The Reading of Books; Its Pleasures, Profits, and Perils

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1883. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. CONTAINING A CLASSIFIED LIST OF BOOKS. The following list of books makes no pretension to completeness. Tbe aim is to suggest works which are at once accessible and of a high order of merit. They are designed rather for tbe general reader than for the specialist. For obvious reasons the titles are not usually quoted in full, but only so far as is necessary for identification. ART AND ARCHITECTURE. Eastlake. Hints on Household Taste. Fergusson. History of Architecture. Hamerton. Thoughts about Art; A Painter's Camp. Jameson. Legends of the Madonna; Sacred and Legendary Art; Life of Our Lord; Monastic Orders. Kugler. Handbook. Lessing. Laocoon. Long. Art, its Reasons. Lubke. History of Art. Murray. History of Greek Sculpture. Norton. Church Building in the Middle Ages. Ruskin. Modern Painters; Seven Lamps of Architecture; Lectures on Architecture; Stones of Venice. 136 Taine. Art in Greece; Ideal in Art; Philosophy in Art. Tytler. Modern Painters and their Paintings; The Old Masters and their Pictures. Vasari. Lives of the Painters. Viollet-le-duc. Discourses on Architecture. Winckelmann. History of Ancient Art. BIOGRAPHY, LETTERS, AND JOURNALS. Beecher. Autobiography of Lyman Beecher. Besant. Rabelais. Bigelow. Life of Franklin. Blackburn. History of Admiral Coligny. Blaikie. Personal Life of David Livingstone. Boswell. Life of Johnson. Brooke. Life and Letters of Frederick W. Robertson. Bunsen. Life of Luther. Carlyle. Oliver Cromwell, Letters and Speeches; Frederick the Great; Life of Sterling. Campbell. Lives of the Lord Chancellors; Lives of the Chief Justices. Cheney. Life and Letters of Horace Bushnell. Curtis. Life of Webster. Dowden. Shakspeare. Finney. Autobiography. Forster. Life of Dickens; Life of Goldsmith. Fox. Memories of Old Friends. Frankli...