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BOOK SUGGESTIONS 
 
 POR THE. PUPILS OF THE CITY 
 SCHOOLS, :: :: : :: :: DURHAM, N. C. 
 
 “A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.”’ 
 
EXPLANATORY 
 
 The teachers o1 the city schools are ofte 
 asked to suggest books suitable for childre 
 to read. With this in view we have select: 
 with some care the following list of books 
 any one of which, we believe, is worthy of 
 place in any good library. The list 18 1 
 intended to be exhaustive, but only sugges 
 ive; nor 1s the classification intended to | 
 anything more than suggestive. Almost ai 
 piece of good literature might well be plac 
 in any one of four or five grades. We prese 
 this list to the patrons of the city schoo 
 and trust that it may be of some service 
 the parents in selecting and directing t 
 reading of their children; and to the childr 
 in helping to stimulate their interest in go 
 reading, and in leading them to begin eai 
 to gather around them, as their own, ac 
 lection of good books. 
 
 These hooks may be ordered from the pi 
 lishers or bought at the Durham Book Sti 
 at publisher’s prices. , 
 
_ “He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth chil- 
 @ren from play, and old men from the chimney-corner.’’ 
 
 FIRST AND SECOND GRADES. 
 
 4@sop’s Fables. Pratt. 
 
 Reynard the Fox. Smythe. 
 
 Little Red Riding Hood. Lang. 
 Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew. Craik. 
 Stories of the Red Children. Brooks. 
 Little Golden Hood. Heller & Bates. 
 In Mythland. Beckwith. 
 
 Story Hour. Wiggins & Smith. 
 ‘Through the Farmyard. Poulsson. 
 Roggie and Reggie Stories. Smith. 
 Child’s Garden of Verse. 
 
 Robinson Crusoe (McMurry). DeFoe. 
 Alice in Wonderland. Caroll. 
 Adventures of a Brownie. Craik. 
 Nature Myths. Cook. 
 
 Fairy Tales (Pratt). Grimm. 
 
 Janie, Jose, and Joe. Smith. 
 
 Tales from the Nursery Land. 
 
 More Tales from the Nursery Land. 
 Tales Told at the Zoo. E 
 
 Jack the Giant Killer. Lang. 
 
 Mother Goose Melodies. Wheeter. 
 Story of Hiawatha (Norris). Longfellow. 
 Six Nursery Classics. O’Shea. 
 Folk-Lore Stories. Wiltse. 
 
 Nursery Rhymes. Welsh. 
 
 Eyes and No Eyes. Aiken. 
 
 Just a Little Boy. Ashworth. 
 
 Fairy Stories and Fables. Baldwin. 
 Stories of Mother Goose. Bigelow. 
 Ethel in Fairyland. Boster. 
 Children of the Wigwam. Chase. 
 Story Without an End. Carové. 
 Household Tales. Grimm. 
 
 Princess Idleways. Hayes. 
 
 Indian Children. Husted. 
 
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Three Fairy Tales. Ingelow. 
 
 Sleeping Beauty. Lang. 
 
 - Whittington and His Cat. Lang. 
 
 Old World Wonder Stories. O’Shea. 
 
 Peter Rabbit. Potter. 
 
 Pepper and Salt. Pyle. 
 
 Fables and Folk Stories. Scudder. 
 
 Fifty Famous Stories Retold. Baldwin. 
 Indian Chieftains. Husted. 
 
 Little People of the Snow. Muller. 
 
 Big People and Little People. Shaw. 
 
 Great Americans for Little Americans. Shaw. 
 Eskimo Stories. Rand. . 
 Poems Every Child Should Know. Burt. 
 
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 ‘If there are choice stories, epics, and histories whic | 
 have power to impress youthful thought, fancy, an 
 feeling, let the early years reap the full benefit. Childre 
 should be led through some of the garden-plots of lite: 
 ature, leaving rich memories behind and gaining _ 
 
 culture that will abide through life.’”’ 
 
