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Greek dramatists (with whom in the same canto Dante shows his ac¬ 
quaintance), and includes one poet whose works come about in the class 
of the “Columbiad.” 
With such an example before us, let us be modest about dogmatizing 
overmuch. The ingenuity exercised in choosing the “Hundred Best 
Books” is all right if accepted as a mere amusement, giving something 
of the pleasure derived from a missing-word puzzle. But it does not 
mean much more. There are very many thousands of good books; some 
of them meet one man’s needs, some another’s; and any list of such books 
should simply be accepted as meeting a given individual’s needs under 
given conditions of time and surroundings. 
Khartoum, March 15, 1910. 
