The Best Reading

Excerpt from The Best Reading: Hints on the Selection of Books; On the Formation of Libraries, Public and Private; On Courses of Reading, Etc.; With a Classified Bibliography for Easy Reference With a few exceptions. Titles of books are entered but once. In the list of Complete Works, however, and in that of Libraries, and similar collections, the titles of course cover many works which appear elsewhere under a topic. Thus, Burke on the Sublime, which is under and Milton's Paradise Lost, which is under Poetry, are included under their names in Complete Works, and the like is true of the individual books in the Golden Treasury Series, the Library of Wonders, etc. The topics chosen have usually been as specific as was practicable, because these are most likely to be looked for, and therefore to save most labor. Thus, one who wants books about the horse, will find them under Horse, and is not expected to reason about Domestic Animals, or Mammalia, or Zoology. Or Natural History. If he wants a book on Chemistry he need not search under Natural Science. If he wants one on Abyssinia. He need not search Africa; and so on. The cross-references will, it is believed, prevent any perplexity from exceptions to this rule. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.