Thursday, October 17, 1918
EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS
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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
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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.