The Parent's Library Xine Volumes, Uniformly Bound. 12 mo. Cloth. Per Volume, $1.50 First Steps in Child Training By PROFESSOR M. V. O'SHEA The Trend of the Teens By PROFESSOR M. V. O'SHEA The Faults of Childhood and Youth By PROFESSOR M. V. O'SHEA Everyday Problems in Child Training By PROFESSOR M. V. O'SHEA Putting Young America in Tune How to Teach the Child Appreciation of Music By HENRIETTE WEBER The Home Guide to Good Reading With Notes By PROFESSOR DAVID HARRISON STEVENS The Proper Feeding of Infants By W. H. GALLAND, M. D. Diseases of Infancy and Childhood By W. H. GALLAND. M. D. Maternity and Infant Care ^ives of Mothers and Ch How We Can Save Them By W. H. GALLAND, M. D. The Lives of Mothers and Children, How We Can Save Them MR. PEGGOTTY (David Copper field) From Etching- by Frederick Barnard Courtesy of Cassell & Company, Ltd., London ftbc parcnt'g Xibrarg The Home Guide to Good Reading Compiled With Notes By DAVID HARRISON STEVENS, Ph. D, Assistant Professor of English The University of Chicago : IFG;- CHICAGO FREDERICK J. DRAKE & CO. Publishers Copyright, 1920 By Frederick J. Drake & Co. Chicago Att Rights Reserved To the Mother of John and Anne 426211 parent's library A series of practical books relating to the care and culture of the young, published under the editorial supervision of Professor M. V. O'Shea of the University of Wisconsin, Edu- cational Director, and Mr. Paul E. Watson, Edi-torial Direc- tor, of Mother's Magazine and Home lAfc, in cooperation with which magazine this Library has been prepared. PREFACE Acknowledgment is made herewith of assist- ance obtained from articles and books on the subject of good reading. Helpful ideas were gained from a booklet prepared by members of the English department at the University of Wis- consin and from publications issued by the city librarians of Newark, Buffalo, Milwaukee, Cleve- land and Chicago. Mr. John Cotton Dana, Miss Linda A. Eastman, and Mr. Walter L. Brown gave generously of their extensive information. They and Mr. George B. Utley of the American Library Association were able to advise me on points unfamiliar to persons of any other pro- fession. Those who find profitable direction in reading from the following pages will be sure to supplement this guide with the opinions of the most indefatigable critics of books, the trained librarians serving every community of America. THE AUTHOR. TABLE OF CONTENTS GROUP PAGE AN INTRODUCTION TO READING 13 I BOOKS FOR LITTLE FOLKS 35 Picture Books Stories and Poems Miscella- neous. II SUPPLEMENTARY READING FOR THE UPPER GRADES 55 Biography Fiction Poems and Plays His- tory, Adventure and Travel Outdoor Books Practical Handbooks. III SUPPLEMENTARY READING FOR HIGH SCHOOL DAYS 87 Biography Fiction Drama Travel Miscel- laneous Guides to Self-Improvement Practi- cal Handbooks. * IV THE KIND OF READING FOR A LIBERAL EDUCA- TION 113 Biography Fiction Drama Essays and Let- ters Travel Miscellaneous. V BOOKS FOR LEISURE HOURS IN COLLEGE OR OUT . 139 Biography Fiction Drama Essays and Let- ters Miscellaneous. VI SPECIAL LISTS FOR MATURE READERS 163 The Bible Political and Social Life of the United States Political and Social Life of Other Countries Professions and Vocations The World War Further Reading in Fiction Further Reading in Drama Collections. INDEX OF TITLES 209 INDEX OF AUTHORS. . . .229 AN INTRODUCTION TO READING In America today the question is not, What books shall I read! but, Shall I read books at all! This is true in spite of free libraries in every town and renting collections in corner stores of the cities. As a nation, America reads the daily newspaper, counting that its "literature" as well as its kaleidoscope of passing events. Next in order of popularity stands the moving picture, and after that perhaps the story weekly or monthly magazine. Books are actually on the defensive among us. As national means to cul- ture or amusement they are becoming the prop- erty of the child still in school and of adults 1 inving had some higher education. This is true in the broad sense. To be sure, "best sellers" have wide reading, and in actual number the new books of a year bulk large on library catalogues ; but when judged by the mass of our hundred million readers, the copies actu- ally in circulation are very few. People generally prefer the stories and sketches of popular maga- zines with their striking pictures and thick-sown advertisements in color. They return io child- is GJU f iDE TO GOOD READING hood's method of learning through pictures because it is easier, or they concentrate far scant half hours on the swift, impressionistic artistry of the short-story. Thus as a nation we are in danger of thinking that the simplest is necessarily the best, forget- ting that quick impressions cannot in literature be so enduring as those of longer sort. Neither is there any substitute for the printed book. With its fluttering sketches of great novels the moving picture has not taken the place of prose fiction. Character analysis cannot be depicted in flashes of light. The novelist whose work has been filmed, holds his secrets still locked within the two or three hundred pages of carefully wrought characterization and setting. Great men and women of fiction are like those of reality to be understood only after a long acquaintance. Therefore fiction and biography will always be our best aids to clear understanding of human nature in all its moods and in every environment. Furthermore, the moving picture cannot give the mastery of language or the subtle joy of dis- covering charm in words. At best it is mechan- ical, artificial, and tempting only because so simple. The charge against short-stories is more dif- ficult, perhaps, and yet quite as sure. A good story of three thousand words may make a real impression upon a reader one much like the AN INTRODUCTION TO READING 15 quick, heavy pressure of a friend's handclasp. It may be as true to nature as the sudden, eager grasp showing the exact shade of pleasure our presence brings to a friend, but usually it is limited in effect by reason of its very brevity. Only the greatest masters can make three thou- sand words express subtle changes in human nature. None can express within such limits the inter-relations of men and women in groups or the details of environment that affect human nature profoundly. Short-stories are like the flashed scenes of moving pictures ; novels may be ample views of life at any point in world history. It would seem, therefore, that novels, next to poetry, contain our finest expressions of human feeling in literary form. Surely many longer pieces of prose fiction deserve the enthusiasm of the critic who held that more could be learned of life by reading Anna Karenina than by living. Equal claim, however, may be made for the best volumes of history, biography, and closely rea- soned fact. Novels represent roughly the value of all books as books by comparison with shorter prose pieces, whatever their substance. Their very size demands a higher craftsmanship in letters, a soul ample enough to fill page after page without dullness or repetition. At their best they measure up to Milton's definition as "the precious life- blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." They "are 16 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are." The matter really needs no argument, but only to be considered. All will agree that truly great books are as valuable to civilized society as truly great men. We may go a step further and admit that books are more valuable to mankind, for their lives are unending and inspiring to the humblest seeker after truth. At this point the fact confronts us that choice must still be made among the rows and rows of volumes on library and bookstore shelves. Mod- ern presses work too fast for human eyes to fol- low them, even though all the best of older litera- ture be ignored. Time was when books were few and uniformly better than today; at least it was easier for critics to pass on the output year by year and so save the best. A hundred years ago it was not strange for Lamb to recommend the literary training of Bridget Elia as described in the following passage: "She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into a spacious closet of good old English reading, without much selection or prohibition, and browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. Had I twenty girls, they should be brought up exactly in~ that fashion." His is a happy picture of good reading in abundance and all of it good. But if it ever existed, that day is gone. Advice AN INTRODUCTION TO READING 17 can be taken best from more recent students of letters, men who saw the onrush of books threat- ening to overwhelm readers untrained in selec- tion. Buskin's counsel is, "A common book will often give you much amusement, but it is only a noble book which will give you dear friends. Bemember also that it is of less importance to you in your earlier years that the books you read should be clever than that they should be right. I do not mean oppressively or repulsively instruc- tive, but that the thoughts they express should be just and the feelings they excite generous. " The rule of good practice in reading could not be stated more simply. The same note lies in Schopenhauer's saying, "You can never read bad literature too little, nor good literature too much," though it lacks the guiding counsel of Buskin's fine words. It is in Sesame and Lilies that this master of nineteenth century prose most pointedly faces us with the serious issue. His words are: "Have you measured and mapped out this short life and its possibilities? Do you know, if you read this, that you cannot read that that what you lose today you cannot gain tomorrow? Will you go and gossip with your housemaid or your stable- boy when you may talk with queens and kings or flatter yourself that it is with any worthy consciousness of your own claims to respect that you jostle with the hungry and common crowd 18 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING for entree here, and audience there, when all the while this eternal court is open to you with its society wide as the world, multitudinous as its days the chosen, the mighty, of every place and time?" Suppose that under such counsel all have resolved to read only the best. How shall we dis- cover what books are really worth our time? Emerson's sweeping command is, "Never read any book that is not a year old." This is as much as to say, Let public opinion and paid reviewers settle the claims of new books; then we may find the best winnowed from the chaff of the year. Such a process has been going on, year after year, for generations, until now we can choose without waiting for fresh judgment on the newest works. We may immediately take down from the library shelf one of the i l classics ' ' books approved through many years, not one only, by discriminating readers. With human dislike for advice, we may feel resentful when told that a particular book should be read "because it is a classic." This recalls too vividly for pleasure the days of school spent in analyzing Burke 's Speech on Conciliation with America, Julius Caesar, or Silas Marner. Classics they all are, unquestionably, but the mode of acquaintanceship was too rude and com- pulsory for us to recall them or the word itself with pure pleasure. Or perhaps we share the AN INTRODUCTION TO READING 19 feeling described by Frederic Harrison in the remark, "We grow weary of what everyone is supposed to have read." Putting aside these instinctive distastes to guidance, let us give attention to the books themselves. Remember the human heart behind the printed pages of every great book. Realize that there, exposed to view, is the inmost feeling of an interesting, thoughtful individual. He may tell humorous, sad, idealistic, or romantic stories ; his own soul is in the lines. He may take us trav- eling to great distances ; he only shows his private joy in strange places and peoples. He may relate plain facts of history for us; he is only telling the world that he finds this act base, that one noble, and still another glorious. Fear of classics fades as soon as we realize their origin to be in personalities. Do we demand of our friends that they admire in one another exactly what we ourselves choose as fine? Assuredly not. Has not every one of us two friends who he hopes devoutly may never meet? Each has some special merit in our eyes, as we presumably have in theirs; yet still other traits, we know, would make the two instant enemies. It may be a difference of business, politics, or religion. No matter; we see the difficulty ahead and avoid it. Now, taste in reading depends on precisely such issues. We must therefore have the courage to say honestly, "I don't like this 20 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING book. I may later in life, when I have read more, but not now. Classic or no classic, I shall not finish it." This is not scientific procedure, to be sure, toward winning at once a full appreciation of literature. It is something more important to us for the moment, namely a step toward finding among the world's best books our own kind. Prom that point, once found, we may pass grad- ually by proper stages to varieties of pleasur- able reading not originally our possession. This honesty with ourselves will instantly break down all distrust of our own taste. In literature, as in music, we are apt to agree dishonestly that a 'particular thing is fine rather than be thought uncultured. Arthur James Balfour expresses the fact thus: "The first step has hardly been taken in the direction of making literature a pleasure until interest in the subject, and not a desire to spare (so to speak) the author's feel- ings, or to accomplish an appointed task, is the prevailing motive of the reader. " Begin where you are. not where you feel you should be. That is the only way to make progress. This advice presupposes ability to find the true classics, of our literature. It is a simple matter if we determine to do it. The right method is to use a guide of some sort. The book in your hand at this moment is such a work, so devised as to hint at the matter within every volume mentioned. AN INTRODUCTION TO READING 21 All are not " classics " in the narrowest sense of that term, but all have literary or fact value above the common. No one could conceivably like all that are named, nor could he find time to read all. Even were both these notions possible, at the end of his labors the reader would by no means have covered the whole range of fine litera- ture. No critic can select only the best, nor is it possible to enclose within the covers of a single book clear comments on all that deserves atten- tion. The end desired has been gained if this guide leads its readers to instruction and pleasure within the realm of literature. Good books, even the classics, offer as much variety of companion- ship as life itself. Having found his true friends, the reader will soon discover that, as in life, he has been introduced to a third person, congenial and interesting albeit a trifle different from him- self or that first friend among books. There we may leave him. Once entered in the guild of literary comradeship he will make his own way. In that brotherhood he may, in Lowell's words, "see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time." * ****** * Children love books. Of that there can be no doubt whatever. Nor is their love of the vague, undiscriminating sort. Kate Douglas 22 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING tells of looking back to a childhood home contain- ing a stock of medical and theological works, and also a little walnut book-case full of ' ' dear, broken backs, broken in my service." In this collection, as a little girl she had two favorites, one a maroon-covered David Copperfield, whose pages were limp with the kisses of adoring childhood. The other, Who Killed CocJc Robin? illustrated in colors, years later could make her heart beat faster in recollections and set her mind a-dream- ing. Such love of books is the priceless heritage of childhood, when every word and picture make their profound impressions. Because of it even the smallest children should be provided with only the best stories and pictures. Having the chance to choose for themselves, young children will unerringly begin with tales of fairies, elves, and all the other strange beings of imagination. A boy of five feels own brother to any creature acting grotesquely in this strang- est of all places, the w^orld. He lives in a dream- land to which books merely lend reality by telling in black and white or better, in colors that all he imagines is really true. How unhappy he may be made by compulsory doses of fact, and how barren will be his early years if reality blots out all his fairy pictures of purest fancy ! Fortunately for Kate Douglas Wiggin, she was a child in days when books were less plentiful. This compelled the family to own its 6wn library. AN INTRODUCTION TO READING 23 wherefore the books were selected carefully. Buy- ing to keep meant careful choosing. Today this is still true, but free libraries have ended the need of buying in order to read. It no longer is necessary to keep at all. Children own few books aside from those received as Christmas or birth- day gifts; instead they draw temporarily from public libraries. Books are not today their truly own, to be kissed, reread, and treasured, for ownership seems to parents needless and as for the children the possibility probably never occurs to them. This loss cannot be held a fault of the library system our chief hope of liberal educa- tion beyond the school room. Free libraries enable children to meet the world of authors face to face, and by careful selection our librarians make their shelves safe hunting-grounds for the youth. This is one decided advantage of our generation. Jeremy Bentham, one of England's greatest thinkers, credited his mental grasp to a childhood of unrestrained browsing among books. At the age of five he was found on a high stool in his father's library, a lighted candle on either side and a very heavy volume on his child- ish knees. The book was Rapin's History of England, surely serious enough for a boy of five summers. But the same boy at six had read enough hero stories to play at war in his grand- mother's granary, where he valiantly used a seventeenth century sword on the vandal rats. 24 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING A reading of the Telemachus story at about that time he counted the starting point of his whole career. By roaming from book to book he gar- nered the ideas that nourished his whole life. Yet with Bentham, as with the boy in our modern public library, the principle of selection was active, for his father had chosen discreetly when loading the family shelves. So too do librarians today. Lucky is the child who learns to use their kindly advice as well as their books. With small children the dangers of unguided reading are of peculiar sort. As has been said above, all children love books and choose natur- ally if given range. The danger is that they will limit their choice too soon, before imaginative reading has done its work. Even older persons are guilty of narrowing a child's interests too early. During the holiday season of 1919 