Milton, Paradise Lost, and the shorter poems.
Dante, Divina Commedia.
Spenser, Faerie Queen.
Dryden's Poems.
Chaucer, Morris's (or, if expurgated, Clarke's or Mrs. Haweis's) edition.
Gray.
Burns.
Scott's Poems.
Wordsworth, Mr. Arnold's selection.
Heine.
Pope.
Southey.
Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield.
Swift, Gulliver's Travels.
Defoe, Robinson Crusoe.
The Arabian Nights.
Cervantes, Don Quixote.
Boswell, Johnson.
Burke, Select Works (Payne).
Essayists:—Bacon, Addison, Hume, Montaigne, Macaulay, Emerson.
Molière.
Sheridan.
Voltaire, Zadig.
Carlyle, Past and Present.
Goethe, Faust, Wilhelm Meister.
White, Natural History of Selborne.
Smiles, Self Help.
Miss Austen, either Emma or Pride and Prejudice.
Thackeray, Vanity Fair and Pendennis.
Dickens, Pickwick and David Copperfield.
George Eliot, Adam Bede.
Kingsley, Westward Ho!
Bulwer-Lytton, Last Days of Pompeii.
Scott's Novels.
notes
1
"The Library Companion, or the Young Man's Guide and the Old Man's Comfort in the Choice of a Library. By the Rev. T.F. Dibdin, F.R.S., A.S., London, 1824."
2
The Best Reading: Hints on the Selection of Books; on the Formation of Libraries, Public and Private; on Courses of Reading, etc., with a Classified Bibliography for every reference. Fourth revised and enlarged edition, continued to August, 1876, with the addition of Select Lists of the best French, German, Spanish, and Italian Literature. Edited by Frederic Beecher Perkins; New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1881. Second Series, 1876 to 1882, by Lynds E. Jones.
3
Dr. Richard Garnett read an interesting paper on this book under the title of Librarianship in the Seventeenth Century, before the Library Association. See Library Chronicle, vol. i. p. 1 (1884).
4
Narcissus Marsh, Archbishop of Armagh, is said to have given £2500 for Bishop Stillingfleet's Library.
5
Reliquiæ Hearnianæ, by Bliss, 2nd edition, 1869, vol. ii. p. 14.
6
Edwards, Libraries and Founders of Libraries, p. 115.
7
Edwards, Libraries and Founders, p. 136.
8