CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I SOME ENGLISH CLASSICS

I TOM JONES

II WUTHERING HEIGHTS

III CHARLES LAMB

IV JAMES BOSWELL

V WILLIAM HAZLITT

VI SAMUEL PEPYS

VII WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

VIII JOHN DONNE

IX SUCH A BOOK AS THE BEGGAR'S OPERA

PART II SOME CONTEMPORARIES

I GEORGE SANTAYANA

II THE POEMS OF FRANCIS BRETT-YOUNG

III THE POEMS OF IRIS TREE

IV THE POEMS OF ALDOUS HUXLEY

V THE POEMS OF ROBERT GRAVES

VI J. D. BERESFORD

VII NIGHT AND DAY

VIII E. C. BOOTH

IX FORD MADOX HUEFFER

X THE BALLAD OF THE WHITE HORSE

XI E. M. FORSTER

XII SHEILA KAYE-SMITH

PART III BOOKS ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

I A HISTORY OF MODERN COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH BY H. C. WYLD

II THE ROMANCE OF WORDS BY ERNEST WEEKLEY

III THE ROMANCE OF NAMES BY ERNEST WEEKLEY

IV THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH

PART IV CERTAIN FOREIGNERS

I MONTAIGNE

II NEKRASSOV (1821-1877)

III PUSHKIN (1799-1837)

IV LERMONTOV (1814-1841)

V GOGOL (1809-1852)

VI TURGENEV (1816-1883)

VII GONCHAROV (1812-1891)

VIII DOSTOIEVSKY (1821-1881)

IX TOLSTOY (1828-1910)

X TCHEHOV (1860-1904)

WHY WE SHOULD READ——

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

A PUBLIC SCHOOL IN WAR TIME
APRIL'S LONELY SOLDIER
INTERLUDE
REBELLION
FROM SHAKESPEARE TO O. HENRY
THE EDUCATION OF A PHILANDERER
BOOKS AND THEIR WRITERS
LOVERS OF SILVER
A SCHOOLMASTER'S DIARY
UNCLE LIONEL
COLOUR-BLIND

Educational

A SCHOOL SHAKESPEARE (in 18 vols.)
AN ENGLISH COURSE FOR ARMY CANDIDATES
AN ENGLISH COURSE FOR SCHOOLS
SEVEN PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE FOR SCHOOLS (in 1 vol.)
AN ENGLISH COURSE FOR EVERYBODY

WHY WE SHOULD READ——

BY

S. P. B. MAIS

Author of "Books and Their Writers"