=In the Woods=:--Give an account of a long or a short trip in the woods, and tell what you observed. It might be well to plan this theme a number of days before writing it, and in the interim to take a walk in the woods to get mental notes. In writing the theme, give your chief attention to the trees--their situation, appearance, height, manner of growth from the seedling up, peculiarities. Make clear the differences between the kinds of trees, especially between varieties of the same species. You can make good use of color-words in your descriptions of leaves, flowers, seed-receptacles (cones, keys, wings, etc.), and berries. Keep your work simple, almost as if you were talking to some one who wishes information about the forest trees. COLLATERAL READINGS Our National Parks John Muir My First Summer in the Sierra " " The Mountains of California " " The Story of my Boyhood and Youth " " Stickeen: The Story of a Dog " " The Yosemite John Muir The Giant Forest (chapter 18 of _The Mountains_) Stewart Edward White The Pines (chapter 8 of _The Mountains_) " " " The Blazed Trail " " " The Forest " " " The Heart of the Ancient Wood C.G.D. Roberts The Story of a Thousand-year Pine (in _Wild Life on the Rockies_) Enos A. Mills The Lodge-pole Pine (in _Wild Life on the Rockies_) " " Rocky Mountain Forests (in _Wild Life on the Rockies_) " " The Spell of the Rockies " " Under the Sky in California C.F. Saunders Field Days in California Bradford Torrey The Snowing of the Pines (poem) T.W. Higginson A Young Fir Wood (poem) D.G. Rossetti The Spirit of the Pine (poem) Bayard Taylor To a Pine Tree J.R. Lowell Silverado Squatters Robert Louis Stevenson Travels with a Donkey " " " A Forest Fire (in _The Old Pacific Capital_) " " " The Two Matches (in _Fables_) " " " In the Maine Woods Henry D. Thoreau Yosemite Trails J.S. Chase The Conservation of Natural Resources Charles R. Van Hise Getting Acquainted with the Trees J.H. McFarland The Trees (poem) Josephine Preston Peabody