Vs^c K ensnn 206 Picture Study Stories for Little Children — Cranston 220 Story of the Christ Q.\^\\i\—Hushoiver 290 Fuzz in Japan— A Child-Life Reader— Mag II ire THIRD YEAR Fables and Myths 4(> Puss in Boots and Cinderella— i^^z/^r 47 Greek Myths— A'lin^ensmith 48 Nature ISIyths- Metcalfe 50 Reynard the Fox — Rest IC2 Thuinbelina and Dream Stories— ^^z7^r 146 Sleeping Beauty and Other Stories 174 Sun My \.\\^-- Reiter 175 Norse Legends I— Reiter i76 Norse Legends , II -Reiter 177 Legends of the Rhineland— TV/rCa*^ 282 Siegfried, the Lorelei and Other Rhine Legends— ;l/fCa*^ Nffture and Industry 49 Buds, Stems and Fruits — Mayne 51 Story of Flax -;U^v».v 52 Story of Glass— ^a«jon 53 Adventures of a Little Waterdrop — Mayne 135 Little People of the Hills (Dry Air and Dry Soil Plants^— 0«i^ 203 Little Plant People of the Waterways— Chase 133 Aunt Martha's Corner Cupboard— Part I. Story of Tea and the Teacup 137 Aunt :\Iartlia's Corner Cupboard— Part II. Story of Sngar, Coffee and Salt. 138 Aunt Martha's Corner Cupboard— Part III. Story of Rice, Currants and Honey History and Biography 4 Story of Washington — Reiter 7 Storj^ oi\,on%{i:\\ow— McCabe 21 Stor3' of the Pilgrims — Poiuers 44 Famous Early Americans (Smith, Stan- dish, Peun) — Bush 54 Story of Columbus — McCabe 55 Story oiWhitVxev— McCabe 57 Story .of Louisa IVI. A\cott— Bush 58 Story'of Alice and Phoebe Ca.ry—McFee 59 Story of tlie Boston Tea Partv -McCabe 60 Cliildren of the Northland — Bush 62 Children of the South Lands, I (Florida, Cuba, Puerto Rico) — McFee 63 Children of the South Lands, II (Africa Hawaii, The Philippines)— Jyc/r^ 64 Child Life in tlie Colonies— I (New Amsterdam )— Baker 65 Child Life in the Colonies— II (Pennsyl- vania! -Baker 66 Child Life in the Colonies— III (Virgin- ia) — Baker 68 Stories of the Revolution— I (Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys) 69 Stories of the Revolution — 11 (Around Philadelphia)— il/cc'czi?'.? 70 Stories of the Revolution- III (Marion, the Swamp T?ox)— McCabe 132 Story of Franklin— /arzj 164 The Little Brown Baby and Other Babies 165 Gemila, the Child of the Desert and vSonie of Her Sisters 166 Louise on the Rhine and in Her New Home. {Nos. 164, ids, 166 are ''Seven Little Sisters" by fane Atidreu's) 167 Famous Artists, I — Laudseer and Bon- heur. Literature 35 Goody Two-Shoes 67 Story of Rol)inson Crusoe — Bush 71 Selections from Hiawatha(For 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Grades) 233 Poems Worth Knowing-Book I-Primary FOURTH YEAR Nature and Industry 75 Story of Coal— ^/cA'aM^ 76 Story of MHieat — Halifax 77 Storv of Cotton— ^^-ort'w 134 Conquests of Little Plant People— C/faj** Continued on third caver August. r.)13. INSTRUCroR LirKRATURE SKRIKS The Story of Utah "Bf Levi Edgar Young Professor of History, University of Utah PUBLISHED JOINTLY BY F. A. OWEN PUB. CO., Damsville, N. Y. HALL & Mccreary, Chicago, III. Copyy iiihl, 1913, by F. A. Q-wm PubJishinx Co f / m V ;* t>«^ hi *-t«^- )| ;p r.% ^m CI.A357873 Brigham Young and Company Overlooking the Valley of Great Salt Lake, 1847 The Story of Utah The history of Utah is a story of good homes. The people have been temperate and kind, and high religious and ethical ideals have determined their conduct. They have felt the influence of beautiful mountains, clear sun- shine, and an equable climate, and have made of the American desert a country of rich wheat and hay fields, extensive orchards, and beautiful cities. They have dug deep into the earth and brought forth gold and silver, copper and iron in abundance. Utah's industrial and social development presents a great object lesson of thrift and integrity to the soil, and its people are noted far and wide for their high ideals of intelligence. In this story we wish to show how Utah has come to be a great State. Utah is a land of mountains, valleys, and plateaus. The Wasatch Range extends through the greater part of the State, dividing it geographically into two parts. The soil of its western slope is very rich, and in the succes- sive valleys, from north to south, are great farms and gardens. East of the Wasatch is the great plateau, bounded on the north by the Uintah range, which with the Wasatch range, determines the geographical features of Utah. West of the Wasatch, the drainage is into the 4 THE STORY OF UTAH Great Salt Lake ; east of the mountains, into the Colo- rado River. From the Wasatch mountains flow many beautiful streams of water, and upon the banks of these the cities and towns have been built. While most of Utah is a part of the American desert, through the proc- ess of irrigation and cultivation the soil has shown a richness in fertility that is phenomenal. The winter snows are securely packed in the mountains, and furnish water in summer. The four seasons are clearly defined, and the warm spring and summer months follow regu- larly the cold, frosty days of winter. Thelargestbodyof water is the Great Salt Lake, a rem- nant of the inland sea that once covered all the valleys of the Wasatch. It is eighty-five miles long by about forty miles in breadth, and nearly one-fourth of its weight is composed of solid materials, mostly salt, held in solution. Two other slightly salt bodies of water lie in the southern part of the State, the Little Salt Lake and the Sevier. Utah Lake is the largest body of fresh water. The Jordan, Provo, Weber, Ogden, Sevier, and Bear riv- ers are the principal streams flowing into the lakes from the western defiles of the Wasatch. In eastern Utah are the Green and the Colorado. The interposition of mountain and valley gives to Utah a variety of landscape and a diversity of industrial resources. The canyons are beautiful. Great snowy peaks guard the mountain lakes, and columbines and roses fill the open spaces between evergreens and quak- ing asp trees, and it is said that some fifteen hundred varieties of wild flowering plants grow in the valley of the Great Salt Lake. Gold, silver, copper, iron, and coal abound, and have been important factors in the de- velopment of the State. To the west toward Nevada is the great desert, thousands of acres of which are being reclaimed annually and brought under cultivation. THE STORY OF UTAH A Native Ute Pre-Pioneer Period When the Utah pioneers settled within the present confines of Utah, they found the Utes and Paiutes, two tribes of the great Shoshonian stock. The Utes lived in the north, especially in the valley of the Great Salt Lake; the Paiutes were confined to South- ern Utah and Northern Arizona. Both tribes roamed about in small bands, and the most influential lead- ers among them were Chiefs Tabby, Washakie, Walker, and Aropine. The Utes were a vigorous people, and were noted for their honesty and virtue. Distinctly mountain In- dians, they befriended the emigrants in their migration to the Pacific, often sending their scouts as guides over the mountains and desert. These Indians were discovered by the Spaniards at a very early date in our country's history. They were known from the time of Cardenas, the first white man to enter the present confines of Utah in 1540. It will be remembered that the Spaniards had always in mind the carrying of the cross to the Indians. In 1776, two brave Franciscan friars named Escalante and Dominguez ex- plored the Wasatch mountains and valleys of Utah, for the purpose of establishing a good trail to the Catholic Missions of California. Camping a few days on the shores of Utah Lake, they traversed the entire length of Utah. From that time until the advent of the pioneers, Spaniards came into the Wasatch Mountains and traded with the native tribes. In fact they often captured the children and subjected them to slavery in Mexico. The Hudson Bay trappers penetrated into the mountains as early as 1824, and trading posts were established at what <> THE STORY OF UTAH is now Ogden on the east shore of the Great Salt Lake. Some of the most noted trappers and explorers who knew the valleys and canyons of Utah before its permanent set- tlement were Peter Skeene Ogden, William Ashley, James Beckwourth, James Bridger, and Jedediah Smith. They all became acquainted with the geographical features of this western country, and their knowledge became help- ful to others who came later. In 1841 the Catholic Father DeSmet, a noted Franciscan priest, passed through Utah on the north and preached Christ to the Indians, and in 1843, John C. Fremont, having drifted in a little boat to one of the islands in Great Salt Lake, wrote the first description of the valley, which was published by the Government. During the decade from 1840 to 1850, hundreds of home-seekers crossed the plains on the Oregon Trail, and at South Pass as early as 1844 a trail led off to the valley of the Great Salt Lake. Over this went Hastings in 1844, and in 1846 the ill-fated Donner party on its way to California passed along the south shore of the Great Salt Lake, and during the winter half of the party perished in the snows of the Sierras. The Utah Pioneers No permanent settlement had been made in Utah up to 1847. During that year, a party of "Mormon" pio- neers from the State of Illinois set out for the far west. One of that company writes in his journal: *'I sold my farm this morning for one hundred dollars in cash, a good wagon, and four horses. Under the cir- cumstances, I am thankful. Tomorrow, we will pack our belongings into the wagon, and hitching up, will leave to join the ''brethren" who are on their way to the Mis- souri River. The days are cold, and there is suffering in the camps of the people. But God is our guide and unto him we have entrusted our destiny." During the winter of 184G-47, the Utah colonists THE STORY OF UTAH 7 gathered on the banks of the Missouri River at Council Bluffs and at Winter Quarters, seven miles above. Their leader, Brigham Young, had determined to take his peo- ple to the far west, and there take up lands and build new homes. Winter Quarters became a thriving town and civic community. There were schools and places of worship, and though the homes of the people were but cabins and dugouts in the banks of the Missouri, they were centers of economic activity, having grist and saw mills. It was a society of fifteen thousand souls, united in a religious bond for the purpose of working out their destiny in the West. Fur traders and trappers who vis- ited Winter Quarters at that time say that the people were distinctly honest, and the Pawnee Indians wel- comed them to their borders. The first company of pio- neers, chosen by Brigham Young to make the march, left Winter Quarters in April, 1847. It consisted of one hundred and forty-three men, three women and two chil- dren. The company was to locate lands for their future homes. Brigham Young was a natural leader of men. Great in personal force, sincere, earnest, faithful, "he was great in the perfect fitting and powerful use of prac- tical means to practical ends." This company was a splendid type of society, for they all lived good lives, and were obedient to law and order. Organized as they were, they had set rules to obey, and they moved and acted as a unit. They followed the Platte River into what is now Wyoming, passed through South Pass and came on to Fort Bridger. From here they took the trail into the valley of the Great Salt Lake. While on the plains, they had orders not to kill the buffalo wantonly, nor to make any trouble for the Indian tribes. In fact they made friends with the Indians from the first, and always fed them when they had food to spare. They marched in order and systematically day by day. Every 8 THE STORY OF UTAH morning at five o'clock the bugle wakened the camp. All assembled for prayer, ate their breakfast, and at the sound of the second bugle the company began the march. They travelled about twenty miles each day. At night, gathering around the fire, they sang songs of thanks- giving, and after the evening prayer and the placing of the watch, retired for the night. Every Sabbath day was strictly observed. Says one of the pioneers in his journal : "We shaved and put on clean clothes today. It is the Sabbath and we must meet God with clean hands and pure hearts." In June the pioneer party reached the Black Hills and Fort Laramie. At Fort Bridger, Brigham Young heard much about the valley of the Great Salt Lake from the trappers and explorers, but all the reports were more or less discouraging. It had long been designated as the one place in the temperate region of North America as worthless, "where only grease wood and sage brush could grow, and where the coyote and rattlesnake re- pelled the frontiersman." In fact, the Indians declared that the Great Spirit had sent a blight over the land. Notwithstanding all this, the pioneers pushed on over the mountains and finally down through Emigration Can- yon to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. As Brigham Young looked upon the desert waste, he declared: "This is the place." The pioneers entered the valley July 24, 1847, and turning the water of a mountain