Tuesday, May 14, 1929.
A READING LIST
THE CHOWANIAN, CHOWAN COLLEGE, MURFREESBORO.
Novels
J. Austen — EMMA, PRIDE
AND PREJUDICE, Sense and
Sensibility, Northanger Abbey,
Mansfield Park.
J. M. Barrie—SENTIMENTAL
TOMMY, THE LITTLE MINIS
TER.
A. Bennett—Clayhanger, THE
OLD WIVES’ TALE.
W. Besant—All Sort and Condi
tions of Men.
W. Black—A Princess of Thule.
R. D. Blackmore — LORNA
DOONE.
C. Bronte—JANE EYRE, Shir
ley, WUTHERING HEIGHTS.
E. L. Bulwer-Lytton—LAST
DAYS OF POMPEII, Rienzi, My
Novel.
J. Bunyan—Pilgrim’s Progress.
F. Burney—Evelina.
S. Butler—THE WAY OF ALL
FLESH.
W. Collins—The Moonstone,
The Woman in White.
J. Conrad—N O S T R 0 M 0 ,
LORD JUM, The Nigger of the
Narcissus.
D. M. Craik—JOHN HALIFAX,
GENTLEMAN.
S. R. Crockett—The Black
Douglas, The Men of the Moss
. Hags.
Daniel Defoe — ROBINS'ON
CRUSOE.
W.de la Mere—Memoirs of aMid-
get, The Return.
W. DeMorgan—Joseph Vance,
Alice-for-Short, Somehow Good.
C. Dickens—DAVID COPPER-
FIELD, Dombey and Son, Martin
Chuzzlewit, Nicholas, Nickleby,
Old Curosity Shop, Oliver Twist,
Our Mutual Friend, A TALE OF
TWO CITIES, THE PICKWICK
PAPERS, Great Expectations.
Disraeli—Vivian Gay, Conings-
by.
A. Conan Doyle—The White
Company, Micah Clarke.
M. Edgeiworth—^Castle Rack-
rent.
G. Eliot—ADAM BEDE, MID-
RLEMARCH, ROMOLA, The Mill
on the Floss, Daniel Deronda,
Felix Holt.
S. Faruol—The Broad Highway,
The Amateur Gentleman.
H. Fielding—Joseph Andrews,
TOM JONES.
J. Galsworthy—The Country
House, The Man of Property, The
Patrician, THE FORSYTE SAGA.
E. C. Gaskell—Cranford.
0. Goldsmith—The Vicar of
Wakefield.
Thos. Hardy—THE RETURN
OF THE NATIVE, THE MAYOR
0 F CASTERBRIDGE, THE
WOODLANDERS, TESS OF THE
D’URBERVILLES, UNDER THE
GREENWOOD TREE, Far From
the IV^addins- Crowd.
ar. Hewlett—THE FORE,ST
LOVERS, The Life and Death of
Richard Y ea-and-Nay, The
Queen’s Quair.
S. Johnson—Rasselas.
C. Kingsley—WESTWARD HO!
Hypatia.
R. Kipling—^The Light That
Failed, Kim.
C. J. Lever—Charles O’Malley.
Samuel Lover—Handy Andy.
Lucas Malet—SIR RICHARD
CALMADY.
Thomas Malory—MORTE D’-
ARTHUR.
A. Marshall — The Squire’s
Daughter, THE ELDEST SON,
SIR HARRY, Richard Valdock,
The Greatest of These.
Geo. Meredith—THE ORDEAL
OF RICHARD FEVEREL, The
Egoist, Diana of the Crossways,
Beauchamp’s Career.
Geo, Moore—ESTHER WAT
ERS.
Neil Munro—John Splendid.
G. Parker—The Seats of the
Mighty, WHEN V A L M 0 N D
CAME TO PONTIAC.
Chas. Reade—THE CLOISTER
AND THE HEARTH, Peg Wof-
rington, Put Yourself in His
Place, It Is Never Too Late To
Mend, Very Hard Cash.
S. Richardson—Pamela, Clarissa
Harlowe.
W. Scott — KENILWORTH,
Guy Mannering, THE HEART OF
MIDLOTHIAN, WAVERLEY,
IVANHOE, QUENTIN DUR-
WARD, Rob Roy, The Antiquary.
M. Shelley—^Frankenstein.
T. Smollett—^Humphrey Clink
er.
L. Sterne—A Sentimental Jour
ney, TRISTRAM SHANDY.
R. L. Stevenson—The Black
Arrow, TREASURE ISLAND,
DAVID BALFOUR, Kidnapped,
The Master of Ballantrae, St,
Ives.
J. Swift—GULLIVER’S TRAV
ELS.
W. M. Thackeray—HENRY
ESMOND, VANITY FAIR, PEN-
DENNIS, The Newcomes, The Vir
ginians.
A. Trollope — BARCHESTEE
TOWERS, Doctor Thome.
H. Walpole—Fortitude.
H. G. Wells—Mr. Britling Sees
It Through, Tono-Bungay.
Biography
Boswell’s Johnson, James Bryce’s
Studies in Contemporary Bio
graphy, G. K. Chesterton’s Life
of Dickens, Sidney Colvin’s Life
of Keats, Buxton Froman’s Life
of Trelawney, Forster’s Life of
Walter Savage Landor, Edw. Gib
bon’s Autobiography, J. G. Lock
hart’s Life of Scott, E. V. Lucas’
Life of Charles Lamb, J. S. Mill’s
Autobiography, John Morley’s
Oliver Cromwell, John Morley’s
Gladstone, Cardinal Newman—
Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Lytton
Strachey’s Queen Victoria, Lytton
Strachey’s Eminent Victorians, R.
