=The Bridge=:--Choose a large bridge that you have seen. Where is it, and what stream or ravine does it span? When was it built? Clearly indicate the point of view of your description. If you change the point of view, let the reader know of your doing so. Give a general idea of the size of the bridge: You need not give measurements; try rather to make the reader feel the size from the comparisons that you use. Describe the banks at each end of the bridge, and the effect of the water or the abyss between. How is the bridge supported? Try to make the reader feel its solidity and safety. Is it clumsy or graceful? Why? Give any interesting details in its appearance. What conveyances or persons are passing over it? How does the bridge make you feel? COLLATERAL READINGS A Little Tour in France Henry James A Small Boy and Others " " Portraits of Places " " Travels with a Donkey R.L. Stevenson An Inland Voyage " " Along French Byways Clifton Johnson Seeing France with Uncle John Anne Warner The Story of France Mary Macgregor The Reds of the Midi Felix Gras A Wanderer in Paris E.V. Lucas An American in Europe (poem) Henry Van Dyke Home Thoughts from Abroad Robert Browning In and Out of Three Normandy Inns Anna Bowman Dodd Cathedral Days " " " From Ponkapog to Pesth T.B. Aldrich Our Hundred Days in Europe O.W. Holmes One Year Abroad Blanche Willis Howard Well-worn Roads F.H. Smith Gondola Days " " Saunterings C.D. Warner By Oak and Thorn Alice Brown Fresh Fields John Burroughs Our Old Home Nathaniel Hawthorne Penelope's Progress Kate Douglas Wiggin Penelope's Experiences " " " A Cathedral Courtship " " " Ten Days in Spain Kate Fields Russian Rambles Isabel F. Hapgood For biography and criticism of Mr. James, see: American Writers of To-day, pp. 68-86, H.C. Vedder; American Prose Masters, pp. 337-400, W.C. Brownell; and (for the teacher), Century, 84:108 (Portrait) and 87:150 (Portrait); Scribners, 48:670 (Portrait); Chautauquan, 64:146 (Portrait). THE YOUNGEST SON OF HIS FATHER'S HOUSE ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH The eldest son of his father's house, His was the right to have and hold; He took the chair before the hearth, And he was master of all the gold. The second son of his father's house, He took the wheatfields broad and fair, He took the meadows beside the brook, And the white flocks that pastured there.