II, 1.
_The Old Oaken Bucket_: VII, 11.
_Bannockburn_: VII, 15.
_Boat Song_: VII, 17.

2. Kinds of Poetry.
A. Epics.
a. Heroic Epics.
_Death of Hector_: IV, 364.
_Wooden Horse_: IV, 383.
b. Lesser Epics.
_Saint Nicholas_: II, 202.
_Pied Piper of Hamelin_: III, 384.
_Incident of the French Camp_: IV, 174.
_Sohrab and Rustum_: VI, 173.

B. Lyrics.
a. Songs.
(1) Sacred.
_Nearer Home_: IV, 126.
_Lead, Kindly Light_: V, 110.
(2) Secular.
_Annie Laurie_: VI, 119.
_Auld Lang Syne_: VI, 228.
_Those Evening Bells_: VII, 340.
(3) Patriotic.
_Battle Hymn of the Republic_: V, 399.
_America_: VIII, 60.
b. Odes.
_To the Fringed Gentian_: VII, 4.
_Ode to a Skylark_: VII, 275.
_To H. W. L._: IV, 84.
c. Elegies.
_Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard_: VI, 360.
d. Sonnet.
e. Drama.
_The Tempest_: VIII, 364.

CHAPTER XIV

JOURNEYS THROUGH BOOKLAND IN ITS RELATION TO THE SCHOOL

_Reading and Language_

These books were prepared expressly for home readings, but as has been
said elsewhere, they were prepared with a definite purpose to make them
a living adjunct to school work and a strong helper in bringing the home
and the school together. To accomplish this result it was necessary that
all the studies offered in _Journeys_ should be after the most approved
methods and that there should be no selections that could not with
propriety be used in any school in the land. This principle of selection
made it necessary to exclude some selections that might have been
pleasing but at the same time were not universal in their acceptance.
Again, it was necessary to include literature that was in a sense
technical, that would apply to every class that young readers have in
school. This does not mean that there are a great many things that are
purely geographical or purely historical or that deal directly with the
study of language and literature. It means that the reader of _Journeys_
will find selections that he can use in nearly every class in school and
that those selections are in the highest degree literary. In no way does
a child learn more thoroughly that geography and history are worth