certain American booksellers complained that parents were buying their children not fairy tales, but books containing facts as if a child of six would gain more from concrete details than by having his imagination enlivened with the joys of world- wide wanderings. Perhaps such parental serious- ness arose from anxiety over the world's need of educated men and women in reconstruction days ; at any rate, it would defeat its own ends if con- tinued, for without vision there can be no great attainment in any line of endeavor. So long as a child revels in the glowing im- AN INTRODUCTION TO READING 25 possibilities of fairyland, so long should he be left to his own ways. Soon enough he will turn to practical tests of himself and all other con- crete matters on earth; then the power of imag- inative survey will come as a relief from routine and as an aid to broad judgment. Coleridge used to say that he felt a great superiority over those who had not read fairy tales during childhood, because they all seemed to lack his sense of the unity of the universe. Romance in prose or verse is for youth a developing power, not the means to idleness. It raises the child's horizon until it is limitless. If a child has thus freed his spirit, thereafter work can never be for him mere drudgery. May we never turn the child of five to eight years away from Perrault, the Grimms, Andersen, or their modern imitators for the sake of vain reality. His own nature will make that transition after elfin days are done. Though those years of fullest fancy are to pass unhampered, the books then put into a child's way should attain a certain standard of excel- lence. They should be finely illustrated as one requirement. A sense of proportion in figures, of beautiful coloring, can be developed at the age of four or even earlier. Tawdry grotesqueness in children's books is as vulgar as anywhere else. The same criticism may be made of certain stories "written down" to the child's level, as though lie demanded smartness of his animals in human 26 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING guise or only modern life thinly dressed in humor- ous wrappings. Good taste in picture and story, fine press work and good binding are as truly the right of childhood as of maturity and have far more aesthetic importance during the impression- able years. There remains another necessary aid to be given young readers. What the child finds put into his own hands cannot take the place of that coming to him from the lips of others. Beading aloud to children still too young to read for themselves, is a natural act for all mothers but one soon forgotten when no longer necessary. The first value of oral reading lies in hearing correct pronunciation of new words and thus learning sound and sense simultaneously. Many grown persons fumble a word picked up through reading and uttered only when the need arose suddenly. Still more unfortunate is the child who forgets a strange word completely because its meaning is vague and its pronunciation beyond conjecture, the dictionary being to him a book 'only in name. Oral reading teaches correct pronunciation, adds new words and phrases to the child's vocabulary, and forms a living contact between writer and auditor. Such profit is gained uncon- sciously, as in the case of a prominent orator now living. He was reared in a bookish home. There he heard good literature long before he could AN INTRODUCTION TO READING 27 read, for while his hands were busied with blocks and toys his ears were taking in the stories fall- ing from his mother 's lips. Volume after volume of Dickens, Thackeray, and certain old classics for which we have no modern substitutes were poured forth year after year as the boy passed from toys to tools, and from tools to drawing. Today he possesses a vocabulary of marvelous richness and a correct pronunciation of all the words in his speech. Time spent in reading aloud is not wasted, nor is it a small advantage to know through such sharing what stories are filling a child's leisure hours. The reader selects, or at least approves, every book that through him becomes a living experience for his youthful listener. For this reason alone parents may keep up the practice of reading aloud to good effect through many years. When a boy or girl is choosing at random from adventure stories, the same care in selection is impossible. Oral reading cannot keep pace with the child's full demand. Then a book may be brought from the library and left on the reading table, but not always. It may be read in the family circle of an evening, but it may also be devoured aloft in barn or tree during summer vacation. Such liberty may bring a youth to dis- cover his true genius. More often, however, he is led on from book to book in a series by the 28 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING same author, not one of the lot having high literary merit or characters true to life. One such book in three months would be harmless, whereas ten or twelve during that period would be disastrous. Such tangents are pitiful, for the child's mind is filled with worthless images, his taste is undeveloped or ruined, and worse still the time spent is lost from useful reading. At once there arises need of scientific guidance. From his tenth to his fifteenth year the average boy or girl is determining his taste in books. A genuine appreciation of the best cannot be won without effort, nor will the child discover for himself the value of such effort. Mothers may well remember that there will be no sudden turn away from poor magazine stories and badly writ- ten novels toward the best things in prose and poetry. There must be place from the first for truly great fiction, for biography, for the varie- ties of reading matter having something in them beyond the transitory. As far as possible, too, there should be con- stant purchase of good books for the home library. An old tale relates the story of a youth led to a life on the sea by the picture of a great four-masted ship that hung on the wall of his room. Books can have similar influence. If kept in view, they will sooner or later be read. Then they become parts of life itself, while still remain- ing on the family shelves to remind their owner AN INTRODUCTION TO READING 29 of aspirations stirred by their contents. During the passing years they may even win a second or third reading. Good books that are personal possessions have power above all but the best of friends. Let them be chosen with the same con- scious care during those immature years when personal taste is an undeveloped element of youthful character. ******* * As in any plan, a person setting out to read for profit must have a definite aim. Broadly speaking it will be a desire to stir his own spirit to life through contact with the best that has been felt and thought in past times. The reader may have a definite course mapped out or his chosen author, but behind any individual plan lies this larger purpose. The practicable measures for profitable reading may be neglected all too easily. It is not enough to pass through a book having an eye only for the story or for something satisfying mere curi- osity. The wise way is to determine beforehand what one hopes to win from a volume as a per- manent possession; then there will be no vague- ness of purpose. More definite still should be the tallying up of results after the book has been finished. Then one can get the full satisfaction of literary possession as he exercises his own taste, rejecting or approving according to his nature. Such estimates may be wrong as criti- SO HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING cism goes generally, but at any rate they are honestly one's own. No treatment of a reader's mind is worse than to make a great critic's esti- mate of a book the basis for selecting only what meets that valuation. The critic may be wrong; but even if he is right, strength of judgment is lost by putting the matter into the hands of another. On this ground alone literary criticism has no place in the following pages. It is a fine and important part of great literature, but one that the reader will come upon most delightfully after assembling some opinions of his own. The broad laws of criticism are enough at the outset. Any book of high rank will teach some- thing worthy regarding God, man, or physical nature. That material, when found, should be treasured. In all but works of fact there will appear some human being of importance, per- haps many. This importance may exist in power to reveal to us other social groups than our own, or better still to show the hitherto unguessed possibilities of our minds and hearts. Then, there will be some charm of style, either in diction or in imagery, that will improve and elevate the reader almost insensibly. These are the simple outlines of what may be asked of any book deserv- ing a reading from cover to cover. One or more marks of excellence may appear, but one is enough. If for you at least there seem to be none at all, throw the book aside. They may appear to you AN INTRODUCTION TO READING 31 later in life. If there are many excellences in your eyes, treasure that volume for a bedside shelf or one near a favorite chair, whence it may be pulled down again and again. Yet some will protest that this simple outline is not sufficient aid when attempting the great masterpieces of literature. They assert that the diction is obsolete, the philosophy abstruse, and so on. True enough, the bare text of Shakspere makes difficult reading at first; there must be glossaries, notes, and even critical helps as well if one is to grasp the fullest measure of Shaks- pere 's meaning. With another author it will be necessary to find out why he was so interested in his theme. That will demand some study of the political and social conditions of his day. Such a book is Carlyle's Past and Present, and of similar kind are many others. At this point a warning is necessary. Do not look for opinions ; look for helps. The text itself contains all the truth if we can only dig it out. A book that quickly proves hard reading will drive one to an encyclopedia in order to find the essential facts of its creation. There, or in any good handbook of literature, they are clearly stated, and with the general hints are the names of editors who have brought out critical editions. Another timely warning is that one should not be disappointed when a classic fails to give him great or immediate pleasure. It may be neces- 32 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING sary to read it at a leisurely pace, having time between sessions with that author for reflection and assimilation. Gibbon's Decline and Fall and Carlyle's French Revolution, for example, are best read so. It is likewise possible that this disappointment arises from demanding strong emotional effects or melodramatic outbursts of passion. A little self-examination will reveal whether the fault lies in the book or in one's own nature, so that the remedy need not be far to seek. For relief from the manner of one author, it is wise to have several within reach. This brings us to the important matter of owning our books. No public library can extend its privileges so as to supply every reader with a varied collection, even for a short time. Its assistance must be transitory. A mature reader will find public libraries useful as loan sources when judging books before purchasing, perhaps for nothing- further. The satisfaction of possessing good' books is very great. Even that joy in the physical beauty of books, in their bindings and typogra- phy, or in their rarity, may come to others than the bibliophile. Certain it is, no man becomes a skilled reader until he has enough volumes about him to gain relief through variety as he pauses for thought while journeying through a master- piece. The expense of collecting for a home library is AN INTRODUCTION TO READING 33 amazingly small, especially if the reader desires books enough to give up some other pastime. As Voltaire said of free libraries, there never has been an expense more magnificent or more useful. Today it is possible to buy reprints of English classics at a low price; moreover, several " libra- ries " of popular works, all sold at a uniform low rate, are putting good books within the reach of all. Second-hand bookstores are also treasure houses to booklovers, for there may be found expensive editions at a fraction of the list prices. In order to choose among the numerous edi- tions of an older book that has been printed several times, consult the United States Catalog of Books in Print. 1 Under author or title will appear all editions in print and the cost of each. The one chosen may then be ordered through any bookseller or of the publisher. This valuable work may be seen in any library and at most large bookstores. Lacking such help, a buyer will do well to write to a book dealer in the nearest city, asking that an edition be sent costing about so much, having illustrations for children, or meeting other stated requirements. Usually the right edition can be found. The fact that the United States Catalog gives list prices of new copyrights as well as of old books, being a full guide to books 'See the annual Cumulative Book Index for new works. 34 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING on sale, makes it needless to give prices for the titles mentioned in the present work. Even new books have various editions nowadays and are constantly changing in price. As a final remark on the limitations of any guide to good reading, the compiler of this classi- fied list urges its users to remember the authors as well as the book titles. Writers like Scott, whose names call to mind several splendid works, deserve more consideration than space here per- mits. As soon as a reader finds the author of all authors for his immediate needs, let him test the works not mentioned here. He will so be carry- ing out the compiler's intention, which is to point the way to self cultivation in literary apprecia- tion, not to hinder personal taste. GROUP I BOOKS FOR LITTLE FOLKS GROUP I BOOKS FOR LITTLE FOLKS This group has titles for children under ten years of age. The first part might be enlarged by adding names of short stories printed sep- arately, but to buy many such books is expensive and impractical. Children are better pleased with a few well-illustrated collections, to be read year after year as were the ' ' chatter-boxes ' ' of past times. The picture books mentioned are all of this sort. Pictures for childhood days should be artistic and finely colored, never grotesque or vulgar. The old tales should therefore be bought in edi- tions illustrated by real artists by such persons as Parrish, Ford, Crane, Brooke, LeMair, Robin- son, Pyle, Caldecott, Pogany, Kate Greenaway, and Jessie Willcox Smith. The name of the artist is to be considered in buying children's books, and also the name of the publisher. Many American and British houses are famous for their juvenile publications ; others are of such high standing that they would never issue a cheap, badly illustrated volume. Since such publishers are constantly 37 38 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING adding to their reprints of fairy tales, fables, and myths, the list given here should be considered merely representative of the best. With all children under ten there is chance for story-telling. The youngest will demand that stories be read or told, and for either method there are a few simple rules. The story should require only fifteen or twenty minutes for telling or read- ing. If told, it should have exact quotations wherever the child expects them. This does not mean memorizing the entire story, but that speeches and phrases repeated in the text for emphasis or climax be kept unchanged. Animal stories are favorites in this first stage, and those of dramatic situation and action. Humor, sur- prise elements, and a rhythmic Structure are desirable. At the age of eight an average child enjoys long narratives of adventure having extravagant exaggerations, supernatural elements, and bold romance. In general, variety is necessary, though a child of sensitive nature should not hear tales that are grim or unduly exciting. Some ethical significance, or moral, is desirable as an ending; this is in response to a demand of child nature and is not to be confused with the oppressive moralizing of some current fiction for children. To avoid the opposite evil, remove from the older fairy tales such bad suggestions as lie in accounts of cruel stepmothers, cruel punishment, shrewd BOOKS FOR LITTLE FOLKS 30 trickery, and wickedness due to stupidity. Com- pilers who understand child nature have freely adapted the old stories in a way to remove such blemishes. From the first much time should be given to poetry. Children love rhythmic measures and are free from the timidity that restrains many adults from learning to enjoy metrical form. As is generally known, dancing games, songs, and simple verses are natural to a child ; for this rea- son memorizing of good poetry is done uncon- sciously if the child hears it read aloud. The seven Heart of Oak Books or one of the large single-volume collections named in this group will give all the fine poetry needed for the years between kindergarten time and preparatory school days. Fine pictures, imaginative stories, and oral reading are all important during the first ten years of a child 's life, but place should likewise be made for poetry while rhythmic motion and rhymed words seem natural forms of self expression. Picture Books Aesop's Fables These have been published countless times and so are easy to obtain. In the editions of Houghton Mifflin. Button, and Doubleday Page will be found excellent illustrations the last named being the most expensive and finest of the three. 40 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN Fairy Tales and Wonder Stories These world favorites are available separately or in complete form. Well illustrated in a moderate-priced volume by Louis Rhead; more expensive and finer edi- tions have drawings by Duloe, Clarke, Armfield, Robin- son, and Tegner. Arabian Nights Selected tales, well illustrated, are published by the following houses named in order of expense of their editions: Houghton Miffiin, Longmans Green, Holt, and Scribners. The last named has the glowing illustra- tions of Maxfield Parrish. BAUM, L. FRANK The Land of Oz The first of a famous series. Profusely illustrated in color, highly entertaining for the youngest children. BROOKE, L. LESLIE Johnny Crow's Garden Pictures that are genuinely amusing and wholesome, with none of the grotesqueness or cheap fun commonly found in newspaper comics. BURGESS, THORNTON W. Old Mother West Wind Stories This popular writer of children's stories has brought out several attractive volumes in this series of nature stories. All are fanciful explanations of how certain things in the world came to be so. BOOKS FOR LITTLE FOLKS 41 CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH (illustrator) Hey, Diddle, Diddle Picture Book Artistic humorous pictures for the stories "Hey, Diddle, Diddle, " "Baby Bunting," "Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid?' ' "A Frog He Would A-Woo- ing Go," and "The Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate." Each story poem is also sold separately. COLLINS, CHAKLES Baby's Big Book of Pictures The pictures are as interesting and cheerful as Mr. Collins* title. Animals, natural scenes, men working out-of-doors are the varied objects presented herein to the minds of the smallest children. CRANE, WALTER (illustrator) The Baby's Bouquet, a fresh bunch of old rhymes and tunes. A child of four will enjoy these musical settings for such old favorites as "London Bridge," "Polly, Put the Kettle On," etc. Well illustrated. DODGE, MARY MAPES (editor) A New Baby World: Stories, Rhymes, and Pictures for Little Folks. A collection of stories and rhymes, all well illus- trated, that amuse and teach as well. GREENAWAY, KATE (illustrator) Marigold Garden Under the Window Two illustrated books that equal her Mother Goose in attractiveness. 