HOLIDAY READING—A WORKING-MAN'S SELECTION.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—The lists of holiday books sent in by your correspondents are interesting. I notice that Philip Stevenson selects, amongst others, Curiosities of Literature, a book one seldom sees quoted, but which to my mind is an ideal book for desultory reading. I have taken it with me on one holiday, and shall probably browse in the book again this year. For the rest, I see that some of your readers have selected books after my own heart. Side by side on my shelves are Thackeray's English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century and Roundabout Papers. On this occasion I think of taking the latter volume. With these, and Shakespeare's As You Like It and Henry IV., Montaigne's Essays, and perhaps Cobbett's Rural Rides, I shall feel equipped in the way of mental pabulum during the vacation.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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