FOR THE SEVENTH GRADE BY CLARENCE F. CARROLL FORMERLY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK AND SARAH C. BROOKS FORMERLY PRINCIPAL OF THE TEACHERS' TRAINING SCHOOL, PREFACE It may safely be assumed that children in the sixth and seventh years in school are ready to enter upon a more serious study of the best literature. The earlier Readers of this series contain many selections from the familiar classics of all ages. In the upper Readers the average pupil may now enjoy a greater variety of readings from standard authors, representative of wider fields of the world's culture. It should not be forgotten, however, that in any company of children in the elementary schools, there are few who have sufficient intelligence or maturity to study standard literature, as such, continuously and exclusively. It has been the aim of the authors, therefore, to present selections having informational and story interest as well as literary value. Combining as they do, then, interesting subject matter with distinction of style, these books will be found of great stimulative use in forming the taste of the pupils and in leading them, by attractive means, to the appreciation of the best in literature. These two Readers are reasonably well supplied with descriptive, scientific, and personal as well as purely imaginative selections. Biography, history, nature, and art have been carefully chosen so as to correlate with the average school curriculum. The authors duly appreciate the limitations of school readers. At best, they can present only fragments from a boundless world. Yet, they have endeavored to make the choice of those fragments representative of the great interests of mankind: and also to present selections of a type qualified to stimulate the best ethical and moral sense of the pupils. For the use of copyright material in this Reader, the authors take pleasure in acknowledging their indebtedness to the following: Messrs. 66 Charles Scribner's Sons for "Song of the Clover," by "Saxe Holm"; "In Venice," by Frank R. Stockton, from "Personally Conducted"; "Capturing a Crocodile," by William T. Hornaday, from "Two Years in the Jungle"; "The Story of Unt the Camel," by W. A. Fraser, from "Sa' Zada Tales"; "The Westward Voyage," by Sidney Lanier, from The Psalm of the West "; Houghton Mifflin Company for "The PineTree Shillings" and "The Boston Massacre," by Nathaniel Hawthorne; "My Garden Acquaintance" and "June," by James Russell Lowell; "The Boys," by Oliver Wendell Holmes; "A Night at the Highland Light," by Henry D. Thoreau; The Century Company for "What the Snow-Man Did," by Mary Mapes Dodge, from "The Land of Pluck"; Frederick A. Stokes Company for "The Discovery of the North Pole," by Robert E. Peary, from "The North Pole"; Doubleday, Page and Company for "An Adventure in a Desert," by Tudor Jenks, from "Boys' Book of Explorations"; Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company for "The Lance of Kanana," by Harry W. French, from "The Lance of Kanana"; The Bobbs-Merrill Company for "Old Glory," by James Whitcomb Riley; Henry Holt and Company for "Orpheus and Eurydice," by V. C. Turnbull, from "Half a Hundred Hero Tales" (Copyright, 1911, by Henry Holt & Co.); Harper and Brothers for "The Great Blizzard," by Hamlin Garland, from "Boy Life on the Prairie" (Copyright, 1899, by Hamlin Garland); Lippincott's Monthly Magazine for "Drifting," by Thomas Buchanan Read. THE AUTHORS. |