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2:01Editor of the Tutor Shakespeare, the Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, the Types of English Literature, Author of Essentials of Poetry, etc. Volume 1, Fairy and Wonder Tales. There are people who doubt the wisdom of permitting their children to hear or to read fairy tales. In their zeal for truth, they fear that these narratives of the impossible and the fantastic will accustom the young mind to falsehood and cancel their efforts to train their boys and girls' inhabits of veracity. This attitude is due to two things chiefly, a verbal confusion, and an ignoring of some familiar facts in the development of the human mind. For in the first place, everybody knows that a fictitious tale that makes no pretense of being history is a quite different thing from a lie which implies the intent to deceive, and a very slight observation of children makes it clear that it is only sophisticated grown-up people

3:03who need to have the distinction pointed out. In the second place, the world of imagination is the natural habitation of the child, the inverted chair which serves in turn as steamship, pulpit, locomotive, or fortress is only a symbol of the triumphant mastery of mind over matter in the young, a mastery which is only too soon checked by the pressure of material fact in the modern world. As the boy grows to manhood, his preeminence among his fellows largely depends on the extent to which his imaginative powers have resisted and survived this attack. In the field of morals, it needs imagination to create that sympathy, that power of putting oneself in the other man's place without which philanthropic effort is apt to be tackless, cold, and even injurious. In the fields of science and industry, imaginative range, the capacity to form clear visions

4:03of combinations and developments not yet realized is the most precious of faculties. In the field of art, imagination is the main spring and everything else is merely contributory. Thus it is not dangerous but only wise during that period when the imagination is naturally most active to feed and guide rather than suppress it. And these stories gathered largely from the youth of the world are among the most potent aids to this end. The junior classics begin appropriately with the tales of our own Indians. These represent that stage of civilization when as yet man did not distinguish different kinds of existence and stones, clouds, trees, beasts, and men were thought of as all having the same kind of life as all having souls and so being capable of intercommunication, interchange of forms, and even intermarriage. This belief explains not only the names

5:05but also many of the strange incidents of these mythological tales. Most of the Indian stories here given were gathered by Skolcraft, the distinguished student of the American Indian and collector of their legends. It was from Skolcraft that long fellow derived his material for Haiawatha and that poem may fitly be used as a sequel to these tales as the children grow older. Manabasho who appears in the frontous piece of this volume was the Algonquin Haiawatha. Of many of the tales from India an explanation may again be found in a current belief. The teaching of the Buddha included the doctrine of transmigration of souls and both the frequency of animal stories and the constant teaching of kindness to animals are due to this belief. A belief which becomes very vivid when one realizes that according to it one's dog may have the soul of one's father. Most of the other stories belong

6:05to the great body of folk tales derived from very various sources and ever traveling from district to district and people to people. Sometimes springing up independently and surprisingly similar shapes. But in general full of the charm and entertainment of the genuinely popular tale. Some however are deliberately invented. Those of the Danish Hans Anderson most successful of all moderns in the imitation of the traditional fairy tale. And those centuries older that go by the name of the shadowy Esoph Fables made by many men in many lands and at many times for the purpose of embodying the fragments of worldly wisdom which are usually summed up in their morals. List of best books. Esoph's Fables edited by Joseph Jacobs. Anderson, H.C. Fairytales, Arabian Nights, Lane's Translation. As Johnson, PC,

7:05Fairytales from the Far North, Bell, F-E-E, Fairytale Place, Boyason, H.H. Norsland Tales, Brown, Francis, Fairytales, Brown, Francis, The Wonderful Chair, Bullfinch, Thomas, The Age of Fable, Bunce, John T, Fairytales, Their Origin and Meaning, Catlin, George, The Boy's Book on Indians, Compton, Margaret, American Indian Fairy Stories, Darden, F.J.H., Wonder Book of Beasts, Deming, E.W., Indian Child Life, Red Folk and Wild Folk, Dull, N.H., Russian Fairy Book, Grimm, J.L. and W.K., German Household Tales, Gerber, H.M.A., Myths of Northern Lands, Hall, Jenny, Viking Tales, Holbrook, Florence, Book of Nature Myths, Jacobs, Joseph, English Fairy Tales,

8:05La Fontaine, Jean-Dé, Fables, Lang, Andrew, The Blue Fairy Book and other Fairy Books, Lansing, M.F., Tales of Old England in Pros and Vers, Pittman, Norman H., Chinese Fairy Tales, Pyle, Catherine, Fairy Tales from Many Lands, Volume 2, Folk Tales and Myths of All Nations, The earliest myths everywhere, were the attempts of primitive people to explain the world in which they lived. Early science as much as religion, in which imagination played more part than observation or experiment. American Indian stories, such as those in the first volume, are as pure an example of these myths as any, and a special type is to be found in those called by folklorists, or why stories like why the hippopotamus lives in the water and why the elephant has small eyes. Here are the attempts to satisfy primitive curiosity,

