Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide
Chapter 49
SUPPLEMENTARY BOOK LISTS
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. Some selections from great authors will create a taste for more from the same writers, and certain pieces will suggest lines of reading that may profitably extend far beyond the limits of the present volumes. In fact, this series is meant to be the stimulus to a lifetime of reading. Some children are naturally readers, and will require more to satisfy their avid tastes than may be sufficient for their brothers and sisters, while other children may need to be helped even beyond the limits covered by our plans. It may be that some parents will feel uncertain what advice to give their boys and girls when asked about other books than those indicated in the text. For such the following lists have been prepared.
At the present day, good libraries are to be found in almost every town, and either from the school or the town library may be drawn most of the books mentioned. Books are always good presents, and from these lists parents who have watched the development of their children's tastes will find helpful hints in the selection of presents that will be accepted with joy and read with continued pleasure.
The training these plans for reading have given will excite interest in the great classics which the quantities of light, frivolous stories carelessly written for children have in a measure relegated to the background. These classics are the foundation of literature, and without a knowledge of them, best obtained in youth, genuine culture seems almost impossible.
In presenting the lists it has seemed best to make some of them parallel to the volumes of this work rather than to arrange them by the ages of the children or their grades in school. The power to read intelligently and with appreciation is not wholly dependent upon age, nor does rank in school show the capability of the young person. Some boys of twelve will read and enjoy things that others of sixteen will find almost impossible. Not infrequently a little "sixth-grader" reads better literature than many a high school student. Other lists for older boys and girls are classified according to subject-matter. The method in every case is obvious.
This series is for boys and girls of all ages; for girls as much as for boys. Good literature appeals to universal taste, and there is little question of sex in it. There was a time when girls were thought so different from boys that "girls' books" were written in abundance. Now that girls are given the same education that boys have, they usually like the same things. There will be found nearly as great extremes of taste in one sex as in the other during those years to which this set is adapted. Whatever difference there is in the sexes will manifest itself in what each selects for his or her own from the masterpiece that both read. That we get from our reading what we put into it, is as true of us when we are young as it is when we have grown older. To as great an extent as Alice is different from Fred will what she gets from reading _Rab and His Friends_ differ from what he absorbs.
In the books of this series the love story has little place, and into it sex problems do not enter. Its readers have not reached an age when such things are of serious moment, and there is enough good literature for them without dragging in or even admitting stories of passion and those that make their strongest appeal to the attraction of one sex for another. However, there is an abundance of sentiment, and the home feelings are recognized again and again; the love of parents for each other and for their offspring, the love of brother and sister, friendship, the pure affection of young people, love of home, of God, of country, all are subjects of the finest selections the language contains. Such are to be found in abundance.
In the lists more latitude has been allowed, and while nothing has been included that may excite anything but the purest emotions, yet room has been made for many of the great novels that are real studies of the lives and characters of adults. These books, really written for older people, will have their message for the young, a message that will be amplified and perhaps changed entirely, when, after many years, the book is read again with no lessened interest. _Les Miserables_ was read once by a young boy whose attention was caught and held so strongly by the exciting story that he held himself through all the long, prosy meanderings with which Hugo has delayed the march of his plot. Some years later the same boy, grown to a college student, read _Les Miserables_ again with even greater interest. He remembered the story quite well, but the prosy meanderings had to his broadened intelligence become wonderful pictures of life, and even the book-long description of the Battle of Waterloo was fascinating, though its only function in the story was to say that one man saved another man's life. The boy, now a man in middle life, read Hugo's masterpiece a third time. Story and description were now secondary in interest, but the author's deep insight into human nature, his brilliant style and shrewd, kindly philosophy held the old reader more closely than had anything before. So will it be with many of the books in the list. If we are to make friends, let us meet them as early as we can, see them as often as we can, and cling to them as long as we can.
In recommending books to children, parents will do well to remember that books in which young people are not interested will not be read in such a way as to be profitable. The books in these lists are all interesting in themselves, and there need be no fear that they will not be read. The child who has been trained after the manner indicated in these talks will need little further assistance in mastering these books.
_Volume I_
ÆSOP'S FABLES. There are many good editions published by the various schoolbook houses. That edited by J. H. Stickney and published by Ginn & Co. is as good as any, and contains also a supplement with fables from La Fontaine and Krilof.
A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES, by _Robert Louis Stevenson_. The edition illustrated by E. Mars and H. M. Squire and published by Rand, McNally & Co. is excellent. Jessie Wilcox Smith illustrates an edition for Charles Scribner's Sons.
LULLABY LAND, by _Eugene Field_. This is published in beautiful form by Charles Scribner's Sons.
FAIRY TALES, by _Hans Christian Andersen_. The schoolbook houses publish selections in an attractive form; Blackie and Son, London, a cheap edition.
FAIRY TALES, by _Wilhelm_ and _Jakob Grimm_. Selections, such as those edited by Sarah E. Wiltse for Ginn & Co., are better than the complete editions, for many of the Grimm tales are coarse and valueless.
BLUE FAIRY BOOK and GREEN FAIRY BOOK, by _Andrew Lang_. Besides some of the Grimm tales these books contain folklore stories from many nations. Lang has edited other books in this series, but two are probably enough.
THE ADVENTURES OF A BROWNIE, by _Dinah Maria (Mulock) Craik_. This is a charming little tale, much loved by children.
PINOCCHIO, by _C. Collodi_. Walter Cramp's translation of this little Italian classic will be highly appreciated. Ginn and Company.
OLD GREEK STORIES, by _James Baldwin_. American Book Company. This contains the stories of Arachne, the Gorgon's Head, Prometheus and Theseus.
LETTERS FROM A CAT, by _Helen Hunt Jackson_. Amusing letters which a cat writes to its mistress. Helpful in teaching kindness to animals.
THE BOOK OF JOYOUS CHILDREN, by _James Whitcomb Riley_. Charles Scribner's Sons; _Child Rhymes_, Bobbs-Merrill Co.; _Child World_, Bobbs-Merrill Co. Three books with delightful poems for children and about them.
_Volume II_
While the books mentioned in these lists seem most closely connected to the volume to which they are ascribed, yet no hard and fast lines can be drawn. Children will read in the second volume of this set before they have finished the first, and the books in the lists are suitable whenever interest is ripe in the kind of literature which the books contain. Several of the titles given in the list for the first volume should be considered with the second volume.
WONDER BOOK FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, by _Nathaniel Hawthorne_. This contains many other stories than those given in these volumes.
TANGLEWOOD TALES, by _Nathaniel Hawthorne_. A second wonder book of classic myths. Houghton, Mifflin Co. are the authorized publishers of the wonder books.
THE HEROES, OR GREEK FAIRY TALES, by _Charles Kingsley_. Published by E. P. Dutton & Co., with pictures by Rose Le Quesne.
THREE FAIRY TALES, by _Jean Ingelow_. Illustrated by A. J. Ripley. D. C. Heath & Co.
THE STORY OF ÆNEAS, by _Michael Clarke_. American Book Company. Fine illustrations. This contains the story of the _Aeneid_ for young American readers.
THE LITTLE LAME PRINCE, _by Dinah Maria (Mulock) Craik_. D. C. Heath & Co. An allegorical fairy tale of great beauty, teaching the lesson of patience and true manhood.
LITTLE MR. THIMBLEFINGER AND HIS QUEER COUNTRY, by _Joel Chandler Harris_. Illustrations by Oliver Herford. Houghton, Mifflin Co.
MR. RABBIT AT HOME, by _Joel Chandler Harris_. A sequel to _Little Mr. Thimblefinger_.
NONSENSE SONGS AND STORIES, by _Edward Lear_. F. Warne & Co.
COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS of _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_. This is one of the books that every family ought to own, there is so much in it for every age. Besides the lyrics children love so well, there are _Hiawatha_, _Evangeline_, _Miles Standish_ and other poems, which belong to children as well as to the adults. The Cambridge edition published by Houghton, Mifflin Co. is a cheap, serviceable book, though the print is necessarily rather small.
THE WONDERFUL CHAIR AND THE TALES IT TOLD, by _Frances R. Browne_. D. C. Heath & Co.
THE BLUE BIRD FOR CHILDREN, by _Maurice Maeterlinck_. The story of the play, beautifully told. Silver, Burdett & Co.
THE JUNGLE BOOK, by _Rudyard Kipling_. The hero is a child brought up among the wolves. A delightful story to create interest in wild animals. The Century Company.
THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK, by _Rudyard Kipling_. The Century Company.
JUST SO STORIES, by _Rudyard Kipling_.
WILD ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN, by _Ernest Thompson Seton_. A delightful series of stories full of human interest.
_Volume III_
This volume contains selections from several books which it is felt will be read in their entirety by most children. They are:
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS. Two modern fairy tales by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). The amusing pictures are by Sir John Tenniel. The Macmillan Company. These fantastic stories delight everyone who reads them.
ROBINSON CRUSOE, by _Daniel Defoe_. There are many editions of this old and popular story for boys, from an abbreviated form in words of one syllable to the original work in full. W. H. Lambert has edited a school edition in excellent manner for Ginn & Co.
THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON, by _Johann Rudolph Wyss_. Though not of such literary merit as _Robinson Crusoe_, it is similar in plot and usually more popular. Ginn & Co. publish a good, cheap edition, edited by J. H. Stickney.
ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENT. The complete editions are not suitable for children to read, but the edition edited by Andrew Lang is excellent. Several schoolbook houses publish good selections, including the most popular tales.
Besides the books mentioned in the lists for Volumes I and II, the following might be suggested here:
THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS of _John Greenleaf Whittier_. Houghton, Mifflin Company's Cambridge edition is perhaps the best. Whittier did not write as much for children as Longfellow did, but his _Snow-Bound_ is a classic that every child will love if he is helped a little in reading it. Other poems will appeal to the older members of the family.
THE BOOK OF LEGENDS TOLD OVER AGAIN, by _Horace E. Scudder_. Houghton, Mifflin Co. _The Flying Dutchman_, _St. Christopher_, _William Tell_, and _The Wandering Jew_ are some of the names.
THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES, by _Charles Lamb_. D. C. Heath & Co.
NORSE STORIES RE-TOLD FROM THE SAGAS, by _Hamilton Wright Mabie_. Rand, McNally & Co.
THE BIOGRAPHY OF A GRIZZLY, by _Ernest Thompson Seton_. The Century Company.
SOME MERRY ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD. Written and illustrated by Howard Pyle. Charles Scribner's Sons.
THE STORY OF ROLAND, by _James Baldwin_. Illustrated by R. B. Birch. Charles Scribner's Sons.
THE STORY OF SIEGFRIED, by _James Baldwin_. Illustrated by Howard Pyle. Charles Scribner's Sons.
_Volume IV_
STORY OF THE CID. Retold by Calvin Dill Wilson. Lathrop, Lee and Shepard.
OLD INDIAN LEGENDS. Retold graphically by Zitkala Sä, one of the tribe of the Dakotahs, and illustrated by Angel de Cora (Hin-ook-Mahiroi-Kilinaka), the Indian artist. Ginn & Co.
INDIAN BOYHOOD, by _Charles Eastman_, a Sioux Indian. Full of the manners and customs of the Indians, and containing as well some good stories of adventure. Little, Brown & Co.
GRANDFATHER'S CHAIR, by _Nathaniel Hawthorne_. Houghton, Mifflin Co. This book contains, besides the stories printed in this set, many other interesting historical tales.
THE BOYS OF '76, by _Charles Carleton Coffin_. Harper and Bros. A fine book that will interest any child in the story of the Revolution. There are other books in a similar vein by the same author.
