_The Odyssey._--George Herbert Palmer. (Translation.) _Gulliver's Travels_: "The Voyage to Lilliput." "The White Seal," Kipling. "The Coast-wise Lights," Kipling. "The Sea," Barry Cornwall. "Sir Patrick Spens," Folk Ballad. "The Inchcape Rock," Southey. "To a Waterfowl," Bryant. "Lead, Kindly Light," Newman. "The Chambered Nautilus," Holmes. "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," Yeats. "Breathes There a Man," Scott. "Uphill," Christina Rossetti. "The Long White Seam," Jean Ingelow. "The Exile of Erin," Campbell. SIXTH YEAR Heroic adventures from the chivalric cycles of King Arthur, of Siegfried, of Roland, and The Cid, and selected episodes from _Don Quixote_. or _The Drums of the Fore and Aft._--Kipling; _Rip Van Winkle._--Irving; _The Bee-Man of Orn._--Stockton; _Old Pipes and the Dryad._--Stockton; _The Man Born to Be King._--Morris. "The Lady of Shalott," Tennyson. "Hack and Hew," Bliss Carman. "The Song of the Chattahoochee," Lanier. "The Cloud," Shelly. "The Walrus and the Carpenter," from _Alice in Wonderland_. SEVENTH YEAR _The Great Stone Face._--Hawthorne. _The Snow Image._--Hawthorne. _The Gold Bug._--Poe. _The Pot of Broth._--Yeats. _The Hour-Glass._--Yeats. "A Dissertation on Roast Pig," Lamb. "The Vision of Mirza," Addison. "King Robert of Sicily," Longfellow. "Horatius at the Bridge," Macaulay. "The Ballad of East and West," Kipling. "Heroes," Edna Dean Proctor. "The Yarn of the Nancy Bell," Gilbert. "The Wolf and the Mastiff," Fontaine. EIGHTH YEAR _Julius Caesar._--Shakespeare. _The Tempest._--Shakespeare. _Sohrab and Rustum._--Arnold. _Treasure Island._--Stevenson. "Old China," Charles Lamb. _Wake Robin_ (selections).--John Burroughs. "My Garden Acquaintance," Warner. "The Goblin Market," Christina Rossetti. "Each and All," Emerson. "Hart-leap Well," Wordsworth. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," Wordsworth. "The Splendor Falls," Tennyson. "The Revenge," Tennyson. "Etin the Forester," Folk Ballad. "Thomas Rymer," Folk Ballad. Anyone who has read these eighteen chapters should find himself provided with a set of maxims and injunctions among which will be the following: 1. Choose the literature for the children under the guidance of those principles by which you test any literature. 2. Remember that literature is art; it must be taught as art, and the result should be an artistic one. 3. Never teach a thing you do not love and admire. But learn to suspect that when you do not love it the fault is in you, and is curable. 4. According to the best light you have, choose those things that are fitted for the children--corresponding to their experience, or awakening in them experiences you would like them to have. 5. Teach your chosen bit of literature according to its nature and genius. Study it so sympathetically that you can follow its hints, and make its emphases. Teach each piece for its characteristic effect, and do not try to teach everything in any one piece.