B. Lyrics. a. Songs. (1) Sacred. _Nearer Home_: IV, 126. _Lead, Kindly Light_: V, 110. (2) Secular. _Annie Laurie_: VI, 119. _Auld Lang Syne_: VI, 228. _Those Evening Bells_: VII, 340. (3) Patriotic. _Battle Hymn of the Republic_: V, 399. _America_: VIII, 60. b. Odes. _To the Fringed Gentian_: VII, 4. _Ode to a Skylark_: VII, 275. _To H. W. L._: IV, 84. c. Elegies. _Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard_: VI, 360. d. Sonnet. e. Drama. _The Tempest_: VIII, 364. CHAPTER XIV JOURNEYS THROUGH BOOKLAND IN ITS RELATION TO THE SCHOOL _Reading and Language_ These books were prepared expressly for home readings, but as has been said elsewhere, they were prepared with a definite purpose to make them a living adjunct to school work and a strong helper in bringing the home and the school together. To accomplish this result it was necessary that all the studies offered in _Journeys_ should be after the most approved methods and that there should be no selections that could not with propriety be used in any school in the land. This principle of selection made it necessary to exclude some selections that might have been pleasing but at the same time were not universal in their acceptance. Again, it was necessary to include literature that was in a sense technical, that would apply to every class that young readers have in school. This does not mean that there are a great many things that are purely geographical or purely historical or that deal directly with the study of language and literature. It means that the reader of _Journeys_ will find selections that he can use in nearly every class in school and that those selections are in the highest degree literary. In no way does a child learn more thoroughly that geography and history are worth study in themselves than by meeting them clothed in the beauty of fine writing. In no way will he be led more quickly into a love for nature in all her manifestations and into a keen desire to study nature than by the hand of literature. Language takes on a new interest when it becomes evident that it is a real and necessary help to writing as the great writers do. Accordingly when the selections were chosen for _Journeys_, a tabulation of school subjects was made and under each head were placed the things that would be most helpful in school work. It was not decided finally to keep that arrangement in the books, for a different and a better system of grading and classification was selected. Nevertheless the selections are there, and the object of this and the few following chapters is to show what those selections are, how they may be used in school and how their use at home helps in the school work of every reader.