DR ELIOT’S SELECTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19965, 6 December 1926, Page 12

DR ELIOT’S SELECTION

A FIVE-FOOT BOOKSHELF AND ITS LOAD. The death of Dr Charles W. Eliot, at the age of 91- has renewed interest in the famous five-foot bookshelf, which the late President Emeritus of Harvard suggested a few years ago. Here is the list: —“Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin,” “Journal of John Woolman,” “Fruits of Solitude,” by William Penn; Bacon’s Essays, and the “New Atlantis,” Rilton’s “Areopagitica and Trac tato on Education,” Sir Thomas Brown’s “Roligio Medici*”' Plato's "Apologia Phaedo and Crito,” “Golden Sayings ot Epictetus-” “Meditations of Marcus Aurelius,” Emerson’s “Essays and English Traits," the complete poems of Milton, Jonson’s “Volpone,” Beaumont and Fletcher’s “The Maid’s Tragedy,” Webster's “Duchess of Malfi,” Middleton’s “The Changeling,” Dryden’s “All For Love,’ Shelley’s “Cenci,” Browning’s “A Blot on the ’Scutcheon.’ ” Tennyson’s “Bechet,’' Goethe’s “Faust,” Marlowe’s “Di Faustus,” Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations,’ “Letters of Cicero and Pliny,” Banyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress,” Burns’s ‘ Tam o’ Shnnter.” Walton’s “Compleat Angler and Lives of Donne and Herbert,” St. Augustine’s “Autobiography,” Plutarch’s “Lives,” Dryden’s “Aeneid,” Chaucer's “Canterbury Tales,” Thomas A. Kempia’s “Imitation of Christ,’’ “Origin ol Species,” and “The Arabian Nights.” This came to be known as Dr Eliot's five-foot bookshelf, though' ho stated late that it might require sis feet of space.