Journeys Through Bookland
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Chapter 413 : (4) _At the Seaside_, I, 129.(5) _Old Gaelic Lullaby_, I, 203.(6) _Where Go the Boats?
(4) _At the Seaside_, I, 129.
(5) _Old Gaelic Lullaby_, I, 203.
(6) _Where Go the Boats?_ I, 256.
(7) _Foreign Children_, I, 351.
(8) _Keepsake Mill_, I, 349.
(9) _Windy Nights_, II, 123.
(10) _Picture Books in Winter_, II, 87.
(11) _The Child's World_, II, 66.
_b._ Stories and poems that describe places or people in Europe and some of their customs and modes of life: (1) _The Tree_, Volume I, page 301.
(2) _The Snow Maiden_, I, 257.
(3) _The Snow Queen_, II, 124.
(4) _The Skeleton in Armor_, V, 327.
(5) _Rab and His Friends_, VI, 99.
(6) _The Governor and the Notary_, VII, 20.
(7) _Don Quixote_, VII, 431.
(8) _The Alhambra_, VIII, 153.
(9) _Ascent of the Jungfrau_, IX, 1.
(10) _The Cotters Sat.u.r.day Night_, VIII, 319.
_c._ Fanciful legends with geographical interests: (1) _Why the Sea Is Salt_, Volume II, page 484.
(2) _Origin of the Opal_, II, 480.
_d._ A Story from j.a.pan.
(1) _The Mirror of Matsuyana_, Volume II, page 36.
_e._ A story of longitude: (1) _Three Sundays in a Week_, Volume VI, page 453.
_f._ Plants or plant life: (1) _The Potato_, Volume II, page 467.
(2) _Trees and Ants That Help Each Other_, VII, 306.
(3) _A Bed of Nettles_, VIII, 209.
_g._ Animal life: (1) _Salmon Fis.h.i.+ng_, VII, 285.
(2) _Winter Animals_, VII, 293.
(3) _Trees and Ants That Help Each Other_, VII, 306.
(4) _Owls_, IX, 229.
(5) _Elephant Hunting_, VI, 385.
(6) _Some Clever Monkeys_, VI, 402, (7) _The Buffalo_, VII, 96.
(8) _A Gorilla Hunt_, VII, 247.
(9) _Brute Neighbors_, VII, 260.
(10) _The Pond in Winter_, VII, 280.
_h._ Natural phenomena: (1) _The Cloud_, Volume VII, page 257.
2. Indians and their habits. The selections are either historical or geographical or both.
_a._ _The Arickara Indians._ (A description of the habits and customs of one of the western tribes.) Volume IV, page 472.
_b._ _Reminiscences of a Pioneer._ (This contains a few interesting anecdotes of Indians and many incidents of pioneer life.) Volume V, page 340.
_c._ _Black Hawk Tragedy._ (A very interesting biographical and historical sketch.) Volume VII, page 58.
_d._ _An Exciting Canoe Race._ (A story of the New York Indians at an early day.) Volume VII, page 79.
_e._ _David Crockett in the Creek War._ (An interesting account of southern Indians and their wars.) Volume VIII, page 37.
3. Biography. The selections in this group consist of anecdotal sketches, brief biographies, extracts from longer works, and a few poems.
_a._ Authors of the United States and of foreign countries: (1) _Robert Louis Stevenson_, Volume I, page 128.
(2) _Eugene Field_, I, 242.
(3) _Hans Christian Andersen_, II, 81.
(4) _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_, IV, 62.
(5) _Alice and Phoebe Cary_, IV, 116.
(6) _Nathaniel Hawthorne_, IV, 180.
(7) _Sir Walter Scott_, VI, 26.
(8) _John Greenleaf Whittier_, VII, 381.
(9) _William Cullen Bryant_, VII, 391.
(10) _Oliver Wendell Holmes_, VII, 398.
(11) _James Russell Lowell_, VII, 411.
(12) _Was.h.i.+ngton Irving_, VIII, 216.
(13) _Charles and Mary Lamb_, VIII, 328.
_b._ Biblical Characters: (1) _The Story of Joseph_, Volume I, page 456.
(2) _The Story of Esther_, II, 448.
(3) _David_, IV, 274.
(4) _Ruth_, VI, 143.
_c._ The author of many fables: (1) _Aesop_, Volume II, page 1.
_d._ English history: (1) _Alfred the Great_, Volume IV, 260.
(2) _Queen Victoria_, VII, 152.
(3) _Florence Nightingale_, IX, 13.
_e._ American history: (1) _George Rogers Clark_, Volume VI, page 422.
(2) _David Crockett in the Creek War_, VIII, 37.
(3) _Pere Marquette_, VIII, 121.
(4) _Abraham Lincoln_, IX, 324.
_f._ Roman history: (1) _Julius Caesar_, Volume IX, page 126.
4. Myths from several sources: _a._ Grecian and Roman: (1) _Atalanta's Race_, Volume I, page 386.
(2) _Baucis and Philemon_, I, 431.
(3) _The Golden Touch_, II, 43.
(4) _The Chimera_, II, 173.
(5) _The Story of Phaethon_, II, 206.
(6) _The Queen of the Underworld_, II, 468.
(7) _Cupid and Psyche_, III, 365.
_b._ Northern Europe: (1) _How the Wolf was Bound_, II, 91.
(2) _The Death of Balder_, II, 99.
(3) _The Punishment of Loki_, II, 111.