The first of these passes was called Tempe, and a body of troops was sent to guard it; but they found that this was useless and impossible, and came back again. The next was at Thermopylae. Look in your map of the Archipelago, or Aegean Sea, as it was then called, for the great island of Negropont, or by its old name, Eub[oe]a. It looks like a piece broken off from the coast, and to the north is shaped like the head of a bird, with the beak running into a gulf, that would fit over it, upon the main land, and between the island and the coast is an exceedingly narrow strait. The Persian army would have to march round the edge of the gulf. They could not cut straight across the country, because the ridge of mountains called Oeta rose up and barred their way. Indeed, the woods, rocks, and precipices came down so near the sea-shore that in two places there was only room for one single wheel track between the steeps and the impassable morass that formed the border of the gulf on its south side. These two very narrow places were called the gates of the pass, and were about a mile apart. There was a little more width left in the intervening space; but in this there were a number of springs of warm mineral water, salt and sulphurous, which were used for the sick to bathe in, and thus the place was called Thermopylae, or the Hot Gates. A wall had once been built across the westernmost of these narrow places, when the Thessalians and Phocians, who lived on either side of it, had been at war with one another; but it had been allowed to go to decay, since the Phocians had found out that there was a very steep narrow mountain path along the bed of a torrent, by which it was possible to cross from one territory to the other without going round this marshy coast road.

This was, therefore, an excellent place to defend. The Greek ships were all drawn up on the further side of Eub[oe]a to prevent the Persian vessels from getting into the strait and landing men beyond the pass, and a division of the army was sent off to guard the Hot Gates. The council at the Isthmus did not know of the mountain pathway, and thought that all would be safe as long as the Persians were kept out of the coast path.

The troops sent for this purpose were from different cities, and amounted to about 4,000 who were to keep the pass against two millions. The leader of them was Leonidas, who had newly become one of the two kings of Sparta, the city that above all in Greece trained its sons to be hardy soldiers, dreading death infinitely less than shame. Leonidas had already made up his mind that the expedition would probably be his death, perhaps because a prophecy had been given at the Temple at Delphi that Sparta should be saved by the death of one of her kings of the race of Hercules. He was allowed by law to take with him 300 men, and these he chose most carefully, not merely for their strength and courage, but selecting those who had sons, so that no family might altogether be destroyed. These Spartans, with their helots or slaves, made up his own share of the numbers, but all the army was under his generalship. It is even said that the 300 celebrated their own funeral rites before they set out lest they should be deprived of them by the enemy, since, as we have already seen, it was the Greek belief that the spirits of the dead found no rest till their obsequies had been performed. Such preparations did not daunt the spirits of Leonidas and his men, and his wife, Gorgo, was not a woman to be faint-hearted or hold him back. Long before, when she was a very little girl, a word of hers had saved her father from listening to a traitorous message from the King of Persia; and every Spartan lady was bred up to be able to say to those she best loved that they must come home from battle "with the shield or on it"—either carrying it victoriously or borne upon it as a corpse.

When Leonidas came to Thermopylae, the Phocians told him of the mountain path through the chestnut woods of Mount Oeta, and begged to have the privilege of guarding it on a spot high up on the mountain side, assuring him that it was very hard to find at the other end, and that there was every probability that the enemy would never discover it. He consented, and encamping around the warm springs, caused the broken wall to be repaired, and made ready to meet the foe.

The Persian army were seen covering the whole country like locusts, and the hearts of some of the southern Greeks in the pass began to sink. Their homes in the Peloponnesus were comparatively secure—had they not better fall back and reserve themselves to defend the Isthmus of Corinth? But Leonidas, though Sparta was safe below the Isthmus, had no intention of abandoning his northern allies, and kept the other Peloponnesians to their posts, only sending messengers for further help.

Presently a Persian on horseback rode up to reconnoiter the pass. He could not see over the wall, but in front of it and on the ramparts, he saw the Spartans, some of them engaged in active sports, and others in combing their long hair. He rode back to the king, and told him what he had seen. Now, Xerxes had in his camp an exiled Spartan Prince, named Demaratus, who had become a traitor to his country, and was serving as counselor to the enemy. Xerxes sent for him, and asked whether his countrymen were mad to be thus employed instead of fleeing away; but Demaratus made answer that a hard fight was no doubt in preparation, and that it was the custom of the Spartans to array their hair with especial care when they were about to enter upon any great peril. Xerxes would, however, not believe that so petty a force could intend to resist him, and waited four days, probably expecting his fleet to assist him, but as it did not appear, the attack was made.

The Greeks, stronger men and more heavily armed, were far better able to fight to advantage than the Persians with their short spears and wicker shields, and beat them off with great ease. It is said that Xerxes three times leapt off his throne in despair at the sight of his troops being driven backwards; and thus for two days it seemed as easy to force a way through the Spartans as through the rocks themselves. Nay, how could slavish troops, dragged from home to spread the victories of an ambitious king, fight like freemen who felt that their strokes were to defend their homes and children?

But on that evening a wretched man, named Ephialtes, crept into the Persian camp, and offered, for a great sum of money, to show the mountain path that would enable the enemy to take the brave defenders in the rear! A Persian general, named Hydarnes, was sent off at night-fall with a detachment to secure this passage, and was guided through the thick forests that clothed the hillside. In the stillness of the air, at daybreak, the Phocian guards of the path were startled by the crackling of the chestnut leaves under the tread of many feet. They started up, but a shower of arrows was discharged on them, and forgetting all save the present alarm, they fled to a higher part of the mountain, and the enemy, without waiting to pursue them, began to descend.

As day dawned, morning light showed the watchers of the Grecian camp below a glittering and shimmering in the torrent bed where the shaggy forests opened; but it was not the sparkle of water, but the shine of gilded helmets and the gleaming of silvered spears. Moreover, a Cimmerian crept over to the wall from the Persian camp with tidings that the path had been betrayed, that the enemy were climbing it, and would come down beyond the Eastern Gate. Still, the way was rugged and circuitous, the Persians would hardly descend before midday, and there was ample time for the Greeks to escape before they could thus be shut in by the enemy.

There was a short council held over the morning sacrifice. Megistias, the seer, on inspecting the entrails of the slain victim, declared, as well he might, that their appearance boded disaster. Him Leonidas ordered to retire, but he refused, though he sent home his only son. There was no disgrace to an ordinary tone of mind in leaving a post that could not be held, and Leonidas recommended all the allied troops under his command to march away while yet the way was open. As to himself and his Spartans, they had made up their minds to die at their post, and there could be no doubt that the example of such a resolution would do more to save Greece than their best efforts could ever do if they were careful to reserve themselves for another occasion.

All the allies consented to retreat, except the eighty men who came from Mycenae and the 700 Thespians, who declared that they would not desert Leonidas. There were also 400 Thebans who remained; and thus the whole number that stayed with Leonidas to confront two million of enemies were 1400 warriors, besides the helots or attendants on the 300 Spartans, whose number is not known, but there was probably at least one to each. Leonidas had two kinsmen in the camp, like himself, claiming the blood of Hercules, and he tried to save them by giving them letters and messages to Sparta; but one answered that "he had come to fight, not to carry letters"; and the other, that "his deeds would tell all that Sparta wished to know." Another Spartan, named Dienices, when told that the enemy's archers were so numerous that their arrows darkened the sun, replied, "So much the better, we shall fight in the shade." Two of the 300 had been sent to a neighboring village, suffering severely from a complaint in the eyes. One of them, called Eurytus, put on his armor, and commanded his helot to lead him to his place in the ranks; the other, called Aristodemus, was so overpowered with illness that he allowed himself to be carried away with the retreating allies. It was still early in the day when all were gone, and Leonidas gave the word to his men to take their last meal. "To-night," he said, "we shall sup with Pluto."

