SUPPLEMENTARY READING
FAMOUS STORIES AND LITERATURE
¶ This grading, which is simply suggestive, represents the earliest years in which these books can be read to advantage.
| Year | ||
| 7 | Arnold’s Sohrab and Rustum | $0.20 |
| 2 | Baldwin’s Fifty Famous Stories Retold | .35 |
| 4 | Golden Fleece | .50 |
| 8 | Nine Choice Poems | .25 |
| 3 | Old Greek Stories | .45 |
| 3 | Old Stories of the East | .45 |
| 2 | Robinson Crusoe for Children | .35 |
| 3 | Thirty More Famous Stories Retold | .50 |
| 3 | Bradish’s Old Norse Stories | .45 |
| 4 | Clarke’s Arabian Nights | .60 |
| 6 | Story of Troy | .60 |
| 6 | Story of Ulysses | .60 |
| 6 | Story of Aeneas | .45 |
| 4 | Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (Stephens) | .50 |
| 4 | Dickens’s Child’s Oliver Twist and David Copperfield (Severance) | .40 |
| 5 | Story of Little Nell (Gordon) | .50 |
| 6 | Tale of Two Cities (Kirk) | .50 |
| 6 | Twelve Christmas Stories (Gordon) | .50 |
| 7 | Franklin’s Autobiography | .35 |
| 7 | Guerber’s Myths of Greece and Rome | 1.50 |
| 7 | Myths of Northern Lands | 1.50 |
| 7 | Legends of the Middle Ages | 1.50 |
| 4 | Hall’s Homeric Stories | .40 |
| 8 | Irving’s Sketch Book. Selections | .20 |
| 8 | Tales of a Traveler | .50 |
| 3 | Johnson’s Waste Not, Want Not Stories | .50 |
| 3 | Kupfer’s Lives and Stories Worth Remembering | .45 |
| 8 | Lambs’ Tales from Shakespeare. Comedies (Rolfe) | .50 |
| 8 | Tales from Shakespeare. Tragedies (Rolfe) | .50 |
| 8 | Macaulay’s Lays of Ancient Rome (Rolfe) | .56 |
| 8 | Scott’s Ivanhoe | .50 |
| 6 | Kenilworth (Norris) | .50 |
| 8 | Lady of the Lake (Gateway) | .40 |
| 6 | Quentin Durward (Norris) | .50 |
| 6 | Talisman (Dewey) | .50 |
| 8 | Shakespeare’s Julius Cæsar | .20 |
| 8 | Merchant of Venice | .20 |
| 8 | As You Like It | .20 |
| 1 | Smythe’s Reynard the Fox | .30 |
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
BROOKS’S READERS
By STRATTON D. BROOKS, Superintendent of Schools, Boston, Mass.
| FIVE BOOK SERIES | |
| First Year | $0.25 |
| Second Year | .35 |
| Third Year | .40 |
| Fourth and Fifth Years | .50 |
| Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Years | .60 |
| EIGHT BOOK SERIES | |
| First Year | $0.25 |
| Second Year | .35 |
| Third Year | .40 |
| Fourth Year | .40 |
| Fifth Year | .40 |
| Sixth Year | .40 |
| Seventh Year | .40 |
| Eighth Year | .40 |
THESE readers form a good all-round basal series, suitable for use in any school; but they will appeal to teachers particularly, because of their very easy gradation. Both in thought and expression, the books are so carefully graded that each selection is but slightly more difficult than the preceding one, and there is no real gap anywhere.
¶ Although a wide variety of reading matter is provided, good literature, embodying child interests, has been considered of fundamental importance. Lessons of a similar nature are grouped together, and topics relating to kindred subjects recur somewhat regularly. All are designed to quicken the child’s observation, and increase his appreciation.