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The Thousand Good Books APPENDIX The Thousand Good Books HE " GREAT BOOKS" MOV1!M];NT OF THE LAST GEN'RAUON mhas not failed as much as fizzled, not because of any defect in the books - "the best that has been thought and said," in M atthew Arnold's phrase-but like good champagne in plastic bottles , they went Bat. To change the figure, the seeds are good but the cultural soil has been depleted ; the seminal ideas ofPlato, Aristotle, St. Augustine and St. T homas thrive only in an imaginative ground saturated with fa­ bles, fairy tales, stories, rhymes and adventures: the thousand books of Grimm, Andersen, Stevenson, Dickens, Scott, D umas and the rest. Taking all that was best in the Greco-Roman world into itself, 1 Western tradition has given us the thousand good books as a prepa­ ration for the great ones - and for all studies in the arts and sciences. W-ithQut them all studies are inhumane. T he brutal athlete and fo ppish aesthete --suffer vices opposed to the virtue of Newman's "gentleman." Anyone working at college, w hether in the pure arts and sciences or the practical ones, will discover he has made a quan­ tum leap when he gets even a small amount ofcultural ground under him : he will grow up like an undernourished plant su d,denly fertil­ ized and vvatered. Of course, the distinction between "great" and "good" is not ab­ solute. "Great" implies a certain magnitude; one might say War ari d Peace and Les Miserables are great because of their length, or The Cri­ tiqu e of Pure R eason because ofits difficulty. Great books call for ehil~- ( ~ ~ ical reB ~ ctio~ ; good. books are popular, appealing especially to '\ . t obVIOusly some authors are both great and good, and their works may be read more than once from the different points ofview- this is true ofShake'S peare and Cervantes, for example. r82 .. The Death of Christitm Culture The Thousand Good Books » 183 It is commonly agreed also that both "great" and "good" can be nineteenth-century edition or one ofthe facsimiles which (though not judged only from a certain distance. Contemporary works can be ap­ as sharp in printing) are currently available at moderate prices. The preciated and enj oyed but not very properly judged; and JUSt a~ d prlll­ ltlcomplere worksheet that follows may serve as a rough guide. ciple must stand outside what follows from it (as a point to the line), so a cultural standard must be established from some time at least as dis­ tant as our grandparents'. For us today the cutoffpoint is World Wax I, The Nursery (ages 2- 7) before which cars and the electric light had not yet come to dominate Literary experience beginS for very young children with someone our lives and the experience of nature had not been distorted by speed reading aloud while they look at the pictures. But they can begin to and the destruction of shadows. T here is a serious question - with ar­ read the Simplest stories which they already love at an early age. guments on both sides surely-as to whether there can be any culture at all in a mechanized society. Whichever side one takes in that dis­ Aesop Ewing. Juliana pute, it is certainly true that we cannot unders tand the point at issue Fables (The translation by Robert Jackanap~s L'Estr>nge is the classic) without an llnaginative grasp ofthe world we have lost. Gesta RamaHormll (r[~nslat "d by Swann What follows is not a complete list, but it is a sufficient worksheet. Andersen, Hans Christian [scholarly faCSimile,)) Christll/e's Pietllre Book Everyone will find more than enough that he has not read; and every­ A Cltris(1H1lJ G,eeti"g: A Series of Storl,s Grahame, Kenneth thing on this list is by a common consent part ofthe ordinary cultural Fairy Tales Wind i" th~ Wi/{,,,~. matter essential fo r an English-speaking person to grow lll. Remember Arabia" Nights (Tbere are tWQ class ic Greenaway, Kate (prefe rably pubLshed that the point ofview throughout a course ofstudies such as this is that translations. one expurgated for ch ildren by Frederick Warne) by Edwatd wne, tb e oth er complete by A Appl,Pie of the ~ -the ordinary person who loves and enjoys what he Ricbard Burton) Birthday Book loves - not ofthe expert in critical, historical. or textual technology. Marigold Gardell The books have been. divided (sometimes dubiously because some Belioe. Hilaire M Olh" Goos~ The Bad Ch ild's Book ofBeasts The Language q(Flolvm bridge two categories) into stages oflife corresponding to the classical Und~r Ihe Window Caldeeott, R andolph ages of manl and in general agreement with the divisions of !!10dern Piau" &oks- 