutual Friend; Galaxy; Spectator; Morley's Shelley, also his Spenser; Land We Live In; Richmond and its Vicinity; Pope's Works; Fraser's Magazine; Blackwood's Magazine; Edinburgh Review; London Quarterly Review; Bremer's_Works; Sterne's Works; Beaumont and Fletcher; Goldsmith's Works; Horace; Lamb's Works; Lowell's Among My Books; British Theatre; Addison's Works; Cox's Why We Laugh; Thackeray's Miscellanies; Country Parson; Femme de Feu; Morley's Thackeray; Student's Hume; Lives of Englishmen; Sand's Indiana; Cousin's History of Philosophy; Kingsley's Roman and Teuton; Student's France. 4. Dickens's Great Expectations, American Notes, and Sketches by Boz; Hawthorne's Marble Faun; Bryce's Holy Roman Empire; Balzac; Farrar's Constitution; Italian Dictionary; Ingliss's Switzerland; Reade's Christie Johnstone; Kingsley's Works; Bekker's Tacitus; Lacombe's Henry IV; Stephens's France; Thierry's Tiers Etat; Schiller's Revolt of the Netherlands and Thirty Years War; Morrell's Modern Philosophy; Reid's Works; Cary's Dante; Fichte's Philosophy; Emerson's Essays; Busch's Bismarck; Literature of Greece; Forster's Dickens. The reading of an immature boy moving about in worlds that he was striving to realize, and building better for the future than he knew. In addition to all this reading, he made an extensive use of the Providence Public Library, which was opened the year he entered Brown. SAM WALTER FOSS, 1882 Editor, librarian of the Somerville, Massachusetts, Public Library, poet, humorist. He entered college at twenty. 1. Hood's Poems; Grote's Greece; Emerson's Essays; Lowell's Poems; Burns; Irving's Bracebridge Hall. 2. Wordsworth; Irving's Knickerbocker, Sketchbook, and Mahomet; Thompson's Mexico; Chambers's Book of Days; Carlyle's Hero Worship; Addison on Paradise Lost; Ascham's Toxophilus; Journey in Brazil; Brazil and the Brazilians; Eloquence of the United States; Webster's Works. 3. Burns; Swift's Works; Addison; Macaulay's Essays; Keats; Dickens's Barnaby Rudge, Bleak House, and Great Expectations; Drake's Essays; Thackeray's Henry Esmond; Critical Miscellany; Carlyle's Hero Worship; Emerson's English Traits; Webster's Works, volume five; Cox's Aryan Mythology; Bryant's Homer's Odyssey; Sterne's Works; Morley's Wordsworth, also his Milton; Lyell's Geology. DALLAS LORE SHARP, 1895 Professor of English in Boston University, lecturer, essayist, humorist. He entered college at the age of twenty one. 1. Holmes's Poems; Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables; Taylor's Views Afoot; Seymour's Russia; Halen's Captivity; Dean's Greece; Freinsheim's Livy; Coleridge's Works; Bryant's Poems; Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter; Green's History of England; Macaulay's Essays; Aldrich's Flower and Thorn; Cunningham's Burns; Huxley's Essays; Southall's Origin of Man; Allen's Flowers; Holmes's Professor at the Breakfast-Table; Warner's My Summer in a Garden; Longfellow's Poems; Pfeiffer's Poems; Howells's Fearful Responsibility; Shelley's Poems; Arnold's Poems; Fletcher's Life; Southey's Wesley; Moore's Poems; Cape's Early Rome; Tacitus; Willis's Poems; Poe's Poems. 2. Lamb's Works; Dawson's Fossil Man; Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies; Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse; Brickley's Life; Spenser's Poems; Thoreau's Walden, and two other volumes; Bain's Rhetoric; Abbott's Naturalist; Goode's Fishes; Abbott's Upland and Meadow; Staveley's Spiders; Torrey's Birds in the Bush; Cervantes's Don Quixote; Poulton's Colour of Animals; Bulwer's Rienzi; Everett's Orations. 3. Tozer's Byron; Tyler's American Literature; Beverly's Virginia; Arnold's Poems; Eliot's Adam Bede; Scott's Poetical Works; Alexander's Moral Order; Shelley's Poems; Swinburne's Poems; Forman's Shelley; Hutton's Essays; Rose's Biography; The Forum; Dickens's Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield; Rossetti's Poems; Buckey's Life and Her Children; Taylor's Naturalist; Seebohm's Protestant Revolution; Hay's Poems; Caird's Evolution of Religion. 4. Clarke's Ten Religions; Andrew's Christ; Browning's Men and Women and Sordello; Mrs. Browning's Poems; Riis's How the Other Half Lives; Channing's Works; Spurgeon's Sermons; Henry's Expositions; Spurgeon's Hands Full of Honey; Martineau's Christian Life; Scott's Rob Roy and Ivanhoe; Morrison's Crime; Ely's Social Aspects of Christianity; Annals of the American Academy; Clough's Poems; Aristotle's Ethics. The reading of a literary man whose choice of books was mainly running counter to the biological studies in which he specialized. But his readers are now enjoying the fruits of both his study and his reading. What of the conclusions prompted by our twenty lists? Each has developed in our minds a portrait beside that developed by the reader's after career. The comparison yields both affirmative and negative replies to each of our questions, the two being, of course, equally valuable. Perhaps the safest generalization from the lists before us is that they reflect in every case the intellectual alertness of the student, the range of his interests, and his mentality at that particular stage of his development. Few show a dominating purpose or a single interest, but interests shift or interplay. If this conclusion yields a smaller pedagogic value than we had hoped, it offers a greater biographic value than we foresaw, and we may even claim for the library records that have so long slumbered in the archives of our older colleges the rank of an unrecognized source of biographic material. Certainly we carry away an impression of intellectual interest and seriousness that leaves a sense of real importance in the part played by the library in the intellectual life of college students throughout a hundred years. OUBLE-FLOWERING trees bear no fruit, they say, With petals shrewdly whirled about an empty centre, But when they are gone There are only green leaves to catch at the sunlight, Which hide nothing. |