Southey’s Life of Nelson, H. Ten
nyson’s Memoir of Alfred Tenny
son, G. 0. Trevelyan’s Life of
Macaulay, G. 0. Trevelyn’s Early
Life of Charles James Fox.
Plays
G. Baker—Waste, The Voysey
Inheritance.
J. M. Barrie—The Admirable
Crichton, Quality Street, What
Every Woman Knows, etc., etc.
Beaumont and Fletcher—Phil-
aster, The Maid’s Tragedy, The
Knight of the Burning Pestle.
Robert Browning—A Blot In
the ’Scutcheon, Pippa Passes, Co
lombo’s Birthday.
(George Gordan, Lord Byron
Manfred, Falliero).
T. Dekker—The Shoemaker’s
Holiday.
John Dryden—All for Love.
Lord Dunsany — Five Plays,
Plays of Gods and Men, If.
J. E. Flecher—Hassan.
John Galsworthy — Justice,
Strife, The Silver Box, A Bit 0’
Love.
Oliver Goldsmith—She Stoops
to Conquer.
Henry Arthur Jones—^Saints
and Sinners, Mrs. Dane’s Defense,
Michael and His Lost Angel.
C. Marlowe—Doctor Faustus,
The Jew of Malta, Tamburlaine
the Great.
John Masefield—The Faithful,
The Tragedy of Nan.
P. Massinger—A New Way to
Pay Old Debets.
Stephen Phillips—Paolo and
Francesca.
Arthur W. Pinero—The Thun
derbolt, The Second Mrs. Tan-
queray, Mid-Channel, Iris.
G. B. Shaw—Arms and the Man,
Caesar and Cleopatra, The Man
of Destiny, Man and Superman,
The Devil’s Disciple, Candida, You
Never Can Tell.
William Shakespeare—^Hamlet,
King Lear, Othello, Macbeth,
Henry IV (both parts), The Tem
pest, The Winter’s Tale, Cymbe-
line.
R. B. Sheridan—The Rivals,
The School for Scandal, The
Critic.
Percy B. Shelley—The Cenci.
J. M. Synge—Deirdre of the
Sorrows, Riders to the Sea, Play
boy of the Western World.
John Webster—The Duchess of
Malfi.
W. B. Yeats—Desire, The Land
of Heart’s Desire, The Hour-Glass,
The Pot of Broth.
NOTE: The titles capitalized
throughout are those of the best
selections. The list was furnished
the Chowanian by Mrs. Jones, as
sistant professor of English.
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* * *
“What is the lowest form of
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College humor!” (Go ahead, sue
us!)—Judge.
* * *
Out last Scotch importation
tells of how Sandy MacPhersan
decided to leave school because he
had to pay attention.—Ex.
UNDER THE GREEN- *
WOOD TREE *
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With apologies to Keats: “A
thing of beauty is annoyed for
ever.”
* * *
“It’s funny I do not remember
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» * »
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Mother: Why? You are strong
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# * *
A professor was deep in his
work when his w'ife called.
“Harry, baby has swallowed the
ink! Whatever shall I do?
“Write with a pencil,” was the
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aN >l 4:
Miss McDowell: The first date
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Alice Cooke; Who had it?
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Now, sugar—
Willia Parker (excitedly) : Yes,
yes.
William;
with coffee.
Certainly goes good
“My father is a veteran, and
has a hickory leg.”
“That’s nothing. My sister has
a cedar chest.”
* ♦ *
Johnny’s Ma: Johnny, there
were three pieces of cake in the
pantry and now there is only one.
How did that happen?
Johnny: Well, it was so dark
in there I didn’t see the other
piece.
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Two Irish women were discours-
ing one day in the following man
ner:
“Good morning, Mrs. Finnegan;
and how is iverything?”
I heard your son was an under
taker. I thought you said he was
a physician.
Not at all. I just said he fol
lowed the medical profession.
—Ex.
* ♦ *
“Hand that bill to yer boss, an’
tell him ex-Corporal Brown, com
monly called ‘Fightin’ Joe,’ wants
to know why it ain’t been paid.”
—Judge.
ilc *
A man has less courage than a
woman. Try to imagine one with
twelve cents in his pockets trying
on seven suits of clothes.—Detroit
Free Press.
♦ * * ,
Window cleaners are not the
only men whose occupation is
hazardous. We recently read of
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* * *
Biddy: “Did ye bring home that
pane of glass for the kitchen
windy, Pat?”
Pat; “Oi did not, Biddy. Oi
was after a twilve bye fourteen
an’ the only sixe they had was
fourteen by twilve.”
Biddy: “Why didn’t ye git it?
Ye could have put it in sideways,
couldn’t ye?”
* « *
It was little Flossie’s first day
at school. Her name had been
regtistered and the teacher asked,
“Have you any brothers or sis
ters?”
“Yes, ma’am,” answered Flos
sie.
“Are you the oldest one of the
family?”
“Oh, no, ma’am,” returned Flos
sie; “fathen and mother’s both
older’n me.”—Ex.
* * •
These are aiwkward times. The
teashop waitress approached a cus
tomer from behind and said,
brightly: “Anything more, sir—
I mean, madam—I beg your par
don, sir.”—Ex.
* * *
Bob: “I don’t see how you can
afford to take so many girls to
those high-priced eating places.”
Jack; “That’s easy; I always
ask each girl hasn’t she been tak
ing on weight just before we go
in.”—Life.
* *
“What is this, waiter?”
“Chicken broth, sir.”
“Chicken broth? You are wast-
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