On Reading

Excerpt from On Reading: An Essay
A Few years ago several European newspapers offered prizes for a list of the best one hundred books for a first-class library. The answers poured in: the Bible and "Robinson Crusoe," Homer and Horace, Dante and Shakespeare, Holberg and Oehlenschlager, Goethe and Mickiewitz, Racine and Pascal, Arany and Petofi, Cervantes and Calderon, Bjornson and Ibsen, Tegner and Runeberg, - each list characteristic of the country and the individual taste of the correspondent.
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