9:08a curiosity which is as apparent in every child as in every young race is to be seen undisguised by the trimmings of the literary artist. But as time went on and civilization developed, people became more critical and exacting. The tellers of the myths found it necessary to make their stories whole together better and conform to man's gradually increasing knowledge of nature. In many cases, the primitive scientific purpose of the myth was lost side of altogether, and the tale developed as a piece of entertainment, sometimes attached to gods, or to ancestry, or to the history of the nation, but interesting chiefly as a story. The pieces contained in this volume illustrate various stages of this process from the why stories just mentioned to the purely literary retelling of local legends like Washington Irvings, Rip Van Winkle, and the legend of Sleepy Hollow. Stories like those of Thor and Baldur

10:10and the Norse explanation of how all things began belong obviously to the period of attempted answers to the universal questions of whence. How? Why? While those of Brunhilda and Sigfried and of Lowengrin are later, but still much more primitive than the retellings of the same stories in the music dramas of Wagner. Iceland was converted to Christianity about the year 1000 AD. In the stories of the mythological sagas of the North, here exemplified, originated before that date, though in their written forms they belong to Christian times. They represent the religious legends of the pagan Norsemen, elaborated and made more coherent by later writers. Modern poems like William Morris' Seeker, The Volsong, and translations of the Nibelungalied may well be used to give older children a fuller knowledge of these themes. The Greek myths here represented are also far removed from the primitive type

11:13and in the form in which they have come down to us show abundant traces of the more or less conscious handling of generations of storytellers, who have added much to the interest and picturesceness of the original myths, while they have dropped many elements which had either become meaningless or had come to be felt too barbarous for the taste of a more refined age. The story of Cupid and psyche is an instance of a quite late mythological tale, the form in which we know it appearing first in the golden ass of a pulius as late as the second century of our era. List of best books, Baldwin, James, Story of Siegfried, Bullfinch, Thomas, Legends of Charlemagne, Burns, Jettels and Legends, Bucston, EM Wilmot, Stories of Norse Heroes, Bucston, EM Wilmot, Stories of Persian Heroes, Chapin, AA, Wonder Tales from Wagner,

12:14Curtin, J, Myths and Folktales of the Russians, Derton, F.J.H., Wonder Book of Beasts, Drake, S.A., Northeast Legends, Emerson, L.N.R., Indian Myths, Foster, Mary H. and Cummings, Mabel M., Asgard Stories, Francelon, R.E., Gods and Heroes, Galey, F., Classic Myths in English Literature, Griffiths, W.E., The Japanese Fairy World, Gerber, H.M.A., Myths of Greece and Rome, Harris, Joel Chandler, Nights with Uncle Remus, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Tanglewood Tales, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, the Wonder Book, Herne, L.E., Quaidon, Pouten, Mrs. L., A Russian Grandmother's Wonder Tales, Hutchinson, W.M.L., The Golden Porch, A Book of Greek Fairy Tales, Kennedy, Patrick, Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts,

13:16Kippling, Rudyard, The Jungle Book, Kippling, Rudyard, The Second Jungle Book, Lang Andrew, Animal Story Book, Lichfield, Mary E., The Nine Wonders, Maybe Hamilton Wright, Legends Every Child Should Know, McCauley, Thomas B., Lord, Lays of Ancient Rome, Maud Constance, Wagner's Heroes, Maud Constance, Wagner's Heroines, Mitchell, S.W., Prince Little Boy, Norton, Charles Elliott, Heart of Oak Books, Nutt, Alfred, Folklore, Peabody, Josephine P., Old Greek Folk Stories, Pearson, Clara D., Among the Farmyard People, Pearson, Clara D., Among the Meadow People, Pearson, Clara D., Among the Night People, Rouse, W.H.B., The Talking Threshold, Santine, X.B., Myths of the Rhine, Scutter, H.E., Book of Folk Stories,

14:17Scutter, H.E., Fables and Folk Stories, Skinner, C.M., Myths and Legends, Steel, Flora A., Tales of the Punjob, Wild, Lady, Ancient Legends, Young, Filsen, Stories of the Wagner Oppress, Volume 3, Tales from Greece and Rome, Creasing Megastore Prophets, They deserve it, don't they? Tell Congress, Stop the Durban Martial Money Grab for Corporate Megastores, Paid for it by the Electronic Payments Coalition. We have now seen how the myth is gradually transformed into the artistic story,

