4. What is the relation of the railroad and the steamship to the coal and iron industries? What is the relation of all these industries to the skyscrapers in great cities? What is their relation to shipbuilding? What is the importance of the oil well? Name regions that produce oil in quantity. Tell what you know of the sources and uses of oil.
Library Reading. The Blazed Trail, White; "The Story of a Thousand Year Pine," Mills (in The World's Work, August, 1908); The Young Forester, Grey; Primer of Forestry, Pinchot (Government Printing Office); A Year in a Coal Mine, Husband; America at Work, Husband; "A Coal Miner at Home," Roosevelt (in The Outlook, December 24, 1910); "Heroes of the Cherry Mine," Edith Wyatt (in McClure's Magazine, March, 1910); "CoalAlly of American Industry," Showalter (in The National Geographic Magazine, November, 1918); "Pete of the Steel Mills," Hall (in Junior High School Literature, Book II); Steel Preferred, Hall; The Young Apprentice of the
Steel Mill, Wier; "Industry's Greatest AssetSteel," Showalter (in National Geographic Magazine, August, 1917); "Romance of Steel," Parsons (in World's Work, October, 1921); "Soul of the Shipyards," Schwab (in The Ladies' Home Journal, January, 1919); "A Human Beaver of Shipbuilding," Wildman (in The Forum, January, 1920); "The Ship That Found Herself," Kipling (in The Day's Work); The Boys' Book of Steamships, Howden; “Billions of Barrels of Oil Locked Up in the Rocks," Mitchell (in The National Geographic Magazine, February, 1918); "Romance of the Oil Fields," Harger (in Scribner's Magazine, November, 1919); The Story of Oil, Tower; Secrets of the Earth, Fraser.
Theme Topics. 1. What the worker in the steel mills does for us as citizens of America. 2. How a strike in a coal mine affects the citizen. 3. Compare the steamship of today with that of fifty years ago. 4. The presentday uses of oil and gas. The melting pot of industrial coöperation.
INDEX OF AUTHORS, TITLES, AND FIRST LINES
In the following Index, the names of authors and titles are printed in capital letters; the first lines of poems are printed in small letters
Across the seas of Wonderland to Mogadore we
plodded, 272
AGASSIZ, LOUIS, 540, 571
ALLEN, JAMES LANE, 551, 571
AMBITIOUS GUEST, THE, 452 AMERICA! 480
AMERICANS OF FOREIGN BIRTH, 494 America, the Homeland, 483 APOSTROPHE TO THE OCEAN, 524 APRIL-NORTH Carolina, 529 As I was wa'king all alone, 255
As o'er his furrowed fields which lie, 478
A Well there is in the west country, 275 BABY LON, 242
BALLAD, THE, AN INTRODUCTION, 236 BALL, SIR ROBERT S., 544, 571 BARRIE, JAMES M., 464, 571
BATTLE OF OTTERBOURNE, THE, 243
BATTLE OF THE ANTS, THE, 536
Before him rolls the dark, relentless ocean, 497
BETH GELERT, 274
BEWICK AND GRAHAME, 245
BONNY BARBARA ALLEN, 243 BRIGGS, L. B. R., 497, 571 BROTHERS IN INDUSTRY, 559 BROWNING, ROBERT, 279, 571
BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN, Ulysses Among the Phracians, 219; Thanatopsis, 521; 571 BURNS, ROBERT, The Cotter's Saturday Night, 459; To a Mouse, 464; 572
BYRON, LORD, Destruction of Sennacherib, 276; Apostrophe to the Ocean, 524; 572 CALL OF THE SPRING, THE, 517
CARMAN, BLISS, 529, 573
CITIZEN, THE, 483
CLOUD, THE, 527
COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR, 259, 573 COLUM, PADRAIC, 531, 573
Come, choose your road and away, my lad, 517
COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE, 200, 573 COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT, THE, 459 COTTON AND THE OLD SOUTH, 548
CRAWFORD, CHARLOTTE HOLMES, 283, 573 CREE QUEERY AND MYSY DROLLY, 464 DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB, 276 DICKENS, CHARLES, 468, 574 DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG, A, 17 DOUGLAS TRAGEDY, THE, 249 DWYER, JAMES FRANCIS, 483, 574 ELEPHANT REMEMBERS, THE, 33 EPIC POETRY, AN INTRODUCTION, 215 FALLING STAR, A, 544
FORMATION OF CORAL REEFS, 540
FORTY SINGING SEAMEN, 272
Franceline rose in the dawning gray, 283 FROST, ROBERT, 512, 574
FURROW AND THE HEARTH, THE, 531 GET UP AND BAR THE DOOR, 257
God of our fathers, known of old, 511 God sends his teachers unto every age, 518 GOLD BUG, THE, 53
HALE IN THE BUSH, 278
HAMPTON BEACH, 525
HARK TO THE SHOUTING WIND, 528
Harp of the North! that moldering long hast hung, 291
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL, 452, 574
Hearken to me, gentlemen, 250
HELL-GATE OF SOISSONS, THE, 281 HEMP FIELDS, THE, 551
