journal of an Italian schoolboy. Useful and moral, but not
always interesting to American boys.

IN HIS NAME, by _Edward Everett Hale_.
A tale of religious persecution.

THE PEASANT AND THE PRINCE, by _Harriet Martineau_.
An intensely interesting picture of France just before the
Revolution.

PICCIOLA, by _X. B. Santine_.
A touching story whose scene is laid in France in the time of
Napoleon.

LIFE OF DANIEL BOONE, by _J. and J. C. Abbott_.

THE ILIAD, _Bryant's_ translation.

_Classified Lists_

When boys and girls can read the first seven volumes of this set
intelligently and with pleasure they are thinking for themselves. Their
tastes are forming rapidly, and they have learned how to read nearly
everything that comes to them. They know how to use reference books, and
can "make out the meaning" of difficult passages. They are reading for
information and culture. What they lack is experience in life, and so
they are unable to interpret what they read as fully as can those who
have lived longer, seen more of the world, enjoyed more, suffered more.
Where they are liable to fail and go astray is in the lack of judgment.
They know right and wrong, but they cannot always see the difference.
They are apt to be misled by their feelings and to be ruled by their
emotions.

The studies and selections of the last three volumes are varied and
highly suggestive. They will open new lines of thought and prompt to
wider reading in many directions. The contents vary in difficulty as in
character, but are not graded in a strict sense of the term. They are
meant for independent readers, readers who are governed by mood or
purpose and no longer rely upon outside guidance.

Accordingly, lists of books suitable for readers of these volumes will
cover every department of literature and lead into the reading favored
by adults. The majority of these lists deal with literature. They
contain the names of those books which are distinctly helpful, and from
which young readers may derive nothing to corrupt taste or give false
impressions of life. They are the standard books of the language. The
lists might have been longer; they do contain, however, the names of
those best books that every cultured person should know. For convenience
in reference the arrangement is the alphabetical order of authors'
names.

Fiction

AINSWORTH, WILLIAM HARRISON: _The To