Hitherto, he had stood on the defensive, and had husbanded the lives of his men; but he now desired to make as great a slaughter as possible, so as to inspire the enemy with dread of the Grecian name. He therefore marched out beyond the wall, without waiting to be attacked, and the battle began. The Persian captains went behind their wretched troops and scourged them on to the fight with whips! Poor wretches, they were driven on to be slaughtered, pierced with the Greek spears, hurled into the sea, or trampled into the mud of the morass; but their inexhaustible numbers told at length. The spears of the Greeks broke under hard service, and their swords alone remained; they began to fall, and Leonidas himself was among the first of the slain. Hotter than ever was the fight over his corpse, and two Persian princes, brothers of Xerxes, were there killed; but at length word was brought that Hydarnes was over the pass, and that the few remaining men were thus enclosed on all sides. The Spartans and Thespians made their way to a little hillock within the wall, resolved to let this be the place of their last stand; but the hearts of the Thebans failed them, and they came towards the Persians holding out their hands in entreaty for mercy. Quarter was given to them, but they were all branded with the king's mark as untrustworthy deserters. The helots probably at this time escaped into the mountains; while the small desperate band stood side by side on the hill still fighting to the last, some with swords, others with daggers, others even with their hands and teeth, till not one living man remained amongst them when the sun went down. There was only a mound of slain, bristled over with arrows.

Twenty thousand Persians had died before that handful of men! Xerxes asked Demaratus if there were many more at Sparta like these, and was told there were 8,000. It must have been with a somewhat failing heart that he invited his courtiers from the fleet to see what he had done to the men who dared to oppose him, and showed them the head and arm of Leonidas set up upon a cross; but he took care that all his own slain, except 1,000, should first be put out of sight. The body of the brave king was buried where he fell, as were those of the other dead. Much envied were they by the unhappy Aristodemus, who found himself called by no name but the "Coward," and was shunned by all his fellow-citizens. No one would give him fire or water, and after a year of misery, he redeemed his honor by perishing in the forefront of the battle of Plataea, which was the last blow that drove the Persians ingloriously from Greece.

The Greeks then united in doing honor to the brave warriors who, had they been better supported, might have saved the whole country from invasion. The poet Simonides wrote the inscriptions that were engraved upon the pillars that were set up in the pass to commemorate this great action. One was outside the wall, where most of the fighting had been. It seems to have been in honor of the whole number who had for two days resisted—

"Here did four thousand men from Pelops' land Against three hundred myriads bravely stand."

In honor of the Spartans was another column—

"Go, traveler, to Sparta tell That here, obeying her, we fell."

On the little hillock of the last resistance was placed the figure of a stone lion, in memory of Leonidas, so fitly named the lion-like; and Simonides, at his own expense, erected a pillar to his friend, the seer Megistias—

"The great Megistias' tomb you here may view, Who slew the Medes, fresh from Spercheius fords; Well the wise seer the coming death foreknew, Yet scorn'd he to forsake his Spartan lords."

The names of the 300 were likewise engraven on a pillar at Sparta.

Lion, pillars, and inscriptions have all long since passed away, even the very spot itself has changed; new soil has been formed, and there are miles of solid ground between Mount Oeta and the gulf, so that the Hot Gates no longer exist. But more enduring than stone or brass—nay, than the very battle-field itself—has been the name of Leonidas. Two thousand three hundred years have sped since he braced himself to perish for his country's sake in that narrow, marshy coast road, under the brow of the wooded crags, with the sea by his side. Since that time how many hearts have glowed, how many arms have been nerved at the remembrance of the Pass of Thermopylae, and the defeat that was worth so much more than a victory!



SECTION XII

HOME READING LIST AND GENERAL INDEX

". . . Forsooth he cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such others as have a pleasant taste. . . ."

—Sir Philip Sidney, An Apologie for Poetrie.



SECTION XII. HOME READING LIST AND GENERAL INDEX

A HOME READING LIST

Children are such omnivorous readers that teachers and parents are constantly at their wit's end, not only in naming enough books to supply their demands, but in grouping these books according to the order of difficulty. Most public libraries can furnish such lists based upon their experience with children. In fact no modern public library can carry on its work successfully without an especially prepared librarian in charge of the books for children. The arrangement of any list by grades must at best be only approximate, but if done in the light of a wide experience may be of the greatest practical help to the young teacher or to the parent. The following list is one issued by the Chicago Public Library, and is used here through the great kindness of Miss Adah F. Whitcomb, supervisor of the children's room and director of the training class. Any well-selected collection for children will contain a large proportion of these titles, and the list is extended enough and varied enough to furnish attractive reading material for any young person. At need it may be supplemented by the more elaborate lists found in some of the guides mentioned in the General Bibliography (p. 2).

FIRST GRADE

Banta, N. Moore, and Benson, Alpha B., Brownie Primer.

Blaisdell, Mary Frances, Mother Goose Children.

Brooke, Leonard Leslie, Johnny Crow's Garden.

——, Johnny Crow's Party.

Buffum, Katharine G., Mother Goose in Silhouettes.

Craik, Georgiana Marion, So-fat and Mew-mew.

Crane, Walter, Beauty and the Beast Picture Book.

——, Bluebeard's Picture Book.

——, Cinderella's Picture Book.

——, Goody Two Shoes Picture Book.

——, Mother Hubbard, Her Picture Book.

——, Red Riding Hood's Picture Book.

——, Song of Sixpence.

——, This Little Pig, His Picture Book.

——, Buckle My Shoe.

Fox, Florence Cornelia, The Indian Primer.

Gaynor, Mrs. Jessie Love, and Riley, Alice C. D., Songs of the Child-World.

Greenaway, Kate, Under the Window.

Haaren, John Henry, Rhymes and Fables.

Howard, Frederick Ward, Banbury Cross Stories.

Lansing, Marion Florence, The Child's World Garden.

Le Fevre, Felicite, The Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen.

Lucas, Edward Verrall, Four and Twenty Toilers.

Mother Goose, The Real Mother Goose (illus. by Blanche Fisher Wright).

Noyes, Marion, The Sunshine Primer.

Saxby, Lewis, Life of a Wooden Doll.

Seton, Ernest Thompson, Wild Animal Play for Children.

Skinner, A. M., and Lawrence, L. N., Little Dramas for Primary Grades.

Smith, Elmer Boyd, Chicken World.

Varney, A. S., The Robin Reader.

Welsh, Charles, (ed.), Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes.

Wiltse, Sara E., Folklore Stories and Proverbs.

SECOND GRADE

Adelborg, Ottilia, Clean Peter and the Children of Grubbylea.

AEsopus, Fables (Dalkeith ed.).

Bannerman, Mrs. Helen, Story of Little Black Sambo.

Bass, Florence, Nature Stories for Young Readers: Animal Life.

——, Nature Stories for Young Readers: Plant Life.

Bryce, Catherine Turner, Stevenson Reader.

Burgess, Gelett, Goops, and How to Be Them.

——, More Goops, and How Not to Be Them.

Caldecott, Randolph, Come Lasses Picture Book.

——, Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book.

Coe, Ida, Story Hour Readers. Vols. 3, 4.

Cooke, Flora J., Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children.

Craik, Georgiana Marion, Bow-wow and Mew-mew.

Crane, Walter, Baby's Own AEsop.

Deming, Therese Osterheld, Little Indian Folk.

——, Little Red People.

Dodge, Mary Mapes, Rhymes and Jingles.

Greenaway, Kate, Marigold Garden.

Haaren, John Henry, Songs and Stories.

Hix, Melvin, Once-upon-a-Time Stories.

Ivimey, John William, Three Blind Mice.

McCullough, Annie Willis, Little Stories for Little People.

Moore, Annie E., Pennies and Plans.

Murray, Clara, The Child at Play.

Poulsson, Emilie, The Runaway Donkey and Other Rhymes.

——, Through the Farmyard Gate.

Smith, Elmer Boyd, Farm Book.

——, Santa Claus Book.

——, Seashore Book.

Smith, Gertrude, Lovable Tales of Janey and Josey and Joe.

——, Roggie and Reggie Stories.

Tileston, Mary Wilder Foote, Sugar and Spice and All That's Nice.

