Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-03-03 | Page 4 | Old Books for Young Men

OLD BOOKS FOR YOUNG MEN Instead of o attempting to keep up upon upon upon on current c literature Dr Frank Crane would advise young oung men mea to turn to the old books which have stood the tho test of ot time Unie and be he pre pre- pre presents a list If It I were say Bay sa between 17 and 27 says us Dr Crane would make makeup makeup makeup up a list of the tho old standard works concentrate on them for tor a period of time and end appraise the results for tor m self Belt For Instance I would red read Locke Lockee Lockes On the Human Un Undertaking Franklins Franklin's autobiography phy Bacons Bacon's essays especially the 1 edition containing Whately's V an an- an annotations annotations notations I do not believe that an any otter other mind has uncovered such sucha a mine of wisdom and shrewd corn com cornmon cornmon mon sense sene as these essays contain I would read Emerson Thoreau and Hawthorne and a good translation tion of ot Goethe and read over and andover andover over again the plays of o Shakes Shakes- Shakespeare Shakespeare peare I would read Gibbons Decline and Fall of ot the Roman lre and keep on reading It until my my mind caught step with the imperial of ot the author authors author's language I would read the tho King Ring James trans translation lation of ot the English Bible and fa- fa familiarize a m myself Bel with Its phrase phrase- phrase for or nothing In the English I language has ever excelled it I would read the adventures of ot Mar Mar- Marco Mar Mar-co co Polo and of ot Hakluyt And it U you TOU merely want diversion are there any more Interesting novels noels being printed today than those written fo for r by Charles age ago Dickens and Hugo