Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children
| Print Book 1922 |
| Available at 1 Library 10 of 10 copies |
Summary
An anthology composed of selections of graduated reading difficulty that includes nursery rhymes, fables, fairy tales, poems, folk tales, short stories, historical accounts, biographical profiles, excerpts from longer works, and a usage guide designed to assist with the development of reading programs.Contents
v. 1. Nursery rhymesThe boys and the frogs
The dog and his shadow
The fox and the crow
The boy and the nettle
The ass in the lion's skin
The frog who wished to be as big as an ox
A thought ; The swing ; The sun's travels / Robert Louis Stevenson
The gnat and the bull
The hare and the tortoise
A riddle
The fox and the stork
The lion and the mouse
The old man and his sons
Little Red Riding Hood
Singing / Robert Louis Stevenson
Tom Thumb
The shepherd and the wolves
The Rock-a-By Lady / Eugene Field
The wind and the sun
The wolf and the crane
Lullaby / Thomas Dekker
The little old woman and her pig
Silver Locks and the three bears
The cow ; Looking forward / Robert Louis Stevenson
The ladybird and the fly / Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm
The two travelers
Rain / Robert Louis Stevenson
The two travelers and the oyster
System / Robert Louis Stevenson
Hop-o'-my-thumb
My bed is my boat / Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
At the seaside ; Foreign lands / Robert Louis Stevenson
The lark and the young ones
Little blue pigeon / Eugene Field
The dog in the manger
The fox and the grapes
The three little pigs
Little birdie / Alfred Tennyson
The cat and the chestnuts
The land of Counterpane / Robert Louis Stevenson
The cock and the horses
The brown thrush / Lucy Larcom
The hardy tin soldier / Hans Christian Andersen
The bat and the two weasels
Marching song / Robert Louis Stevenson
Jack and the beanstalk
Bed in summer / Robert Louis Stevenson
The goose that laid the golden eggs
Jack the giant-killer
Block city / Robert Louis Stevenson
The mice and the cat
From a railway carriage ; Fairy bread / Robert Louis Stevenson
The town mouse and the country mouse
A riddle
Old Gaelic lullaby
Sleep, baby, sleep
The pea blossom / Hans Christian Andersen
Hansel and Grethel / Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm
The lion, the fox and the ass
Cinderella
Seein' things / Eugene Field
Eugene Field
A riddle
Norse lullaby / Eugene Field
The three tasks / Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm
Where go the boats? / Robert Louis Stevenson
The snow maiden
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod / Eugene Field
The twin brothers / Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm
Industry and Sloth
Whole duty of children / Robert Louis Stevenson
The tree / Björnstjerne Björnson
Young night thought / Robert Louis Stevenson
The drummer / Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm
Stop, stop, pretty water / Mrs. Eliza Lee Follen
Beauty and the beast
The horse and the stag
The owl and the pussy cat / Edward Lear
Time to rise / Robert Louis Stevenson
The enchanted stag / Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm
Keepsake mill ; Foreign children / Robert Louis Stevenson
The golden bird / Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm
Lady Button Eyes / Eugene Field
The wonderful gifts
The fox, the wolf, and the horse
The flax / Hans Christian Andersen
The duel / Eugene Field
The bald knight
Atalanta's race / adapted by Anna McCaleb
Autumn fires / Robert Louis Stevenson
"Something" / Hans Christian Andersen
The fairies / William Allingham
The brother and sister
The reaper and the flowers / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The sands of Dee / Charles Kingsley
Mercy to animals / William Cowper
The ugly duckling / Hans Christian Andersen
Baucis and Philemon
The wind / Robert Louis Stevenson
Little brown hands / Mary Hannah Kraut
Whittington and his cat
The wolf and the lamb
The story of Joseph v. 2. Æsop
The falcon and the partridge / from the Arabian nights
Minerva and the owl
The sparrow and the eagle / from the Arabian nights
The old man and Death
Infant joy / William Blake