Tolman, Stella Webster Carroll, Around the World, Vol. 1.

Turpin, Edna Henry Lee, Classic Fables.

Weatherly, F. E., The Book of Gnomes.

THIRD GRADE

Aspinwall, Mrs. Alicia, Short Stories for Short People.

Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin, Boys and Girls of Colonial Days.

Brocks, Dorothy, Red Children.

Brooke, Leonard Leslie, Golden Goose Book.

Brown, Abbie Farwell, Christmas Angel.

——, Lonesomest Doll.

Browning, Robert, Pied Piper of Hamelin (illus. by Hope Dunlap).

Chisholm, Louey, Nursery Rhymes.

Deming, Mrs. Therese Osterheld, Children of the Wild.

——, Little Brothers of the West.

Dodge, Mrs. Mary Mapes, New Baby World.

Field, Eugene, Lullaby-land: Songs of Childhood.

Foulke, Elizabeth E., Braided Straws.

——, Twilight Stories.

Francis, Joseph Greene, Book of Cheerful Cats and Other Animated Animals.

Gates, Mrs. Josephine Scribner, Story of Live Dolls.

Gerson, Virginia, Happy Heart Family.

Grimm, Jacob L. K., and Wilhelm, K., Fairy Tales (Lucas ed.).

——, Fairy Tales (Wiltse ed.).

Haaren, John Henry, Fairy Life.

Lang, Andrew, Prince Darling, and Other Stories.

Lansing, Marion Florence, Rhymes and Stories.

McMurry, Mrs. Lida Brown, Classic Stories for the Little Ones.

Morley, Margaret Warner, Seed-Babies.

Peary, Mrs. Josephine Diebitsch, Snow Baby.

Perkins, Lucy Fitch, Dutch Twins.

——, Japanese Twins.

Pierson, Clara Dillingham, Among the Farmyard People.

Pyle, Katharine, Careless Jane, and Other Tales.

Shute, Katherine H., Land of Song, Vol. 1.

Tappan, Eva March, Dixie Kitten.

——, Golden Goose.

Thorne-Thomsen, Mrs. Gudrun, East o' the Sun.

Trimmer, Mrs. Sarah K., History of the Robins.

Valentine, Mrs. Laura Jewry, Aunt Louisa's Book of Fairy Tales.

Woodward, Alice B., Peter Pan Picture Book.

FOURTH GRADE

Alden, Raymond Macdonald, Why the Chimes Rang.

Andersen, Hans Christian, Fairy Tales (Lucas ed.).

Barrie, James Matthew, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.

Brown, Abbie Farwell, John of the Woods.

Brown, Helen Dawes, Little Miss Phoebe Gay.

Browne, Frances, Granny's Wonderful Chair, and Its Tales of Fairy Times.

Campbell, Helen LeRoy, Story of Konrad, the Swiss Boy.

Carryl, Charles Edward, Davy and the Goblin.

Craik, Mrs. Dinah Maria, Adventures of a Brownie.

Crichton, Mrs. F. E., Peep-in-the-World.

Drummond, Henry, Monkey That Would Not Kill.

Faulkner, Georgene, Italian Fairy Tales.

——, Russian Fairy Tales.

Grimm, Jacob L. K., and Wilhelm K., Household Fairy Tales, tr. by L. Crane.

Hopkins, William John, Sandman: His Farm Stories.

Houghton, Mrs. Louise Seymour, Russian Grandmother's Wonder Tales.

Ingelow, Jean, Mopsa the Fairy.

Lang, Andrew, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp.

——, Nursery Rhyme Book.

——, Pretty Goldilocks.

——, Snow Man.

——, Snow Queen.

Lindsay, Maud, and Poulsson, Emilie, Joyous Travelers.

Lorenzini, Carlo, Adventures of Pinocchio.

Lucas, Edward Verrall, Book of Verses for Children.

Macdonald, George, Princess and the Goblin.

Morley, Margaret Warner, Donkey John of Toy Valley.

O'Shea, Michael Vincent, Old World Wonder Stories.

Paine, Albert Bigelow, How Mr. Dog Got Even.

——, How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Tail.

Peck, Harry Thurston, Adventures of Mabel.

Pierson, Mrs. Clara Dillingham, Three Little Millers.

Pyle, Katharine, As the Goose Flies.

——, Christmas Angel.

——, Counterpane Fairy.

Richards, Mrs. Laura E., Joyous Story of Toto.

——, Toto's Merry Winter.

Schwartz, Julia Augusta, Five Little Strangers.

Scudder, Horace E., Book of Fables.

——, Book of Folk Stories.

——, Children's Book.

Segur, Sophie R. de, Story of a Donkey.

Thorne-Thomsen, Mrs. Gudrun, Birch and the Star.

Walker, Margaret Coulson, Lady Hollyhock and Her Friends.

Welsh, Charles, Fairy Tales Children Love.

Wette, A. H., Hansel and Gretel (illus. in colors).

White, Eliza Orne, When Molly Was Six.

Williston, Teresa Peirce, Japanese Fairy Tales.

Zwilgmeyer, Dikken, Johnny Blossom.

FIFTH GRADE

Alden, William Livingston, Cruise of the Canoe Club.

——, Cruise of the "Ghost."

——, Moral Pirates.

Baldwin, James, Old Greek Stories.

Brown, Abbie Farwell, In the Days of Giants.

Burnett, Frances Hodgson, Little Lord Fauntleroy.

Caldwell, Frank, Wolf, the Storm Leader.

Coburn, Claire Martha, Our Little Swedish Cousin.

Colum, Padraic, Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said.

Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, Alice in Wonderland.

Duncan, Norman, Adventures of Billy Topsail.

French, Allen, Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow.

Golding, Vautier, Story of David Livingstone.

Gordy, Wilbur Fisk, American Leaders and Heroes.

Grinnell, George Bird, Jack among the Indians.

Hall, Jennie, Viking Tales.

Jacobs, Joseph, Celtic Fairy Tales.

——, English Fairy Tales.

Jenks, Albert Ernest, Childhood of Ji-shib, the Ojibway.

Kaler, James Otis, Mr. Stubbs' Brother.

——, Toby Tyler.

Kipling, Rudyard, Just-So Stories.

Lucas, Edward Verrall, Book of Verses for Children.

Mabie, Hamilton Wright, Norse Stories.

Mighels, Philip Verrill, Sunnyside Tad.

Olcott, Frances Jenkins, Fairies and Elves.

——, Arabian Nights.

Paine, Albert Bigelow, Arkansaw Bear.

Pendleton, Louis B., In the Camp of the Creeks.

Pyle, Howard, Garden behind the Moon.

——, Story of King Arthur and His Knights.

——, Wonder Clock.

Pyle, Katharine, Nancy Rutledge.

Richards, Laura E., Captain January.

Schultz, James Willard, With the Indians in the Rockies.

Seton, Ernest Thompson, Lives of the Hunted.

Spyri, Mrs. Johanna, Heidi.

Stockton, Frank R., Fanciful Tales.

Stoddard, William Osborn, Little Smoke.

Tappan, Eva March, Robin Hood: His Book.

Thackeray, William Makepeace, Rose and the Ring.

Wesselhoeft, Lily F., Sparrow, the Tramp.

Wiggin, Kate Douglas, Birds' Christmas Carol.

Wiggin, Kate Douglas, and Smith, Nora A., Fairy Ring.

Wyss, Johann David, Swiss Family Robinson.

Zollinger, Gulielma, Widow O'Callaghan's Boys.

SIXTH GRADE

Alcott, Louisa M., Eight Cousins.

——, Jack and Jill.

Baldwin, James, Story of the Golden Age.

——, Story of Roland.

——, Story of Siegfried.

Bennett, John, Barnaby Lee.

Bond, Alexander Russell, Pick, Shovel and Pluck.

Bostock, Frank Charles, Training of Wild Animals.

Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, Master of the Strong Hearts.

Brooks, Noah, Boy Emigrants (illus. ed.).

Browne, Belmore, Quest of the Golden Valley.

