SECTION XIX
REFERENCE READING FOR GIRL SCOUTS
The following books have been selected for the Girl Scouts with two ideas in mind: first, to list some of the best books of the world, with which all persons should be familiar, and second, to give books that should easily be available in all parts of the country. In some cities the Public Libraries have "Girl Scout Shelves." Has your library one? In some places the Libraries have Reading Clubs for young people, conducted by the boys and girls themselves under the guidance of specially trained librarians who know just how to help bring the right book to hand, on any subject a Scout would be interested in. In Manhattan there are no less than thirty such clubs in connection with the various district libraries. Why not have one of these in your town?
The American Library Association, whose headquarters are in Chicago, Ill., at 78 East Washington Street, will help to bring books to rural districts and places without regular public libraries. Write to them for help if you need it.
The Congressional Library may be called upon at any time for bibliography on any special topic.
The books in this section are in addition to the special references for Proficiency Tests in [Section XVIII].
HANDBOOKS OF ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS
Boy Scouts of America, Handbook for Boys, 200 Fifth Ave., N. Y. C.
Boy Scout Camp Book, Edward Cave, Doubleday and Page.
The Book of the Camp Fire Girls, 31 East 17th Street, New York City.
Girl Guiding, Sir Robert Baden-Powell, C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., London.
Scouting for Boys, Sir Robert Baden-Powell, C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., London.
Woodcraft Manual for Boys and Woodcraft Manual for Girls by Ernest Thompson Seton, Doubleday and Page.
ADVENTURE
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel DeFoe.
Jim Davis, John Masefield.
A Woman Tenderfoot: Two Little Savages: Ernest Thompson Seton and Grace Gallatin.
David Balfour, Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson.
Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island, Jules Verne.
Swiss Family Robinson, Wyss.
ANIMAL STORIES
Jungle Books, First and Second; Just So Stories; Rudyard Kipling.
The Call of the Wild, Jack London.
Bob, Son of Battle, Ollivant.
Wild Animals I Have Known, Ernest Thompson Seton.
Black Beauty, Sewell.
Lad, a Dog; Albert Payson Terhune.
FAIRY AND FOLK TALES
Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Anderson—Mrs Edgar Lucas' Edition.
Arabian Nights.
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, James M. Barrie.
Granny's Wonderful Chair, F. Browne.
Davy and the Goblin, Guy Wetmore Carryl.
Celtic Fairy Tales, J. Jacobs.
Norse Fairy Tales, Sir George Dasent.
Folk Tales of Flanders, Jean De Bosschere.
Fairy Tales, Grimm Bros., Mrs. Lucas, Editor.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings, Joel Chandler Harris.
Mopse the Fairy, Jean Ingelow.
Water Babies, Charles Kingsley.
Wonderful Adventures of Nils, Selma Lagerlöf.
Blue, Red, Green and Brown Fairy Books, Andrew Lang.
Pinocchio, C. Lorenzini.
Back of the North Wind; Double Story; The Princess and Curdie; The Princess and the Goblin; George MacDonald.
Czecho-Slovak Fairy Tales, Parker Fillmore.
Ting a Ling Tales; The Queen's Museum and Other Fanciful Tales, Frank Stockton.
HISTORY AND PERIOD NOVELS
The Story of France, Mary MacGregor.
The Little Book of the War, Eva March Tappan.
Story of the World, Elizabeth O'Neill.
Story of the War for Young People, F. A. Kummer, Century 1919.
Story of the Great War, Roland Usher.
Story of a Pioneer, Anna Howard Shaw.
Old Timers in the Colonies, Charles C. Coffin.
The Boys of '76, Charles C. Coffin.
Drum-Beat of the Nation, Charles C. Coffin.
Redeeming the Republic, Charles C. Coffin.
Lafayette, We Come! Rupert S. Holland.
Historic Events of Colonial Days, Rupert S. Holland.
History of England, Rudyard Kipling.
Hero Tales from American History, Lodge and Roosevelt.
Famous Scouts, Charles H. Johnston.
Famous Frontiersmen and Heroes of the Border, Charles H. Johnston.
Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt, Herman Hagedorn.
Boy's Life of Abraham Lincoln, Helen Nicolay.
American Hero Stories, Eva March Tappan.
