Arnold, _A Mother's List of Books for Children_. McClurg, $1.00. For a short practical list see the different lists classified under Sunday-School Departments in W.S. Athearn, _The Church School_, particularly pp. 54, 83, 118, 169. Pilgrim Press, $1.00. IV. Topics for Discussion 1. Do you remember any stories which especially impressed you as a child? What were their qualities? What were the qualities of their narration? 2. What are your difficulties in story-telling to children? 3. Is the habit of reading books passing among children? If so, what are the reasons? 4. What responsibility has the public library toward the child's selection of books? toward promoting book reading? 5. How many families co-operate with the library? 6. How might the church co-operate? 7. Does the reading of newspapers by children affect their general habits of reading? In what ways? 8. What personal difference is there, if any, between the effect of a borrowed book and of one the child owns? FOOTNOTES: [17] Laura E. Cragin, _Kindergarten Bible Stories_. Fifty-six of the Old Testament stories. There is also a companion volume of New Testament stories. James Baldwin, _Old Stories of the East_. Fresh and interesting versions of the familiar Old Testament stories. Kate Douglas Wiggin, _The Story Hour_. Good stories and a suggestive introduction on story-telling. _Half a Hundred Stories for the Little People_, by various authors. [18] _A List of Good Stories to Tell to Children under Twelve Years of Age_, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, $0.05. There are references to books in which the stories may be found, including 25 Bible stories, 16 fables, 14 myths, 14 Christmas stories, 7 Thanksgiving stories, etc. [19] Such as O'Shea, _Old World Wonder Stories_; George Hodges, _The Garden of Eden_; Cragin, _Old Testament Stories_; Mary Stewart, _Tell Me a True Story_. [20] The H.W. Wilson Co., White Plains, New York, publishes a list of _Children's Books for Sunday-School Libraries_. CHAPTER XI THE USE OF THE BIBLE IN THE HOME If we keep clearly in mind the aim of religious education in the family as that of the development of the lives of religious persons, the place and value of the Bible will be evident. It will be used as a means of developing and directing lives. This will be quite different from a perfunctory use because our fathers used it or a use under the compulsion of the fear lest some strange evil should befall us, some visitation of an offended deity. § 1. THE CHILD'S NEED