and to find a
place for them in the lives of all.

We find in the second chapter the following nature figures:

a. Southwest Wind, Esquire, page 418.
b. His relations, the West Winds, page 418.
c. It looks more like silk, page 419.
d. The hot breath of the furnace, page 420.
e. Bright tongues of fiery cloud burning and quivering about them,
page 420.
f. A clear _metallic_ voice, page 420.
g. Like that of a kettle on the boil, page 421.
h. As smooth and polished as a river, page 421.
i. The prismatic colors gleamed over it, as if on a surface of
mother-of-pearl, page 422.
j. In order to allow time for the consternation ... to evaporate, page
424.

In the third chapter are the following:

a. Knotty question, page 426.
b. Like a line of forked lightning, page 427.
(This whole paragraph is a wonderfully beautiful description.)
c. Rose like slow smoke, page 427.
d. In feeble wreaths, page 428.
e. Shrieks resembling those of human voices in distress or pain, page
428.
f. None like the ordinary forms of splintered ice, page 428.
g. _Deceitful_ shadows, page 428.
h. Lurid lights _played_, page 428.
i. Ice _yawned_ into fresh chasms, page 428.
j. Fell _thundering_ across his path, page 429.
k. Rays _beat_ intensely, page 429.
l. Its lips parched and burning, page 430.
m. Long snake-like shadows, page 430.
n. The _leaden_ weight of the _dead_ air pressed upon his brow and
heart, page 430.
o. Shaped like a sword, page 431.
p. Like a red-hot ball, page 431.
q. They shook their crests like tongues of fire, page 432.
r. Flashes of _bloody_ light gleamed along their foam, page 432.
s. An icy chill shot through his limbs, page 432.
t. The _moaning_ of the river, page 432.
u. _The Black Stone_, page 432.

CHAPTER XVI

JOURNEYS THROUGH BOOKLAND IN ITS RELATION TO THE SCHOOL--(Continued)

_Geography and History_

The connection between geography and history on the one hand and
literature on the other is most intimate. In the first place nearly all
our knowledge of history must come through reading, and while we learn
our geography most accurately through travel and observation, but a
small part of our information comes through those channels. We read
incessantly of our own country and others, we fill our minds with
visions of plants, animals and the peoples of foreign lands from the
facts we gather from the papers, magazi