Show ELIOT fAILS TO INCLUDE TUt AND SHAKESPEARE Not Included in th the List of Twenty Five i Omission Causes Comment NEW YORK June 18 Tho Tho failure I of Dr Charles W W. Eliot recently president president president dent of ard Harvard university to include the Bible and Shakespeare in in his list of twenty twenty five five books for the liberal education education tion of any man is causin causing much comment com com- comment ment in in literary and religious circles Heretofore no educator has published a list of liberal reading without incorporating incorporating these works Few Pew of the tho books mentioned by Dr Eliot aro arc popular with public library readers apparently Reports show that in in tho the month of April there were readers at the Astor and Lenox libraries in in this city There were also readers to take tako books home from the various branch libraries and readers who use books at the branches In that immense total there are only four books on Dr Eliot's list for wh which ch there is is any considerable considerable considerable con con- demand They are autobiographies auto auto- biographies of Benjamin Franklin Adam Smiths Smith's Wealth of Nations Emersons Emerson's essays and Bacons Bacon's B essays |