FOR MEMORIZING BOOK ONE FIRST, SECOND, THIRD AND FOURTH YEARS REQUIRED FOR THE FIRST FOUR YEARS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS COMPILED AND EDITED BY AVERY WARNER SKINNER PUBLISHERS' NOTE THE poems in "Selections for Memorizing" are those authorized by the Education Department of the State of New York in its syllabus for elementary schools. The revision of this syllabus, published in 1910, necessitated the revision of the original edition of "Selections for Memorizing" to include the new material. In addition to the selections for memorizing, the new edition now includes the poems designated for appreciative reading in English in seventh and eighth years, and the shorter history poems suggested for collateral reading in the fifth to eighth years. In order that this material may be available in the most convenient and economical form for pupils' use, it is published in a three book series, as follows: BOOK ONE. Selections for Memorizing, First, Second, Book Two. Selections for Memorizing and History Selec- In connection with the poems for appreciative reading in Book Three there are also sufficient notes to guide the pupil to a careful study of these poems in preparing for the elementary English examinations of the eighth year. For the assistance of the teacher, topics for composition, based on these selections, have also been given. 3 二十 In addition to the regular edition the entire contents of the three books are also published in a single volume, for the convenience of those teachers who wish all the material. The poems prescribed by the Education Department have been chosen after a careful and exhaustive examination of the best courses of study in the schools of this and other states. It is believed that this grouping of these poems in a single series is exceedingly desirable as it offers to teacher and pupil, in permanent and accessible form, the material for the required work in English and also the shorter selections suggested for reading in connection with the study of history in the grades. The right to use the copyrighted material contained in this volume has been obtained through purchase or through the courtesy of authors or publishers. By permission of and special arrangement with Houghton, Mifflin Company, the following poems are used: "The Children's Hour" and "The Village Blacksmith," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; "The Brown Thrush" and "Calling the Violet," by Lucy Larcom; "November," by Alice Cary; "The Sandman," by Margaret Vandergrift; and "The Barefoot Boy," by John Greenleaf Whittier. The following copyrighted selections are used through the courtesy of and by special arrangement with Charles Scribner's Sons: "A Dutch Lullaby," "The Night Wind" and "Rock-a-by Lady," by Eugene Field; "Foreign Children," "My Shadow," "The Swing," Where Go the Boats" and "The Wind," by Robert Louis Stevenson; and "One, Two, Three," by Henry Cuyler Bunner. The following poems are used through the kindness of the publishing houses mentioned: "The Wonderful World," by William Brighty Rands (John Lane Company); "O Little Town of Bethlehem," by Phillips Brooks (E. P. Dutton & Company); "September," by Helen Hunt Jackson (Little, Brown & Company); and "Bobolink," by Clinton Scollard (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company). Thanks are also due to Mrs. Lionel S. Marks (Josephine Preston Peabody) for permission to use "Making a House" and "The Journey;" to Mr. Clinton Scollard for "Fraidie-Cat" and "Jim Crow;" to Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller for "The Bluebird;" and to Mr. Thomas Bailey Aldrich for "Marjorie's Almanac," published by Houghton, Mifflin Company. |