The Hundred Best Books


 * First there's the Bible,
 * And then the Koran,
 * Odgers on Libel,
 * Pope's Essay on Man,
 * Confessions of Rousseau,
 * The Essays of Lamb,
 * Robinson Crusoe
 * And Omar Khayyam,
 * Volumes of Shelley
 * And Venerable Bede,
 * Machiavelli
 * And Captain Mayne Reid,
 * Fox upon Martyrs
 * And Liddell and Scott,
 * Stubbs on the Charters,
 * The works of La Motte,
 * The Seasons by Thomson,
 * And Paul de Verlaine,
 * Theodore Mommsen,
 * And Clemens (Mark Twain),
 * The Rocks of Hugh Miller,
 * The Mill on the Floss,
 * The Poems of Schiller,
 * The Iliados,
 * Don Quixote (Cervantes),
 * La Pucelle by Voltaire,
 * Inferno (that's Dante's),
 * And Vanity Fair,
 * Conybeare-Howson,
 * Brillat-Savarin,
 * And Baron Munchausen,
 * Mademoiselle De Maupin,
 * The Dramas of Marlowe,
 * The Three Musketeers,
 * Clarissa Harlowe,
 * And The Pioneers,
 * Sterne's Tristram Shandy,
 * The Ring and the Book,
 * And Handy Andy,
 * And Captain Cook,
 * The Plato of Jowett,
 * And Mill's Pol. Econ.,
 * The Haunts of Howitt,
 * The Encheiridion,
 * Lothair by Disraeli,
 * And Boccaccio,
 * The Student's Paley,
 * And Westward Ho!
 * The Pharmacopoeia,
 * Macaulay's Lays,
 * Of course The Medea,
 * And Sheridan's Plays,
 * The Odes of Horace,
 * And Verdant Green,
 * The Poems of Morris,
 * The Faerie Queen,
 * The Stones of Venice,
 * Natural History (White's),
 * And then Pendennis,
 * The Arabian Nights,
 * Cicero's Orations,
 * Plain Tales from the Hills,
 * The Wealth of Nations,
 * And Byles on Bills,
 * As in a Glass Darkly,
 * Demosthenes' Crown,
 * The Treatise of Berkeley,
 * Tom Hughes's Tom Brown,
 * The Mahabharata,
 * The Humour of Hook,
 * The Kreutzer Sonata,
 * And Lalla Rookh,
 * Great Battles by Creasy,
 * And Hudibras,
 * And Midshipman Easy,
 * And Rasselas,
 * Shakespeare in extenso,
 * And the Aeneid,
 * And Euclid (Colenso),
 * The Woman who Did,
 * Poe's Tales of Mystery,
 * Then Rabelais,
 * Guizot's French History,
 * And Men of the Day,
 * Rienzi, by Lytton,
 * The Poems of Burns,
 * The Story of Britain,
 * The Journey (that's Sterne's),
 * The House of Seven Gables,
 * Carroll's Looking-Glass,
 * Aesop, his Fables,
 * And Leaves of Grass,
 * Departmental Ditties,
 * The Woman in White,
 * The Tale of Two Cities,
 * Ships that Pass in the Night,
 * Meredith's Feverel,
 * Gibbon's Decline,
 * Walter Scott's Peveril,
 * And — some verses of mine.