15:18the element of the explanation of nature, giving way to the desire to glorify the family or nation, or to the interest in an absorbing narrative. The old Greek tales which occupy the first 200 pages of the present volume are very close to the myths of Greece and Rome of the second volume, and all of them are far from being pure myths. One evidence of this is the tendency of the stories to gather around a center, some great hero or far-reaching event, and the organization of these groups is evidence enough of the presence of the work of artists in fiction. The stories connected with such demigods as Hercules or such heroes as Theesius and Jason are prominent examples, but the most famous of all the tales which center in the Siege of Troy and which form the theme, not only of the great Greek epics, but also of a considerable number of the Greek tragedies. The tales of the Trojan War

16:19and the Homer and Voyage of Ulysses are, of course, derived from the Iliad and an odyssey of Homer, and older children may well be encouraged to read these in the complete translations of Lang, Leif, and Myers, and a butcher and Lang. The original material of these poems had certainly passed through the mouths of many generations of Greeks before it was committed to writing. Separate episodes have been chanted in public by professional reciders, and the form in which we know the stories is the result of the molding of many minds and betrays the reaction upon the material of the tastes and emotions of generations of auditors, who finally organized them into their present shape when they became two complete epics where their Homer alone was the final editor who Homer himself was, if he was anything but a name, these are questions upon which scholars are not yet agreed and probably will never be agreed, but of the perennial interest of the deeds

17:20of Achilles and Hector of the romantic wanderings of Ulysses, of the singular nobility and simplicity of the storytelling, there is and can be no question. Here for all time is a storehouse of great deeds, of noble emotions, of universal types of human character that can never cease to influence the ideals of the race. In the Aeneid of Virgil, the Roman poet took the Homeric epics as his model and strove with all the skill of a great literary artist to weld the traditions of his people into a work that would be to his nation with the Iliad and the Odyssey word to the Greeks. The material, as before, was legendary and connected with Troy, but here the whole transmutation into a heroic poem was the work of one man, gaining thus unity and polish, but wanting, as was inevitable, much of the spontaneity, freshness, and popularity in the best sense,

18:21which constitutes so much of the charm of Homer. List of best books, Ashton T. Romances of Chivalry, Baldwin James, Old Greek Stories, Baldwin James, Story of the Golden Age, Brooks E. The Story of the Aeneid, Brooks E. The Story of the Odyssey, Bryant William Cullen, The Iliad, Bryant William Cullen, The Odyssey, Bullfinch, Thomas, The Age of Chivalry, Carpenter, E. J, Long ago in Greece, Church Alfred J, The Greek Gulliver, Church Alfred J, Stories from Ovid, Church Alfred J, Stories from Virgil, Church Alfred J, Stories of the Old World, Church Alfred J, Wonder Stories from Lucian, Claude E. The Birth and Growth of Myths, Claude E. The Childhood of Religions, Cox George W. Tails of Ancient Greece, Chromelin Mary, Famous Legends,

19:25Fisk John, Myths and Myth Makers, Hanson G. H. Stories of Old Room, Hawthorne Nathaniel, Tanglewood Tales, Hawthorne Nathaniel The Wonder Book, Hume F. E. Mithland, Kingslay Charles, Greek Heroes, Cutler Grace H, Stories of Long ago, Lamb Charles, The Adventures of Ulysses, Lights A. F. Legends and Stories, Lowell D. O. S. Jason's Quest, Morris W. The Earthly Paradise, Murray A. S. Manual of Mythology, Harry W. C. The Boy's Iliad, Harry W. C. The Boy's Odyssey, Tappin Eva M. The Story of the Greek People, Tappin Eva M. The Story of the Roman People, White John S. Plutarch for Boys and Girls, Young Charlotte M. The Cook and the Captive, The Story of the Romans in Ball,

20:28Volume 4, Heroes and Heroines of Shivori. In this volume we pass from the myths and legends of antiquity to the romances and chronicles of the Middle Ages. An old French writer once classified the materials of narrative poetry into three divisions, the matter of Britain, the matter of France, and the matter of Rome. To him, the matter of Rome meant mainly the exploits of Julius Caesar, of France, the deeds of Charlemagne and his peers, of Britain, the stories of Arthur and the Roundtable. The last two of these are abundantly represented here. The historical Arthur was a British chieftain who led his people in their attempts to beat off the invasion of the pagan angles and Saxons about the latter part of the fifth century of our era. It is one of the ironies of history that he should have become the most prominent hero in the literature of the descendants of the people against whom he fought.