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it “Reading isto the mind what exerciseis to the body.” 
 
 THIRD AND FOURTH GRADES. 
 
 Myths of Old Greece. Adams. 
 
 Stories. Anderson. 
 ‘Short Stories for Short People. Aspinwall. 
 Coquo and the King’s Children. Baker. 
 Old Stories of the East. Balwin. 
 
 True Fairy Stories. Blakewell. 
 
 Rab and His Friends. Brown, J. 
 ‘Alice in Wonderland. Carroll. 
 
 Story of Ulysses. Cook. 
 
 Adventures of a Brownie. Craik. 
 
 Little Lame Prince. Craik. 
 
 Four Old Greeks. Hall. 
 
 Topsy-turvy Tales. Hamer. . 
 
 *Round the Year in Myth and Song. Holbrook. 
 Story Book (Burt.) Howells. 
 
 Legends of Springtime. Hoyt. 
 
 Prince Darling. Lang. 
 
 Princess on the Glass Hill. Lang. 
 
 Dog of Flanders. Ouida. 
 
 ‘Child’s Christ Tales. Proudfoot. 
 Diddie, Dumps, and Tot. Pyrnelle. 
 Baron Munchausen. Raspe. 
 
 Child’s Garden of Verse. Stevenson. 
 Gulliver’s Travels. Swift. 
 
 Aunt Louisa’s Fairy Stories. Valentine. 
 Little Girl of Long Ago. White. 
 
 Bird’s Christmas Carol. Wiggin. 
 
 Story of Patsy. Wiggin. 
 
 Children of the Palm Lands. Allen. 
 Each and All. Andrews. 
 
 Seven Little Sisters. Andrews. 
 
 Stories Mother Nature Told. Andrews. 
 Animals at Home. Bartlett. 
 
 ‘Wonderful Chair. Browne. 
 
 Our Fatherland. Carver & Pratt. 
 
 The Biography of a Grizzly. Thompson-Seton. 
 Wings and Stings. Daulton. 
 
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Cat-tails and Other Tales. Howliston. 
 
 Cats and Dogs. Johonnot. 
 
 Friends in Feathers and Fur. Johonnot. 
 
 Water Babies. Kingsley. 
 
 Aunt Martha’s Corner Cupboard. Kirby. 
 
 Alice’s Visit to the Hawaiian Islands. Krout. 
 
 Two Girls in China. Krout. 
 
 Secrets of the Woods. Long. 
 
 People and Places. Pratt. 
 
 Story Land of Stars. Pratt. 
 
 Aunt Louisa’s Book of Common Things. Valen- 
 tine. 
 
 Lincoln. Cravens. ° 
 
 American Life and Adventure. Eggleston. 
 
 Story of the Chosen People. Guerber. 
 
 Norse Seamen and How They Discovered America, 
 
 Pioneers of the Revolution. 
 
 Stories of Colonial Children. Pratt. 
 
 Stories of American Pioneers. 
 
 Stories of Great Men. 
 
 Colonial Days. Welsh.’ 
 
 Boy ona Farm. Abbott. 
 
 Arabian Nights (Hale.) 
 
 Robinson Crusoe (Lambert). Defoe. 
 
 Cricket on the Hearth. Dickens. 
 
 Ballads and Other Verse. Field. 
 
 Nights with Uncle Remus. Harris. 
 
 Little Daffydowndilly. Hawthorne. 
 
 Tanglewood Tales. Hawthorne. 
 
 Wonder Book. Hawthorne. 
 
 Hiawatha. Longfellow. 
 
 Legends of the Red Children.’ Pratt. 
 
 King of the Golden River. Ruskin. 
 
 Book of Legends. Scudder. 
 
 Story of a Donkey. Ségur. 
 
 Little Smoke. Stoddard. 
 
 Winter Fun. Stoddard. 
 
