From the Close of the Revolution.
McMaster: History of the People of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War.
Frothingham: Rise of the Republic in the United States.
Curtis: History of the Constitution.
Von Holst: Constitutional History of the United States.
Nordhoff: Politics for Young Americans.
Coffin: Building of the Nation.
Lodge: Life of Alexander Hamilton.
Parton: Life of John Adams.
—— Life of Jefferson.
Abbott: Life of Daniel Boone.
John Esten Cooke: *Leatherstocking and Silk (1800).
Cable: *The Grandissimes.
Cooper: *The Prairie.
Simms: *Beauchampe, or the Kentucky Tragedy.
Parton: Life of Aaron Burr.
Hale: *Philip Nolan’s Friends.
—— *The Man without a Country.
Pioneer Life in the West.
Lewis and Clarke’s Journey across the Rocky Mountains.
Irving: Astoria.
—— Adventures of Captain Bonneville.
Eggleston: Brant and Red Jacket.
Johnson: The War of 1812.
Lossing: Field Book of the War of 1812.
Iron: *The Double Hero.
Gleig: *The Subaltern.
Cooper: History of the American Navy.
Rives: Life of James Madison.
Gilman: Life of James Monroe.
Morse: Life of J. Q. Adams.
Parton: Life of Andrew Jackson.
Curtis: Life of Daniel Webster.
Whipple: Webster’s Best Speeches.
Schmucker: Life and Times of Henry Clay.
Ripley: The War with Mexico.
Kendall: The Santa Fé Expedition.
Wilson: History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America.
King: The Great South.
Olmsted: The Sea-Board Slave States.
Mrs. Stowe: *Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Hildreth: *The White Slave.
Whittier: ‡Voices of Freedom.
Greeley: The American Conflict.
Lossing: The Civil War in the United States.
Draper: History of the American Civil War.
Stephens: Constitutional History of the War between the States (Southern view).
Harper’s Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion.
Young Folks’ History of the Rebellion.
Coffin: The Boys of ’61.
—— *Winning His Way.
Hale: Stories of War.
Richardson: Field, Dungeon, and Escape.
Swinton: Twelve Decisive Battles of the War.
Cooke: Life of General Lee.
Whittier: ‡In War Time.
Lester: Our First Hundred Years.
Lossing: The American Centenary.
Tourgee: *A Fool’s Errand.
—— *Bricks without Straw.
Headley: Heroes of the Rebellion (6 vols.).
CHAPTER VIII.
Courses of Reading in Geography and Natural History
EOGRAPHY is learned best by the careful reading of books of travel. Pupils would derive infinitely more knowledge by the use, under judicious instructors, of a library of this sort, than by years of drudging through those masses of inanity known as School Geographies. The following list is designed chiefly to aid teachers in the selection of books suitable for geographical study at school, and to assist private readers in the choice of useful and entertaining works on the various subjects of interest in our own and foreign countries.
A good atlas is the first desideratum, and is an indispensable auxiliary to the course of reading here indicated. Rand, McNally, & Co.’s Atlas is one of the latest publications, and perhaps the most accurate and complete in the market. Among other very good works of this kind we may mention Gray’s, Johnson’s, Colton’s, and Zell’s, any one of which will answer all the ordinary purposes of the reader. When no complete work is available, the maps in the larger school geographies will render very fair service.