Tuesday, November 25, 2008

The World's Story An Outline of Universal History/Google Books

Suitable for high school, or useful as a teacher's guide.

The World's Story: A History of the World in Story, Song and Art, Ed. by Eva March Tappan, published by Houghton Mifflin company, 1914

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The Birds' Christmas Carol/Google Books

By Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916
69 pages
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Positive Review.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Mary of Plymouth/Google Books


Mary of Plymouth: A Story of the Pilgrim Settlement
By James Otis
Published by American Book Company, 1910
156 pages
Ages 8-12.

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Review and summary at The Lost Classics.

Thanksgiving

Pilgrim Stories/Google Books


Pilgrim Stories by Margaret Blanche Pumphrey, Lucy Fitch Perkins, Rand McNally and Company
Illustrated by Lucy Fitch Perkins
Published by Rand McNally & Company, 1910
256 pages
Ages 8-10.

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HT to Pawpaw Holler Home.

Thanksgiving

Monday, November 10, 2008

A-Z Literature & Authors

An organized website with free classic literature grouped by the origins of literature, themes, genres, and subjects. "Also, find out about periods and movements, as well as theory and criticism. Read about literature and authors from around the world." Click here.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Grammar School Algebra/Google Books

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Grammar School Algebra
By George Edward Atwood
Published by Morse Co., 1900
253 pages

Covers mathematical concepts to approximately the sixth grade.

Saturday, November 8, 2008

A Book of Golden Deeds of All Times and All Lands/Google Books

A Book of Golden Deeds of All Times and All Lands ...
By Charlotte Mary Yonge
Published by The Christian Herald, 1895
314 pages

An excerpt from the introduction, What is a Golden Deed?

"...the eye gleam and the heart throb, and bears
us through the details of suffering, bloodshed,
and even barbarity, — feeling our spirits
moved and elevated by contemplating the courage
and endurance that they have called forth.
Nay, such is the charm of brilliant valor, that
we often are tempted to forget the injustice of
the cause that they may have called forth the
actions that delight us. And this enthusiasm
is often united with the utmost tenderness of
heart, the very appreciation of suffering only
quickening the sense of the heroism that
risked the utmost, till the young and ardent
learn absolutely to look upon danger as
an occasion for evincing the highest qualities.

O Life, without thy checkered scene
Of right and wrong, of weal and woe,
Success and failure, could a ground
For magnanimity be found ?

The true cause of such enjoyment is perhaps
an inherent consciousness that there is nothing
so noble as forgetfulness of self. Therefore it
is that we are struck by hearing of the exposure
of life and limb to the utmost peril, in oblivion,
or recklessness of personal safety, in comparison
with a higher object."

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Thursday, November 6, 2008

Young People's History of the Pilgrims/Google Books

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Young People's History of the Pilgrims
By William Elliot Griffis
Published by Houghton Mifflin company, 1920
353 pages

(Thanksgiving)

The Book of Saints and Heroes /Google Books


The Book of Saints and Heroes
By Lang, Leonora Blanche Lang, Andrew Lang, Henry J. Ford
Published by Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912
351 pages

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