TIMELY READERS 

 FOR YOUNG AMERICANS 



1 AM AN AMERICAN (For Grades V and VI). Price 60 cents. 

 By Sara Cone Bryant (Mrs. Theodore F. Borst). The privilege and 

 responsibility of being an American is illustrated in stories of the 

 greatest of our fellow countrymen. Our political structure is explained 

 in the simplest language. The natural resources and beauties of our 

 country are described; and our position in the War and our new ties 

 with Europe are made clear. 



STORIES OF PATRIOTISM (For Grades V and VI). Price tft 



cents. 

 Compiled by Norma H. Deming and Katharine I. Bemis. A series 

 of stirring tales of patriotic deeds by Americans from the time of the 

 Colonists to the present. There are also stories about famous heroes 

 of our Allies in the Great War. 



THE PATRIOTIC READER (For Grades VII and VIII and 

 Junior High School). Price 56 cents. 

 Compiled by Katharine I. Bemis, M. E. Holtz, and H. L. Smith. 

 The selections cover the history of our country from the discovery of 

 America to our entrance into the Great War. They give one a famil- 

 iarity with literature — new and old — that presents the highest ideals 

 of freedom and justice. 



THE LITTLE BOOK OF THE FLAG (For Grades VI, VII, 

 and VIII). Price 44 cents. 

 By Eva March Tappan. The story of the evolution of our flag 

 should be a part of the training of every little American. This book 

 pictures unforgettably to the child the stirring events for which the 

 flag stands. 



LIBERTY, PEACE, AND JUSTICE (For the High School). 



Riverside Literature Series, No. 261. Price, paper, 20 cents ; cloth, 



32 cents. 

 A collection of speeches and papers upon democracy and patriotism 

 from 1776 to igi8. It includes recent utterances of President Wilson, 

 the Declaration of Independence, Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech, and 

 speeches by Taft, Roosevelt, Root, Lansing, Lane, and others. 

 AMERICAN IDEALS (For the High School). Price ^1.25. 

 Edited by Norman Foerster and W. W. Pierson, Jr. A series of 

 essays and addresses by leading statesmen and men of letters setting 

 forth the ideals that have guided our national development. Among 

 those represented are President Wilson, Roosevelt, Root, Lansing, and 

 A. Lawrence Lowell. 

 A TREASURY OF WAR POETRY (For the High School). 



Riverside Literature Series, No. 262. Price, cloth, 52 cents. 

 A comprehensive anthology of poems of the Great War, including 

 many by the following well-known writers : Kipling, Galsworthy, Henry 

 van Dyke, Alfred Noyes, Alan Seeger, Rupert Brooke, Walter de la 

 Mere, Vachel Lindsay, Robert Bridges, etc. 



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