42 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING HABPEK, WILHELMINA (editor) Story-Hour Favorites This is a new selection, made by a skilled story- teller in a leading American library. Highly recom- mended for both amount and quality of its contents. JOHNSON, CLIFTON Golden Hair and the Three Bears One of ten folklore stories retold and attractively issued as "Bedtime Wonder Tales." JOHNSON, MARGARET A Bunch of Keys Ingenious telling of stories by use of pictures in place of much ordinarily given in text. Recommended for use with children just trying to read for them- selves. H. WILLEBEEK (illustrator) Our Old Nursery Rhymes, the original tunes harmonized l>y Alfred Moffat Fine coloring and delicate figures here illustrate the popular stories of childhood. This collection will take the place of several others that total higher cost without being so artistic. Little Songs of Long Ago The same artist and musician present a highly attractive collection of more nursery rhymes, includ- ing "Old King Cole," "Little Tom Tucker," "Curly Locks," etc. John Martin's Big Book far Little Folk The third annual volume is as good as its predeces- BOOKS FOR LITTLE FOLKS 43 sors. The color printing, stories, and poems make this yearly book as much prized as the magazine of the same name. PERRAULT, CHARLES Mother Goose Countless reprints of the English translation make Mother Goose stories easy to obtain. Kate Green- away 's illustrations are very popular. Others to be noted in order of increasing cost are those of Jessie Willcox Smith, Hardy, and Rackham. The Volland series of artistic books has a Mother Goose of distinction. POTTER, BEATRIX The Peter Rabbit Books A series of animal stories printed in separate, fully illustrated books that please the smallest children. Not an economical form of story book, for the stories are short, but so written that a young child can quickly memorize an entire tale. The Tailor of Gloucester A charming little tale of how the mice played tricks on a quaint old tailor of Gloucester town. PYLE, KATHERINE Mother's Nursery Tales Familiar stories rewritten in form for telling to little children and illustrated with excellent taste. SCUDDER, HORACE E. (compiler) The Book of Fables and Folk Stories A large and inexpensive collection that has been edited carefully. Illustrated. 44 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING The Children's Book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language A "one-volume library" for children of five to nine years that lives up to the promises of its title. SKINNER, E. L. AND A. M. (compilers) Nursery Tales from Many Lands A well-made book, inexpensive, containing many of the best liked nursery tales. Decorated with black and white drawings. SMITH, GERTRUDE Arabella and Araminta Stories A beginner in reading will enjoy these amusing little tales and will find his task made easy by the repeated phrases. STEVENSON, ROBERT Louis The Child's Garden of Verses Most gracious images of childhood feeling. Any edition will please a child, but the finer ones with illustrations by Storer, Robinson, or Jessie Will- cox Smith have special attractiveness. WALTER, L. E. (compiler) Some Nursery Rhymes of Belgium, France, and Russia This new book is unique in having illustrations by native artists. The editor, who selected the pieces, rhymed in English the foreign ideas of the originals. BOOKS FOR LITTLE FOLKS 45 \VuiiiHT, ISA L. With the Little Folks Twelve lively, simple stories easily understood by children too young to read. Stories and Poems ALDEN, RAYMOND M. Why the Chimes Rang, and Other Stories Eleven fine fairy tales by a living American writer. An Anthology of Mother Verse A new edition of the best mother verse in English, attractively decorated and prefaced by an essay of Kate Douglas Wiggin's. ASBJORNSEN, P. C. Fairy Tales from the Far North Braekstad's translation has made available in Eng- lish such popular pieces as "The Town Mouse and Country Mouse," "Reynard and Chanticleer," "The Parson and the Clerk," and "The Doll in the Grass." BAILEY, CAROLYN S. Firelight Stories The sort of stories that a mother will read aloud to children night after night. BALDWIN, JAMES (compiler) Fifty Famous Stories Retold All are historical stories that appeal to children, such as King Alfred and the cakes, Dick Whit tin gt on. and his cat, and Bruce and the spider. 46 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING BELL, F. E. 0. The Singing Circle Young children can use this collection of action songs and singing games without much outside assist- ance. Well illustrated. BROWN, ABBIE F. The Lonesomest Doll A fairy story for girls who believe that there are queens in homespun as well as in silk. The heroine is daughter of the porter in a great castle whose little queen had never known the true meaning of play until her friendship with the little maiden from below- stairs. BROWNE, FRANCES The Wonderful Chair and the Tales It Told Poetic fairy tales of unusual beauty. BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON The Cozy Lion, as Told by Queen Crosspatch A lion who lives on breakfast foods until he loses his taste for blood that he may have children as play- mates. Highly amusing. The Good Wolf The story of a wonderful wolf that could shake from his ears all sorts of wonderful gifts for a little boy named Barty. CARROLL, LEWIS (C. L. Dodgson) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass This famous nonsense story and its less famous BOOKS FOR LITTLE FOLKS 47 sequel please children immensely; their elders get quite as much amusement from the droll rhymes and the pictures by Tenniel. Issued together and separ- ately in many editions. CBAIK, DINAH M. The Little Lame Prince and His Travelling Cloak; a Parable for Young and Old The wondrous travel cloak and its owner belong to the children of every generation. DEFOE, DANIEL The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe on His Island This is the first travel story read by most boys and the last that they forget, for it seems as real as when written two hundred years ago. DE LA MARE, WALTER The Three Mulla-Mullgars This story by a noted writer of children's verse has a high rank among juvenile classics. A new Amer- ican edition is well illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop. The poems of de la Mare should be included in all reading lists for younger children; like Stevenson's, they will also be read by parents. FRIEDLANDER, GERALD (translator) Jewish Fairy Tales and Stories The artist and translator of this new collection are one and the same person. HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings The first of several happy volumes of negro dialect 48 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING stories about Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the other ani- mals. The stories are familiar to all Southerners and even Uncle Remus himself could be matched on many a plantation. HOLBROOK, FLORENCE (compiler) Book of Nature Myths These stories of primitive folk tell how animals came to be as they are. Just the stories for children growing out of the " fairy story" age. KENNEDY, H. A. (compiler) The New World Fairy Book American children particularly enjoy Indian tales and legends, and in this collection are versions adapted to readers six to eight years old. KINGSLEY, CHARLES The Water Babies A recent edition of this old favorite has several full-page illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith, adding greatly to its attractiveness. KIPLING, BUDYARD The Jungle Book A chil-d will read of Mowgli and the wolves, of the Indian jungle folk, and then will learn with delight that Kipling wrote a Second Jungle Book for him. Just So Stories Comical descriptions of how the camel got his hump, the rhinoceros his skin, etc., in the manner of folk lore stories. BOOKS FOR LITTLE FOLKS 49 LANG, ANDREW (compiler) Little Red Riding Hood The Princess of the Glass Hill Each of these collections contains several popular tales besides the title story. Edited by an excellent critic and published at low cost. LORENZINI, CARLO Adventures of Pinocchio An Italian wonder story of a wooden toy that turned into a sure-enough little boy. Published inexpensively by Button and by Ginn. LUCAS, E. V. (compiler) Book of Verses for Children The compiler has carefully 'chosen some two hundred titles from the work of such poets as Burns, Lewis Carroll, Longfellow, Riley, and Stevenson. MAC MANUS, SEUMAS (compiler) Donegal Fairy Tales In Chimney Corners Irish folk lore is rich in fairy stories and offers many characters refreshingly new. Boys particularly enjoy the humor and exaggeration of Irish tales. NORTON, CHARLES ELIOT (compiler) The Heart of Oak Books The two volumes of rhymes, fables, and nursery tales are excellent in every way and yet inexpensive. The entire series, seven volumes, would form a begin- ning for a child's library at little cost. 50 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING OLCOTT, FRANCES J. (compiler) The Book of Elves and Fairies The unusual merit of this collection lies in its classi- fied index, which will greatly aid the story-teller in choosing tales for special purposes. PITMAN, NORMAN H. (compiler) A Chinese Wonder Book All varieties of Chinese folk lore appear in this translation. Like many other new books for children, this has illustrations by a native artist. BHEAD, Louis (compiler) Bold Robin Hood and His Outlaw Band The old stories of Robin Hood made new and finely illustrated by the compiler. KICHARDS, LAURA E. Four Feet, Two Feet, and No Feet; or Furry and Feathery Pets and How They Live. This collection of a hundred and fifty stories is re- freshing to the child that longs for true animal life as a change from fanciful tales making them do impos- sible things. BUSKIN, JOHN The King of the Golden River; or, The Black Brothers A great master of modern English prose left to child- hood this lovely fairy tale with its significant lesson. SEWELL, ANNA Black Beauty The classic story of what a horse is worth to human kind, in language and setting attractive to children of eight to ten years. BOOKS FOR LITTLE FOLKS 51 Si- Mil, JOHANNA Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learn- in (j The story of a little Swiss girl who lives with her blind grandfather in an Alpine hut. It possesses story charm and value as a travel book. Available in edi- tions of varying cost. WHITE, ELIZA 0. Ednah and Her Brothers Three children have odd and amusing experiences about the house of their artist father. This is one of a group of excellent stories by this author, who writes for readers between the ages of eight and twelve. WIGGIN, KATE DOUGLAS AND SMITH, N. A. (com- pilers) Tales of Laughter Two excellent critics of child literature have col- lected from all countries lively and amusing stories that appeal to young children. WILKINS, MARY E. The Pot of Gold The little story introduces a collection of unusual fairy tales, all of them favorites with young readers. The book ends with a story of different sort, called "The Bound Girl," which shows New England life in Colonial days. WYNNE, ANNETTE (compiler) For Days and Days A year-round treasury of child verse having poems arranged attractively for reading month by month. 52 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING WYSS, J. D. Swiss Family Robinson The adventures of these island dwellers have long been dear to the hearts of youthful readers. The story may be called "an enlarged Robinson Crusoe." Miscellaneous BARNARD, H. C. The British Empire in Pictures The British Isles in Pictures Two books full of genuinely instructive illustrations. BEARD, LINA AND A. B. Little Folks' Handy Book Telling children to "amuse themselves " is possible when the advice is accompanied by this book. It tells how to make playthings out of odds and ends avail- able in any household. BRAINE, S. E. Merchant Ships and What They Bring The pictures of C. J. DeLacy will open the eyes of even very young children to real understanding of the great world and its doings. DEMING, E. W. AND T. 0. American Animal Life Wild animals pictured in their native haunts and described in interesting fashion by T. O. Deming; in- structive for children of kindergarten age. DYER, WALTER A. The Dogs of Boytown A story that teaches boys how to distinguish the BOOKS FOR LITTLE FOLKS 53 various breeds of dogs and how to care properly for their pets. FINNEMORE, JOHN Peeps at Switzerland Descriptive stories and pictures of a most beautiful country. GRIERSON, ELIZABETH W. The Children's Book of Edinburgh Fact that delights quite as much as fiction, regard- ing one of the most romantic cities of the world. HODGES, GEORGE When the King Came. The New Testament story of the Master as retold for children of five to eight. LUCAS, E. V. Four and Twenty Toilers Picture and story explain to children of four to six years the trades of the ship-builder, the cobbler, the miller, and others. OLCOTT, F. J. Bible Stories to Read and Tell A successful presentation of Old Testament heroic narratives because told in Biblical language. PERKINS, LUCY FITCH Scotch Twins The latest in a series of illustrated travel books for younger children. Other titles, by the same author, in the same form tell about France, Belgium, Mexico, Ireland, Japan, and Holland. 54 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING PUMPHREY, MARGARET B. Stories of the Pilgrims These simple narratives carry the reader through the Pilgrim experiences in Holland and of their first years in America. Illustrated. SMITH, E. BOYD The Farm Book Illustrated sketches showing the way a farmer works in field, barn, and forest. The same author has a Seashore Book and a Railroad Book similarly instructive. WARNER, G. C. Star Stories for Little Folks Easy reading that explains how to begin using our eyes on the wonders of the heavens. GROUP II SUPPLEMENTARY READING FOR THE UPPER GRADES GROUP n SUPPLEMENTAL READING FOR THE UPPER GRADES Between the ages of ten and fourteen most boys and girls are busy indoors and outdoors with so many interests that time is lacking for all. Books and studies contend with games and sports afield for their attention, so that there may seem small need for advice on leisure read- ing. Actually, however, children of these years are great lovers of books having certain charac- teristics and are deeply influenced for good or bad as these characteristics are presented prop- erly or otherwise. Deeds of daring may be the heroic acts of his- tory or the furtive murders of outlaws and dime- novel detectives. An active boy will read one kind or the other; he is indifferent, so long as his spirit of adventure is satisfied. A girl will similarly find her pleasure in tales of human devotion and self-sacrifice or in cheap sentimen- talism. A book like Little Women can set up an ideal of good fiction that will lead her to discard the shoddy. Of the worthless kind there is small 57 58 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING choice between those books unkindly called ^Sun- day-school stories " and their flashy opposites of the East Lynne variety. Both are bad because untrue. Choice of books for such readers must be on grounds of wholesomeness, true courage, and devotion to duty. Real heroes and their counter- parts in fiction are equally useful as ideals, par- ticularly if people of action. Other types of reading greatly enjoyed during these years are the practical handbooks dealing with manual arts, woodcraft, and outdoor sport. These should all be of the kind that challenge a reader to do the thing himself or to create some- thing by using hands and tools. Camp Fire Girls and Boy Scouts get such training under expert guidance; consequently they know where to find the newest books on outdoor life. The boy or girl unable to join such an organization would be wise to get their handbooks, for they are new and well written, contain a mass of information, and have good illustrations. There are, to be sure, many other excellent books on "what to do and how to do it" aside from those listed. The number of real stories for boys and girls between ten and fourteen is still longer, for authors seem to enjoy turning out books for such eager and appreciative read- ers. The tests of merit are simple. It is excellent practice to unite practical and imaginative devel- SUPPLEMENTARY READING 59 opment so far as possible, and particularly to prevent a taste for stories of sheer adventure. Biography ABBOTT, JACOB History of King Alfred Account of hero days in England, when men fought for the rich provinces left vacant after the fall of Rome. ALLEN, CHAKLES F. David Crockett, Scout A boy's book about a real pioneer American. BALDWIN, JAMES An American Book of Golden Deeds Stories about both famous and obscure heroes; of interest to boys and girls as well. Four Great Americans: Washington, Web- ster, Franklin, Lincoln BEACH, S. C. Daughters of the Puritans Biographical sketches of seven New England women, written with fine regard for social environment. BROOKS, ELBRIDGE S. The Century Book of Famous Americans By taking his readers to the homes of famous Amer- icans, this author teaches a great deal regarding those - who made our country. 60 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING OUSTER, ELIZABETH B. Boots and Saddles Biography of General Ouster. DOUBLEDAY, RuSSELL Stories of Inventors EASTMAN, CHARLES A. Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains All boys have heard of Sitting Bull. He and fourteen other real Indians are sketched in Eastman's new book. EGGLESTON, EDWARD Stories of Great Americans for Little Ameri- cans Some of the characters considered are Daniel Boone, Kit Carson, George Washington, and Benjamin Franklin. FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN Autobiography In simple language ; the story of the activities of a great American and of our nation's life during Revo- lutionary days. HAPGOOD, HUTCHINS Paul Jones The life of a sea hero put into words by a master of expository writing. HORTON, EDITH A Group of Famous Women Biographical sketches of Dolly Madison, Queen Victoria, Louise Alcott, Frances Willard, and others. SUPPLEMENTARY READING 61 HUGHES, THOMAS Alfred the Great A standard story of English life under the- rule of King Alfred. JOHNSON, C. H. L. Famous Discoverers and Explorers of America JOXCKHEEKE, ROBERT When I Was a Boy in Belgium Games, customs, the school life of a Belgian youth, tho holidays of that nation are some of the topics treated in this autobiography. MEADOWCROFT, W. H. The Boys' Life of Edison Inside views of Edison's laboratories are given by a life-long companion of the great inventor. MOSES, BELLE Louisa May Alcott, Dreamer and Worker. A Story of Achievement Girls who have read Little Women will enjoy this biography showing why its author wrote such a book. NICOLAY, HELEN Boy's Life of Abraham Lincoln Authentic, interesting, and simply told. The author used materials collected for the full, authoritative work of Nicolay and Hay. 62 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING SCUDDER, HORACE E. George Washington One of the best single-volume lives of Washington, in language suited to younger readers. WHITE, JOHN S. Plutarch for Boys and Girls Simplified accounts of the great men of Greece and Rome. WISE, DANIEL Men of Renown Some Remarkable Women WRIGHT, HENRIETTA C. Children's Stories of the Great Scientists Fiction AANRUD, HANS Lisbeth Lone/frock This attractive little narrative gives a picture of home life on a Norwegian farm. ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY Little Women The story of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March, who lived in a New England village during Civil War times. Life is made more interesting for them by their neighbors, old Mr. Lawrence and his grandson. Jo, with her literary ambitions, is a picture of Miss Alcott 's own youth ; the lives of her three sisters are also depicted partially in the other characters. SUPPLEMENTARY READING This is undoubtedly the best-loved story for girls thus far written in America. Its readers will go on to com- plete the list of Miss Alcott's books, the most popular being Little Men, Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out, Under the Lilacs, and Eight Cousins. ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY The Story of a Bad Boy The boy is sent from New Orleans to a Puritanical NV\v England town for his education. His adventurous pranks and youthful troubles are largely from the author's boyhood. ALTSHELER, JOSEPH A. Guns of Bull Run Guns of Shiloh Companion volumes showing the Civil War from South- ern and from Northern points of view. The Great Sioux Trail The exciting events of the Indian Wars are here made to live again. The narrative is full of suspense and vigorous action. ATKINSON, ELEANOR Johnny Appleseed; a Romance of the Sower The romantic tale of a traveling benefactor of our country who dispenser apple seeds through several States and thus greatly enlarged the fruit crop of later gen- erations. BALDWIN, JAMES The Story of Roland Prose version of the great French hero-poem. 64 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING BARBOUR, RALPH H. The Crimson Sweater The hero whose touchdown brought victory to his school will introduce boys to a highly prized series of red-blooded stories by this author. Others are For the Honor of the School, Four in Camp, and Lost Island. BARR, AMELIA E. The Bow of Orange Ribbon A story of New York during our War of Independ- ence, the romance being based on the love affair of a Dutch girl and an English soldier. BOND, A. K. With the Men Who Do Things Two boys visiting New York City have experiences that show pretty clearly how a modern city is built and kept in operation. A sequel is Pick, Shovel and PlucK. BROOKS, NOAH The Boy Emigrants The lively adventures of three boys who went from Illinois to California and back. Excellent illustrations by H. T. Dunn depict the most exciting situations. BURGESS, THORNTON W. Boy Scouts of Woodcraft Camp A genuine Scout story containing much information on woodcraft and a series of exciting adventures in its narrative. BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON Little Lord Fauntleroy Little Cedric Earl is living with his American mother in a somewhat shabby street of New York when news SUPPLEMENTARY READING 65 comes of his fine inheritance in England. His true friendliness and trust in everyone win him the love of liis irascible grandfather and at length reconcile the old '.-irl to Cedric's mother. CARRUTH, HAYDEN Track's End " Being the narrative of Judson Pitcher's strange winter spent there as told by himself." A story of adventures in the Territory of Dakota when Indians won? real Indians. COFFIN, CHARLES C. My Days and Nights on the Battlefield. Popular stories of Civil War days. COFFIN, ROLAND E. An Old Sailor's Yarns. Tales of Many Seas COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE The Last of the Mohicans Exciting incidents in the conflict between the Amer- ican Indian and the pioneer backwoodsman form a fine tale of adventure. The Spy: A Tale of Neutral Ground DANA, RICHARD HENRY, JR. Two Years Before the Mast \ story based on personal experiences aboard ship in the days when American sailing vessels carried much merchandise and romance. Splendid descriptions of the sea and her people. 66 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING DICKENS, CHARLES David Copper field Perhaps his most popular book. The title character embodies the boyhood experiences of Dickens and his mature ambitions. Mr. Micawber, Uriah Heep, and a fine gathering of Dickens folk give variety and movement to every chapter. DODGE, MARY MAPES Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates A fine piece of fiction that gives also an idea of life in Holland. DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN Micah Clarke An historical novel with a fine figure as its hero. The events lie in the England of Charles II and inchide the Battle of Sedgemoor. The White Company A narrative of the 14th century continental wars, with the Duke of Lancaster as its central figure. An historical novel of high merit. DUGMORE, A. E. Adventures in Beaver Stream Camp A modern Robinson Crusoe story of the Labrador coast. EATON, WALTER P. Boy Scouts of Berkshire The author wrote from knowledge gained as a scout- master and consequently put into his story- just the things that every Boy Scout ought to know. SUPPLEMENTARY READING 67 ELIOT, GEORGE (MARY ANNE EVANS) Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe Scenes in a village of Midland England a hundred vears ago. The experiences of these humble characters bring out the lesson that sin is sure of punishment and love full of influence upon the hearts of others. FISHER, DOROTHY CANFIELD Understood Betsy A nine-year-old girl who is greatly altered during her year on a Vermont farm is the heroine of this modern story by an excellent American writer. GARLAND, HAMLIN Boy Life on the Prairie This author really understood the life of American plainfolk before writing about their farm life, hunting expeditions, and ranching. GOLDSMITH, OLIVER The Vicar of Wakefield The eccentric but lovable Vicar leads his family through many worldly trials in a story of rustic scenes giving opportunity for criticism of social conditions. In style this is a book of unsurpassed simplicity and beauty. HALE, EDWARD EVERETT The Man without a Country The fictitious presentation of what distresses must be endured by a man without a native land to call his own. The incidents of Nolan's life are told with the reality of newspaper style. HASKELL, HELEN E. Katrinka, the Story of a Russian Child The story shows a natural Russian background and a 68 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING heroine typical of her race. The book belongs to the "Little Schoolmate Series" (Button), which purposes to teach American children how to esteem the foreign- born citizens of our country. The series now includes most European countries as well as Mexico and Japan. All are illustrated. HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL Tanglewood Tales The Wonder Book A great writer's rendering of old Greek stories for reading by young children. HENTY, GEORGE A. The Dragon and the Raven; or, the Days of King Alfred Story of the wars of the Danes and Saxons in Eng- land. With Lee in Virginia A Civil War story from the standpoint of a young 1 Virginia planter. HEYLINGER, WILLIAM Hartley, Freshman Pitcher A story of good baseball and good sportsmanship. HILL, FREDERICK T. On the Trail of Grant and Lee An interesting way to learn the facts of Civil Wai- history is to read such an account of dramatic inci- dents from the lives of its two greatest heroes. SUPPLEMENTARY READING 60 HOUGH, EMERSON Young Alaskans in the Far North Boys will find plenty of adventure in this story of three boys cast adrift in a small boat amid the wilds of Alaska. HUGHES, THOMAS Tom Brown's School Days The classic story of boyhood life at Rugby in the days of Dr. Arnold. JACKSON, HELEN HUNT Netty's Silver Mine, a True Story of Colo- rado Life. Two young New Englanders journeying to their new home in the West and learning the exciting ways of primitive outdoor life have adventures that interest every boy and girl. KIPLING, RUDYAKD "Captains Courageous" A tale of the fishing fleets on the Grand Banks, but more than that the story of how a rich man's pampered boy was changed by four months of enforced sea service. Stalky and Company Presumably accounts of the author's own gay life in an English school. KNIPE, EMILIE AND ALDON Girls of '64 A fine piece of historical fiction, the latest of the well- known "Girl Patriot" Series. 70 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING LANIER, SIDNEY Boy's King Arthur A simplified form of these popular chivalric narra- tives. LEVER, CHARLES Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon A story of heroism, self denial, and patriotism in the days when soldiering was a less arduous profession. LONDON, JACK The Call of the Wild The autobiography of a dog who lost his master and reverted to the original wild state of his kind. A most graphic picture of life in the Klondyke. MARTIN, GEORGE M. (MRS. A. E. MARTIN) Emmy Lou, Her Book and Heart A story relating the adventures of a little girl from kindergarten days until she enters high school. ''Dear Teacher," the pretty but inefficient substitute who first led Emmv Lou to study, "Miss Fannie/' and all her other teachers have their parts in moulding her charac- ter. A book of wide popularity. MOON, GRACE AND CARL Lost Indian Magic A new mystery story that will interest Camp Fire Girls and Boy Scouts alike. The plot is based on an Indian legend, giving chance for true portrayal of early Indian customs. OTIS, JAMES Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus Everyone loves a circus. This story is a favorite with SUPPLEMENTARY READING 71 boys and girls because it shows the inside life of acro- bats and clowns along with the experiences of Toby and Mr. Stubbs, the monkey. PARTRIDGE, MRS. E. N. Indian Legends for Camp Fire Girls PERKINS, LUCY FITCH Cornelia \ new story for girls that has a heroine as interesting as Emmy Lou. PORTER, JANE The Scottish Chiefs Feats of arms in the days of Bruce and Wallace; based on Barbour's poem giving the narrative of the long war during the thirteenth century for Scottish inde- pendence. PYLE, HOWARD Men of Iron A good picture of knighthood in a story of England during the reign of Henry IV. Otto of the Silver Hand Adventures of a boy amid the robber barons of old Germany. RICE, ALICE HEGAN Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Paten Mrs. Wiggs' wholesale and cheery philosophy and her vivid imagination transform the dull life of the squalid Cabbage Patch into a realm of joyous adventure. 72 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING RICHARDS, LAURA E. Captain January An entrancing story about an old lighthouse-keeper who rescued a little girl from the seas. Girls will enjoy also her Queen Hildegarde series of stories. ROLT- WHEELER, FRANCIS The Aztec-Hunters A story of American life a thousand years before Columbus. The Wonders of the War on Land The experiences of an American boy in Belgium who served as a dispatch bearer and telephone operator in the army that saved Paris. SCOTT, SIR WALTER Ivanhoe The chivalric times of Richard I are the background for fine romantic adventures. This is undoubtedly Scott's most popular book as well as being among his best historical novels. SEAMAN, AUGUSTA H. The Girl Next Door Girls as well as boys like mystery stories. This one is about a girl of fourteen, two strange women, and a mysterious house with closely shuttered windows. SIDNEY, MARGARET (MRS. H. N. LOTHROP) Five Little Peppers and How They Grew The joys of life outweigh its trials in the little brown house, the home of "Mamsie" Pepper and five little SUPPLEMENTARY READING 73 Peppers. This title begins a famous series of books telling the story of an optimistic, self-reliant Ameri McKinley, 1877-1896 Historians accept this new volume as an authoritative study of our history during the years of reconstruction, and internal development. Rus, JACOB A. The Making of an American Foremost among the older revelations of conditions en- countered by the emigrant to America. ROOSEVELT, THEODORE Stories of the Great West The Winning of the West STEINER, EDWARD Nationalising America A recent book similar in purpose to the author 's ' * On the Trail of the Immigrant." TAFT, WILLIAM HOWARD Four Aspects of Civic Duty Four lectures on the responsibilities of American riti- zenship. WHITLOCK, BRAND Forty Years of It In interest and in variety of information this book surpasses any other single volume regarding personal experiences in American city government. 172 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING WILLIAMS, SHERMAN New York's Part in History A recent chronological record that demonstrates how vitally New York state aided in the construction of our government; intended as a definite addition to the New England tradition. WlLLOUGHBY, W. F. The Government of Modern States A clear exposition of the various forms of government in existence. The book is free from burdensome techni- cal details. AVlLSON, WOODROW Division and Reunion Political and Social Life of Other Countries BEER, GEORGE L. The English-speaking Peoples, Their Future Relations and Joint International Obliga- tions Treats of the economic and political grounds of union among Anglo-Saxon peoples as seen in the light of recent events. BOULGER, D. C. Holland of the Dutch A travel book offering a great variety of information. LISTS FOR MATURE READERS 173 CARLYLE, THOMAS History of the French Revolution A monumental work. The volumes convey a personifi- cation of the French national structure in its hour of stress and likewise a warning to England lest she too be changed by similar forces. Illustrious for graphic description and portraiture. Latter Day Pamphlets A scathing arraignment of Tory Liberalism that re- veals the political philosophy governing England about 1850. This calling for strong leaders rather than rule through popular majorities was effective, even though still unjustified of history. Past and Present A great literary and political document, conveying Carlyle's characteristic ideas by means of a contrast be- tween past days and present. COLLIER, PRICE England and the English from an American Point of View A book that has had thirteen printings within five years. Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View As interesting as the author's book on England, and of peculiar importance because published in 1913. COOLIDGE, ARCHIBALD C. Origins of the Triple Alliance Three lectures on the last phases of European politics before the World War. 174 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING DE MAX, HENRY The Remaking of a Mind One product of the World War. The author, a Bel- gian, explains minutely the changes of feeling regarding socialism caused by his study of war and its consequences. A brilliant and honest thinker shows the need of human reconstruction. DICKINSON, G. LOWES The Greek View of Life A stimulating survey of Greek culture and govern- ment, DUNCAN, NORMAN Australian Byways Through true tales of pearl fishing, gold digging, and sporting exploits, the author depicts the native life of Australia. ERASMUS Letters Showing through the autobiographic record of per- sonal correspondence how Europe broke the intellectual bondage of the Middle Ages. F AIRBRIDGE, D. A History of South Africa The story of England's development of the continent. New, compact, and well illustrated. FRASER, J. F. The Amazing Argentine; a New Land of Enterprise LISTS FOR MATURE READERS 175 GIBBON, EDWARD The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire A finely proportioned account in noble style, with re- markable dramatic values. The book has likewise autobio- graphic interest. GIBBONS, H. A. The New Map of Africa A single volume, with maps, covering the colonial growth of Africa. Full of interesting matter. GREENE, J. R. A Short History of the English People The standard brief account of English political and social history through the first half of the nineteenth century. HACKETT, FRANCIS Ireland: A Study in Nationalism A sympathetic but acute study of a vexing question. HEADLAND, I. T. Home Life in China Amusing and exact descriptions of Chinese manners and customs. HEARN, LAFCADIO Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Hearn's most vivid impressions of the Japan that was before modern industrialism changed conditions of living. Japan: An Interpretation A most discerning estimate showing rare intellectual and aesthetic appreciation of modern Japan. 176 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING HERSHEY, AMOS S. AND SUSANNE W. Modern Japan. Social, Industrial, Political A new work based on personal observation of the many changes in Japanese civilization. JUSSERAND, JEAN J. English Wat/faring Life in the Middle Ages A book that makes the dead past a living object of interest for all mature readers. KNOX, JOHN History of the Reformation in Scotland An autobiographic book that contains much vigorous prose. Noteworthy because of its descriptions. LAUT, A. C. Canada, the Empire of the North LAVELL, C. E. AND PAYNE, C. E. Imperial England This new, comprehensive survey of all the British pos- sessions enters into the history and peculiar character- istics of every one. LOMAS, JOHN In Spain LOWELL, A. LAWRENCE Greater European Governments MACHIAVELLI, NICOLLO DI BERNARDO The Prince A complete view of the unscrupulous methods of gov- LISTS FOR MATURE READERS 177 eminent controlling Italian politics during the sixteenth century; the vicious model of many rulers during suc- ceeding generations. MACKIE, ROBERT L. Scotland \ new " account of her triumphs and defeats, her manners, institutions, and achievements." MAHAN, A. T. The Influence of Sea Power on History, 1660-1783 Among the most illuminating studies of the sources of political and economic power. MAN ATT, J. I. Aegean Days Sketches of mingled old and new Greece. ]\IARTINEAU, HARRIET Autobiography The opinions current in England during the fifty years preceding 1875 are honestly discussed herein. The writer was a novelist of some merit, better known for her constant interest in political and social problems. MASSON, DAVID Life, of Milton, narrated in connection with the political, ecclesiastical, and literary history of the time A graphic survey of forty momentous years in Eng- land 's history ; . conceived on Carlyle 's plan of inter- preting an age through the life-story of an individual. 