Show STUDENT LIFE 19G and we hasten to place as the foundation of our little home library a careful selection of religious literature grouped around the Book of For all our reading a dicBooks tionary and a small encyclopedia are almost necessary and competition is rapidly bringing excellent specimens of both within the means of everybody There are a great many inferior products on the market howpoorly-boun- d ever either badly-writte- n originals or cheap reprints of material and no one should buy important reference books without definite knowledge as to correctness and utility Do not be imposed upon by the premium offer of a chromo or a silver-plate- d spoon or even by the glittering charm of “24 monthly payments” It is fair to presume that we shall want some books of a technical nature affording instruction along lines in which each one is especially interested These too should be carefully chosen if possible with the approval of those competent to speak Other books are necessary for their general educational value Most of us feel the need of wider historical knowledge than that pro- out-of-da- te vided in school but vt prefer to take it in as interesting and readable form as possible The story of our own country has been text-boo- ks expounded in its details by such men as Parkman Fiske anil Ilart and only recently in an elaborate work bv President Woodrow W ilson of Princeton For younger readers there is the n ably well-know- work of such people as Eggleston Charles Carleton Coffin and Eva March Tappan together with the late production of Senator Lodge and President Roosevelt the stirring “Hero Tales from American the History” In this latter class narration is usually strong and vigorous and really appeals forcibly to readers of any age Perhaps the most interesting treatise on English history is John Richard Green’s Short History of the English Peomerple which possesses the double it of being fairly brief and of ranking as a literary masterpiece Various works are offered in ancient medieval and modern history the becheapest and most readable line in ing probably the books published the “Story of the Nations” series by Putnam Special treatises in the field of civics and economics are numerous but the old favorites such as Bryce’s and Commonwealth American Walker’s Political Economware still widely read Among the most interesting recent contributions to sociology are the books by Jacob Riis which replace the usual scholarship by a wholesome if somewhat exaggerated human sympathy drawn from hard experience Biographies are being written with so much more care and appreciation now that almost all old work in this line is being profitable done The greater part of these over books appear in scries of which “Heroes of the Nations” "English and American Men of Letters” dry-as-du- st |