Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide

Small children are not interested in considering the way in which an author tells his story, nor the methods he employs to secure attention and excite interest. Yet there comes...

If _Journeys Through Bookland_ is read as we intend, it will occupy no inconsiderable part of the time boys and girls give to reading. Yet there will be a call for more books. S...

These books were prepared expressly for home readings, but as has been said elsewhere, they were prepared with a definite purpose to make them a living adjunct to school work an...

It is largely because story reading may so easily become careless reading, that prejudice against fiction is found in many minds. In the preceding pages there have been suggeste...

"Ermine"; the fur from a northern animal of the same name. It is very soft and white. Earls, nobles of rank, wore ermine on their robes to show their high birth.

_Journeys Through Bookland_ is what the title signifies, a series of excursions into the field of the world's greatest literature. Accordingly, the base of the work is laid in t...

In his excellent little book, _How to Judge of a Picture_, Van Dyke speaks of the things that constitute a good painting as follows: "First, it is good in tone, or possess a uni...

It is not everyone who can tell readily what is meant by literature, nor can anyone in a few words define it. What the study of "literature" (only the adult's manner of saying "...

Properly enough, the responsibility for health and development of young children rests upon the mother, and in most families this care remains with her till the children are abl...

Before a child can read he develops a passion for stories, and nothing delights him more than an interesting tale from the loving lips of father or mother. In good kindergartens...

The connection between geography and history on the one hand and literature on the other is most intimate. In the first place nearly all our knowledge of history must come throu...

The influences which unite to make character are so numerous, subtle and complex that it is next to impossible to detect them or to classify them in order of importance. Not onl...

Real appreciation of literature is dependent on effort, and each acquired impression aids all others in proportion to its intensity. We can interpret only by what our minds alre...

If there were but one kind of literature, it would be an easy matter to give the few directions that would be necessary to make good readers. In reality there are, however, seve...

While usually it is better to allow each person to learn the lines that most appeal to him, yet some help should be given children. No two people will select all of the same thi...

Nature study to be most valuable must be in reality the study of nature. Its beginnings are in observation and experiment, but there comes a time when the child must go to books...

SCOTT, SIR WALTER. Biography: VI, 26. Selections: _Attack on the Castle, The_: IV, 322. _Boat Song_: VII, 17. _Breathes There the Man_: VII, 151. _Christmas in Old Time_: VI, 35...

One of the benefits of good reading is that it fills the mind with beautiful pictures of places that we cannot visit or that live only in the eyes of the imagination. A powerful...

All high school students are expected to be well grounded in good literature. It is part of every well planned course of study and the basis of much of the work in every year. Y...

Nothing so brings out the music and the structural beauty of poetry as reading it aloud, and many who have cared nothing for verse in any of its forms learn to love it when they...

Silent reading is selfish, while oral reading is for the benefit and pleasure of others. The ordinary individual in daily life reads but little aloud, and probably makes no atte...

Everyone who associates with children becomes deeply interested in them. Their helplessness during their early years appeals warmly to sympathy; their acute desire to learn and...

Whoever has had charge of young children who are in attendance at school has been many, many times worried in trying to answer for them the oft-repeated request "Where shall I f...

The stories of the present day are many of them written with the avowed purpose of mere entertainment. The author is satisfied if his work sells, and cares nothing for the lesso...

The rhymes are all in couplets and are perfect. The stanzas, like paragraphs, indicate changes in thought. Its pleasing unity rests in the fact that it is all a child's thoughts...

In most stories, be they brief and simple or as long and complicated as the two-volume novel, the interest centers in one or more persons whose character the reader learns to un...

g. Figures of speech: (In studying figures of speech, make three points in each, viz.: _First_, the basis of the figure; _second_, the translation of the figure into literal Eng...

III. PICTURES AND THEIR USE 36 What Should We Notice in a Picture? 36 Line 36 Light and Shade 37 Tone and Color 39 Composition 39 Atmosphere and Perspective 40 Application of Pr...

What a fine little Tin Soldier he proves to be! Could any one be more loyal to his profession? Body erect, eyes to the front, musket shouldered, every muscle at attention all th...

_c._ The causes of the increased efficiency of the Americans and the bitterness with which the British were regarded by the colonists is explained on pages 184 and 185 of Volume...

Whenever children are interested in any selection, it is well to encourage them to commit it to memory, if it be brief, or if they find in it phrases or sentences which seem to...

The following list gives the names of those selections upon which the more important studies have been based. Here, they are arranged in the order in which the selections appear...

a. Knotty question, page 426. b. Like a line of forked lightning, page 427. (This whole paragraph is a wonderfully beautiful description.) c. Rose like slow smoke, page 427. d....

_The Golden Touch_ 43 _The Child's World_ 66 (See Study--Volume X, page 277) _The Fir Tree_ 68 (See Study of Picture, _The Swallow and the Stork Came_--Volume X, page 55) (See S...

PAGE _Down Tumbled Wheelbarrow_ 46 (See Study of Picture--Volume X, page 58) _The Dog and His Shadow_ 63 (See Study on Scene--Volume X, page 164) _The Fox and the Crow_ 64 (See...

s. The inundation. Pages 416-417. (1) Trees; crops; cattle swept away. (2) Red sand and gray mud left in their stead. (3) Corn swept away. (4) _Breezy_ letters. (5) Southwest Wi...

For parents, teachers, and all who have children under their charge; for adults who wish to renew their acquaintance with the friends of their youth, or to open for the first ti...

_The Daffodils_ 1 _The Old Oaken Bucket_ 11 _Bannockburn_ 15 _Boat Song_ 17 _The Petrified Fern_ 77 (See Study--Volume X, page 291) _An Exciting Canoe Race_ 79 (See Study in For...

_Gulliver's Travels_ 6 (See Study in _Close Reading_ on _Adventures in Lilliput_--Volume X, page 235) _Ballad of Agincourt_ 95 (See Story Told--Volume X, page 74) _Lead, Kindly...

_Rab and His Friends_ 99 (See Study in Emotional Power--Volume X, page 177) (See Study in _Close Reading_--Volume X, page 225) _Annie Laurie_ 119 (See Study in _Close Reading_--...

_The Impeachment of Warren Hastings_ 32 (See Study--Volume X, page 248) From _The Death of Caesar_ 143 (See Study--Volume X, page 253) _Battle of Saratoga_ 176 (See Study in His...

_The Barefoot Boy_ 3 (See Study--Volume X, page 286) _Cid Campeador_ 9 (See Study in Exposition--Volume X, page 368) _To H. W. L._ 84 _The Village Blacksmith_ 86 _The Definition...

2. _Were the Three Men Perfectly Healthy?_ See _We Plan a River Trip_, V, 443. 3. _Was the Punishment of the Ancient Mariner Just?_ See _The Rime of the Ancient Mariner_, VII, 2...

_Robinson Crusoe_ 45 (See Nature Study--Volume X, page 382) _Faithless Sally Brown_ 92 (See Study in _Close Reading_--Volume X, page 232) _Swiss Family Robinson_ 99 (See Nature...