178 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING MORFILL, W. R. Russia and Poland A standard work that has been revised recently to meet changing conditions. MORLEY, VISCOUNT JOHN Recollections These two volumes are much more than biography; they form a survey of English political history through- out the last generation. MOTLEY, JOHN L. The Rise of the Dutch Republic One of the books treating history as literature. In style imitative of Carlyle. PLATO Republic The Greek vision of the ideal state ; profoundly influ- ential in both political and literary history. POINCARE, RAYMOND How France Is Governed A description of the various departments of the French Government, by a President of the Republic. Translated by Bernard Miall. RUHL, ARTHUR The Other Americans The people of Central and South America, their cities, nnd ways of living. New materials, collected by a fine descriptive writer. LISTS FOR MATURE READERS 17'. STOBART, J. C. The Glory Tliat Was Greece: a Survey of Hellenic Culture and Civilization The Grandeur that was Rome: a Survey of Roman Culture and Civilization TURNER, EDWARD K. Ireland and England One reviewer calls this "the unvarnished historical truth" regarding the century-long conflict of opinion. The work of an eminent scholar. WARE, M. S. The Old World Through New Eyes \ new account of Eastern civilization based on three years of travel in the Orient. WEALE, B. L. The Truth About China and Japan The author has long been counted an authority on matters in the Near East, especially in China. His opinion on international problems now under discussion has unusual value. Professions and Vocations AUBOT, WILLIS J. The Story of the American Merchant Marine A student of trade and navigation tells how remark- ably our merchant marine has grown under war con- ditions. 180 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING ALLEN, FREDERICK J. The Law as a Vocation BABSON, ROGER W. Bonds and Stocks: the Elements of Success- ful Investing CABOT, EICHARD C. Training and Rewards of a Physician A Layman's Handbook of Medicine, with Spe- cial Reference to Social Workers Social Work. Essays on the Meeting -Ground of Doctor and Social Worker No other American has equally high reputation for showing the finer aspects of medical work. CUNLIFFE AND LoMER Writing of Today A collection of excellent specimens illustrating news- writing in its varied forms ; intended as a text for schools of journalism. DIMOCK, J. A. The New Business of Farming DODGE, H. H. Survey of Occupations Open to the Girl of Fourteen to Sixteen Years FILSINGER, ERNEST D. Exporting to Latin America Gives information on the business methods of various countries that is almost inaccessible elsewhere. LISTS FOR MATURE READERS 181 GOWIN, ENOCH B. The Executive and His Control of Men; A Study in Personal Efficiency By studying successful executives the writer has gath- ered the facts about self -development for leadership and for skill in handling other men. GOWIN, E. B. AND WHEATLEY, W. A. Occupations; a Text book in Vocational Guid- ance A textbook that will aid anyone in finding himself, whether he be of school age or older. HARRINGTON, H. F. AND FRANKENBERG, T. T. Essentials in Journalism ' ' A manual in newspaper making for college classes. ' ' HATFIELD, H. R. Modern Accounting; Its Principles and Some of Its Problems HOOVER, S. E. The Science and Art of Salesmanship HOUGH, B. OLNEY Practical Exporting A new, thorough-going survey of the practical and financial ways into foreign markets. HYDE, G. M. Neivspaper Reporting and Correspondence 182 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING McCuLLOGH, ERNEST Engineering as a Vocation The opinions of a successful engineer. McNAUGHT, M. S. Training in Courtesy For use among teachers of elementary schools. MAXWELL, WILLIAM The- Training of a Salesman Written b}^ the vice-president of the Thomas Edison Company. MERTON, H. W. How to Choose the Right Vocation A series of personal tests are intended to guide one toward the work suited to his native capacity. The sys- tem is elaborate, covering fourteen hundred vocations. MINER, G. W. AND ELWELL, H. C. Principles of Bookkeeping: brief course, illustrating the direct method of closing the ledger Principles of Bookkeeping; complete course, illustrating the journal method of closing the ledger A new and exact study, useful for office managers and executives. Moody 's Manual of Railroad and Corporation Securities An annual guide to the investment values of foreign and domestic stocks, including " Railroads, " " Public Utilities," and "Industrials." LISTS FOR MATURE READERS 183 MOORE, J. H. AND MINER, G. W. Accounting and Business Practice For use in all schools where bookkeeping is taught, and also a useful general guide book. MORELY, L. H. AND POWELL, S. H. 1600 Business Books \ selected bibliography of the standard works on all kinds of business enterprise ; new and authoritative. NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY Idea of a University A monument of English prose, remarkable too for its ample concept of true culture. An essential book for all persons concerned with higher education. NEYSTROM, P. H. Retail Selling and Store Management Considers small points in handling customers, the de- vices of modern advertising campaigns, and the prin- ciples of organization. PEABODY, FRANCIS G. The Religion of an Educated Man A book of counsel to teachers. "One is not a teacher except he kindle, waken, com- municate the contagion of personality, show the way of the spirit of truth; but he who is thus a teacher is also a teacher of religion. ' ' POOLE, G. W. AND BUZZELL, J. J. Letters That Make Good Actual reproduction of successful business conv- spondence. These, with the explanatory text, will de- 184 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING velop taste as well as a knowledge of the principles in- volved. PRATT, SERENO S. The Work of Wall Street 1 ' An account of the functions, methods, and history of the New York money and stock markets.'* Ross, CHAKLES G. The Writing of News SCOTT, W. D. Influencing Men in Business: the Psychology of Argument and Suggestion A general presentation of the commercial values in psychology. The Psychology of Advertising A simple exposition of the principles of psychology in their relation to successful advertising. SELFRIDGE, H. G. The Romance of Commerce A new and stirring story of sea trading. The author is a highly successful merchant. SHUMAN, E. L. Practical Journalism SMITH, WM. C. The Business of Farming A general survey of all phases of country living. LISTS FOR MATURE READERS 185 SULLIVAN, J. J. American Business Law THORP, F. H. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry WEAVER, E. W. Vocations for Girls WHITE, HORACE Money and Banking. Illustrated Toy Ameri- can History The World War BARBUSSE, HENRI Under Fire English version of a poilu's story of trench warfare. This was the first personal history of the World "War to draw universal attention. BOND, A. E. Inventions of the Great War Popular material, well Illustrated ; deals with modern $runs, airplanes, submarine devices, and modes of land warfare. BORDEAUX, HENRY Georges Guynemer The life of France's premier ace. 186 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING CLARK, GEORGE HERBERT (editor) A Treasury of War Poetry COBB, IRWIN The Glory of the Coming Humorous and pathetic incidents from the American front in France. The book has historical value for its record of the human side of our campaigns. COLLINS, FRANCIS A. Naval Heroes Present-day stories of American fighting ships. DAVIS, RICHARD HARDING With the Allies An account of the early stages of land fighting. DAWSON, LIEUT. CONINGSBY Living Bayonets Letters home during the closing campaigns, by one of the most inspirational writers on material and spiritual facts of soldiering. His earlier book, Carry On, is similar in form and content. DUHAMEL, GEORGE Civilization An ironic title for stories and sketches of French sol- diers at the front. The original, in French, won the 1918 Gondicourt Prize for fiction. FISHER, DOROTHY CANFIELD Home Fires in France These short stories based on fact rank very high as realistic pictures of war time behind the lines. LISTS FOR MATURE READERS 187 GALSWORTHY, JOHN Another Sheaf Essays on artistic and material reconstruction in days to come. GERARD, JAMES W. My Four Years in Germany Our ambassador's story is unique among books on the personal and political groundwork of German militarism. GIBBONS, FLOYD "And They Thought We Wouldn't Fight" The living narrative of a correspondent who went. GIBBONS, H. A. The New Map of Europe HALL, NORMAN High Adventure An American aviator's record. HAN KEY, DONALD A Student in Arms HAY, IAN The First Hundred Thousand A personal experience narrative that is vivid and yet truthful, always hopeful and optimistic, in no part boast- ful or vain-glorious. HILL, DAVID JAYNE Impressions of the Kaiser Based on observations extending over twenty-five years. The study of personality continues through the 188 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING first half; the second is a fair-minded charge of blame for beginning the war. HUARD, BARONESS (FRANCES WILSON) My Home in the Field of Honour An excellent view of the sweeping devastation laid on northern France by the German armies and also a con- vincing statement of the license used in their treatment of property and persons. HYNDMAN, H. M. Clemenceau Written by a personal friend who is a leader among- English socialists. The book is partly an account of the frustration of German war plots in France. IBANEZ, VICENTE BLASCO The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse A great war novel, presenting an interpretation of national temperaments and a wondrous panorama of war activities. It has been translated from Spanish into all modern languages. His Marc Nostrum is a story of German war-time machinations in Spain. JELLICOE, ADMIRAL VISCOUNT The Grand Fleet: 1914-1916 The authoritative account of British naval operations in the North Sea. Bluntly critical of allied policies and self-justifying in its story of the Battle of Jutland, this book will be constantly useful in the study of naval warfare. JONES, J. P. AND HOLLISTER, P. M. The German Secret Service in America, 1914- 1918 LISTS FOR MATURE READERS 18!) KELLOGG, VERNON Headquarters Niyli I s A tract rather than a book. It shows precisely why our charitable agents in Belgium lost all feeling of neutrality toward the German military governors. KEYNES, JOHN MAYNARD The Economic Consequences of the Peace The representative of the British Treasury at the Peace Conference gives a photographic view of the Coun- cil of Four at work as well as a prophetic warning regarding the economic evils of the Versailles Treaty. KIRKLAND, WINIFRED Old Truths and Neiv Facts On Christian thought as affected by the World War, with quotations from men back from the front line. LAKE, SIMON The Submarine in War and Peace The historical narratives of a famous inventor who has given a lifetime of study to the difficulties of submarine navigation. MASEFIELD, JOHN Gallipoli The Old Front Line Two short sketches of major British operations in the East and on the Western Front ; prepared under official sanction. 190 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING MORGENTHAU, HENRY Ambassador Morgenthau's Story Those too preoccupied with events of the Western Front to have read this work in serial form, will find herein the truth regarding Turkish atrocities in the Near East. NOTES, A. Open Boats PAINE, E. The Fighting Fleets PALMER, FREDERICK America in France The story of a trained observer who crossed to France with General Pershing and stayed until the war was over. This volume covers all except the closing events of 1918. Our Greatest Battle This volume completes Palmer's account of the Amer- ican Expeditionary Force in France, thus far the only one published by a trained writer continuously in contact with events. My Year of the Great War My Second Year of the War RINEHART, MARY ROBERTS The Amazing Interlude A novel relating the experiences of Sara Lee, native of a Pennsylvania village, as a war worker in Belgium. LISTS FOR MATURE READERS 191 KOOSEVELT, THEODORE The Great Adventure Printed only a week before the armistice, this book shows in clear terms Roosevelt's feelings regarding the World War. ROSE, J. H. Origins of the War SCOTT, JAMES BROWN (editor) President Wilson's Foreign Policy The President's messages and addresses of the war period. SEEGER, ALAN Letters and Diary Work of a young American poet well remembered for his letters home and a few noble poems. The Diary is his record of field service under the British flag. As for his poems they have sold to a total of over thirty thousand copies within two years. SEYMOUR, CHARLES The Diplomatic Background of the War, 1870-1914 SHAW, ALBERT (editor) President Wilson's State Papers and Ad- dresses SIMONDS, FRANK The World War The most extensive history thus far offered to Amer- ican readers. 192 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING STOBART, MABEL ANNIE War and Women; from Experiences in the Balkans and Elsewhere The author had charge of a large hospital convoy corps attached to the retreating armies of Serbia. Her rank as major was granted in recognition of the heroism de- scribed in this book. VANDERLIP, FRANK A. What Happened to Europe Published in 1919, an estimate of post-war conditions abroad ; commerce and finance are given first place in this survey. WHITE, WILLIAM ALLEN The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me The author and a comrade pass through experiences that rival in genuine humor any other literature of the war. The book has its tragic side too, with much infor- mation regarding wartime living in Prance. WHITLOCK, BRAND Belgium Our Minister to Belgium was in a position to collect data and documents of unimpeachable truth regarding the ravaging of that indomitable nation. His brilliant narrative is history. Further Reading in Fiction BAZIN, RENE The Nun An attempt to prove through fiction the injustice of church disestablishment in France. LISTS FOR MATURE READERS 193 BORROW, GEORGE The Bible in Spain; or, the Journeys, Ad- ventures, and Imprisonments of an Eng- lishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula Travels in Spain from 1835 to 1839 brought Borrow into contact with all phases of the national life. His mingled fiction and fact has exquisite descriptive pas- sages, many odd characters, and likewise a full com- mentary on Spanish customs. Augustine Birrell wrote, 1 1 Nobocty can sit down to read Borrow 's books without as completely forgetting himself as if he were a boy in the forest with Gnrth and Wamba." BRIEUX, EUGENE . The Red Robe A story of human feelings when subjected to the stern- ness of French legal processes. CRAWFORD, FRANCIS MARION Saracinesca Sant 'Ilario Don Ot'sino Through this group of novels regarding a noble Italian family the author develops a study of the Papal struggle for temporal power between 1865 and 1887. DE MORGAN, WILLIAM Joseph Vance: an Ill-Written Autobiography A novel in the vein of Pickwick Papers, being a series of quaint character sketches held together by the life story of Joseph. The pictures of slum life in London are drawn with sympathetic familiarity. 194 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING DICKENS, CHARLES Bleak House This story has more careful plot structure than is commonly found in Dickens and likewise a heroine of extraordinary power. It will interest anew those readers who have learned by rote his popular methods of charac- terization and plotting. Part of the story is a revelation of the great injustices wrought by keeping cases in the old Court of Chancery. Apart from this material is a complicated romance unusual for Dickens because of its peculiar mystery elements. There are several typical Dickens characters, clever satire, and abundant humor. DOSTOEVSKI, FEODOR Crime and Punishment Pictures the lowest abysses of life in Petrograd and expresses compassionate feeling for the victims of a vicious social system. Tragic realism has a highwater mark in the story of criminal resolve and final atone- ment for sin. DUMAS, ALEXANDRE The Black Tulip A romance of Holland in the days of William of Orange. FIELDING, HENRY The Adventures of Joseph Andrews Important in the history of fiction for its satire on Richardson's Pamela; also necessary to an understand- ing of Fielding 's ideas of fiction. FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE Madame Bovary This masterpiece of French fiction deals with the LISTS FOR MATURE READERS 195 gradual degeneration of a sentimental woman. The unattractive plot is raised to high place by the fine artistry; exact phrases and words precisely chosen give unsurpassed effects of reality. Fatalistic in its phil- osophy of life ; a story that teaches the inevitable sorrow following the breaking of moral law. FRANCE, ANATOLE (JACQUES ANATOLE THIBAULT) The Crime of Sylvester Bonna/rd A philosophical old sentimentalist who derives his amusement from books, good food, and few friends, is the hero. His ' ' crime ' ' is merely a ruse whereby he cap- tures the daughter of a former sweetheart. GISSING, GEORGE The New Grub Street Typical of Gissing's fiction in its hopeless, uninspired feeling regarding the lot of the poor classes. Alfred Yule is a true character, though pedantic and ill-starred. The book reflects something of the author's visit to America. GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG vox Wilhelm Meister An elaborate commentary on the culture and ideals of humanity by means of an advancing record of Wil- helm 's experiences from youth to manhood. Its varied contents tend toward the conclusion that our natural endowments are the source of inspiration toward an enthusiastic life activity. HEWLETT, MAURICE New Canterbury Tales Lovers of medieval life will cherish these stories cast in the mould of the fifteenth century, strong in love interest and in physical action. Like many of Hewlett's 196 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING stories, they show his full understanding of the Renais- sance period. LAGERLOF, SELMA Jerusalem The first part relates the family history of the Ingmarssons in saga folk-style; the second deals with the life of an idealistic community established in Jerusa- lem. Poetic prose of high quality and of philosophic power gave this book an immediate popularity. LOTI, PlERKE (LOUIS MARIE JuLIEN VlAUD) An Iceland Fisherman The love and brief happiness of a Breton girl and her husband, who is lost in the stormy Iceland seas, sym- bolize the transitoriness of human joys and the inexor- able nature of fate. Rhythmic prose of poetic strain appears in his description of the sea. MACKENZIE, HENRY The Man of Feeling A short story illustrating how psychological analysis of feelings began its course in English fiction. Inter- esting chiefly as one element of the Romantic Movement. MARGUERITTE, PAUL Jouir A novel depicting the happiness of French life at the Mediterranean resorts shortly before the World War; widely read for its pictures of frivolities that live today only in recollection. MOORE, GEORGE Esther Waters A study of the English servant class, all the house- LISTS FOR MATURE READERS 197 hold of a horse-racing squire being involved in the ruin of his fortune. Esther, the scullery-maid, becomes a victim of circumstance much after the manner of Hardy 's Tess, but with a " Pamela reward." ROLLAND, ROMAIN Jean Christophre An expansive study of the development of a musical genius. All the surrounding characters give point to the progressive commentary on life and society that accom- panies this life history. A work exalting the power of idealism. ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUES Julia; or, The New Heloise An historic literary document. The story of a humble lover and of his mental agonies following the marriage of the girl of rank to a man of her own station; much sentimental analysis of feeling, but also full of genuine pathos. In letter form ; largely autobiographical. SAND, GEORGE (ARMANDINE DUPIN) The Devil's Pool A simple love story of rural France. Its idyllic pictures are quite unlike her tales of passion or those of social and political import. Those phases of her work are found in Consuelo and The Journeyman Joiner. STERNE, LAURENCE The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. Among the early realistic novels of English fiction; a gossipy, satiric commentary upon human nature through use of type characters. Throughout are marks of Sterne 's keen wit and active observation of human nature. 198 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING TOLSTOI, COUNT LEO Anna Karenina A double-stranded study of modern life. The tragic ending of the main narrative concludes a commentary on unsympathetic marriage relations; Levin's story ex- presses Tolstoi's own turning from the injustices of life to a happy rule of quiet obedience to God. War and Peace A novel that is the life history of a nation during a crisis in her existence. A tremendous multitude of im- pressions of Russian life at the time of the Napoleonic wars gives a panorama of her private and public affairs, in town and country, throughout all classes of society. TURGENEV, IVAN Fathers and Children A novel dealing with the jarring breaks in the Russian institution of the family caused by force of new ideas; a direct attack upon the aggressive nihilism of the nine- teenth century. ZOLA, EMILE Work A provincial town in France is made the scene for studying capitalism and the factory system under the worst conditions. Zola's fine but often depressing real- ism is here relieved by an ideal counterpart in the story of a successful cooperative factory. LISTS FOR MATURE READERS V:' Further Reading in Drama AESCHYLUS Agamemnon Choephoroe Eumenides \ glowing imasre of Greek philosophy in three tragedies dealing with the house of Atreus. Persae Classical tragedy on the heroic period of the Persian Wars. ARISTOPHANES Birds Frogs Specimens of early comedy. EURIPIDES Iphigenia in Tan r is Classical tragedy; influential in formation of Greek and Roman theories of drama. SOPHOCLES Antigone; Oedipus Rex Classical tragedy ; the perfection of Athenian patriotic and mystical expression. SENECA Tragedies His ten great tragedies were the bridge between Greek drama and that of the Middle Ages, as well as being influ- ential throughout Europe until the seventeenth century. 200 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING PLAUTUS AND TERENCE Comedies Popular Roman comedies, historically important by reason of their comic dialogue and character types. These two authors stood in the same relation to later comedy as Seneca to later tragedy. ARIOSTO, LUDOVICO / Suppositi A specimen of the complicated intriguing found in early Italian comedy. TASSO, TORQUATO A min ta An early pastoral drama that influenced English liter- ature of the sixteenth century and, more extensively still, the literatures of continental Europe. LOPE DE VEGA The Steel Water of Madrid The New World Comedies reflecting the national greatness of the Spain of his day, the first part of the seventeenth cen- tury. CALDERON, PEDRO El Divino Orfeo ' ' To know Calderon is to know the mind of the Spain of the seventeenth century ; to know Cervantes is to know its heart." JODELLE, ETIENNE CUopatre Captive Early French tragedy, cast in the Senecan tradition. LISTS FOR MATURE READERS 201 CORNEILLE, PIERRE Cid Early French tragedy of the classical school. The Spanish original of the story gained world fame through various channels; in Corneille's work it marked the be- ginning of modern French drama. RACINE, JEAN Berenice The tragic idyl of the Jewish maiden forsaken by her lover Titus; an example of French classical tragedy at its height during the seventeenth century. VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET) Brutus After Zaire, his greatest dramatic triumph; note- worthy as a proof of Shakspere's influence. Though drama was but one of Voltaire 's multitudinous interests, he exerted on French tragedy an influence sufficient to reaffirm the century-old classical tenets of Racine and Corneille. MOLIERE (JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN) Comedies The master of French comedy in the seventeenth cen- tury. All the comedies of Moliere had profound influence on English drama and upon that of France. They are entirely enjoyable still and may be had in various trans- lations. Everyman A fine example of the morality play, an early type in England and on the Continent. This play depicts through allegory the search of mankind for sustain in r friendship as he, draws near the close of life. 202 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING The Second Shepherds' Play A comic piece from one of the great English cycles; native humor and original situations add much to the forms of the older religious drama, making this a lively secular play rather than a means to devotion. Gammer Gurton's Needle Among the first frankly secular English comedies. LYLY, JOHN Endymion, the Man in the Moon Illustrates one of the art forms of drama affecting Shakspere and his contemporaries. An allegory of life at Queen Elizabeth 's court ; much use of mythology. KYD, THOMAS The Spanish Tragedy; or, Hieronimo Is Mad Again A precursor of the tragic type displaying its formulae best in Hamlet ; the most popular of all Elizabethan tragedies. Staged before Shakspere 's plays. MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER Edivard II Perhaps the finest historical play, outside of Shaks- pere 's works, that was written during the reign of Elizabeth. PEELE, GEORGE David and Bethsabe A precursor of Shakspere who handled the Bible story in a spirit of sensuous romanticism, using pastoral in- vention and blank verse of great beauty. LISTS FOR MATURE READERS 203 GREENE, ROBERT Friar Bacon and Friar Bung ay The most popular play of this important forerunner of Shakspere. A sketch of old English life is joined to a love story of strong appeal, the entire play being a burlesque of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. JONSON, BEN Every Man in His Humour Se janus His Fall These two plays illustrate Jonson's contributions of distinctive characterization according to dominant traits and his sober care in drafting classical tragedy. FLETCHER, JOHN The Faithful Shepherdess Among the finest predecessors of Shakspere 's romantic plays. Its stage career was not unusual, but the lyric and descriptive passages give it high rank in English literature. HEYWOOD, THOMAS A Woman Killed with Kindness Domestic tragedy; significant because based on uni- versal human passions, regardless of rank or station of the actors. WEBSTER, JOHN The Duchess of Malfi Below other ' * revenge ' ' tragedies of Elizabethan times in plot, but of compelling power in its psychological analysis of passion. In its display of abnormal wicked- ness the play typifies the later extremes of the group following Beaumont and Fletcher. 204 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING FORD, JOHN The Broken Heart An expression of the poetic but decadent tragedy written during the years following Shakspere's death. DRYDEN, JOHN All for Love This re-working of Shakspere's Antony and Cleopatra shows the classical formulae of Restoration tragedy and also has some of Dryden's most poetic descriptive passages. OTWAY, THOMAS Venice Preserved An eighteenth-century tragedy reviving successfully many Elizabethan traditions. CONGREVE, WILLIAM The Way of the World Modern high comedy of England begins with this vivacious, frankly un-moral imitation of the French type. This and Love for Love made Congreve the admired craftman in this kind until the days of Sheridan. HOWE, NICHOLAS Jane Shore Well-written tragedy reverting, like Otway's work, to the themes and traditions of Elizabethan England. LILLO, JOHN The London Merchant; or, The History of George Barnwell A domestic tragedy of the mid-eighteenth century that brought tradesmen and citizens upon the boards in con- LISTS FOR MATURE READERS 205 trust to the nobility used restrictedly by tragedians of the classical tradition. GAY, JOHN The Beggar's Opera Best described as a probable forerunner of modern comic opera ; full of lively songs and having many marks of contemporary social history. GOLDSMITH, OLIVER She Stoops to Conquer Homely, good-natured comedy ranking with Sheridan's School for Scandal as the most popular dramatic work of the eighteenth century. SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY The Rivals The School for Scandal The two eighteenth century high comedies universally accepted as of first rank in point of brilliance and grace SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE The Cenci A poetic drama using the Cenci story to point out the operation of blind religious faith as a cloak for the most monstrous human sin. Collections BOYXTON, PERCY H. American Poeinj A new historical anthology, with notes of much value. 206 HOME GUIDE TO GOOD READING BRONSON, WALTER C. American Prose, 1607-1865 Palgrave's Golden Treasury A standard anthology of lyric poetry. QUILLER-COUCH, SlR ARTHUR T. The Oxford Book of English Verse Historical method; well edited and finely printed. MANLY, JOHN M. English Prose and Poetry Historical method; unusually fine critical notes make this the best volume for private study of English literature. PAGE, CURTIS H. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century The Chief American Poets The standard American anthologies, containing much material from all the best -known poets of the century. Xo notes. RlTTENHOUSE, JESSIE B. The Second Book of American Verse This small collection and its predecessor contain later poems than appear in the Manly or Page collections. They are excellent books for general reading, but have small value for the student. LISTS FOR MATURE READERS -"7 The following books contain representative plays from English, American, and modern European drama. Twenty or more plays are in each volume, so that they give far more than can be got for the same prices in separate volumes. All are well edited ; some have notes on the plays and their authors. MANLY, JOHN M. P re-Shakespearian Drama, 2 vols. NIELSEN, WILLIAM A. Chief Elizabethan Dramatists STEVENS, DAVID H. Types of English Drama: 1660 to 1780 DICKINSON, T. H. Chief Contemporary Dramatists MATTHEWS, BRANDER The Chief European Dramatists QUINN, A. Representative American Plays MOSES, M. J. Representative British Dramas, Victorian and Modern Representative Plays by American Dramatists INDEX OF TITLES Abraham Lincoln, the Man of the People (Hapgood) 117 Abroad at Home (Street) 108 Accounting and Business Practice (Moore) 183 Across the Plains (Stevenson) 133 Adam Bede (Eliot) 122 Adrift on an Ice Pan ( Grenfell ) 78 Adventures in Beaver Stream Camp (Dugmore) 66 Adventures of Ann, The (Wilkins) 105 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (Twain) 74 Adventures of Joseph Andrews, The (Fielding) 194 Adventures of Pinocchio (Lorenzini) 49 Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The (Defoe) 47 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (Doyle) 98 Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Twain) 74 Adventures of Ulysses, The (Lamb) 78 yEgean Days (Manatt) 177 Aesop's Fables 39 African Game Trails (Roosevelt) 135 Agamemnon (Aeschylus) 199 Alfred the Great (Hughes) 61 Alhambra, The (Irving) 132 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Look- ing-Glass (Carroll ) 46 All About Aircraft (Simmonds) 112 All for Love (Dryden) 204 All Sorts and Conditions of Men (Besant) 147 Along French Byways (Johnson) 135 Amateur Carpenter, The ( Verrill ) 112 Amateur Cracksman. The (Hornung) 100 Amazing Argentine, The (Fraser) 174 Amazing Interlude, The (Rinehart) 190 Ambassador Morganthau's Story (Morganthau) 190 America in France (Palmer) 190 American, The (James) 150 American Adventures (Street) 108 American Animal Life (Deming) 52 American Animals (Stone) 83 American Book of Golden Deeds, An (Baldwin) 59 American Boy's Book of Signs, Signals, and Symbols (Beard) 84 209 210 INDEX American Boys' Engineering Book, The (Bond) ...Ill American Business Law (Sullivan) 185 American Commonwealth, The (Bryce) 168 American Family, An (Webster) 104 American Girl's Handy Book, The (Beard) 84 American Hero Stories (Tappan) 80 American Idyll, An (Parker) 118 American Patriotic Prose and Verse (Stevens) 79 American Poetry (Boynton) 205 American Prose (Bronson) 206 Aminta (Tasso) 200 Among English Hedgerows (Johnson) 135 Among My Books (Lowell) 132 Amos Judd (Mitchell) 101 Ancient Man (Van Loon) 80 " And They Thought We Wouldn't Fight" (Gibbons) 187 Anna Karenina (Tolstoi) 198 Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery) 101 Another Sheaf (Galsworthy) 159, 187 Anthology of Mother Verse, An (Wiggin) 45 Antigone; Oedipus Rex (Sophocles) 199 Antiquary, The ( Scott) 102 Apologia pro vita sua (Newman) 145 Appreciations (Pater) 160 Arabella and Araminta Stories (^mith) 44 Arabian Nights 40 Architecture in Its Relation to Civilization (Cram) 160 Astronomy with the Naked Eye (Serviss) 83 As You Like It (Shakspere) .' 129 Australian Byways (Duncan) 174 Authors at Home (Gilder) . . , 144 Autobiography (Cellini) 143 Autobiography (Franklin) 60 Autobiography (Gibbon) 144 Autobiography (Martineau) . .177 Autobiography (Pattison) : 145 Autobiography ( Roosevelt) 119 Autobiography and Letters (Oliphant) 118 Aztec-Hunters, The (Rolt-Wheeler) 72 Baby's Big Book of Pictures (Collins) 41 Baby's Bouquet, The (Crane) 41 Barchester Towers (Trollope) 152 Bartley, Freshman Pitcher (Heylinger) ^ . . 68 Baseball: Individual Play and Team Play in Detail (Clark) 81 Battle of Baseball, The (Claudy) 84 Beggar's Opera, The (Gay) 205 Beginning Right: How to Succeed (Fowler) 110 INDEX 211 Beginnings of New England, The (Fiske) 161) Belgium (Oinond) 135 Belgium (Whitlock) 192 Beloved Vagabond, The ( Locke) 126 Ben Hur (Wallace) 104 Bent Twig, The (Fisher) 99 Berenice (Racine) 201 Bible, The English 166 Bible in Spain, The (Borrow) 103 .Bible Stories to Read and Tell (Olcott) 53 Biography of a Prairie Girl, The (Gates) 92 Birds (Aristophanes) 199 Bird's Christmas Carol, The (Wiggin) 75 Black Beauty (Sewell) 50 Black Tulip, The (Dumas) 194 Blazed Trail, The (White) 105 Bleak House (Dickens) 194 Bold Robin Hood and His Outlaw Band (Rhead) 50 Bonds and Stocks (Babson) 180 Book of a Naturalist, The (Hudson) 81 Book of Art for Young People, The (Con way) 109 Book of Electricity, The (Collins) 84 Book of Elves and Fairies, The (Olcott) 50 Book of Fables and Folk Stories, The (Scudder) 43 Book of Indoor and Outdoor Games, The (Kingsland) 82 Book of Magic, The (Collins) 84 Book of Nature Myths (Holbrook) 48 Book of Stars, The (Collins) 85 Book of the Motor Boat, The (Verrill) 112 Book of Verses for Children ( Lucas) 49 Boots and Saddles (Custer) 60 Bow of Orange Ribbon, The (Barr) 64 Boy Emigrants, The (Brooks) 64 Boy Life on the Prairie (Garland) 67 Boy Scout Entertainments (Lisle) 85 Boy Scouts of Berkshire (Eaton) 66 Boy Scouts of Woodcraft Camp (Burgess) 64 Boy Scouts Year Book, The (Mathiews) 85 Boys' Book of Chemistry, The (Clarke) 84 Boy's Book of Inventions (Baker) 83 Boy's Book of Sports, The (Rice) 85 Boy's Catlin, The (Catlin) 78 Boys' Froissart, The ( Lanier) 79 Boys' Hakluyt, The (Bacon) 77 Boy's Iliad, The (Perry) 79 Boy's King Arthur ( Lanier) 70 Boy's Life of Abraham Lincoln (Nicolay) 61 BOYS' Life of Edison, The (Meadowcroft) 61 212 INDEX Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt, The (Hagerdorn) 92 Boy's Odyssey, The (Perry) 79 Boys of Other Countries (Taylor) 80 Boy's Town, A (Howells) 169 British Empire in Pictures, The (Barnard) 52 British Isles in Pictures, The (Barnard) 52 British Poets of the Nineteenth Century (Page) 206 Broken Heart, The (Ford) 204 Brutus (Voltaire) 201 Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coast (Stockton) 80 Bunch of Keys, A (Johnson) 42 Burgess Bird Book for Children, The (Burgess) 81 Buried Alive (Bennett) 120 Burke (Morley) 118 Burns (Carlyle) 143 Business Employments (Allen) 110 Business of Farming, The (Smith) 104 Cabbages and Kings (0. Henry) 124 Caesar and Cleopatra (Shaw) 157 Caleb West, Master Diver (Smith) 127 Call of the Wild, The (London) 70 Cambridge "Apostles," The (Brookfield) 143 Canada, the Empire of the North ( Laut) 176 Captain January ( Richards) 72 "Captains Courageous" (Kipling) 69 Careers of Danger and Daring (Moffett) 92 Cathleen-ni-Hoolihan (Yeats) 158 Cattle Ranch to College (Doubleday) 78 Cenci, The (Shelley) 205 Century Book of Famous Americans, The (Brooks) 59 Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon (Lever) 70 Chief American Poets, The (Page) 206 Chief Contemporary Dramatists, The (Dickinson) 207 Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, The (Nielsen) 207 Chief European Dramatists, The (Matthews) 207 Child's Garden of Verses, The (Stevenson) 44 Children's Book, The (Scudder) 44 Children's Book of Edinburgh, The (Grierson) 53 Children's Own Longfellow, The (Longfellow) 75 Children's Plays (Skinner) 76 Children's Stories of the Great Scientists (Weight) 62 Chinese Wonder Book, A (Pitman) 50 Choephoroe (Aeschylus) 199 Choir Invisible, The (Allen) 119 Choosing a Career (Marden) Ill Cid (Corneille) 201 Civil Government in the United States (Fiske) 169 INDEX 213 Civilization (Duhamel) 1 s<; Clemenceau (Hyndman) 144, 188 Cleopatre Captive ( Jodelle) 20O Cloister and the Hearth, The (Reade) 126 College Man and the College Woman, The (Hyde) UK) Comedies (Moliere) 201 Comedies (Plautus) 2oo Comedies (Terence) i'n< Commentary, A (Galsworthy) 150 Complete Angler, The (Walton) . 133 Confessions (Rousseau) 145 Confessions (Saint- Augustine) 146 Conrad in Quest of His Youth (Merrick) 151 Contemporary Composers (Mason) 161 Cornelia (Perkins) 71 Country Neighbors (Brown) 121 Country Road, The (Bronson-Howard) 121 Courage of the Commonplace, The (Andrews) 1)4 Cowboy Ballads (Lomax) 169 Cozy Lion, as Told by Queen Crosspatch, The (Burnett).. 