s all night long,
and was one morning found dead in his bed." If Mr. Quaritch intends this
as a warning, he should present the fact for the consideration of those
readers who swell the numbers of novels in the statistics of the Free
Libraries.

Looking at the _Pall Mall Gazette's_ list, it naturally occurs to us that
it would be a great error for an Englishman to arrange his reading so that
he excluded Chaucer while he included Confucius. Among the names of modern
novelists it is strange that Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte should have
been omitted. In Sir John Lubbock's own list it will be seen that the
names of Chaucer and Miss Austen occur. Among Essayists one would like to
have seen at least the names of Charles Lamb, De Quincey, and Landor, and
many will regret to find such delightful writers as Walton and Thomas
Fuller omitted. We ought, however, to be grateful to Sir John Lubbock for
raising a valuable discussion which is likely to draw the attention of
many readers to books which might otherwise have been most unjustly
neglected by them.[69]

The following is Sir John Lubbock's list. It will be seen that several of
the books, whose absence is remarked on, do really form part of the list,
and that the objections of the critics are so far met.

_The Bible._

* * * * *

Marcus Aurelius, _Meditations_.
Epictetus.
Confucius, _Analects_.
_Le Bouddha et sa Religion_ (St.-Hilaire).
Aristotle, _Ethics_.
Mahomet, _Koran_ (parts of).

* * * * *

_Apostolic Fathers_, Wake's collection.
St. Augustine, _Confessions_.
Thomas a Kempis, _Imitation_.
Pascal, _Pensees_.
Spinoza, _Tractatus Theologico-Politicus_.
Comte, _Cat. of Positive Philosophy_ (Congreve).
Butler, _Analogy_.
Jeremy Taylor, _Holy Living and Holy Dying_.
Bunyan, _Pilgrim's Progress_.
Keble, _Christian Year_.

* * * * *

Aristotle, _Politics_.
Plato's Dialogues--at any rate the _Phaedo_ and _Republic_.
Demosthenes, _De Corona_.
Lucretius.
Plutarch.
Horace.
Cicero, _De Officiis_, _De Amicitia_, _De Senectute_.

* * * * *

Homer, _Iliad_ and _Odyssey_.
Hesiod.
Virgil.
Niebelungenlied.
Malory, _Morte d'Arthur_.

* * * * *

Maha-Bharata, _Ramayana_, epitomized by Talboys
Wheeler in the first two vols. of his _His