_Madame Bovary_ (Flaubert)
_Resurrection_ (Tolstoi)
_Fathers and Children_ (Turgenev)
Various short stories of Tchekoff.
And then, _if the subject seemed to enjoy these works_,
_L'Education Sentimentale_ (Flaubert)
_Le Rouge et le Noir_ (Stendhal)
_The Brothers Karamazov_ (Dostoievsky)
Mark this well, if the subject seemed to enjoy them. If there is any
strain, any boredom, there is lack of continuity, and a chance of losing
the subject's interest altogether. I think the motto should be 'Don't
press'; that is accepted when it comes to golf; why has it never been
accepted when it affects man? This period would, I think, end with the
lighter plays of Shakespeare, such as _The Merry Wives of Windsor_, _The
Taming of the Shrew_, and perhaps _Hamlet_. I think modern essays should
also come in _via_ Mr E. V. Lucas, Mr Belloc, and Mr Street; also I
would suggest Synge's travels in Wicklow, Connemara, and the Arran
Islands; this would counteract the excessive fictional quality of the
foregoing.