Excerpt from The World of Books: A Guide to Reading for Young People in Which May Be Found Volumes of Many Kinds Both Grave and Gay

2. It is often useful to construct a brief outline of your report before you begin.

3. Special questions for each book read will in most instances be set by teachers' at the time you are giving your report. The object of these questions will be to test how accurately and carefully you have read the book you are reporting on.

4. When a book report is given orally, the same plan should be pursued as is indicated under the first heading above. In an oral report, however, remember that in a way you are advising your fellow-students whether or not they should read the book about which you are telling them. Your report, in other words, is distinctly practical in such cases.

5. Some newspapers and magazines publish book reviews - reports, that is, on newly issued books. You will find it instructive to read some of these, in order to learn how trained critics write reports. Here is an example:

"Prof. W. S. Davis, the well-known writer of the classical novels, 'A Friend of Caesar' and 'A Victor at Salamis, ' has prepared an elementary handbook on Greek Private Antiquities, under the title 'A Day in Old Athens' (Allyn & Bacon, $1.25). The book purports to set forth the experiences at Athens of a visitor in the year 360 B. C. The tourist lands at Piraeus, follows the outside road to Athens, visits the market-place, then the home of a well-to-do gentleman. In connection with this he gives all the necessary information as to the various members of the family - shows the position occupied by the women and the slaves, with chapters also on the children. A visit to the law courts, which are described, is waived in favor of a session of the public assembly in the Pnyx, with its wrangling orators and excitable listeners. Other chapters treat of the physicians, trade and manufactures, amusements, country life, etc. The style is vivacious, the information reasonably accurate, and the whole presentation interesting. The book will find its widest use in the schools, but it will also appeal to older readers who desire an interesting rather than a learned sketch of life in Athens."

6. You will find occasionally that alongside a book stands the name of a subject - History, for example. This means that you will be given extra credit in another subject for reading the book so marked. In all such cases, your report will be marked by your English teacher and then passed on for another mark to the instructor who is to give you the extra credit. You must apply for this credit at the head of your book report. Here is a good opportunity for you to "kill two birds with one stone."

7. Head your paper in writing book reports, as follows:

Grade Of English

Author: Title Of Book

Be careful to plan your time so that you will be able to finish the report. Do not spend too much time on the summary. Your opinion, (given in the third part) is the most important part of your report.

8. Here are some miscellaneous suggestions:

(1) Read carefully the titles of books as given in this book-list. Sometimes you are required to read only part of a book.

(2) If you read a book that seems to you suitable for extra credit in some other subject that you are taking, apply to the teacher of this subject for the credit.

(3) Some of the books included in this list are obtainable in the book-room. Your teacher will tell you which books these are. If you cannot get a book at the library, try instead to get a book from the book-room.

(4) Do not confine yourself to books under a single heading, "humor, " for exampl