The man who reads literature and comprehends its message is receiving a fine training which shall fit him for a thorough understanding of the heart; of its practical, ethical, and spiritual problems; of its domestic joys and sorrows; of its human cares and burdens; of the appeals that will come to him for sympathy; of the temptations that beset the race; and of the hopes and trials of the world.

BELL, GEORGEANNA E. A teacher's manual for Understanding literature.

On its creative side the renaissance sought to produce in the vernacular a literature comparable to that of Greece or Rome.

A third suggestion relates to the method of teaching literature; and here it might be well to consider the word of a great poet,that if you would know where the ripest cherries are, ask the boys and the blackbirds.

" To study a literature like that of the Arabians, even partially and in a translation, is one of those experiences which enlarge and stimulate the mind and expand its range of impressions with a distinctly elevating and liberalizing effect.

The first is to create or to encourage in every student the desire to read the best books, and to know literature itself rather than what has been written about literature.

When a man has loved literature as I loved it at twenty, he cannot be satisfied at twenty-six to give up his early passion, even at the bidding of implacable necessity.

In Italy, and even in Albania, the name of Djeha is preserved under the form of Guifa and Guicha; and the Turks, who possess the richest literature on this person, have made him a Ghadji Sirii Hissar, under the name of Nasr-eddin Hodja (a form altered from Djoha).

The infantiloids become the slaves and the weaklings of society, the Mark Tapleys, and the Tom Pinches, while the eunuchoids have created splendid literature and immortal music.

It is a personality such as consorts with the opinions which most thoughtful readers of Tennyson's writings must have had of one of the greatest and serenest minds of the age,a poet who, aside from the splendor of his workmanship and the beauty and melody of his verse, has greatly enriched the poetic literature of the century, and has, we feel, given profound thought to the intellectual problems and spiritual aspirations of his era.

They do not seem to have encouraged literature or learning; but this is partly explained by the fact that culture belonged chiefly to the orthodox caliphate; and its learned men could have no dealings with the heretical pretender.

People had become accustomed, says Bagehot, of taking "their literature in morsels, as they take sandwiches on a journey.

Outside of England the greatest literary influence of the age was that of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, whose works, then at the summit of their influence in Italy, profoundly affected the literature of all Europe.

Short work, as Aunt Plumy soon showed him, for she rather enjoyed freeing her mind at all times, and decidedly resented the insinuation that country folk could not appreciate light literature as well as city people.

Why not educate the people up to such a standard that they should be able to write their own literature?' 'What,' said Mr. Chalklands, of Chalklands, who sat opposite, 'would you have working men turn ballad writers?

Although the great lights which adorned the literature of the preceding reign no longer shone,such geniuses as Molière, Boileau, Racine, Fénelon, Bossuet, Pascal, and others,still the eighteenth century was much more intellectual and inquiring than is generally supposed.

For years, he cultivated literature as a relaxation from business.

"He is sure of the justice of his cause, and determined by precept and example and by the prestige of his princely rank to bring the literature he loves into repute again.

Banim, the great Irish novelist, withered early out of life upon a government pittance of a pension; Griffin gave up literature, became a monk, and found in youth a grave; Carleton, one of the most gifted humorists that ever painted the many-colored pictures of Irish character, is now struggling against the pressure of a small income in his advancing years.

If to Aristotle, then, verse is not the characteristic quality of poetic, the next step in an investigation must be to discover the criterion by which he classifies some literature as poetry and other as not poetry.

After his university course in Trinity College he came to London to study law, but soon gave up the idea to follow literature, which in turn led him to politics.

They were excellent women, differing from the rest of society chiefly in their notion that superior people should show their superiority in all the acts of their lives,that literary people should talk literature, and scientific people science, and so on; and they felt affronted, as if set down among common people, when an author talked about common things in a common way.

It is the intention of the publishers that this series shall contain only the very highest and purest literature,stories that shall not only appeal to the children themselves, but be appreciated by all those who feel with them in their joys and sorrows.

Is it not fair to say that the chief duty of the teacher of English is to lead the student to like great literature, to find it and enjoy it for himself, and through it to come to the liking of great ideas?

This would be a just objection if Schopenhauer treated literature in a petty spirit, and confined himself to pedantic inquiries into matters of grammar and etymology, or mere niceties of phrase.