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Literature in Interpretation of Every-day Life. 



Kilmer — Main Street. 

 Roofs. 



Irving — The Farm House. (From Bracebridge Hall.) 



Courtship in old New England (Longfellow — Courtship of 



Miles Standish) 



Whittier— Maud Muller. 



Life of a country child — Porter's — ^"Laddie." Use with this the 

 simple statues of plain home life. Walker's, "Her Son" is good 

 as illustrative of the true-blue character of Laddie. "Little 

 Sister" is a simple, lovable little character, and will be far more 

 at home and more easily understood by these pupils than will 

 one of George Elliot's. I prefer taking a less great thing artis- 

 tically, and using the home appeal, the appeal of that which can 

 easily be interpreted to arouse students to a liking for literature. 

 Comradship and Brotherhood. 



Holmes — The Boys. 



Whitman — Song of the Open Road. 

 Literature and the Out-of-Doors. An Interpretation of the Essay 

 Meaning. 



Abbott — Upland and Meadow. 



Porter — Hidden Treasure — Intimate study of the moths of 

 Limberlost swamp. (Country Life. 22:29-) 



Long — Whose Home is the Wilderness (Illustrate with such 

 paintings as Davis — Northwest Wind and Twilight. "Whistler's — 

 Nocturnes. 



Porter — Moths of the Limberlost. Fuertes — Bird Portraits. 



Porter — Music of the Wild. 



Bryant — Forest Hymn and To a Waterfowl. 



Heam — Frogs (In Exotics and Retrospections.) 

 — Insect Musicians. 



Ingersoll — Wild Life of Orchard and Field. 



Sill — Our Tame Hummingbirds. 

 — Cheerfulness of Birds. 

 — Rhapsody of Clouds. 

 — Hiiman Nature in Chickens. 



Emerson — The Rhodora. 



Mitchell, S. Weir— The Comfort of the Hills (Meaning of 

 the Hills.) 



