Volume IV
Reading edition
Story of the Cid.
Retold by Calvin Dill Wilson. Lathrop, Lee and Shepard.
Old Indian Legends.
Retold graphically by Zitkala Sä, one of the tribe of the Dakotahs, and illustrated by Angel de Cora (Hin-ook-Mahiroi-Kilinaka), the Indian artist. Ginn & Co.
Indian Boyhood, by Charles Eastman, a Sioux Indian.
Full of the manners and customs of the Indians, and containing as well some good stories of adventure. Little, Brown & Co.
Grandfather’s Chair, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Houghton, Mifflin Co. This book contains, besides the stories printed in this set, many other interesting historical tales.
The Boys of ’76, by Charles Carleton Coffin.
Harper and Bros. A fine book that will interest any child in the story of the Revolution. There are other books in a similar vein by the same author.
The Story of the Greeks, The Story of the Romans, and The Story of the English
are three good books by H. A. Guerber, which will help to create an interest in the history of those peoples and at the same time give information valuable in reading literature. All are published for school use by the American Book Company.
Child’s History of England, by Charles Dickens.
This book is always interesting to children, and is such good reading that we need not feel afraid of Dickens’ inexactness and apparent prejudices. Read it as literature, not so much as history.
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers, by John Burroughs.
Houghton, Mifflin Co. Though this may seem rather hard reading to some, it is delightful literature, and full of good lessons in observation for children. Other books by the same author are equally entertaining. An excellent book to read to children.
Indian Days of the Long Ago, by E. S. Curtis.
World Book Co.
The Magic Forest, by Stewart Edward White.
Macmillan Co.
The World of the Great Forest, by Paul Du Chaillu.
Harper and Bros. An interesting account of animal life, not without some literary merit. Other books by the same author will delight the adventurous.
Sharp Eyes, and My Studio Neighbors
are two beautiful books, illustrated by the author, William Hamilton Gibson. Harper and Bros. They are as interesting and as charmingly written as any of the multitudinous nature books.