THE STORY OF THE GREEKS, THE STORY OF THE ROMANS, and THE STORY OF THE ENGLISH are three good books by H. A. Guerber, which will help to create an interest in the history of those peoples and at the same time give information valuable in reading literature. All are published for school use by the American Book Company.
CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND, by _Charles Dickens_. This book is always interesting to children, and is such good reading that we need not feel afraid of Dickens' inexactness and apparent prejudices. Read it as literature, not so much as history.
BIRDS AND BEES, SHARP EYES AND OTHER PAPERS, by _John Burroughs_. Houghton, Mifflin Co. Though this may seem rather hard reading to some, it is delightful literature, and full of good lessons in observation for children. Other books by the same author are equally entertaining. An excellent book to read to children.
INDIAN DAYS OF THE LONG AGO, by _E. S. Curtis_. World Book Co.
THE MAGIC FOREST, by _Stewart Edward White_. Macmillan Co.
THE WORLD OF THE GREAT FOREST, by _Paul Du Chaillu_. Harper and Bros. An interesting account of animal life, not without some literary merit. Other books by the same author will delight the adventurous.
SHARP EYES, and MY STUDIO NEIGHBORS are two beautiful books, illustrated by the author, William Hamilton Gibson. Harper and Bros. They are as interesting and as charmingly written as any of the multitudinous nature books.
_Volume V_
THE BOYS' KING ARTHUR, edited by _Sidney Lanier_. Illustrated by Alfred Kappes. Charles Scribner's Sons.
THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL, by _James Russell Lowell_. One of the finest poems in the language. Best read in connection with the stories of King Arthur. Houghton, Mifflin Co.
THE BOYS' FROISSART. The chronicles retold in simple English by Sidney Lanier. Scribners.
TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO, abridged by _Thomas W. Knox_. The touch of fiction does not injure these old tales.
LITTLE SMOKE, by _William Osborn_. An exciting story of Sioux life.
TEN BIG INDIANS, by _Mary Hazelton Wade_. W. A. Wilde & Co. An interesting introduction to Indian history.
HANS BRINKER; OR THE SILVER SKATES, by _Mary Mapes Dodge_. A delightful story of child life in Holland. A valuable picture of manners and customs.
THE HOOSIER SCHOOL BOY, by _Edward Eggleston_. Charles Scribner's Sons. An interesting story of pioneer times.
THE PETERKIN PAPERS, by _Lucretia Peabody Hale_. Houghton, Mifflin Co. One of the few good humorous stories for children.
TOBY TYLER, OR TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS, and MR. STUBBS'S BROTHER are two wholesome stories full of humor and pathos. Harper and Bros.
THE STORY OF A NÜRNBERG STOVE, by _Louise De la Ramée (Ouida)_. Educational Publishing Company.
BETTY LEICESTER, by _Sarah Orne Jewett_. A fine story for girls. Houghton, Mifflin Co.
THE BIRDS' CHRISTMAS CAROL, by _Kate Douglas Wiggin (Riggs)_. Houghton, Mifflin Co. A charming story which will delight everybody. By the same author, _The Story of Patsy_, _Timothy's Quest_ and _Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm_ are all wholesome and entertaining.
REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM, by _Kate Douglas Wiggin_. Houghton, Mifflin Co.
THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, A TALE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE OF ALL AGES, by _Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)_. Harper and Bros. The story relates to England in the sixteenth century.
THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY, by _Edward Everett Hale_. Little, Brown & Co. The style and language are mature, but the story is one of the best lessons in patriotism ever written.
_Volume VI_
TALES OF A GRANDFATHER, by _Sir Walter Scott_. An abridged edition, published by Ginn & Co., contains the best tales, but many children will like them all.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. An excellent book for young people on account of its interest and its clear literary style. An edition by Houghton, Mifflin Co., contains a sketch of Franklin's life subsequent to the time when his autobiography ends.
LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME, by _Thomas Babington Macaulay_. Inspiring tales in verse such as children love to hear. _Horatius_ is among them.
IVANHOE, by _Sir Walter Scott_. Houghton, Mifflin Co. publish a cheap school edition.
THE TALISMAN, by _Sir Walter Scott_.
SCOTTISH CHIEFS, by _Jane Porter_. This is one of the stories that young people enjoyed years ago. It helps to the reading of Scottish history, and is a good type of the romantic novel.
ENOCH ARDEN, by _Alfred Tennyson_.
IDYLS OF THE KING, by _Alfred Tennyson_.
THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS of _Oliver Wendell Holmes_. Cambridge edition of Houghton, Mifflin Co. _The Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill_, _A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party_, _Ode for Washington's Birthday_, _Old Ironsides_, _Lexington_ and others have historical value. The humorous poems like _The One-Hoss Shay_, _How the Old Horse Won the Bet_, and such beautiful poems as _The Chambered Nautilus_ and _The Last Leaf_ always appeal to young folks.
THE SPY, by _James Fenimore Cooper_. This is a thrilling story of the Revolution.
THE PILOT, by _James Fenimore Cooper_. This also is a story of the Revolution, and it has Paul Jones as its hero.
MEN OF IRON, by _Howard Pyle_. Harper and Bros. The "men of iron" are Henry IV of England and the men of his court.
THE STORY OF A BAD BOY, by _Thomas Bailey Aldrich_. Houghton, Mifflin Co. An amusing and frank story of New England boy life.
_Volume VII_
THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH, by _Charles Dickens_. This is one of the Christmas stories, and is written in the best vein of the fascinating author.
DAVID COPPERFIELD, by _Charles Dickens_. This is usually considered the masterpiece of the author.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES, by _Charles Dickens_. A thrilling story of the French Revolution, rather full of terrible happenings, and rather mature.
THE LADY OF THE LAKE, and MARMION, by _Sir Walter Scott_, the two best of his longer poems, rarely fail to interest young people.
TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE, by _Charles and Mary Lamb_.
THE TEMPEST, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, and THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, are the three Shakespearean plays that first interest children. Care should be taken in the selection of the edition, as none of the plays in their original form are suitable for children. School editions with notes are excellent. _The Tempest_ is printed in Volume VIII of this set, and is deferred to that point on account of the very full notes and comments that accompany it. The play itself may be read quite early, and children should be encouraged to try their skill on Shakespeare as soon as they show signs of interest.
UNDINE, by _Baron de la Motte Fouqué_, is a beautiful fairy tale from the German, with interest for older children than those who read Andersen and Grimm.
PLUTARCH'S LIVES. White's _Boys' and Girls' Plutarch_ is recommended. The lives of Brutus, Julius Cæsar, Themistocles, Pericles and Alexander are among the more interesting.
THE BURNING OF ROME, by _A. J. Church_, is a thrilling story of that event.
CUORE, by _Edmondo De Amicis_. The journal of an Italian schoolboy. Useful and moral, but not always interesting to American boys.
IN HIS NAME, by _Edward Everett Hale_. A tale of religious persecution.
THE PEASANT AND THE PRINCE, by _Harriet Martineau_. An intensely interesting picture of France just before the Revolution.
PICCIOLA, by _X. B. Santine_. A touching story whose scene is laid in France in the time of Napoleon.
LIFE OF DANIEL BOONE, by _J. and J. C. Abbott_.
THE ILIAD, _Bryant's_ translation.
_Classified Lists_
When boys and girls can read the first seven volumes of this set intelligently and with pleasure they are thinking for themselves. Their tastes are forming rapidly, and they have learned how to read nearly everything that comes to them. They know how to use reference books, and can "make out the meaning" of difficult passages. They are reading for information and culture. What they lack is experience in life, and so they are unable to interpret what they read as fully as can those who have lived longer, seen more of the world, enjoyed more, suffered more. Where they are liable to fail and go astray is in the lack of judgment. They know right and wrong, but they cannot always see the difference. They are apt to be misled by their feelings and to be ruled by their emotions.
The studies and selections of the last three volumes are varied and highly suggestive. They will open new lines of thought and prompt to wider reading in many directions. The contents vary in difficulty as in character, but are not graded in a strict sense of the term. They are meant for independent readers, readers who are governed by mood or purpose and no longer rely upon outside guidance.
Accordingly, lists of books suitable for readers of these volumes will cover every department of literature and lead into the reading favored by adults. The majority of these lists deal with literature. They contain the names of those books which are distinctly helpful, and from which young readers may derive nothing to corrupt taste or give false impressions of life. They are the standard books of the language. The lists might have been longer; they do contain, however, the names of those best books that every cultured person should know. For convenience in reference the arrangement is the alphabetical order of authors' names.
Fiction
AINSWORTH, WILLIAM HARRISON: _The Tower of London_, the story of Lady Jane Grey, and the plots and intrigues that centered about her.
ALCOTT, LOUISA M.: _Little Men_ and _Little Women_, two interesting and thoroughly wholesome books for boys and girls.
AUSTEN, JANE: _Pride and Prejudice_, an old-fashioned story, interesting, but liable to be called dull by those who read only the lively stories of the day.
BLACKMORE, R. D.: _Lorna Doone_, a delightful romance, the scene of which is laid in Exmoor, England, in the beginning of the eighteenth century.
BULWER-LYTTON, SIR EDWARD: _The Last Days of Pompeii_, the author's greatest novel; _The Last of the Barons_, the story of the Earl of Warwick; _Harold, The Last of the Saxons_, a tale of the Norman Conquest of England.
DOYLE, A. CONAN: _The White Company_, an exciting fourteenth century story.
ELIOT, GEORGE: _Silas Marner_, an intensely human story, a heart history; _Romola_, a thrilling story of Florence in the days of Savonarola, a study in the degeneration of character that comes from doing only the agreeable things in life.
GOLDSMITH, OLIVER: _The Vicar of Wakefield_, an amusing and at times pathetic picture of English country life in the eighteenth century.
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL: _The Scarlet Letter_, a tale of sin and its punishment in Puritan New England; _The Marble Faun_, an Italian story full of the art and culture of Rome.
HUGO, VICTOR: _Les Miserables_, one of the greatest novels of the world, but its digressions and its philosophy make it difficult reading for the young. Interesting abridgements of it may be had from the schoolbook houses.
SAINT PIERRE, BERNARDIN DE: _Paul and Virginia_, a pretty love story from the French.
SCOTT, SIR WALTER: _Kenilworth_, a tale of the days of Queen Elizabeth; _Old Mortality_, a story of the Covenanters; _Guy Mannering_, an eighteenth century tale, with Meg Merrilies, Dominic Sampson and others of Scott's most famous characters; _The Heart of Midlothian_, a tale of sin and its punishment, with a wonderful picture of a sister's love and devotion.
STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER: _Uncle Tom's Cabin_, an interesting story, but like most books written for partisan purposes, its influence is not now wholesome.
THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE: _Henry Esmond_, _Pendennis_ and _The Newcomes_ may be read in the order named. _Vanity Fair_ is better appreciated by adults.
TWAIN, MARK: _Tom Sawyer_ and _Huckleberry Finn_, two stories whose fun every boy will appreciate.
WALLACE, LEW: _Ben Hur, a Tale of the Christ_. An admirable historical novel.
Poetry and Drama
BROWNING, ROBERT: Besides the poems given in these books, _The Lost Leader_ and _Rabbi Ben Ezra_ are enjoyed by boys and girls.
BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN: _The Poetical Works_ (Household Edition), D. Appleton & Co. _The Song of Marion's Men_, _The Green Mountain Boys_, _Thanatopsis_, _Sella_, _The Death of the Flowers_, _The Planting of the Apple Tree_ and _Robert of Lincoln_ are among his best poems.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM: _Julius Cæsar and Coriolanus_, two plays based on Roman history and excellent for reading purposes; _Richard II_ (1398-1399), _Henry IV_ (1402-1413), _Henry V_ (1414-1420), _Henry VI_ (1422-1471), _Richard III_ (1471-1485), all based on English history; _As You Like It_, a great comedy; _Hamlet_ and _King Lear_, perhaps the two greatest tragedies. All these are excellent reading, especially in such an edition as the _Temple Classics_. Other plays may well be read, but everyone should know the foregoing list.
Essays
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO: _The American Scholar_, _Self-Reliance_, _Culture_ and _Behavior_ may be read with profit by the young, even if they do not fully understand the philosophy.
HALE, EDWARD EVERETT: _American Essays_ and _English Essays_, two books edited by Hale. They contain selections from the writings of George William Curtis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Washington Irving, James Russell Lowell, Addison, Goldsmith, Lamb and Thackeray.
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL: _The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table_, a charming series of talks which embody the best of Holmes's wit, wisdom and philosophy. One of those things everybody must read.
IRVING, WASHINGTON: _The Sketch Book_ contains such perfect stories as _Rip Van Winkle_ and _The Legend of Sleepy Hollow_, as well as a number of fine essays for later reading.
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE: _American Ideals and Other Essays_. Putnam.
RUSKIN, JOHN: _Sesame and Lilies_. In spite of its seeming difficulty, this book contains some of the most inspiring words ever spoken on books and reading.
WARNER, CHARLES DUDLEY: _A-Hunting of the Deer and Other Essays_, a delightful little collection that young people will enjoy and that has fine literary qualities. Houghton, Mifflin Co.
Nature
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID: _Walden_, a vivid book of outdoor life. Such also are _A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers_ and _Excursions in Field and Forest_.
Biography
FABRE, JEAN-HENRI: _Our Humble Helpers_, familiar talks on the domestic animals. The Century Co.
BOSWELL, JAMES: _Life of Samuel Johnson_. The first great biography, and still the most remarkable in its intimacy. Not of general interest to young people.
BROOKS, ELDRIDGE STREETER: _Historic Girls_. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
BROOKS, NOAH: _Life of Abraham Lincoln_. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
BURROUGHS, JOHN: _John James Audubon_. Small, Maynard & Co.
GOLDING, VAUTIER: _The Story of Henry M. Stanley_. E. P. Dutton & Co.
HARRISON, FREDERICK: _Oliver Cromwell_. Macmillan.
IRVING, WASHINGTON: _Washington_, and _Mahomet_.
LODGE, HENRY CABOT: _Alexander Hamilton_. Houghton, Mifflin Co.
NICOLAY, JOHN G.: _Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln_.
OBER, FREDERICK O.: _Pizarro_. Harper.
RIIS, JACOB A.: _The Making of an American_. Macmillan.
SCHURZ, CARL: _Life of Henry Clay_. Houghton, Mifflin Co.
SCUDDER, HORACE ELISHA: _George Washington_. Houghton, Mifflin Co.
TRENT, W. P.: _Robert E. Lee_.
WISTER, OWEN: _U. S. Grant_. Beacon Biography.
History
BANCROFT, GEORGE: _History of the United States_ (to the inauguration of Washington). A voluminous history with interesting passages, but tedious to young readers.
DRAPER, ANDREW SLOAN: _The Rescue of Cuba_. Silver, Burdett & Co.
FISKE, JOHN: _The War of Independence_. Houghton, Mifflin Co.
LODGE, HENRY CABOT, and ROOSEVELT, THEODORE: _Hero Tales from American History_. The Century Company.
MOTLEY, JOHN LOTHROP: _The Rise of the Dutch Republic_. This, with other histories by the same writer, is a long and brilliant account, full of interest to the older youths who have a taste for history.
PARKMAN, FRANCIS: _La Salle and the Northwest_, _The Conspiracy of Pontiac_, and _Montcalm and Wolfe_ are three histories of a brilliant series on the French explorations and colonizations in the Northwest. Parkman is one of our finest historical writers, and his graphic style has given many a young man a deep interest in history.
PRESCOTT, WILLIAM HICKLING: _The Conquest of Mexico_ and _The Conquest of Peru_ are two interesting histories of the longer type, written in an interesting style that many youths will enjoy. Prescott's work lies with the Spanish, as Motley's with the Dutch and Parkman's with the French.
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE (see LODGE, HENRY CABOT).
Travel and Geography
BUTTERWORTH, HEZEKIAH: _Zig-Zag Journeys in Classic Lands_. There are other interesting Zig-Zag Journeys by the same author.
DANA, RICHARD HENRY: _Two Years Before the Mast_.
DARWIN, CHARLES: _Voyage of a Naturalist_.
DU CHAILLU, PAUL: _The Land of the Long Night_. A winter journey through Northern Europe.
INGERSOLL, ERNEST: _The Book of the Ocean_.
JENKS, TUDOR: _The Boy's Book of Exploration_. Deals principally with Africa.
KNOX, THOS.: _The Boy Travelers in South America_. There are other interesting books in the same series.
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE: _Stories of the Great West_. Century Co.
STANLEY, HENRY M.: _In Darkest Africa_.
STOCKTON, FRANK RICHARD: _Personally Conducted_. Interesting descriptions of places in Europe.
TAYLOR, BAYARD: _Views Afoot_.
TWAIN, MARK (Samuel Langhorne Clemens): _Innocents Abroad_. An amusing account of European travel with good descriptions.
WARNER, CHARLES DUDLEY: _My Winter on the Nile_.
Miscellaneous
The books in the following list have not been selected because of their literary qualities, but because they contain things that are of interest and value to young people. It is thought that parents may wish some information concerning such books as are mentioned, and those given in the list can be relied upon as being interesting, instructive and not expensive. The arrangement is by title.
AMERICAN BOYS' HANDY BOOK OF CAMP LORE AND WOODCRAFT, by _Daniel Cortes Beard_. Tells how to fish, hunt, camp, and how to make a great variety of things.
AMERICAN GIRLS' HANDY BOOK, by _Adelia B. Beard_. Directions for making and doing. A companion to _American Boys' Handy Book_.
AMERICAN GIRLS' HOME BOOK OF WORK AND PLAY, by _Helen Campbell_. Outdoor and indoor games and amusements, Christmas gifts, cooking, etc.
AMONG THE LAW MAKERS, by _Edmund Alton Bailey_. Deals with the national Congress, largely the recollections of a former page.
BEGINNER'S GARDEN BOOK, THE, by _Allen French_.
BOYS' BOOK OF INVENTIONS, THE, by _Ray Stannard Baker_. Descriptions of our latest inventions.
BOYS' SECOND BOOK OF INVENTIONS, THE, by _Ray Stannard Baker_.
BOY SCOUTS' BOOK OF STORIES, Edited by _Franklin K. Mathiews_.
CAREERS OF DANGER AND DARING, by _Cleveland Moffett_. Deals with the dangerous occupations of man, steeple-climbing, fire service, ballooning, etc.
CENTURY BOOK FOR YOUNG AMERICANS, THE, by _Eldridge Streeter Brooks_. Deals with Washington and the government of the United States.
COMPLETE HOUSEKEEPER, by _Emily Holt_.
ELECTRIC TOY-MAKING FOR AMATEURS, by _T. O'Connor Sloane_. A practical book, interesting to boys.
EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE, by _G. M. Hopkins_. A large and rather expensive book on experimental physics.
FLAME, ELECTRICITY AND THE CAMERA. An account of man's progress from the first kindling of fire to the present time.
GARDEN MAKING, by _Liberty Hyde Bailey_. A practical book for school and house.
HANDYCRAFT FOR HANDY GIRLS, by _A. Neely Hall_ and _Dorothy Perkins_. Practical plans for work and play.
HARPER'S INDOOR BOOK FOR BOYS, and HARPER'S OUTDOOR BOOK FOR BOYS, by _J. H. Adams_. Practical directions for work and play.
MARY FRANCES SEWING-BOOK, by _Jane Eyre Foyer_.
OUTLINES OF THE EARTH'S HISTORY, by _N. S. Shaler_. A popular book on physiography.
PRACTICAL TRACK AND FIELD ATHLETICS, by _John Graham_ and _Ellery H. Clark_.
RULES OF ORDER (Pocket Manual), by _General Henry M. Roberts_. Deals with rules of practice in deliberating assemblies.
YOUNG PEOPLE'S STORY OF ART, by _Ida Prentice Whitcomb_.
YOUNG AMERICAN, by _Harry Pratt Judson_. An outline of our system of government.
WITH MEN WHO DO THINGS, by _A. Russell Bond_. "Scientific American" Series.
HANDY TABLE OF ENGLISH WRITERS
A. PERIOD OF PREPARATION. From Caedmon's _Paraphrase_, (670), to the death of Chaucer (1400). I. Prior to Chaucer's birth (1340?). _Beowulf._ Caedmon, ?-680. Bede, 673-735.
II. During Chaucer's life. Sir John Mandeville, 1300-1372. John Wyclif, 1324-1384. William Langland, _Piers Plowman_, 1332-?. CHAUCER, 1340?-1400.
B. PERIOD OF ACCOMPLISHMENT. From the death of Chaucer to present time. I. The Period of Italian Influence. From the death of Chaucer to the Restoration of Charles II (1660). 1. The Age of Reaction. From the death of Chaucer to the Accession of Queen Elizabeth (1558). Malory, _Morte d'Arthur_. William Tyndale, 1449-1536. 2. The Age of Elizabeth. From 1558 to 1603, the Accession of James I. John Lyly, 1554?-1606. FRANCIS BACON, 1561-1626. Sir Philip Sidney, 1554-1586. Sir Walter Raleigh, 1552-1618. EDMUND SPENSER, 1552-1599. Christopher Marlowe, 1564-1593. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, 1564-1616. Ben Jonson, 1573-1637. Francis Beaumont, 1584-1616. John Fletcher, 1579-1625.
3. The Puritan Age. From the Accession of James I to the Restoration of Charles II (1660). Izaak Walton, 1593-1683. Jeremy Taylor, 1613-1667. Sir Thomas Browne, 1605-1682. John Bunyan, 1628-1688. JOHN MILTON, 1608-1674. Robert Herrick, 1591-1674.
II. The Period of French Influence. From the Restoration of Charles II to the death of Pope (1744). 1. Age of the Restoration. From the Restoration of Charles II to the Accession of Queen Anne (1702). Samuel Butler, 1612-1680. JOHN DRYDEN, 1631-1700. John Locke, 1632-1704. Samuel Pepys, 1633-1703. Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727.
2. The Age of Queen Anne. From the Accession of Queen Anne to the death of Pope. Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745. Daniel De Foe, 1661?-1731. Richard Steele, 1672-1729. JOSEPH ADDISON, 1662-1745. ALEXANDER POPE, 1688-1744.
III. The Modern English Period. From the death of Pope to the present time. 1. The Beginnings. From the death of Pope to 1780. Samuel Richardson, 1689-1761. Henry Fielding, 1707-1754. Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784. David Hume, 1711-1776. Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768. Thomas Gray, 1716-1771. Tobias George Smollett, 1721-1771. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, 1728-1774. Edmund Burke, 1729-1797. Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794.
2. The Romantic School. From 1780 to 1837, the Accession of Queen Victoria. William Cowper, 1731-1800. Robert Burns, 1759-1796. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, 1770-1850. SIR WALTER SCOTT, 1771-1832. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834. Robert Southey, 1774-1843. Charles Lamb, 1775-1834. Lord Byron, 1788-1824. Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822. John Keats, 1795-1821.