46 Cranford and Other Tales (Gaskell) 99 Crime and Punishment (Dostoevski) 194 Crime of Sylvester Bonnard, The (France) 195 Crimson Sweater, The (Barbour) 64 Crisis, The (Churchill) 97 Cruise of the "Cachalot," The (Bullen) 78 Cruise of the "Shining Light," The (Duncan) 98 Culture and Anarchy (Arnold) 158 Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand) 157 Daughter of the Rich (Waller) 74 Daughters of the Puritans (Beach) 59 David and Bethsabe (Peele) 202 David Copperfield (Dickens) 66 David Crockett, Scout (Allen) 59 David Harum: A Story of American Life (Westcott) 104 David Livingstone (Hughes) 92 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Gibbon) 175 Deephaven ( Jewett) 125 Devil's Pool, The (Sand) U'7 Diana of the Crossways ^Meredith) 150 Diary (Pepys) 145 Diplomatic Background of the War, The (Seymour) 191 Discovery of the Great West (Parkman) 170 Disraeli (Parker) 157 Division and Reunion (Wilson) 172 Dr. Sevier (Cable) 147 Dogs of Boytown. The (Dyer) 52 214 INDEX Doll's House, The (Ibsen) 156 Donegal Fairy Tales (Mac Manus) 49 Don Orsino ( Crawford ) 193 Don Quixote de la Mancha (Cervantes) 96; 147 Dorothy Wordsworth ( Lee) 144 Dragon and the Raven, The (Henty) 68 Dramatic Moments in American Diplomacy (Page) 170 Duchess of Malfi, The (Webster) ; 203 Dune Country, The (Reed) 107 Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America (Fiske) 169 Economic Consequences of the Peace, The (Keynes) 189 Edison: His Life and Inventions (Dyer) * 117 Ednah and Her Brothers (White) 51 Education of Henry Adams, The (Adams) 168 Edward II (Marlowe) 202 Egoist, The (Meredith) 150 El Divino Orfeo (Calderon) 200 Elementary Mechanical Drawing (Weick) 112 Elements of General Science (Caldwell) 112 Emmeline (Singmaster) 73 Emmy Lou, Her Book and Heart (Martin) 70 Endymion, the Man in the Moon (Lyly) 202 Engineering as a Vocation (McCullogh) 182 England and the English from an American Point of View (Collier) 173 English Prose and Poetry (Manly) 206 English-Speaking Peoples, The (Beer) 172 English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages ( Jusserand) . .176 Essays ( Bacon) 131 Essays: First and Second Series (Emerson) 132 Essays in Criticism: First Series (Arnold) 130 Essays of Elia, The (Lamb) 159 Essentials in Journalism (Harrington) 181 Esther Waters (Moore) 196 Eumenides (Aeschylus) 199 Every Boy's Book (Rutledge) 83 Everyman 201 Every Man in His Humour ( Jonson) 203 Executive and His Control of Men, The (Gowin) 181 Exporting to Latin America (Filsinger) 180 Fair Maid of Perth, The (Scott) 102 Fairy Gold (Bates) 75 Fairy Tales and Wonder Stories (Andersen) 40 Fairy Tales from the Far North ( Asbjornsen) 45 Faithful Shepherdess, The (Fletcher) 203 Familiar Studies of Men and Books (Stevenson) 133 INDEX 215 Famous Discoverers and Explorers of America (Johnson) . . 61 Farm Book, The (Smith) 54 Fathers and Children (Turgenev) 128, 11)8 "Fear God in Your Own Village" (Morse) 170 Fifty Famous Stories Retold (Baldwin) 45 Fighting Fleets, The (Paine) 19O Firelight Stories (Bailey) 45 First Hundred Thousand, The (Hay) 187 Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Sidney) 72 Five Plays ( Dunsany ) 153 Florence Nightingale (Richards) !3 Florida Days (Deland) 106 Flower Guide (Reed) 82 Football, the American Intercollegiate Game (Davis) 81 For Days and Days (Wynne) 51 Forty Years of It (Whitlock) 171 Four and Twenty Toilers (Lucas) 53 Four Aspects of Civic Duty (Taft) 171 Four Feet, Two Feet, and No Feet (Richards) 50 Four Great Americans (Baldwin) 59 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The (Ibanez) 188 Four Months Afoot in Spain (Franck) 134 Four Years in the White North (Macmillan) 135 Fraternity (Galsworthy) 122 French in the Heart of America, The (Finley) 169 Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (Greene) 203 Frogs (Aristophanes) 199 "From School Through College (Wright) 109 Fundamentals of Naval Tactics, The (Bernotti) Ill Gallegher, and Other Stories (Davis) 97 Gallipoli (Masefield) 189 Gammer Gurton's Needle 202 Gentleman from Indiana, The (Tarkington) 104 Gentleman of France, A (Weyman) 104 George Washington ( Scudder) 62 George Westinghouse; His Life and Achievements (Leupp) 93 Georges Guynemer (Bordeaux) 185 German Secret Service in America, 1914-1918, The (Jones) .188 Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View (Collier) 173 Girl Next Door, The (Seaman) 72 Girl Pioneers of America (Beard) 80 Girls and Education (Briggs) 108 Girls of '64 (Knipe) 69 Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (Hearn) 175 Glory of the Coming, The (Cobb) 186 Glory That Was Greece. The (Stobart) 179 216 INDEX Golden Age, The (Grahame) 149 Golden Hair and the Three Bears (Johnson) 42 Golden Numbers ( Wiggin) 77 Golden Treasury, The (Palgrave) 206 Good Old Stories for Boys and Girls (Smith) .... 73 Good Wolf, The ( Burnett) 46 Gothic Quest, The (Cram) 161 Government of Modern States, The (Willoughby) 172 Government of the United States, The (Munroe) 170 Grand Fleet: 1914-1916, The (Jellicoe) 188 Grandeur That Was Rome, The (Stobart) 179 Grandissimes, The (Cable) 147 Great Adventure, The (Roosevelt) 191 Great American Universities (Slosson) 109 Great Divide, The (Moody) 129 Great Sioux Trail, The (Altsheler) 63 Greater European Governments (Lowell) 176 Greek View of Life, The (Dickinson) 174 Group of Famous Women, A (Horton) 60 Guide to the Trees ( Lounsberry ) 82 Guns of Bull Run (Altsheler) 63 Guns of Shilob. (Altsheler) 63 H. M. S. Pinafore (Gilbert) 153 Half Hours (Barrie) 153 Hamlet ( Shakspere) 129 Handicraft for Boys (Collins) 85 Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates (Dodge) 66 Harper's Outdoor Book for Boys (Adams) 80 Headquarters Nights (Kellogg) 189 Heart of Midlothian, The (Scott) 102 Heart of Oak Books, The (Norton) 49 Heart of the West (O. Henry) 124 Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning (Spyri) 51 Held for Orders (Spearman) 103 Henry IV (Shakspere) 105 Henry Hudson, His Times and His Voyages (Bacon) 116 Heroes and Martyrs of Science (Ewart) 91 Heroes of Today (Parkman) 93 Heroines of Service (Parkman) 93 Hey, Diddle, Diddle Picture Book (Caldecott) 41 High Adventure (Hall) 187 Highways and Byways of the South (Johnson) 109 Hilda Lessways (Bennett) 146 Historical Plays of Colonial Days (Tucker) 76 History of Architecture (Kimball) 161 History of Henry Esmond, The (Thackeray) 151 History of King Alfred (Abbott) 59 INDEX 217 History of Pendennis, The (Thackeray) 127 History of South Africa, A (Fairbridge) 174 History of the French Revolution (Carlyle) 173 History of the Reformation in Scotland (Knox) 176 History of the United States from Hayes to McKinley (Rhodes) 171 Holland of the Dutch (Boulger) 172 Home Book of Verse for Young Folks (Stevenson) 76 Home Fires in France (Fisher) 186 Home Life in China (Headland) 175 Hoosier Schoolmaster, The (Eggleston) 98 Hour Glass, The (Yeats) 158 House of Seven Gables, The (Hawthorne) 124 How France is Governed (Poincare) 178 How to Choose the Right Vocation (Merton) 182 How to Know the Bible (Hodges) 136 How to Obtain Citizenship (Fowler) 169 How to Play Baseball (McGraw) 82 How to Study Birds (Job) 81 Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker (Mitchell) 101 Hypatia (Kingsley) 125 I Suppositi (Ariosto) 200 Iceland Fisherman, An ( Loti) 196 Idea of a University (Newman) -: 183 Imperial England ( Lavell ) 176 Impressions of the Kaiser (Hill) 187 In Chimney Corners (MacManus) 49 Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains (Eastman) 60 Indian Legends for Camp Fire Girls (Partridge) 71 Influence of Sea Power on History, The (Mahan) 177 Influencing Men in Business (Scott) 184 Inn of Tranquility, The (Galsworthy) 159 In Northern Labrador ( Cabot) 134 In Spain (Lomas) 176 Introduction to Philosophy, An (Fletcher) 136 In the Wilds of South America (Miller) 135 In Tune with the Infinite (Trine) 137 Inventions of the Great War (Bond) 185 Iphigenia in Tauris (Euripides) 199 Ireland and England (Turner) 179 Ireland: a Study in Nationalism (Hackett) 175 Isaac Casaubon (Pattison) 145 Isabel Carleton's Year (Ashmun) 95 Ivanhoe (Scott) 72 Jane Eyre (Bronte) 121 Jane Shore (Rowe) 204 218 INDEX Janice Meredith (Ford) 99 Japan: an Interpretation (Hearn) ! .175 Java Head (He,rgesheimer) 125 Jean Christophre (Rolland) 197 Jean Inglesant (Shorthouse) 151 Jerusalem ( Lagerlof ) 196 Jewish Fairy Tales and Stories (Friedlander) 47 Jim Davis (Masefield) 101 John Martin's Big Book for Little Folk 42 John Marvel, Assistant (Page) 151 Johnny Appleseed: a Romance of the Sower (Atkinson).. 63 Johnny Crow's Garden (Brooke) 40 Joining the Colors (Botsford) 95 Joseph Vance: an 111- written Autobiography (DeMorgan) .193 Jouir (Margueritte) 196 Julia: or, The New Heloise (Rousseau) .197 Julius Caesar (Shakspere) 106 Jungle Book, The (Kipling) 48 Jungle Peace (Beebe) 134 Just So Stories (Kipling) 48 Katrinka; the Story of a Russian Child (Haskell) 67 Kenilworth (Scott) 103 Kidnapped (Stevenson) .103 King Arthur Stories from Malory (Stevens) 73 King Lear ( Shakspere) 129 King of the Golden River, The (Ruskin) 50 King Solomon's Mines (Haggard) 123 Kipps: the Story of a Simple Soul (Wells) 152 Lad: a Dog (Terhune) 73 Lady Windermere's Fan (Wilde) .158 Land of Oz, The (Baum) , 40 Land We Live In, The (Price) 82 Last Days of Pompeii, The (Bulwer-Lytton) 96 Last of the Mohicans, The (Cooper) 65 Latter-Day Pamphlets (Carlyle) 173 Law as a Vocation, The (Allen) 180 layman's Handbook of Medicine, A (Cabot) 180 Leading American Inventors (lies) 92 Learning to Fly (Graham-White) 112 Les Miserables (Hugo) 149 Letters (Cowper) 132 Letters (Erasmus) 174 Letters (Gray) 159 Letters and Diary (Seeger) 191 Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son (Lorimer) . .100 Letters That Make Good (Poole) 183 INDEX 21J> Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, The (Sterne) 197 Life of Alice Freeman Palmer, The (Palmer) 118 Life of Charlotte Bronte, The (Gaskell) .- u Life of Doctor Arnold, The (Stanley) 146 Life of General Joffre (Kahn) 117 Life of Johnson (Boswell) 143 Life of Mary Lyon, The (Gilchrist) 92 Life of Milton (Masson) 177 Life of Phillips Brooks (Allen) 116 Life of Sir Walter Scott (Lockhart) 117 Life of Washington, The (Marshall) 117 Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Morley) 118 Light Freights (Jacobs) 149 Light That Failed, The (Kipling) 126 Lincoln, Master of Men (Rothschild) 119 Lisbeth Longfrock (Aanrud) 62 Little Folk's Handy Book (Beard) 52 Little Lame Prince and His Traveling Cloak, The (Craik) . 47 Little Lord Fauntleroy (Burnett) 64 Little Plays from American History (Walker) 76 Little Red Riding Hood (Lang) 49 Little Songs of Long Ago (LeMair) 42 Little Women (Alcott) 62 Lives (Plutarch) 93 Lives of Girls (Bolton) 91 Living Bayonets ( Dawson ) 186 London Merchant, The (Lillo) 204 Lonesomest Doll, The (Brown) 46 Lord Jim (Conrad) 121 Lorna Doone (Blackmore) 95 Lost Indian Magic (Moon) 70 Louisa May Alcott (Moses) 61 Love in Old Clothes (Bunner) 121 Luck of Roaring Camp, The ( Harte) 124 Macbeth ( Shakspere) 130 Madame Bovary (Flaubert) 194 Madness of Philip, The (Bacon) 95 Main Traveled Roads (Garland) 123 Major Barbara (Shaw) 157 Makers of Our History (Faris) 91 Making of an American, The (Riis) 171 Man of Feeling, The (Mackenzie) 196 Man Without a Country, The (Hale) 67 Many Cargoes (Jacobs) 149 Margaret Ogilvy (Barrie) 116 Marigold Garden (Greenaway) 41 Marjorie Daw (Aldrich) 94 220 INDEX Martial Adventures of Henry and Me, The (White) 192 Martin Chuzzlewit ( Dickens) 122 Mary Goes First (Jones) 156 Mason Bees, The (Fabre) 91 Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) 158 Men of Business ( Stoddard) 94 Men of Iron (Pyle) 71 Men of Letters (Scott) 160" Men of Renown (Wise) 62 Men Who Are Making America (Forbes) 117 Men Who Made Good (Faris) 91 Men, Women and Manners in Colonial Times (Fisher) 169 Merchant Ships and What They Bring (Braine) 52 Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, The (Stevenson) .127 Micah Clarke (Doyle) 66 Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakspere) 106 Mill on the Floss, The (Eliot) 98 Milton (Pattison) 145 Ministry of Art, The (Cram) 161 Mine, de Sevigne (Ritchie) 160 Modern Accounting (Hatfield) .181 Modern Japan: Social, Industrial, Political (Hershey) 176 Modern Reader's Bible, The (Moulton) 167 Money and Banking (White) 185 Money Making for Boys ( Collins) 110 Monsieur Beaucaire (Tarkington) 103 Moody's Manual of Railroad and Corporation Securities 182 Moonstone, The (Collins) 148 More Short Sixes (Bunner ) 121 Mother (Norris) 102 Mother Goose (Perrault) 43 Mother's Nursery Tales (Pyle) 43 Mr. Midshipman Easy (Marryat) 101 Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures ( Jerrold) 159 Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (Rice) 71 My Days and Nights on the Battlefield (Coffin) 65 My Four Years in Germany (Gerard) 187 My Home in the Field of Honour (Huard) 188 My Second Year of the War (Palmer) 190 My Study Windows (Lowell) 133 My Year* of the Great War (Palmer) 190 Nan (Masefield) 156 Nathan Hale (Fitch) 153 Nationalizing America (Steiner) 171 Naval Heroes (Collins) 186 Nelly's Silver Mine (Jackson) 69 New America, The (Dilnot) 168 INDEX 221 New Baby World, A (Dodge) 41 New Business of Farming, The (Dimock) 18< New Canterbury Tales (Hewlett) ]: , New England Nun and Other Stories, A (Wilkins) 153 New Grub Street, The (Gissing) i : .:, New Machiavelli, The (Wells) i:,2 New Map of Africa, The (Gibbons) 175 New Map of Europe, The (Gibbons) 187 Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence (Hyde) 181 New York's Part in History (Williams) 172 New World, The (Lope de Vega) 200 New World Fairy Book, The (Kennedy) 48 Ninety-three (Hugo) . .14!) Nun, The (Bazin) i;i> Nursery Tales from Many Lands (Skinner) 44 Observation: Every Man His Own University (Conwell) . .110 Occupations: a Textbook in Vocational Guidance (Gowin) .181 Odd Number, The (Maupassant) 150 Old Curiosity Shop, The (Dickens) 07 Old Front Line, The (Masefield) 18!) Old Goriot (Balzac) 120 Old Mother West Wind Stories (Burgess) 40 Old Sailor's Yarns, An (Coffin) 65 Old Seaport Towns of the South (Cram) 134 Old Truths and New Facts (Kirkland) 189 Old Virginia and Her Neighbors (Fiske) 169 Old Wives' Tale, The (Bennett) 146 Old World Through New Eyes, The (Ware) 17!) Oliver Cromwell (Carlyle) 143 On Becoming an American (Bridges) 168 On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History (Carlyle) 131 On Our Hill (Bacon) 95 On the Trail (Beard) 80 On the Trail of Grant and Lee (Hill) 68 Open Boats (Noyes) 190 Ordeal of Richard Feverel, The (Meredith) 150 Oregon Trail, The (Parkman) 79. 17o Origins of the Triple Alliance (Coolidge) 173 Origins of the War (Rose) 191 Othello (Shakspere) 130 Other Americans, The (R~uhl) 178 Otto of the Silver Hand (Pyle) 71 Our Greatest Battle (Palmer) r.M> Our Old Nursery Rhymes ( LeMair) 4 Out of the Shadow (Cohen) 116 Outlines of Industrial Chemistry (Thorp) 185 222 INDEX Owd Bob, the Grey Dog of Kenmuir (Ollivant) '. .102 Oxford Book of English Verse, The (Quiller-Couch) 206 Part of a Man's Life (Higginson) 117 Past and Present (Carlyle) 159, 173 Patience (Gilbert) 153 Patrician, The (Galsworthy) 123 Patriotic Plays and Pageants (Mackay) 76 Paul Jones (Hapgood) 60 Peeps at Switzerland (Finnemore) 53 Peg Woofington (Reade) 127 Perfect Tribute, The (Andrews) 94 Persae 199 Peter Pan (Barrie) > 153 Peter Rabbit Books, The (Potter) 43 Philosophy Four (Wister) 128 Pigeon Raising (Macleod) 112 Pilgrims of Today (Wade) 94 Pilgrim's Progress, The (Bunyan) 96 Pirates of Penzance, The (Giibert) 153 Pit, The (Norris) 102 Places Young Americans Want to Know (Tomlinson) 83 Plutarch for Boys and Girls (White) 62 Playboy of the Western World,- The (Synge) . . .157 Pocket Manual of Rules of Order (Robert) Ill Politics for Young Americans (Nordhoff) 170 Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, The (Dickens) . . 97 Pot of Gold, The (Wilkins) 51 Practical Exporting (Hough) 181 Practical Journalism (Shuman) 184 Practical Things with Simple Tools (Goldsmith) 85 Praeterita: by Himself (Ruskin) 145 Preparing for Womanhood (Lowry) 109 Pre-Shakespearian Drama (Manly) 207 President Wilson's Foreign Policy (Scott) ,. .191 President Wilson's State Papers and Addresses (Shaw)... 191 Pride and Prejudice (Austen) 120 Prince, The (Machievelli) 176 Princess of the Glass Hill, The (Lang) 49 Principles of Bookkeeping, The (Miner) 182 Prisoner of Zenda, The (Hawkins) 99 Promised Land, The (Antin) 91 Psychology of Advertising, The (Scott) 184 Rab and His Friends (Brown) 96 Ramona ( Jackson ) 100 Rational Living (King) .136 Ready for Business; or Choosing an Occupation (Manson) .110 INDEX 223 Real Soldiers of Fortune ( Davis) 91 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Wiggin) 75 Recollections (Morley) 118, 178 Reconstruction, Political and Economic (Dunning) 169 Red Badge of Courage, The (Crane) 122 Red Cow and Her Friends, The (McArthur) 133 Red Robe, The (Brieux) 103 Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke) 131 Religio Grammatici (Murray) 137 Religio Medici (Browne) 158 Religion of an Educated Man, The (Peabody) 183 Remaking of a Mind, The (DeMan) 174 Representative American Plays (Quinn) 207 Representative British Dramas, Victorian and Modern (Moses) 207 Representative Plays by American Dramatists (Moses) .. .207 Republic (Plato) 178 Retail Selling and Store Management (Neystrom) 183 Return of the Native, The (Hardy) 123 Richard Carvel (Churchill) 97 Riders to the Sea (Synge) 130 Right of Way, The (Parker) 151 Rise and Fall of Caesar Birotteau, The (Balzac) 120 Rise of Silas Lapham, The (Howells) 125 Rise of the Dutch Republic, The (Motley) 178 Rising of the Moon, The (Gregory) 129 Rivals, The (Sheridan) 130, 205 Riverman, The (White) 105 Romance of Commerce, The (Self ridge) 184 Romeo and Juliet (Shakspere) 106 Romola (Eliot) 99 Routine and Ideals (Briggs) 108 Russia and Poland (Morfill) 178 Sailing Alone Around the World (Slocum) 107 Salvation Nell (Sheldon) 157 Sant 'Ilario (Crawford) 193 Saracinesca (Crawford) 193 Sartor Resartus (Carlyle) 131 Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne) 124 School, College and Character (Briggs) 108 School for Scandal, The (Sheridan) 130, 205 Science and Art of Salesmanship, The (Hoover) 181 Scotch Twins (Perkins) 53 Scotland (Mackie) 177 Scottish Chiefs (Porter) 71 Sea and the Jungle. The (Tomlinson) 136 Second Book of American Verse, The (Rittenhouse) 206 224 INDEX Second Mrs. Tanquary, The (Pinero) 157 Second Shepherd's Play, The 202 Secret City, The (Walpole) 152 Sejanus, His Fall ( Jonson) 203 Self Cultivation in English (Palmer) 109 Sesame and Lilies ( Ruskin) 160 She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith) 105, 205 Short History of the English People, A (Greene) 175 Short Introduction to the Literature of the Bible, A (Moulton) 137 Short Life of Abraham Lincoln (Nicolay) 93 Short Sixes (Bunner) 121 Short Stories (Poe) 126 Showing-up of Blanco Posnet, The (Shaw) 157 Sidney Lanier (Minis) 144 Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe (Eliot) 67 Singing Circle, The (Bell) 46 Sixteen Hundred Business Books (Merely) 183 Smith College Stories (Bacon) ' 95 Social Work (Cabot) 180 Socialism and American Ideals (Myers) 170 Soldiers of Fortune (Davis) 97 Some Chemical Problems of Today (Duncan) 112 Some Nursery Rhymes of Belgium, France, and Russia (Walter) 44 Some Remarkable Women (Wise) 62 Some Strange Corners of Our Own Country (Lummis) 107 South America (Browne) 77 South of Panama (Ross) 136 Spanish Tragedy, The (Kyd) 202 Spirit of the Age, The (Hazlitt) 132 Spirit of Youth and the City Streets, The (Addams) 168 Spy, The ( Cooper) 65 Stalky and Company (Kipling) 69 Star Stories for Little Folks (Warner) 54 Steel Water of Madrid, The (Lope de Vega) 200 Steep Trails (Muir) 107 Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans (Eggles- ton) 60 Stories of Inventors (Doubleday) 60 Stories of the Gorilla Country (DuChaillu) 134 Stories of the Great West (Roosevelt) 171 Stories of the Pilgrims (Pumphrey) 54 Story-Hour Favorites (Harper) 42 Story of a Bad Boy, The (Aldrich) 63 Story of a Pioneer, The (Shaw) 119 Story of My Life, The (Keller) ; . 