The lists of "Books for Study and Reading" contain such titles only as are suited to the pupil's needs. The teacher will find abundant references in Channing's _Students' History of the United States_ (N.Y., Macmillan). The larger work also contains the reasons for many statements which are here given as facts without qualification. Reference to the _Students' History_ is made easy by the fact that the divisions or parts (here marked by Roman numerals) cover the same periods in time as the chapters of the larger work. On the margins of the present volume will be found specific references to three text-books radically unlike this text-book either in proportion or in point of view. There are also references to easily accessible sources and to a few of the larger works. It is not suggested that any one pupil, or even one class, shall study or read all of these references. But every pupil may well read some of them under each division. They are also suited to topical work. Under the head of "Home Readings" great care has been taken to mention such books only as are likely to be found interesting. The books most frequently cited in the margins are Higginson's _Young Folks' History_ (N.Y., Longmans), cited as "_Higginson_"; Eggleston's _United States and its People_ (N.Y., Appleton), cited as "_Eggleston_", McMaster's _School History of the United States_ (N.Y., American Book Co.), cited as "_McMaster_"; Higginson's _Book of American Explorers_ (N.Y., Longmans), cited as "_Explorers_"; Lodge and Roosevelt, _Hero Tales from American History_, cited as "_Hero Tales_"; and Hart's _Source-Book of American History_ (N.Y., Macmillan), cited as "_Source-Book_." THE UNITED STATES I DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION, 1000-1600 Books for Study and Reading References.--Parkman's _Pioneers of France_ (edition of 1887 or a later edition); Irving's _Columbus_ (abridged edition). Home Readings.--Higginson's _Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic_; Mackie's _With the Admiral of the Ocean Sea_ (Columbus); Lummis's _Spanish Pioneers_; King's _De Soto in the Land of Florida_; Wright's _Children's Stories in American History_; Barnes's _Drake and his Yeomen_. CHAPTER I THE EUROPEAN DISCOVERY OF AMERICA [Sidenote: Leif Ericson.] 1. Leif Ericson discovers America, 1000.--In our early childhood many of us learned to repeat the lines:-- Columbus sailed the ocean blue In fourteen hundred, ninety-two. [Sidenote: Leif discovers America, 1000. _Higginson_, 25-30; _American History Leaflets_, No. 3.]