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but in prose of course.) 

 Longfellow — My Lost Youth. 



Lowell — Men, Women and Ghosts — (Hoops and Garden 



Games) Shows a bit of childhood recollection. A place 



biography. 



Mitchell, D. G. — Dream Life. Only short selections to be read 



from this by teacher, to show the sort of 



thought or dream autobiography, in strict 



contrast to the fact of the other authors. 



"My Farm of Edgewood" is the same author's 



fact autobiography. 



Muir — Story of My Boyhood and Youth. (I should make this 



quite the most important work in the whole list.) 

 Porter — Homing with the Birds. 

 Porter — ^What I have Done with Birds. 

 Porter — ^Why I wrote A Girl of the Limberlost. (World's 



Work 19:125 45) 

 Porter — Life Story and Ideals of the Bird Woman. 

 Thoreau — Journals (Portions from only) 

 Whitman — ^Autobiographis. 



The autobiographical themes which will fit into this work will 

 consist of accounts of a given time, a given occasion, a given 

 place and a given journey. These will all be illustrated in the 

 works studied so that the student will know exactly what is wanted. 

 Biography will become through this method, I think, a living 

 factor, and literary men will be real humans. 



Grade Six 



This is a period in which I should develop ideas as such. The 

 story, the lyric is forgotten, save as it strives as an expression 

 or mode for carrying the idea. The introduction to this year's 

 study can be found in Whitman's, "There was a Child Went 

 Forth." This is a study in the interpretation of the child. It 

 is the thing which the grade tries to do. It is an attempt to relate 

 the purely natural, the purely beautiful in art and the out-of-doors 

 to the life of man. It is the expression then of art and nature 

 in terms of ideas. One of the cheapest and commonest expressions, 

 is an interpretation in terms of the practical. Yet even here there 