21:29The small fragment of historical fact about Arthur was elaborated from legendary and imaginative sources by chroniclers and romances in England and France. And after the development of chivalry, he took his place in the French and later in the English romances as the ideal king and Christian knight, the center of a vast cycle of stories which spread through all the countries of Western Europe. Toward the close of the Middle Ages, an English gentleman and soldier, Sir Thomas Mallory, retold in prose a great number of these romantic tales and it is on his form of them that the version in the present collection is based. Older readers may be directed to the vigorous if somewhat archaic prose of Mallory himself and to modern poetical versions like those of Arnold, Morris, Swinburn and especially of Tennyson in the idols of the King. Though these stories present a picture

22:29of a society such as probably never existed in just this form and certainly not in the time of the historical Arthur, they yet give an inspiring view of the chivalrous ideal which is exercised so potent and influence on conduct these many centuries. The tales of Havillock and Horn are favorable examples of the medieval romances which were not attached to the court of Arthur and represent a somewhat simpler social life than the Arthurian romances. Among the various sources from which were gathered the stories that became connected with Arthur were the Welsh legends. Some of these were genuine Celtic tales. Others had been earlier borrowed from the neighboring French and English and a collection of them made for the use of professional storytellers is known as the Mabinogean from which in Lady Guest's translation the second section of the present volume is drawn.

23:31The complete work is now easily accessible and contains a number of excellent stories. The poetic treatment of the matter of France began with a famous song of Roland and extended into the huge mass of so-called chanson de gestes second in interest only to the Arthurian stories in the literature of Old French. This, like the matter of Britain, spread to all the surrounding countries but it was in Italy next to France itself that it attained its greatest popularity. Not only did it supply themes to artistic poets like Ariosto and Boyardo but the stories of Charlemagne continue to this day as the favorite reading of the common people in Italy and one may see in the puppet theaters of the Italian Quarter of New York a vigorous if crude representation of the deeds of Roland and Oliver applauded with heartfelt enthusiasm by our Italian fellow citizens.

24:32In the present selection the most striking episodes of the song of Roland are given in simple form and the whole poem may be read in a good English verse translation. What Charlemagne and Roland were to the French the Sid was to the Spanish and Southeast version of the Chronicle of the Sid properly takes its place here beside the more darker and the Roland. These romantic narratives are all in a sense aristocratic both in the personages with whom they deal and in the audiences for which they were originally composed. The balance dealing with Robin Hood however are of the common people and given equally vigorous presentation of popular ideals of justice and fair play. The tales from Chaucer are typical examples of the work of that master of storytellers all of them far older than Chaucer but owing to his tact and skill their admirable rapidity and point.

25:33The story of patient Griselda is interesting not only as showing a feminine ideal remote enough from ours but also as having come to Chaucer through the versions of the two great Italians Vocaccio and Petrarch. By the end of the 16th century Chivalry as an institution had practically passed away but it continued largely to dominate imaginative literature until the Spaniard Servantes turned the outworn romantic material to ridicule in his satire Don Quixote. This great novel has escaped the usual fate of satires of contemporary life because it rises above the merely temporary and deals with permanent elements in human nature and society with such insight and humor that it appeals to us almost as keenly as it did to the men for whom it was written. It is placed here appropriately enough with the romances which it satirizes but it may be found that it suits the taste

26:35of somewhat older readers than the youngest who can enjoy Arthur and Roland. List of best books. Ashton T. Romance's of Chivalry Baldwin James the story of Roland bearing Gould S. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages Brown Abbey F. Northland Heroes Servantes Savedra Miguel de Adventures of Don Quixote de La Mancha Child Clarence G. Beowulf Church Alfred J. Heroes of Chivalry and Romance Clark H. B. Sid Compiador Cox George W. Popular Romances of the Middle Ages Curtin J. Hero Tales of Ireland Demore A. George Legend of Camelot Gilbert H. F. B. King Arthur's Nights Green F. N. Legends of King Arthur and his Court Paul J. Legends of the West Hair Christopher the story of Bayard

27:38Hunt R. Popular Romances of the West of England Lang Andrew Modern Mythology Lanier Sydney the Boys King Arthur Maybe Hamilton Wright North Tales MacLeod Mary the Book of King Arthur MacLeod Mary stories of the Fairy Queen Markham Richard Heroes of Chivalry Maxwell Sir H. E. Robert the Bruce Pyle Howard Story of King Arthur Pyle Howard the Mary Adventures of Robin Hood Reninger Elizabeth D the Story of Rustam Rolliston T. W. High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland Santine X. B. Miss of the Rhine Schraeman J. Legends of German Heroes of the Middle Ages Southy Robert Chronicles of the Sidd Stevens Lillian O. and Alan E. F. King Arthur's stories from Mallory

