CLASSICS FOR CHILDREN. (See first page of Contents for list.) In forming the mind and taste of the young, is it not better to use authors who have already lived long enough to afford some guaranty that they may survive the next twenty years? "Children derive impulses of a wonderful and important kind from hearing things that they cannot entirely comprehend.” — SIR WALter SCOTT. IT is now seven or eight years since we began publishing the Classics for Children, and the enterprise, which at first seemed a novel one, may fairly be said to have passed the stage of experiment. It has been the aim to present the best and most suitable literature in our language in as complete a form as possible; and in most cases but few omissions have been found necessary. Whether judged from the literary, the ethical, or the educational standpoint, each of the books has attained the rank of a masterpiece. The series places within reach of all schools an abundant supply of supplementary reading-matter. This is its most obvious merit. It is reading-matter, too, which, by the force of its own interest and excellence, will do much, when fairly set in competition, to displace the trashy and even harmful literature so widely current. It is believed also that constant dwelling upon such models of simple, pure, idiomatic English is the easiest and on all accounts the best way for children to acquire a mastery of their mother-tongue. A large portion of the course has been devoted to history and biography, as it has seemed specially desirable to supplement the brief, unsatisfactory outlines of history with full and life-like readings. The annotation has been done with modesty and reserve, the editors having aimed to let the readers come into direct acquaintance with the author. The books are all printed on good paper, and are durably and attractively bound in 12mo. A distinctive feature is the large, clear type. Illustrations have been freely used when thought desirable. The prices are as low as possible. It has been felt that nothing would be gained by making the books a little cheaper at the expense of crowding the page with fine type and issuing them in a style that would neither attract nor last. The best proof of the need of such a course is the universal approbation with which it has been received. CLASSICS FOR CHILDREN. THIS series now includes nearly forty volumes. Those suitable only for primary and grammar school grades are named only in the price-list at the beginning of this Catalogue. (For a fuller description, see our Common School Catalogue.) The following are designed for the higher grades. The first of the two prices is the mailing price, the second is for introduction. Scott's Lady of the Lake. EDWIN GINN. 268 pages. Boards: 40 and 35 cents. Cloth: 60 and 50 cents. Canto I., 5 cents. Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel. MARGARET ANDREWS ALLEN. 150 pages, with map. Boards: 35 and 30 cents. Cloth: 45 and 40 cents. Scott's Talisman. DWIGHT HOLBROOK, Principal of Morgan School, Clinton, Conn., with an Introduction by Miss CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. xii +454 pages. Boards: 60 and 50 cents. Cloth: 70 and 60 cents. Scott's Quentin Durward. CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. 312 pages. Boards: 50 and 40 cents. Cloth: 60 and 50 cents. Scott's Old Mortality. D. H. MONTGOMERY. 510 pages. Boards: 70 and 60 cents. Cloth: 85 and 75 cents. Scott's Marmion. D. H. MONTGOMERY: 307 pages. Boards: and and cents. Scott's Guy Mannering. cents. Cloth: CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. 525 pages. Boards: 70 and 60 cents. Cloth: 85 and 75 cents. Scott's Ivanhoe. CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. 554 pages. Boards: 70 and 60 cents. Cloth: 85 and 75 cents. Scott's Rob Roy. CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. viii+507 pages. Boards: 70 and 60 cents. Cloth: 85 and 75 cents. Stories of the Old World. ALFRED J. CHURCH, M.A., author of Stories from Homer, Livy, Virgil, etc. 354 pages. Boards: 50 and 40 cents. Cloth: 60 and 50 cents. Plutarch's Lives. From Clough's Translation. Edited by EDWIN GINN, with Historical Introductions by W. F. ALLEN. xvi+333 pages. Illustrated. Boards: 50 and 40 cents. Cloth: 60 and 50 cents. Irving's Sketch Book. HOMER B. SPRAGUE, Ph.D., and M. E. SCATES, formerly of the Girls' High School, Boston. 126 pages. Boards: 30 and 25 cents. Cloth: 40 and 35 cents. Irving's Alhambra. ALICE H. WHITE. 291 pages. Boards: and cents. Cloth: and cents. The Arabian Nights. EDWARD EVERETT HALE. Illustrated. 376 pages. Boards: 50 and 40 cents. Cloth: 60 and 50 cents. The Vicar of Wakefield. 238 pages. Boards: 35 and 30 cents. Cloth: 55 and 50 cents. Hughes's Tom Brown at Rugby. CLARA WEAVER ROBINSON, with a Benjamin Franklin. Sketch of the Author's Life by His Autobiography and a continuation of his Life compiled chiefly from his own writings. D. H. MONTGOMERY. Illustrated. viii+311 pages. Boards: 50 and 40 cents. Cloth: 60 and 50 cents. Swift's Gulliver's Travels. The Voyage to Lilliput and the Voyage to Brobdingnag. ix +162 pages. Johnson's Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. viii+157 pages. Boards: 35 and 30 cents. Cloth: 45 and 40 cents. Selections from Ruskin. EDWIN GINN, with Notes and a Sketch of Ruskin's Life by D. H. MONT- GOMERY. 