And when all is said, one must say again that there cannot be a strictly normalized and fixed curriculum in literature since in this subject more than in any other the personnel of the class must be considered; their typical inheritance, their tradition, their social grade, their community, their other interests, their passing preoccupation and almost their daily mood, are factors in the problem. The teacher who is sensitive to these matters in his class will soon emancipate himself from the fixed curriculum. Let him at the same time be sensitive to the emphasis and appeal of each bit of art he chooses for them, and he cannot fail. Whatever his results they will be good.

After so long a preamble follows the list of specimens:

First Year

Sagas:"How Arthur Drew the Sword from the Stone."
"How Arthur Got the Sword Excalibur."
Märchen:Briar-Rose, Grimm.
Snow-white and Rose-red, Grimm.
The Elves and the Shoemaker, Grimm.
The Musicians of Bremen, Grimm.
Drolls:Simple Simon.
The Johnny-cake.
Accumulative Tales: "The Old Woman Who Found the Sixpence."
Henny-Penny.
The Little Red Hen.
Fables:"The Crow and the Pitcher."
"The Hare and the Tortoise."
Verses:"I Saw a Ship a-Sailing."
"Sing a Song of Sixpence."
"There Was a Little Guinea-pig."
"Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son."
"Birdie, with the Yellow Bill," Stevenson.
"My Shadow."—Stevenson.

Second Year

Sagas:"Siegfried Gets the Sword from Mimi."
"Siegfried and the Dragon."
"Siegfried Rescues Brunhild."
Märchen:Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper.—Perrault.
"Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp," in Arabian Nights.
"The Fisherman and the Genie," in Arabian Nights.
Beauty and the Beast.—Madame de Beaumont.
The Poor Little Turkey Girl.—Cushing.
Drolls:Hans in Luck.—Grimm.
Kluge Else.—Grimm.
Chapters from The Peterkin Papers.—Hale.
Little Black Sambo.—Bannerman.
The Gray Goose.—Pearson.
Accumulative Tales: The Three Billygoats, Norwegian.
Munachar and Manachar, Irish.
Titty-mouse and Tatty-mouse.
Fables:"The Town Mouse and the Field Mouse."
"The Stork and the Log."
"The Fox and the Crow."
Verses:"Three Children Sliding on the Ice."
"Four Brothers Over the Sea."
"The Fairies," Allingham.
"Little Gustava," Celia Thaxter.
"Singing," Stevenson.
"Little Indian, Sioux or Crow," Stevenson.
"The Wind," Stevenson.
"My Ship," Stevenson.
"The Lamb," Blake.
"Piping Down the Valleys Wild," Blake.
"The Pied Piper of Hamelin," Browning.
"The Mountain and the Squirrel," Emerson.

Third Year

Robinson Crusoe.
Sinbad the Sailor.
Toomai of the Elephants.—Kipling.
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.—Kipling.
Reynard the Fox. (Selected stories.)
"Uncle Remus." (Selected stories.)
"The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England," Mrs. Hemans.
"Columbus," Joaquin Miller.
The Twenty-third Psalm. Authorized Version.
"The Idle Shepherd Boys," Wordsworth.
"Spinning Song," Wordsworth.
"The Village Blacksmith," Longfellow.
"Tubal Cain," Mackay.
"The Wreck of the Hesperus," Longfellow.
"The Discoverer of the North Cape," Longfellow.
"The Spider and the Fly," Mary Howitt.
"The Palm Tree," Whittier.
"Hiawatha Builds His Canoe," Longfellow.
Dramatization of a story of some voyager or pioneer.

Fourth Year

Robin Hood (given partly from Howard Pyle's Robin Hood, partly from the Ballads).
"Under the Greenwood Tree," Shakespeare.
"Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind," Shakespeare.
"Waken, Lords and Ladies Gay," Scott.
"Meg Merriles," Keats.
"The Chough and the Crow," Baillie.
"Song of Marion's Men," Bryant.
"My Captain," Whitman.
"Lochinvar," Scott.
"The Shepherd of King Admetus," Lowell.
"Abou Ben Ahdem," Hunt.
"Yussouf," Lowell.
"Sherwood," Alfred Noyes.
"March," Wordsworth.
"When Icicles Hang by the Wall," Shakespeare.
"The Jabberwocky," Alice in Wonderland.