 Tales of Troy. Witt. : 
 
 Old Indian Legends. Zitkala-Sa. | 
 
 Ten Boys. Andrews. ! 
 
 Child Life in Japan. Ayrton. 
 
 Friends and Helpers. Eddy. 
 
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 Friends of the Field. 
 
 Stories of Animal Life. Holder. 
 
 Into Unknown Seas. Ker. 
 
 Four Handed Folk. Miller. 
 
 Two Little Pilgrims’ Progress. Burnette. 
 Among the Forest People. Pierson. 
 Among the Meadow People. Pierson. 
 Among the Night People. Pierson. 
 Story of our Country. Barton. 
 
 Boy Life of Napoleon. Brooks. 
 Christopher Columbus. Brooks. 
 Biographical Stories. Hawthorne. 
 Grandfather’s Chair. Hawthorne. 
 Stories of Heroic Deeds. Johonnot. 
 Stories of Other Lands. Johonnot. 
 Four American Explorers. Kingsley. 
 Lewis and Clark. Kingsley. 
 
 Santa Claus’s Partner. Page. 
 
 A Captured Santa Clause. Page. 
 Story of Columbus. Pratt. 
 Discoverers and Explorers. Shaw. 
 Little Lord Fauntleroy. Burnett. 
 Poems Every Child Should Know. Burt. 
 
 “Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends 
 grace to wisdom, and makes the heroic virtues heredi- 
 rary.’ . 
 
“Next to acquiring BOOS friends, the best acquaintance 
 is that of good books.’ 
 
 FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADES. 
 
 Little Men. Alcott. 
 
 Little Women. Alcott. 
 
 Little Lord Fauntleroy. Burnett. 
 
 Love Songs of Childhood. Field. 
 
 Viking Tales. Hall. 
 
 Wonder Book. Hawthorne. 
 
 Norse Stories. Mabie. 
 
 Bed-Time Stories. Mouldon. 
 
 King of the Golden River. Ruskin, 
 
 Ways of Wood-Folk. Long. 
 
 Wilderness Ways. Long. 
 
 Cortez. Abbott. 
 
 King Philip. Abbott. | 
 
 George Washington. Brooks. (Four Americai 
 Series). | 
 
 Inventors. Perry. 
 
 Pioneers. Perry. 
 
 Naval Heroes, Etc. Beebe. 
 
 Patriots. Burton. 
 
 Lafayette. Burton. 
 
 American Leaders and Heroes. Gordy. 
 
 World’s Discoverers. Johnson. 
 
 Abraham Lincoln. Putnam. 
 
 In the Days of Alfred the Great. Tannans 
 
 Story of the Golden Age. Baldwin. 
 
 North Carolina Sketches. Carter. 
 
 The Deerslayer. Cooper. 
 
 The Last of the Mohicans. Cooper. 
 
 Girls Whe Became Famous. Bolton. 
 
 Poor Boys Who Became Famous. Bolton. 
 
 The Prairie. Cooper. 
 
 The Pathfinder. Cooper. 
 
 The Pioneers.. Cooper. 
 
 The Spy. Cooper. 
 
 The Pilot. Cooper. 
 
 Christmas Carols. Dickens. 
 
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yOliver Twist. Dickens. 
 
 Old Curiosity Shop. Dickens. 
 
 Stories of Adventure. Hale. 
 
 The Great Stone Face. Hawthorne. 
 Heroic Ballads. Ginn & Co., Pub. 
 Homer’s Odyssey. Palmer. 
 
 Fairy Tales of All Nations. Laboulaye. 
 Stories from Old Eng. Poetry. Richardson. 
 Tales of Chivalry. Scott. 
 
 ‘Five Little Peppers. Sidney. 
 
 Treasure Island. Stevenson. 
 
 ‘Timothy’s Quest. Wiggin. 
 
 ‘Rebecca of the Sunny Brook Farm. Wiggin. 
 ‘Bird World. Stickney. 
 
 ‘Every Day Birds. Torrey. 
 