3. The Victorian Age. From the Accession of Victoria to the present time. Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881. Thomas Macaulay, 1800-1859. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806-1861. ALFRED TENNYSON, 1809-1892. William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863. Charles Dickens, 1812-1870. Robert Browning, 1812-1889. John Ruskin, 1819-1900. GEORGE ELIOT, 1819-1880. Matthew Arnold, 1822-1888. Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894.
HANDY TABLE OF AMERICAN WRITERS
A. The Colonial Period. The seventeenth and eighteenth century writers. Anne Bradstreet, 1612-1672. Cotton Mather, 1663-1728. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 1706-1790.
B. The National Period. The nineteenth century writers. I. The Earlier Group. William Ellery Channing, 1780-1842. WASHINGTON IRVING, 1783-1859. James Fenimore Cooper, 1789-1851. William Cullen Bryant, 1794-1878. William Hickling Prescott, 1796-1859. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849.
II. The Civil War Group. George Bancroft, 1800-1891. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, 1803-1882. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, 1804-1864. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, 1807-1882. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, 1807-1892. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, 1809-1894. John Lothrop Motley, 1814-1877. Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, 1819-1891. Francis Parkman, 1823-1893.
III. Later Writers. Walt Whitman, 1819-1892. Richard Henry Stoddard, 1825-1903. Bayard Taylor, 1825-1878. Edmund Clarence Stedman, 1833-1908. Mark Twain, 1835-1910. Eugene Field, 1850-1895.
GENERAL INDEX
A
_Abou Ben Adhem_: IX, 11.
_Abraham Lincoln_: IX, 324.
ADDISON, JOSEPH. Selections: _The Vision of Mirza_: IX, 285. _Sir Roger de Coverley_: IX, 371.
ADVENTURE. _Robinson Crusoe_: III, 45. _The Swiss Family Robinson_: III, 99. _The Escape from Prison_: IV, 130. _The Sunken Treasure_: IV, 199. _The Arickara Indians_: IV, 472. _Gulliver's Travels_: V, 6. _Reminiscences of a Pioneer_: V, 340. _The Buccaneers_: V, 359. _Captain Morgan at Maracaibo_: V, 365. _The Lion and the Missionary_: VI, 93. _The Shipwreck_: VI, 371. _Elephant Hunting_: VI, 385. _An Exciting Canoe Race_: VII, 79. _The Buffalo_: VII, 96. _A Gorilla Hunt_: VII, 247. _The Recovery of the Hispaniola_: VII, 352. _Ringrose and His Buccaneers_: VIII, 1. _David Crockett in the Creek War_: VIII, 37. _A Descent into the Maelstrom_: VIII, 95. _How They Took the Gold-Train_: VIII, 180. _Ascent of the Jungfrau_: IX, 1. _The Gold-Bug_: IX, 232. _Modestine_: IX, 403.
ÆSOP. Biography: II, 1.
_Afterwhile_: II, 123.
_Aladdin, The Story of._ See _Story of Aladdin_.
ALEXANDER, CECIL FRANCES. Selection: _The Burial of Moses_: IV, 266.
_Alfred the Great_: IV, 260.
_Alhambra, The_: VIII, 153.
ALLEN, GRANT. Selection: _A Bed of Nettles_: VIII, 209.
ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM. Selections: _Fairies, The_: I, 405. _Four Ducks on a Pond_: VI, 98. _Leprecaun, The_: III, 33.
ALLSTON, WASHINGTON. Selection: _Boyhood_: VI, 122.
_America_: VIII, 60.
_American Flag, The_: V, 396.
_American Writers, Handy Table of_: X, 473.
_Ancient Mariner, The Rime of the._ See _Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The_.
ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. Biography: II, 81. Selections: _Darning-Needle, The_: II, 463. _Fir Tree, The_: II, 68. _Flax, The_: I, 378. _Hardy Tin Soldier, The_: I, 148. _Holger Danske_: II, 377. _Pea Blossom, The_: I, 205. _Snow Queen, The_: II, 124. _"Something:"_ I, 395. _Ugly Duckling, The_: I, 414. _What the Old Man Does Is Always Right_: II, 387.
_Annabel Lee_: VII, 341.
_Annie Laurie_: VI, 119.
_Apostrophe_: X, 266.
_Arabian Nights._ Selections: _Falcon and the Partridge, The_: II, 6. _Second Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, The_: III, 340. _Sparrow and the Eagle, The_: II, 8. _Story of Aladdin, The_: III, 288.
ARCHIBALD, MRS. Selection: _John's Pumpkin_: III, 1.
_Arickara Indians, The_: IV, 472.
ARNOLD, MATTHEW. Selections: _Forsaken Merman, The_: VII, 180. _Sohrab and Rustum_: VI, 173.
_Arthur, King_: V, 113.
ARTON, BERNARD. Selection: _Bruce and the Spider_: V, 314.
_Ascent of the Jungfrau_: IX, 1.
_Ass in the Lion's Skin, The_: I, 65.
_Atalanta's Race_: I, 386.
_Attack on the Castle, The_: IV, 322.
_At the Seaside_: I, 129.
_Auld Lang Syne_: VI, 228.
_Autumn Fires_: I, 394.
_Away_: IV, 460.
AYTOUN, WILLIAM E. Selection: _The Heart of Bruce_: V, 316.
B
_Baby, The_: II, 11.
BACON, SIR FRANCIS. Biography: IX, 395. Selections: _Of Expence_: IX, 397. _Of Studies_: IX, 400.
BAKER, SIR SAMUEL W. Selection: _The Escape from Prison_: IV, 130.
_Bald Knight, The_: I, 385.
_Balin and Balan_: V, 130.
_Ballad of Agincourt, The_: V. 95.
BALLADS. _Lochinvar_: III, 432. _Robin Hood_: III, 436. _Robin Hood and Little John_: III, 437. _Robin Hood and the Stranger_: III, 444. _Robin Hood and the Widow's Three Sons_: III, 449. _Robin Hood and Allin a Dale_: III, 454. _The Wreck of the Hesperus_: IV, 89. _Chevy-Chase_: IV, 312. _The Ballad of Agincourt_: V, 95. _The Heart of Bruce_: V, 316. _The Inchcape Rock_: V, 465. _Lord Ullin's Daughter_: VI, 23. _Hervé Riel_: VIII, 168.
_Bannockburn_: VII, 15.
_Barbara Frietchie_: III, 347.
_Barefoot Boy, The_: IV, 3.
_Baron Munchausen._ See _Munchausen, Baron_.
_Bat and the Two Weasels, The_: I, 154.
_Battle Hymn of the Republic_: V, 399.
_Battle of Cressy, The_: IX, 161.
_Battle of Hastings, The_: IX, 330.
_Battle of Ivry_: VIII, 76.
_Battle of Saratoga, The_: IX, 176.
_Battle of Thermopylæ, The_: VIII, 81.
_Battle of Trafalgar, The_: VIII, 284.
_Battle of Waterloo, The_: VIII, 176.
_Baucis and Philemon_: I, 431.
_Beauty and the Beast_: I, 318.
_Bed in Summer_: I, 173.
_Bed of Nettles, A_: VIII, 209.
BEERS, MRS. ETHEL LYNN. Selection: _The Picket Guard_: VII, 177.
BELT, THOMAS. Selections: _Some Clever Monkeys_: VI, 402. _Trees and Ants That Help Each Other_: VII, 306.
_Beowulf and Grendel_: III, 350.
_Bernardo del Carpio_: IV, 270.
_Beth Gelert_: III, 42.
_Better Than Gold_: IV, 1.
BIOGRAPHY. _Robert Louis Stevenson_: I, 128. _Eugene Field_: I, 242. _Æsop_: II, 1. _Hans Christian Andersen_: II, 81. _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_: IV, 62. _Alice Cary_: IV, 116. _Phoebe Cary_: IV, 116. _Nathaniel Hawthorne_: IV, 180. _Alfred the Great_: IV, 260. _John Bunyan_: IV, 417. _Jonathan Swift_: V, 1. _Sir Walter Scott_: VI, 26. _Matthew Arnold_: VI, 204. _John Howard Payne_: VI, 221. _Charles Dickens_: VI, 232. _Thomas Gray_: VI, 369. _George Rogers Clark_: VI, 422. _Queen Victoria_: VII, 152. _William Cowper_: VII, 331. _John Greenleaf Whittier_: VII, 381. _William Cullen Bryant_: VII, 391. _Oliver Wendell Holmes_: VII, 398. _James Russell Lowell_: VII, 411. _Elizabeth Barrett Browning_: VII, 419. _David Crockett_: VIII, 29. _Père Marquette_: VIII, 121. _Washington Irving_: VIII, 216. _Charles Lamb_: VIII, 328. _Mary Lamb_: VIII, 328. _William Shakespeare_: VIII, 468. _Florence Nightingale_: IX, 13. _Julius Caesar_: IX, 155. _Geoffrey Chaucer_: IX, 201. _Samuel Johnson_: IX, 216. _Sir Francis Bacon_: IX, 395. _John Keats_: IX, 457. See LEGENDARY HEROES; HISTORY.
BJÖRNSON, BJÖRNSTJERNE. Selection: _The Tree_: I, 301.
_Black Hawk Tragedy, The_: VII, 58.
BLAKE, WILLIAM. Selection: _Infant Joy_: II, 10.
_Blind Lassie, The_: VI, 120.
_Block City_: I, 196.
_Bluebeard_: II, 22.
_Boat Song_: VII, 17.
_Book Lists, Supplementary_: X, 451.
_Boston Massacre, The_: IV, 217.
BOSWELL, JAMES. Selection: From _The Life of Johnson_: IX, 216.
_Boy and the Nettle, The_: I, 65.
_Boyhood_: VI, 122.
_Boys and the Frogs, The_: I, 63.
_Braddock's Defeat_: V, 379.
BRANCH, MARY BOLLES. Selection: _The Petrified Fern_, VII, 77.
_Breathes There the Man_: VII, 151.
_Brook, The._ See _Song of the Brook_.
_Brother and Sister, The_: I, 410.
BROWN, JOHN, M. D. Selection: _Rab and His Friends_: VI, 99.
BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. Biography: VII, 419. Selections: _Child's Thought of God, A_: VII, 418. _Romance of the Swan's Nest, The_: VIII, 315.
BROWNING, ROBERT. Selections: _Hervé Riel_: VIII, 168. _How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix_: V, 335. _Incident of the French Camp_: IV, 174. _Pied Piper of Hamelin, The_: III, 384. _Pippa Passes_: IX, 293.
_Brown Thrush, The_: I, 147.
_Bruce, Robert, The Rise of._ See _Rise of Robert Bruce, The_.
_Bruce and the Spider_: V, 314.
_Brute Neighbors_: VII, 260.
BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN. Biography: VII, 391. Selections: _Robert of Lincoln_: IX, 444. _To a Waterfowl_: VII, 395. _To the Fringed Gentian_: VII, 4.
_Buccaneers, The_: V, 359.
_Buffalo, The_: VII, 96.
_Bugle Song, The_: VI, 133.
BUNYAN, JOHN. Biography: IV, 417. Selection: _The Pilgrim's Progress_: IV, 423.
_Burial of Moses_: IV, 266.
BURNS, ROBERT. Selections: _Auld Lang Syne_: VI, 228. _Bannockburn_: VII, 15. _Cotter's Saturday Night, The_: VIII, 319. _For A' That and A' That_: VII, 149. _To a Mountain Daisy_: VII, 8. _To a Mouse_: VII, 5.
BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD. Selections: _Battle of Waterloo, The_: VIII, 176. _Destruction of Sennacherib, The_: VI, 141. _Vision of Belshazzar, The_: VI, 153. _Call to Arms, A_: IX, 475.
