ittle Match Girl
Tomtit's Peep at the World

FOURTH GRADE
Arachne The First Snowdrop
The Porcelain Stove The Three Golden Apples
Moufflou Androclus and the Lion
Clytie The Old Man and his
The Legend of the Trailing Donkey
Arbutus The Leak in the Dike
Latona and the Frogs King Tawny Mane
Dick Whittington and his The Little Lame Prince
Cat Appleseed John
Dora, the Little Girl of the Narcissus
Lighthouse Why the Sea is Salt
Proserpine The Little Hero of Haarlem
The Miraculous Pitcher
The Bell of Justice

STORY-TELLING IN TEACHING ENGLISH

I have to speak now of a phase of elementary education which lies very
close to my warmest interest, which, indeed, could easily become an
active hobby if other interests did not beneficently tug at my skirts
when I am minded to mount and ride too wildly. It is the hobby of many
of you who are teachers, also, and I know you want to hear it
discussed. I mean the growing effort to teach English and English
literature to children in the natural way: by speaking and
hearing,--orally.

We are coming to a realization of the fact that our ability, as a
people, to use English is pitifully inadequate and perverted. Those
Americans who are not blinded by a limited horizon of cultured
acquaintance, and who have given themselves opportunity to hear the
natural speech of the younger generation in varying sections of the
United States, must admit that it is no exaggeration to say that this
country at large has no standard of English speech. There is no
general sense of responsibility to our mother tongue (indeed, it is in
an overwhelming degree not our mother tongue) and no general
appreciation of its beauty or meaning. The average young person in
every district save a half-dozen jealously guarded little precincts of
good taste, uses inexpressive, ill-bred words, spoken without regard to
their just sound-effects, and in a voice which is an injury to the ear
of the mind, as well as a torment to the physical ear.

The structure of the language and the choice of words are dark matters
to most of our young Americans; this has long been acknowledged and
struggled against. But even darker, and quite equally destructive to
English expression, is their state of mind regar