HENRY, O, 50, 574
HERVÉ RIEL, 279
HOW TOM SAWYER WHITEWASHED THE FENCE,13 HUSBAND, JOSEPH, 559, 575
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, 527
I heard a thousand blended notes, 517
In London city was Bicham born, 253
In the Garden of Eden, planted by God, 529 In the Santa Clara Valley, far away and far away, 532
Into the woods my Master went, 521 IRVING, WASHINGTON, 22, 575
It fell about the Lammas tide, 243 It fell about the Martinmas time, 257 It is an ancient Mariner, 259
It was in and about the Martinmas time, 243 IVANHOE, 350
I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer, 284
I went to turn the grass once after one, 512 JULIUS CAESAR, 389
JULIUS CAESAR, AN INTRODUCTION, 381 KAUFMAN, HERBERT, 281, 575
KEATS, JOHN, 526, 575
KING ESTMERE, 250
Kipling, Rudyard, Tommy, 284; Recessional, 511; 575
LADY OF THE LAKE, THE, 291
LADY OF THE LAKE, THE, AN INTRODUCTION, 287 LAMB, CHARLES, 17, 575 LANIER, SIDNEY, 521, 576
LEGEND AND HISTORY, AN INTRODUCTION, 211 LEXINGTON, 277
LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, THE, 360 LILACS, 530
LINCOLN, THE Lawyer, 499
LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE, 504
INDEX OF AUTHORS, Titles, and FIRST LINES
LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING, 517 LITERATURE AND LIFE, AN INTRODUCTION TO READING, 1
LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON, 360, 576
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH, Seaweed, 523; The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls, 523; 576 LORD RANDAL, 240
LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL, The Vision of Sir Launfal, 445; Washington, 499; Rhocus, 518; 576
LUBBOCK, SIR JOHN, 533, 577
MAN AND HIS FELLOWS, AN INTRODUCTION, 441 MARKHAM, Edwin, 504, 577 MARSHALL, EDISON, 33, 577 MONROE, HARRIET, 529, 577
My loved, my honored, much respected friend! 459
My name is Darino, the poet, 281
No Berserk thirst of blood had they, 277 NORRIS, FRANK, 555, 577
NOYES, ALFRED, Forty Singing Seamen, 272; The Call of the Spring, 517; 577 ODYSSEY, THE, AN INTRODUCTION, 215
Old Grahame he is to Carlisle gone, 245 ON THE GREAT Plateau, 532
On the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred
ninety-two, 279
OPPORTUNITY, 468
Over his keys the musing organist, 445
O where ha you been, Lord Randal, my son? 240 PLOWING ON A WHEAT RANCH, 555 POE, EDGAR ALLAN, 53, 577 RECESSIONAL, 511
RICHARD DOUBLEDICK, 468
RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER, 259
"Rise up, rise up, now, Lord Douglas," 249 ROMANCE OF A BUSY BROKER, THE, 50 ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, 505, 578 SCHERER, JAMES, A. B., 548, 578
SCOTT, SIR WALTER, The Lady of the Lake, 291; Ivanhoe, 350; Lockhart's Life of, 360; 578 Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, 526 SEAWEED, 523
SEED-TIME AND HARVEST, 478
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, Julius Caesar, 389;
Under the Greenwood Tree, 522; 578 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE, 527, 578 SILL, EDWARD ROWLAND, 468, 578 1620-1920, 497
Soldier and statesman, rarest unison, 499 SOUTHEY, ROBERT, 275, 578 SPECTER BRIDEGROOM, THE, 22 SPENCER, WILLIAM ROBERT, 274, 579 SPY, THE, 200
STEINER, EDWARD A., 480, 579 STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS, 85, 579 Stride the hill, sower, TARBELL, IDA M., 499, 579
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, 276
The breezes went steadily through the tall pines, 278
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, 524 There lived a wife at Usher's Well, 256 There was twa sisters in a bowr, 241 There were three ladies lived in a bower, 242 The spearmen heard the high sound 274 The sunlight glitters keen and bright, 525 The tide rises, the tide falls, 523
This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream, 468 THOMAS, LETTA EULALIA, 483, 579 THOMAS RYMER, 255
THOREAU, HENRY, 536, 579
Thus overcome with toil and weariness, 219 TIDE RISES, THE TIDE FALLS, THE, 523 TIMROD, HENRY, 528, 579
TO A MOUSE, 464
TO AUTUMN, 526
To him who in the love of Nature holds, 521 TOMMY, 284
TORTOISE, THE, 538
TREASURE ISLAND, 85
TREASURE ISLAND, AN INTRODUCTION, 79 TREES, 529
TREES AND THE MASTER, 521
TUFT OF FLOWERS, THE, 512
True Thomas lay oer yond grassy bank, 255 TWAIN, MARK, 13, 579
TWA SISTERS, THE, 241
ULYSSES AMONG THE PHÆACIANS, 219
UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE, 522
VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL, THE, 445
VIVE LA FRANCE! 283
WASHINGTON, 499
Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, 464 WEE, WEE Man, The, 255
WELL OF ST. KEYNE, THE, 275
WHAT AMERICA MEANS TO ME, 483
When descends on the Atlantic, 523
When the Norn Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour, 504
WHITE, GILBERT, 538, 580
WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF, Lexington, 277; Seed-Time and Harvest, 478; Hampton
WIFE OF USHER'S WELL, THE, 256 WILSON, WOODROW, 494, 580
WONDERS OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN, THE, 533 WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM, 517, 580
WORKING TOGETHER IN A DEMOCRACY, 505
WORLD IN WHICH WE LIVE, THE, AN INTRODUC- TION, 515
WORLD OF ADVENTURE, THE, AN INTRODUC-
Would you not be in Tryon, 529
WYATT, EDITH, 532, 580
YOUNG BICHAM, 253
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF AUTHORS
AGASSIZ, LOUIS (1807-1873), naturalist and geologist, was born in Switzerland. He came to America in 1846, and was so pleased with the opportunities the United States offered that he decided to settle here permanently. A year later he was appointed professor of zoölogy and geology at Harvard University. In 1871 he located on the island of Penikese, in Buz- zard's Bay; this island, together with fifty thousand dollars, had been presented to him for the purpose of endowing a school of natural science devoted to the study of marine zoology. Longfellow's poem, "The Fiftieth Birthday of Agassiz," was read by the author at a dinner given to Agassiz by the Saturday Club of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1857.
ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1849- ), is a native of Kentucky. He was graduated from Tran- sylvania University and became professor of higher English and Latin in Bethany College, West Virginia. He now gives his entire atten- tion to literature. His home is in New York City.
BALL, SIR ROBERT (1840-1913), astronomer and mathematician, was born in Dublin. was graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1861. Later, he was professor of astronomy in the University of Dublin, and in 1892 be- came professor of astronomy and geology at Cambridge and director of the Cambridge Ob- servatory. Among his works are Experimental Mechanics, The Story of the Heavens, Starland, and In Starry Realms.
BARRIE, JAMES M. (1860- ), British author and journalist, was educated at Edin- burgh University. He is best known for his novels and dramas. Barrie's gifts of humor and pathos are well shown in A Window in Thrums, a book that portrays the life of his native village. Peter Pan is one of his best- known dramas.
BRIGGS, L. B. R., is President of Radcliffe College and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University. He is the author of a number of books, among them School, College, and Character.
BROWNING, ROBERT (1812-1889). Next to Tennyson, the most famous English poet of the Victorian era; born in a suburb of London; early education directed by his father, a man of wide knowledge and a lover of the classics. In his youth, Browning was influenced by
Byron and Shelley, and like them acquired a love for Italy that became a master passion of his life. He was a great student of romance, of art, and of the classics, and many of his themes were drawn from these sources. After his marriage, in 1846, to Elizabeth Barrett, herself a poet, Browning spent much time in Italy. His entire life was devoted to poetry. His work falls into three main groups: dramas, dramatic monologues, and lyrics. The dramas are original in plot, but they lack action, de- pending for their interest on the analysis of the thoughts and feelings of their principal char- acters in some crisis. Pippa Passes and In a Balcony are the most famous of the dramas. The dramatic monologues are poems of varying length, written as though they were soliloquies or stories told by one man but suggesting the presence of other characters, and revealing very clearly the character and motives of the speaker. Of these Browning wrote a great number; they are his most distinctive con- tributions to literature. His lyrics are among the best in English literature. In all this work Browning's appeal is to thought rather than to the feelings. He was a keen and vigorous thinker, and this quality in his works surpasses his narrative and lyric gifts, great as these were.
BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN (1794-1878). Born in Massachusetts; his parents traced their ancestry to the early colonists who came over on the Mayflower; his mother was de- scended from John and Priscilla Alden, and his father, grandfather, and grandmother's father were all country doctors. As a boy, Bryant acted out the story of Poe's translation of the Iliad, using wooden shields and sword and an elaborate coat of mail. He was a lover of poetry, and began to write verses when eight years old. His early education was directed by country ministers, who were trained in Latin and Greek. At fourteen, he knew the Greek Testament as well as the English. The next year he entered Williams College as a sopho- more, but his college course was interrupted because of lack of means, and he began the study of law, a profession which he followed for nine years. His first published poems were "Thanatopsis" and "Inscription for the En- trance to a Wood," which appeared in the North American Review in 1817. The first of these poems, one of the most famous in Ameri- can literature, had been written when he was only sixteen or seventeen years old. A collec-
tion of his poems appeared in 1821, but had a very small sale. In 1825 he became editor of a magazine in New York; a year later he began a connection with the New York Evening Post which, as assistant editor, editor, and part owner, was destined to last fifty-two years. Various intervals of his life were filled by travel, chiefly in Europe and the Orient. Many let- ters by him were published in his newspaper. Bryant wrote comparatively little poetry, and destroyed much of what he wrote. In 1866, after the death of his wife, he turned to the study of Homer, publishing his translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey in 1870 and 1872. Until the last year of his life he walked daily to his office and back, a distance of three miles. He wrote many addresses, and took a prominent part in all matters that concerned good citizen- ship. For more than fifty years he exerted a strong influence on American politics and gov- ernment. Although Bryant never held office, he occupied a position of national importance as editor of a powerful journal. Nevertheless, it is by his poetry that he will be remembered. This poetry is not large in amount, but it is of very high quality. He loved Nature, and her "various language," of which he wrote in his first great poem, was familiar to him throughout his long life.
BURNS, ROBERT (1759-1796). The poems of Burns appeared in three editions: 1786, 1787, and 1793. He was inspired by love, by keen insight into Nature, by a sturdy patriotism, and by a sense of the brotherhood of all men. Illustrations of each of these points, with the necessary biographical material to make them clear, will be found on pages 462-463. Burns was an intensely "subjective" poet, that is, his poems express his own thought about man and Nature, and are, in themselves, the best biography. The facts about his life, therefore, are of use to us only as they illustrate the poems and guide us in interpreting them. Many of the poems are bits of autobiography. His father was a tenant-farmer; the son followed the same hard occupation except for intervals in Edinburgh spent in seeing his books through the press and becoming acquainted with the brilliant and intellectual group of men and women there who recognized his genius. For some years he received a small income from an office connected with the customs. These statements practically sum up the story; some important facts, chiefly names of persons and places, may be set down in a chronological table as a guide to reading his poems:
1759-1784. Boyhood spent on farms rented by his father; small formal schooling; chief influences from the sturdy character of his
father and from the careful reading of a very few books.
1784-1786. Life at Mossgiel; plan to emi- grate to America; publication of first poems. 1786-1788. Edinburgh; preparation of sec- ond edition of his poems; in the summer of 1787, travel in the Highlands, collecting songs and ballads.
1788-1791. Ellisland, a farm which he rented; marriage to Jean Armour; customs office secured 1791.
1791-1796. Dumfries; third edition of his poems; extreme poverty; illness, and failure of poetic power. Death, July 21, 1796.
BYRON, LORD (1788-1824). Born in London, in a family whose ancestry extended to the time of the Norman Conquest. As a child he loved oriental romance, travel, the Old Testa- ment, and the sea. At Harrow, a great English public school, he was a leader in sports and extended his reading over a wide range of lit- erature. In 1805 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, and while a student there wrote a series of poems published in 1808 under the title of Hours in Idleness. The poems were not very good, and were severely attacked by a famous critic; Byron replied in a verse satire of great power in which he criticized savagely the leading poets and novelists of his day. In 1809-1811 he traveled in Portugal, Spain, Greece, and Turkey; the result of the journey was the appearance of the first two cantos of his famous poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Byron himself is the hero of the pilgrimage, and the brilliant descriptions of Nature, of ruins in famous cities, and of the stirring events in Europe in his own time completely captivated the reading public, so that seven editions of the poem were sold within a few weeks after its first appearance in 1812. The next three years were marked by a series of metrical romances that eclipsed in popular favor the narrative poems of Scott. In 1815 he married, but a year later his wife left him and he went abroad once more, this time never to return to his native land. On his way to Italy he spent some time (the summer of 1816) in Switzerland, where he wrote the third canto of Childe Harold and some other poems, notably "The Prisoner of Chillon." These poems all expressed Byron's passionate love of liberty. In Venice he wrote the last canto of Childe Harold (1817) and this was followed by other long narrative poems, such as Don Juan (1819-1823), and a series of poetic dramas. He had no real dramatic genius, however, excelling in verse narrative, descrip- tion, and in his marvelous lyric genius. Mean- time, he sought to become an actor in such stirring scenes as fill his poems, enlisting at
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