know him as fully as I did.  He has been to me that final consciousness, which he speaks of so wisely in his essay on “Life.”  I came in it to the knowledge of myself in ways I had not dreamt of before, and began at least to discern my relations to the race, without which we are each nothing.  The supreme art in literature had its highest effect in making me set art forever below humanity, and it is with the wish to offer the greatest homage to his heart and mind, which any man can pay another, that I close this record with the name of Lyof Tolstoy.

PG EDITOR’S BOOKMARKS: 

    Account of one’s reading is an account of one’s life
    Adam Bede
    Affections will not be bidden
    Air of looking down on the highest
    Alliance of the tragic and the comic
    Anthony Trollope
    Authors I must call my masters
    Capriciousness of memory:  what it will hold and what lose
    Celebration of the monkey and the goat in us
    Conquest of Granada
    Contemptible he found our pseudo-equality
    Criticism still remains behind all the other literary arts
    Dickens is purely democratic
    Escaped at night and got into the boy’s dreams
    Fictions subtle effect for good and for evil on the young
    Finer sort myself to be able to enjoy such a fine sort
    Had the sense that in her eyes I was a queer boy
    Hardly any sort of bloodshed which I would not pardon
    Hazlitt
    He undid my hands
    Hospitable gift of making you at home with him
    In school there was as little literature then as there is now
    Inexperience takes this effect (literary lewdness) for realit
    Jews are still the chosen people
    Kindness and gentleness are never out of fashion
    Kissing goes by favor, in literature as in life
    Lamb
    Lewd literature seems to give a sanction to lewdness in the life
    Life of Goldsmith
    Live it slowly into the past
    Lubricity of literature
    Made many of my acquaintances very tired of my favorite authors
    Men who bully and truckle
    Mustache, which in those days devoted a man to wickedness
    My own youth now seems to me rather more alien
    My reading gave me no standing among the boys
    Neither worse nor better because of the theatre
    Never appeals to the principle which sniffs, in his reader
    None of the passions are reasoned,
    Not very distinctly know their dreams from their experiences
    Now little notion what it was about, but I love its memory
    Our horrible sham of a slave-based freedom
    Pendennis
    Prejudice against certain words that I cannot overcome
    President Garfield
    Probably no dramatist ever needed the stage less
    Rape of the Lock
    Rapture of the new convert could not last
    Reservations as to the times