Niebelungenlied.
Malory, _Morte d'Arthur_.

EASTERN POETRY.

_Mahabharata_ and _Ramayana_ (epitomised by Talboys Wheeler).
Firdausi, _Shah-nameh_ (translated by Atkinson).
_She-king_ (Chinese Odes).

GREEK DRAMATISTS.

AEschylus, _Prometheus_, _The House of Atreus_, Trilogy, or _Persae_.
Sophocles, _OEdipus_, Trilogy.
Euripides, _Medea_.
Aristophanes, _The Knights_.

HISTORY.

Herodotus.
Thucydides.
Xenophon, _Anabasis_.
Tacitus, _Germania_.
Gibbon, _Decline and Fall_.
Voltaire, _Charles XII._ or _Louis XIV._
Hume, _England_.
Grote, _Greece_.

PHILOSOPHY.

Bacon, _Novum Organum_.
Mill, _Logic_ and _Political Economy_.
Darwin, _Origin of Species_.
Smith, _Wealth of Nations_ (selection).
Berkeley, _Human Knowledge_.
Descartes, _Discourse sur la Methode_.
Locke, _Conduct of the Understanding_.
Lewes, _History of Philosophy_.

TRAVELS.

Cook, _Voyages_.
Darwin, _Naturalist in the Beagle_.

POETRY AND GENERAL LITERATURE.

Shakspeare.
Milton.
Dante.
Spenser.
Scott.
Wordsworth.
Pope.
Southey.
Longfellow.
Goldsmith, _Vicar of Wakefield_.
Swift, _Gulliver's Travels_.
Defoe, _Robinson Crusoe_.
_The Arabian Nights._
_Don Quixote._
Boswell, _Johnson_.
Burke, _Select Works_.
Essayists--Addison, Hume, Montaigne, Macaulay, Emerson.
Moliere.
Sheridan.
Carlyle, _Past and Present_ and _French Revolution_.
Goethe, _Faust_ and _Wilhelm Meister_.
Marivaux, _La Vie de Marianne_.

MODERN FICTION.

Selections from--Thackeray, Dickens, George Eliot, Kingsley, Scott,
Bulwer-Lytton.

It must be borne in mind by the reader that this list, although the one
sent round for criticism by the editor of the _Pall Mall Gazette_, is not
really Sir John Lubbock's. This will be found on p. 240. Sir John
Lubbock's address was not given in full, and the list drawn up by the
_Pall Mall_, from the reports in the daily papers, contained in fact only
about 85 books.

It seems necessary to allude particularly to this imperfect list, because
it is the only one upon which the critics were asked to give an opinion,
and their criticisms are peculiarly interesting, as they give us an
important insight into the tastes and opinions of our teachers. In itself
it is almost impossible to make a list that will be practically useful,
because tastes and needs differ so widely, that a course of reading
suitable for one man may be