OUTSIDE READING.--There are numerous books on the war of the Revolution suitable for outside reading. For the school grades for which this book is intended, the following books are interesting and for the most part instructive: Watson's _Noble Deeds of our Fathers_; Watson's _Tea Party and Other Stories_; Butterworth's _Patriot Schoolmaster_ (Story of the Minute Men and Sons of Liberty); Otis's _Signal Boys of 1775_; Tomlinson's _Stories of the American Revolution_ (several series); Stoddard's _Red Patriot_; Thompson's _The Rangers or the Tory's Daughter_; Thompson's _Green Mountain Boys_; Otis's _Boys of Fort Schuyler_; _Patriot Boy_ (Washington) (Famous Boy Series); _Father of his Country_ (Washington) (Daring Deed Series); Abbott's _Life of Washington_ (Ajax Series); Scudder's _George Washington_; Brooks's _True Story of George Washington_; