The Harvard Classics. The Reading Guide

New York: P.F.Collier & Son Corporation,.1930. -99 p. This book was prepared with one purpose in view, to enable you to profit in full measure from the writings of the immortals whom you have at your books in the Harvard Classics. The Harvard Classics are "all things to all men." They are universal in their appeal and universal in their power to bestow pleasure, self satisfaction and the joy of mental growth to each man, woman and child with impartiality and in infinite variety.
The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909.