A Gentleman of France, Weyman.
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens.
Cardigan, Robert Chambers.
Deerslayer, Fenimore Cooper.
Fortunes of Nigel, Walter Scott.
Henry Esmond, William Makepeace Thackeray.
Hugh Wynne, Weir Mitchell.
Ivanhoe, Walter Scott.
Janice Meredith, Paul Leicester Ford.
Joan of Arc, Laura E. Richards.
Last of the Mohicans, Fenimore Cooper.
Maid at Arms, Robert Chambers.
Man Without a Country, Edward Everett Hale.
Master Simon's Garden, Caroline Meigs.
Pool of Stars, Caroline Meigs.
Master Skylark, Bennett.
Merry Lips, Beulah Marie Dix.
Otto of Silver Hand, Howard Pyle.
Quentin Durward, Walter Scott.
Ramona, Helen Hunt Jackson.
Rewards and Fairies, Rudyard Kipling.
Richard Carvel, Winston Churchill.
Soldier Rigdale, Beulah Marie Dix.
The Crisis, Winston Churchill.
The Perfect Tribute, M. S. Andrews.
The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain.
The Refugees, Conan Doyle.
The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy.
The Spartan, Caroline Snediker.
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas.
The White Company, Conan Doyle.
Two Little Confederates, Thomas Nelson Page.
Via Crucis, Marion Crawford.
Westward Ho, Charles Kingsley.
A Yankee at King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain.
MYTH AND LEGEND
Story of Roland, James Baldwin.
The Sampo (Finnish), James Baldwin.
The Story of Siegfried, James Baldwin.
Children of the Dawn, (Greek), Elsie Buckley.
Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan.
The Stories of Norse Heroes, Wilmot Buxton.
Don Quixote, Cervantes.
Stories of Charlemagne and the Twelve Peers of France, A. J. Church.
Greek Tragedies, Church.
Adventures of Odysseus and The Tale of Troy, Padraic Colum.
Undine, De la Motte Forqué.
Sintram and His Companions, De la Motte Fouqué.
Tanglewood Tales, Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The Wonderbook, Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving.
Heroes, Charles Kingsley.
Robin Hood, Howard Pyle.
The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, Howard Pyle.
The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur, Howard Pyle.
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Howard Pyle.
The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions, Howard Pyle.
NONSENSE
Goops, Gillett Burgess.
Inklings for Thinklings, Susan Hale.
Child's Primer of Natural History, Oliver Herford.
The Nonsense Book, Edward Lear.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll.
Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll.
The Hunting of the Snark, Lewis Carroll.
Nonsense Anthology, Carolyn Wells.
Parody Anthology, Carolyn Wells.
NOVELS AND STORIES
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey; Marjorie Daw.
Austen, Jane; Pride and Prejudice.
Bacon, Josephine Daskam; Ten to Seventeen, Madness of Philip.
Barrie, James N.; Little Minister, Little White Bird, Sentimental Tommy.
Bjornson, Bjornstjerne; A Happy Boy, Arne, A Fisher Lassie, Synove Solbaken.
Blackmore, R. W.; Lorna Doone.
Bronté, Charlotte; Jane Eyre.
Brunner, H. C.; Short Sixes.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.; The Club of Queer Trades, the Innocence of Father Brown.
Collins, Wilkie; The Moonstone.
Craik, D. M.; (Miss Mulock) John Halifax, Gentleman.
Crawford, Marion; Marietta, Mr. Isaacs, the Roman Singer.
Daskam, Josephine; Smith College Stories, Sister's Vocation.
Davis, Richard Harding; Soldiers of Fortune, Van Bibber.
Deland, Margaret; Tales of Old Chester.
Eliot, George; Mill on the Floss.
Farnol, Jeffrey; The Broad Highway.
Fox, John; Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, Trail of the Lonesome Pine.
Green, Anna Katherine; The Leavenworth Case, The Filigree Ball.
Haggard, Rider; King Solomon's Mines.
Holmes, Sherlock; Hound of the Baskervilles.
Hope, Anthony; Rupert of Hentzau, The Prisoner of Zenda.
Hornung; Adventures of Raffles, the Gentleman Burglar.
Jacobs, W. W.; Light Freights, Many Cargoes.
Johnson, Owen; The Varmint.