The baby / George MacDonald
The discontented stonecutter / from the Japanese
Discreet Hans / Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm
The poppyland express / St. Louis star sayings
Bluebeard
Lullaby
Rumpelstiltzkin / Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm
The mirror of Matsuyana / from the Japanese
A contrast
The golden touch / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The child's world / W.B. Rands
The fir tree / Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen
Picture books in winter / Robert Louis Stevenson
How the wolf was bound ; The death of Balder ; The punishment of Loki / adapted by Anna McCaleb
Seven times one / Jean Ingelow
Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks / Eugene Field
Afterwhile / James Whitcomb Riley
Windy nights / Robert Louis Stevenson
The Snow Queen / Hans Christian Andersen
The chimera / Nathaniel Hawthorne
A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement C. Moore
The story of Phaethon
The English robin / Harrison Weir
Tom, the water baby / Charles Kingsley
The milkmaid / Jeffreys Taylor
Holger Danske ; What the old man does is always right / Hans Christian Andersen
The fairies of Caldon-Low / Mary Howitt
Who stole the bird's nest? / L. Maria Child
The first snowfall / James Russell Lowell
The king of the Golden River / John Ruskin
The story of Esther
The darning-needle / Hans Christian Andersen
The potato / Thomas Moore
The queen of the underworld
Origin of the opal
In time's swing / Lucy Larcom
Why the sea is salt / Mary Howitt. v. 3. John's pumpkin/ Mrs. Archibald
The mock turtle's story / Lewis Carroll
The spider and the fly / Mary Howitt
A farewell / Charles Kingsley
Queen Alice / Lewis Carroll
The leprechaun / William Allingham
The walrus and the carpenter / Lewis Carroll
Beth Gelert / William R. Spencer
Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe
Faithless Sally Brown / Thomas Hood
The mariner's dream / William Dimond
The Swiss family Robinson / Johann Rudolph Wyss
Echo / John G. Saxe
The story of Aladdin, or, The wonderful lamp ; The second voyage of Sinbad the sailor / from the Arabian nights
Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier
Beowulf and Grendel
Cupid and Psyche / adapted by Anna Mc Caleb
The Pied Piper of Hamelin / Robert Browning
Frithiof the bold ; The story of Siegfried / adapted by Grace E. Sellon
Night / Robert Southey
Lochinvar / Sir Walter Scott
Robin Hood
Roland at Roncesvalles. v. 4. Better than gold / Father Ryan
My heart leaps up / William Wordsworth
The barefoot boy / John Greenleaf Whittier
Rain on the roof / Coates Kinney
Cid Campeador
Elegy on the death of a mad dog / Oliver Goldsmith
Mother's way / Father Ryan
Song of the brook / Alfred Tennyson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Grace E. Sellon
Footsteps of angels / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To H.W.L. / James Russell Lowell
The village blacksmith ; The wreck of the Hesperus / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A dog of Flanders / Louise de la Ramee
Alice and Phoebe Cary / Anna McCaleb
Nearer home / Phoebe Cary
Pictures of memory / Alice Cary
The escape from prison / Sir Samuel W. Baker
Stories of the Creation
The definition of a gentleman / Cardinal Newman
The universal prayer / Alexander Pope
Incident of the French camp / Robert Browning
Nathaniel Hawthorne / Grace E. Sellon
The pine-tree shillings / Natahaniel Hawthorne
Landing of the pilgrim fathers in New England / Felicia Browne Hemans
The sunken treasure ; The Hutchinson mob ; The Boston Massacre / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sheridan's ride / Thomas Buchanan Read
Joan of Arc / Thomas de Quincey
Pancratius / Cardinal Wiseman
Alfred the Great / Charles Dickens
The burial of Moses / Cecil Frances Alexander
Bernardo del Carpio / Felicia Hemans
David
Chevy-Chase / Richard Sheale
The attack on the castle / Sir Walter Scott
The death of Hector / from Homer's Illiad
The wooden horse / from Virgil's Æneid
Ulysses / adapted from the Odyssey
John Bunyan
The pilgrim's progress / John Bunyan
Away / James Whitcomb Riley
Little Griffin of Tennessee
