√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1900-1945 'Friday. Lovely day. Walked about[.] No letters. Shown sketches by Russian ... Read Aysha [sic] by Rider Haggard. Ev Bridge. Did not play well. Gym gets on well.' William Thomas Henry Rider Haggard Ayesha, the Return of She Print : Book1900-1945 'Fine day. Gym balances almost done. No letters. Read the Green Flag by Doyle. Ev Bridge. Play improving.' William Thomas Arthur Conan Doyle The Green Flag Print : Book1900-1945 'Monday. No letters ... 11 Parade 11.30 Gym. Walked about. Read Handy Andy by Sam Lover. Irish rot. Little French more bridge.' William Thomas Samuel Lover Handy Andy Print : Book1900-1945 'Bought mackintosh 29m knife 3. Heavy snow. Read Harry Dale's Jockey Wild Rose by Nat Gould ... Herring for breakfast.' William Thomas Nat Gould Harry Dale's Jockey "Wild Rose", Her Life and Adve... Print : Book1900-1945 'Friday. Cold + wet under foot. Frenchman fainted after bath. Bridge. Still losing. Fr. + read The Fighting Chance by RW Chambers.' William Thomas Robert W. Chambers The Fighting Chance Print : Book1900-1945 'Thursday. Lovely day. Walked about good deal. Pollard arrived. Fr. Read A Fleet in Being by Kipling. All well.' William Thomas Rudyard Kipling A Fleet in Being: Notes of Two Trips with the Chan... Print : Book1900-1945 'Saturday. Received a P.C. from joe James. Cold day. No parcel for me. Read "The Continental Times" Bundle of drivel lies. Did some French. Read The Cantonment... William Thomas Continental Times Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Saturday. Received a P.C. from joe James. Cold day. No parcel for me. Read "The Continental Times" Bundle of drivel lies. Did some French. Read The Cantonment... William Thomas Bithia M. Croker The Old Cantonment: With Other Stories of India an... Print : Book1900-1945 'No parcel aft. French. Supposed to play Rugger ... Ev bridge. Won. Read Reins of Chance by C Ranger Gull.' William Thomas Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull The Reins of Chance Print : Book1900-1945 'Rawlinson sore leg. Wrote a letter home asking for biscuits &c. Read The Wayfarers by JC Snaith.' William Thomas John Collis Snaith The Wayfarers Print : Book1900-1945 '11.30 service. Rather depressed. Ev Bridge Won. Read the Wayfarers & the Country of the Blind by HG Wells.' William Thomas John Collis Snaith The Wayfarers Print : Book1900-1945 '11.30 service. Rather depressed. Ev Bridge Won. Read the Wayfarers & the Country of the Blind by HG Wells.' William Thomas Herbert George Wells The Country of the Blind Print : Book1900-1945 'Paxton has a bet of a dinner that war will be over by 1st July. So Bridge. Read Under Two Flags by Ouida.' William Thomas Maria Louise Ram Under Two Flags Print : Book1900-1945 'Received a parcel of four books from ? The Farringdons by Ellen Thornycroft Fowler Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren Tommy & Co by Jerome K Jerome Donovan by ... William Thomas Alfred Ollivant Owd Bob Print : Book1900-1945 'Fri[.] Lovely day. As usual. Tired of it all. Read "Three Men on a bummel" by Jerome K Jerome.' William Thomas Jerome K. Jerome Three Men on the Bummel Print : Book1800-1849 'I am reading Sismondi's French History and I am glad to find it is very interesting and pleasant reading...' Fanny Allen J.C.L. de Sismondi The History of the French Print : Book1900-1945 'Sat. Cold day ... angry ... Reading Experiences in Fr-Ge War 1870 by Archibald Forbes.' William Thomas Archibald Forbes My Experiences of the War Between France and Germa... Print : Book1800-1849 'We are near the end of Macauley's 'History', and it is very entertaining reading.' Fanny Allen Thomas Babington Macauley History of England Print : Book1850-1899 'I have been reading and enjoying Sydney Smith's 'Moral Philosophy', which Mrs Smith sent me this winter, and I find it a delightful book.' Fanny Allen Sydney Smith Moral Philosophy Print : Book1900-1945 '10 a.m. Service. Read Mrs Murphy & also a Rolling Stone by BM Croker. Walked a little. All's well.' William Thomas Barry Pain Mrs Murphy Print : Book1900-1945 '10 a.m. Service. Read Mrs Murphy & also a Rolling Stone by BM Croker. Walked a little. All's well.' William Thomas Bithia M. Croker A Rolling Stone Print : Book1900-1945 'Read Mrs Murphy by Frank Richardson William Thomas Barry Pain Mrs Murphy Print : Book1900-1945 'Read Mrs Murphy by Frank Richardson William Thomas William Wymark Jacobs Ship's Company Print : Book1800-1849 'I found him in ecstasy over your husband's book. He said it was the most attractive reading he had met with; that notwithstanding his ignorance of natural history he fou... J.C.L. Sismondi Charles Darwin Journal of researches into the geology and natural... Print : Book1900-1945 Tues. Sent letter to Findlay. Fine day. Nil by mail. Read 2535 Mayfair by Frank Richardson.' William Thomas Frank Richardson 2535 Mayfair Print : Book1900-1945 'Thurs. Nil by mail. Read Red Eve by Ryder Haggard.' William Thomas Henry Rider Haggard Red Eve Print : Book1900-1945 '10 [a.m.] service then walked ... Read Sea Urchins by Jacobs.' William Thomas William Wymark Jacobs Sea Urchins Print : Book1900-1945 'Read South Sea Tales by Jack London.' William Thomas Jack London South Sea Tales Print : Book1900-1945 'Wed. Not a good day. No letter ... Feeling weak and done to the world. William Thomas Jack London Call of the Wild Print : Book1800-1849 'There is a new edition of Mme Sevigne, 12 octavo vols. of which I read every one,
