and bread--is the romance that is forever fresh and thrilling. The exceedingly thoroughgoing realism of the method (notice, not the large frame-work, which is sufficiently romantic) of _Robinson Crusoe_ would suggest at once that it might profitably be accompanied by some bits of literature that would throw a more romantic and idealistic coloring upon the primitive craftsman and his craft, and upon the experiences of voyager and colonist. Such would be Bret Harte's _Columbus_, Mrs. Hemans' _The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers_, Marvell's _Bermudas_ (with a few difficult lines omitted). Longfellow's _Jasper Becerra_, the twenty-third Psalm, and several chapters from _Treasure Island_. Every teacher could add other titles. The older children--those of the seventh and eighth grades--may profitably read in school, for the sake of the intellectual experience, a classic detective story or a story whose plot and evolution present an almost purely intellectual problem. It is true that the air of intellectual acumen that pervades most of these stories is specious, and that they are in reality, and as a rule, shallow and unlogical pieces of reasoning. But it takes an older and more expert person to see this for himself. The teacher should try to qualify his children for judging a good story of this kind, and save them, if possible, from the detective-story habit, which wastes much good time and fills a child's mind with very cheap problems. But if he choose a good story of this kind for reading with his class, he may help to set their minds going in that region where the imagination must ally itself with logic and with a reasoned and inevitable progress of events. Properly channeled, this is a most valuable experience, both from the purely mental and from the literary points of view. After all, the best detective story in English is Poe's _The Gold Bug_. There is, of course, that element in _Treasure Island_, but, being there so interwoven with the romantic and adventurous details of that delectable tale, it is not likely to yield for the children that peculiar bit of training which they might get from the more unmixed intellectuality and more obvious realism of _The Gold Bug_.