Burnett, Mrs. Frances Hodgson, Little Princess.

Crump, Irving, Boys' Book of Firemen.

Daviess, Marie Thompson, Phyllis.

Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe.

Dix, Beulah Marie, Merrylips.

Dodge, Mrs. Mary Mapes, Hans Brinker.

DuBois, Mary Constance, Lass of the Silver Sword.

Eggleston, George Cary, Last of the Flatboats.

Ford, Sewell. Horses Nine.

French, Allen, Story of Greltir the Strong.

——, Junior Cup.

Greene, Frances N., and Kirk, Dolly W., With Spurs of Gold.

Greene, Homer, Blind Brother.

Gregor, Elmer Russell, Red Arrow.

Hamp, Sidford Frederick, Treasure of Mushroom Rock.

Hawkes, Clarence, Shaggycoat: the Biography of a Beaver.

Hudson, William Henry, Little Boy Lost.

Inman, Henry, Ranche on the Oxhide.

Irving, Washington, Rip Van Winkle.

Jacobs, Joseph, Indian Fairy Tales.

Johnston, William Allen, Deeds of Doing and Daring.

Kipling, Rudyard, Jungle Book.

Lang, Andrew, Red True Story Book.

Little, Francis, Camp Jolly.

Lothrop, Mrs. Harriet Mulford, Five Little Peppers.

Munroe, Kirk, Flamingo Feather.

Page, Thomas Nelson, Two Little Confederates.

Pyle, Katharine, Theodora.

Rankin, Mrs. Carroll Watson, Dandelion Cottage.

Roberts, Theodore, Red Feathers.

Seaman, Augusta Huiell, Boarded-up House.

Seawell, Molly Elliot, Little Jarvis.

Seton, Ernest Thompson, Wild Animals I Have Known.

Stockton, Frank R., Bee-Man of Orn.

Stoddard, William Osborn, Red Mustang.

Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver's Travels.

Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton B., Wonder Workers.

Wallace, Dillon, Arctic Stowaways.

Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Elizabeth Foster, Jack, the Fire Dog.

SEVENTH GRADE

Adams, Joseph Henry, Harper's Indoor Book for Boys. Harper's Outdoor Book for Boys.

Alcott, Louisa M., Jo's Boys. Old-fashioned Girl. Under the Lilacs.

Altsheler, Joseph Alexander, Forest Runners. Free Rangers. Young Trailers.

Barnes, James, Hero of Erie: Oliver Hazard Perry. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors.

Browne, Belmore, White Blanket.

Bullen, Frank Thomas, Cruise of the Cachalot.

Burton, Charles Pierce, The Boys of Bob's Hill.

Canavan, Michael Joseph, Ben Comee: a Tale of Roger's Rangers.

Day, Holman Francis, Eagle Badge.

Deland, Ellen Douglas, Oakleigh.

Dix, Beulah Marie, Little Captive Lad.

Dodge, Mrs. Mary Mapes, Donald and Dorothy.

Drysdale, William, Beach Patrol. Cadet Standish of the "St. Louis." Fast Mail. Young Supercargo.

Foa, Eugenie, Boy Life of Napoleon.

Garland, Hamlin, Long Trail.

Greene, Homer, Pickett's Gap.

Grey, Zane, Young Forester. Young Pitcher.

Grinnell, George Bird, Jack among the Indians. Jack in the Rockies. Jack, the Young Ranchman.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Grandfather's Chair.

Henley, William Ernest, Lyra Heroica: Book of Verse for Boys.

Hill, T., Fighting a Fire.

Hough, Emerson, Young Alaskans.

Hughes, Thomas, Tom Brown's School Days.

Jackson, Mrs. Helen Hunt, Nellie's Silver Mine.

Jacobs, Caroline Emilia, Joan's Jolly Vacation. Joan of Juniper Inn.

Kieffer, Henry Martyn, Recollections of a Drummer-Boy.

Munroe, Kirk, At War with Pontiac. Cab and Caboose.

Pyle, Howard, Otto of the Silver Hand.

Quirk, Leslie W., Baby Elton, Quarterback.

Roberts, Charles G. D., Kindred of the Wild.

Seton, Ernest Thompson, Two Little Savages.

Stockton, Frank R., Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coast.

Stoddard, William Osborn, Red Patriot. White Cave. Lost Gold of the Montezumas.

Tolman, Albert Walter, Jim Spurling, Fisherman.

Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth, Search for Andrew Field. Three Colonial Boys. Red Chief. Marching against the Iroquois.

Wiggin, Kate Douglas, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

Zollinger, Gulielma, Maggie McLanehan.

EIGHTH GRADE

Adams, Andy, Wells Brothers: the Young Cattle Kings.

Ashmun, Margaret Eliza, Isabel Carlton's Year.

Barbour, Ralph Henry, Behind the Line. Crimson Sweater.

Beach, Edward Latimer, Annapolis First Classman.

Bennett, John, Master Skylark.

Catherwood, Mary Hartwell, Story of Tonty.

Cervantes-Saavedra M. de, Don Quixote.

Clemens, Samuel L., Prince and the Pauper.

Coffin, Charles Carleton, Boys of '76.

Cooper, James Fenimore, Deerslayer.

Dana, Richard Henry, Two Years before the Mast.

Doubleday, Russell, Cattle-Ranch to College.

Driggs, Lawrence La Tourette, Adventures of Arnold Adair, American Ace.

Duncan, Norman, Adventures of Billy Topsail.

Eggleston, George Cary, Bale Marked Circle X.

French, Harry W., The Lance of Kanana.

Gilbert, A., More than Conquerors.

Gordon, Charles William, Glengarry School Days.

Goss, Warren Lee, Jed.

Hamp, Sidford Frederick, Dale and Fraser, Sheepmen.

Hill, Frederick Trevor, On the Trail of Grant and Lee.

Homer, Adventures of Odysseus. (Colum ed.).

Hughes, Rupert, Lakerim Athletic Club.

Johnston, Charles Haven L., Famous Scouts.

Kipling, Rudyard, Captains Courageous.

London, Jack, Call of the Wild.

Macleod, Mary, Shakespeare Story Book.

Malory, Sir Thomas, Book of King Arthur and His Noble Knights.

Masefield, John, Martin Hyde.

Meigs, Cornelia, Master Simon's Garden.

Moffett, Cleveland, Careers of Danger and Daring.

Montgomery, Lucy Maud, Anne of Green Gables.

Nicolay, Helen, Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln.

Ollivant, Alfred, Bob, Son of Battle.

Parkman, Mary, Heroes of To-day.

Pendleton, Louis B., King Tom and the Runaways.

Pyle, Howard, Men of Iron. Story of Jack Ballister's Fortunes.

Rice, Alice Caldwell H., Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.

Richards, Laura E., Florence Nightingale.

Richmond, Grace L., Round the Corner in Gay Street.

Roberts, Charles G. D., Heart of the Ancient Wood.

Rolt-Wheeler, Francis William, Boy with the U. S. Foresters.

Schultz, James William, Quest of the Fish-Dog Skin.

Seaman, Augusta Huiell, Girl Next Door.

Singmaster, Elsie, Emmeline.

Tappan, Eva March, In the Days of Queen Elizabeth.

Thompson, Arthur Ripley, Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail.

Thompson, James Maurice, Alice of Old Vincennes.

Thurston, Ida Treadwell, Bishop's Shadow.

Trowbridge, John Townsend, Cudjo's Cave.

Verne, Jules, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.

Verrill, Alpheus Hyatt, Marooned in the Forest.

Wallace, Dillon, Wilderness Castaways.

Wallace, Lewis, Ben Hur.

Waller, Mary Ella, Daughter of the Rich.



INDEX

(A number in blackface type refers to a page on which appears a literary selection under the title, by the author, or from the book preceding the number. Book titles are in italics; selection titles and index topics in roman type; names of authors in capitals and small capitals; and first lines of nursery rhymes within quotation marks. See Bibliography for authors and book titles not given in this Index.)