Kipling, Rudyard; Captains Courageous, Soldiers Three, Wee Willie Winkle, Kim, The Naulakha, The Light That Failed.
Lincoln, Joseph; Captain Erie.
McCarthy, Justin; If I Were King.
Merriman, Henry Seton; Dust, With Edged Tools.
Meredith, Nicholson; In the Bishop's Carriage.
Poe, Edgar Allen; Tales, The Gold Bug.
Reade, Charles; The Cloister and the Hearth, Foul Play.
Rinehart, Mary Roberts; The Amazing Interlude.
Smith, F. Hopkinson; Fortunes of Oliver Horne, Colonel Carter of Cartersville.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher; Little Pussy Willow, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Stockton, Frank; Rudder Grange, The Lady or the Tiger, Casting Away of Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. Aleshine.
Tarkington, Booth; Monsieur Beaucaire, Gentleman from Indiana, Seventeen, Penrod, Penrod and Sam.
Wells, Carolyn; The Clue, The Gold Bag, A Chain of Evidence, The Maxwell Mystery.
White, Edward Stewart; The Blazed Trail.
Wister, Owen; The Virginian.
Woolson, Constance F.; Anne.
Alcott, Louisa M.; Eight Cousins, Little Women, Little Men, Rose in Bloom, etc.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson; Little Lord Fauntleroy, Sarah Crewe, etc.
Coolidge, Susan; Clover, In the High Valley, What Katy Did and other Katy Books.
Craik, Mrs.; (Miss Mulock); The Little Lame Prince.
Cummins, Maria Susanna; The Lamplighter.
Dodge, Mary Mapes; Donald and Dorothy, Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates.
Ewing, Juliana; Jackanapes, Six to Sixteen.
Hale, C. P.; Peterkin Papers.
Hughes, Thomas; Tom Brown's School Days.
Jackson, Helen Hunt; Nelly's Silver Mine.
Jordan, Elizabeth; May Iverson, Her Book.
Nesbit, E.; The Wouldbegoods, The Phoenix and the Carpet.
Ouida (de la Ramee); Bimbi Stories.
Richards, Laura E.; Hildegarde Series, Margaret Montford Series.
Shaw, F. E.; Castle Blair.
Spyri, J.; Heidi.
Twain, Mark; Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, etc.
Warner, Susan; The Wide Wide World.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas; The Birds' Christmas Carol, Polly Oliver's Problems, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
GIRL SCOUT STORIES
Abbott, Jane; Keineth, Larkspur.
Blanchard, Amy E.; A Girl Scout of Red Rose Troop.
Widdemer, Margaret; Winona's Way and other Winona Books.
POETRY
Verse for Patriots, Jean Broadhurst and Clara Lawton Rhodes.
Golden Staircase, (An Anthology), L. Chisholm.
Lyra Heroica, William Ernest Henley.
Blue Book of Poetry, Andrew Lang.
Story Telling Poems, F. J. Olcot.
Book of Famous Verse, Agnes Repplier.
Home Book of Verse for Young Folks, Burton Egbert Stevenson.
Child's Garden of Verse, Robert Louis Stevenson.
Children's Book of Ballads, Mary W. Tileston.
Golden Numbers, Kate Douglas Wiggin.
WONDERS OF SCIENCE
Magic of Science, Collins.
The Story Book of Science, Jean Henri Fabre, Century.
Field, Forest and Farm, Jean Henri Fabre, Century.
In the Once Upon a Time, Lillian Gask.
Book of the Ocean, Ingersoll.
Careers of Danger and Daring, Cleveland Moffett.
Science at Home, Russell.
Wonders of Science, Eva March Tappan.
The Book of Wonders.
Magazines: Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Scientific American, The National Geographic.
FOR CAPTAINS, LIEUTENANTS, COMMISSIONERS AND OTHER GIRL SCOUT OFFICERS
After a thorough study of Scouting for Girls, the authorized American Handbook, Scout Captains and Lieutenants are urged to read the following list of allied Handbooks for Leaders as containing many practical hints for workers with young people, and emphasizing the essential unity of these movements.
A study of these manuals will bring out very clearly the fact that though our methods of approach and phraseology may differ in certain instances, our ultimate aim and our broad general principles are precisely the same.
