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part. Then study the pioneer motive. See where it has been 

 used in the literature of- that region, and how effectively it has 

 been introduced. Discuss its further possibilities. Study the 

 early lives of the authors taken up. Show how their environment 

 produced the thing which they did produce in the literary field. 

 For the Western Mountains, Mills', "Rocky Mountain Wonder- 

 land," Bret Harte's western tales, Joaquin Miller's "Songs of the 

 Sierras," and many other like materials may be coordinated. 

 In the prairie region, certainly Carl Sandburg's poem, "The 

 Prairie" deserves especial study and thought. Each teacher 

 must work his own program for this grade. There are as many 

 possibilities as there are localities. And certainly one of the 

 pioneer regions of our country which has only been slightly touched 

 by literature offers as full and interesting material as does the older 

 type. 



Then, I should close the work of the year with the study of 

 some such book as Hawthorne's "Marble Faun." I know of 

 nothing which combines so successfully, art and literature as does 

 this book. It is a marvel of delicacy of treatment. It will serve 

 admirably as an introduction to the work of the following year, 

 and will give the student the method of a careful, exact study of a 

 piece of literature. Of course there is a great deal in sculpture 

 which can be used with this. And with this excursion to the 

 exotic, we are prepared for the work of the last year. 



Fourth Year of High School 



In a study of literature, certainly it would not be just to make 

 the study merely American. We do not want such a well satisfied, 

 cozy, tea-table literature such as England is contented with. And 

 if we do not want that, then we must do all which is possible, 

 to prevent it. I think that a study of connections, or exotics, 

 in the last year of the teaching, would help to broaden our literature. 

 There is no especial arrangement of the countries taken up, 

 nor of the life studied, as I have given them, and the program is 

 far from complete. As I have done throughout this paper, so 

 here, I merely give a few suggestions. Because Lafcadio has 

 such a remarkable style; I should begin with some of his things. 

 He is part American at least, and offers a starting point, a landing 