Abou Ben Adhem, 414

"A cat came fiddling out of a barn," 23

Accumulative story; See Stories

ADDISON, J., 294

"A diller, a dollar," 23

ADLER, F., 53, 263

Admetus and the Shepherd, 337

Adventures of Arthur, 598

AESOP, 266-268, 272, 273-278, 264

Against Idleness and Mischief, 407

Age of Fable, The, 339, 343, 338

AIKIN, J., 451

ALDEN, R. M., 223

Ali Baba, and the Forty Thieves, 579

Alice in Wonderland, 405

Allegory, 292, 294. See also Fables

Allen-a-Dale, 628

Alnaschar, 279, 579

Ancient Legends of Ireland, 164

ANDERSEN, H. C., 179-203, 79, 134, 381, 390; appreciation of, 172-173; work of, 179

Andersen's Best Fairy Tales, 179, 181

Androcles, 269

Androcles and the Lion, 270

Anniversary, An, 34

Anxious Leaf, The, 290

Apologue, 290, 291. See also Fable

Apple of Discord, The, 332

Arabian Nights' Entertainment, The, 579, 235, 578, 579

Arab to His Favorite Steed, The, 420

Arthur and Sir Accalon, 603

Arthur, King, 595-603, 577, 578, 594

ASBJOeRNSEN, P., 122-128; work of, 122

"As I was going to St. Ives," 23

"As I was going up Pippen Hill," 23

"As I went to Bonner," 23

Ass in the Lion's Skin, The, 281

"As Tommy Snooks and Bessie Brooks," 23

"A swarm of bees in May," 23

Autobiography; See Biography

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The, 646

A Was an Apple-Pie, 34

"Baa, baa, black sheep," 23

Babes in the Wood, The, 39

Baby Bye, 373

BAILEY, C. S., 59

BAIN, R. N., 160

Ballad, 425, 436, 628, 437, 628

Ballad of Nathan Hale, The, 425

BARBAULD, A. L., 451

"Barber, barber, shave a pig," 23

Battle between the Fox and the Wolf, The, 591

Bears of Blue River, The, 500

BEAUMONT, MADAME DE, 110

Beauty and the Beast, 110

BEECHER, H. W., 290

Beowulf, 577

Beth Gelert, 436

Betty's Ride, A Tale of the Revolution, 496

Beyond the Pasture Bars, 520

Bible, The, 288, 289

Bibliography: (a). General; 2-4; Bible as literature for children, 3; collections of literature for children, 2; dramatization, 3; guides in teaching, 2-3; historical development, 2; interpretations of childhood, 4; social and psychological backgrounds, 4; story-telling, 3. (b). Special; biography and hero stories, 632; fables and symbolic stories, 262; fairy stories, modern fantastic tales, 170; fairy stories, traditional tales, 52; Mother Goose and nursery rhymes, 18; myths, 302; nature literature, 510; poetry, 368; realistic stories, 442; romance and legend, 576. (c). Special reading for teachers; biography and hero stories, 634; modern fairy stories, 173; myths, 305; nature literature, 512; nursery rhymes, 22; poetry, 370; romance and legend, 578. (d). Graded lists for children, 12-14, 679-686

BIDPAI; history of, 264

Big Bear, The, 500

Biography and hero stories, 635-676; discussion of, 633-634; selection of, 633-634; value of, 633

Bird Habits, 549

"Birds of a feather flock together," 23

BLAKE, W., 400-401

"Bless you, bless you, burnie bee," 23

Blue Light, The, 134, 195

Boats Sail on the Rivers, 394

"Bobby Shafto's gone to sea," 24

Book of Golden Deeds, The, 671

Book of Legends, The, 620, 578

Book of Nursery Rhymes 21

Book of the Dun Cow, 162

Books for children; See Bibliography

Boots and His Brothers, 125

"Bow, wow, wow," 24

Boyhood of Washington, The, 642

Boy's Life of Abraham Lincoln, The, 655

Boy's Song, A, 389

BRAEKSTAD, H. L., 128

Bramble Is Made King, The, 288

BRANDES, G., 179, 180, 196, 203

Breathes There the Man, 424

Brier Rose, 142

BROOKS, E. S., 635

BROWN, T. E., 418

BROWNE, F., 210, 209

BROWNING, R., 399, 398

Brown Thrush, The, 374

BRYANT, S. C., 70

BRYANT, W. C., 417, 416

Buddhist Birth Stories, 282, 283, 281

BULFINCH, T., 339, 343

BURGESS, T. W. 515, 514

Burial of Poor Cock Robin, The, 44

Butterfly's Ball, The, 397

"Bye, baby bunting," 24

BYRON, LORD, 416

Camel and the Pig, The, 281

CANBY, H. S., 496

Can You, 398

CARROLL, L., 405

CARY, P., 377, 378

Casabianca, 400

Cat and the Mouse, The, 60

Celtic Fairy Tales, 162

CERVANTES-SAAVEDRA, M. DE, 607, 606

Change About, 49

CHILD, L. M., 375

Children's Book, The, 642

Children's Literature; See Literature

Child's Guide to Reading, A, 8

Christmas stories, 505

Cinderella, 102

Circus-Day Parade, The, 388

City Mouse and the Garden Mouse, The, 268

Classic Myths in English Literature and Art, 340

Cock a Doodle Doo, 37

Cock and the Fox, The, 284

Cock Robin, 42, 44

Cock, the Cat, and the Young Mouse, The, 285

COLE, H., 586, 591, 578

COLERIDGE, S. T., 178

COLLINS, WM., 425

COLLINS, W. L., 285

"Come when you're called," 24

Concord Hymn, 424

Connla and the Fairy Maiden, 162

COOK, E., 402

COOLIDGE, S., 377

Cossack Fairy Tales, 160

Country Mouse and the Town Mouse, The, 269

Course of Study, 8, 9, 10, 13-16, 512, 577, 633-634

Courtship of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren, 42

Cow, The, 381

Cow, The, 392

COX, R., 112

CRAIK, D. M.; See MULOCK

Croesus and Solon, 299

Crossing the Bar, 414

"Cross patch," 24

Crow and the Pitcher, The, 266

"Curly locks! curly locks!" 24

Daffodils, 419

Dairywoman and the Pot of Milk, The, 278

Daisies, 385

Dame Wiggins of Lee and Her Seven Wonderful Cats, 45, 245

"Dance, little baby, dance up high," 24

Darius Green and His Flying Machine, 432, 336

DASENT, G. W., 122-125

Day Is Done, The, 410

DAY, T., 270, 456, 270

Death of Balder, The, 360

Destruction of Sennacherib, The, 416

Diamond, or a Coal, A, 394

Didactic period, 443

"Diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John," 24

"Ding, dong, bell," 24

Ding Dong! Ding Dong! 372

Discontented Pendulum, The, 297

"Doctor Foster," 24

Doctor, The, 64

DODGSON, C. L.; See CARROLL, L.

