Great books as life-teachers: studies of character, real and ideal

The new times, and the poets and essayists as prophets of a new era

John Ruskin's "Seven lamps of architecture" as interpreters of the seven laws of life

George Eliot's Tito, in "Romola"

Hawthorne's "Scarlet letter" and the retributive workings of conscience

Victor Hugo's "Les miserables"

Tennyson's "Idylls of the king"

The tragedy of the ten-talent men

The memoirs of Henry Drummond

The opportunities of leisure and wealth

The biography of Frances Willard, and the heroes of social reform

Blaikie's life of David Livingstone

The Christian scholar in politics.