stream on the soil, they inaugurated in the far west the American system of irrigation. Utah, as the central portion of the arid region, has led since that time in the development of irrigation by associations of farmers tilling small areas. The Utah farmer has consequently learned how to sup- port a large number of people on a small acreage. Within a month after the arrival of the first company THE vSTORY OF UTAH of pioneers, Salt Lake City was surveyed and laid out in such a manner that today it is one of the unique and beautiful cities of the United States. The city blocks of ten acres each were divided into eight lots of equal size of one and one-fourth acres. Trees were planted along the sidewalks, and little ditches dug, where flowed the sparkling water from the mountains. Each little home was planted in flowers and gardens; each home became a unit of government, for the Utah pioneers were great observers of civic and religious laws. Close upon the city limits was the farming land of five, ten and twenty acre plots, resembling the old New England land system. Potatoes, maize, and wheat were planted during the first summer, but very little of the harvest could be used for food, as it was all kept for seed for the following spring. These pio- neers began the building of homes, which have ever been the economic, social, intellectual, and religious centers for the children. The people had a struggle for existence, and it was because of their hard toil and sublime faith in God that the virgin soil was reclaimed from its sterility. So great was the work of the pio- neers of Utah that ex-President Theodore Roosevelt said of them on one occasion : ''Here in this State the pio- neers and those who came after them took not the land that would ordinarily be chosen as land that yields return for little effort. You took a territory which at the out- set was called after the desert, and you literally — not figuratively — made the desert blossom as the rose." Building the Great Mormon Tabernacle 10 THE STORY OF UTAH The first band of pioneers to Utah was followed by other well organized companies, and by the summer of 1848 nearly four thousand people had crossed the plains to Salt Lake City, which had become a prosperous settle- ment within a year. From it as a center, Brigham Young directed the settlement of all the valleys of the Wasatch, and thriving settlements and towns were soon found both north and south. By 1850, nearly fifteen thousand people had settled in Utah, and Salt Lake City was looked upon as a profitable center and market for the overland trade to California, and as a place where food might be obtained and horses and oxen procured for the remainder of the journey to the Pacific. Cooperation entered into the very life of the pioneer communities of Utah. The men went to the canyons and cut and hewed logs for their cabins, school, and meeting-houses; they tugged hard at the soil; they built canals and water ditches, and in all of their work they manifested what Professor Ely of the University of Wis- consin designates as "a unity of purpose which was the cohesive power necessary to obtain economic results." An Inventory of a Pioneer Company To give the reader an example of what one of those old pioneer companies was, I quote from one of the jour- nals of that time. In a company which crossed the plains in 1848, there were: 623 wagons; 1891 souls; 131 mules; 44 horses; 2012 oxen; 54 cats; 134 dogs; 5 bee hives; 1 squirrel ; 983 cows ; 3341 loose cattle ; 654 sheep ; 237 pigs ; 9014 chickens; 3 goats; 10 geese; 11 doves; 5 ducks. The list shows the good judgment of the people in bringing to the far west those things that could be best used in building up industries and markets. THE STORY OF UTAH 11 The Early Towns of Utah In the settlement of Utah men were picked out to go with their families into remote parts of the Territory, where they took up land and established their homes. It required men and women of great strength of character to redeem the desert and to treat with the Indians. The colonizers lived a community life, and were held closely together in a brotherhood, because of their religious ideals. As a rule, the town was laid out and surrounded by a fort for protection. Within the fort was the school, meeting, and town house, as well as an exchange market. Each person picked