28:40Tappin E. M. Robin Hood his book Tappin E. M. When Nights Were Bold Wilson Calvin D the Story of the Sidd Volume 5 stories that never grow old Since the first translation of the 2001 Nights into English They have held a unique place in the interest of young readers Remote though they are in every way from the experience of the Western People's fantastic and extravagant in their use of magic and the supernatural They never fail to hold the attention And in spite of their imaginative wildness They give a living picture of the manners And mode of life of the gorgeous East They are of course not the work of one man But the fitting into a single framework Of a great variety of stories found in many forms throughout the Orient It is a far cry from the Arabian Knights to Robinson Crusoe With its fictitious adventures presented with all the circumstantial detail of sober history

29:43No one has excelled to foe in this particular trick of realism And much of the hold of the book is due to the illusion that results from it But the nature of Crusoe's adventures are precisely such as to interest boys In the camping and boat building stage And none of the foes many imitators have been able to surpass him In writing, Oliver Stravels Swift had no intention of providing entertainment for the young His aim was to make a satire in part on the government of England in his day In part on human nature at large The point of much of the satire has disappeared And practically none of it is perceived by the modern child But there happens to remain in the narrative medium In which he conveyed his satire A residue of exciting adventure Which makes the book a children's classic It is however best read by the young in selections The Pilgrim's Progress is another accidental children's classic

30:45The work is an elaborate allegory of the Christian life Interpreted in terms of Puritan theology But like all the best allegory The surface story is interesting on his own account And it is for this that children read it The spiritual meaning however is by no means so obscure As Swift satire and Galover But there need be no fear of theological bias Whatever of the underlying meaning is likely to be caught By the young reader Is of the nature of generally accepted moral and religious truth And some of the characters rank with the great creations Of modern fiction as permanent types of human nature Of the stories of Shakespeare's plays And Scott's novels There is no need to speak Their chief function here is to give such a taste of these writers As will entice the reader to go direct to the fountain hit The literature of adventure reaches its anticlimax In the startling adventures of Baron Munchausen

31:47This is a classic of the preposterous And few children fail to enjoy this extreme example Of the humor of the long go List of best books Abbott Jacob Rollo Books Addison Steel Budgel Papers of Roger Decoverley Aguilar Grace The Days of Bruce Akin John and Barbod Anna Latisha Evenings at home Alcott LM 8 Cousins or The Antill Alcott LM Little Women or Meg Joe Bethanami Aldrich T.B., Story of a Bad Boy Aspenwall Mrs. Alicia, short stories for short people Bunyan John Pilgrims Progress Clemens SL, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Cooper J.F., The Deer Slayer, A Tale Cooper J.F. Last of the Mohicans Cooper J.F., The Pathfinder Or The Inland Sea

32:49Cooper J.F., The Pioneers Or The Sources of the Susquehanna Cooper J.F., The Prairie Day Thomas, Sanford and Merton Default Daniel Robinson Crusoe De LaRame Wida, The Nuremberg Stove Dickens Charles, Personal History and Experience Of David Copperfield The Younger Edgeworth Maria, Popular Tales Edgeworth Maria, Tales That Never Die Elliott, George, Silas Marner Old Smith, Oliver, The Vicar of Wakefield Howard, Mary, Treasury of Tales Hughes, Thomas, Tom Brown and Oxford Hughes, Thomas, Tom Brown's School Days Hugo, Victor, Les Miserables Kingsley, Charles, Westward Ho Leaver, CJ, Charles O'Malley Lucas Evie, Forgotten Tales of Long A Go Lucas Evie, Old Fashion Tales, Litten, Bolwer,

33:50Last Days of Pompeii Mariette, Captain Frederick, Master Man Ready Mariette, Captain Frederick, Mr. Midshipman Easy Porter, Jane, Scottish Chiefs, Scott, Sir Walter, Guy Manoring Whittier, John Greenleaf, Child Life in Pros Whiss, Yohan R, Swiss Family Robinson Volume 6, Old Fashion Tales With this volume we arrive at a period in which it is no longer necessary to deal with translations and modernizations, but in which we have the advantage of reading the actual words of the original writers without that loss of flavor and accent entailed by even the best translation. The first half of the sixth volume contains stories which, although by modern authors, are largely modeled on folk stories of the type contained in the earlier volumes. Some are examples of how close some of our writers in English

34:52can come to the skill and fairy tales shown by Hans Anderson. Others, like Hawthorne's great stone face, have an underlying meaning, yet not so deeply buried as to be beyond the reach of young readers and adding to the entertainment of the literal tale the pleasure of deciphering a riddle and the profit of a great lesson. Some of the extracts are beautiful merely as English prose. The specimens from Ruskin, Dickens, and Hawthorne can be read aloud in such a way as by making obvious the beauty of their style to cultivate the ear of the listeners and begin to add, though unconsciously at first to the delight in the story the more subtle enjoyment that comes from the perception of fine cadences. The work of Lewis Carroll stands alone. There is humor in the very idea of the sober Oxford clergyman and lecture on mathematics Charles Ludwidge Dotson, disporting himself with the most delightful nonsense