C
CAMPBELL, THOMAS. Selections: _Lord Ullin's Daughter_: VI, 23. _Rainbow, The_: VI, 91. _Soldier's Dream, The_: VII, 170.
_Captain Morgan at Maracaibo_: V, 365.
_Capture of Vincennes, The_: VI, 428.
CARROLL, LEWIS. Selections: _Mock Turtle's Story, The_: III, 3. _Queen Alice_: III, 23. _Walrus and the Carpenter, The_: III, 36.
CARY, ALICE. Biography: IV, 116. Selection: _Pictures of Memory_: IV, 127.
CARY, PHOEBE. Biography: IV, 116. Selection: _Nearer Home_: IV, 126.
_Casabianca_: VIII, 313.
_Cat and the Chestnuts, The_: I, 142.
CERVANTES. (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.) Selection: _Don Quixote_: VII, 431.
_Charge of the Light Brigade, The_: VII, 147.
_Chambered Nautilus, The_: IX, 454.
_Character, Influence of Reading in Formation of_: X, 88.
CHARACTER, _Selections in_ Journeys _Teaching Valuable Lessons in_ (see also Chapter V, page 85, Volume X): _Wisdom, Ignorance_:-- _The Ass in the Lion's Skin_: I, 65. _The Fox and the Stork_: I, 73. _The Fox and the Grapes_: I, 135. _The Bat and the Two Weasels_: I, 154. _The Horse and the Stag_: I, 388. _The Fox, the Wolf and the Horse_: I, 377. _The Bold Knight_: I, 385. _The Wolf and the Lamb_: I, 455. _Minerva and the Owl_: II, 7. _The Country Squire_: VI, 474.
_Attention to Little Things_:-- _The Lion and the Mouse_: I, 75. _The Reaper and the Flowers_: I, 410. _The Daffodils_: VII, 1. _The Petrified Fern_: VII, 77.
_Promptness, Industry, Perseverance_:-- _Time to Rise_: I, 340. _The Hare and the Tortoise_: I, 71. _The Lark and Her Young Ones_: I, 131. _Industry and Sloth_: I, 300. _Whittington and His Cat_: I, 442. _Tom, the Water Baby_: II, 215. _The Village Blacksmith_: IV, 86. _Bruce and the Spider_: V, 314.
_Independence, Equality of Man_:-- _The Village Blacksmith_: IV, 86. _For A' That and A' That_: VII, 149.
_Courage and Bravery_:-- _The Boy and the Nettle_: I, 65. _The Mice and the Cat_: I, 197. _Roland at Roncesvalles_: III, 460. _Cid Campeador_: IV, 9. _Ulysses_: IV, 398. _Horatius_: VI, 1.
_Evil of Conceit_:-- _The Gnat and the Bull_: I, 70. _The Cock and the Horses_: I, 146. _The Pea Blossom_: I, 205. _The Sparrow and the Eagle_: II, 8. _The Milkmaid_: II, 374.
_Flattery as a Vice_:-- _The Fox and the Crow_: I, 64. _The Spider and the Fly_: III, 19.
_Love of Home and Family_:-- _The Rock-a-By Lady_: I, 94. _Little Birdie_: I, 142. _Sleep, Baby, Sleep_: I, 204. _Old Gaelic Lullaby_: I, 203. _Lady Button-Eyes_: I, 366. _The First Snowfall_: II, 403. _Rain on the Roof_: IV, 7. _Pictures of Memory_: IV, 127. _Bernardo del Carpio_: IV, 270. _Rab and His Friends_: VI, 99. _Childhood_: VI, 124. _Home, Sweet Home_: VI, 221. _Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead_: VI, 231. _A Christmas Carol_: VI, 244. _To My Infant Son_: VI, 478. _The Old Oaken Bucket_: VII, 11. _My Old Kentucky Home_: VII, 179. _The Forsaken Merman_: VII, 180. _Tom and Maggie Tulliver_: VII, 186. _The Family of Michael Arout_: VII, 314. _My Mother's Picture_: VII, 335. _Snowbound_ (Extract from): VII, 388. _The Cotter's Saturday Night_: VIII, 319. _Dream Children_: VIII, 335.
_Honesty and Truthfulness_:-- _The Shepherd Boy and the Wolves_: I, 92. _The Falcon and the Partridge_: II, 6. _The Pied Piper of Hamelin_: III, 384. _The Cubes of Truth_: VII, 406.
_Friendliness, Kindness, Consideration of Others_:-- _The Two Travelers_: I, 109. _Cinderella_: I, 224. _Baucis and Philemon_: I, 431. _The Snow Queen_: II, 124. _The King of the Golden River_: II, 405. _Auld Lang Syne_: VI, 228. _A Christmas Carol_: VI, 244. _Florence Nightingale_: IX, 13.
_Generosity_:-- _The Two Travelers_: I, 109. _The Two Travelers and the Oyster_: I, 111. _The Cat and the Chestnuts_: I, 142. _Baucis and Philemon_: I, 431.
_Kindness to Animals_:-- _The Boys and the Frogs_: I, 63. _The Brown Thrush_: I, 147. _Mercy to Animals_: I, 413. _The Ugly Duckling_: I, 414. _Tom, the Water Baby_: II, 215. _Who Stole the Bird's Nest?_: II, 399. _A Dog of Flanders_: IV, 93. _Rab and His Friends_: VI, 99. _The Rime of the Ancient Mariner_: VII, 29.
_Patience and Gentleness_:-- _The Wind and the Sun_: I, 95. _Cinderella_: I, 224. _Rab and His Friends_: VI, 99.
_Faithfulness_:-- _"Something"_: I, 395. _Whittington and His Cat_: I, 442. _The Mirror of Matsuyana_: II, 36. _The Snow Queen_: II, 124. _Casabianca_: VIII, 313.
_Envy and Covetousness as Evils_:-- _The Dog and His Shadow_: I, 63. _The Frog Who Wished to Be as Big as an Ox_: I, 66. _The Golden Touch_: II, 43.
_Contentment, Hopefulness_:-- _The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse_: I, 199. _The Pea Blossom_: I, 205. _The Flax_: I, 378. _The Discontented Stonecutter_: II, 12. _The Fir Tree_: II, 68. _The Blind Lassie_: VI, 120. _Pippa Passes_: IX, 293.
_Patriotism--Love of Country_:-- _Holger Danske_: II, 377. _Incident of the French Camp_: IV, 174. _The American Flag_: V, 396. _Battle Hymn of the Republic_: V, 399. _Stonewall Jackson's Way_: V, 400. _Horatius_: VI, 1. _Bannockburn_: VII, 15. _Breathes There the Man_: VII, 151. _How Sleep the Brave_: VII, 151. _Make Way for Liberty_: VII, 172. _The Old Continentals_: VII, 175. _America_: VIII, 60. _The Battle of Thermopylae_: VIII, 81. _The Fall of the Alamo_: VIII, 141. _Hervé Riel_: VIII, 168. _The Battle of Trafalgar_: VIII, 284. _The Gettysburg Address_: IX, 321.
_Religious Feeling--Devotion to God_:-- _A Thought_: I, 66. _The First Snowfall_: II, 403. _Nearer Home_: IV, 126. _Stonewall Jackson's Way_: V, 400. _The Rainbow_: VI, 91. _A Child's Thought of God_: VII, 418.
_Character, The Building of_: X, 85.
_Chaucer, Geoffrey_: IX, 201.
_Chevy-Chase_: IV, 312.
CHILD, L. MARIA. Selection: _Who Stole the Bird's Nest?_: II, 399.
_Childhood_: VI, 124.
_Children's Books of the Past, Some._ See _Some Children's Books of the Past_.
_Child's Thought of God, A_: VII, 418.
_Child's World, The_: II, 66.
_Chimera, The_: II, 173.
_Christmas Carol, A_: VI, 244.
_Christmas in Old Time_: VI, 356.
_Cid Campeador_: IV, 9.
_Cinderella_: I, 224.
CLARK, GEORGE ROGERS. Biography: VI, 422. Selection: _The Capture of Vincennes_: VI, 428.
_Classification of Masterpieces, Graphic_: X, 12.
CLEVELAND, HENRY R. Selection: _Henry Hudson's Fourth Voyage_: V, 254.
_Close Reading or Study_: X, 224.
_Cloud, The_: VII, 257.
_Cock and the Horses, The_: I, 146.
COE, EDWIN D. Selections: _Black Hawk Tragedy, The_: VII, 58. _Reminiscences of a Pioneer_: V, 340.
COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR. Selection: _The Rime of the Ancient Mariner_: VII, 29.
COLLINS, WILLIAM. Selection: _How Sleep the Brave_: VII, 151.
_Comic Songs, On._ See _On Comic Songs_.
_Contrast, A_: II, 42.
COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE. Selection: _An Exciting Canoe Race_: VII, 79.
_Correlation of_ Journeys _with the School_: X, 345. _Reading_: X, 315, 348. _Language_: X, 345, 349. _Nature Study_: X, 380. _Geography and History_: X, 400. _High School_: X, 425.
_Cortés, The Retreat of._ See _Retreat of Cortés, The_.
_Cotters Saturday Night, The_: VIII, 319.
_Country Squire, The_: VI, 474.
_Cow, The_: I, 106.
COWPER, WILLIAM. Biography: VII, 331. Selections: _Mercy to Animals_: I, 413. _My Mother's Picture_: VII, 335.
CREASY, E. S. Selections: _Battle of Hastings, The_: IX, 330. _Battle of Saratoga, The_: IX, 176.
_Creation, Stories of the._ See _Stories of the Creation_.
CROCKETT, DAVID. Biography: VIII, 29. Selections: _David Crockett in the Creek War_: VIII, 37. _Fiddling Parson, The_: V, 440. _Knock-Out, The_: VI, 471.
_Cubes of Truth, The_: VII, 406.
CUMMING, ROUALEYN GORDON. Selection: _Elephant Hunting_: VI, 385.
_Cupid and Psyche_: III, 365.
D
_Daffodils, The_: VII, 1.
_Darning-Needle, The_: II, 463.
_David_: IV, 274.
_David Crockett in the Creek War_: VIII, 37.
_Death of Balder, The_: II, 99.
_Death of Cæsar, The_: IX, 126.
_Death of Cæsar, The_: IX, 143.
_Death of Hector, The_: IV, 364.
_Definition of a Gentleman_: IV, 170.
DEFOE, DANIEL. Selection: _Robinson Crusoe_: III, 45.
DEKKER, THOMAS. Selection: _Lullaby_: I, 96.
DE QUINCEY, THOMAS. Selection: _Joan of Arc_: IV, 225.
_Descent into the Maelstrom, A_: VIII, 95.
_Destruction of Sennacherib, The_: VI, 141.
DICKENS, CHARLES. Biography: VI, 232. Selections: _Alfred the Great_: IV, 260. _Christmas Carol, A_: VI, 244. _Pickwick and Sam Weller_: IX, 76.
DIMOND, WILLIAM. Selection: _The Mariner's Dream_: III, 95.
_Discontented Stonecutter, The_: II, 12.
_Discreet Hans_: II, 15.
_Dissensions at King Arthur's Court_: V, 232.
_Dissertation upon Roast Pig, A_: IX, 56.
DOBELL, SYDNEY. Selection: _How's My Boy?_: VII, 169.
_Dog and his Shadow, The_: I, 63.
_Dog in the Manger, The_: I, 134.
_Dog of Flanders, A_: IV, 93.
_Don Quixote_: VII, 431.
DOUGLAS, WILLIAM. Selection: _Annie Laurie_: VI, 119.
