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Excerpt from Old Stories of the East There are few stories which in themselves are more intensely interesting than those that have come down to us from antiquity through the medium of the Hebrew Scriptures. Yet they have been so generally and so exclusively employed for the purpose of imparting religious instruction, that their purely literary qualities have not always received the attention which they merit. By very many persons, grown-up pe...

Excerpt from A Guide to Systematic Readings: In the Encyclopædia BritannicaThrough our excellent system of common schools, every boy or girl in the land is furnished with the rudiments of an education. But in the school, the child is only started on the way, the best that can be done is to provide him with a few essentials, and give him some slight impetus that will keep him moving on in the right direction. If he continues his studies beyond ...

Excerpt from Baldwin's Biographical Stories: For Young American Readers When Daniel Boone was a child the land west of the Alleghanies was a wilderness inhabited only by Indians. But in Virginia, and other places east of the mountains, there were fine houses with broad porches and large, richly-furnished rooms. There stately men in powdered wigs and knee-breeches, and queenly dames in stiff brocades and high-heeled shoes, lived and brought up...

Excerpt from Nine Choice Poems of Longfellow, Lowell, Macaulay, Byron, Browning and Shelley Almost all children enjoy nursery rhymes, especially if they may listen to their recital instead of being required to read them. The great majority take pleasure in reading or hearing any simple verses provided they "tell something" and have life and movement. They enjoy ballads, whether old or new, and metrical stories no matter how awkward the rhyme....

This volume covers the history and development of the two classes of Great Northern Railway Atlantics.

Excerpt from History of Psychology, Vol. 1: A Sketch and an Interpretation Dualism Descartes. Occasionalism Male branche. Parallelism: Spinoza. Pre-established Harmony Leibnitz. Dogmatism Wolff. Beginnings Of Naturalism and Early Empiricism Gassendi, Hobbes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historica...

Excerpt from Psychological Review, Vol. 10For discriminating criticism of important views of modern scientists, see Pierce, 'studies in Space Perception.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the orig...

Excerpt from The Horse Fair Gee up, old fellow! Now go on!" These words were spoken by a barefooted boy plowing corn in a lonely field, and they were addressed to the old farm-horse which he was driving. He was nearing the end of the last row that was to be plowed that day. "Gee up, Kiron! Go on a little farther. Oh, who ever saw so hot a day in June!" cried the lad, wiping his face with his sleeve. "Whoa, haw! Now, turn in under the shade ...

Excerpt from Old Greek Stories: Third Reader Grade Perhaps no other stories have ever been told so often or listened to with so much pleasure as the classic tales of ancient Greece. For many ages they have been a source of delight to young people and old, to the ignorant and the learned, to all who love to hear about and contemplate things mysterious, beautiful, and grand. They have become so incorporated into our language and thought, and so...

Excerpt from School Reading by Grades: Fifth Year The lessons in this volume have been selected and arranged with a view towards several ends: to interest the young reader, to cultivate a taste for the best style of literature as regards both thought and expres sion, to point the way to an acquaintance with good books to appeal to the pupil's sense of duty, and strengthen his desire to do right, to arouse patriotic feelings and a just pride i...

Excerpt from Mental Development in the Child and the Race: Methods and Processes This occupied my thought, and was made the topic of my graduate Seminar in psychology at Princeton, in 1893 - 94, the result being the conviction that no consistent view of mental development in the individual could possibly be reached with out a doctrine of the race development of consciousness, x.c., the great problem of the evolution of mind. About the Publis...

Excerpt from The Book of Elegies The Idyls of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus have served as models for no inconsiderable portion of our modern pastoral and elegiac poetry. They have been imitated by Spenser, improved upon by Milton, parodied by Pope and Gay, copied after by Shelley, and loved and admired by all the poets. By the three specimens presented in this book most of the elegies in our own language have been either directly or remotely...

#26 on The Guardian's list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in America In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With films like I Am Not Your Negro and the forthcoming If Beale Street Could Talk bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work...

Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: A True Life It must not be thought that when our nation began its life it was rich and great as it now is. It was small and weak. Its possessions did not reach from ocean to ocean, as they do now, but only from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River. There were but thirteen states, and they were thinly settled. Nearly all the people lived in that part of the country which is east of the Alleghany Mountains, ...

Excerpt from Thirty More Famous Stories Retold At last, however, the king and queen of Spain gave him ships with which to make the trial voyage. He crossed the ocean and discovered strange lands, inhabited by a people unlike any that had been known before. He believed that these lands were a part of India. When he returned home with the news of his discovery there was great rejoicing, and he was hailed as the hero who had given a new world t...

Excerpt from The Golden Fleece: More Old Greek Stories To the lad Cretheus, the youngest of the sons of olus, all this seemed unbearable. He missed the friends of former days. He missed their loving service. He shrank before the cold' looks and harsh words that greeted him day by day. At length he said to his brother the king: I have no longer a home. I would rather go out into the great woods and live with the wild things there than dwell i...

Excerpt from American Neutrality: Its Cause and Cure The conditions under which these lectures have been prepared are so special that a word explaining them may not be considered out of place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digita...

Excerpt from Sixth Reader The design of this series of School Readers is to help children to acquire the art and the habit of read ing well that is, of interpreting the printed page in such manner as to give pleasure and instruction to themselves and to those who listen to them. The selections throughout have been chosen with refer ence both to their literary and educative value and to their fitness for practice in expressive oral reading. Al...

Excerpt from The Book-Lover: A Guide to the Best Reading Ook love has ever been my passion, of B its beginning I have no recollection. Although its early opportunities to manifest itself were slight indeed, yet it seemed to me so natural and so very necessary, that as a child I thought everybody ought to be possessed by it in the same manner as myself. That any person could live indif ferent to the allurements of books was a matter of constan...

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadSet in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime.