Journeys through Bookland - a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922) (14770014901)

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Title: Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Sylvester, Charles Herbert
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: Chicago : Bellows-Reeve
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me throughreading, and while we learn ourgeography most accurately throughtravel and observation, but a small part of ourinformation comes through those channels. Weread incessantly of our own country and others, wefill our minds with visions of plants, animals andthe peoples of foreign lands from the facts wegather from the papers, magazines and books. Ifmost of our facts come through reading it is no lesstrue that most of our real interest in geography andhistory comes not from the facts of our text-booksbut from the literature we have read, the literaturethat clothed those facts and made them real andliving. Ask yourselves what gave you your firstreal interest in the history of Scotland and see ifyour answer is not, The novels of Scott. Again,where did you get your first adequate ideas ofchivalry and the feudal system if it was not fromIvanJioe or some similar piece of literature? Whatmakes the Crimean War a household word in thehomes of two continents if it is not the deeds of 400
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%-yj Oliver Goldsmith Matthew Arnold y ^ John Ruskix li J^ Thomas Babington INIacaulay John Bunyan ^ c^l^ Thomas De Quincey Charles Lamb Geography and History 401 Florence Nif^htin^^^ale and Tennysons ChnrffC ofthe Li^ht Brigade? Who can tell most of theBattle of Waterloo, he who has read the facts ofhistory or he who has read Byrons thrilling poemand the descri))tion hy Victor Hugo? Who knowsthe English home as it was? He who reads Gold-smiths Deserted Village. It is in furnishing those literary masterpiecesthat give life to geography and inspiration to his-tory that Journeys Through Bookland gives thebest of assistance to boys and girls in their schoolwork. Some of its selections will give facts andmany of them, but the facts form the smaller partof the contribution. History is valuable only as itenables us to understand the present, thrills us withthe accomplishments of the past and teaches ushow to live and act in the future. No man is sowrapped up in business that he does not hee