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Catalogues giving the exact t.i.tles, cost, and other details are sent to applicants, free of expense.

Portraits, maps, facsimiles of doc.u.ments and autographs, etc., are often easily obtained from book catalogues, guide books, advertising pages, and secondhand text-books.

All this ill.u.s.trative material should be pasted in the notebook at the proper place, neatly and with good judgment, allowing plenty of s.p.a.ce for margins. Such a compilation is, of course, a matter of slow growth.

It should be carefully preserved as a pleasant reminder of school days.

NOTE.--Think of enriching your notebook with photographic reproductions of such works as Stuart's ”Was.h.i.+ngton”; Faed's ”Was.h.i.+ngton at Trenton”; Trumbull's ”Surrender of Cornwallis” and ”Signing the Declaration of Independence”; Benjamin West's ”Penn's Treaty”; Leutze's ”Was.h.i.+ngton Crossing the Delaware”; Vanderlyn's ”Landing of Columbus”; Johnson's ”Old Ironsides” and Overend's ”An August Morning with Farragut.”

REFERENCE BOOKS AND SUPPLEMENTARY READING FOR SUCCESSIVE PERIODS IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

[Intended for use in connection with the study of this book.]

CHAPTER I. PAGES 1-9.

AMERICA IN THE OLD DAYS.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--The following topics are thoroughly discussed in Fiske's _Discovery of America_:--

The People of Ancient America, Vol. I, pp. 1-19; Origin of the American Indians, Vol. I, p. 19; The Indians of the Pueblos, Vol. I, p. 82; The Mysterious Mound Builders, Vol. I, p. 140; Voyages of the Northmen to Vinland, Vol. I, p. 164.

REFERENCES FOR READING.--For a readable account of the Mound Builders and the American Indians, consult Shaler's _The Story of Our Continent_.

OUTSIDE READINGS.--Starr's _American Indians_; The Voyages to Vinland from the Saga of Eric the Red, _Old South Leaflets_, No. 32; Gla.s.sc.o.c.k's _Stories of Columbia_.

FOR READING OR RECITATION.--Whittier's _Norumbega_ and _Nors.e.m.e.n_; Longfellow's _Skeleton in Armor_.

CHAPTER II. PAGES 10-30.

COLUMBUS AND THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--Topics from Fiske's _Discovery of America_:--

First Voyage of Columbus, Vol. I, p. 419; Last Voyage of Columbus, Vol.

I, p. 505; Vespucius and the ”New World,” Vol. II, p. 96; The Cabots and their Voyages, Vol. II, p. I; Ponce de Leon, Vol. II, p. 486; Adventures of De Soto, Vol. II, p. 509.

REFERENCES FOR READING.--Read selections from the one-volume edition of Irving's _Life of Columbus_; Abbott's _Life of Columbus_ (Ajax Series); Adams's _Columbus_ (Makers of America); Brooks's _True Story of Columbus_; Adventures of De Soto, Parkman's _Pioneers of France in the New World_, p. 13.

OUTSIDE READINGS.--Griffis's _Romance of American Discovery_; Gla.s.sc.o.c.k's _Stories of Columbia_; The Discovery of America, from the Life of Columbus, by his son, Ferdinand Columbus, _Old South Leaflets_, No. 29; Columbus's Letter to Gabriel Sanchez, describing the first voyage, _Old South Leaflets_, No. 33; Americus Vespucius's Account of his First Voyage, _Old South Leaflets_, No. 34; Death of De Soto, _Old South Leaflets_, No. 36; The Voyages of the Cabots, _Old South Leaflets_, No. 37.

CHAPTER III. PAGES 31-46.

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