Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10

About this eBook

Author

Sylvester, Charles Herbert

Title

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide

Credits

E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Julia Miller, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Literature -- Collections

Category

Text

eBook-No.

24857

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24857

Release Date

March 16, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
4. 4.CHAPTER I Introduction
5. 5.CHAPTER II Journeys Through Bookland—Its Contents And Plan — 1. The Masterpieces — 2. Arrangement and Grading — 3. The Studies and Helps — 4. The Nursery Rhymes — 5. Discussion of Each Volume
6. 6.CHAPTER III Pictures and Their Use — I. What Should We Notice in a Picture? — II. Pictures and Their Value in Literature — III. On the Use of the Pictures in “Journeys”
7. 7.CHAPTER IV Telling Stories — The Fairies of the Caldon-Low — Little Giffin of Tennessee — The Ballad of Agincourt — Hervé Riel
8. 8.CHAPTER V Reading and the Building of Character — I — II — III — Who Stole the Bird’s Nest? — Lead, Kindly Light — Poor Richard’s Almanac — Analysis
9. 9.CHAPTER VI Father and Son
10. 10.CHAPTER VII Memorizing — One Hundred Choice Quotations — (Volume I) — (Volume II) — (Volume III) — (Volume IV) — (Volume V) — (Volume VI) — (Volume VII) — (Volume VIII) — (Volume IX)
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII How to Read Fiction — 1. Different Kinds of Literature — 2. Reading Stories — A. The Plot — B. The Persons — C. The Scenes — D and E. The Lesson and the Author’s Purpose — F. The Method and Style of the Author — G. Emotional Power — General Principles and Reflections — Completed Studies — The Hare and the Tortoise — The Fox and the Crow — The Drummer — Tom, the Water Baby — The Passing of Arthur
12. 12.CHAPTER IX Close Reading or Study — Industry and Sloth — Why the Sea Is Salt — Faithless Sally Brown — The Definition of a Gentleman — Adventures in Lilliput — The Heart of Bruce — Annie Laurie — The Lost Child — David Crockett in the Creek War — The Impeachment of Warren Hastings — From The Death of Caesar
13. 13.CHAPTER X Close Reading —(Concluded) — The Author—Figures of Speech — Summary
14. 14.CHAPTER XI Reading Poetry — The Brown Thrush — The Child’s World — Seven Times One — The First Snowfall — The Potato — Origin of the Opal — The Barefoot Boy — The Bugle Song — The Petrified Fern — The Forsaken Merman — The Cloud — Ode to a Skylark
15. 15.CHAPTER XII Reading Aloud
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII Literature and Its Forms — Prose — Poetry — The Structure of Poetry — Kinds of Poetry — Literature
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV Journeys Through Bookland in Its Relation to the School — Reading and Language — A. Reading — B. Language — 1. Oral Lessons — 2. Written Lessons — A. Introduction. — B. Literature in Written Lessons.
18. 18.CHAPTER XV Journeys Through Bookland in Its Relation to the School —(Continued) — Nature Study — I. — A. Seven Long Selections. — B. Classified Selections — II
19. 19.CHAPTER XVI Journeys Through Bookland in Its Relation to the School —(Continued) — Geography and History
20. 20.CHAPTER XVII Journeys Through Bookland in Its Relation to the High School — Introduction — A — B
21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII Recitations and Special Days in School
22. 22.CHAPTER XIX Handy List of Studies in Journeys Through Bookland — Volume One — Volume Two — Volume Three — Volume Four — Volume Five — Volume Six — Volume Seven — Volume Eight — Volume Nine
23. 23.CHAPTER XX Supplementary Book Lists — Volume I — Volume II — Volume III — Volume IV — Volume V — Volume VI — Volume VII — Classified Lists — Fiction — Poetry and Drama — Essays — Nature — Biography — History — Travel and Geography — Miscellaneous
24. 24.HANDY TABLE OF ENGLISH WRITERS
25. 25.HANDY TABLE OF AMERICAN WRITERS
26. 26.GENERAL INDEX

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