Part 2 (1/2)

Swiss Family Robinson.

The Lame Prince, by Miss Mulock.

Parables from Nature, by Margaret Gattey.

Child Life, by J. G. Whittier.

Child's History of England, by Charles d.i.c.kens.

In Storyland, by Elizabeth Harrison.

Bible Stories from the New Testament, by Richard G. Moulton.

Nonsense Books, by Edward Lear.

The Monkey that Would Not Kill, by Henry Drummond.

The Heroes, by Charles Kingsley.

At the Back of the North Wind, by George MacDonald.

Uncle Remus, by Joel Chandler Harris.

Tom Brown at Rugby, by Thomas Hughes.

Nehe, by Anna Pierpont Siviter; ill.u.s.trated by Chase Emerson.

The Princess Story Book.

The Cruise of the Cachalot, by Frank Bullen.

The American Boys' Handy Book, by D. C. Beard.

The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling.

Boyhood is pre-eminently the period of perception. Hence all books on scientific subjects are helpful, if they are simple enough to aid the child in seeing nature and her marvels. The mother should be careful that the child does not rest in mere perception of the objects of nature, but that he compares and cla.s.sifies them, and above all, that he is led to trace a purpose in created things, in order that he may learn ”to look through nature up to nature's G.o.d.”

LIST OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS ON SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS.

The Story Mother Nature Told, by Jane Andrews.

Child's Book of Nature (3 vols.), by Worthington Hooper.

Among the Stars, by Agnes Giberne.

History of a Mouthful of Bread, by Jean Mace.

Overhead, by Laura and Anna Moore.