35:55ever written for the entertainment of a small girl. Allison Wunderland and its companion volume through the looking glass have the ideal qualities of books to be read aloud by adults to children. For while the young listener is delighted with the fantastic absurdities of the story, the reader has his own reward in the delicate irony that plays about the descriptions of the actors and incidents and in the brilliant cleverness constantly exhibited both in the phrasing and in the conceiving of situations. Moreover, these are essentially social books. If any reader perusing them in solitude fails to find the charm, let him have patience till he has tried them in company. Friendships have been formed on no solider basis than a capacity to exchange illusions to Alice and many a grown-up has found his way to a child's heart through a common acquaintance with the hatter and the march hair. List of best books, Abbott, Jacob, Franconia stories,

37:00Ainsworth, William Harrison, Old St. Paul's, Austin, Jane, Pride and Prejudice, Austin, Jane, Standish of Standish, A Story of the Pilgrims, Bar Mrs. A. E, Boe of Orange Ribbon, Burnett, Francis Hodgson, Little Lord font LaRoy, Carol Lewis, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Carol Lewis through the looking glass and what Alice found there, Clemens Samuel L., The Prince in the Popper, Dana, R. H., Two Years Before the Masked, The Land, Margaret, Old Chester Tales, Dickens, Charles, Tale of Two Cities, Dodge, Mary Mapes, Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates, Fox, John Jr., Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, Hale, E, E, Ten Times One is Ten and Other Stories, Hale, Lucretia P., The Peterkin Papers,

38:01Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Twice Told Tales, Holmes, Oliver Wendell, LC Vinner, Jewett, S.O., Betty Lester, A Story for Girls, Kippling, Rudyard, Just So Stories for Little Children, Mitchell, SW, Hugh Wynn, Free Quaker, Reed, Charles, The Cloister in the hearth, Shelley, Mrs. Mary, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, Wigan, Kate Douglas, The Birds, Christmas Carol, Young, Charlotte M., The Air of Redcliffe, volume seven, Stories of Courage and Heroism, the contents of the seventh volume deal for the most part with historical persons and events and exhibit qualities of courage and heroism in action. The episodes are gathered from a wide range of place and time from the illustrious figures of antiquity to the unnamed heroes of obscure crises in our own land and day.

39:03But the greater number tell of deeds and acquaintance with which is an essential part of everyone's intellectual background. The Spartans at Thermopoly, Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon, the English victories at Cracé and Poitier, the heroism of Joan of Arc, the tragedy of James the First of Scotland, the voyages of Columbus, the sea dogs of the Age of Elizabeth, the adventures of the pioneers of America, the pathos of the Acadian exiles, the glories and terrors of the Napoleonic Wars, the peaceful heroism of Grace Darling. Such themes as these are a vast influence on more than one side of a child's education. The accounts of such things given here are necessarily short, but they should serve to introduce young readers to some of the most glorious achievements in human history and at the same time to rouse that curiosity which is the best introduction to the serious study of history. But the most important educational effect of these fragments of heroism

40:07is in the formation of character. The kind of man a boy is to become is largely determined by the kind of man he admires, and the reading of stories such as our contained in this volume may be of great importance in forming his admirations. Though here we are dealing with historical personages and historical happenings, it is still through the imagination that the effect on character is produced. Out of what he sees and hears, the boy gradually and unconsciously forms his ideal of what he would like to be, and it is important that he should be made familiar with figures more loftily heroic than the picture of the local baseball team, if we wish him to aim at a career higher than that of a professional athlete. The attaining of this end of influence on character does not, however, imply the turning of the stories into texts for moral lectures. The effect, as has been said, is unconscious. The important thing is that the talk about a story which has been read

41:11should bring out clearly the point wherein the heroism lay, and this is done all the more effectively when it is not reduced to abstract terms, but left a vivid, concrete, imaginative picture of a real human being doing a fine thing. List of best books, Baldwin, James, an American book of Golden Deeds, Barnes, James, Midshipman Farragut, Bass, Florence, Stories of Pioneer Life, Blackmore, Richard D, Spring Haven, Brady, C. T for the Freedom of the Sea, Brooks, ES, A Boy of the First Empire, Brooks Noah, The Boy, Emigrants, Carlyle, Thomas, Heroes and Hero Worship, Catherwood, MH, Heroes of the Middle West, Clemens, Samuel L, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Duma, Alexander, the Three Musketeers, E-Wart, Henry C, Heroes and Martyrs of Science,