Dog and the Shadow, The, 276

Don Quixote, 607-618, 577

DOYLE, F. H., 427

Drakestail, 107

Dramatization, 11-12, 190

Droll, or noodle story, 63, 71, 150; defined, 67

Duel, The, 387

DULCKEN, H. W., 190-203, 179

EDGEWORTH, M., 459, 458

Egg in the Nest, The, 49

"Eggs, butter, cheese, bread," 24

Eldorado, 415

Elves and the Shoemaker, The, 137

Emerald Is as Green as Grass, An, 394

EMERSON, R. W., 424, 423

Emperor's New Clothes, The, 181

English Fairy and Folk Tales, 67, 84

English Fairy Tales, 58, 61, 73

Evenings at Home, 451

EWING, J. H., 478, 381, 477

Eyes, and No Eyes, 451

Fables, 266-289; discussion of, 263-265; defined 264; presentation of, 264-265; selection of, 264, 284; use in school, 264; symbolistic and allegorical stories, 290-300; AEsopic, 266 ff.; Biblical, 288 ff.; Buddhistic, 281 ff.; English, 270, 286; French, 273, 278, 284, 285; Indian, 281; Roman, 269; Russian, 287; Sanskrit, 283; Spanish, 287

Fables of AEsop, The, 266, 267, 269, 278

Fairy Book, The, 73, 80

Fairy Scene in a Wood, A, 423

Fairy stories: (a) Modern fantastic tales, 174-260; discussion of, 171-173; some qualities of, 172. (b) Traditional or folk tales, 56-168; discussion of, 53-55, 56; how to use, 55; vs. myths, 303; English, 56-92; French, 92-122; Gaelic, 162-164; German, 131-150; Indian, 150-156; Irish, 164-168; Japanese, 156-159; Norse, 122-131; Russian, 160-162

Falcon, The, 429

Famous Passages from Dr. Watts, 408

Fanciful Tales, 234

Farmer Went Trotting, A, 38

FIELD, E., 385-387

FIELD, W. T., 21

Field Mouse and the Town Mouse, The, 268

Fir Tree, The, 190

Fisherman and His Wife, The, 138

Flying Kite, 385

Folklore, 5, 10, 53, 56, 131, 171, 268, 281. See also Fables, Fairy Stories, Myths, Poetry, and Romance

Folk tales; See Fairy stories

FOLLEN, E. L., 371-372

FORD, S., 527

"For every evil under the sun," 24

For Those Who Fail, 415

For Want of a Nail, 40

"Four-and-twenty tailors," 25

Four Leaved Clover, A, 174

Four Million, The, 505

Fox and His Wife, The, 40

Fox and the Grapes, The, 276

FRANCE, MARIE DE, 284

FRANCILLON, R. E., 330, 332

FRANKLIN, B., 250, 291, 293, 646, 263

FRERE, M., 152, 150

Frey, 354

Frog and the Ox, The, 267

Frogs Desiring a King, The, 267

GAY, J., 286

GAYLEY, C. M., 340

George Washington, 642

Gift of the Magi, The, 505

GILBERT, W. S., 430

Gods and Heroes, 330, 332

GOLDSMITH, O., 19, 445; work of, 445

Good-Natured Little Boy, The, 456

Good-Night and Good-Morning, 396

Good Play, A, 382

Good Samaritan, The, 289

Goody Two-Shoes, 445

Goose with the Golden Eggs, The, 272

GOSSE, E., 381, 477

Grading; See Course of study

Granny's Wonderful Chair, 209

Grasshopper and the Ant, The, 285

"Great A, little a," 25

Green Fairy Book, 73

GRIMM, JACOB and WILHELM, 132-146, 89; work of, 131

Grimm's Popular Stories, 132-142

HALE, S. J., 373, 372

HALLIWELL, J. O., 23 ff., 60-63, 70-71, 20, 47, 59; work of, 56

Happy Prince, The, 217

Hardy Tin Soldier, The, 200

Hare and the Tortoise, The, 273

Hare with Many Friends, The, 286

"Hark, hark," 25

HARRIS, J. C., 511

HARRISON, I. H., 288

HARTLAND, E. S., 67, 84, 89

HAVELL, H. L., 607-618

HAWTHORNE, N., 309, 319, 336; work of, 309

Hebrew Tales, 177

HEMANS, F. D., 400

HENDERSON, A. C., 179

HENLEY, W. E., 429

Henny-Penny, 58

HENRY, O., 505

Hen with the Golden Eggs, The, 273

"Here sits the Lord Mayor," 25

"Here we go up, up, up," 25

Heroes of Asgard, The, 354

Hero stories; See Romance

"Hey! diddle, diddle," 25

"Hickery, dickery, 6 and 7," 25

"Hickory, dickory, dock," 25

"Higgledy, Piggledy," 25

History of Sandford and Merton, 270, 456

Hitopadesa, 283

HOGG, J., 389

"Hogs in the garden, catch 'em Towser," 25

Hollow Tree Nights and Days, 516

HOLMES, O. W., 425, 419, 424

HORACE, 269, 268

Horned Women, The, 164

Horses Nine, 527

"Hot-cross buns," 26

Household Tales; See Kinder und Hausmaerchen

House that Jack Built, This is the, 48; origin of, 47

How Arthur Became King, 595

How Bruin the Bear Sped with Reynard the Fox, 586

How Columbus Got His Ships, 635

HOWITT, M., 390, 179

HOWITT, W., 391

How Sleep the Brave, 425

How the Fenris Wolf Was Chained, 351

How the Leaves Came Down, 377

"Hub a dub dub," 26

"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall," 26

HUNT, L., 414

HUNT, M., 144, 146, 132, 138

HURWITZ, H., 177

Husband Who Was To Mind the House, The, 124

Icarus and Daedalus, 336

"If all the sea were one sea," 26

"If all the world was apple-pie," 26

"If I'd as much money," 26

"If ifs and ands," 26

"If wishes were horses," 26

"I had a little hobby horse," 26

"I had a little pony," 26

"I have a little sister," 27

I Like Little Pussy, 393

"I'll tell you a story," 27

Inchcape Rock, The, 421

Indian Fairy Tales, 154

Indian Folk Stories and Fables, 281, 280

INGELOW, J., 227

"In marble walls as white as milk," 27

Insect Stories, 524

In the Western Wilderness, 662

Invictus, 429

Irish Fairy Tales, 166

ISAACS, A. S., 174

I Saw a Ship, 36

"I went up one pair of stairs," 27

Jackanapes, 478, 477

"Jack and Jill went up the hill," 27

Jack and the Beanstalk, 73

"Jack be nimble," 27

"Jack Sprat could eat no fat," 27

JACOBS, J., 89, 154, 162, 266, 267, 269, 278, 73, 586; work of, 58

Japanese Fairy Tales, 156, 158

Jataka Tales; See Buddhistic Birth Stories

Jemima, 41

Johnny Chuck Finds the Best Thing in the World, 515

JORDAN, D. S., 556

Just-So Stories, 562

KEARY, A. and E., 354

KELLOGG, V. L., 524

Kid and the Wolf, The, 276

Kinder und Hausmaerchen, 132-146, 131

King Arthur; See Arthur

King Arthur and His Knights, 603

King Bell, 385

King John and the Bishop of Canterbury, 437

King of the Golden River, The, 245

King O'Toole and His Goose, 166

KINGSCOTE, MRS., 154

Kings in Exile, 566

KINGSLEY, C., 412

KIPLING, R., 428, 562, 122

Knights of the Silver Shield, The, 223

"Knock at the door," 27

KREADY, L. F., 97, 190

KRYLOV, I. A., 288, 287

KUPFER, G. H., 306

"Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home," 27

LA FONTAINE, J. DE, 273, 278, 284, 285, 272

La Fontaine and Other French Fabulists, 285

Lamb, The, 401

LAMB, C., 444

Lambikin, The, 150

Lamplighter, The, 382

Land of Nod, The, 382

Land of Story-Books, The, 382

LANG, A., 94, 106, 20, 21, 49, 61, 73, 93, 100

LARCOM, L., 374

Lark and Her Young Ones, The, 275

Last Bull, 566

Lazy Jack, 70

Leak in the Dyke, The, 378

LEAR, E., 403-404

Legend; See Romance

Le Morte D'Arthur, 595-598, 594

Library; improvement of, 10

Lincoln's Early Days, 655

Lion and the Mouse, The, 266

Lion Tricked by a Rabbit, A, 283

Literature for children; general discussion of, 5-16; artistic worth of, 7, 9, 19, 444; course of study in, 13-16, 633-634; cultural value of, 9, 19, 264, 577, 633; democratic origin of, 7, 20; didactic, 443; kinds, traditional vs. modern, 7, 171-172; presentation of, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 55, 173, 265, 369, 443, 511, 633; purpose of, 9, 21, 443, 511; selection of, 9, 264, 305, 369, 370; vs. reading, 8-9. See also Poetry, Stories, etc.