The books in the following list which have been starred are recommended as particularly practical for all students and friends of young people. They represent the latest thought of the greatest authorities on the subjects most closely allied with the sympathetic study of adolescence. It is impossible to isolate a study of the girlhood of America from the kindred topics of women in industry and politics, the growth of the community spirit, the present theories of education, and in general a brief survey of economics, sociology and psychology.
Many of these titles appear technical and dry, but the books have been carefully selected with a view to their readable and stimulating qualities, and no one need be a profound student in order to understand and appreciate them.
It is especially advisable that Leaders in the Girl Scout organization should be reasonably well informed as to the principal social movements of the day so as to relate the effective organization of the young people of the country with corresponding progress along other lines. The more broadly cultivated our Captains and Councillors become, the more vital and enduring will be the work of the Girl Scouts, and this breadth of view cannot be obtained from the knowledge and practice of what might be called the "technique of Scouting" alone.
LEADERS' HANDBOOK OF ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS
The Boy Scout Movement Applied by the Church. Richardson-Loomis, Scribners.
Girls Clubs, Helen Ferris. E. P. Dutton and Co., 1919. Suggestions for programs, community cooperation, practical methods and helps in organization. Bibliography.
The Girl Guides. Rules, Policy and Organization, Annual Senior Guides, Rules, Policy and Organization, 1918. Both official manuals for Guiders. Nat. Hdqrs. Girl Guides. 76 Victoria Street. London, S. W. 1.
(1) Handbook for Scout Masters, 200 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
(2) Community Boy Leadership—A Manual for Scout Executives.
Model Treasurer's Book for Girls' Clubs. National League of Women Workers, 25 cents.
Scoutmastership, Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Putnam, 1920.
The Girl Reserves. Y. W. C. A. Association Press. 600 Lexington Avenue, New York City. Manual of Leaders, 1921.
PRACTICAL AND GENERAL READING
Abbott, Edith; Women in Industry, Appleton.
Addams, Jane; Twenty Years at Hull House, Spirit of Youth in the City Streets, A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil, Macmillan.
*Angell, Emmett D.; Play.
*Bancroft, Jessie H.; Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium. Macmillan.
*Burchenal, Elizabeth; Dances of the People—Shirmer.
*Byington, Margaret; What Social Workers Should Know About Their Own Communities. Russell Sage Foundation, N. Y.
Daggett, Mabel Potter; Women Wanted. George H. Doran. A book about women in all walks of life, as affected by the war.
*Dewey, John; Schools of Tomorrow, School and Society, E. P. Dutton. Showing the growth of the "Scout Idea" in our modern educational methods. Practical and stimulating.
*Douglass, H. Paul; The Little Town, Macmillan. The latest and best treatment of rural social conditions. Especially recommended for Scout leaders in localities outside the great cities.
Hall, G. Stanley; Adolescence, 2 Volumes, 1907. See also "Youth", summary volume, by same author, who did pioneer work in the field.
*Hoerle, Helen, and Salzberg, Florence B.; the Girl and the Job, Henry Holt, $1.50.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins; Women in Economics, In This Our World, A Man Made World, Concerning Children—All: Small and Maynard. The most brilliant American writer on the woman movement. Sound economics and good psychology cleverly presented.
James, William; Principles of Psychology, 2 vols. The psychologist who wrote like a novelist. Chapters of special interest: Habit, Instinct, Will, Emotions and The Stream of Consciousness. Talks to Teachers on Psychology, and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals. Memories and Studies, especially essay on the Moral Equivalents of War—All: Henry Holt and Co.
Key, Ellen; The Century of the Child.
*Lovejoy, Esther; The House of the Good Neighbor, Macmillan, 1919. Social and Medical Work in France during the war by the President of the Women's International Medical Association.
*MacDougall, William; Social Psychology, Luce and Co. Study of how people act and feel in a group.
Mill, John Stuart; The Subjection of Women. Frederick Stokes.
*Norsworthy, Naomi, and Whitley: The Psychology of Childhood, Macmillan, 1919. Best and latest general child psychology.
Parsons, Elsie Clews: Social Control, Social Freedom, The Old Fashioned Woman, The Family. All: Putnam.
*Patrick, G. T. W.; Psychology of Relaxation. Houghton Mifflin. The necessity for and guidance of the play instinct.
