CONTENTS

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I.[Introduction][1]
II.[Journeys Through Bookland—Its Contents and Plan][7]
[The Masterpieces][9]
[Arrangement and Grading][10]
[The Studies and Helps][13]
[Studies][15]
[Notes][15]
[Introductory Notes][15]
[Biographies][16]
[Pronouncing Vocabularies][16]
[Pictures][17]
[Tables of Contents][17]
[Index][17]
[The Nursery Rhymes][18]
[Discussion of each Volume][24]
[Volume One][24]
[Volume Two][26]
[Volume Three][28]
[Volume Four][29]
[Volume Five][29]
[Volume Six][30]
[Volume Seven][31]
[Volume Eight][33]
[Volume Nine][34]
[Volume Ten—The Guide][35]
III.[Pictures and Their Use][36]
[What Should We Notice in a Picture?][36]
[Line][36]
[Light and Shade][37]
[Tone and Color][39]
[Composition][39]
[Atmosphere and Perspective][40]
[Application of Principles][41]
[Bob and Tiny Tim][41]
[Pictures and Their Value in Literature][44]
[On the Use of Pictures in Journeys][48]
[Nursery Rhymes][51]
[Jack and the Beanstalk][52]
[Nurse Helps Me when I Embark][52]
[Wynken, Blynken, and Nod][53]
[Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks][54]
[Tom and the Dragon Fly][55]
[The Swallow and the Stork Came][55]
[Down Tumbled Wheelbarrow][58]
[Geraint Hears Enid Singing][60]
IV.[Telling Stories][63]
[The Fairies of the Caldon-Low][68]
[Little Giffin of Tennessee][71]
[The Ballad of Agincourt][74]
[Hervé Riel][78]
V.[Reading, and the Building of Character][85]
[Who Stole the Bird’s Nest?][95]
[Lead, Kindly Light][98]
[Poor Richard’s Almanac][101]
VI.[Father and Son][107]
VII.[Memorizing][128]
[One Hundred Choice Quotations][131]
VIII.[How to Read Fiction][143]
[Different Kinds of Literature][143]
[Reading Stories][145]
[Plot][149]
[Cinderella][150]
[Persons][156]
[The Hardy Tin Soldier][158]
[The Scenes][162]
[The Dog and His Shadow][164]
[The Fox and the Stork][166]
[A Christmas Carol][168]
[The Lesson and the Author’s Purpose][170]
[The Fir Tree][173]
[The Method and Style of the Author][174]
[Emotional Power][176]
[Rab and His Friends][177]
[General Principles and Reflections][181]
[Completed Studies][185]
[The Hare and the Tortoise][185]
[The Fox and the Crow][187]
[The Drummer][193]
[Tom, the Water Baby][198]
[The Passing of Arthur][214]
IX.[Close Reading or Study][224]
[Rab and His Friends][225]
[Braddock’s Defeat][227]
[Industry and Sloth][229]
[Why the Sea is Salt][231]
[Faithless Sally Brown][232]
[The Definition of a Gentleman][234]
[Adventures in Lilliput][235]
[The Heart of Bruce][238]
[Annie Laurie][243]
[The Lost Child][243]
[David Crockett in the Creek War][244]
[The Impeachment of Warren Hastings][248]
[From The Death of Cæsar][253]
X.[Close Reading (Concluded)][256]
[The Author][257]
[Sentences][258]
[Figures of Speech][259]
[Allusions][259]
[Basis of Figures][262]
[Simile][263]
[Metaphor][264]
[Synecdoche and Metonymy][265]
[Apostrophe and Personification][266]
[Studies in Figures][268]
[Ode to a Skylark][268]
[A Visit from Saint Nicholas][270]
[The First Snowfall][270]
XI.[Reading Poetry][272]
[The Reaper and the Flowers][272]
[The Brown Thrush][276]
[The Child’s World][277]
[Seven Times One][278]
[The First Snowfall][281]
[The Potato][285]
[Origin of the Opal][285]
[The Barefoot Boy][286]
[The Bugle Song][287]
[The Petrified Fern][291]
[The Forsaken Merman][295]
[The Cloud][301]
[Ode to a Skylark][306]
XII.[Reading Aloud][311]
[Articulation and Enunciation][311]
[Emphasis and Inflection][312]
[Emotional States][312]
[Pitch][312]
[Rate or Time][313]
[Quality][315]
[Force][315]
XIII.[Literature and Its Forms][317]
[Prose][318]
[Methods of Expression][318]
[Narration][318]
[Description][321]
[Exposition][321]
[Argumentation][322]
[Forms of Prose][322]
[Fiction][322]
[Essays][322]
[Orations][324]
[Drama][325]
[Poetry][327]
[Structure of Poetry][328]
[Rhythm][328]
[Rhyme][329]
[Alliteration][330]
[Kinds of Poetry][331]
[Epic][331]
[Lyric][333]
[Songs][333]
[Ode][335]
[Elegy][335]
[Sonnet][337]
[Victor and Vanquished][338]
[Dramatic][339]
[Miracle Plays][340]
[Morality Plays][340]
[Masques][341]
[Tragedies and Comedies][341]
XIV.[Journeys in Its Relation to the School—Reading and Language][345]
[Reading][348]
[Language][349]
[Oral Lessons][352]
[The Wind and the Sun][357]
[Written Lessons][360]
[Introduction][360]
[Literature in Written Lessons][363]
[Narration][363]
[Robin Hood and the Stranger][363]
[Description][365]
[The King of the Golden River][366]
[Exposition][368]
[Cid Campeador][368]
[Argument][370]
[The Boston Massacre][370]
[Conclusion][376]
[An Exciting Canoe Race][376]
XV.[Journeys in Its Relation To the School—Nature Study][380]
[Seven Long Selections][381]
[Tom, the Water Baby][381]
[Robinson Crusoe][382]
[The Swiss Family Robinson][382]
[Brute Neighbors][383]
[The Pond in Winter][384]
[Winter Animals][384]
[Trees and Ants that Help Each Other][385]
[Classified Selections][386]
[Flowers and Plant Life][386]
[Birds][387]
[Four-footed Animals][389]
[Reptiles][391]
[Insects][391]
[Denizens of the Water][391]
[Natural Phenomena][392]
[Geography in Nature][392]
[Complete Study][393]
[The King of the Golden River][393]
XVI.[Journeys in Its Relation to the School—Geography and History][400]
[Classified References][402]
[Model Geography Lesson][411]
[The Wind][411]
[Model History Lessons][413]
[Alfred the Great][413]
[Burgoyne’s Campaign][419]
XVII.[Journeys in Its Relation to the High School][425]
[Classification of Studies][427]
[Type Studies][431]
XVIII.[Recitations and Special Days in School][436]
[Bird Day][437]
[Memorial Day][438]
[Christmas][438]
[Birthdays][438]
[Dramatization][439]
[An Old-Fashioned Afternoon][440]
XIX.[Handy List of the Studies in Journeys Through Bookland][441]
[Volume One][442]
[Volume Two][443]
[Volume Three][445]
[Volume Four][446]
[Volume Five][446]
[Volume Six][447]
[Volume Seven][448]
[Volume Eight][449]
[Volume Nine][449]
XX.[Supplementary Book Lists][451]
[For the Separate Volumes][454]
[Volume One][454]
[Volume Two][455]
[Volume Three][457]
[Volume Four][458]
[Volume Five][459]
[Volume Six][460]
[Volume Seven][461]
[Classified Lists][462]
[Fiction][463]
[Poetry and Drama][464]
[Essays][464]
[Nature][465]
[Biography][465]
[History][465]
[Travel and Geography][466]
[Miscellaneous][466]
Appendix—
[Handy Table of English Writers][469]
[Handy Table of American Writers][473]
[General Index][475]

