2. A few boys will enjoy rendering the conversational parts of _The Heart of Bruce_ (Volume V, page 316) while a girl reads the descriptive lines of the ballad. 3. By making some changes in the text and putting into direct discourse some of that which Dickens has written in indirect discourse, a capital Christmas sketch may be made from the Christmas doings at the Cratchit home. (See _A Christmas Carol_, Volume VI, pages 303 to 312.) 4. _Limestone Broth_ (Volume VI, page 467) can be made into a neat little humorous dialogue with very little change. 5. Several scenes from _The Tempest_ (Volume VIII, page 364) are suitable for school use. 6. _The Death of Caesar_ (Volume IX, page 143) is a fine dialogue and affords a good opportunity for many speakers. 7. The conversation between Luigi and his mother (_Pippa Passes_, Volume IX, pages 317-323) is a fine scene for school use, especially if Pippa really passes singing at the right moment. VI. AN OLD-FASHIONED AFTERNOON. Not so many years ago it was an almost universal custom to give over Friday afternoon to the "speaking of pieces." Occasionally even now a teacher wants one of the old-fashioned mixed programs, and though she will prefer to make her own for each occasion, the following example will show one of the many that might be made from _Journeys Through Bookland_: 1. _Roll Call._ (Pupils respond with a memory gem from the hundred given elsewhere in this volume.) 2. Song: _America_, Volume VIII, page 60. 3. _Wynken, Blynken and Nod_, I, 262. 4. _The Discontented Stonecutter_, II, 12. 5. Song: _Sweet and Low_, VI, 122. 6. _Beowulf and Grendel_ (retold in brief), III, 350. 7. _Incident of the French Camp_, IV, 174. 8. Song: _My Old Kentucky Home_, VII, 179. 9. _Echo_, III, 286. (Let the answers of Echo be given by someone who is concealed from view of the audience.) 10. _The First Snowfall_, II, 403. 11. Song: _Home, Sweet Home_, VI, 221. CHAPTER XIX HANDY LIST OF STUDIES IN JOURNEYS THROUGH BOOKLAND The following list gives the names of those selections upon which the more important studies have been based. Here, they are arranged in the order in which the selections appear in the several volumes. When a study accompanies a selection, the reference given is that upon which the selection begins. However, as in a number of instances where studies are in one place while the selections are in another, the cross references are given more in detail, and a statement is made as to just what points in the selection are covered by the studies--whether these latter are character studies, scene studies, word studies, studies of figures or historical studies.