 ‘Krag and Johny Bear. Thompson-Seton. 
 ‘The Lives of the Hunted. Thompson-Seton. 
 Wild Animals I Have Known. Thompson-Seton, 
 ‘Lobo, Rag, and Vixen. Thompson-Seton. 
 ‘Trail of the Sand Hill Stag. Thompson-Seton. 
 ‘Old Times in the Colonies. Coffin. 
 
 Strange Stories from History. Eggleston. 
 ‘Stories of Discovery. Hale. 
 
 Grandfather’s Chair. Hawthorne. 
 
 Paul Jones. Hapgood. 
 
 King Philip’s War. Hutchinson. 
 
 Lewis and Clark. Lighton. 
 
 Champlain and His Associates. Parkman. 
 Colonial Pioneers. Parkman. 
 
 Stories of Bird Life. Pierson. 
 
 Ivanhoe. Scott. 
 
 Scottish Chiefs. Scott. 
 
 Story of the Otherwise Man. Van Dyke. 
 Book of Stories. Joel Chandler Harris. 
 
 In Old Virginia. Page. 
 
 Among the Camps. Page. 
 
 Richard Carvel. Churchill. 
 
 Nights With Uncle Remus. Harris. 
 
 To Have and to Hold. Johnston. 
 
 Alice of Old Vincennes. Thompson. 
 Tanglewood Tales. Hawthorne. 
 
 Two Years Before the Mast. Dana. 
 
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The Prince and the Pauper. Twain. 
 Tom Sawyer. Twain. 
 
 Huckleberry Fin. Twain. 
 Westward Ho. Kingsley. 
 
 Pilgrim’s Progress. Bunyan. 
 Surry of the Eagle’s Nest. Cook. 
 Year’s Subscription to St. Nicholas. 
 
 Year’s Subscription to the Youth’s Companion. 
 
 Poems Every Child Should Know. Burt. 
 Girls Who Became Famous. Bolton. 
 Poor Boys Who Became Famous. Bolton. 
 
 ‘The history of the world is the biography of grea’ 
 
 men.’’ 
 
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 “Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.”’ 
 
 HIGH SCHOOL. 
 
 The Deer Slayer. Cooper. 
 
 The Last of the Mohicans. Cooper. 
 The Pioneers. Cooper. 
 
 The Prairie. Cooper. 
 
 The Pathfinder. Cooper. 
 
 The Spy. Cooper. - 
 
 Phe Pilot. Cooper. 
 
 Nickolas Nickleby. Dickens. 
 Jliver Twist. Dickens. 
 
 Jid Curiosity Shop. Dickens. 
 David Copperfield. Dickens. 
 Vombey and Son. Dickens, 
 Bleak House. Dickens. 
 
 Jur Mutual Friend. Dickens. 
 
 \ Tale of Two Cities. Dickens. 
 Kenilworth. Scott. 
 
 Phe Talisman. Scott. 
 
 Suy Mannering. Scott. 
 
 The Abbott. Scott. 
 
 Anne of Gierstein. Scott. 
 
 Rob Roy. Scott. 
 
 Bride of Lammermoor. Scott. 
 Marmion. Scott. 
 
 Phe Lady of the Lake. Scott. 
 way of the Last Minstrel. Scott. 
 vanhoe. Scott. 
 
 silas Marner. George Eliot. 
 {dam Bede. George Eliot. 
 
 Mill on the Floss. George Eliot. 
 Xomola. George Eliot. 
 
 denry Esmond. Thackeray. 
 
 Che Virginians. Thackeray. 
 ohn Halifax—Gentleman. Mulléck. 
 louse of Seven Gables. Hawthorne. 
 -ongfellow’s Poems. 
 
 iryant’s Poems. 
 
 Vhittier’s Poems. 
 
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Lowell’s Poems. 
 
 Poe’s Poems. 
 
 Lanier’s Poems. 
 
 Tennyson’s Poems. 
 
