London, Jack, _The Call of the Wild_.

Long, William J., _Wood-Folk Comedies_. _A Little Brother to
the Bear._

Miller, Joaquin, _True Bear Stories_.

Miller, Olive Thorne, _The Children's Book of Birds_.

Mills, Enos A., _Scotch_. _The Thousand Year Old Pine._

Muir, John, _Stickeen_. _Our National Parks._

Ollivant, Alfred, _Bob, Son of Battle_.

"Ouida" (Louisa de la Ramee), _Moufflou_. _The Dog of Flanders._

Paine, Albert Bigelow, _Hollow-Tree Nights and Days_. _Arkansaw
Bear._

Potter, Beatrix, _Peter Rabbit_. _Benjamin Bunny._

Roberts, Charles G. D., _Kings in Exile_. _Children of the Wild._

Saunders, Marshall, _Beautiful Joe_.

Segur, Sophie, Comtesse de, _The Story of a Donkey_.

Seton, Ernest Thompson, _Wild Animals at Home_. _The Biography of
a Grizzly._

Sewell, Anna, _Black Beauty_.

Sharp, Dallas Lore, _Beyond the Pasture Bars_. _A Watcher in the
Woods._

Terhune, Albert Payson, _Lad: A Dog_.

Thoreau, Henry David, _A Week on the Concord and Merrimac
Rivers_.

Walton, Izaak, _The Compleat Angler_.

White, Gilbert, _The Natural History of Selborne_.

The three books that stand at the end of this
brief list are probably not ones that any
teacher would recommend indiscriminately to
pupils of the grades. They are the greatest of
the classic books in nature literature and, in
a way, constitute the goal of nature lovers.

SECTION IX. NATURE LITERATURE

INTRODUCTORY

_What it is._ In recent years teachers have heard much talk about
"nature study" in the grades. The demand for this study has led
publishers to print many so-called "nature books" that have neither
scientific fact nor literary worth to justify their existence. Confusion
may be avoided and time may be saved if teachers will remember that
nature literature, as here defined, is a form of _literature_, and that
its purpose therefore is primarily to present truth (not necessarily
facts) in an entertaining way.

The selections in this section are not intended to furnish material for
a scientific study of nature. They are nature literature. Some of them
present scientific facts that add to the literary worth by making the
stories more entertaining, but the selections are given because they
illustrate various types of nature literature and the work of famous
writers of nature literature, not beca