92 Story of Roland, The (Baldwin) 63 INDEX 225 Story of the American Merchant Marine, The (Abbot) 179 Story of the Greek People, The (Tappan) so Story of the Submarine, The (Bishop) Ill Story-Telling Poems (Olcott) 76 Stover at Yale (Johnson) loo Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The (Stevenson) 127 Strife (Galsworthy) 128 Student in Arms, A (Hankey) 187 Submarine in War and Peace, The ( Lake) 181) Succeeding with What You Have (Schwab) Ill Sunken Bell, The (Hauptmann) 156 Sudvey of Occupations Open to the Girl (Dodge) 18O Swiss Family Robinson (Wyss) 52 T. Tembarom (Burnett) 06 Table Talk (Hazlitt) 132 Tailor of Gloucester, The (Potter) 43 Tale of Two Cities, A (Dickens) 98 Tales from Shakspere (Lamb) 105 Tales of Laughter ( Wiggin) 51 Tales of Mean Streets (Morrison) 126 Tanglewood Tales (Hawthorne) 68 Tartarin of Tarascon (Daudet) 148 Tempest, The (Shakspere) 106- Tenderfoot with Peary, A (Borup) 77 Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled (Stuck) 108 Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Hardy) 123 Theodore Roosevelt: an Intimate Biography (TLayer) 146 Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children 131 This Life and the Next (Forsyth) 136 Thomas Carlyle (Froude) 144 Three Gringoes in Venezuela and Central America (Davis). 106 Three Men in a Boat (Jerome) 100 Three Mulla-Mullgars, The (De la Mare) 47 Three Musketeers, The (Dumas) 148 Through the Dark Continent (Stanley) 108 Timothy's Quest (Wiggin) 75 Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with the Circus (Otis) 70 To Girls (Hersey) 109 Toilers of the Sea (Hugo) 125 Tom Brown's School Days (Hughes) 69 Tom Jones (Fielding) 149 Torch Bearer, The (Thurston) 74 Tower of London, The (Ainsworth) 119 Track's End (Carruth) 65 Tragedies (Seneca) 199 Training and Rewards of a Physician (Cabot) 180 226 INDEX Training in Courtesy (McNaught) 182 Training of a Salesman, The (Maxwell) 182 Training of Wild Animals (Bostock) 77 Tramp Across the Continent, A (Lummis) 107 Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras (Franck) 134 Treasure Island (Stevenson) 73 Treasury of War Poetry, A (Clark) 186 Trees That Every Child Should Know (Rogers) 82 Trilby (DuMaurier) 148 Truth About China and Japan, The (Weale) 179 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Verne) 74 Twice Told Tales (Hawthorne) 124 Two Years Before the Mast (Dana) 65 Types of English Drama (Stevens) 207 Ulysses S. Grant (Wister) 94 Uncle Abner's Legacy ( Verrill ) 74 Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings (Harris) 47 Uncle Tom's Cabin (Stowe) 103 Under Fire (Barbusse) 185 Under Sail ( Riesenberg) 107 Under the Window (Greenaway) 41 Understood Betsy (Fisher) 67 Vacation Camping for Girls (Marks) 82 Vagabonding Down the Andes (Franck) 107 Valley of Democracy, The (Nicholson) 170 Vanity Fair; a Novel Without a Hero (Thackeray) .. i .. .128 Varmint, The (Johnson) 100 Venice Preserved (Otway ) " 204 Vicar of Wakefield, The (Goldsmith) 67 Victory (Conrad) 122 'Virgin Islands, The (Booy) 106 Virginian, The (Wister) 128 Virginians, The (Thackeray) 152 Virginibus Puerisque (Stevenson) 133 Vocational and Moral Guidance (Davis) 110 Vocations for Girls (Weaver) 185 Voltaire in His Letters (Tallentyre) 133 Voyages of Captain Scott, The (Turley) 108 Wanderer in Florence, A (Lucas) 135 Wanderer in Venice, A (Lucas) 135 War and Peace (Tolstoi) 198 War and Women (Stobart) 192 War Inventions and How They Were Invented (Gibson) . .112 War of Independence, The (Fiske) 169 INDEX 227 Water Babies, The (Kingsley) 48 Way of All Flesh, The (Butler) 147 Way of an Indian, The (Remington) 7!) Way of the World, The (Congreve) 204 Ways for Boys to Do Things (Vance) 85 Weavers, The (Hauptmann) 156 Westward Ho! (Kingsley) 126 What Every Woman Knows (Barrie) 153 What Happened to Europe (Vanderlip) 192 What Men Live By: Work, Play, Love, Worship (Cabot) . .159 When I Was a Boy in Belgium ( Jonckheere) 61 When Patty Went to College (Webster) 74 When the King Came (Hodges) 53 Whirligigs (O. Henry) 124 Whispering Smith ( Spearman ) 10a White Company, The (Doyle) 66 White Umbrella in Mexico, A (Smith) 108 Why the Chimes Rang, and Other Stories (Alden) 45 Weavers, The (Hauptmann) 156 Wild Animals I Have Known (Seton) 83 Wild Flower Book for Young People (Lounsberry) 82 Wilhelm Meister (Goethe) 195 Window in Thrums, A (Barrie) 120 Winning of the West, The (Roosevelt) 171 Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony Simply Explained (Morgan) 112 Wisdom of Father Brown, The (Chesterton) 121 Witching Hour, The (Thomas) 130 With Kitchener to Khartoum (Stevens) 136 With Lee in Virginia (Henty) 68 With the Allies (Davis) 186 With the Little Folks (Wright) 45 With the Men Who Do Things (Bond) 64 Woman in White, The (Collins) 148 Woman Killed With Kindness, A (Heywood) 203 Wonder Book, The (Hawthorne) 68 Wonderful Chair and the Tales It Told, The (Browne) . . 46 Wonderland of Stamps, The (Burroughs) 84 Wonders of Instinct (Fabre) 81 Wonders of the War on Land, The (Rolt- Wheeler) 72 Woodcraft Manual for Boys, The (Seton) 85 Woodrow Wilson ( Low) 117 World War, The (Simonds) 191 Wordsworthshire (Robertson) 135 Work (Zola) 198 Work of Wall Street, The (Pratt) 184 Working One's Way Through College and University (Wilson) 109 228 INDEX Writing of News, The (Ross) 184 Writing of Today (Cunliffe) 180 Wuthering Heights (Bronte) 147 Yashka (Botchkareva) 143 Young Alaskans In the Far North (Hough) 69 Young Man and the World, The (Beveridge) 110 You Never Can Tell (Shaw) 157 Zone Policeman 88 (Franck) 107 INDEX OF AUTHORS Aaiirud, Hans 62 Abbott, Jacob 59 Abbot, Willis J 179 Adams, Henry 168 Adams, Joseph H 80 Addams, Jane 168 Aeschylus 199 Aesop 39 Ainsworth, \Vra. H 119 Alcott, Louisa May 62 Alden. Raymond M 45 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey 63, 94 Allen, E. F 73 Allen, A. V. G 116 Allen, Charles F 59 Allen, Frederick J HO, 180 Allen. James Lane 119 Altsheler, Joseph A 63 Andersen, Hans Christian 40 Andrews, Mary Shipman 94 Antin, Mary 91 Ariosto, Ludovico 200 Aristophanes 199 Arnold, Matthew 130, 158 Asbjornsen, P. C 45 Ashmun, Margaret 95 Atkinson, Eleanor 63 Augustine, Saint 146 Aurelius, Marcus 158 Austen, Jane 120 Babson, Roger W 180 Bacon, Edgar M 77, 116 Bacon, Francis 131 Bacon, Josephine Daskam 95 Bailey, Carol> n S 45 Baker, Ray Stannard 83 Baldwin, James 45, 59, 63 Balzac, Honore de 120 Barbour, Ralph H 64 229 230 INDEX Barbusse, Henri 185 Barnard, H. C 52 Barr, Amelia E 64 Barrie, J. M 116, 120, 153 Bates, Katherine Lee 75 Baum, L. Prank 40 Bazin, Rene" 192 Beach, S. C 59 Beard, Dan 84 Beard, Lina 52, 80, 84 Beebe, C. W 134 Beer, George L 172 Bell, F. E. 46 Bennett, Arnold 120, 146 Bernotti, R Ill Besant, Walter 147 Beveridge, Albert J 110 Bishop, Farnham Ill Bishop, Joseph B 131 Blackmore, Richard D 95 Bolton, Sarah 91 Bond, A. R 64, 111, 185 Booy, T. H. N 106 Bordeaux, Henry 185 Borrow, George 193 Borup, George 77 Bostock, Frank C 77 Boswell, James 143 Botchkareva, Maria 143 Botsford, C. A 95 Boulger, D. C 172 Boynton, Percy H 205 Braine, S. E 52 Bridges, Horace J 168 Brieux, Eugene 193 Briggs, L. R 108 Bronson, Walter C 205 Bronson-Howard, G. F 121 Bronte, Charlotte 121 Bronte, Emily 147 Brooke, L. L 40 Brookfield, Frances M 143 Brooks, E. S 59 Brooks, Noah , 64 Brown, Abbie F ! 46 Brown, Alice 121 Brown, John 96 Browne, Edith A 77 INDEX 231 Browne, Frances 46 Browne, Sir Thomas 158 Bryce, James 168 Bullen, Frank T 78 Bulwer-Lytton, Lord 96 Bunner, H. C 121 Bunyan, John 06 Burgess, Thornton W 40, 64, 81 Burke, Edmund 131 Burnett, Frances Hodgson 46, 64, 96 Burroughs, W. D 84 Butler, Samuel 147 Buzzell, J. J 183 Cable, George W 147 Cabot, Richard C 159, 180 Cabot, W. B 134 Caldecott, R 41 Calderon, Pedro 200 Cal dwell, O. W 112 Carlyle, Thomas 131, 143, 159, 173 Carroll, Lewis 46 Carruth, H 65 Catlin, George 78 Cellini, Benvenuto 143 Cervantes, Saavedra, Miguel de 96, 147 Chesterton, G. K .121 Churchill, Winston 97 Clark, G. H 186 Clark, W. J 81 Clarke, C. R 84 Claudy, Carl H 84 Cobb, Irwin 186 Coffin, Charles C 65 Coffin, Roland E 65 Cohen, Rose 116 Collier, Price 173 Collins, A. D 110 Collins, A. F 84, 85 Collins, Charles 41 Collins, Francis A 186 Collins, W. Wilkie 148 Congreve, William 204 Conrad, Joseph 121, 122 Con way, E. A 109 Conwell, Russell H 110 Coolidge, A. C 173 Cooper. James Fenimore 65 232 INDEX Corneille, Pierre 201 Cowper, William 132 Craik, Dinah M 47 Cram, Mildred 134 Cram, Ralph A 160, 161 Cram, W. E 83 Crane, Stephen 122 Crane, Walter 41 Crawford, Francis Marion 193 Cunliffe, J. W .180 Custer, E. B 60 Dana, R. H 65 Daudet, Alphonse 148 Davis, Jesse B 110 Davis, Parke H 81 Davis, Richard Harding 91, 97, 106, 186 Dawson, Coningsby 186 Dawson, P. T 81 Defoe, Daniel 47 De la Mare, Walter 47 Deland, Margaret 106 De Man, Henry 174 Deming, E. W : 52 De Morgan, William 193 Dickens, Charles 66. 97, 98, 122, 194 Dickinson, G, Lowes 174 Dickinson, T. H 207 Dilnot, Frank 168 Dimock, J. A 180 Dodge, H. H 180 Dodge, Mary Mapes 41, 66 Dodgson, C. L., see Carroll. Dostoeviski, Feodor 194 Doubleday, Russell 60, 78 Doyle, A. Conan 66, 98 Dryden, John 204 Du Chaillu, Paul B 134 Dugmore, A. R 66 Duhamel, George 186 Dumas, Alexander 148, 194 Du Maurier, George 148 Duncan, Norman 98, 174 Duncan, Robert K 112 Dunning, W. A 169 Dunsany, Lord 153 Dyer, F. L. . : 117 Dyer, Walter A 52 INDEX 233 Kastman, Charles A 60 Eaton, Walter P 66 Edgell, G. H 161 Eggleston, Edward 60, 98 Eikenberry, W. 1 112 Eliot, George 67, 98, 99, 122 Elwell, H. C 182 Emerson, Ralph Waldo 132 Erasmus 174 Euripides 199 Evans, Mary Anne, see Eliot. Ewart, Henry C 91 Fabre, J. H 81, 91 Fairbridge, D 174 Faris, John T 91 Fielding, Henry 149, 194 Filsinger, E. D 180 Finley, John 169 Finnemore, John 53 Fisher, Dorothy Canfield 67, 99, 186 Fisher, S. G 169 Fiske, John 169 Fitch, Clyde 153 Flaubert, Gustave 194 Fletcher, John 203 Fletcher, Orlin 136, 203 Forbes, B. C 117 Ford, John 204 Ford, Paul Leicester 99 Forsyth, P. T 136 Fo\vler, N. C 110, 169 France, Anatole 195 Franck, H. A 107, 134 Frankenberg, T. T 181 Franklin, Benjamin 60 Fraser, J. F 174 Friedlander, Gerald 47 Fronde, James A 144 Galsworthy, John 122. 123, 128, 159, 187 Garland, Hamlin 67, 123 Gaskell, Elizabeth C 01, 99 Gates, Eleanor 92 Gay, John 205 Gerard, James W 187 Gibbon, Edward 144, 175 Gibbons, Floyd 187 234 INDEX Gibbons, H. A 175, 187 Gibson, C. R 112 Gilbert, William S 153 Gilchrist, B. B 92 Gilder, J. L 144 Gissing, George 195 Goethe, Johann , 195 Goldsmith, Milton 85 Goldsmith, Oliver 67, 105, 205 Gowin, Enoch B 181 Grahame, Kenneth 149 Graham-White, C 112 Gray, Thomas 159 Greenaway, Kate 41 Greene, J. R 203 Greene, Robert 203 Gregory, Lady Augusta 129 Grenfell, Wilfred T 78 Grierson, Elizabeth W 53 Hackett, Francis 175 Hagerdorn, Hermann 92 Haggard, S. Rider 123 Hale, Edward Everett 67 Hall, Norman 187 Hankey, Donald 187 Hapgood, Hutchins 60 Hapgood, Norman 117 Hardy, Thomas 123 Harper, Wilhelmina 42 Harrington, H. F .* 181 Harris, Joel Chandler 47 Harte, Francis Bret 124 Haskell, Helen E 67 Hatfield, H. R 181 Hauptmann, Gerhart 156 Hawkins, Anthony Hope 99 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 68, 124 Hay, Ian 187 Hazlitt, William 132 Headland, I. T 175 Hearn, Lafcadio 175 Henry, O 124 Henty, George A 68 Hergesheimer, Joseph 125 Hersey, Heloise E 109 Hersh'ey, A. S 176 Hewlett, Maurice , 195 INDEX 235 Heylinger, William 68 Hey wood, Thomas 203 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth 117 Hill, David Jayne 187 Hill, Frederick T 68 Hodges, George 53, 136 Holbrook, Florence 48 Hollister, P. M 188 Hoover, S. R 181 Hornung, E. W 100 Horton, Edith 60 Hough, B. Olney 181 Hough, Emerson 61) Howells, William Dean 125, 169 Huard, Baroness 188 Hudson, W. H 81 Hughes, Thomas 61, 69, 92 Hugo, Victor 125, 149 Hyde, G. M 181 Hyde, W. D 109 Hyndman, H. M 144, 188 Ibanez, Vicente Blasco 188 Ibsen, Henrik 156 lies, G 92 Irving, Washington 132 Jackson, Helen Hunt 69, 100 Jacobs, W. W 149 James, Henry 150 Jellicoe, Admiral 188 Jerome, Jerome K 100 Jerrold, Douglas 159 Jewett, Sarah Orne 125 Job, H. K 81 Jodelle, Etienne 200 Johnson, C. H. L 61 Johnson, Clifton 42, 107, 135 Johnson, Margaret 42 Johnson, Owen 100 Johnckheere, Robert 61 Jones, Henry Arthur 156 Jones, J. P 188 Jonson, Ben 203 Jusserand, Jean J 176 Kahn, Alexander 117 Keller. Helen 92 236 INDEX Kellogg, Vernon 189 Kennedy, H. A 48 Keynes, J. M 189 Kimball, F 161 King, H. C 136 Kingsland, Florence 82 Kingsley, Charles 48, 125, 126 Kipling, Rudyard 48, 69, 126 Kirkland, Winifred 189 Knipe, Emilie 69 Knox, John 176 Kyd, Thomas 202 Lagerlof, Selma 196 Lake, Simon 189 Lamb, Charles 78, 105, 159 Lang, Andrew 49 Lanier, Sidney 70, 79 Laut, A. C : 176 Lavell, C. E 176 Lee, Edmund 144 LeMair, H. W 42 Ivenpp, Francis E 93 Lever, Charles 70 Lillo, John 204 Lisle, Clifton 85 Locke, William J 126 Lockhart, John G 117 Lomas, John 176 Lomax, J. A 169 London, Jack 70 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 75 Lope de Vega 200 Lorenzini, Carlo 49 Lorimer, George H 100 Loti, Pierre 196 Lounsberry, Alice 82 Low, A. M 117 Lowell, A. L 176 Lowell, James Russell 132, 133 Lowry, E. B 109 Lucas, E. V 49, 53, 135 Lummis, Charles F 107 Lyly, John 202 McArthur, Peter 133 McCullough, Ernest 182 McGraw, J. J 82 INDKX 237 Machievelli, Nicollo 176 Mackay, Constance D 76 Mackenzie, Henry 196 Mackie, Robert L 177 Macleod, Alice 112 Mac Mamis, Sennias 40 Macmillan, D. B 135 MeNaught, M. S 182 Mahan, A. T 177 Manatt, J. 1 177 Manly, John M 206, 207 Manson, George L 110 Marden, Orison S. Ill Margueritte, Paul 196 Marks, Jeannette 82 Marlowe, Christopher 202 Marryat, Frederick 101 Marshall, John 117 Martin, George M 70 Martin, T. C 117 Martineau, Harriet 177 Masefield, John 101, 156, 189 Mason, Daniel G 161 Masson, David 177 Mathiews, F. K 85 Matthews, Brander 207 Maupassant, Guy de 150 Maxwell, William 182 Meadowcroft, W. H 61 Meredith, George .150 Merrick, Leonard 151 Merton, H. W 182 Miller, L. E 135 Minis, Edward 144 Miner, G. W 182, 183 Mitchell, S. Weir 101 Moffett, Cleveland 93 Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poguelin) 201 Montgomery, Lucy M 101 Moody, William Vaughan 129 Moon, Grace 70 Moore, George 196 Moore, J. H 183 Merely, L. H 183 Morfill, W. R 178 Morgan, A. P 112 Morganthau, Henry 10< > Morley. John 118, 178 238 INDEX Morrison, Arthur 126 Morse, Richard 170 Moses, Belle 61 Moses, M. J 207 Motley, John L 178 Moulton, Richard Green 137, 167 Muir, John 107 Munroe, W. B 170 Murray, Gilbert 137 Myers, W. S 170 Nielsen, William A 207 Newman, John Henry 145, 183 Neystrom, P. H 183 Nicholson, Meredith 170 Nicolay, Helen 61 Nicolay, J. G. 93 Nordhoff, Charles 170 Norris, Frank 102 Norris, Kathleen 102 Norton, Charles Eliot 49 Noyes, A 190 Olcott, Frances J 50, 53, 76 Oliphant, Margaret 118 Ollivant, Alfred 102 Omond, G. W. T 135 Otis, James 70 Otway, Thomas 204 Page, Curtis H 206 Page, R. W 170 Page, Thomas Nelson 151 Paine, R 190 Palmer, Frederick 190 Palmer, George Herbert 109, 118 Parker, Cornelia S 118 Parker, Gilbert 151 Parker, L. N 157 Parkman, Francis 79, 170 Parkman, Mary R 93 Partridge, E. N 71 Pater, Walter 160 Pattison, Mark 145 Payne, C. E 176 Peabody, Francis G 183 Peele, George 202 Pepys, Samuel 145 INDEX 30 Perkins, Lucy Fitch 53, 71 Perrault, Charles 43 Perry, W. C 79 Pinero, Arthur Wing 157 Pitman, N. H. 50 Plato 178 Plautus 200 Plutarch 93 Poe, Edgar Allan 126 Poincare, Raymond 178 Poole, G. W 183 Porter, Jane 71 Potter, Beatrix 43 Powell, S. H 182 Pratt, Sefeno S 184 Price, O. W 82 Pumphrey, Margaret B 54 Pyle, Howard 71 Pyle, Katherine 43 Quiller-Couch, Arthur T. . . . .* 206 Quinn, A 207 Racine, Jean 201 Reade, Charles 126, 127 Reed, Chester A 82 Reed, Earl H 107 Remington, Frederic 79 Rhead, Louis 50 Rhodes, James Ford 171 Rice, Alice Hegan 71 Rice, Grantland 85 Richards, Laura E 50, 72, 93 Riesenberg, Felix 107 Riis, Jacob A 171 Rinehart, Mary Roberts 190 Ritchie, Anne 1 160 Rittenhouse, Jessie B 206 Robert, Henry M Ill Robertson, Eric 135 Rogers, Julia E 82 Rolland, Romain 197 Rolt-Wheeler, Francis 72 Roosevelt, Theodore 119, 135, 171, 191 Rose, J. H 191 Ross, Charles G 184 Ross, E. A 136 Rostand, Edmond 157 240 INDEX Rothschild, Alonzo 119 Rousseau, Jean Jacques 145, 197 Rowe, Nicholas 204 Ruhl, Arthur 178 Ruskin, John 50, 145, 160 Rutledge, Edmund 83 Ryan, E. L 76 Sand, George 197 Schwab, Charles M Ill Scott, Dixon 160 Scott, James Brown 191 Scott, Sir Walter 72, 102, 103 Scott, Walter D 184 Scudder, Horace E 43, 44, 62 Seaman, A. H 72 Seeger, Alan 191 Self ridge, H. G 184 Seneca 199 Serviss, C. P 183 Seton, Ernest Thompson 83, 85 Sewell, Anna 50 Seymour, Charles 191 Shakspere, William 105, 106, 129, 130 Shaw, Albert 191 Shaw, Anna H 119 Shaw, George Bernard 157 Sheldon, Edward .157 Shelley, Percy Bysshe 205 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 130, 205 Shorthousc, Joseph H 151 Shuman, E. L 184 Sidney, Margaret 72 Simmonds, R 112 Simonds, Prank 191 Singmaster, Elsie 73 Skinner, Ada M 44, 76 Slocum, J 107 Slosson, E. E 109 Smith, E. Boyd 54 Smith, Elia S 73 Smith, F. Hopkinson 108, 127 Smith, Gertrude 44 Smith, N. A , 51, 77 Smith, William C 184 Spearman, Frank H 103 Sophocles 109 Spyri, Johanna 51 INDEX 241 Stanley, Arthur P 146 Stanley, Henry M 108 Steiner, Edward 171 Sterne, Laurence 197 Stevens, A. F , 73 Stevens, David H 79, 207 Stevens, George W 136 Stevens, L. 73 Stevens, Ruth D 71) Stevenson, Burton E 76 Stevenson, Robert Louis 44, 73, 103, 127, 133, 179 Stobart, J. C 179 Stobart, Mabel Annie 192 Stockton, Frank R 80 Stoddard, W. 94 Stone, W S3 Stowe, Harriet Beecher 103 Street, Julien 108 Stuck, Hudson 108 Sullivan, J. J 185 Synge, John ..130, 157 Taft, William H 171 Tallentyre, S. G 133 Tappan, Eva March 80 Tarkington, Booth 103, 104 Tasso, Torquato 200 Taylor, Bayard 30 Terence 200 Terhune, Albert P 73 Thackeray, William Makepeace 127, 128, 151, 152 Thayer, William Roscoe 146 Thomas, Augustus M 130 Thorp, F. H 185 Thurston, I. T 74 Tolstoi, Leo 198 Tomlinson, E. T 83 Tomlinson, H. M 136 Trine, Ralph Waldo . .137 Trollope, Anthony 152 Tucker, E. L 76 Turgenev, Ivan 128, 198 Turley, Charles 108 Turner, Edward R 179 Twain, Mark 74 Vance, F. T 85 Vanderlip, Frank A 192 242 INDEX Van Loon, Hendrik W 80 Verne, Jules 74 Verrill, A. H 74, 112 Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 201 Wade, Mary H 94 Walker, A. J 76 Wallace, Lewis 104 Waller, Mary E -. . 74 Walpole, Hugh 152 Walter, L. E 44 Walton, Isaac t 133 Ware, M. S 179 Warner, G. C 54 Weale, B. L .179 Weaver, E. W 185 Webster, Henry Kitchell 104 Webster, Jean 74 Webster, John 203 Weick, C 112 Wells, H. G 152 Westcott, Edward Noyes 104 Weyman, Stanley John 104 White, Eliza 51 White, Horace 185 White, John S 62 White, Stewart Edward 105 White, William Allen 192 Whitlock, Brand 171. 192 Wiggin, Kate Douglas 51, 75, 77 Wilde, Oscar 158 Wilkins, Mary E 51, 105, 153 Williams, Sherman 172 Willoughby, W. F 172 Wilson, C. D 109 Wilson, Woodrow 172 Wise, Daniel 62 Wister, Owen 94, 128 Wright, Henry Parks 109 Wright, Henrietta C 62 Wright, Isa L 45 Wynne, Annette 51 Wyss, J. D 52 Yeats, William Butler 158 Zola, Emile 198 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY BERKELEY Return to desk from which borrowed. This book is DUE on the last date stami T.TP-7/IRY SCHOOL LIBRA below. MAY 21 1954 LD 21-100m-7,'52(A2528sl6)476 5211 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY