‘Literature in the 
Elementary School 
By PORTER LANDER MacCLINI@GG@e 
HE fundamental ideas underlying this book are that litera- 
ture for children should be chosen for its excellence as 
literature and for its fitness for the children concerned; and 
that it should be taught as art, and the results produced should 
be literary and artistic results.: To the end that these ideas may 
be made clear and practical, available in the final details of the 
teachers’ choice and procedure, the book gives a series of detailed 
studies on the choice and teaching of the various kinds of stories; 
on poetry; on the drama; on myth as literature; onthe correlation 
of literature with the other disciplines; on the actual teaching of 
the class in literature; on the return to be asked from the children; 
a chapter on out-of-school reading for children; and finally a 
list of titles in literature for each of the elementary grades, 
offered as a suggestion to the inventive teacher, but also de- 
fended as a working programme tested by experience. 
240 pages, 12mo., cloth; net $1.00, postpaid $1.12 
“The book is unquestionably authoritative. It is so important, so well balanced, so 
scientific, so artistic, so human, so exquisitely adequate to the task proposed, 
that it ought to become a gospel. Teachers ought to buy it as they buy diction- 
aries—and read it better. It is the only complete treatment of the subject now 
before the public; and it is not likely that another person will soon arise who can 
bring to such a task so exceptional an equipment as Mrs. MacClintock’s.” 
—Edwin H. Lewis, Lewis Institute, Chicago. 
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