DRAKE, JOSEPH RODMAN. Selection: _The American Flag_: V, 396.
DRAMA. _The Tempest_: VIII, 364. _The Death of Cæsar_: IX, 143.
_Drama, Definition and Study of_: X, 325.
_Dramatic Poetry, Definition of_: X, 339.
DRAYTON, MICHAEL. Selection: _The Ballad of Agincourt_: V, 95.
_Dream Children: A Revery_: VIII, 335.
_Drummer, The_: I, 303.
DU CHAILLU, PAUL. Selection: _A Gorilla Hunt_: VII, 247.
_Duel, The_: I, 384.
DUFFERIN, LADY. Selection: _Katey's Letter_: IV, 470.
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_Echo_: III, 286.
_Education, Forces in_: X, 3.
_Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog_: IV, 57.
_Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard_: VI, 360.
_Elephant Hunting_: VI, 385.
ELIOT, GEORGE. Selection: _Tom and Maggie Tulliver_: VII, 186.
_Emotional Power in Fiction_: X, 176.
_Enchanted Stag, The_: I, 341.
_English Robin, The_: II, 214.
_English Writers, Handy Table of_: X, 469.
_Epic Poetry, Definition of_: X, 331.
_Escape from Prison, The_: IV, 130.
_Essay, Definition and Study of the_: X, 322, 431.
ESSAYS. _Some Children's Books of the Past_: V, 101. _Childhood_: VI, 124. _Poor Richard's Almanac_: VI, 407. _Cubes of Truth_: VII, 406. _The Alhambra_: VIII, 153. _Dream Children_: VIII, 335. _The Impeachment of Warren Hastings_: IX, 32. _A Dissertation upon Roast Pig_: IX, 56. _The Praise of Chimney Sweepers_: IX, 66. _The Vision of Mirza_: IX, 285. _Sir Roger de Coverley_: IX, 371. _Of Expense_: IX, 397. _Of Studies_: IX, 400. _Modestine_: IX, 403.
_Esther, The Story of_: II, 448.
_Exciting Canoe Race, An_: VII, 79.
_Expense, Of_: IX, 397.
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FABLES. _The Boys and the Frogs_: I, 63. _The Dog and His Shadow_: I, 63. _The Fox and the Crow_: I, 64. _The Ass in the Lion's Skin_: I, 65. _The Boy and the Nettle_: I, 65. _The Frog Who Wished to Be as Big as an Ox_: I, 66. _The Gnat and the Bull_: I, 70. _The Hare and the Tortoise_: I, 71. _The Fox and the Stork_: I, 73. _The Lion and the Mouse_: I, 75. _The Old Man and His Sons_: I, 78. _The Shepherd Boy and the Wolves_: I, 92. _The Wind and the Sun_: I, 95. _The Wolf and the Crane_: I, 96. _The Two Travelers_: I, 109. _The Two Travelers and the Oyster_: I, 111. _The Lark and Her Young Ones_: I, 131. _The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs_: I, 173. _The Dog in the Manger_: I, 134. _The Fox and the Grapes_: I, 135. _The Cat and the Chestnuts_: I, 142. _The Cock and the Horses_: I, 146. _The Bat and the Two Weasels_: I, 154. _The Mice and the Cat_: I, 197. _The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse_: I, 199. _The Lion, the Fox and the Ass_: I, 223. _Industry and Sloth_: I, 300. _The Horse and the Stag_: I, 338. _The Fox, the Wolf and the Horse_: I, 377. _The Bald Knight_: I, 385. _The Brother and Sister_: I, 410. _The Wolf and the Lamb_: I, 455. _Æsop_: II, 1. _Minerva and the Owl_: II, 7. _The Falcon and the Partridge_: II, 6. _The Sparrow and the Eagle_: II, 8. _The Old Man and Death_: II, 9.
_Fairies, The_: I, 405.
_Fairies of the Caldon-Low, The_: II, 395.
_Fairy Bread_: I, 198.
FAIRY LORE AND FOLK LORE. _Little Red Riding Hood_: I, 79. _Tom Thumb_: I, 84. _The Little Old Woman and Her Pig_: I, 97. _Silver-Locks and the Three Bears_: I, 101. _The Ladybird and the Fly_: I, 107. _Hop-O'-My-Thumb_: I, 112. _The Three Little Pigs_: I, 136. _The Hardy Tin Soldier_: I, 148. _Jack and the Beanstalk_: I, 156. _Jack the Giant-Killer_: I, 174. _The Pea Blossom_: I, 205. _Hansel and Grethel_: I, 210. _Cinderella_: I, 224. _The Three Tasks_: I, 247. _The Snow Maiden_: I, 257. _The Twin Brothers_: I, 264. _The Drummer_: I, 303. _Beauty and the Beast_: I, 318. _The Enchanted Stag_: I, 341. _The Golden Bird_: I, 352. _The Flax_: I, 378. _"Something"_: I, 395. _The Fairies_: I, 405. _The Ugly Duckling_: I, 414. _Whittington and His Cat_: I, 442. _The Discontented Stonecutter_: II, 12. _Discreet Hans_: II, 15. _Bluebeard_: II, 22. _Rumpelstiltzkin_: II, 33. _Mirror of Matsuyana_, II, 36. _The Fir Tree_: II, 68. _The Snow Queen_: II, 124. _Tom, The Water Baby_: II, 215. _The Fairies of the Caldon-Low_: II, 395. _The Darning-Needle_: II, 463. _Why the Sea Is Salt_: II, 484. _Origin of the Opal_: II, 480. _What the Old Man Does Is Always Right_: II, 387. _Holger Danske_: II, 377. _The King and the Golden River_: II, 405. _The Mock Turtle's Story_: III, 3. _Queen Alice_: III, 23. _The Leprecaun_: III, 33. _The Walrus and the Carpenter_: III, 36. _The Pied Piper of Hamelin_: III, 384. _The Forsaken Merman_: VII, 180. See MYTHS and LEGENDARY HEROES.
_Faithless Sally Brown_: III, 92.
_Falcon and the Partridge, The_: II, 6.
_Fall of the Alamo, The_: VIII, 141.
_Family of Michael Arout, The_: VII, 314.
_Farewell, A_: III, 22.
_Fate of the Indians, The_: IX, 466.
_Father and Son_: X, 107.
FICTION. See ADVENTURE; FABLES; FAIRY LORE AND FOLK LORE; NARRATIVE POEMS; NOVELS; STORIES.
_Fiction, How to Read_: X, 143.
_Fiddling Parson, The_: V, 440.
FIELD, EUGENE. Biography: I, 242. Selections: _Duel, The_: I, 384. _Lady Button-Eyes_: I, 366. _Little Blue Pigeon_: I, 133. _Norse Lullaby_: I, 246. _Rock-a-By-Lady, The_: I, 94. _Seein' Things_: I, 240. _Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks_: II, 121. _Wynken, Blynken, and Nod_: I, 262.
_Figures of Speech_: X, 256.
_First Snowfall, The_: II, 403.
_Fir Tree, The_: II, 68.
_Flax, The_: I, 378.
_Florence Nightingale_: IX, 13.
FOLK LORE. See FAIRY LORE AND FOLK LORE.
FOLLEN, MRS. ELIZA LEE. Selection: _Stop, Stop, Pretty Water_: I, 317.
_Footsteps of Angels_: IV, 82.
_For A' That and A' That_: VII, 149.
_Forces in Education_: X, 3.
_Foreign Children_: I, 351.
_Foreign Lands_: I, 130.
_Forsaken Merman, The_: VII, 180.
FOSTER, STEPHEN COLLINS. Selection: _My Old Kentucky Home_: VII, 179.
_Four Ducks on a Pond_: VI, 98.
_Fox and the Crow, The_: I, 64.
_Fox and the Grapes, The_: I, 135.
_Fox and the Stork, The_: I, 73.
_Fox, the Wolf, and the Horse, The_: I, 377.
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. Selections: _Braddock's Defeat_: V, 379. _Poor Richard's Almanac_: VI, 407.
_Frithiof the Bold_: III, 394.
_Frog Who Wished to be as Big as an Ox, The_: I, 66.
FROISSART, JEAN. Selection: _The Battle of Cressy_: IX, 161.
_From a Railway Carriage_: I, 198.
FROUDE, JAMES ANTHONY. Selection: _Julius Cæsar_: IX, 155.
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_Geography, Analysis and Classification of Selections Correlated with_: X, 402.
_Geography, The Teaching of_: X, 400.
_Geraint and Enid_: V, 148.
_Gettysburg Address, The_: IX, 321.
GILBERT, W. S. Selection: _The Yarn of the "Nancy Bell"_: IV, 466.
_Gnat and the Bull, The_: I, 70.
_Gold-Bug, The_: IX, 232.
_Golden Bird, The_: I, 352.
_Golden Touch, The_: II, 43.
GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. Selection: _Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog_: IV, 57.
_Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs, The_: I, 173.
_Gorilla Hunt, A_: VII, 247.
_Governor and the Notary, The_: VII, 20.
_Graphic Classification of Masterpieces_: X, 12.
GRAY, THOMAS. Selection: _Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard_: VI, 360.
GRIFFIN, GERALD. Selection: _Limestone Broth_: VI, 467.
GRIMM, JAKOB AND WILHELM. Selections: _Discreet Hans_: II, 15. _Drummer, The_: I, 303. _Enchanted Stag, The_: I, 341. _Golden Bird, The_: I, 352. _Hansel and Grethel_: I, 210 _Ladybird and the Fly, The_: I, 107. _Three Tasks, The_: I, 247. _Twin Brothers, The_: I, 264. _Rumpelstiltzken_: II, 33.
_Gulliver's Travels_: V, 6.
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HALLECK, FITZ-GREENE. Selection: _Marco Bozzaris_: VIII, 90.
_Handy Tables of American Writers_: X, 473.
_Handy Tables of English Writers_: X, 469.
_Hansel and Grethel_: I, 210.
_Hardy Tin Soldier, The_: I, 148.
_Hare and the Tortoise, The_: I, 71.
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. Biography: IV, 180. Selections: _Boston Massacre, The_: IV, 217. _Chimera, The_: II, 173. _Golden Touch, The_: II, 43. _Hutchinson Mob, The_: IV, 208. _Pine-Tree Shillings, The_: IV, 192. _Sunken Treasure, The_: IV, 199.
HAY, JOHN. Selection: _Little Breeches_: IV, 462.
_Heart of Bruce, The_: V, 316.
HEMANS, FELICIA BROWNE. Selections: _Bernardo del Carpio_: IV, 270. _Casabianca_: VIII, 313. _Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England_: IV, 197.
HENRY, PATRICK. Selection: _A Call to Arms_: IX, 475.
HEROES. See LEGENDARY HEROES.
_Hervé Riel_: VIII, 168.
_High School, Correlation of_ Journeys _with_: X, 425.
HISTORY. _The Story of Joseph_: I, 456. _The Hutchinson Mob_: IV, 208. _The Boston Massacre_: IV, 217. _Joan of Arc_: IV, 226. _Alfred the Great_: IV, 260. _Henry Hudson's Fourth Voyage_: V, 254. _The Arickara Indians_: IV, 472. _The Rise of Robert Bruce_: V, 278. _The Buccaneers_: V, 359. _Captain Morgan at Maracaibo_: V, 365. _Braddock's Defeat_: V, 379. _The Capture of Vincennes_: VI, 428. _The Black Hawk Tragedy_: VII, 58. _Ringrose and His Buccaneers_: VIII, 1. _David Crockett in the Creek War_: VIII, 37. _The Retreat of Cortés_: VIII, 63. _The Battle of Thermopylæ_: VIII, 81. _Père Marquette_: VIII, 121. _The Fall of the Alamo_: VIII, 141. _The Battle of Trafalgar_: VIII, 284. _The Impeachment of Warren Hastings_: IX, 32. _The Death of Cæsar_: IX, 126. _The Death of Cæsar_: IX, 143. _The Battle of Cressy_: IX, 161. _The Battle of Saratoga_: IX, 176. _The Battle of Hastings_: IX, 330.