42:11Fowler, AE, Patriotic Stories of America, Grinnell, GB, Jack, the Young Ranchman, Hall, Thomas W, Heroes of our Revolution, App Good, Norman, Abraham Lincoln, Johnson, WH, The World's Discoverers, Litten, Bulwer, Rianze, The Last of the Tribunes, Motley, J.L., The Siege of Lighten, Page, Thomas Nelson, The Burial of the Guns and Other Stories, Porter, Jane, Baddie S. of Warsaw and Scottish Chiefs, Thompson, D.P., Green Mountain Boys, Conlinson, ET, Voice of Old Monmouth, Wallace, Lewis, Ben Hur, A Tale of the Christ, Warren, HP, Stories from English History, Volume 8, Animal and Nature Stories, We have in this volume a great variety of tales dealing with external nature and the lives of animals. In such matters the normal child has a spontaneous interest which in the country

43:15expresses itself in endless explorations and collections with all their attendant educational advantages in the training of observation and resource but not all children live in the country and even in the country children cannot always be in the woods. Tales such as the present are in part a substitute for country life in part a supplement to it. They supply information about the habits of animals and the like. They browse curiosity, they sharpen observation, a boy reads in a story of some characteristic of a familiar animal which he has never noticed. Next time he sees it with different eyes. On the intellectual side few qualities are worth more cultivating than this of keen firsthand observation and a child's natural interest in animals supplies the obvious starting point for its development but these stories have another function than that of entertaining and peaking curiosity. Most of them deal with the brute creation in a humanitarian spirit

44:19and without sacrificing truth to nature are calculated to put the reader into a sympathetic attitude toward animals. Here again the imagination is called into beneficent operation with the result of a widening of the child's emotional and sympathetic range. You can tell almost as much though different things about a man from the way he treats a dog as from the way he meets a man and any discipline which refines as does training in the proper treatment of animals is well worth while. The danger of much modern writing about animals is sentimentality. The brutes are used as occasions for the enjoyment of pathetic emotions, often without regard for truth to nature or the effect of such cheap pathos on the reader. A sympathetic attitude such as implied in the stories in this volume is said to be distinguished from such sentimentality. More and more knowledge of natural history such as this book is meant to create an appetite for. We'll check foolish emotion

45:24without destroying kindness and begin a real respect for animal intelligence and animal rights. List of best books. Akin Doctor and Barbow misses, eyes and no eyes and other stories. Bass Florence Animal Life. Bass Florence Plant Life. Brown, Dr. John, Rab and his friends, Burroughs J, Ways of Nature, Cochran, Robert, 400 animal stories, Davis Richard Harding, Bar Sinister, De La Rame, Weeda, The Dog of Flanders, Eastman, CA, The Red Hunters and the Animal People, X-Torm, Fanny Hardy, The Bird Book, Hamerton, Philip G, Chapters on Animals, Harris, Joel Chandler, Uncle Remus, Holder, CF, The Ivory King, Holbert, William D, Boris Neighbors, Ingersaw, Ernest, Wild Neighbors, Jordan, David Star, Two Tales of Birds and Beasts, Jordan, DS, Calog, VL, and Heath, H,

46:30Animals, Kipling, Rudyard, Jungle Books, Knot, Thomas W, Poor Stories, Lang, Andrew, The Red Book of the Animal Stories, Lockwood, Samuel, Animal Memoirs, London, Jack, The Call of the Wild, Melville, Herman, Taipei, Life in the South Seas, Miller, Olive Thorn, Little Brothers of the Air, Suol, Anna, Black Beauty, Smith, F, World of Animals, White, SE, The Forest, Volume 9, Stories of Today, the first part of this volume consists of stories by modern writers dealing mainly with life in our own day. They are, of course, men for the older children and both the style and the situations all for more maturity on the part of the reader. The lore of the extraordinary is now dispensed with, and instead these tales supply the interest that comes from recognizable truth to experience. When a boy reaches a certain

47:32age in his development, he is apt to become impatient of the fantastic and impossible infection. The sense of fact which is everyday life and most of his study in school have been cultivating finally becomes the dominant element and it tends to reject summarily all that offends it. For some years now the physical is in the ascendant and the child is passing through the most precarious period of his life. The imaginative and ideal elements were never more important than at this time, and yet these are precisely what he is most likely to reject in his reading. The lavish use of such qualities in the books of his earlier years is now merely irritating to him and a substitute is urgently needed. It is at this point that wholesome, modern fiction of a more realistic type can serve a lofty educational purpose. The care of the best modern writers of fiction for accuracy of detail, for faithfulness to local color, for technical exactness in the description

48:35of both internal and external matters, appeals to a youth just beginning to pride himself on his grasp of reality and lays him open to whatever else the writer may have to offer. What these stories have to give is a number of pictures of life presented vividly and convincingly and in proportion to their truth and vigor serving as the kind of vicarious experience. The reading of such fiction with a lively realization of the scenes and characters is not only an exercise of the imagination abundantly rewarded by the pleasure obtained but is also a moral gymnastic through its stretching and supplying of the capacity for sympathy with one's fellows. The list of fiction contained in these volumes representing the imaginative product of almost all races and times is fitly closed by the gift made to the children of England, of a story for themselves by the master of English novelists William Makepiece Thackery.