Little Breeches / John Hay
The yarn of the "Nancy Bell" / W.S. Gilbert
Katey's letter / Lady Dufferin
The Arickara Indians / Washington Irving. v. 5. Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift
The ballad of Agincourt / Michael Drayton
Some children's books of the past / Grace E. Sellon
Lead, kindly light / Cardinal Newman
Let something good be said / James Whitcomb Riley
Polonius' advice / Shakespeare
King Arthur
Balin and Balan
Geraint and Enid / Alfred Tennyson
The Holy Grail / adapted from Thomas Malory
Dissensions at King Arthur's Court
The passing of Arthur / Alfred Tennyson
Henry Hudson's fourth voyage / Henry R. Cleveland
The rise of Robert Bruce / Sir Walter Scott
Bruce and the spider / Bernard Arton
The heart of Bruce / William E. Aytoun
The skeleton in armor / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix / Robert Browning
Reminiscences of a pioneer / Edwin D. Coe
The buccaneers
Captain Morgan at Maracaibo
Braddock's defeat / Benjamin Franklin
Reading history
The American flag / Joseph Rodman Drake
Battle hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe
"Stonewall" Jackson's way / J.W. Palmer
Baron Munchausen
The fiddling parson / Davy Crockett
We plan a river trip ; On comic songs / Jerome K. Jerome
The Inchcape Rock / Robert Southey
Tom Brown at Rugby / Thomas Hughes. v. 6. Horatius / Lord Macaulay
Lord Ullin's daughter / Thomas Campbell
Sir Walter Scott / Grace E. Sellon
The tournament / Sir Walter Scott
The rainbow / Thomas Campbell
The lion and the missionary / David Livingstone
The moss rose / translated from Krummacher
Four ducks on a pond / William Allingham
Rab and his friends / John Brown
Annie Laurie / William Douglas
The blind lassie / T.C. Latto
Boyhood / Washington Allston
Sweet and low / Alfred Tennyson
Childhood / Donald G. Mitchell
The bugle song / Alfred Tennyson
The imitation of Christ / Thomas à Kempis
The destruction of Sennacherib / Lord Byron
Ruth
The vision of Belshazzar / Lord Byron
Sohrab and Rustem
Sohrab and Rustum / Matthew Arnold
The poet and the peasant / Emile Souvestre
John Howard Payne and Home, sweet home
Auld lang syne / Robert Burns
Home they brought her warrior dead / Alfred Tennyson
Charles Dickens
A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens
Christmas in old time / Sir Walter Scott
Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray
The shipwreck / Robert Louis Stevenson
Elephant hunting / Roualeyn Gordon Cumming
Some clever monkeys / Thomas Bell
Poor Richard's almanac / Benjamin Franklin
George Rogers Clark
The capture of Vincennes / George Rogers Clark
Three Sundays in a week / Edgar Allan Poe
The modern belle / Stark
Widow Machree / Samuel Lover
Limestone broth / Gerald Griffin
The knock-out / Davy Crockett
The country squire / Thomas Yriarte
To my infant son / Thomas Hood. v. 7. The daffodils / William Wordsworth
To the fringed gentian / William Cullen Bryant
To a mouse ; To a mountain daisy / Robert Burns
The old oaken bucket / Samuel Woodworth
Bannockburn / Robert Burns
Boat song / Sir Walter Scott
The governor and the notary / Washington Irving
The rime of the ancient mariner / Samuel T. Coleridge
The Black Hawk tragedy / Edwin D. Coe
The petrified fern / Mary Bolles Branch
An exciting canoe race / J. Fenimore Cooper
The buffalo / Francis Parkman
The charge of the light brigade / Alfred Tennyson
For a' that and a' that / Robert Burns
Breathes there the man / Sir Walter Scott
How sleep the brave / William Collins
Queen Victoria / Anna McCaleb
The recessional / Rudyard Kipling
The star-spangled banner / Francis Scott Key
How's my boy? / Sydney Dobell
The soldier's dream / Thomas Campbell
Make way for liberty / James Montgomery
The old continentals / Guy Humphreys Mc Master
The picket-guard / Mrs. Ethel Lynn Beers
My old Kentucky home / Stephen Collins Foster
The forsaken merman / Matthew Arnold
Tom and Maggie Tulliver / George Eliot
A gorilla hunt / Paul du Chaillu
The cloud / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Brute neighbors / Henry David Thoreau
Ode to a skylark / Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pond in winter / Henry David Thoreau
Salmon fishing / Rudyard Kipling