and with delight...' Jessie Sismondi Sevigne de, Madame Letters of Madame Sevigne to her daughters and her... 1900-1945 'Mon. Nil [i.e., no post]. Gym. Hurt finger. Read The Orange Lady by Bailey.' William Thomas Henry Christopher Bailey My Lady of Orange Print : Book1900-1945 'Fri. Nil [i.e., no post]. Read The Vultures by Merriman.' William Thomas Henry Seton Merriman The Vultures Print : Book1800-1849 'Mme de Simiane's letters are worth reading, but in hers one perceives the contrast of the 'bel
esprit' of the Province and one of the Capital.' Jessie Sismondi Simiane [unknown] 1900-1945 'Read Simon Dale by Anthony Hope. William Thomas Anthony Hope Simon Dale Print : Book1900-1945 'Read Simon Dale by Anthony Hope. William Thomas Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler The Wisdom of Folly Print : Book1900-1945 'Mon. Nil [i.e., no post]. Sent a PC home. Read "The Witness for the Defence" by AEW Mason.' William Thomas A. E. W. Mason The Witness for the Defence Print : Book1900-1945 'There is no real objection to marrying a woman with a fortune but there is to marrying a fortune with a woman.' William Thomas George Horace Lorimer Letters from a Self Made Merchant to His Son Print : Book1900-1945 'Parcels from home and Bess. Read "Letters from a Self Made Merchant to His Son" by George Horace Lorimer.' William Thomas George Horace Lorimer Letters from a Self Made Merchant to His Son Print : Book1800-1849 '... I was too severe on Newman ... There are many striking, wise and good things in the first part
of his book, so that the latter falls on you with the shock of a sh... Jessie Sismondi Francis William Newman The Soul Print : Book1900-1945 'Read Count Hannibal by Stanley Weyman ... Aft. Rugger. Officers 4 Men 3.' William Thomas Stanley John Weyman Count Hannibal Print : Book1900-1945 'Read The Sands of Pleasure by Montmartre.' William Thomas Filson Young The Sands of Pleasure Print : Book1900-1945 'Sat. Nil. [i.e., no mail]. Read The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers.' William Thomas Erskine Childers The Riddle of the Sands Print : Book1900-1945 'Wed. Lovely day. Won at bridge. Nil by mail. Read Dialstone Lane by Jacobs.' William Thomas William Wymark Jacobs Dialstone Lane Print : Book1900-1945 Thurs. Lovely day. Read Lost World by Conan Doyle. Nil [i.e., no mail]. William Thomas Arthur Conan Doyle The Lost World Print : Book1900-1945 'Read "Mr Justice Raffles".' William Thomas Ernest William Hornung Mr Justice Raffles Print : Book1900-1945 'Thurs. Letter from Bess. Sent PC home. Read "Bad Times" Ireland by George A. Birmingham. Game of rounders.' William Thomas George A. Birmingham The Bad Times Print : Book1900-1945 'Sun. Morn. Service. Cold much better. Read a Knight on Wheels by "Ian Hay". Card from Findlay. Much fighting on West.' William Thomas Ian Hay (pseud.) A Knight on Wheels Print : Book1900-1945 'Read the Poison Belt by A. Conan Doyle.' William Thomas Arthur Conan Doyle The Poison Belt Print : Book1900-1945 'Read "Daily Mail Year Book".' William Thomas The Daily Mail Year Book Print : Book1900-1945 'Read "The Right Stuff" by Ian Hay.' William Thomas Ian Hay (pseud.) The Right Stuff Print : Book1900-1945 'Sat. Welcome May. Letter from home. Read "The Right Stuff" by Ian Hay ... Up 62 in bridge. Thunder Storm.' William Thomas Ian Hay (pseud.) The Right Stuff Print : Book1900-1945 'Sun. Nil [i.e., no mail]. Reading Recits d'un Soldat.' William Thomas Amιdιe Archard Recits d'un Soldat Print : Book1900-1945 'Tues. PC from Registrar. Read the Right of Way by Sir Gilbert Parker.' William Thomas Gilbert Parker The Right of Way Print : Book1900-1945 'Letter from home May 5th . Roullette -5. Read Slave of Lamp by Merriman.' William Thomas Henry Seton Merriman The Slave of the Lamp Print : Book1900-1945 'Sat. Nil. Read "Courtship of Morris " by AEW Mason.' William Thomas A. E. W. Mason The Courtship of Maurice Buckler Print : Book1900-1945 'Rumours that Italy have declared war. Read Tropical Tales by "Dolf Wyllard". Ev Roulette.' William Thomas Dolf Wyllarde Tropical Tales and Others Print : Book1900-1945 'Read "Famous Modern Battles" by [ ]. Ev. Bridge.' William Thomas Andrew Hilliard Atteridge Famous Modern Battles Print : Book1900-1945 'Read "White Fang" by Jack London." William Thomas Jack London White Fang Print : Book1900-1945 'Read Thief in Night Hornung. Ev Roulette.' William Thomas Ernest William Hornung A Thief in the Night Print : Book1900-1945 'Sat. Read "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde. Ev Roulette.' William Thomas Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest Print : Book1900-1945 'Sun. read "Virginia of the Rhodesians" by Cynthia Stockley. Miserable day.' William Thomas Cynthia Stockley Virginia of the Rhodesians Print : Book1900-1945 'Reading The Career of Beauty Darling by Dolf Wyllarde.' William Thomas Dolf Wyllarde The Career of Beauty Darling Print : Book1900-1945 'Sun. Rather depressed. No go. Reading Pickwick Papers &c.' William Thomas Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers Print : Book1900-1945 'Read ... Knave of Diamonds by Ella [ ].' William Thomas Ethel Dell Knave of Diamonds Print : Book1900-1945 'Parcel from Pemb. [Pembrokeshire] War Fund. Worked on tennis court ... Read Old Wives Tale and Anna of Five Towns (Arnold Bennett).' William Thomas Arnold Bennett The Old Wives' Tale Print : Book1900-1945 'Parcel from Pemb. [Pembrokeshire] War Fund. Worked on tennis court ... Read Old Wives Tale and Anna of Five Towns (Arnold Bennett).' William Thomas Arnold Bennett Anna of the Five Towns Print : Book1900-1945 'Sun. Reading cursed strike in Wales.' William Thomas unknown unknown [Item on Welsh strikes] Unknown 1900-1945 'Read Round the Fire Stories by Conan Doyle. Joined the Library. Started Lettres de Mon Moulin Par Alphonse Daudet. No sign of peace. Will it last another year 2:1 it wil... William Thomas Arthur Conan Doyle Round the Fire Stories Print : Book1900-1945 'Read Round the Fire Stories by Conan Doyle. Joined the Library. Started Lettres de Mon Moulin Par Alphonse Daudet. No sign of peace. Will it last another year 2:1 it wil... William Thomas Alphonse Daudet Lettres du Mon Moulin Print : Book1900-1945 'Reading The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope. Betting in Holland 10:1 that War will be over this year.' William Thomas Anthony Hope The Prisoner of Zenda Print : Book1900-1945 'Showery. Read Truth about an Author ... Letter from Bess.' William Thomas Arnold Bennett The Truth About an Author Print : Book1900-1945 'Wrote a letter home asking for statement of accounts ... Many Fr. and Russians (Baltic) arrived. Read Scarlet Pimpernel.' William Thomas Baroness Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel Print : Book1900-1945 'Mon. 9-11 Tennis[.] Weak. Then read Eldorado by Baroness Orczy. No letter. [Thomas then lists debts incurred in that day's round of roulette games.] William Thomas Baroness Orczy El Dorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel Print : Book1900-1945 'Sat. No letter. No parcel ... read Mrs Wiggs of Cabbage Patch.' William Thomas Alice Caldwell Rice Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Print : Book1900-1945 'Mon. No letter. No parcel. Read Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett.' William Thomas Arnold Bennett Buried Alive Print : Book1900-1945 'Tues. Received letter from no one[.] Damnation[.] Reading Man & Superman by Bernard Shaw.' William Thomas George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman Print : Book1900-1945 'Wed. Nil. Marriage is popular because it combines the maxm of temptation with the maxm of opportunity.' William Thomas George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman Print : Book1900-1945 'Sat. Read Play You Never Can Tell by Bernard Shaw & Odd Things by Dolf Wyllarde. Ev Badminton with Bolton.' William Thomas George Bernard Shaw You Never Can Tell Print : Book1900-1945 'Sat. Read Play You Never Can Tell by Bernard Shaw & Odd Things by Dolf Wyllarde. Ev Badminton with Bolton.' William Thomas Dolf Wyllarde Things Print : Book1900-1945 'Sun. Read "The Crystal Stopper" by Maurice Blanc ... Unable to play Badminton.' William Thomas Maurice LeBlanc The Crystal Stopper Print : Book1900-1945 'Tues. Parcel from Pemb. ... Read The Ashes of Vengeance by Sommerville.' William Thomas H. B. Somerville Ashes of Vengeance: A Romance of Old France Print : Book1900-1945 'Sun. Nil. Read A Trap to Catch a Dream.' William Thomas Dion Clayton Calthrop A Trap to Catch a Dream Print : Book1900-1945 'Fri. Read America the War by Hugo Mόnsterberg. Roulette +1.50 for Sat.' William Thomas Hugo Mόnsterberg The War and America Print : Book1900-1945 'Mon. Very few letters. None for me. All well. Read Naval Occasions by Bartimeus. V Good.' William Thomas Bartimeus (pseud.) Naval Occasions and Some Traits of the Sailor-Man Print : Book1900-1945 'Sun. As usual. Walking Round and Reading.' William Thomas unknown unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'I had very little leisure time to lie with mother but read in the evening.' Anne Jenkins unknown unknown unknown Unknown 1900-1945 'I received a card from the war in France from Lieutenant E. R. Jones, who is on service out there, with the few words ... "I am quite well".' Anne Jenkins E. R. Jones [postcard] Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'I received a very long & most interesting letter from Lieut. E. R. Jones from Marseilles France where he is stationed with the Indian troops who are on field service.' Anne Jenkins E. R. Jones [letter] Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'I went to town in the evening Jack in school brought budget home. I read