, 1.
(4) _The Old Oaken Bucket_, VII, 11.
(5) _Bannockburn_, VII, 15.
(6) _Boat Song_, VII, 17.
(7) _The Bugle Song_, X, 287.

VII. Studies in interpretation, giving various methods and considering
different phases of the subject:
(1) _Christmas in Old Time_, Volume VI, page 356.
(2) _The Recessional_, VII, 164.
(3) _The Cubes of Truth_, VII, 406.
(4) _America_, VIII, 60.
(5) _A Descent Into the Maelstrom_, VIII, 95.
(6) _Dream Children_, VIII, 335.
(7) _The Vision of Mirza_, IX, 285.
(8) _Pippa Passes_, IX, 293.
(9) _Rab and His Friends_, X, 225.
(10) _The Reaper and the Flowers_, X, 272.
(11) _Adventures in Lilliput_, V, 8.
(12) _David Crockett in the Creek War_, VIII, 37.
(13) _The Impeachment of Warren Hastings_, IX, 32.
(14) _A Christmas Carol_, VI, 244.

VIII. Biographical sketches of authors, suitable for class use:
(1) _Robert Louis Stevenson_, Volume I, page 128.
(2) _Eugene Field_, I, 242.
(3) _Aesop_, II, 1.
(4) _Hans Christian Andersen_, II, 81.
(5) _Henry W. Longfellow_, IV, 62.
(6) _Alice and Phoebe Gary_, IV, 116.
(7) _Nathaniel Hawthorne_, IV, 180.
(8) _Jonathan Swift_, V, 1.
(9) _Sir Walter Scott_, VI, 26.
(10) _John Howard Payne_, VI, 221.
(11) _John Greenleaf Whittier_, VII, 381.
(12) _William Cullen Bryant_, VII, 391.
(13) _Oliver Wendell Holmes_, VII, 398.
(14) _James Russell Lowell_, VII, 411.
(15) _Elizabeth Barrett Browning_, VII, 419.
(16) _Washington Irving_, VIII, 216.
(17) _Charles and Mary Lamb_, VIII, 328.
(18) _William Shakespeare_, VIII, 468.

B

The assistance that literature may give in reading, language, nature
study, history and geography is set forth at length in other chapters of
this volume, and the high school student is earnestly requested to
examine those chapters carefully and utilize whatever appeals to him in
his studies. Especially are the chapters on reading and language
valuable. Usually the greater part of the criticisms passed upon high
school work is aimed against weaknesses in English. No small portion of
this criticism is just, and it comes to a considerable extent from the
fact that theme work is usually assigned on subjects so abstruse and so
far beyond the ready appreciation of the student that the you