Notes are added when they are likely to be needed; they are not furnished when the pupil may find for himself necessary information in any good dictionary or when the information does not contribute directly to the appreciation of the literature being studied. Notes that make small contribution at too great a cost of the child's time or effort are likewise omitted. It is much more important to secure interest in the masterpiece as a whole than to defeat the larger end of the teaching of literature by a tedious consideration of petty details. The questions appended to each selection are not by any means meant to supplant the teacher but rather to direct the attention of the pupil to points about which it is desirable for him to think before coming to recitation. They do not ask for a mere restatement of facts; instead, they attempt to indicate in most cases some important theme or in some way to relate such a theme to the life of the pupil. Grateful acknowledgment is made to various authors and publishers for permission to use material on which they hold copyright; to Joseph Conrad for the excerpt from "Youth"; to Elbert Hubbard for "A Message to Garcia"; to Franklin K. Lane for "The American Flag"; to Henry Newbolt for "Lampada Vitaï"; to Doubleday, Page & Co. for the excerpt from Owen Johnson's "The Varmint"; to Ford, Howard & Hulbert for the selection from Beecher's "Patriotic Addresses in America and England, 1850-1885"; to the Macmillan Co., the authorized American publishers of Tennyson's works, for "The Revenge"; to Charles Scribner's Sons for the poems by Van Dyke and Holland; to Whitaker & Ray for Miller's "Columbus"; to the Youth's Companion for Bennett's "The Flag." The protected selections from Abbott, Browning, and Lowell are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, the Houghton, Mifflin Co. Especial acknowledgment is due to Helen Harriman Briggs for generous assistance in selecting and editing the material used in the book. THE JET HAND TALISMAN SNOW-BOUND HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD THE RHODORA TO THE DANDELION CORRINA'S GOING A-MAYING FRANCE IN THE NEW WORLD POLONIUS'S ADVICE TO LAERTES RECESSIONAL ON DUTY LOCHINVAR THE ONE THING NEEDFUL Washington Irving 245 William Cullen Bryant 288 Plutarch 290 James Anthony Froude 300 Washington Irving 309 Joaquin Miller 328 Arthur Hugh Clough 331 Abraham Lincoln 332 Walt Whitman 334 James Russell Lowell 338 John Greenleaf Whittier 341 Washington Irving 345 John Greenleaf Whittier 357 Robert Browning 380 Ralph Waldo Emerson 381 James Russell Lowell 383 Robert Herrick 385 Francis Parkman 388 William Shakespeare 393 Rudyard Kipling 395 Joseph Conrad 397 Sir Walter Scott 405 Charles Dickens 408 |