out his own land, or was allotted a piece, and with the help of his "brethren," immediately set about to build a home. He had his private strip and his arable land, and pasturage. Upon the waste lands and in the canyons they herded their cattle in common. Regular meetings of all the people, including the women, were held, and all affairs pertaining to the community were discussed and voted upon by all alike. In a meeting it might be decided to build a water ditch, to buy a stove for the school house, to give a dance, or construct an amusement hall. It was a typical New England town meeting, and was characterized by its splendid democ- racy. All had the right of free discussion. The pioneer towns of Utah were founded 'upon three leading economic principles. First, freehold land. All were encouraged to obtain their own land and homes. Secondly, the maintenance of the meeting and school- house, which was the social and intellectual center of the town. Thirdly, a democratic town meeting of all the villagers, for the purpose of discussing affairs pertaining to the welfare of the people, both temporally and spir- itually. The towns became centers of trade, and were in time connected by good roads and bridges. Bartering was carried on, and as agriculture was encouraged and 12 THE STORY OF UTAH fostered, manufacturing on the cooperative plan soon became prevalent. So anxious were the people for com- munication with the outside world, that in 1850 they petitioned Congress through their Legislature for a rail- road to the Pacific, which should pass through Utah. As early as 1849, a store was established in Salt Lake City, and the proprietor traded with Fort Hall in Idaho, and bought peltries from the fur traders. The ' 'forty-niners" on their way to California, found tobacco, bacon, hats, boots, and shoes here, and sold dress goods, hats, gloves, calicoes, woollens, etc. They also disposed of their cat- tle and horses for the better ones of the colonists. The Pioneer Homes The pioneers built their houses of logs and adobe. The log houses were well constructed, the timber being hauled from the mountains and hewed into form with ax and whip saw. Local saw mills, however, made it possi- ble for the people to obtain good logs and lumber for floor and roof. The adobe was a sun- dried brick like those which the Mexicans and the Indians of the South have used for centuries. Adobe houses are cool in sum- An Old Adobe House ^^^ ^^^^ ^gj,y wavm in wiuter, and have been among the most durable of all dwellings. Many beautiful adobe houses exist to this day in all the cities of Utah, yet in our modern methods of building, brick and cement have taken the place of the Mexican adobe. The old houses attest, however, the stability and char- acter of the people. In them were large fireplaces, a corn bedstead or two, a spinning wheel, and rope-bot- tomed chairs made of willow and buckskin. ^Well-made rag carpets covered the floor of the living room. In THE STORY OF UTAH 13 many of the homes were musical instruments. Melo- deons were hauled across the plains by the companies of 1847, and by 1860 reed organs were brought by ox te^ins to Salt Lake City. The vertebra of an ox or buffalo often served as a candlestick. The surroundings of the homes were made attractive. In fact so neat and tidy were- the early homes of the desert that Lieutenant Beale of the United States Navy was led to report the following to the Government in 1852: "Paragonah is situated in the valley of the Little Salt Lake and lies near the foot of the mountains: It contain^ about thirty houses, which, although built of adobes, present a neat and comfortable appearance. The adobes are small and well pressed, and are made of pink colored clay. The houses are built to form a quadrangle, the spaces between them being protected by a strong stock- ade of pine pickets. In the rear of the homes and outside the town are beautiful vegetable gardens. The houses are ornamented in front by small flower gardens and shade trees. ' ' How the Soil was Reclaimed All the early towns of Utah became centers of economic thrift. Every family needed a home. In the spring- time, extensive acre- age was planted around these cen- ters, and dams were made in the streams and canals dug. From twenty to forty men turned out with their oxen, and made a ditch through the hard-baked