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E must begin by giving the list which we originally compiled from the report of Sir John Lubbock's lecture, and which formed the basis of the inquiries we addressed to our contributors. It is right, however, to say at once that Sir John Lubbock (to whose uniform courtesy we have been greatly indebted) wrote soon after our list had been published that he did not in his lecture mention quite the whole Hundred Best Books, of which he subsequently gave a complete list in the Contemporary Review. "I did, however," he added, "recommend 'Don Quixote' and Epictetus. I shall be glad also if you will allow me to observe that I excluded (1) works by living authors, (2) science, and (3) history, with a very few exceptions which I mentioned rather in their literary aspect."

Lucretius.

Plutarch.

Horace.

Hesiod.

Virgil.

Niebelungenlied.

"Sheking" (Chinese Odes).

Herodotus.

Thucydides.

Shakespeare. Milton.

Dante.

Spenser.

Scott.

Wordsworth.

Pope.

Southey.

Longfellow.

"The Arabian Nights."

Molière.

Sheridan.