Little and Great, 399

Little Bo-Peep, 37

"Little boy blue," 27

"Little girl, little girl," 27

Little Golden Hood, True History of, 94

"Little Jack Horner," 28

"Little Jack Jingle," 28

"Little Johnny Pringle had a little pig," 28

Little Kitty, The, 372

"Little Miss Muffet," 28

"Little Nancy Etticoat," 28

Little Red Riding-Hood, 93

"Little Robin Redbreast," 28

"Little Tommy Tucker," 28

LOCKE, J., 265

London Bridge, 36

LONGFELLOW, H. W., 408-411, 415, 620

"Long legs, crooked thighs," 28

Lord Helpeth Man and Beast, The, 178

LOVER, S., 165

LOWELL, J. R., 429, 430

"Lucy Locket lost her pocket," 28

MABIE, H. W., 348, 360, 348

MACCLINTOCK, P. L., 21

MACKAY, C., 399

MACY, J., 8

MAJOR, C., 500

MALORY, SIR T., 595-598, 578, 594

Man and the Satyr, The, 276

Man of Words, A, 40

MARELLES, C., 94, 106

Mary Had a Little Lamb, 373

"Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John," 28

Meddlesome Mattie, 393

Mediaeval stories; See Romance

Memorizing, 370

Mercury and the Woodman, 276

Mice in Council, The, 277

Midas, 339

Milking Time, 394

Milkmaid and Her Pail, The, 278

Milkweed Seeds, 34

Miller, His Son, and the Ass, The, 274

MILLER, J., 415

MILLER, O. T., 549, 548

MILNES, R. M., 396

Miraculous Pitcher, The, 319

Mirror of Matsuyama, The, 156

"Mistress Mary, quite contrary," 28

MOE, J.; See ASBJOeRNSEN

Molly and I, 35

Moon, The, 371

Mother Goose, 7, 10, 19-22, 93, 171, 370; history of, 19-21. See also Poetry, traditional

Mother Goose's Melody, 19, 20, 445

Mother Hubbard and Her Dog, 41

Moti Guj—Mutineer, 562

Moufflou, 535

Mountain and the Squirrel, The, 424

Mountebank and the Countryman, The, 277

Mr. 'Possum's Sick Spell, 516

Mr. Vinegar, The Story of, 71

MULOCK, MISS, 73, 80

"Multiplication is vexation," 28

Musical Ass, The, 287

My Bed Is a Boat, 383

My Garden, 418

My Shadow, 383

Myths, 306-366; discussion of, 303-305; definition of, 303; objections to, 304; use in school, 305; value of, 304; Greek and Roman, 306-343; explanatory introduction to, 306; Norse, 343-366; explanatory introduction to, 343, 348, 360

Narcissus, The, 330

Nathan Hale, The Ballad of, 425

Nature literature, 513-574; discussion of, 511-512; place in the grades, 13, 512; some types of, 511-512; what it is, 511

"Needles and pins, needles and pins," 29

NEWBERY, J., 19, 20, 445

NICOLAY, H., 655

Nightingale, The, 184

Noodle story; See Droll

Norse Stories, 348, 360

NORTON, C. E., 420

Nursery rhymes; See Poetry

Nursery Rhymes and Tales, 59-63, 56, 71

Nursery Rhymes of England, 20

Odyssey, The, 577

Old Deccan Days, 152, 150, 151

Old Greek Folk Stories, 335, 337

Old Ironsides, 425

"Old King Cole," 29

Old Man and His Sons, The, 275

Old Mother West Wind, 515

Old Pipes and the Dryad, 234

Old Woman and Her Pig, The, 56

"Once I saw a little bird," 29

"One for the money," 29

"One misty, moisty morning," 29

"1, 2, 3, 4, 5," 29

"One, two," 29

OUIDA, 535, 534

Over Hill, Over Dale, 423

Owl and the Pussy-Cat, The, 403

PAINE, A. B., 516

Pandora's Box, 309

Parables, 289; defined, 289

Paradise of Children, The, 309

PARENT'S ASSISTANT, THE, 459

Pass of Thermopylae, The, 671

"Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake," 29

PEABODY, J. P., 336, 337, 335

"Pease-porridge hot," 29

Peddler's Caravan, The, 395

PERRAULT, C. 93, 97, 100, 102, 19; work of, 92

"Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater," 30

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers," 30

Peter Rabbit Books, 513

Phaethon, 340

Piper, The, 401

Pippa's Song, 399

Planting of the Apple-Tree, The, 417

Poacher and the Silver Fox, The, 551

Pobble Who Has No Toes, The, 404

POE, E. A., 415

Poetry: (a) modern, 371-437; discussion of, 369-370; reading of, 14, 370; selection of, 14, 369; teaching of, 9, 14, 369; (b) traditional, or nursery rhymes, 23-50; discussion of, 19-22; appeal to children, 7, 10, 19, 21, 34; history of, 19-22. See also Mother Goose, Literature, and Course of study

Poet's Song, The, 413

"Poor old Robinson Crusoe," 30

Popular Tales from the Norse, 123-125, 122

PORTER, W. S., See HENRY

POTTER, B., 513

Pourquoi story, 172

PRENTISS, E., 372

Pride Goeth before a Fall, 154

Prince's Dream, The, 227

Prodigal Son, The, 289

Proserpine, 354. See also Story of the Springtime

Proud King, The, 620

Psalm of Life, The, 411

Puss-in-Boots, 97

"Pussy-cat, pussy-cat," 30

"Pussy sits beside the fire," 30

Quern at the Bottom of the Sea, The, 129

Raggedy Man, The, 389

Rain, 381

RAMASWAMI RAJU, P. V., 281, 280

RAMEE, L. DE LA; See OUIDA

RANDS, W. B., 395, 396

Reading; distinguished from literature, 8-9; lists for various grades, (See Course of study); of literature, 14, 369-370; supplemental, 10

Realistic Stories, 445-508; discussion of, 443-444; Christmas, 505; didactic or 18th century, 445-459, 443-444; modern, 478-508, 444; Sunday-school, 443

Real Princess, The, 179

Recessional, 428

Red Fairy Book, 94, 106

Red Thread of Honor, The, 427

Renowned History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, The, 445, 443, 444

REPPLIER, A., 54

Reynard the Fox, 586, 591, 284, 577

Rhymes; See Poetry

RHYS-DAVIDS, T. W., 281, 282

"Ride a cock-horse," 30

"Ride, baby, ride," 30

RILEY, J. W., 388-389

ROBERTS, C. G. D., 566

Robin and the Merry Little Old Woman, 623

Robin Hood, 623, 628

Robin Hood: His Book, 623

"Rock-a-bye, baby," 30

"Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green," 30

Romance and Legend, 579-630; discussion of, 577-578; stories and versions recommended, 577-578; use in school, 577

ROSCOE, W., 397

Rose-Bud, 142

ROSSETTI, C. G., 268, 394

ROUSSEAU, J. J., 264, 284, 443

R. S., GENT, 97, 93

Rumpelstiltskin, 144

Runaway Brook, The, 372

RUSKIN, J., 45, 245; work of, 245

SAINTSBURY, G. E. B., 21, 22

Sands of Dee, The, 412

Science Sketches, 556

SCOTT, SIR W., 424

SCUDDER, H. E., 620, 642, 578; work of, 642

"See a pin and pick it up," 30

SEEGMILLER, W., 34

"See, saw, sacradown," 31

Seldom or Never, 394

SETON, E. T., 551

SHAKESPEARE, W., 423

SHARP, D. L., 520

SHAW, A. H., 662

Shepherd of King Admetus, The, 430

Shepherd's Boy, The, 266, 11-12

Shepherd, The, 401

SHERMAN, F. D., 384-385

"Shoe the little horse," 31

Simple Simon, 38

"Sing a song of sixpence," 31

Sing-Song, 394

SKEAT, W. W., 284

Skeleton in Armor, The, 408

Snow-White and Rose-Red, 146

Solitary Reaper, The, 419

Songs of Innocence, 400

SOUTHEY, R., 421

SPENCER, W. R., 436

Spider and the Fly, The, 390

Spinning Top, 384

"Star light, star bright," 31

Star, The, 394

STEEL, F. A., 150, 153

STEVENSON, R. L., 381-384, 380

STOCKTON, F. R., 234, 233

Stories; dramatization of, 11-12; selection of, 9, 10, 264, 284-285, 305, 577, 633; accumulative, 47, 56, 150, 160; biographical, 635-676; Christmas, 505; didactic, 443; fable, 266-289; fairy, 56-168, 174-260; hero, (See biographical); legend, (See romance); myth, 306-366; nature, 513-574; noodle, 67; pourquoi, 172; realistic, 445-508; romance, 579-630; See also Story-telling.

