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Type of Work Chief Works & Dates
Wharton, Mrs. Edith, (Nov.), The Valley of Decision
Whately, Abp. Richard, (Philos.), Christian Evidence
Whetham, William C. D., (Sci. & Mis.), The Recent
Development of Physical Science

Whewell, W., (Mis.), Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences
White, Gilbert, (Nat.), The Natural History of Selborne
White, Richard Grant, (Philologist & Mis.), Every Day

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English
White, William Hale, ("Mark Rutherford'), (Nov.),
The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford
Whiteing, Richard, (Nov.), No. 5 John Street
Whitman, Walt, (Walter), (Poet), Leaves of Grass
Whitney, Adeline D., (Nov.), Faith Gartney's Girlhood
Whitney, William Dwight, (Philologist & Lexicog.),
Editor of The Century Dictionary

Whittier, John Greenleaf, (Poet), Mogg Megone
Whymper, Edward, (Travel), Scrambles among the Alps
Whyte-Melville, G. J., (Nov.), Kate Coventry.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas, (Nov.), Rebecca of Sunnybrook

Farm

Wigglesworth, Michael, (Theol. & Poet), Day of Doom
Wilde, Oscar, (Nov. & Poet), Lady Windermere's Fan
William of Malmesbury, (Hist.), History of the Kings
of England (De Gestis Regum)

William of Newburgh, (Hist.), Hist. of English Affairs Williams, Roger, (Theol.), The Bloody Tenent of Persecution

Willis, Nathaniel P., (Poet & Mis.), Pencilings by the

Born-Died 18621787-1863

18671794-1866 1720-1793

1821-1885

185718401819-1892 1824-1906

1827-1894

1807-1892

1840-1911 1821-1878

18571631-1715 1856-1900

1095-1143 1136-1198

1599-1683

1806-1867

1785-1854

1856

1831-1897

Wilson, Woodrow (Thomas), (Politics & Hist.), The State
Winsor, Justin, (Hist.), Narrative and Critical History

of America

Winthrop, John, (Hist.), History of New England
Wirt, William, (Biog.), Life of Patrick Henry
Wister, Owen, (Nov.), The Virginian

Wither, George, (Poet & Mis.), Faire-Virtue

Wolcot, John (Peter Pindar'), (Poet & Satire),

1588-1649

1588-1667

1738-1819

Wood, M. A. E. See GREEN, MRS. M. A. EVERETT.
Wood, Mrs. Henry, (Nov.), East Lynne
Wood, William, (Hist.), New England's Prospect
Woodberry, George Edward, (Biog. & Poet), Edgar Allan
Poe, ("American Men of Letters Series'')
Woodworth, Samuel, (Nov. & Poet), The Champion of
Freedom

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Type of Work

Chief Works & Dates Born-Died Woolman, John, (Philos.), Some Considerations on the

Keeping of Negroes

Woolson, Constance Fenimore, (Nov.), Castle Nowhere Worcester, Joseph Emerson, (Lexicographer), Dictionary of the English Language

Wordsworth, William, (Poet), Lyrical Ballads

Wotton, Sir Henry, (Poet & Lit.), The Elements of
Architecture

Wyatt, Sir Thomas, (Poet), Sonnets and Lyrics, first in
England

Wycherley, William, ("rama), The Country Wife
Wycliffe, John, (Theol.), Translation of Bible

Yates, Edmund, (Nov.), Running the Gauntlet

1720-1772

1848-1894

1784-1865

1770-1850

1568-1639

1503-1542

1640-1716

1325-1384

1831-1894

Yeats, William Butler, (Poet & Nov.), The Wanderings
of Oisin

Yonge, Charlotte M., (Nov.), The Heir of Redclyffe
Young, Edward, (Poet), Night Thought's .

18651823-1901 1683-1765

Zangwill, Israel, (Nov. & Drama), The Master

A Hundred Best Books

The following is a selection of one hundred books made by the late Sir John Lubbock, Bart. (Lord Avebury). "A splendid treasury of deep thought, of romance, of wit, of travel, and of history.”—The Daily Telegraph, London, England.

✓1. The Bible. Authorized version.

2. Voyage of a Naturalist. Darwin. Meditations. Marcus Aurelius.

3.

6. Principles of Political Economy. Mill.
7. History of the French Revolution. Carlyle.

8. Self-Help. Samuel Smiles.

9.

10.

11.

12.

Natural History of Selborne. White.

The Pickwick Papers. Dickens.

The Shi-King: Chinese National Poetry (transl.).
Homer. Transl. by Pope.

13. Vergil. Transl. by Dryden.

14. Essays (transl.). Montaigne.

15. System of Logic. Mill.

16. Biographical History of Philosophy. Lewis (Lewes). 17. Vanity Fair. Thackeray.

18.

The Shah Nameh (transl.). Firdausi.

19. Three Voyages Round the World. Capt. Cook. 20. Vicar of Wakefield. Goldsmith.

21. William Tell (transl.). Schiller. 22. The Koran. Transl. By Sale. 23. Plays and Poems. Shakespeare. 24. Life of Johnson. Boswell.

33. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; 2 vols. Gibbon.

34. Dialogues of Plato (transl.).

35. Don Quixote (transl.). Cervantes.

36. Plays. Sheridan.

37.

Robinson Crusoe. Defoe.

38. Poetical Works. Dryden.

39. Lives of the Greeks and Romans (transl.). Plutarch.

40. Last Days of Pompeii. Lytton.

41. Past and Present. Carlyle.
42. Pilgrim's Progress. Bunyan.
43. Ethics (transl.). Aristotle.
44. Apostolic Fathers. Wake.
45.

Novum Organum. Bacon.

46. On the Crown (transl.). Demosthenes. 47. Thoughts on Religion (transl.). Pascal. 48. Human Knowledge. Berkeley.

49. Morte d'Arthur. Malory.

50. Essays. Emerson.

51.

The Nibelungenlied (transl.).

52. Selections from Speeches and Writings. Burke. 53. Faerie Queene. Spenser.

58.

59.

Poetical Works. Burns.

The Imitation of Christ. Thomas à Kempis. 60. Divine Comedy (Longfellow's transl.). Dante.

65. Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome. Macaulay. 66. Analogy of Religion. Butler.

67. Odes (Lytton's transl.). Horace.

71. History of England, 3 vols. Hume.
72. On the Human Understanding. Locke.

73. Essays. Addison.

74. Holy Living and Holy Dying. Taylor. 75. Essays. Hume.

76. Offices, Friendship, and Old Age (transl.). Cicero.

77. 78.

Works (transl.). Hesiod.

Anabasis and Memorabilia (transl.). Xenophon.

79. Zadig et Micromegas (transl.). Voltaire.

81. Sakoontalia of The Lost Ring (trans. from Sanskrit). Kalidasa. 82. Discours de la Methode. Descartes.

83-84. Livy, History, bks. i-v; Tacitus's Germania and Agricola (transl.).

85. The Antiquary; steel plates. Sir W. Scott.

88.

89.

The Origin of Species. Darwin.
Westward Ho! Kingsley.

90. Short History of the English People. Green.
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. Spinoza.

91.

98-99. The Ramayana and The Mahabarata; 1 vol.