Literary landmarks : a guide to good reading for young people, and teachers' assistant : with a carefully selected list of seven hundred books . s. A youngboy drew a top and painted it in circles. Thepoint on which all reading revolved was the myth,and each circle above symbolized the epochs ofliterature as he had them in his mind. A younggirl drew a castle, each tower representing whatwas to her a literary landmark. One little girlinvented a very ingenious musical design. Thestaff represented all the literature she knew any-thing about. Each measure was a great quarter and eighth no
Literary landmarks : a guide to good reading for young people, and teachers' assistant : with a carefully selected list of seven hundred books . s. A youngboy drew a top and painted it in circles. Thepoint on which all reading revolved was the myth,and each circle above symbolized the epochs ofliterature as he had them in his mind. A younggirl drew a castle, each tower representing whatwas to her a literary landmark. One little girlinvented a very ingenious musical design. Thestaff represented all the literature she knew any-thing about. Each measure was a great quarter and eighth notes were the lesserwriters, the half and whole notes the great writ-ers according to general opinion. She placedthese notes higher or lower on the staff accordingto her personal opinion as to their value. In thisway she had a chance to express her own feelingsas well as the critical sentiments of others. Toindicate lost literature she used a rest, and as sheput rests in wrong places she revealed the factthat literature with which she was unacquaintedwas lost to her. The whole design when fin-ished made a pretty little tune indicating that. WORKS OF THE CREATIVE IMAGINATION. 45 literature looked at in its whole history, or in itsgrowth, was a harmony. She then selected onenote in the last measure and wrote an essay onit, explaining the relation of the study to thepresent epoch of literature, and to literature asan entirety, not omitting the main idea of thepoem, the ethical jDoint. A seventh grade child invented the precedingdesign to show that she had landmarks along theroad from long ago to now, and the idea of fur-ther growth in it makes it very suggestive. Another seventh grade child invented a designof a clock and brouoht me a laro-e and handsomedrawing of it, of which I have made a rude copy,and she has written out a description of our lastyears work and explained how her design standsas a symbol of it. In the original design she hadthe minutes indicating the lesser books
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