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); selections
from Boswell's Life of Johnson (about 200 pages); Franklin's Autobiography;
selections from Irving's Sketch Book (about 200 pages), or his Life
of Goldsmith; Southey's Life of Nelson; selections from Lamb's Essays of
Elia (about 100 pages); selections from Lockhart's Life of Scott (about
200 pages); Thackeray's lectures on Swift, Addison, and Steele in the English
Humorists; any one of the following essays of Macaulay: Lord Clive,
Warren Hastings, Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Frederick the Great, Madame
d'Arblay; selections from Trevelyan's Life of Macaulay (about 200 pages);
Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies, or selections from Ruskin's works (about 150
pages); Dana's Two Years Before the Mast; selections from Lincoln's works,
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; selections from Lowell's 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, DeQuincey, Hazlitt, Emerson and later writers;
a collection of Letters by various standard writers.
