The reading of prose presents less difficulty, but there again the rule is, never allow yourself to be lulled by sound.

Reading is an intellectual and not an hypnotic exercise.
The following short bibliography is divided to correspond with the chapters in this book.

Prices and publishers are mentioned only when there is no more than one cheap edition of a book known to the author.
For the subject as a whole, Chamber's _Cyclopaedia of English Literature_ (3 vols., 10s.6d.net each), which contains biographical and critical articles on all authors, arranged chronologically and furnished very copiously with specimen passages, may be consulted at any library.
* The books with an asterisk are suggested as those on which reading should be begun.

The reader can then proceed to the others and after them to the many authors--great authors--who are not included in this short list.
Chapter I .-- *More's _Utopia_; _Haklyut's Voyages_ (Ed.

J.Masefield, Everyman's Library, 8 vols., 1s.