a little after supper. Mother feeling very comfortable.' Anne Jenkins Unknown 1900-1945 'Jack read in the evening I managed to get a look at the budget.' Anne Jenkins Budget Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I read a little after supper also Gwen & Jack.' Anne Jenkins unknown Unknown 1900-1945 'I plucked a couple of fowls Jack helped 1 for Miss Thomas Cambrian house another for brother John. I also read a little before retiring.' Anne Jenkins unknown Unknown 1900-1945 'I felt too tired for much reading. Gwen did some sewing after supper.' Anne Jenkins unknown Unknown 1900-1945 'Gwen's hand is improving. I applied some carbonate of soda to [indecipherable] having read about in a medical book.' Anne Jenkins unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'I looked over the Budget before sending it away to India for Milly Jones.' Anne Jenkins Budget Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I have the "Cambrian News" sent to me every week so I am able to read of the good work you and Friends are doing to Cheer up the Aber[ystwyth] Boys out here.' W. Joseph Cambrian News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'The night before the coming of the first parcel, I was reading the same news in the Aber papers: how that first this one and then that one had received parcels of cigare... E. C. Benson Cambrian News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'It may interest you to know that I have at last succeeded in meeting an Aber boy and one too whose name I note in the last issue of the Cambrian News acknowledging a gif... E. C. Benson Cambrian News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I am writing these few lines to let you know that I received your Cambrian News, and also the ciggarretes [sic], they went round to all the Aber boys, which they gratefu... Arthur Jones Cambrian News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'It makes me feel lonely at times when I read the letters in the Cam. News from some of the Aber. boys, as they all seem to have some Aber. boys with them but I'm on my o... Fred Hollin Cambrian News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I haven't meet [sic] any Aber Boys out here yet only A Potts of North Parade, & we were stationed in the same place for about 3 weeks & not knowing about him until I rec... Fred Hollin Cambrian News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'How sorry I was to learn through the Cambrian News of poor Lieut. Oswald Green's death, also Lieut. C. Ellis.' Robert Bevan Cambrian News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I see by the Camb. News that J. Thomas has received the D.C.M. + I hope there will be a few more Aber boys who ill come home with the same honour.' H. L. Powell Cambrian News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'The men of my section with whom I shared its contents had previously heard & read in the "C.N." of the charitable disposition of the people of dear old Aber., & with... Robert W. Ellis Cambrian News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'It was The Waste Land that compelled recognition... The title, we know, comes from Miss J. L. Weston's book From Ritual to Romance, the theme of which is anthropological... T. S. Eliot Jessie L. Weston From Ritual to Romance Print : Book1850-1899 'Mrs Sydney Smith is affectionate and kind as it is possible to be. She gives me all her husband's papers and correspondence to look over and read...' Fanny Allen Sydney Smith [papers and correspondence] 1850-1899 '... I have been idle, but rather too busy to write, our leisure hours being taken up with reading Sydney's "Memoirs".' Fanny Allen Sydney Smith Selections from the writings of the Rev. Sydney Sm... Print : Book1850-1899 'I am going on with my reading of Shakespeare's historical plays, and yesterday I came on the murder of Humphrey, Duke of Gloster, and the death of Beaufort; and Tennyson... Fanny Allen William Shakespeare 2 Henry VI Print : Book1850-1899 'I am going on with my reading of Shakespeare's historical plays, and yesterday I came on the murder of Humphrey, Duke of Gloster, and the death of Beaufort; and Tennyson... Fanny Allen Alfred, Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall Print : Book1850-1899 'I have been reading Wallace in "the Academy" ... in future histories of science the Wallace-Darwin episode will form one of the few bright points among rival claimants..... Erasmus Darwin Alfred Russel Wallace [articles in the 'Academy'] 1850-1899 'I do not know whether you touch C. Voysey's writings. I was pleased with his last discourse, "Man the only Revelation of God".' Fanny Allen Charles Voysey Man the only Revelation of God 1850-1899 'Our drive with Carlyle was interesting ... he talked about a number of things, especially about his 'French Revolution', which I happened to be reading.' William Darwin Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution 1800-1849 '...what do you think Mitford's 'Greece' has made me begin, the 'Iliad' by Cowper which we were talking of.'
