uch attention has been given to the suggestions at the end of the
volume with the aim of making them practically serviceable and, at the
same time, as free as possible from duplication of class work. This aim,
the editors came to believe, could best be attained by providing for
each group of selections definite suggestions of theme-subjects to be
derived by the student from supplementary readings closely related to
that group.

F.W.R.
G.R.E.

MADISON, WISCONSIN,
May, 1913.

CONTENTS

I. THE PERSONAL LIFE.

1. Self-Reliance...............RALPH WALDO EMERSON

2. Early Education
at Herne Hill.............JOHN RUSKIN

3. A Crisis in My
Mental History............JOHN STUART MILL

4. Old China...................CHARLES LAMB

II. EDUCATION.

5. What is Education?..........THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

6. Knowledge Viewed in
Relation to Learning .....JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

7. Literature and Science......MATTHEW ARNOLD

8. How to Read.................FREDERIC HARRISON

III. RECREATION AND TRAVELS.

9. On Going a Journey..........WILLIAM HAZLITT

10. Regrets of a Mountaineer....LESLIE STEPHEN

IV. SOCIAL LIFE AND MANNERS.

11. Behavior....................RALPH WALDO EMERSON

12. Manners and Fashion.........HERBERT SPENCER

13. Talk and Talkers............ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

V. PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

14. The Social Value
of the College-bred.......WILLIAM JAMES

15. The Law of
Human Progress............HENRY GEORGE

16. The Morals of Trade.........HERBERT SPENCER

VI. SCIENCE.

17. The Physical Basis
of Life...................THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

18. Mental Powers of
Men and Animals...........CHARLES DARWIN

19. The Importance of Dust......ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

VII. NATURE.

20. The Battle of the Ants......HENRY DAVID THOREAU

21. A Windstorm
in the Forests............JOHN MUIR

22. Walden Pond.................HENRY DAVID THOREAU

23. Extracts from
Modern Painters...........JOHN RUSKIN

VIII. CONDUCT AND INNER LIFE.

24. The Stoics.. .............WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY

25. Enthusiasm of Humanity......JOHN ROBERT SEELEY

26. Loyalty and Insight.........JOSIAH ROYCE

IX. LITERATURE AND ART.

27. Poetry for Poetry's Sake.... A.C. BRADLEY

28. Greek Tragedy................G. LOWES DICKINSON

29. Sha