BY CLARENCE F. CARROLL SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK AND SARAH C. BROOKS FORMERLY PRINCIPAL OF THE TEACHERS' TRAINING SCHOOL, PREFACE THE Fourth Reader of this series is intended for pupils of the fourth and fifth years in school. The earlier Readers have recognized and emphasized the varied instincts, interests, and activities of the child, as for example the love of play and games; of animals and of nature; of doing, seeing, imagining, imitating, constructing, and inventing. While there is no hard and fast line separating one phase of development from another, yet at the stage represented by this Reader the pupil appreciates and craves entirely new classes of literature. In the wider range of selections found in this Reader may be named biography, travel, and manners and customs of other peoples. The study of the imaginative also appears and a few choice selections from the great myths are included. The list of authors contains the names of classic writers long familiar in standard literature, and the names of many others who have, in more recent years, won the hearts of the great reading public-both children and grown people-by their charming descriptions of nature and of the life of the present day. Children of this grade who have been well trained should read with ease most subject matter within the range of their experience. Therefore, while careful attention has been given to the mechanical features --such as the listing of difficult words, emphasized in former volumes— the authors have chosen freely selections containing increasingly difficult discourse, and they hope that the volume will be found to contain material promoting intellectual growth and at the same time having real interest and charm for every reader. For the use of copyright material in this Reader the authors take pleasure in acknowledging their indebtedness to the following: Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons for "The Moon" and "Armies in the Fire," by Robert Louis Stevenson, from "A Child's Garden of Verses"; 'A Japanese Lullaby," by Eugene Field, from "A Little Book of Western Verse" (Copyright, 1889, by Eugene Field); "The Night Wind," by Eugene Field, from "Love Songs of Childhood" (Copyright, 1894, by Eugene Field); "Skipper," by Sewell Ford, from "Horses Nine" (Copyright, 1903, by Charles Scribner's Sons); Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company for "The Boy-Life of Lincoln," by Elbridge S. Brooks, from "The True Story of Lincoln"; "The Games of the Chinese Boy," by Yan Phou Lee, from "When I was a Boy in China"; "Laurence Coster, the Discoverer of Type-Printing" and "John Gutenberg, the Inventor of the Printing-Press," by George M. Towle, from "Heroes and Martyrs of Invention"; "The Great Snowball Fight at Brienne School," by Eugénie Foa, from "The Boy-Life of Napoleon," edited by Elbridge S. Brooks; Houghton Mifflin Company for "Bergetta's Misfortunes," by Celia Thaxter; "St. Launomar's Cow," by Abbie Farwell Brown; "The Lighthouse" and "The Builders," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; "Marjorie's Almanac," by Thomas Bailey Aldrich; "The Peterkins' Summer Journey," by Lucretia P. Hale (Copyright, 1880, by J. R. Osgood & Company; 1886, by Ticknor & Company); "The Old Fashioned School," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Early Adventures in the Colonies," by Eva March Tappan, from "Letters from Colonial Children"; Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Company for "The Porcelain Stove" and "Fulfilled," by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith, from "Magic Casements"; "The Marvellous Adventures of Pinocchio," from their edition of the story (Copyright, 1909, by Doubleday, Page & Company); "Indian Boyhood," by Charles A. Eastman, from "Indian Boyhood" (Copyright, 1902, by McClure, Phillips & Company); Messrs. Silver, Burdett & Company for "The Giant Sun," by Mary E. Procter, from "Stories of Starland"; "The Buried Cities," by Lillian M. Waldo, from "Around the World," Book Five (Copyright, 1910, by Silver, Burdett & Company); "How Jerusalem Was Saved," by Josephine Heersmans, from "Stories from the Hebrew"; D. C. Heath & Company for "A Musical Contest of Long Ago" and "The Punishment of Arachne," by Grace Kupfer, from "Stories of Long Ago"; "The Policemen and What They are For" and "The Laws of the Land," by Charles F. Dole, from "The Young Citizen" (Copyright, 1899, by D. C. Heath & Company); Messrs. Longmans, Green & Company for "A Rat Tale," by Evelyn Grieve, from Lang's "Animal Story Book"; "A Fox Tale," by B. Grieve, from Lang's "Red Book of Animal Stories"; Milton Bradley Company for "The Legend of the Arbutus," by Carolyn S. Bailey, from "For the Children's Hour"; "Mother Spider," by Frances Bliss Gillespy in Kindergarten Review; The Bobbs-Merrill Company for "A Sudden Shower," by James Whitcomb Riley, from "Rhymes of Childhood" (Copyright, 1890); The Perry Mason Company for "How Pins are Made," by Harry Platt; A. Flanagan Company for "What Broke the China Pitcher," by Mary Howliston, from "Cat Tails and Other Tales"; Frederick A. Stokes Company for "Children of the Arctic," by Josephine D. Peary, from "Children of the Arctic" (Copyright, 1903, by Frederick A. Stokes Company); Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Company for "How Thor Found His Hammer," by Hamilton Wright Mabie, from "Norse Stories," (Copyright, 1882, by Roberts Brothers; Copyright, 1901, by Dodd, Mead & Company); Fleming H. Revell Company for "Billy Topsail's Dog," by Norman Duncan, from "The Adventures of Billy Topsail"; Rand McNally & Company for "Twin Babies," by Joaquin Miller, from "True Bear Stories"; J. B. Lippincott Company for "The Windy Night," by T. Buchanan Read; Home Kindergarten School for "Pippa Passes," by Mrs. E. O. Perriam; Miss Emilie Poulsson for "An All-theYear-Round Story," from "In the Child's World," by Emilie Poulsson, published by Milton Bradley Company; and Miss Beulah Lockwood for "The Crimson Tulip," by Lillian Price, from "Lads and Lassies of Other Days." THE AUTHORS. |