Part 6 (1/2)

IDOLS IN MECCA.

Burckhardt's Travels.

Burton's Travels.

NEW ZEALAND.

3 islands, as large as Italy. N. Am. Rev., 18, 328.

Discovered, 1642; taken by Cook for England, 1769.

Gov. sent out, 1838. West. Rev., 45, 133.

Thomson's story of N. Z. Edin. Rev., 91, 231; 56, 333.

Cook's Voyages. N. Brit. Rev., 16, 176.

Sir G. Gray's Poems, &c. of Living Age.

Maoris.

LONDON BRIDGE.

5 elliptical arches. ”Presents an aspect unequalled for interest and animation.”

ST. PAUL'S.

Built in thirty years between 1675 and 1705, by Christ.

Wren.

Now I am by no means going to leave you to the reading of cyclopaedias.

The vice of cyclopaedias is that they are dull. What is done for this pa.s.sage of Macaulay in the lists above is only preliminary. It could be easily done in three hours' time, if you went carefully to work. And when you have done it, you have taught yourself a good deal about your own knowledge and your own ignorance,--about what you should read and what you should not attempt. So far it fits you for selecting your own course of reading.

I have arranged this only by way of ill.u.s.tration. I do not mean that I think these a particularly interesting or particularly important series of subjects. I do mean, however, to show you that the moment you will sift any book or any series of subjects, you will be finding out where your ignorance is, and what you want to know.

Supposing you belong to the fortunate half of people who know what they need, I should advise you to begin in just the same way.

For instance, Walter, to whom I alluded above, wants to know about _Fly-Fis.h.i.+ng_. This is the way his list looks.

FLY-FIs.h.i.+NG.

CYCLOPEDIA. POOLE'S INDEX.

(For instance) Quart. Rev., 69, 121; 37, 345.

W. Scott, Redgauntlet. Edin. Rev., 78, 46, or 87; 93, 174, or 340.

Dr. Davy's Researches, 1839. Am. Whig Rev., 6, 490.

Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. N. Brit. Rev., 11, 32, or 95; I, Naturelle des Poissons, Vol. 326; 8, 160; or Liv. Age, 2, XXI. 291; 17, I.

Blackwood, 51, 296.

Richardson's Fauna Bor. Amer. Quart. Rev., 67, 98, or 332; 69, 226.

Blackwood, 10, 249; 49, 302; De Kay, Zoology of N. Y. 21, 815; 24, 248; 35, 775; Aga.s.siz, Lake Superior. 38, 119; 63, 673; 5, 123; 5, 281; 7, 137.

Fraser, 42, 136.

See also,

Izaak Walton, Compleat Angler. (Walton and Cotton first appeared, 1750.) Humphrey Day's Salmonia, or The Days of Fly-Fis.h.i.+ng, Blakey, History of Angling Literature.

Oppia.n.u.s, De Venatione, Piscatione et Aucupio. (Halieutica translated.) Jones's English translation was published in Oxford, 1722.

Bronner, Fischergedichte und Erzahlungen (Fishermen's Songs and Stories).

Norris, T., American Angler's Book.

Zouch, Life of Iz. Walton.

Salmon Fisheries. Parliamentary Reports. Annual.