16 little voh. (published by Grimm p~~y. And because sight is the first of the senses and especially Fredrick Warne) Household Stories (illustrated by Walter powerful in early years , it is very important to secure books illustrated C rane [Dover Facsimiles]) Collodi, Carlo (Carlo LorenZini) by artists working in the cultural tradition we are studying, both as Pillocchio Harris, Joel Chandler an introduction to art and as part ofthe imaginative experience of the Un ci, R emus Carroll, Lewis (prefe rably illustrated by book. This is not to disparage contemporary artists, any more than the Tcnnid) Kingsley, Charles tradition itself disparages contemporary experiment- quite the con­ Alice in WQndtrlalld Water Ba bi•• trary, one of the fruits of such a course should be the encouragement Through the Looking Glass Kipli ng, Rudyard ofgood writing and draWing. The good work ofthe pas t is a standard, De La Mare. Wal ter j ungl" Book (illostrated by Kipling) not a strait-jacket. ~o ok illustratio!] reached its perfection in the llin.e­ COlli" Hither (the be.'t ,mthology of po­ Just So Stori e.' etry fo r "children of all agd ') t<[enth centl.lI¥ in the work of R andolph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway, Songs of Childh.ood Lamb, Charles Walter Crane, Gustav Dare, George Cruikshank, "Phiz," Gordon Beauty and the B"a$l Edgeworth, Maria Tales fro", Shokesptart Browne, Beatrix Potter, Sir John Tenniel, Arthur Rackham, Howard Mora l roles Pyle, N . C. Wyeth and many others. T he rule of thumb is to fi nd a Tit. Parent '5 Assistmll 184 ~ The Death ofChristian Culture The Thousand Good Books ~ [85 Lang, Andrew Stevenson, Robert Louis A. Midnr'gllt Fantasy The Piorreers Blue Book ofFdiria, alld orhlreolo rs - 6ve A Child's Cardell ofVrrses (Scribner's) Miss Mehelable's SOli Tile Pilot \'01,. (best i ll um~t~d by H J Ford [Do­ Our Ntw Nti~hhon at Ponkapoi? The Prairie ver has facsimile edj ti ons/) Potlns ofT. B. Aldriclr P,ecauttou School Days (ages 7- 12) The Stillwaler Tragedy The Red Rollt" Lear, Edward Story ofa &d Boy The Redskins ABC (illustrated by Lear) Adams, Andy T..,o Biles at a Cherry, Iv ilh other tales Salon 's Toe NonseftSe O'Mibus (i llustrated by Lear 'attle Brands The Sea LioftS [WarDel/) Log ofa Cowboy (illustrated by N. C. Wyeth) Belloc, Hilaire The I'woAdmirals T'lrePob ble Who Has No Toes Th, O"tlet Cautionary Talesfor Children (designed for Tire Waur-Witch 'he Q uangle Wangles Hat Wl,y the Chislrolm Trail Forks, and oth.r the admonition ofchildren between the The Ways oflhe Hour tales ofthe callie country ages of8 and 14) The Wing and Wing Lofting, Hugh The WeplofWish-ton - wish Dr. Dolillle: A Trea sury Alcott, Louisa May BrOwning, Robert Wya/fdoue Dr. Doliule and The Cmn Canory Little IVom"" The Pi.d Piper ofHamelin (i llustrated by Dr. Dolietle', Circ us Little M en Kate Greenaway [Wa rne)) Cowper, William Dr. Dolittle's Caravan Jo's Boys, and Irou' they turned out (a sequel JolIII Gilpin's Rid. (illustrated by Calde ­ Dr. Dolittle's Carden to Little MtII) Burnett, Frances Hodgson cott [Warne)) Dr. Dolirlle's Zoo AuntJo 's Scrap -Bag-6 vols. Liltle Lord Fauntleroy Dana, R ichard Henry Story ofDoctor Do/ittle An Old Fa shioned Cirl Tire Sterel Carderr Voyages ofDoctor Doliule Eiglrt Cousins; or, Th e A"nt-Hill wo Yo", BeJore Ihe Mast A Free Bed Burroughs, Edgar Rice D efoe, Daniel Milne,A.A. Rose irr Bloom (a sequel to Eight Co",i,,,) Apache Devil RobinsoTt Crusoe Wi,,,,ie the Pooh Flower Fables Back 10 tire Stan. Age Tl,e HallS( at Pooh Corner Hospital Sketches, and Camp Qlld Fireside CireSS IllQlIofMa rs D ickens, Charles Now We Art Six Sto ries Jol", Ca rUr ojMa rs A Christmas Ca rol Jungle Tales of Tarz an Once On a Time Jack andJill: a Villa.~e Story Cricket 0 11 the H••rth Prince Rabbit Lul,,'s Ubrary - J voL collec tion of stories Ta les of Three Planets David Copperfield Moods Ta rza" Olivtr Twist (The lattcr two may be Mother Goose (Dover Facsimiles; another Morning-glories, and Other Stories The RelUnr of Ta rzan reserved for adolescence or [crud.) ed. illustrated by Rackham, Viking Press) 0" Picket Duty The Son of Ta, zan Silver Pilchers and Independen ce, a Cellten­ Dodge, Mary Mapes Perrault, Charles nial Love Story Cooper, James Fenimore Han5 Brinlu Fairy 'l; ,/es (illustrated by Dore [D over]) Spinning- Wheel Stories Afloal arrd Ashore Three Proverb Stories- Kitty 's Class Day, The Bra vo Gar land, Hamlin Potter, Beatrix AIIIlI KIPP, Psyche's Art TIl( Ch ainbearer Tire Light oftile Star -23 little vok. some available in French, Under th e Lilacs The Crater 'h.
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