soil. A forge was to be found in every vijlage, where horses might Redeeming the Desert 14 THE STORY OF UTAH be shod and plows mended. The fields were flooded at limes, and crops grew well on the virgin soil. Nearly all the work was done by the association of farmers liv- ing in small communities. It is only since the railroad came in that capital has been used in the construction of canals, bridges, etc. Yet the farmers at that early day united and built works of considerable magnitude. Growing out of the method of cooperation, the people had orderly methods of allotting and distributing the water, the farmers before 1870 sharing equally in its use. The Gulls and the Crickets In the spring of 1848, the wheat fields were beautiful throughout the valley of the Great Salt Lake, and every- body looked forward to a prosperous season. An unex- pected event occurred, however, which it seemed for a while would result in leaving the people destitute. In April they noticed the coming of millions of crickets, and before they could realize it, the pest had swept down on the fields and were devouring the tender sprouts of wheat. Hundreds of acres were destroyed, and the people, in order to conquer and destroy the insects, worked night and day. Finally a day of fasting and prayer was appointed, for the colonists were impelled to turn to God for help. Their prayer was answered. In a few days, thousands of gulls from the islands of the Great Salt Lake pounced upon the crickets and destroyed them. The crickets disappeared, and the gulls went back to their island home in the bosom of the lake. The crops were saved, and since that day the gull is looked upon as a symbol of Utah. No one kills a gull in Utah. Sen- timent and a heavy fine protect the bird, for the coming of the pretty white-winged messenger in the time of need is looked upon as an intervention of Providence, "that rewards industry and answers the prayer of faith." THE STORY OP UTAH 15 Organization of Utah Territory Though the people well understood local self govern- ment, and had their civic laws and principles to which they closely adhered, at the beginning of 1848 there was a desire among the towns and settlements that they should all be bound into one civic whole. The land where they had settled had recently been ceded to the United States by the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, and this too by the help of the Utah colonists. They now had a great desire that they should be recognized and that their new Territory should be brought into the union of States. The people had a wish for statehood from the first, and as Brigham Young was head of his people as a religious leader, so too did he lead them in organizing their civic centers. At his call, a convention met in Salt Lake City in February, 1849, and the mem- bers drew up a constitution for a State government. The factors necessary for State government were present. All that was needed was recognition on the part of the government at Washington. With the writing of the constitution, a memorial was drafted, and both sent to Washington. The memorial asked that the new Territory be admitted as the State of Deseret. The proposed con- stitution contained many interesting points, among which is the following: "Every person may speak, write, and publish his sen- timents on all subjects, being responsible for the use of that right; and no law shall be passed to abridge the liberty of speech and the press." The constitution provided for the three general depart- ments of government, and was in accord with the consti- tution of the United States. While Congress was consid- ering the question of statehood for the new Territory, an election was held, and Brigham Young was made gover- nor of the provisional government. A legislature was 16 THE STORY OF UTAH also chosen, and the first law passed related to the proper maintenance of roads and bridges. The second law established the University of the State of Deseret. Congress did not grant the people Statehood, but organized the Territory of Utah, and Millard Fillmore, President of the United States, appointed Brigham Young governor. In a few weeks the machinery of their civic government was working. Many of the laws of the old legislative assemblies indi- cate the economic and intellectual ideals of the colonists. One is in