Winter animals / Henry David Thoreau
Trees and ants that help each other / Thomas Belt
The family of Michael Arout / Emile Souvestre
On the receipt of my mother's picture / William Cowper
Those evening bells / Thomas Moore
Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe
The three fishers / Charles Kingsley
The reaper's dream / Thomas Buchanan Read
The recovery of the Hispaniola / Robert Louis Stevenson
John Greenleaf Whittier / Grace E. Sellon
William Cullen Bryant
To a waterfowl / William Cullen Bryant
Oliver Wendell Holmes / Grace E. Sellon
The cubes of truth / Oliver Wendell Holmes
The lost child / James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell / Grace E. Sellon
A child's thought of god / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Don Quixote / Cervantes. v. 8. Ringrose and his buccaneers
David Crockett
David Crockett in the Creek War
America / Samuel Francis Smith
The retreat of Cortés / William H. Prescott
Battle of Ivry / Thomas Babington Macaulay
The Battle of Thermopylae
Marco Bozzaris / Fitz-Greene Halleck
A descent into the maelstrom / Edgar Allan Poe
Père Marquette / Jared Sparks
The fall of the Alamo
The Alhambra / Washington irving
Hervé Riel / Robert Browning
The Battle of Waterloo / Lord Byron
How they took the gold-train / Charles Kingsley
A bed of nettles / Grant Allen
Washington Irving
The Knickerbocker history of New York / Washington Irving
The Battle of Trafalgar / Robert Southey
Casabianca / Felicia Hemans
The romance of the swan's nest / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The cotter's Saturday night / Robert Burns
Charles and Mary Lamb
Dream children : a revery / Charles Lamb
Reading Shakespeare
The tempest, a tale from Shakespeare / Charles and Mary Lamb
The tempest / William Shakespeare
Studies for The tempest. v. 9. Ascent of the Jungfrau / John Tyndall
Abou Ben Adhem / Leigh Hunt
Florence Nightingale / Anna McCaleb
Impeachment of Warren Hastings / Thomas Babington Macaulay
A dissertation upon roast pig ; The praise of chimney sweepers / Charles Lamb
Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller / Charles Dickens
The death of Caesar / Plutarch
The death of Caesar / Shakespeare
Julius Caesar / James Anthony Froude
The Battle of Cressy / Jean Froissart
The Battle of Saratoga / E.S. Creasy
Geoffrey Chaucer
The travels of Sir John Mandeville
The life of Samuel Johnson (selections) / James Boswell
Owls / Gilbert White
The gold-bug / Edgar Allan Poe
The vision of Mirza / Joseph Addison
Pippa passes / adapted from Robert Browning
The Gettysburg address / Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln / Theodore Roosevelt
The Battle of Hastings / E.S. Creasy
Sir Roger de Coverley / Joseph Addison
Sir Francis Bacon
Of expense ; Of studies / Sir Francis Bacon
Modestine / Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert of Lincoln / William Cullen Bryant
The chambered nautilus / Oliver Wendell Holmes
John Keats
Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats
The fate of the Indians / Charles Sprague
A call to arms / Patrick Henry. v. 10. The guide: Introduction
Journeys through Bookland : its contents and plan
Pictures and their use
Telling stories
Reading, and the building of character
Father and son
Memorizing
How to read fiction
Close reading or study
Close reading (concluded)
Reading poetry
Reading aloud
Literature and its forms
Journeys in its relation to the school : reading and language
Journeys in its relation to the school : nature study
Journeys in its relation to the school : geography
Journeys in its relation to the high school
Recitations and special days in school
Handy list of the studies in Jouneys through Bookland
Supplementary book lists
Appendix. Handy table of English writers ; Handy table of American writers.
Additional Information
| Subjects |
Children's literature.
Literature -- Collections. |
| Publisher | Chicago :Bellows-Reeve,1922 |
| Edition | New ed. |
| Contributors |
Sylvester, Charles Herbert,
editor. |
| Language |
English |
| Notes |
Also known as the 15th ed. Cf. vol. 1, pref. |
| Description |
10 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other | Classic View |