. Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . the results she deshes. Ill ^N Journeys Through Bookland themother will find much to assist influence of nearly all the selec-tions will be for the betterment ofcharacter, will tend to make bettermen and women of the children. Butwhen she is looking for some directhelp, for something to produce a certain definiteresult, she will study the books carefully and selectthe things which are most effective. To help her inher selection we have prepared the following out-line.
. Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . the results she deshes. Ill ^N Journeys Through Bookland themother will find much to assist influence of nearly all the selec-tions will be for the betterment ofcharacter, will tend to make bettermen and women of the children. Butwhen she is looking for some directhelp, for something to produce a certain definiteresult, she will study the books carefully and selectthe things which are most effective. To help her inher selection we have prepared the following out-line. It does not contain everything of value, butit is sufficiently comprehensive for its purpose, andwill save much time for anyone. Now let us not be unwise in teaching thesethings. Let us be satisfied if we secure the interestof the pupils in the selection and get from them thesmile of approval, the look of guilt, the slight indi-cation of a determination to profit by the times we will refrain from comment lest wespoil the effect of something much finer, moreinspiring than anything we can say Character Building 89 The things we have chosen for their direct influ-ence on the growing character of children will begrouped by subject in three general classes: A. The selections in this group are calculatedto set children to thinking properly about someserious subjects. While not as important as someothers may be in the formation of character, theyare yet of no small consequence. 1. Wisdom, ignorance, keenness, wit, etc., insome of their many phases are shown in the fablesand the brief poem listed here: The Ass in the Lions Skin, Volume I, page 65. The Fox and the Stork, I, 73. The Fox and the Grapes, 1,135. The Bat and the Two Weasels, I, 154. The Horse and the Stag, I, 338. The Fox, the Wolf and the Horse, I, 377. The Bald Knight, I, 385. The Wolf and the Lamb, I, 4!55. Minerva and the Owl, II, 7. The Country Squire, VI, 474. (To ridiculeignorance but not the
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