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Title: Literary landmarks : a guide to good reading for young people, and teachers' assistant : with a carefully selected list of seven hundred books
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Burt, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1850-1918
Subjects: Children's literature Literature
Publisher: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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ride of Pluto, pleasedus all. A great many of these myths we readfrom Hawthornes Tangiewood Tales and Won-der Book. From the same book we read Herculesand The Three Golden Apples and Baucis andPhilemon. This on my diagram comes at threeoclock. We studied from Felielons Lives of the Phi-losophers, and read the Dialogues of Lucian. We read the myth of the Horse of Troy, andafter that Virgils version of the same story fromGeorge Howlands translation. We then took some studies from Americanauthors, and we read and discussed the NiirnburgStove and Rosa Damascena, also. We studied and wrote a review on the SadLittle Prince by Edgar Fawcett. We were verymuch interested in this story, which we took tostudy the motives of the characters in it. Our next author, Charles Dudley Warner,pleased us very greatly. He is the author of Inthe Wilderness. We studied the American stories to find outabout their authors, and to compare their thoughtswith those of ancient writers. Unknown Past-. / Shakespeare
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WORKS OF THE CREATIVE IMAGINATION. 47 After this we went way back to the age ofPericles at five oclock. In studying Sophocless drama of Philocteteswe learned how to make character studies. Wecompared Philoctetes with the man who shot thedeer in In the Wilderness. We used Plumptrestranslation of Philoctetes, the teacher doing mostof the reading as we had only one book. Oftenin the morning we read a few texts from MarcusAurelius and discussed them. We took studiesin geography, aU the time corresponding to thosewe had in literature. In geography, when westudied France we had a study from VictorHugo, and we read about Napoleon ; in Ger-many we studied Charlemagne, and read someof the Stories of Chivalry which rose at thetime of Charles the Great, the Founder of theWestern Empire. We read these tales fromLegends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch.Charlemagne rose to his empire about the year800, nearly half way between Virgils and Dantestime, or between VI and VII on my diagram. Cervantes,

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