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Mary Treat's "Home Book of Nature."
Half Hours with the Stars, Proctor.
Guyot's "Earth and Man." A most excellent book.
First Book in Geology, Shaler.
First Steps in Chemistry, Brewster.
First Steps in Scientific Knowledge, Best.
Abou Ben Adhem, Hunt.
Scott's "Lady of the Lake."
Macaulay's "Lays of Ancient Rome."
Longfellow's "Tales of a Wayside Inn."
Whittier's "Snow Bound."
How they Brought the Good News to Aix, Browning.
Wordsworth's "We are Seven."
Franklin's Autobiography.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech.
Samantha at the Centennial.
_Literature adapted to a Child Twelve to Thirteen Years of Age and upward._
Shakspeare's "Julius Caesar."
Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan. Indispensable.
Meditation of Thomas a Kempis. A strong influence for sweetness and purity.
Vicar of Wakefield, Goldsmith. Full of fun and good feeling; one of the most indispensable of books.
Cooper's novels, especially "The Spy" and the "Last of the Mohicans." Books that are fascinating and yet wholesome.
"My Summer in a Garden," and "In the Wilderness," Warner. Very humorous.
"The Dog of Flanders," from "Little Cla.s.sics."
Picciola, Saintine. A great favorite.
The Story of Arnon, Amelie Rives.
Drake's "Culprit Fay."
Dr. Brown's "Rab and his Friends."
"The Man without a Country," "My Double and How He Undid Me,"
etc., by E. E. Hale. The cast is extremely funny.
The Hoosier Schoolmaster, Eggleston.
Boots and Saddles, Mrs. Custer.
Story of the aeneid, Church.
Stories from Greek Tragedians, Church.
Plumptre's "Sophocles."
Ruskin's "Athena."
Boys and Girls in Biology, Stevenson.
Other Worlds than Ours, Proctor.
Captains of Industry, Parton.
Lowell's "Vision of Sir Launfal." One of the great poet's finest productions.
Byron's "Eve of Waterloo."
Longfellow's "Evangeline."
Scott's "Marmion."
Milton's "Comus."
"The Two Runaways," "The Born Inventor," "Idyl of Sinkin'
Mountain," etc., by Edwards. Very funny.
_Literature adapted to a Child Thirteen to Fourteen Years of Age and upward._
Shakspeare's "Coriola.n.u.s" and "Taming of the Shrew."
Scott's "Ivanhoe," "Heart of Midlothian," "Guy Mannering," etc.
It is the making of a boy if he learns to love Scott. He will make a gentleman of him, and give him an undying love of good literature.
Journal of Eugenie de Guerin. Full of delicacy and quiet strength.
