Outside Readings.-Abbott's Life of King Philip (Ajax Series); Henty's With Wolfe in Canada; Cooper's Last of the Mohicans (story of Seven Years' War); James Otis's At the Siege of Quebec.
[Chapter IX.] Pages 126-138.
EVERYDAY LIFE IN COLONIAL TIMES.
Topics for Collateral Reading.—The great storehouse of facts regarding the social and domestic life of the American people is McMaster's History of the People of the United States (5 vols. now ready). For topics see detailed index of each volume. Consult especially Vol. II, pp. 538-582, on "Town and Country Life in 1800." This work is somewhat voluminous for elementary work.
References for Reading.—Earle's Home Life in Colonial Days; Earle's Child Life in Colonial Days, Tavern and Stage Coach in Colonial Days; Earle's Sabbath in Puritan New England; Earle's Customs and Fashions of Old New England; Earle's Colonial Dames and Goodwives; Coffin's Old Times in the Colonies; Coffin's Building the Nation; Scudder's Men and Manners in America 100 years Ago; Wharton's Through Colonial Doorways; Wharton's Colonial Days and Dames; Fisher's Men, Women, and Manners in Colonial Times; Markham's Colonial Days; Hawthorne's Grandfathers Chair.
[Chapters X]-[XVIII]. Pages 139-295.
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
Topics for Collateral Reading.—For a series of topics on the American Revolution, to be read in connection with these nine chapters, consult the index to Fiske's American Revolution (2 vols.).
References for Reading.—For the Revolution as a whole the two best works for supplementary reading in schools are perhaps Lodge's Story of the Revolution and Fiske's War of Independence (Riverside Literature Series). Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution is voluminous but interesting, and fully illustrated.
Among the scores of excellent works which may be consulted, the following may be safely recommended: Coffin's Story of Liberty; Fiske-Irving's Washington and his Country; Abbot's Blue Jackets of '76; Bacon's Historic Pilgrimages in New England; C. H. Woodman's Boys and Girls of the Revolution; Brooks's Century Book of the American Revolution; Drake's Burgoyne's Invasion of 1777; Seawell's Paul Jones; Abbott's Paul Jones (Ajax Series); Brooks's Story of the American Sailor; Frost's Swamp Fox (Marion).
Outside Reading.—There are numerous books on the war of the Revolution suitable for outside reading. For the school grades for which this book is intended, the following books are interesting and for the most part instructive: Watson's Noble Deeds of our Fathers; Watson's Tea Party and Other Stories; Butterworth's Patriot Schoolmaster (Story of the Minute Men and Sons of Liberty); Otis's Signal Boys of 1775; Tomlinson's Stories of the American Revolution (several series); Stoddard's Red Patriot; Thompson's The Rangers or the Tory's Daughter; Thompson's Green Mountain Boys; Otis's Boys of Fort Schuyler; Patriot Boy (Washington) (Famous Boy Series); Father of his Country (Washington) (Daring Deed Series); Abbott's Life of Washington (Ajax Series); Scudder's George Washington; Brooks's True Story of George Washington; Miss Hoppens's A Great Treason (Arnold and André); Cooper's Last of the Mohicans (last French or Seven Years' War); Cooper's Lionel Lincoln (Boston at time of Bunker Hill); Cooper's Pilot (Paul Jones).
These six novels by William Gilmore Simms furnish under the guise of fiction a connected and most readable account of the Revolution in the South from the fall of Charleston to 1782: The Partisan, Mellichampe, The Scout, Katherine Walton, The Foragers, The Eutaws.