Charles Darwin Homer The Iliad Print : Book1800-1849 'I am also reading an English translation of Mme de Sevigne and like it very much.' Charles Darwin Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sιvignι Letters of Madame de Sevigne to her daughter and h... Print : Book1800-1849 'On the 17 February, 1856, ''Finished Guy Mannering'' was entered in her diary. This means my father finished reading it aloud to us. These evening readings to the childr... Charles Darwin Walter Scott Guy Mannering Print : Book1800-1849 'On the 17 February, 1856, ''Finished Guy Mannering'' was entered in her diary. This means my father finished reading it aloud to us. These evening readings to the childr... The Darwin family Walter Scott Guy Mannering Print : Book1850-1899 'I have been greatly interested by the second article in the 'Spectator', and by Wallace's long article in the 'Academy'. I see I have had no influence on him, and his Re... Charles Darwin Spectator Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I have been greatly interested by the second article in the 'Spectator', and by Wallace's long article in the 'Academy'. I see I have had no influence on him, and his Re... Charles Darwin Alfred Russel Wallace [article in the 'Academy'] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'My favourite books were historical novels, and of these my grandfather's works took first place. Of all his works 'Harold' was my favourite'. Emily Lytton Edward Bulwer Lytton Harold Print : Book1850-1899 '...my father read aloud. He was a beautiful reader and I enjoyed much of what he read, but I have to confess that I got terribly bored by his own long narrative poems...... Emily Lytton Robert Lytton Print : Book1850-1899 'I have often read the bit of Wordsworth that you quote ['She was a Phantom of
Delight'], and am very fond of it, and now I shall love it more and feel all that you
... Emily Lytton William Wordsworth She was a phantom of delight Print : Book1850-1899 'As Father and Betty were talking so much about it, I am reading "Martin Chuzzlewit"
again.' Emily Lytton Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit Print : Book1850-1899 '...Mother reads all the new French novels and Rudyard Kipling ... and though she
says they are so horrible she can hardly get through them, she will go on reading
th... Edith Lytton French novels Print : Book1850-1899 '...Mother reads all the new French novels and Rudyard Kipling ... and though she
says they are so horrible she can hardly get through them, she will go on reading
th... Edith Lytton Rudyard Kipling Print : Book1850-1899 'Father has made Con read out to him again yesterday Oscar Wilde's essay ('The
Decay of Lying') and ... he thought still more highly of it than before...' Constance Lytton Oscar Wilde The Decay of Lying Print : Book1850-1899 'Father has made Con read out to him again yesterday Oscar Wilde's essay ('The
Decay of Lying') and ... he thought still more highly of it than before...' Robert Lytton Oscar Wilde The Decay of Lying Print : Book1850-1899 'I perceive you mention "Looking Backwards". I write to save your life.
Don't DON'T DON'T read that most ... [ellipsis in original] of
shockers. I bough... Ernest Dowson Edward Bellamy Looking Backward: 2000-1887 Print : Book1850-1899 'Grant Allens[The] Woman Who Did, cest un livre mort. Gr.[ant]Allen is a man of inferior
intelligence and his work is not art in any sense. [The] Woman Who Did ha... Joseph Conrad Grant Allen The Woman Who Did Print : Book1900-1945 'By the same post with the ordered copy of the E[nglish] R[eview]arrived the charming cahier
des vers ["High Germany"] inscribed to us both. I have been turning over it... Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford High Germany Print : Book1900-1945 "Thanks for the '1st men in the moon', I have already finished it and enjoyed it very much." Clive Staples Lewis H.G. Wells The First Men in the Moon Print : Book1900-1945 'Nevertheless, there is nothing that I should prize more than a nice edition of Kipling, whose
poems I am just beginning to read and to wonder why I never read them be... Clive Staples Lewis Rudyard Kipling [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'It certainly is a grievous pity that Shakespeare filled Romeo and Juliet with those appalling
rhymes. But the worst thing in the play is old Capulet's preposterous spe... Clive Staples Lewis William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Print : Book1900-1945 'Still, it is a very fine tragedy. So is the Greek play that we are doing. It is quite unlike all that
stiff bombast which we are accustomed to associate with Greek tra... Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon] [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 '... that cold, dismal golf links that always reminds me of the moorland in "Locksley Hall".
