CONTENTS
Charles Herbert Sylvester
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
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
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
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