Books to Read

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 39, 11 April 1930, Page 8

Books to Read

C. N. Baeyertz Recommends the Classics Me. oO. N. BAEYDRTZ, the ex-New Zealander, whose "Philosophic Thoughts from Bacon to Bergson" form the subject matter of his twenty minutes’ address from 2BL every Sunday at 5 p.m., has received numerous tequests from listeners for a list of the books he recommends for good reading. According to Mr. Baeyertz, this is a wonderful world for books. We should make it a rule to do at least one hour’s good reading every day. Reading aloud is a great help, and there is no need to have an audience for this. Mr. Baeyertz recommends just getting into a room and reading aloud ‘to ourselves. It is one of the surest way of making a book live and getting to the heart of it. Read carefully, correctly, and with all possible expression as if we are reading to an audience. Most of the time high joys of life cost next to nothing. Books are our silent friends, and, as Ruskin says in "King’s Treasuries," "books are as treasures to kings." Mr. Baeyertz recommends the following list to those in the queest of mind improvement and which give a broad conception of life from the beginning of time :- Peato, St. Augustine, Pascal, Virgil, Aristotle, Fenelon, Euripides, Voltaire, Spictetus, Dante, Rousseau, Horace. These are.all called classics. Good translations may be bought at. small cost. Coleridge, "Biographia Literaria’"; Darwin, "Origin of Species"; Bunyan, "Pilgrim’s Progress"; Shakespeare; the Bible; Homer ; Chaucer, "The Canterbury Tales, "The Arabian Nights;" Lane’s translation for general reading ; Bocéaccio, "The Decameron" Sterne, "Sentimental Journey" ; Carlyle, "Past and Present" ; Plutarch’s "Lives": Mon-

taigne’s "Essays"; Lamb’s "Wssays of Hlia"; De Quincey, "Opium Water’; "Hssays" 5 Emerson, "Representative Man" ; ; Landor, "Imaginary Conversations" ; Herodotus; ssays in ; Tacitus ; *Bourrienne, "Napoleon"’; Walton, "The Compleat Angler’; Boswell’s "Johnson"; Green, "Short History of the English People" ; Pepy’s Diary; Evelyn’s Diary; Walpole’ s Letters; Moore’ s "Byron"; Southey’s "Nelson"; Hogg’s "Shelley" ; Lewes’s "Life of "Meditation of Marcus Aurelius; Forster's "Dickens" 3 Browne, "Religio Medico’; Sir Walter Scott, all his books are good for occasional browsing; George Dlliot, "Adam Bede" and "The Mill on the Floss’; Cervantes, "Don Quixote" (this is one of the true wonder books of beauty and allure); Defoe, "Robinson Crusoe"; Swift, "Gulliver’s Travels" ; Richardson, "Clarissa" ; Fielding, "Pom Jones" ; Goldsmith, "Vicar of Wakefield" ; Dumas, "The Three Musketeers" ; everything; Thackeray, ‘ ‘Vanity Fair"; Charlotte Bronte, "Vilette’; R. L. Stevenson, all; George Meredith, all, but not all at once, begin with "Richard Feveral" ; Dickens, "The Pickwick* Papers," "Martin Chuzzlewit, > "Yyavid Copperfield" ; George Sand, "Consuelo" ; Thomas Hardy, all; Charles Reade, "The Cloister on the Hearth" ; Fitzgerald, "Omar Khayyam"; Froude’s "Carlyle" ; Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, Burns, Coleridge, Milton, Tennyson, Browning, Keats, Swinburne, Bridges, all the Elizabethan and Restoration poets and lin.guists.