Talking
about "Locksley Hall", I have discovered a tattered copy of Tenny... Clive Staples Lewis Alfred Tennyson In Memoriam and other poems Print : Book1900-1945 'I have here discovered an author exactly after my own heart, whom I am sure you would
delight in, W. B. Yeats. He writes plays and poems of rare spirit and beauty abou... Clive Staples Lewis William Butler Yeats [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Last week I got out of the library the works of our present poet laureate, Bridges, who did not
impress me a bit.' Clive Staples Lewis Robert Bridges [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'I have now struck better ground in Charlotte Bronte's "Wuthering Heights", which although
melodramatic like all her books, shapes very well indeed.' Clive Staples Lewis Emily Brontλ Wuthering Heights Print : Book1900-1945 'This week I have been reading a most remarkable book which has created a great
impression. it is "The Upton Letters", a series of letters from a school master at "Upto... Clive Staples Lewis Arthur Christopher Benson The Upton Letters Print : Book1900-1945 'I am at present engaged in reading Newman's poems; do you know them at all? They are very,
very delicate and pretty, and are like nothing more than one of those valuab... Clive Staples Lewis John Henry Newman Verses on Various Occasions Print : Book1900-1945 'I wonder did you notice the article on Nietzsche in last Sunday's Times Literary Supplement,
which demonstrates that although we have been told to regard Nietzsche as ... Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon] The Nietzschean Way Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1900-1945 'When one has set aside the rubbish that H. G. Wells always puts in, there remains a great
deal of original, thoughtful and suggestive work in it. The "Door in the Wall... Clive Staples Lewis Herbert George Wells The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories Print : Book1900-1945 'I am now engaged in reading "Sense & Sensibility'. It is, undoubtedly, one of her best. Do you
remember the Palmer family?' Clive Staples Lewis Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Print : Book1900-1945 'In Greek, I have started to read Homer's Iliad, of which, of course, you must have heard.
Although you don't know Greek & don't care for poetry, I cannot resist the te... Clive Staples Lewis Homer The Iliad Print : Book1900-1945 'He handed me over Crusius' Lexicon and, having told me to go through again as much as I
could of what he had done, left the room. It seems an odd method of teaching, b... Clive Staples Lewis Gottlieb Christian Crusius A Complete Greek and English Lexicon for the Poems... Print : Book1900-1945 'This week I have taken a course of A. C. Benson's essays, which have impressed me very
favourably indeed. Do you know them? He has a clear, simple, but melodious style... Clive Staples Lewis Arthur Christopher Benson [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Did you ever at Lurgan read the 4th Georgic? It is the funniest example of the colossal
ignorance of a great poet that I know. It's about bees, and Virgil's natural hi... Clive Staples Lewis Virgil The Georgics Print : Book1900-1945 'I am reading at present, for the second time, the Celtic plays of Yeats. I must try & get them
next time I am at home.' Clive Staples Lewis William Butler Yeats [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 '...your criticism of the"Well". I quite see your point, and, of course, agree that the interests
of
the tale reach their climax in the great scene at the World's End... Clive Staples Lewis William Morris The Well at the World's End Print : Book1900-1945 'Merriman is a far cry from the Brontes. Both of course are good, but while they should be
sipped with luxurious slowness in the winter evening, he may be read in a che... Clive Staples Lewis Henry Seton Merriman [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'I have nearly finished The Morte D'arthur. I am more pleased at having bought it every day,
as it has opened up a new world to me. I had no idea that the Arthurian leg... Clive Staples Lewis Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur Print : Book1900-1945 'I am glad to hear you have read Esmond: it is one of my favourite novels, and I hardly know
which to praise most, the wonderful, musical Queen Anne English, or the del... Clive Staples Lewis William Makepeace Thackeray The History of Henry Esmond Print : Book1900-1945 'I have been reading this week a book by Swinburne from the Library, a "Study on
Shakespeare". This is my first experience of his prose, and I think I shall make it the... Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Charles Swinburne A Study of Shakespeare Print : Book1900-1945 'I essayed a new author the other day whom we have often heard praised and of whom I hoped
great things Landor: but the book I got, a series of imaginary letters call... Clive Staples Lewis Walter Savage Landor Pericles and Aspasia Print : Book1900-1945 'Did you read Lloyd George's speech the other day introducing the remark about the German
