COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY EMMA MILLER BOLENIUS

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Bolenius Course in Keading

PRIMARY READING

Primer

First Reader

Second Reader

Third Reader

First Grade Manual

Second and Third Grade Manual

Condensed Primary Manual

Primary Equipment

INTERMEDIATE READING

Fourth Reader

Fifth Reader

Sixth Reader

Teacher's Manual

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL LITERATURE

Book One

Book Two

Book Three (In preparation)

Teacher's Guide to Literature

The Riverside Press

CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUSETTS

PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This collection of literature for the first year of the Junior High School could not have been made so thoroughly representative of both the contemporary and the classical without the coöperation of the following publishers, to whom grateful acknowledgments are heartily tendered:

D. APPLETON & COMPANY, for the poem "The Waterfowl" from the Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant; BRANDT & BRANDT, for "Afternoon on a Hill" and "The End of Summer," by Edna St. Vincent Millay; DODD MEAD & COMPANY, INC., for "May is building her house," from Richard Le Gallienne's The Lonely Dancer; GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY, for "The Dreamers," from Theodosia Garrison's The Dreamers and Other Poems, copyright 1917, "Trees," from Joyce Kilmer's Trees and Other Poems, copyright 1914, and "June," from Douglas Malloch's The Woods, copyright 1913; HARPER & BROTHERS, for Lewis Carroll's "Giving the Mind Its Three Square Meals," and "Finding One's Way in the Arctic," an excerpt by Stefansson, both from Harper's Magazine; HENRY HOLT & COMPANY, for "Silver," from Walter de la Mare's Collected Poems, and "Birches," from Robert Frost's Mountain Interval; HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY for selections by Andy Adams, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Jane G. Austin, Alice M. Bacon, Florence Merriam Bailey, Anna Hempstead Branch, Abbie Farwell Brown, Helen Dawes Brown, John Burroughs, Arthur Chapman, Fanny E. Coe, Grace Hazard Conkling, Calvin Coolidge, John Drinkwater, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James T. Fields, J. C. Fitzpatrick, Lucretia P. Hale, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lafcadio Hearn, Caroline W. Hotchkiss, Franklin S. Hoyt and Harriet E. Peet, Estelle M. Hurll, Mary Johnston, Oswald Kendall, Harry M. Kieffer, Henry Herbert Knibbs, Lucy Larcom, Elliott C. Lincoln, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Amy Lowell, James Russell Lowell, Olive Thorne Miller, Enos A. Mills, John Muir, Curtis Hidden Page, Bertha M. Parker and Henry C. Cowles, Nora Perry, Jessie B. Rittenhouse, Theodore Roosevelt, John G. Saxe, J. W. Schultz, Clinton Scollard, Dallas Lore Sharp, Frank Dempster Sherman, Edith Lillian Smith, Augusta Stevenson, Elinore P. Stewart, Eva March Tappan, Celia Thaxter, William Roscoe Thayer, Edith M. Thomas, Henry D. Thoreau, Reuben Gold Thwaites and Calvin Noyes Kendall, Charles Dudley

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Warner, John Greenleaf Whittier, Kate Douglas Wiggin; THE INDEPENDENT, for a paragraph on "Town-Planning"; P. J. KENEDY & SONS, for "Better than Gold," from Poems by Abram J. Ryan; ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC., for "November Night" by Adelaide Crapsey from Verse; J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, for "Rain Song" from Robert Loveman's Gates of Silence; LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY for a story by Edward Everett Hale; THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, for "Sea Fever," from John Masefield's Collected Poems, and "Barter," from Sara Teasdale's Love Songs; G. & C. MERRIAM COMPANY, for an excerpt from Webster's New International Dictionary; THOMAS B. MOSHER, for "April Weather," from Lizette Woodworth Reese's A Handful of Lavender; MUNSey's Magazine, for Parke F. Hanley's article, "The Accident that Gave us Wood Pulp Paper," and for "The Wonders of the World," from The Scrap Book; NATIONAL FOREIGN TRADE COUNCIL, for "Our Imports"; G. P. Putnam's SONS of New York and London, for "Rodney's Ride," from E. S. Brooks's Stories of Heroism from the World's History, "The Ranchman's Ride" from W. L. Chittenden's Ranch Verses, and "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving; CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, for "Work," from Henry van Dyke's Music and Other Poems; SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY, for "An April Morning," from Bliss Carman's April Airs; FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY, for the poem, "The Birth of the Flowers," by Mary McNeil Fenollosa, from Blossoms from a Japanese Garden, copyright 1913; and "The New Duckling," from Collected Poems, Volume III, by Alfred Noyes, copyright 1919; TODAY'S HOUSEWIFE, for Frederic Hentz Adams's poem "My Mother," published in American Motherhood magazine; and YOUTH'S COMPANION, for J. Henri Fabre's "The Red Ants."

Grateful acknowledgments are also made to Professor Waitman Barbe for "Hafed Ben Hafed," from In the Virginias; Dr. John H. Finley for his poem "The Red Cross Spirit Speaks"; Hon. Charles E. Hughes, for the address made to a graduating class in Washington, D.C.; Mr. Louis Loveman for the poem "Rain Song" from Robert Loveman's Gates of Silence; Mr. Edwin Markham for the poem "ManMaking," from Gates of Paradise, copyrighted by Edwin Markham and used by his permission; Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, for her poem "The Lion Path," from In This Our World; and Professor William P. Trent for his poem "Columbus."

TO THE TEACHER

THE chief aim of this series of readers is to develop to a greater degree than has usually been done, the pupils' reading abilities, appreciation of literature, selfreliance, and good judgment in reading. This book is a unit in itself. In its careful selection of content, its schedule of readings, and its varied suggestions for individual differences and further reading the book furnishes guidance for a year's course.

Attention is directed to the following features:

I. A careful selection of content to meet the interests, aptitudes, and capacities of Junior High School pupils.

The range of interest is shown in the section headings of the Contents, covering historical reading, biography, travel, vocational reading, humor, dramatic reading, and nature or science. There are informational and character-building selections as well as selections to be read for appreciation.

A distinction is made between recreational reading (called Pleasure Reading) and the work-type of reading (called Study Reading), as recommended in the Twenty-Fourth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, thus making it easier to get not only the appreciative delight in reading certain selections but also the concentrated effort necessary to master the more difficult type of reading without having the one encroach upon the other. (See the Contents.)

Textbook reading has been given special attention, with the purpose of helping pupils to develop right habits of study. (See pages 46 and 252 for arithmetic; pages 147 and 246 for science; page 302 for history; page 164 for map study and statistics; page 48 for the dictionary; page 50 for the use of a library.)

Ten declamations are furnished.

The Contents has variety and range of interest; balancepoetry and prose, recreational and work-type of reading, modern and classical; suitability, for training reading skills as well as for developing appreciation; literary quality of authorship; and much fresh material.