_Volume Four._ In this volume, with many fine poems and tales interspersed, is found the continuation of the legendary hero stories begun in Volume III, also as a natural sequence, a cycle of history that begins with a story and ends in a narrative of an actual historical occurrence. These may be found in the six selections beginning with _The Pine-Tree Shillings_. The article on _Joan of Arc_, the story of _Pancratius_ and the account of _Alfred the Great_, though not related in any way, yet still serve to carry out the idea that this volume is largely an introduction to readings in history. _The Attack on the Castle_ is a stirring account of a mediæval battle. It prepares the way to the mediæval spirit made more prominent in the next volume. In _The Arickara Indians_ the boys will begin to find the interest that the aborigines always have for our youth. _Volume Five._ The legendary great, the half-historical personages that have been for so many centuries the inspiration of youths of many lands are found again in this volume in the person of the Greek heroes and, at much greater length, in England's famous King Arthur. The story of his Round Table and its knights is told in an extremely interesting way. The spirit of Sir Thomas Malory is retained in his quaint accounts and Tennyson's noble poems show how great a factor the legends of Arthur have been in literature. Besides the articles that are instructive there are a few that are highly entertaining or merely humorous, for every child has a right to read sometimes for amusement only. It will be seen that some classes of literature have ceased to appear and that others are coming into view. The "spiral arrangement" is nicely illustrated in the reappearance of history and the legendary heroes and in the disappearance of myths and fairy tales, for which there is, however, some compensation in the highly imaginative _Gulliver's Travels_, an extract from Dean Swift. In this volume are also included a little cycle on one of the great heroes of the Scotch, Robert Bruce. These carry on the series of selections on legendary heroes, begun in Volume Three. These are followed by stories of adventure, of frontier life in the Central West, tales from the early history of our country. _Reminiscences of a Pioneer_, _The Buccaneers_, _Captain Morgan at Maracaibo_, and _Braddock's Defeat_ are examples of this kind of literature. These selections are authentic accounts from original sources and are among those things which boys really like, but which have not heretofore been accessible to them. Patriotic Poems, somewhat in the same vein, are given where they will be noticed and read.