potato bread "I fear that potato bread more than all Von Kluck's strategy". ... Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a] The Times Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'In the way of reading, I have been taking a course of "Poems and Ballads", which, with the
exception of the "Coign of a cliff" I had almost forgotten. It is rather ple... Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems and Ballads, Second Series Print : Book1900-1945 'Last week end was busily employed in reading through De Quincey's "Confessions" as a
whole,
for the first time, from which I derived great satisfaction. How much of ... Clive Staples Lewis Thomas De Quincey Confessions of an English Opium Eater Print : Book1900-1945 'I bought yesterday a little shilling book about Wm. Morris, his life and his work, which is rather
interesting. To me, at least, for I am afraid you have given up that... Clive Staples Lewis Arthur Clutton-Brock William Morris: his Work and Influence Print : Book1900-1945 'I have just finished "Shirley"; which I think better than either "Jane Eyre" or "Villette". You must
read it.' Clive Staples Lewis Charlotte Brontλ Shirley Print : Book1900-1945 '"The Roots of the Mountains" is the chief cause of my silence. It is not, however, in spite of
this,
nearly as good as the first volume of "The Well at the World's E... Clive Staples Lewis William Morris The Roots of the Mountains Print : Book1900-1945 'Last week I got a copy of that little book of yours on Icelandic Sagas, which I found very
interesting, and as a result I have now bought a translation of the "Laxdael... Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon] Laxdaela Saga Print : Book1900-1945 'I have been devoting this week to the reading of Othello, which I like as well as any
Shakespeare play I have read. The part of Iago, to my mind, is something of a ble... Clive Staples Lewis William Shakespeare Othello Print : Book1900-1945 'I remember reading in a book called "The open Road" an extract from Hewlett's "Pan and the
Young Shepherd" which I thought splendid. Thanks to our Galahad's detestable... Clive Staples Lewis Edward Verrall Lucas The Open Road, a Book for Wayfarers Print : Book1900-1945 'P.S. Have begun the "Professor" and have read as far as the hero's arrival at Brussels. It is
shaping very well. I believe you have read it have you not - J' Clive Staples Lewis Charlotte Brontλ The Professor Print : Book1900-1945 'I have been reading nothing since Othello but a translation from the Icelandic' Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon] [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'In Greek we have begun Demosthenes. Of course oratory is not a sort of literature that I
appreciate or understand in any language, so that I am hardly qualified to exp... Clive Staples Lewis Demosthenes [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'I have been reading the "Faerie Queene" in Everymans both here and at home ever since I
left you.... of course it has dull and even childish passages, but on the whole... Clive Staples Lewis Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Print : Book1900-1945 'After breakfast & a short walk we start work on Thucydides a desperately dull and tedious
Greek historian.' Clive Staples Lewis Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War Print : Book1900-1945 'I have been reading a horrible book of Jack London's called "The Jacket". If you come across [it]
anywhere, don't read it. it is about the ill-treatment in an American... Clive Staples Lewis Jack London The Star Rover Print : Book1900-1945 'I see no reason to congratulate the Times on its recruiting supplement in any way, nor the
country on the necessity (which it allows to remain) for such publications b... Clive Staples Lewis The Times Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I myself have been reading this week a book by a man named Love Peacock, of whom I had not
heard, but who seems to be famous. He was a contemporary of Lamb, Hazlitt, B... Clive Staples Lewis Thomas Love Peacock Headlong Hall Print : Book1900-1945 'I have also been reading in library copies, Schopenhauer's "Will and Idea".....[He] is abstruse
and depressing, but has some very interesting remarks on the theory of ... Clive Staples Lewis Arthur Schopenhauer The World as Will and Idea Print : Book1900-1945 'I have also been reading in library copies... Swinburne's "Erechtheus" which is another tragedy
on Greek lines like "Atalanta", though not so good in my opinion.' Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Charles Swinburne Erechtheus: A Tragedy Print : Book1900-1945 'And while we are on the subject of the war, I am sure you have noticed the excellent blank
verse poem in this week's "Punch" entitled "Killed in Action". I read it wit... Clive Staples Lewis Rudolph Chambers Lehmann Killed in Action Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'I have been reading again "The Well at the World's End", and it has completely ravished me.
