Literature for Children

by Orton Lowe

The preparation of these pages has been made easier and surer by the generous aid of Mr. Fred L. Homer, of the Central High School of Pittsburgh, and Mr. Homer L. Clark, a business man of Cleveland, in reading a greater portion of the manuscript; by Miss Emily Beal, of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, in information on illustrated editions of children's books; and by Mr. Ernest C. Noyes, of the Peabody High School of Pittsburgh, in reading the proof.

For kind permission to use copyright material the author thanks Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Messrs. Doubleday, Page and Company for "Recessional"; Professor Richard G. Moulton for the arrangement of the selections of Hebrew poetry; Houghton, Mifflin and Company for the selections from Longfellow, Holmes, Emerson, and Whittier; and The Macmillan Company for the selections from Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Clough, and Rossetti.

ORTON LOWE.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
May, 1914.

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CONTENTS

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Preface		[v]
PART I. INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER
I.	The Value of Good Books	[3]
II.	Books and Literature in Elementary Schools	[11]
III.	The Learning of Lyric Poetry by Heart	[18]
PART II. SELECTIONS FOR MEMORIZING
	First Year	[33]
	Second Year	[44]
	Third Year	[56]
	Fourth Year	[67]
	Fifth Year	[81]
	Sixth Year	[96]
	Seventh Year	[115]
	Eighth Year	[134]
PART III. SOURCES OF STANDARD PROSE FOR CHILDREN
I.	Fairy Tales, Household Tales, and Other Fanciful Tales	[159]
II.	Classic Myths in Literature	[176]
III.	Books to be Owned, To Be Read and Reread	[188]
IV.	On the Purchase and Care of Books	[219]
V.	Editions of Standard Books	[232]
BIBLIOGRAPHY		[239]

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