*Perry, Clarence A.; Community Center Activities. Russell Sage Foundation, New York City.
Pillsbury, W. B.; Essentials of Psychology, Macmillan. Good, brief treatment of general psychology for popular reading.
*Playground and Recreation Association of America Publications: What the Playground Can Do for Girls, Games Every Child Should Know, Folk and National Dances, The Home Playground. Headquarters 1 Madison Avenue, New York City.
*Puffer, J. Adam; The Boy and His Gang. Houghton Mifflin.
Putnam, Emily; The Lady.
Schreiner, Olive; Woman and Labour.
Sharp, Cecil J.; One Hundred English Folksongs. Charles H. Ditson and Co.
*Slattery, Margaret; The Girl in Her Teens, The Girl and Her Religion, The American Girl and Her Community, The Woman's Press.
*Thorndike, Edward L.; Individuality, Riverside Educational Monographs, Houghton Mifflin. What constitutes the "average person." The danger of "sizing up" people too rapidly.
*Terman, Lewis; The Hygiene of the Child, Houghton Mifflin.
Trotter, W.; Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War, Fisher Unwin. How "public opinion" exerts its influence on conduct.
Wallas, Graham; Human Nature in Politics, and The Great Society, Our Social Heritage, Macmillan.
Ward, Lester F.; Psychic Factors of Civilization and Applied Sociology. Ginn and Co. Psychological interpretation of civilization.
*Woods, Robert A.; Young Working Girls, Houghton Mifflin.
CAMPING AND HIKING
Campward Ho!, The Camp Manual for Girl Scouts contains a full and annotated bibliography. The following is an additional list.
The Boy Camp Manual, Charles Keen Taylor.
Camping and Outing Activities, Cheley-Baker. Games, Songs, Pageants, Plays, Water Sports, etc.
Camp Cookery, Horace Kephart, Macmillan Co.
The Camp Fire Girls' Vacation Book, Camp Fire Girls, New York City.
Camping and Woodcraft (2 vols.) Horace Kephart, Macmillan.
Camp Kits and Camp Life, Charles Stedman Hanks.
Camping Out, Warren Miller, Geo Doran Co.
Caravanning and Camping-out, J. Harris Stone—Herbert Jenkins, Ltd., 12 Arundel Place, London.
Harper's Camping and Scouting, Joseph Adams, Harper Bros.
Shelters, Shacks and Shanties, D. C. Beard, Scribners. Illustrated.
Summer in a Girls' Camp, Anna Worthington Coale, Century.
Swimming and Watermanship, L. de B. Handley, Macmillan Co.
Touring Afoot, Dr. C. P. Fordyce, N. Y. Outing Publishing Co.
Wilderness Homes, Oliver Kamp, Outing Publishing Co.
GOVERNMENT BULLETINS AND HOW TO GET THEM
1. The publications of all departments of the United States Government are in the custody of the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. Price lists of various subjects are sent free. The following list of subjects will be found especially useful in preparing for many of the proficiency tests. The numbers given are the official ones by which the catalogs of prices and special titles may be ordered:
(11) Foods and Cookery. (16) Farmers' Bulletins. (31) Education. (38) Animal Industry. (39) Birds and Wild Animals. (41) Insects (including household and farm pests, and bees). (43) Forestry. (44) Plants. (50) American History and Biography. (51) Health. (53) Maps. (54) Political Science. (55) National Museums and National Academy of Science. (67) Immigration. (68) Farm Management.
2. The Children's Bureau of the U. S. Dept. of Labor has a special list of articles on Child and Infant Care and Health. Write direct to the Bureau for these.
3. For State publications on Health, Education, etc., apply to Secretary of State if special officer in charge is unknown.
4. Apply to town hall or special departments for city documents on health, child care, education, etc.
5. The following organizations publish bulletins and cheap authoritative books and pamphlets for general information on health, first aid, child care and other topics of interest to Girl Scouts.
The Red Cross National Headquarters, Washington, D. C.
The Metropolitan Insurance Company, 1 Madison Avenue, N. Y. C.
Child Health Organization, 370 Seventh Avenue, Miss Sally Lucas Jean, Director.
The Posture League of America, 1 Madison Avenue, N. Y. C.