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Title: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide

Author: Charles Herbert Sylvester

Release date: March 16, 2008 [eBook #24857]

Language: English

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A knight on horseback is approaching the sea. A castle is visible in the background and there are ships on the sea
Portraits
Oliver Wendell Holmes      Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Washington Irving      John Greenleaf Whittier
James Russell Lowell      William Cullen Bryant

Journeys Through Bookland

A NEW AND ORIGINAL
PLAN FOR READING APPLIED TO THE
WORLD’S BEST LITERATURE
FOR CHILDREN

BY
CHARLES H. SYLVESTER
Author of English and American Literature

VOLUME TEN—THE GUIDE
New Edition

For parents, teachers, and all who have
children under their charge; for adult
who wish to renew their acquaintance
with the friends of their youth, or to
open for the first time the world’s great
treasure house of literature; for youthful
readers who must study the classics

Chicago
BELLOWS-REEVE COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1922
BELLOWS-REEVE COMPANY

CONTENTS

PAGE
I. Introduction 1
II. Journeys Through Bookland—Its Contents and Plan 7
The Masterpieces 9
Arrangement and Grading 10
The Studies and Helps 13
Studies 15
Notes 15
Introductory Notes 15
Biographies 16
Pronouncing Vocabularies 16
Pictures 17
Tables of Contents 17
Index 17
The Nursery Rhymes 18
Discussion of each Volume 24
Volume One 24
Volume Two 26
Volume Three 28
Volume Four 29
Volume Five 29
Volume Six 30
Volume Seven 31
Volume Eight 33
Volume Nine 34
Volume Ten—The Guide 35
III. Pictures and Their Use 36
What Should We Notice in a Picture? 36
Line 36
Light and Shade 37
Tone and Color 39
Composition 39
Atmosphere and Perspective 40
Application of Principles 41
Bob and Tiny Tim 41
Pictures and Their Value in Literature 44
On the Use of Pictures in Journeys 48
Nursery Rhymes 51
Jack and the Beanstalk 52
Nurse Helps Me when I Embark 52
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod 53
Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks 54
Tom and the Dragon Fly 55
The Swallow and the Stork Came 55
Down Tumbled Wheelbarrow 58
Geraint Hears Enid Singing 60
IV. Telling Stories 63
The Fairies of the Caldon-Low 68
Little Giffin of Tennessee 71
The Ballad of Agincourt 74
Hervé Riel 78
V. Reading, and the Building of Character 85
Who Stole the Bird’s Nest? 95
Lead, Kindly Light 98
Poor Richard’s Almanac 101
VI. Father and Son 107
VII. Memorizing 128
One Hundred Choice Quotations 131
VIII. How to Read Fiction 143
Different Kinds of Literature 143
Reading Stories 145
Plot 149
Cinderella 150
Persons 156
The Hardy Tin Soldier 158
The Scenes 162
The Dog and His Shadow 164
The Fox and the Stork 166
A Christmas Carol 168
The Lesson and the Author’s Purpose 170
The Fir Tree 173
The Method and Style of the Author 174
Emotional Power 176
Rab and His Friends 177
General Principles and Reflections 181
Completed Studies 185
The Hare and the Tortoise 185
The Fox and the Crow 187
The Drummer 193
Tom, the Water Baby 198
The Passing of Arthur 214
IX. Close Reading or Study 224
Rab and His Friends 225
Braddock’s Defeat 227
Industry and Sloth 229
Why the Sea is Salt 231
Faithless Sally Brown 232
The Definition of a Gentleman 234
Adventures in Lilliput 235
The Heart of Bruce 238
Annie Laurie 243
The Lost Child 243
David Crockett in the Creek War 244
The Impeachment of Warren Hastings 248
From The Death of Cæsar 253
X. Close Reading (Concluded) 256
The Author 257
Sentences 258
Figures of Speech 259
Allusions 259
Basis of Figures 262
Simile 263
Metaphor 264
Synecdoche and Metonymy 265
Apostrophe and Personification 266
Studies in Figures 268
Ode to a Skylark 268
A Visit from Saint Nicholas 270
The First Snowfall 270
XI. Reading Poetry 272
The Reaper and the Flowers 272
The Brown Thrush 276
The Child’s World 277
Seven Times One 278
The First Snowfall 281
The Potato 285
Origin of the Opal 285
The Barefoot Boy 286
The Bugle Song 287
The Petrified Fern 291
The Forsaken Merman 295
The Cloud 301
Ode to a Skylark 306
XII. Reading Aloud 311
Articulation and Enunciation 311
Emphasis and Inflection 312
Emotional States 312
Pitch 312
Rate or Time 313
Quality 315
Force 315
XIII. Literature and Its Forms 317
Prose 318
Methods of Expression 318
Narration 318
Description 321
Exposition 321
Argumentation 322
Forms of Prose 322
Fiction 322
Essays 322
Orations 324
Drama 325
Poetry 327
Structure of Poetry 328
Rhythm 328
Rhyme 329
Alliteration 330
Kinds of Poetry 331
Epic 331
Lyric 333
Songs 333
Ode 335
Elegy 335
Sonnet 337
Victor and Vanquished 338
Dramatic 339
Miracle Plays 340
Morality Plays 340
Masques 341
Tragedies and Comedies 341
XIV. Journeys in Its Relation to the School—Reading and Language 345
Reading 348
Language 349
Oral Lessons 352
The Wind and the Sun 357
Written Lessons 360
Introduction 360
Literature in Written Lessons 363
Narration 363
Robin Hood and the Stranger 363
Description 365
The King of the Golden River 366
Exposition 368
Cid Campeador 368
Argument 370
The Boston Massacre 370
Conclusion 376
An Exciting Canoe Race 376
XV. Journeys in Its Relation To the School—Nature Study 380
Seven Long Selections 381
Tom, the Water Baby 381
Robinson Crusoe 382
The Swiss Family Robinson 382
Brute Neighbors 383
The Pond in Winter 384
Winter Animals 384
Trees and Ants that Help Each Other 385
Classified Selections 386
Flowers and Plant Life 386
Birds 387
Four-footed Animals 389
Reptiles 391
Insects 391
Denizens of the Water 391
Natural Phenomena 392
Geography in Nature 392
Complete Study 393
The King of the Golden River 393
XVI. Journeys in Its Relation to the School—Geography and History 400
Classified References 402
Model Geography Lesson 411
The Wind 411
Model History Lessons 413
Alfred the Great 413
Burgoyne’s Campaign 419
XVII. Journeys in Its Relation to the High School 425
Classification of Studies 427
Type Studies 431
XVIII. Recitations and Special Days in School 436
Bird Day 437
Memorial Day 438
Christmas 438
Birthdays 438
Dramatization 439
An Old-Fashioned Afternoon 440
XIX. Handy List of the Studies in Journeys Through Bookland 441
Volume One 442
Volume Two 443
Volume Three 445
Volume Four 446
Volume Five 446
Volume Six 447
Volume Seven 448
Volume Eight 449
Volume Nine 449
XX. Supplementary Book Lists 451
For the Separate Volumes 454
Volume One 454
Volume Two 455
Volume Three 457
Volume Four 458
Volume Five 459
Volume Six 460
Volume Seven 461
Classified Lists 462
Fiction 463
Poetry and Drama 464
Essays 464
Nature 465
Biography 465
History 465
Travel and Geography 466
Miscellaneous 466
Appendix—
Handy Table of English Writers 469
Handy Table of American Writers 473
General Index 475