Show 1 re LV SAM SA at has haa gone bonn into a now business not NO t satisfied with coining money mono raising chickens acting BB as messenger mes aouger boy doing a real estate business and att tending to a thousand and one other jobs which ho he has haa ae lecter ted for himself he has decided to become a professor of literature in tile tho university of tho the common people to this end he has just instituted ono one of the most novel schemes over ever inaugurated a 0 course in Itte literature ratu re for or the benefit of all the people of I 1 tho the united states and its insular possessions tho the bureau of education la Is at the head of this thin university of literature era ture turc a university where the solo sole cost of tuition Is to evince interest in the lessons a sity which confers of merit in llou lieu of degrees and guar altoes that all students will receive benefits in direct ratio to their application dr 11 P cl claxton axton commissioner of education la is the man who la is at tho the head bond of the literature movement and from all indications the course will be an exceptionally tio nally popular one wo we are receiving scores of applications every day from persons who desire to share in the benefits of our reading courses doctor claxton told me when I 1 inquired as to the response which the movement waa was nio meeting eting with if the applications continue to come coma in at their present rate and there Is hardly a day that does not show an increase over the day before wo wn shall bo be hard put to handle all the correspondence attached to tho flao courses and congress will have to make additional appropriations pria tiong for the betterment of the lit a taste of the people it was in order to bring about this betterment in the state of the reading public continued doctor claxton that the bureau of education decided to institute this series of courses in literature at present we have ton ten divisions of the main course mapped out these are the groat great literary bibles masterpieces of the worlds literature tur A reading course for parents miscellaneous reading for boys miscellaneous reading for girls thirty books of great fiction some of the worlds heroes american literature biography history Ill atory seven of these courses have been completed and we are engaged in answering hundreds of queries concerning them the other three willbe aln shed in ina a short bohok time and then the th government will be I 1 in n a position to d do 0 a most humane thing to tell persons of every age what they ought to read it if they desire to improve their minds that of course Is the primary object of this literary course and we firmly bellove believe that it if only a fraction of the persons who have already evinced interest in this movement apply themselves to the work which wo we have mapped out the improvement in the literary taste of the country at largo large will be marked rn in discussing the first of these courses doctor claxton said among all the books of tho tha world ft a few are so preeminent pre eminent for content and style that they deserve the right to be called tho the great literary bibles tho the foundation stones upon which rests the entire literature of the world of whatever language or age X e A f g f 6 fit e it k 0 of M e ON e 70 if e P MT awit i there aro are tho the iliad and odyssey of homer flamer the divine comedy of dante and the groat great dramas of shake speare the Al merchant erchant of venice macbeth 1 ll hamlet amlet and othello and goetges Go ethes faust these books should be read by all who would know tho the worlds best literature and life the bureau of education luc has chosen them for its first course conrao in reading and we have boon been very pleasantly surprised to nota that the majority of persons persona who have evinced interest in this movement have inquired particularly about the bibles bl blea and their supplements the literary masterpieces we have been of the opinion that tha t the majority of people would find these selections a little heavy for their reading and would prefer the works listed under the fiction heading beading but nearly every inquiry which has reached us ua from adults has specified tha the writer desired particularly to familiarize himself with the first two courses to everyone who inquires concerning the course we send a blanki blank to be filled out and kep kept L as a t race record rd in washington and a aist of th the books of the special co courses designated we advise that the reading begin as an soon as aa possible and that when possible the books be taken in the order named but th tho Is not essential to 0 o tile the obtaining of the certificate of merit given by the government in lieu of the usual college or university diploma or degree when the student completes the entire course and submits satisfactory evidence of having read all the books on the first two lists within three years from the time of joining the reading circle the second course Is intended as a supplement to the first and includes nine books job isaiah deuteronomy prometheus bound of aeschylus reneld Ae Ac neld tho the cervantes don quixote a number of at plays by mollere and Mil tons paradise lost iest completion of these two courses will firmly ground the student to in what are usually known as the classics classica and will enable him the better to appreciate the othar und reading to be found in the other lists the reading course for parents which Is under the direct supervision of miss alles ellon ellen C lombard secretory of the home educational division includes a number of books dealing with problems of everyday life in the home the volumes on this list hat include books on practical motherhood marriage development of children care of babies domestic economy shelter and clothing domestic science and a number of pamphlets and bulletins issued by the department of 0 agriculture and dealing with the canning and preserving of trulia fruits and vegetables the boys course includes a few of the more exciting books upon the lists of american literature and worlds fiction ind in addition such books as liana brinker the jungle hook westward hol hoi biographies of lincoln leo lee aad and franklin addresses by lincoln andy and washington ashington cleveland molfetta MoE fetta ca careers of dandera Dan gera and daring and age of chivalry the careful perusal of these books will we feet feel pay large dividends not only finy upon the moral character of the boy himself but upon the future of the country at large the girls course includes on lyone or two of the books recommended for boys boya but it parallels the other course enthat in that it advocates the reading of a be selected acted few of the worlds masterpieces of fiction and the more juvenile of the american authors works alice in wonderland little women the mill on the floss evangeline Evangel lne helen kellers Ke llera story of her life and the four books dealing with house furnishing ni rit the preparation of at food and the physical side of girlhood and womanhood are among the other books rec oTi on mended |