of Scotland, and that
pair of immortally faithful friends, Damon and
Pythias.

2. With Marco Polo we may visit the wonderlands
of the East, we may go with Captain Cook
through the islands of the southern seas, with
Stanley through darkest Africa, with the brave
Scott in his tragic dash for the South Pole.
Best of all, perhaps, we may, with Columbus,
discover another America.

3. How Elihu Burritt became the "learned
blacksmith," how Hugh Miller brought himself to
be an authority on the old red sandstone, are
always inspiring stories to the ambitious
student. And in any list of achievements by
those bound in by untoward circumstance must be
placed that of Booker T. Washington as told by
himself in _Up from Slavery_.

4. From our earlier history we may draw upon
such lives as those of Franklin, Washington,
and Patrick Henry. There are numberless
stirring episodes from the careers of Francis
Marion, Israel Putnam, Nathan Hale, and others
that will occur to any reader of our history.
Lincoln's life history offers an almost
inexhaustible treasure. Grant, grimly silent
and persevering, and Lee, kindly gentleman and
military genius, belong in any course that
stresses our national achievements.

5. Stories of men who have mastered the secrets
of the forces of nature never fail of interest.
Stephenson and the locomotive engine, Sir
Humphry Davy and the safety lamp, Whitney and
the cotton gin, Marconi and the wonders of
wireless communication, the Wright brothers and
the airplane, Edison and the incandescant light
and the motion picture, Luther Burbank and his
marvelous work with plants--these are only a
few to place near the head of any list.

6. Especially interesting for work in the
grades are the stories of the pioneer and
plainsman days, of Kit Carson, Davy Crockett,
Daniel Boone, and Buffalo Bill.

7. We must not neglect stories of achievement
by those who have been handicapped by great
physical disability, such as are found in the
careers of Henry Fawcett, the blind statesman
of England, and of our own Helen Keller, whose
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