_History, Analysis and Classification of Selections Correlated with_: X, 403-410.
_History, The Teaching of_: X, 400.
_Holger Danske_: II, 377.
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Biography: VII, 398. Selections: _The Cubes of Truth_: VII, 406. _The Chambered Nautilus_: IX, 454.
_Holy Grail, The_: V, 207.
_Home, Sweet Home_: VI, 221.
_Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead_: VI, 231.
HOMER. Selection: _The Death of Hector_: IV, 364.
HOOD, THOMAS. Selections: _Faithless Sally Brown_: III, 92. _To My Infant Son_: VI, 478.
_Hop-O'-My-Thumb_: I, 112.
_Horatius_: VI, 1.
_Horse and the Stag, The_: I, 338.
HOWE, JULIA WARD. Selection: _Battle Hymn of the Republic_: V, 399.
HOWITT, MARY. Selections: _Fairies of the Caldon-Low, The_: II, 395. _Spider and the Fly, The_: III, 19. _Why the Sea Is Salt_: II, 484.
_How Sleep the Brave_: VII, 151.
_How's My Boy?_: VII, 169.
_How the Wolf Was Bound_: II, 91.
_How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix_: V, 335.
_How They Took the Gold-Train_: VIII, 180.
_How to Read Aloud_: X, 311.
_How to Read Fiction_: X, 143.
_How to Read Poetry_: X, 272.
_How to Read Stories_: X, 145.
_Hudson's Fourth Voyage_: V, 254.
HUGHES, THOMAS. Selection: _Tom Brown at Rugby_: V, 469.
HUMOR. See WIT AND HUMOR.
HUNT, LEIGH. Selection: _Abou Ben Adhem_: IX, 11.
_Hutchinson Mob, The_: IV, 208.
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_Imitation of Christ_: VI, 134.
_Impeachment of Warren Hastings, The_: IX, 32.
_Inchcape Rock, The_: V, 465.
_Incident of the French Camp_: IV, 174.
_Industry and Sloth_: I, 300.
_Infant Joy_: II, 10.
INGELOW, JEAN. Selection: _Seven Times One_: II, 119.
_Interpretations._ See STUDIES.
_In Time's Swing_: II, 481.
IRVING, WASHINGTON. Biography: VIII, 216. Selections: _Alhambra, The_: VIII, 153. _Arickara Indians, The_: IV, 472. _Governor and the Notary, The_: VII, 20. _Knickerbocker History of New York, The_: VIII, 224.
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_Jack and the Beanstalk_: I, 156.
_Jack the Giant-Killer_: I, 174.
JEROME, JEROME K. Selections: _On Comic Songs_: V, 455. _We Plan a River Trip_: V, 443.
_Joan of Arc_: IV, 226.
_Johnson, Samuel, The Life of_: IX, 216.
_John's Pumpkin_: III, 1.
_Joseph, The Story of_: I, 456.
_Julius Cæsar_: IX, 155.
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_Katey's Letter_: IV, 470.
KEATS, JOHN. Biography: IX, 457. Selection: _Ode on a Grecian Urn_: IX, 462.
_Keepsake Mill_: I, 349.
KEMPIS, THOMAS À. Selection: From _Imitation of Christ_: VI, 134.
KEY, FRANCIS SCOTT. Selection: _Star-Spangled Banner, The_: VII, 167.
_King Arthur._ See _Arthur, King_.
_King of the Golden River, The_: II, 405.
KINGSLEY, CHARLES. Selections: _A Farewell_: III, 22. _How They Took the Gold-Train_: VIII, 180. _Sands of Dee, The_: I, 412. _Three Fishers, The_: VII, 343. _Tom, the Water Baby_: II, 215.
KINNEY, COATES. Selection: _Rain on the Roof_: IV, 7.
KIPLING, RUDYARD. Selections: _Recessional, The_: VII, 164. _Salmon Fishing_: VII, 285.
_Knickerbocker History of New York, The_: VIII, 224.
_Knock-Out, The_: VI, 471.
KRAUT, MARY HANNAH. Selection: _Little Brown Hands_: I, 441.
KRUMMACHER. Selection: _The Moss Rose_: VI, 98.
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_Ladybird and the Fly, The_: I, 107.
_Lady Button-Eyes_: I, 366.
LAMB, CHARLES. Biography: VIII, 328. Selections: _Dissertation upon Roast Pig, A_: IX, 56. _Dream Children: A Revery_: VIII, 335. _Praise of Chimney Sweepers, The_: IX, 66. _Tempest, The_: VIII, 348.
LAMB, MARY. Biography: VIII, 328. Selection: _The Tempest_: VIII, 348.
_Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England_: IV, 197.
_Land of Counterpane, The_: I, 144.
_Language, Analysis and Classification of Selections for the Study of_: X, 354, 378.
_Language, Correlation of_ Journeys _with Study of_: X, 345, 349.
_Language, The Teaching of_: X, 349.
LARCOM, LUCY. Selections: _Brown Thrush, The_: I, 147. _In Time's Swing_: II, 481.
_Lark and Her Young Ones, The_: I, 131.
LATTO, T. C. Selection: _The Blind Lassie_: VI, 120.
_Lead, Kindly Light_: V, 110.
LEAR, EDWARD. Selection: _The Owl and the Pussy-Cat_: I, 339.
LEGENDARY HEROES. _Beowulf and Grendel_: III, 350. _Frithiof the Bold_: III, 394. _The Story of Siegfried_: III, 410. _Roland at Roncesvalles_: III, 460. _Cid Campeador_: IV, 9. _The Death of Hector_: IV, 364. _The Wooden Horse_: IV, 383. _Ulysses_: IV, 398. _King Arthur_: V, 113. _Balin and Balan_: V, 130. _Geraint and Enid_: V, 148. _The Holy Grail_: V, 207. _Dissensions at King Arthur's Court_: V, 232. _The Passing of Arthur_: V, 237. _Horatius_: VI, 1. _Sohrab and Rustem_: VI, 157. _Sohrab and Rustum_: VI, 173.
_Leprecaun, The_: III. 33.
_Lesson and the Author's Purpose, in Fiction, The_: X, 170.
_Let Something Good Be Said_: V, 111.
_Life of Samuel Johnson, The_: IX, 216.
_Limestone Broth_: VI, 467.
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Selection: _The Gettysburg Address_: IX, 321.
_Lincoln, Abraham._ See _Abraham Lincoln_.
_Lion and The Missionary, The_: VI, 93.
_Lion and the Mouse, The_: I, 75.
_Lion, the Fox and the Ass, The_: I, 223.
_Literature and Its Forms_: X, 317.
_Literature, Different Kinds of_: X, 143.
_Little Birdie_: I, 142.
_Little Blue Pigeon_: I, 133.
_Little Breeches_: IV, 462.
_Little Brown Hands_: I, 441.
_Little Giffin of Tennessee_: IV, 461.
_Little Old Woman and Her Pig, The_: I, 97.
_Little Red Riding-Hood_: I, 79.
LIVINGSTONE, DAVID. Selection: _The Lion and the Missionary_: VI, 93.
_Lochinvar_: III, 432.
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. Biography: IV, 62. Selections: _Footsteps of Angels_: IV, 82. _Reaper and the Flowers, The_: I, 410. _Skeleton in Armor, The_: V, 327. _Village Blacksmith, The_: IV, 86. _Wreck of the Hesperus, The_: IV, 89.
_Looking Forward_: I, 106.
_Lord Ullin's Daughter_: VI, 23.
_Lost Child, The_: VII, 409.
LOVER, SAMUEL. Selection: _Widow Machree_: VI, 464.
LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL. Biography: VII, 411. Selections: _First Snowfall, The_: II, 403. _Lost Child, The_: VII, 409. _To H. W. L._: IV, 84.
LULLABIES. _The Rock-a-By Lady_: I, 94. _Little Blue Pigeon_: I, 133. _Sleep, Baby, Sleep_: I, 204. _Old Gaelic Lullaby_: I, 203. _Norse Lullaby_: I, 246. _Wynken, Blynken, and Nod_: I, 262. _Lady Button-Eyes_: I, 366. _Lullaby_: I, 96, II, 32.
_Lyric Poetry, Definition of_: X, 333.
LYRICS. _A Thought_: I, 66. _The Swing_: I, 67. _The Sun's Travels_: I, 68. _Singing_: I, 88. _Looking Forward_: I, 106. _The Cow_: I, 106. _Rain_: I, 110. _System_: I, 111. _My Bed Is a Boat_: I, 126. _Foreign Lands_: I, 130. _At the Seaside_: I, 129. _The Land of Counterpane_: I, 144. _Bed in Summer_: I, 173. _Block City_: I, 196. _From a Railway Carriage_: I, 198 _Fairy Bread_: I, 198. _Seein' Things_: I, 240. _Whole Duty of Children_: I, 301. _The Tree_: I, 301. _Young Night Thought_: I, 302. _Where Go the Boats?_: I, 256. _Stop, Stop, Pretty Water_: I, 317. _Time to Rise_: I, 340. _Keepsake Mill_: I, 349. _Foreign Children_: I, 351. _The Duel_: I, 384. _Autumn Fires_: I, 394. _The Reaper and the Flowers_: I, 410. _The Wind_: I, 440. _Little Brown Hands_: I, 441. _Infant Joy_: II, 10. _The Baby_: II, 11. _Poppyland Express_: II, 21. _A Contrast_: II, 42. _The Child's World_: II, 66. _Afterwhile_: II, 123. _Windy Nights_: II, 123. _Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks_: II, 121. _Picture-Books in Winter_: II, 87. _Seven Times One_: II, 119. _The First Snowfall_: II, 403. _In Time's Swing_: II, 481. _A Farewell_: III, 22. _Night_: III, 431. _Better Than Gold_: IV, 1. _The Barefoot Boy_: IV, 3. _Rain on the Roof_: IV, 7. _Mother's Way_: IV, 58. _Footsteps of Angels_: IV, 82. _The Village Blacksmith_: IV, 86. _Pictures of Memory_: IV, 127. _Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England_: IV, 197. _Away_: IV, 460. _Lead, Kindly Light_: V, 110. _Let Something Good be Said_: V, 111. _Boyhood_: VI, 122. _The Rainbow_: VI, 91. _Four Ducks on a Pond_: VI, 98. _The Blind Lassie_: VI, 120. _Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead_: VI, 231. _Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard_: VI, 360. _The Daffodils_: VII, 1. _The Recessional_: VII, 164. _The Cloud_: VII, 257. _My Mother's Picture_: VII, 335. _Annabel Lee_: VII, 341. _The Lost Child_: VII, 409. _A Child's Thought of God_: VII, 418. _Robert of Lincoln_: IX, 444. _The Chambered Nautilus_: IX, 454.
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MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON. Selections: _Battle of Ivry_: VIII, 76. _Horatius_: VI, 1. _Impeachment of Warren Hastings, The_: IX, 32.
