A Day in The City. Describe an automobile for some one who has never seen one. The Way Grandfather Traveled. A Busy City Corner. What the Street Railway Does for our Town. SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READINGS Lays of Ancient Rome. Thomas Babington Macaulay. Stories of Inventors. Russell Doubleday. My Garden Acquaintance. James Russell Lowell. For the teacher to read to the class: Selections from Peveril of the Peak, Sir Walter Scott; Warren Hastings and Life of Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington Macaulay. HOW MANY WAYS1 CALE YOUNG RICE Cale Young Rice (1872 ) was born in Dixon, Kentucky. He is not only an exquisite lyric poet, but also a rarely gifted writer of poetic dramas. See also: Townsend's Kentucky in American Letters, Vol. II, pp. 284-289. 1909. How many ways the Infinite has To-night, in earth and sky: A falling star, a rustling leaf, A whippoorwill on the wooded hill, How many ways the Infinite has: How many ways the Infinite has: A home-light in the West, And joy deep-glowing in your eyes, Wherein is all my rest. 1 From At the World's Heart (1914). Used by special arrangement with the author. STUDY HINTS From the poems you have read in this book, one thought must have come to you: that everything in the world, from a leaf to a star, is wonderful and brings joy to us if we will only open our eyes to it. Notice how reverently Cale Young Rice has expressed this thought, and that each stanza begins and ends with the two most wonderful things in the world. What are they? Mention some of the many ways in which the poet says the Infinite expresses Himself. Specify some additional beautiful ways that occur to you. H. & B. READINGS-20 THE CELESTIAL SURGEON ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON [For biographical sketch see page 112.] IF I have faltered more or less And to my dead heart run them in! STUDY HINTS Does Stevenson consider his task one merely of being happy himself, or also of making others happy? What lines prove your opinion? What are some of the things that he thinks should cause happiness? Would you find it in the same things? It is the idea of this poem, which he held during years of ill health, that has made Stevenson beloved of so many readers. SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READINGS Read Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verse and see how many forms of happiness he shows in those poems. Can you find a similar idea in The Tomb of Tusitala, by Stevenson? "Tusitala," "teller of tales," was the name given Stevenson by the South Sea Islanders whom he used to entertain with his stories. THE GAME OF LIFE1 THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), the famous scientist, was born in England in the little village of Ealing near London. He began as early as 1855 lecturing in simple language to workingmen on the laws of nature and man's place in nature. He was a close student of nature throughout his long life. His lectures and publications on this subject in both America and England won for him in 1883 the presidency of the famous Royal Society, which was the highest honor in the gift of the scientific world. His ideal was: to be in work and life absolutely sincere. See also: Huxley's Autobiography. Huxley's Collected Essays, Vol. I. Thomas Henry Huxley, by Edward Clodd (in Modern English Writers). Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley by Leonard Huxley. SUPPOSE it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of every one of us would, one day or other, depend upon his winning or losing a game of chess. Don't you think that we should all consider it to be a primary duty to learn at least the names and the moves of the pieces; to have a notion of a gambit, and a keen eye for all the means of giving and getting out of check? Do you not think that we should look with a disapprobation amounting to scorn, upon the father who allowed his son, or the state which allowed its members, to grow up without knowing a pawn from a knight? Yet it is very plain and elementary truth, that the life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely 1 From A Liberal Education and Where to Find It (1868). |