reference to drunkenness and profanity. Any person profaning the name of God is subject to a heavy fine, and an intoxicated person is also liable to heavy punishment. There were laws prohibiting Indian slavery, and very stringent statutes regarding immorality, for- gery, counterfeiting, etc. Most interesting is the first school law, passed in 1851, and the law of 1852 estab- lishing a free public library in Salt Lake City. Early Manufacturing Industry is the keynote to Utah's history. The people have been home producers, and believers in home indus- try. The great economic factor, ready money, was lack- ing at first, but the other two, land and labor, were present. Domestic manufacture was necessarily prac- ticed from the first. Each home was a little center for the carding of wool and the manufacturing of cloth. From buckskin, gloves and shirts were made, and the women spent much of their time knitting. The earliest grist mills were those of Charles Crismon and John Neff, and in all the towns where timber abounded, saw mills were built, although at first the old-fashioned whipsaw was used. Ir(jn mines were developed in the southern part of the State as early as 1852, and nails were made that same THE vSTORY OF UTAH 17 year. From that time, the iron industry has grown to great proportions in Utah. There was a casting furnace in Salt Lai 7.x 88 American Naval Heroes (Jones, Perry, Farragut; — Bush 89 Fremont and Kit Qarson—Jjidd 91 Story of Eugene Field — McLahe 178 .Story of Ivexiugton and Bunker Hill. 182 Story of Joan of Arc — McFee 207 Famous Artists, II — Re\-nolds — j^Iurilio 243 Famous Artists — III— Millet — C. at/sion 24S :\Iakers of European History — l^V/iite Literature 90 Fifteen Selections from I,ougfellow — I (A Village Blacksmith, Children's Hour and other poems) 95 Japanese Myths and Legends — McFee 103 Stories from the Old Testament — McFee III Water Babies ( Abritlged)— AY^/^j/o' 171 Tolmi of the Treetops — Grivies 172 Labu, the Little I,ake Dweller — Grimes 195 Night before Christmas and OtUer Christmas Poems and Stories. 201 Alice's First Adventures in Wonder- land — Carroll 202 Alice's Further Adventures in Wonder- laud — Can oil FIFTH YEAR Nature and Industry 92 Animal Life in the Sea — McFee 93 .Story of Silk — Bro2vn 94 Story of Sugar — Reiter 96 What We Drink (Tea, Coffee and Cocoa) 139 Peeps into Bird Nooks, W— McFee 210 Snowdrops and Crocuses — Mann 250 Making of the World — Hrmdon 251 Builders oi: the World— Hern don 283 Stories of Time — flush History and Biography 16 Explorations of the Northwest 80 Story of the Ca.ho\.s,—McBride 97 Story of the Norsemen — Hanson 98 .Story of Nathan Hale — McCabe 99 .Story of Jefferson — McCabe 100 Story of Bryant — McFee 101 Story of Robert E. h.'ie.—McKane 105 Story of Canada — Douglas 106 Story of Mexico — McCabe 107 Story of Robert LouisStevenson — Bush no Story of Hawthorne— i^/c/v-^ H2 Biographical Storiefi—Haze/thor?ie 141 .Storj-^ of Grant — McKane 144 Story of Steam — McCabe 145 Story of McKinley — McBride 179 Story of the Flag — Baker 190 Story of Father Hennepin — McBride 191 Story of LaSalle— yi/<-/>r7V/^ 185 Story of tlie First Crusade— .IMrr/ 217 Story of IHorence Nightingale— yl/c/vv 2i8 Storj"- of Peter Cooper — McFee 232 .Story of .Shakesi)eare — Gravies 287 Life in Colonial lia.ys—Tillinghast Literature 8 King of the Golden River — Ruskiti 9 The Golden Touch — Haivthorne 61 Story of Sindbad the Sailor ic8 History in Verse (Sheridan's Ride, In- dependence Bell, etc) 113 Little Daffydowndilly and Other Stories — Haivt/iorne 180 Storyof Aladdinandof AM Baha.— Lewis 153 A Dog of Flanders— Z)^ la Raviee 154 The Nurnberg Stove — De la Raviee 186 Heroes from King Arthur — Grames 194 Whittier's Poems. Selected. 199 Jackanapes — Eiving 200 The Child of Urbiuo — J^^ 'a Ramee 2c8 Heroes of Asga; d--Selections— A',?a;_v 2\i Story of Robin Hood— Z.'«i// 234 Poems Worth Knowing— Book II— Inter- mediate — Faxon SIXTH YEAR Nature and Industry 109 Gifts of the Forest (Rubber, Cinchona, Resin, etc.) — McFee Geography 114 Great European Cities — I (Loudon and Paris) — Bush 115 Great European Cities — II (Rome and Berlin — Bush 168 Great European Cities— III (St. Peters- burg and Constantinople) — Bush 247 The Chinese and Their Country— Prtw/- son 2S5 Story of Panama and the Canal History and Biography 73 Four Great Musicians— 5 2