Literary landmarks : a guide to good reading for young people, and teachers' assistant : with a carefully selected list of seven hundred books . -making period may producea new blossom in the age of Chaucer. In addition to the studies mentioned, the fol-lowing books for third and fourth grade puj)ilsare usable and desirable. The names of somestudies are purposely repeated. Gullivers Travels, Robinson Crusoe, Being aBoy, Sandford and Merton, Swiss Family Robin-son, Prince and Pauper (the funniest story I everread). Rip Van Winkle, Cudjos Cave, by Trow-bridge, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Heidi, Rusk
Literary landmarks : a guide to good reading for young people, and teachers' assistant : with a carefully selected list of seven hundred books . -making period may producea new blossom in the age of Chaucer. In addition to the studies mentioned, the fol-lowing books for third and fourth grade puj)ilsare usable and desirable. The names of somestudies are purposely repeated. Gullivers Travels, Robinson Crusoe, Being aBoy, Sandford and Merton, Swiss Family Robin-son, Prince and Pauper (the funniest story I everread). Rip Van Winkle, Cudjos Cave, by Trow-bridge, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Heidi, RuskinsKing of the Golden River (a book with a badmoral as well as a good one). Little Women,Daffydowndilly (a fine story to teach childrenthe ugliness and hardships of idleness), ArabianNights, Daudets Red Partridge, Susan CoolidgesThe New Years Bargain, Eliots Six Stories fromArabian Nights, The Snow-Image, Grimms orAndersens Fairy Stories, Burroughss Birds andBees, Bulfinchs Age of Fable, Hales edition ofBulfinchs Mythology (for teachers), HawthornesTanglewood Tales and Wonder Book, BulfinchsAge of Chivalry, Miss Starrs Stories of the 10 E. —ic ^ * k a t; ;r 0 c 5 F o-^ cid 0 0 ,- 1^1 is J -C 0 C 0 - . WORKS OF THE CREATIVE IMAGINATION. 67 Saints, Adventures of Marco Polo, Sarah OrneJewetts Play-Days, Mrs. Stowes Pussy Willowand A Dogs Mission. So many pupils leave school from the fifth andsixth grades that it is of the greatest importancethat the reading should be made as interesting aspossible, and this is particularly the case in poordistricts in cities. In these grades the child caneasily add to his fourth grade outline two newlandmarks. He can separate what in the fourthgrade he called the great golden age of Greekliterature into the age of Homer and the ageof Pericles, and he can insert the age of Shake-speare between the age of Dante and Chaucerand the present age. In these grades any teacher or parent with theleast literary taste may find pleasure for hersel
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