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Day 54 - Harvard Classics - 90 Day Challenge




Aug 4: ANDERSEN'S TALES

World's Greatest Bedtime Stories

Hans Christian Andersen had an extraordinary capacity for amusing
children. Were he living to-day he might be in great demand
as a radio bedtime story man.

Read: ANDERSEN'S TALES ..........................   Vol. 17, pp. 221-230


Aug 5: Burns' COTTERS' SATURDAY NIGHT

Joys of the Simple Life

"Cotter's Saturday Night" for generations to come will remain
the choicest picture of Scotch home life. Into this poem Burns
instills the sense of all-pervading peace and happiness that comes
at the end of a well-spent day.

Read: Burns' COTTERS' SATURDAY NIGHT ...........   Vol. 6, pp. 134-140


Aug 6: Tennyson's LOCKSLEY HALL

A Prophet of Aerial Warfare

"For I dipt into the future—saw the nation's airy navies grappling
in the central blue." We are amazed at the accuracy of
Tennyson's prediction. But he also foretells "the federation of
the world"—yet to be fulfilled.

Read: Tennyson's LOCKSLEY HALL .............   Vol. 42, pp. 979-986


Aug 7: Plato's PHAEDO

The Last Golden Words of Socrates

The death sentence of Socrates could not be executed until the
return of the sacred ship from Delos. One day his friends learned
that the ship had returned. They hastened to the prison to listen
to the last words of Athens' sage.

Read from Plato's PHAEDO ..........................   Vol. 2, pp. 45-54