 Burns’s Poems. 
 
 Wordsworth Poems. 
 
 Last Days of Pompeii. Lytton. 
 The Caxtons. Lytton. 
 Treasure Island. Stevenson. 
 Kidnapped. Stevenson. 
 
 Don Quixotte. Cervantes. 
 As You Like It. Shakspere. 
 Romeo and Juliet. Shakspere. 
 
 Midsummer Night’s Dream. Shakspere. 
 
 The Tempest. Shakspere. 
 Winter’s Tale. Shakspere. 
 King Richard III. Shakspere. 
 King Henry IV. Shakspere. 
 Merchant of Venice. Shakspere. 
 Julius Caesar. Shakspere. 
 Macbeth. Shakspere. 
 American Statesman Series: 
 Washington. 
 
 Jefferson. 
 
 Hamilton. 
 
 Webster. 
 
 Calhoun. 
 
 Marshall. 
 
 Clay. 
 
 Jackson. 
 
 The Conqueror. Gertrude Atherton. 
 
 Parkman’s Historical Series. 
 
 Fiske’s Historical Series. 
 
 Green’s Shorter History of England. 
 Creasy’s Fifteen Decisive Battles 
 Webster’s Speeches. 
 
 Selections from Van Dyke. Mims. 
 Toilers of the Sea. Hugo. 
 
 Lorna Doone. Blackmore. 
 
 The Call of the Wild. Jack London. 
 
 Ben Hur. Lew Wallace. 
 The Crisis. Churchill. 
 
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Richard Carvel. Churchill. 
 
 The Crossing. Churchill. 
 
 Red Rock. Thos. Nelson Page. 
 
 In Ole Virginia. Thos. Nelson Page. 
 
 Two Little Confederates. Thos. Nelson Page. 
 Among the Camps. Thos. Nelson Page. 
 
 To Have and To Hold. Mary Johnson. 
 Irving’s Sketch Book. Irving. 
 Knickerbocker’s History of New York. Irving. 
 The Alhambra. Irving. 
 
 Life of Washington Irving. 
 
 Essays of Elia. Lamb. 
 
 Essays. Emerson. 
 
 Essays on Addison and Milton. Macaulay. 
 ‘Malory’s Boy King Arthur. Lanier. 
 Captains Courageous. Kipling. 
 
 Plain Tales from the Hills. Kipling. 
 
 From Milton to Tennyson. 
 
 Prose Tales. Poe. 
 
 Selections from Southern Poets. Weber. 
 The Odyssey. Palmer. a 
 
 The fliad. Bryant. 
 
 Poems. Eugene Field. 
 
 Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Holmes. 
 Vicar of Wakefield. Goldsmith. 
 
 The Honorable Peter Sterling. Ford. 
 
 In the Tennessee Mountains. Craddock. 
 Tom Sawyer. Twain. 
 
 Huckleberry Fin. Twain. 
 
 The Prince and the Pauper. Twain. 
 
 Essay on Burns. Carlyle. 
 
 Choice of Books. Carlyle. 
 
 Golden Treasury. Palgrave. 
 
 Poems Every Child Should Know. Burt. 
 Pranklin’s Autobiography. Franklin. 
 
 A Man Without a Country. Hale. 
 Nibelungen Lied. Ginn. 
 
 Bird Ways. Miller. 
 
 Boy Travelers (Different Countries). Knox. 
 
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REFERENCE BOOKS. 
 
 Classic Myths. Gayley. 
 
 Familiar Quotations. Bartlett. 
 American Boy’s Handy Book. Beard. 
 American Girl’s Handy Book. Beard. 
 Young Folks’ Cyclopedia of Literature and ne 
 Young Folks’ Cyclopedia of Persons and Places. 
 Stoddard’s Lectures. 
 
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 is by easy reading; but a great book, that comes from 
 great thinker,—it is a ship of thought, deep freighte 
 with truth and with beauty.”’ 
 
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