49:36List of best books, Bacon, Josephine Daskram, The Madness of Philip, Brown, Abbey Farewell, The Lonesome Miss Doll, Churchill, Winston, Richard Carville, Collins Wilkie, The Moonstone, Crake Mrs. MD, John Halifax Gentlemen, Doyle Arthur Conan, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Ebers George Egyptian Princess, Garland Hamlin, Captain of the Grey Horse Troop, Haggard HR, King Solomon's Mines, Aleve Ludovic, Abbey Constantine, Hope Anthony, The Prisoner of Zenda, Hope Anthony, Rupert of Hanzau, Jewett Sarah O. Deep Haven, Johnson Owen, Stover at Yale, Johnson Owen the Varmut, King Charles Cadet Days, Kipling Rudyard Kim, Olivemp Alfred, Bob Son of Battle, Paige Thomas Nelson, a captured Santa Claus, Parker Gilbert, The Seats of the Mighty,

50:40Pierre Arthur S., The Jester of St. Timothy's, Rice Mrs. A. C., Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage Patch, Russell William C., The Rack of the Grovener, Seaton Ernest Thompson, Biography of Agrizzly, Stevenson Robert Lewis, Kidnapped, Tarkington Booth, Monsieur Bocaire, Webster, Gene, when Patty went to college, Wiggen, Kate Douglas, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Volume 10, Poems Old and New, The previous volumes have provided roughly a progression from the simplest fairy tales to modern fiction, not written primarily for young people. The wise guide will, of course, not follow this order slavishly, but will pick and choose in accordance with the taste of the individual child. For, in spite of the stress that has been laid in these remarks on the educative value, intellectual and moral of the stories, it must never be forgotten that whatever ulterior end literature may serve, it must do it by pleasing.

51:46If then any selection, however delightful to the adult, fails to entertain the child, it should be laid aside for a later time. The material here gathered is to be regarded not as a means of discipline, but as a source of joy, and anything that would introduce unpleasant associations with these volumes should be avoided as endangering the main ends they are created to serve. If this is true of the prose, it is still more true of the poetry. Indeed, there is no excuse here for either tedium or labor, so rich is the variety, so wide the range. The collection of poems begins with the simplest nursery rhymes, to be said, or better, sung to the child from his earliest years, until it has them all by heart. The habit of committing verse to memory thus begun should be kept up throughout childhood, care being taken that the poems find allodgement, not through drudgery, but as a result of delighted repetition.

52:47In this way, a child may arrive at the end of his school days, to find himself in possession of a large body of poetry, much of it from the pens of the greatest of our writers. The profit of this in enjoyment, in the cultivation of the ear for the beauty of words and rhythms, in the storing of the memory with fine phrases and noble thoughts, in the familiarity with rich and elevated feeling. Has been pointed out by Mr. Elliott, in the introduction, and need not be further urged here. Something of the best and most delightful of such poets, as Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Burns, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Scott, Byron, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Longfellow and Emerson, will be found, along with the most exquisite of the simpler products of minor pens. The table is spread with abundance. These notes are meant merely to give hints for serving the feast. List of best books. Book of Old English Ballads. Bryant, William

53:50Cullen, a new library of poetry and song. Coats, Henry T., the children's book of poetry. Egleston, George Carey, American War Ballads and lyrics. Elliott, Samuel, poetry for children. Gilder, Jeanette L., the heart of youth. Ingpin, Roger, 1,000 poems for children. Jordan, Charlotte Brewster, Mother Song and Child Song. Night, William, the poets on Christmas, Knowles, Frederick Lawrence, a treasury of humorous poetry. Lang, Andrew, the blue poetry book. Lovejoy, Mary I, Nature Inverse. Lucas, Edward Viral, a book of verses for children. Lucas, Edward Viral, another book of verses for children. Our children's songs. Paget, RL, poems of American patriotism. Halgrave, Francis Turner, Golden Treasury, Patmore, Coventry, the children's garland from

54:50the best poets. Reptlié, Agnes, a book of famous verse. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, an American anthology, 1787 to 1900. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, a Victorian anthology, 1837 to 1895. Thacker, Lucy W., the listening child. Pylston, Mary Wilder, the child's harvest of verse. Whittier, John Greenleaf, Child Life. Wigan, Kate Douglas and Smith, Nora Archibald, Pinafore Palace, End of Reading Guide.