40 cents. The Two Great Retreats of History: I. The Retreat of the Ten Thousand, taken from Grote's "History of Heroic Ballads, With Poems of War and Patriotism. Edited with Notes by D. H. MONTGOMERY. Vii+319 pages. Boards: 50 and 40 cents. Cloth: 60 and 50 cents. HAS THE SERIES OF CLASSICS FOR CHILDREN AS been most cordially approved by the press and the critics, and endorsed by teachers, superintendents, and school boards. The books are in wide use (1) as regular readers, (2) as supple. mentary readers, and (3) in school and home libraries. Out of hundreds of testimonials we can present but a very few: The Critic, New York: A capital | Burlington, Vt.. These books form series. an admirable series for reading in the home as well as in the school. Education, Boston: These books are remarkably cheap, well printed, well edited, and should have an extended use. F. Louis Soldan, Prin. of Normal School, St. Louis, Mo.: The idea underlying these books is meritorious in itself, and its execution admirable. William H. Payne, Pres. of Peabody Normal College, Nashville, W. M. Crow, Supt. of Schools, GalTenn.: I think too much cannot be veston, Tex.: Permit me to say that I said in favor of this list of publica- | regard your series of Classics for Chil tions, destined, I believe, to create a dren as the best literature in the best correct taste for reading, and to dis-form that has ever been presented to place much that is now working injury to the mental and moral habits of the young. J. H. Vincent, Supt. of Instruction, Chautauqua Assembly: I desire to express my great satisfaction with the taste, skill, and wisdom of the work. I wish it abundant success. Mellen Chamberlain, Librarian, Boston Public Library: These publications seem to me to be of great value, whether regarded as home reading or for use in public school. the young people of our country. B. B. Snow, Supt. of Schools, Auburn, N.Y. As to results, I venture to say, from our experience, that no one who undertakes the method [of dispensing with regular "readers"] will willingly abandon it. Our reading exercise is the most interesting exercise of the day. The pupils look forward to it eagerly, the interest is absorbing, and the exercise is reluctantly discontinued. I may add that the teachers are as much interested H. 0. Wheeler, Supt. of Schools, as the pupils. Open Sesame! (See Common School Catalogue.) About one thousand pieces of the choicest prose and verse, compiled by Mrs. B. W. BELLAMY and Mrs. M. W. GOODWIN. Vol. I. for children from four to ten years old; Vol. II. for children from ten to fourteen years old; Vol. III. for pupils of fourteen years or over. Each is illustrated, handsomely bound in cloth, and contains about 350 pages. Price of each to teachers, and for introduction, 75 cts.; by mail, 90 cts. E. A. Sheldon, Prin. State Normal | by far the best collection of memory School, Oswego, N.Y.: It is very pieces I have ever seen. good indeed. We think it the best of all the collections. F. B. Palmer, Prin. State Normal School, Fredonia, N.Y.: I think it W. E. Buck, Supt. Public Schools, Manchester, N.H.: It is a beauty, and of all similar works I have seen, it has the most desirable selections. HIGHER ENGLISH. [See also Classics for Children, pages 2 to 5.] Lessons in English. Adapted to the Study of American Classics. A text-book for High Schools and Academies. By SARA E. H. LOCKWOOD, Teacher of English in the High School, New Haven, Conn. 12mo. Cloth. xix + 403 pages. Mailing price, $1.25; for introduction, $1.12; allowance for an old book in exchange, 35 cents. Thanatopsis and Other Favorite Poems of Bryant. Prepared especially to accompany Lockwood's Lessons in English. 12mo. Paper. 61 pages. Mailing price, 12 cents; for introd., 10 cents. THIS is, in a word, a practical High School text-book of English, embracing language, composition, rhetoric, and literature. It aims to present, in simple and attractive style, the essentials of good English; and, at the same time, to develop a critical literary taste, by applying these technical rules and principles to the study of American Classics. The plan provides for a course in English extending over the pupil's first year and a half in the High School, the work being preparatory to the study of English Literature as usually pursued in schools of this grade. These "Lessons include the most important facts concerning the History and Elements of the Language, Common Errors in the Use of English, the Study of Words, Rules for the Construction of Sentences, Figures of Speech, Punctuation, Letter-Writing, Composition, and Biographical Sketches of the seven authors particularly studied, — Irving, Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Hawthorne, Holmes, and Lowell. No other text-book on English includes so much. It is at once a text-book of rhetoric, a hand-book of composition, and an introduction to American Literature. A valuable addition to the book will be found in the lists of references given at the close of most of the chapters and after each biographical sketch. These are intended to aid teachers in their preparation of the lessons, and to furnish pupils with additional sources of information. |