University of Virginia Library

Essays, Biography, etc.

Group 4: Addison and Steele's The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers,
or selections from the Tatler and Spectator (about 200 pages);

Boswell's selections from the Life of Johnson (about 200 pages);
Franklin's Autobiography; Irving's selections from the Sketch Book
(about 200 pages), or Life of Goldsmith; Southey's Life of Nelson;
Lamb's selections from the Essays of Elia (about 100 pages); Lockhart's
selections from the Life of Scott (about 200 pages); Thackeray's
lectures on Swift, Addison, and Steele in the English Humorists;
Macaulay, any one of the following essays: Lord Clive, Warren
Hastings, Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Frederic the Great, Madame
d'Arblay; Trevelyan's selections from the Life of Macaulay (about
200 pages); Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies, or Selections (about 150
pages); Dana's Two Years before the Mast; Lincoln's Selections, including
at least the two Inaugurals, the Speeches in Independence
Hall and at Gettysburg, the Last Public Address, the Letter to
Horace Greeley; together with a brief memoir or estimate of Lincoln;
Parkman's The Oregon Trail; Thoreau's Walden; Lowell's Selected
Essays (about 150 pages); Holmes' The Autocrat of the Breakfast
Table; Stevenson's An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey;
Huxley's Autobiography and selections from Lay Sermons, including
the addresses on Improving Natural Knowledge, A Liberal Education,
and A Piece of Chalk; a collection of Essays by Bacon, Lamb, De-Quincey,
Hazlitt, Emerson and later writers; a collection of Letters by
various standard writers.