There is something awfully nice about reading a book again, with all the ha... Clive Staples Lewis William Morris The Well at the World's End Print : Book1900-1945 'I... am going through an English literature of Kirk's by Andrew Lang. Lang is always charming
whatever he does - or "did" as we must unfortunately say, and this book i... Clive Staples Lewis Andrew Lang History of English Literature from "Beowulf" to Sw... Print : Book1900-1945 'There has also been from the London Library a book called "Springs of Helicon" by Mackail
you know, Professor of Poetry at Oxford and the man on William Morris. This... Clive Staples Lewis John William Mackail The Springs of Helicon: A Study in the Progress of... Print : Book1900-1945 'There is also a "Greek Literature" by Gilbert Murray, the bad verse-translator, which I have read
with dire anger, as he degrades Homer from a poet into a "question" a... Clive Staples Lewis Gilbert Murray A History of Ancient Greek Literature (Short Histo... Print : Book1900-1945 'I ... have also re-read Jane Eyre from beginning to end it is a magnificent novel. Some of
those long, long dialogues between her and Rochester are really like duets... Clive Staples Lewis Charlotte Brontλ Jane Eyre Print : Book1900-1945 'The other book which I am denying myself to write to YOU, yes YOU of all people is
from the library by Blackwood called "Uncle Paul". Oh, I have never read anythin... Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Blackwood The Education of Uncle Paul Print : Book1900-1945 'By the way, you should get that "Spirit of Man", Bridge's anthology, that everyone is talking
about. Mrs K. has it from the library at present: it is one of the pretti... Clive Staples Lewis Robert Bridges The Spirit of Man: an Anthology in English and Fre... Print : Book1900-1945 'Do you read Ruskin at all? I am sure you don't. Well I am reading a book of his at present called
"A joy for ever", which is charming, though I am not sure you would c... Clive Staples Lewis John Ruskin A Joy for Ever: (and Its Price in the Market): Bei... Print : Book1900-1945 'I have had a great literary experience this week. I have discovered yet another author to add
to our circle our very own set: never since I first read "The well at t... Clive Staples Lewis George Macdonald Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women Print : Book1900-1945 'The "British Ballads" has come, and though I am awfully bucked with the edition I can't think
why I didn't appreciate it before. This must be a triumph for you the... Clive Staples Lewis Reginald Brimley Johnson The Book of British Ballads Print : Book1900-1945 'I hope you have read your Times Literary Supplement this week: do you see that the
commonwealth of letters is richer by a great new poet? Now let the stars retire for ... Clive Staples Lewis 'An Uncertain Voice' Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Talking of books you might ask, when do I talk of anything else I have read and finished
"The Green Knight", which is absolutely top-hole: in fact the only fault I... Clive Staples Lewis Ernest John Brigham Kirtlan Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Rendered Literall... Print : Book1900-1945 '(1) I have started don't be surprised "Rob Roy", which I suppose you have read long ago.
I really don't know how I came to open it: I was looking for a book in the... Clive Staples Lewis Walter Scott Rob Roy Print : Book1900-1945 'I am rather surprised at your remark about "Persuasion", as it seemed to me very good
though not quite in her usual manner. I mean it is more romantic and less hum... Clive Staples Lewis Jane Austen Persuasion Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I wish you would get that Academy book which one always finds in a dentist's waiting
room so that we could compare notes. If you do you must particularly notice "T... Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a] The Royal Academy Illustrated Print : Book1900-1945 'I went to a play that would have appealed to you "Disraeli", which you will remember to have
seen reviewed in Punch's "At the play". If the real man was at all like ... Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon] 'At the Play: "Disraeli"' Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 (1) 'With the Chaucer I am most awfully bucked: it is in the very best Everyman style
lovely paper, strong boards, and aren't you envious not one but two bits of ... Clive Staples Lewis Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales Print : Book1900-1945 'In odd moments last week I read an excellent novel by you'd never guess Bernard Shaw.
It is called "Love among the Artists" and is published in Constable's shillin... Clive Staples Lewis George Bernard Shaw Love among the Artists: A Novel Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'Never, never get a book bound. You will gather from this that "Tristan" has arrived and is
a complete and absolute failure.... True, it is some consolation to find... Clive Staples Lewis Joseph Bedier Le Roman de Tristan et Iseut, renouvele par Joseph... Print : Book1900-1945 (1)'What is nicer than to get a book doubtful both about reading matter and edition, and
then to find both are topping?.... I have just had this pleasure in Sidney's ... Clive Staples Lewis Philip Sidney The Prose Works of Sir Philip Sidney Print : Book1900-1945 'I hope you noticed the leader in this week's Literary Supplement on Edgar Allan Poe? I never
heard such affectation and preciosity; the man who thinks the "Raven" ta... Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon] 'Edgar Allan Poe' Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Besides this [i.e. Sidney's "Arcadia"] I have read nothing lately, except a foolish modern novel
which I read at one sitting or rather one lying on the sofa, this af... Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon] [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'I am very glad to hear that you are getting to like Jason: I agree with you that the whole
description of Medea glorious character going out by night, and of her s... Clive Staples Lewis William Morris The Life and Death of Jason: A Poem Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I have just started the "Argonautica" the Greek poem on the same subject,and though I
haven't got very far only in fact to the launching of the Argo it is shap... Clive Staples Lewis Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'Can you guess what I have been reading this week? Of all things in the world "Pendennis"!
Isn't this the one you find too much for you? I am nearly through the fir... Clive Staples Lewis William Makepeace Thackeray The History of Pendennis, his Fortunes and Misfort... Print : Book1900-1945 'Did you see a long article in the Times Literary Supplement about the "Magic Flute" which is on
at the Shaftesbury? How I wish I could go up and hear it and also "Tris... Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a] Times Literary Supplement Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'The literary event of the week is our respected laureate's ode in the Times Literary
Supplement: truly a most remarkable production, though I am afraid like the honest... Clive Staples Lewis Robert Bridges Ode on the Tercentenary Commemoration of Shakespea... Print : Serial / periodical
