"The Trail of the Sand Hill Stag", Seton; "A Dog of Flanders", Ouida; "Beautiful Joe", Smith; “Our Devoted Friend, the Dog", Bolton. This list should be in every school library. Boys who hunger for adventure, and who have a tendency to drop into the light, trashier classes of stories, should have access to "Treasure Island", Stevenson; "Tales of the Fish Patrol", London; and "My Own Story", Joaquin Miller.

It will be noted again that reading has a definite function in relation to school literature. The formal readers, used from day to day in the grades, develop power in taking thought from the printed page. Supplementary readers, on the others hand, serve to give the young reader facility.

This is done through sight-reading. The Supplementary is best used when it is kept in the pupil's hand only during the reading lesson so as to be fresh to the end. Thus, the two school exercises, one giving power, the other facility, prepare for the true school reading which is for culture and reaction on character. Whatever the child reads in connection with the regular reading lesson, since he does it under more or less stress, is not so vital to him as what he reads of his own will from the school library; since in the latter case he is forming a life habit. Hence, we finally make a few pointed suggestions as to how to make the library effective.

It is a good plan to set aside at least one period per week to be used in talking over library books. The purpose of this hour is to aid the children in choosing good and interesting books to read at home. The keener the insight, as has been said, into the tastes of the various pupils, the more intelligently can be placed before them the stories. The teacher must, beforehand, be prepared to put before the child such books as will appeal to his

instincts. As the new books come into the library, by reading judiciously, the teacher will whet the appetites of her charges so that they will desire to read by themselves to the end. The greatest liberty should be given the pupil, as no objectionable book should be allowed on the shelves. Informal conversational talks about the stories read, invariably spread interest. Short stories, selected and read aloud by the children to the school, also creates enthusiasm.

LIST OF ONE HUNDRED GOOD BOOKS FOR CHILDREN.

The following will be found of service in making selections for the library:

A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens, Appleton; Alice of Old Vincennes, Thompson, Grosset and Dunlap; Hans Brinker, Dodge, Grosset and Dunlap; My Own Story, Joaquin Miller; Rudder Grange, Stockton, Scribners; Plutarch's Lives, Ginn & Co.; Ivanhoe, Scott, Estes; Rose in Bloom, Alcott, Little; Bob, Son of Battle, Ollivant, Burt; Stikeen, Muir, Houghton Mifflin & Co.; Romance of the Insect World, Badenock, Macmillan; Self Help, Smiles, Donohue; Stories from Old Germany, Pratt, Educational; Last Days of Pompeii, Lytton, Estes; John Halifax, Mulock; Ben Hur, Wallace, Harper; South Sea Idyls, Charles Warren Stoddard, Scribners; Wilderness Ways, Long, Ginn & Co.; The Van Dyke Book, edited by Nims, Scribners; Tales from Shakespeare, Lamb, Houghton Mifflin & Co.; Selected Poems and Tales, Poe, Silver Burdett & Co.; The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper, Macmillan; Little Women, Alcott, Roberts Bros.; Ramona, "H. H.", Little, Brown & Co.;

Old Curiosity Shop, Dickens, Little, Brown & Co.; Autobiography of Franklin, Ginn & Co.; The Sketch Book, Irving, Putnam; Captain Courageous, Kipling, Century; The Conquest of Mexico, Prescott, Lippincott; Paul and Virginia, St. Peirre; Hitherto, Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.; The Vicar of Wakefield, Goldsmith, Crowell; Child's History of England, Dickens, Dutton; The Scottish Chiefs, Porter, Crowell; Two Years Before the Mast, Dana, Houghton; The Winning of the West, Roosevelt, Putnam; Philip of Pokanoket, Irving; Madam How and Lady Why, Kingsley; Abraham Lincoln, Beldium, American Book Co.; Trail of Sand Hill Stag, Scribners; Swiss Family Robinson, Wyss, Ginn & Co., Adventures of Ulysses, Lamb, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.; The Hoosier Schoolmaster, Eggleston, Judd; Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe, Rand Macnally; Starland, Ball, Ginn & Co.; Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scribners; Don Quixote, Cervantes, Macmillan; A Dog of Flanders, Ouida, Rand; Old Stories of the East, Baldwin, American Book Co.; The Making of an American, Riis, Macmillan; Animal Heroes, Seton, Scribners; The Jungle Books, 2 Vol., Kipling, Century; Story of the Iliad, Church, Macmillan; Story of the Aeneid, Church, Maynard; A Man Without a Country, Hale, Little, Brown & Co.; Tales From Henty, Educational Pub. Co.; Being a Boy, Warner, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.; Tanglewood Tales, Hawthorne, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.; Tecumseh, Eggleston, Dodd, Mead & Co.; Story of a Bad Boy, Aldrich, Houghton; Cudjo's Cave, Trowbridge; The Call of the Wild, London, Macmillan; Ways of Wood-folk, Long, Ginn & Co.; Boy's King Arthur, Lanier, Scribners; Tales of a Grandfather, Harpers; Those Dreadful Mouse Boys, Ariel, Ginn & Co.; Patsy, Wiggin, Houghton,

Mifflin & Co.; Tom Sawyer, Twain, Harpers; The Prince and the Pauper, Twain, Harpers; Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan, Century; Stories of Great Americans, Eggleston, American Book Co.; Sir Bevis, Jeffries, Scribners; Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Wiggin, Little; Saint Elizabeth, Burnett, Scribner; Bobtail Dixie, Smith, Ed. Publishing Co.; Rab and His Friends, Brown, Altemus; The Boy General, Custer, Scribners; Boys of '76, Coffin, Estes; History of the United States, Eggleston, American Book Co.; Knight and Barbara, Jordan; Beautiful Joe, Saunders, American Baptist Pub. Co.; Arabian Nights, Rand McNally & Co.; Black Beauty, Sewell, Lothrop; The Crofton Boys, Martineau, Routledge; The Bird's Christmas Carol, Wiggin, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.; Water Babies, Kingsley, Macmillan; Uncle Remus, Harris, Appleton; Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Anderson, Crowell; The Boat Club, Optic, Lee; Little Lord Fauntleroy, Burnett, Scribners; Alice in Wonderland, Carrol, Hurst; Our Devoted Friend, The Dog, Bolton, Sage & Co.; Fables, Aesop, Macmillan; The King of the Golden River, Ruskin, McLaughlin; Letters From a Cat, Jackson, Little; Robinson Crusoe, DeFoe, American Book Co.; Fifty Famous Stories, Baldwin, American Book Co.; Classic Stories for the Little Ones, McMurray, Pub. School Pub. Co.; Fanciful Tales, Stockton, Scribners; Robinson Crusoe for Youngest Readers, McMurray, Pub. School Pub. Co.; Old-Time Stories Retold, Smythe, Werner; More Bedtime Stories, Mou!ton, Little, Brown & Co.

A LIST FOR READING ON HOLIDAYS.

New Years Ring Out Wild Bells, Tennyson.
Feb. 12: Lincoln, Markham.

Feb. 22: Stanzas from the "Fourth in Oregon," Miller.

Arbor Day: God's First Temples, Bryant.

May 1: Song of the Out o' Doors, Bashford.
Peace Day: Is It Worth While? Miller.

July 4: Paul Revere's Ride, Longfellow; An American Visiting Europe, Van Dyke.

Oct. 12: Columbus, Miller.

Thanksgiving: Hymn of Thanksgiving, Will Carlton. Dec. 25: California's Christmas, Miller; The Night before Christmas, More.