ILLUSTRATIONS

Halftone Portraits of Authors

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[Group One][Frontispiece]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Washington Irving
John Greenleaf Whittier
James Russell Lowell
William Cullen Bryant
[Group Two][52]
William Shakespeare
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Robert Browning
Sir Walter Scott
William Wordsworth
Geoffrey Chaucer
Joseph Addison
[Group Three][100]
Cardinal Newman
Sir Francis Bacon
Jonathan Swift
Daniel Defoe
Cardinal Wiseman
Cervantes
Father Ryan
[Group Four][148]
Julia Ward Howe
Benjamin Franklin
Henry David Thoreau
Patrick Henry
William H. Prescott
Francis Parkman
James Fenimore Cooper
[Group Five][198]
Edgar Allan Poe
Donald G. Mitchell
James Whitcomb Riley
Thomas Buchanan Read
Eugene Field
John Howard Payne
John G. Saxe
[Group Six][246]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Phoebe Cary
Alice Cary
Lucy Larcom
Felicia Hemans
George Eliot
Jean Ingelow
[Group Seven][294]
Robert Burns
Robert Southey
William Cowper
Lord Byron
John Keats
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[Group Eight][342]
Rudyard Kipling
Robert Louis Stevenson
Paul Du Chaillu
Thomas Hughes
Hans Christian Andersen
Jakob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
[Group Nine][400]
John Ruskin
Oliver Goldsmith
Matthew Arnold
Thomas Babington Macaulay
John Bunyan
Thomas De Quincey
Charles Lamb
[Group Ten][454]
John Tyndall
Charles Kingsley
Thomas Moore
Alexander Pope
Thomas Campbell
David Livingstone
George MacDonald