MCCALEB, ANNA. Adaptations: _Atalanta's Race_: I, 386. _Baucis and Philemon_: I, 431. _Cupid and Psyche_: III, 365. _Death of Balder, The_: II, 99. _How the Wolf Was Bound_: II, 91. _Punishment of Loki, The_: II, 111. _Queen of the Underworld, The_: II, 468. _Story of Phaethon, The_: II, 245. _Wonderful Gifts, The_: I, 368. Selections: _Battle of Thermopylæ, The_: VIII, 81. _Browning, Elizabeth Barrett_: VII, 419. _Cary, Alice and Phoebe_: IV, 116. _Dickens, Charles_: VI, 232. _Nightingale, Florence_: IX, 13. _Queen Victoria_: VII, 152.
MACDONALD, GEORGE. Selection: _The Baby_: II, 11.
MCMASTER, GUY HUMPHREY. Selection: _The Old Continentals_: VII, 175.
_Make Way for Liberty_: VII, 172.
MALORY, SIR THOMAS. Selection: (Abridgment of) _The Holy Grail_: V, 207.
_Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John_: IX, 207.
_Marching Song_: I, 155.
_Marco Bozzaris_: VIII, 90.
_Mariner's Dream, The_: III, 95.
_Marquette, Père._ See _Père Marquette_.
MARVEL, IK. See MITCHELL, DONALD G.
_Masterpieces, Graphic Classification of_: X, 12.
_Memorizing_: X, 128.
_Mercy to Animals_: I, 413.
_Metaphor, The_: X, 264.
_Method and Style of the Authors, in Fiction_: X, 174.
_Metonymy_: X, 265.
_Mice and the Cat, The_: I, 197.
_Milkmaid, The_: II, 374.
_Minerva and the Owl_: II, 7.
_Mirror of Matsuyana, The_: II, 36.
MITCHELL, DONALD G. Selection: _Childhood_: VI, 124.
_Mock Turtle's Story, The_: III, 3.
_Modern Belle, The_: VI, 463.
_Modestine_: IX, 403.
MONTGOMERY, JAMES. Selection: _Make Way for Liberty_: VII, 172.
MOORE, CLEMENT C. Selection: _A Visit from Saint Nicholas_: II, 202.
MOORE, THOMAS. Selections: _Potato, The_: II, 467. _Those Evening Bells_: VII, 340.
_Moral Instruction_: X, 126.
_Moss Rose, The_: VI, 98.
_Mother's Way_: IV, 58.
_Munchausen, Baron_: V, 403.
_My Bed Is a Boat_: I, 126.
_My Heart Leaps Up_: IV, 2.
_My Mother's Picture_: VII, 335.
_My Old Kentucky Home_: VII, 179.
MYTHS. _The Wonderful Gifts_: I, 368. _Atalanta's Race_: I, 386. _Baucis and Philemon_: I, 431. _The Golden Touch_: II, 43. _How the Wolf Was Bound_: II, 91. _The Death of Balder_: II, 99. _The Punishment of Loki_: II, 111. _The Chimera_: II, 173. _The Story of Phaethon_: II, 206. _The Queen of the Underworld_: II, 468. _Cupid and Psyche_: III, 365. _Stories of the Creation_: IV, 159.
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NARRATIVE POEMS. _The Sands of Dee_: I, 412. _A Visit from Saint Nicholas_: II, 202. _The Spider and the Fly_: III, 19. _Beth Gelert_: III, 42. _The Mariner's Dream_: III, 95. _The Pied Piper of Hamelin_: III, 384. _Incident of the French Camp_: IV, 174. _Sheridan's Ride_: IV, 223. _Burial of Moses_: IV, 266. _Bernardo del Carpio_: IV, 270. _The Death of Hector_: IV, 364. _The Wooden Horse_: IV, 383. _Little Giffin of Tennessee_: IV, 461. _Little Breeches_: IV, 462. _Geraint and Enid_: V, 148. _The Passing of Arthur_: V, 237. _Bruce and the Spider_: V, 314. _The Skeleton in Armor_: V, 327. _How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix_: V, 335. _Horatius_: VI, 1. _The Destruction of Sennacherib_: VI, 141. _The Vision of Belshazzar_: VI, 153. _Sohrab and Rustum_: VI, 173. _The Rime of the Ancient Mariner_: VII, 29. _How's My Boy?_: VII, 169. _The Soldier's Dream_: VII, 170. _The Forsaken Merman_: VII, 180. _The Reaper's Dream_: VII, 345. _Battle of Ivry_: VIII, 76. _The Battle of Waterloo_: VIII, 176. _Casabianca_: VIII, 313. _The Romance of the Swan's Nest_: VIII, 315. _The Cotter's Saturday Night_: VIII, 319. _Abou Ben Adhem_: IX, 11. _Pippa Passes_: IX, 293. See BALLADS.
NATURE. _The Brown Thrush_: I, 147. _Mercy to Animals_: I, 413. _The English Robin_: II, 214. _Who Stole the Bird's Nest?_: II, 399. _The Lion and the Missionary_: VI, 93. _The Moss Rose_: VI, 98. _Elephant Hunting_: VI, 385. _Some Clever Monkeys_: VI, 402. _The Petrified Fern_: VII, 77. _The Buffalo_: VII, 96. _A Gorilla Hunt_: VII, 247. _Brute Neighbors_: VII, 260. _The Pond in Winter_: VII, 280. _Salmon Fishing_: VII, 285. _Winter Animals_: VII, 293. _Trees and Ants That Help Each Other_: VII, 306. _A Bed of Nettles_: VIII, 209. _Owls_: IX, 229. _Robert of Lincoln_: IX, 444.
_Nature Study_: X, 380.
_Nature Study, Analysis and Classification of Selections related to_: X, 381-393.
_Nearer Home_: IV, 126.
NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY (Cardinal). Selections: _Definition of a Gentleman_: IV, 170. _Lead, Kindly Light_: V, 110.
_Night_: III, 431.
NIGHTINGALE, FLORENCE. Biography: IX, 13.
_Norse Lullaby_: I, 246.
NOVELS (Selections from). _Robinson Crusoe_: III, 45. _The Swiss Family Robinson_: III, 99. _Cast Up by the Sea_:-- _The Escape from Prison_: IV, 130. _Fabiola_:-- _Pancratius_: IV, 245. _Ivanhoe_:-- _The Attack on the Castle_: IV, 322. _The Tournament_: VI, 38. _Tom Brown's School Days_:-- _Tom Brown at Rugby_: V, 469. _An Attic Philosopher in Paris_:-- _The Poet and the Peasant_: VI, 206. _The Family of Michael Arout_: VII, 314. _Kidnapped_:-- _The Shipwreck_: VI, 371. _The Last of the Mohicans_:-- _An Exciting Canoe Race_: VII, 79. _The Mill on the Floss_:-- _Tom and Maggie Tulliver_: VII, 186. _Treasure Island_:-- _The Recovery of the Hispaniola_: VII, 352. _Don Quixote_:-- _Don Quixote Prepares to Set Out on His Adventures_: VII, 433. _The Adventure of the Windmills_: VII, 438. _Mambrino's Helmet_: VII, 441. _Don Quixote's Encounter with the Lions_: VII, 448. _The Adventure of the Enchanted Bark_: VII, 459. _The Adventure of the Wooden Horse_: VII, 467. _The Story of the Lashes_: VII, 480. _Westward Ho!_:-- _How They Took the Gold-Train_: VIII, 180. _Pickwick Papers_:-- _Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller_: IX, 76.
NURSERY RHYMES: I, 3.
_Nursery Rhymes, Analysis of_: X, 18.
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ODES. _To H. W. L._: IV, 84. _To the Fringed Gentian_: VII, 4. _To a Mouse_: VII, 5. _To a Mountain Daisy_: VII, 8. _Ode to a Skylark_: VII, 275. _To a Waterfowl_: VII, 395. _Ode on a Grecian Urn_: IX, 462.
_Ode on a Grecian Urn_: IX, 462.
_Ode to a Skylark_: VII, 275.
_Old Continentals, The_: VII, 175.
_Old Gaelic Lullaby_: I, 203.
_Old Man and Death, The_: II, 9.
_Old Man and His Sons, The_: I, 78.
_Old Oaken Bucket, The_: VII, 11.
_On Comic Songs_: V, 455.
_On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture_: VII, 331.
_Oration, Definition and Study of_: X, 324.
_Oration, Illustrative Study of "A Call to Arms," as a type of_: IX, 481.
ORATIONS. _The Gettysburg Address_: IX, 321. _Abraham Lincoln_: IX, 324. _The Fate of the Indians_: IX, 466. _A Call to Arms_: IX, 475.
_Origin of the Opal_: II, 480.
_Owl and the Pussy-Cat, The_: I, 339.
_Owls_: IX, 229.
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PALMER, J. W. Selection: _"Stonewall" Jackson's Way_: V, 400.
_Pancratius_: IV, 245.
PARKMAN, FRANCIS. Selection: _The Buffalo_: VII, 96.
_Passing of Arthur, The_: V, 237.
PATRIOTIC POEMS. _The American Flag_: V, 396. _"Stonewall" Jackson's Way_: V, 400. _Bannockburn_: VII, 15. _The Charge of the Light Brigade_: VII, 147. _Breathes There the Man_: VII, 151. _For A' That and A' That_: VII, 149. _Make Way for Liberty_: VII, 172. _The Old Continentals_: VII, 175. _The Picket Guard_: VII, 177. _Marco Bozzaris_: VIII, 90.
PAYNE, JOHN HOWARD. Biography: VI, 221. Selection: _Home, Sweet Home_: VI, 224.
_Pea Blossom, The_: I, 205.
_Père Marquette_: VIII, 121.
PERRAULT, CHARLES. Adaptations from _Cinderella_: I, 224. _Hop-O'-My-Thumb_: I, 112. _Little Red Riding-Hood_: I, 79.
_Personification_: X, 266.
_Persons, in Fiction, Study of_: X, 156.
_Petrified Fern, The_: VII, 77.
_Phaethon, The Story of_: II, 206.
_Picket-Guard, The_: VII, 177.
_Pickwick and Sam Weller_: IX, 76.
_Picture Books in Winter_: II, 87.
_Pictures and Their Use_: X, 36.
_Pictures and Their Value in Literature_: X, 44.
_Pictures in_ Journeys, _On the Use of_: X, 48.
_Pictures of Memory_: IV, 127.
_Pied Piper of Hamelin, The_: III, 384.
_Pilgrim's Progress, The_: IV, 423.
_Pine-Tree Shillings, The_: IV, 192.
_Pippa Passes_: IX, 293.
_Plan and Contents of_ Journeys: X, 7.
_Plan and Contents of Each Volume_: X, 24.
_Plot, in Fiction, Study of_: X, 149.
PLUTARCH. Selection: _The Death of Cæsar_: IX, 126.
POE, EDGAR ALLAN. Selections: _Annabel Lee_: VII, 341. _Descent into the Maelstrom, A_: VIII, 95. _Gold-Bug, The_: IX, 232. _Three Sundays in a Week_: VI, 453.
_Poet and the Peasant, The_: VI, 206.
POETRY. See BALLADS; DRAMA; LULLABIES; LYRICS; NARRATIVE POEMS; ODES; PATRIOTIC POEMS; SONGS; WIT AND HUMOR.
_Poetry, Kinds of_: X, 331.
_Poetry, Reading_: X, 272.
_Polonius' Advice_: V, 112.
_Pond in Winter, The_: VII, 280.
_Poor Richard's Almanac_: VI, 407.
POPE, ALEXANDER. Selection: _The Universal Prayer_: IV, 172.
_Poppyland Express, The_: II, 21.
_Potato, The_: II, 467.
_Praise of Chimney Sweepers, The_: IX, 66.
PRESCOTT, WILLIAM HICKLING. Selection: _The Retreat of Cortés_: VIII, 63.
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