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About Eastern Clackamas news. (Estacada, Or.) 1916-1928 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1918)
Thursday, October 17, 1918 EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS Page Six BUSINESS ALWAYS Pa has gone to war, but we are still in business at the same old stand and earnestly solicit the con tinuance of your patronage. Y WE ARE SHIPPING THE LAST CAR LOAD OF WHEAT WE WILL SHIP THIS SEASON FRIDAY OF THIS WEEK.. IF YOU HAVE ANY TO SHIP BRING IT IN RIGHT AWA Y AS WE WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY AFTER THAT DATE. W E CARRY A FULL LINE GROCERIES AND MILL FEEDS The Walter Givens Company, Inc. We Believe “A SatishedCustom er is the B est Advertisem ent. E S T A C A D A , Excellent Books for Boys to Read (Continued from Page 1) easting about in my memory, I find that it was a comprehensive ¡ i i k I valuable one for cultivating a sound taste in literature. Among these 1 recall the lollow ing which-1 heartily recommend to hoys of that age and even older ones, if they are not already fa miliar with them : “ llans Andersen’s Fairy Tales, “ Ivanhoe,” “ Guy Mannering, “ Lady of the Lake,” “ Munition, ” “ Lay of the Last Minstrel, by Sir Walter Seott;“ At the Back of the North Wind,” by George Mac Donald; “ Greek Heroes,' “ The IW>y in Grey,” and “ The Water Haines,” by Charles Kingsley; “ The Hook of Golden Deeds,” “ Chaplet of lVarls,” “ The Caged Lion,” by Charlotte M. ’tonge; “ Alice in Wonderland,'' “ Alice Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carrol; “ Parabh* from Nature,” by Mrs. G atty; “ The Three Midshipmen” and “ The Three Admirals,” by W. 11 Kings ton; “ Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and “ Round the World in Eighty Days,” by Jules Verne; “ The Conscript, “ Water loo.” and “ The Invasion of France,” by Erekmann-Chatrian; “ The Christmas Carol” by Dick ens; “ Little Women and Little Men,” by Louisa May Aleott; “ Undine” and “ Sinstram and His Companions,“ by LaMotte Fouquo In addition to these, 1 read a number by myself for the love of reading hud been thus stimulated. It is probable that some of the above 1 read over to myself with other books by the same authors. 1 remember being intensely inter ested in Longfellow’s “ Hia watha.” After leaving this school, most of my reading was done by myself and, like the editor of The Ob server, I became an omniverous reader, and at fourteen was read ing any novel on which 1 could lay my hands. Between eleven and eighteen I had acquired a famil iarity with the Waverley, Dick ens’ and Bulwer Lvtton’s novels, Harrison Ainsworth’s and Du mas'. I will try to enumerate some of these according to their classification. “ The Boy Tars and Boy Hunt - ers,” by Mayne Reid; “ Tom Brown’s School Days,” by Hugh es; “ Erie and St. W inifred's,” by Farrar; “ Mr. Midshipman Easy,” “ Jacob Faithful,” “ Japh- et in Search of a Father,” and “ The Phantom Ship,” by Marry- at; “ The Tower of London,” “ Windsor Castle,” “ Jack Shep- perd,” “ Guy Fawkes,” and “ The Lancashire Witches,” by Harrison Ainsworth. These are of the same character as Dumas’ “ The Three Muskateers,” and “ Twenty Years After.” being his torical. 1 have derived great ben efit from the popular historical novel, though its history has to b * taken with caution, but it has the merit of making a historical past ” O R E G O N vivid and lifelike. Of Dickens’ books, “ The Pick wick Papers,” “ Little Dorrit,” “ Nicholas Nickleby,” “ Doinbey and Son,” “ Oliver Twist,” “ Martin Chuzzlewit” and “ The Christmas Carol” should by all means be read, if not any of the others. Of Scott, “ Ivanhoe,” “ Guy Mannering,” “ The Pi rate,” “ Kenilworth,” and “ The Talisman,” besides bis poems rep resent the minimum. Of Lytton “ The Last Days of Pompeii,” easily stands first, to which “ Night and Morning” and “ Pel ham” may be added, and three hooks by Kingley, “ Westward IIo,” “ Hypatia,” and “ Here* ward the Wake,” to those I have previously mentioned. Thaekery claims attention for “ The Neweomes," “ Pendennis,” “ Henry Esmond" and “ The Vir ginians.” His “ Vanity Fair” which some regard as his strong est hook, is more for adults than for boys. Victor Hugo’s “ Les Miserables” is important, though perhaps boys would find his “ Notre Dame,” and “ Toilers of the Sea,” more interesting. W il liam Black’s “ Strange Advent ures of a Phaeton,” “ Ultima Thule” and “ A Princess of Thule,” with Blaekmore’s charm ing “ Lorna Doone” and Charles Reade’s “ The Cloister and the Hearth,” appealed strongly to boys of my generation, also Wilkie Collins’ “ The Woman in White,” and “ The Moonstone.” Shakes peare plays, “ Macbeth," “ Ham let,” “ The Tempest” and “ The Merchant of Venice,” ought to be read and studied, as also Gold smith’s “ Vicar of Wakefield,” though this last will not appeal to American as to English boys. “ Daniel Deronda,” by George Elliott is a strong book though not so well known as “ Adam Bede” and “ The Mill on the Floss.” I did not read many books by American authors until I came to this country. Besides Miss 01- eott’s and some of Longfellow’s poems, I had only come across Mrs- Stowe’s “ Uncle Tom Cabin” and “ Dred. ” It is possible that I read also some of Fennimore Cooper’s, but Washington Irving and Hawthorne I read first over here. Since then a number of more recent writers have appeared, Stevenson, Conan Doyle, Kipling, etc. 1 do not mention them, for they were not part of my boyhood environment. The boys of the present should, however, not neg lect them. “ Of making of books there is no end,” and especially in recent years a flood of story hooks has been let loos»*. Perhaps I am old fashioned and partial, but none of the newer sorts appeal to me like the old ones, and on reading them I cannot help thinking that the old are better. -U . H. G.