Stories and Legends of the Irish Peasantry, 165

Stories from Don Quixote, 607-618

Stories from the Rabbis, 174

Stories of Long Ago, 306

Stories of Norse Heroes, 351

Stories Told to a Child, 228

Story of Alnaschar, The, 279

Story of a Pioneer, The, 662

Story of a Salmon, The, 556

Story of Fairyfoot, The, 210

Story of Mr. Vinegar, The, 71

Story of the Springtime, A, 306

Story-telling, 9, 55; discussion of, 10-11; Andersen's method of, 173; direct discourse in, 11; effectiveness of, 10; of fables, 265; preparation for, 11; selections for, 10; tense in, 10

Strange Wild Song, A, 406

Straw Ox, The, 160

Sugar-Plum Tree, The, 386

Supplemental reading, 10. See also Course of study

Swallow and the Raven, The, 229

Swallow, The, 394

Swan, the Pike, and the Crab, The, 288

Sweet and Low, 413

Swing, The, 383

Symbolic stories; See Fables

Table and the Chair, The, 404

Taffy, 38

Tale of Peter Rabbit, The, 513

Tales from the Punjab, 150, 153

Tales of Our Mother Goose, The, 93, 97-102, 19, 92-93

Tales of the Sun, 154

Talkative Tortoise, The, 282

TAPPAN, E. M., 623

TAYLOR, A., 392, 393

TAYLOR, E., 132-142, 131

TAYLOR, J., 297, 393, 394

Teeny-Tiny, 60

TENNYSON, A., 413-414, 628

Thanksgiving Day, 375

"The King of France went up the hill," 31

"The lion and the unicorn," 31

"The man in the moon," 31

"The north wind doth blow," 31

"The Queen of Hearts," 31

"There was a crooked man," 31

"There was a little boy," 32

There Was a Little Man, 37

"There was a little man and he had naught," 32

"There was a man in our town," 32

"There was an old man," 32

There was an Old Woman, 36

"There was an old woman," 32

"There was an old woman lived under a hill," 32

"There was an old woman of Leeds," 32

"There was an old woman of Norwich," 32

"There was an old woman tossed up in a basket," 32

"There was an old woman who lived in a shoe," 33

"There was an owl lived in an oak," 33

They Didn't Think, 377

"This is the way the ladies ride," 33

"This little pig went to market," 33

THOMPSON, E. S., See SETON

Thor's Visit to Joetunheim, 343

Three Bears, Story of the, 65

Three Billy-Goats Gruff, The, 123

"Three blind mice! see, how they run," 33

Three Fishers, The, 412

Three Jovial Huntsmen, 37

Three Little Kittens, The, 371

Three Little Pigs, Story of the, 61

Three Sillies, The, 67

Three Things to Remember, 400

"Three wise men of Gotham," 33

Tiger, The, 401

Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal, The, 153

TILTON, T., 373

Time to Rise, 381

Tit for Tat, 152

Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, 63

Toads and Diamonds, 100

To a Waterfowl, 417

TOLSTOI, L., 299

"To market, to market," 33

Tom the Piper's Son, 38

Tom Thumb, 80

Tom Thumb's Alphabet, 35

Tom Tit Tot, 90, 144

"Tom, Tom, the piper's son," 33

Tongue-Cut Sparrow, The, 158

Toy-books, 41

Travelers and the Bear, The, 274

Traveling Musicians, The, 132

Treasure Island, 381

Treasures of the Wise Man, The, 388

TROWBRIDGE, J. T., 432

True History of Little Golden Hood, 94

True Story of Christopher Columbus, 635

Try Again, 402

Twink! Twink! 34

"Two-legs sat upon three-legs", 33

Ugly Duckling, The, 203

Vendetta, The, 524

VILLENEUVE, MADAME DE, 110

Vision of Mirzah, The, 294

Walrus and the Carpenter, The, 405

WARREN, M. R., 603

Waste Not, Want Not, 459

WATTS, I., 407, 408

WELSH, C., 21, 445

What Does Little Birdie Say, 413

"When a twister a-twisting", 34

When I Was a Little Boy, 38

Where Are You Going, 35

Where Go the Boats, 384

Whistle, The, 291

Whittington and His Cat, 84

Who Has Seen the Wind, 394

Whole Duty of Children, 381

Who Stole the Bird's Nest, 375

Why the Bear Is Stumpy-Tailed, 122

Why the Chimes Rang, 223

Why the Sea Is Salt, 128

Widow and the Hen, The, 276

Wild Animals at Home, 551

WILDE, LADY, 164

WILDE, O., 217

Wild Life in the Farm-Yard, 520

WILLISTON, T. P., 156, 158

"Willy boy, Willy boy," 34

WILMOT-BUXTON, E. M., 351

Wind and the Sun, The, 272

Wind in a Frolic, The, 391

Wind, The, 384

Windy Nights, 384

Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, The, 273

Wonder Book for Girls and Boys, A, 309, 319

Wonderful World, The, 396

WOOLSEY, S. C.; See COOLIDGE

WORDSWORTH, W., 419

WRIGHT, E., 273, 278, 284

Wyche, R. T., 577

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, 385

Yarn of the Nancy Bell, The, 430

YEATS, W. B., 166

YONGE, C. M., 671

YRIARTE, T. de, 287

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Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired. In this text the oe-ligature is represented by brackets [oe]. Bold text is represented by = and italic by _. In addition, the text used / as punctuation in one story.

Page vi, "Rocky" changed to "Rock" (83. Rock-a-bye)

Page x, "Gelert" changed to "Gelert" (Beth Gelert)

Page 2, "Literatary" changed to "Literary" (Literary Taste and)

Page 19, "withold" changed to "withhold" (do not withhold Mother)

Page 155, "Ta, tai tom" changed to "Ta, tai tom" (Ta, tai tom, tadingana)

Page 180, "Emporer's" changed to "Emperor's" (The Emperor's New)

Page 202, "warrier" changed to "warrior" (thou warrior brave)

Page 236, "Dyrad" changed to "Dryad" (beautiful Dryad stepped)

Page 299, "wordly" changed to "worldly" (worldly greatness; Solon)

Page 302, "Column" changed to "Colum" (Colum, Padraic, The Children of Odin.)

Page 437, "Lleweylln's" changed to "Llewellyn's" (Llewellyn's sorrow proved)

Page 448, "be" changed to "he" (Though ill, he began)

Footnote: Page 482 originally, added [Author's Note.] to conform to rest of text. Footnote begins: (The Mail Coach it was)

Page 487, "hair-dressser" changed to "hair-dresser" (for the hair-dresser)

Page 498, "hurridly" changed to "hurriedly" (hurriedly. "Go quickly)

Page 510, "Thorton" changed to "Thornton" (Burgess, Thornton W.)

Page 521, word "a" moved up from the end of the line below. Original read:

So, if you will watch, you shall see real wild turkey in the tamest old a

Page 578, "it" changed to "in" (in its lofty spirit)

Page 662, "Misisssippi" changed to "Mississippi" (lower Mississippi, where)

Page 663, "unwildy" changed to "unwieldy" (the unwieldy vehicle)

Page 687, "a" changed to "the" (Breathes There the Man)

Page 682, "Segur" changed to "Segur" (Segur, Sophie R. de)

Page 688, small-caps were added to Mulock to conform to rest of the index.

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