very acceptable to healthy-minded children, but
some of the old books are not easily met with. No Child's Library should
be without a good collection of Fairy Tales, a careful selection of the
Arabian Nights, or Robinson Crusoe. Gulliver's Travels is very unsuited for
children, although often treated as a child's book. Berquin's _Children's
Friend_, Edgeworth's _Parent's Assistant_ and the Aikins's _Evenings at
Home_, will surely still amuse children, although some may think their
teaching too didactic. It is only by practical experience that we can tell
what children will like. _Sandford and Merton_ is, I believe, usually
considered as hopelessly out of date, but I have found young hearers
follow my reading of it with the greatest interest. _The Pilgrim's
Progress_ will always have as great a fascination for the young as it must
have for their elders; but there is much preaching in it which must be
skipped, or the attention of the hearers will flag.

CHAPTER IX.

ONE HUNDRED BOOKS.

In the Fourth Chapter of this Volume two lists of selected books are
given, viz. The Comtist's Library, and a list of one hundred good novels.
Since that chapter was written and printed, much public attention has been
drawn to this branch of our subject by the publication of Sir John
Lubbock's list of books which he recommended to the members of the Working
Men's College, when he lectured at that place on "Books." The comments by
eminent men, which have appeared in the _Pall Mall Gazette_, have also
attracted attention, and it seems desirable that some note on this list
should appear in these pages.

The list issued by the _Pall Mall Gazette_ is as follows:

NON-CHRISTIAN MORALISTS.

Marcus Aurelius, _Meditations_.
Epictetus, _Encheiridion_.
Confucius, _Analects_.
Aristotle, _Ethics_.
Mahomet, _Koran_.

THEOLOGY AND DEVOTION.

Apostolic Fathers, _Wake's Collection_.
St. Augustine, _Confessions_.
Thomas a Kempis, _Imitation_
Pascal, _Pensees_.
Spinoza, _Tractatus Theologico-Politicus_.
Butler, _Analogy_.
Jeremy Taylor, _Holy Living and Holy Dying_.
Keble, _Christian Year_.
Bunyan, _Pilgrim's Progress_.

CLASSICS.

Aristotle, _Politics_.
Plato, _Phaedo_ and _Republic_.
AEsop, _Fables_.
Demosthenes, _De Corona_.
Lucretius.
Plutarch.
Horace.
Cicero, _De Officiis_, _De Amicitia_, and _De Senectute_.

EPIC POETRY.

Homer, _Iliad_ and _Odyssey_.
Hesiod.
Virgil.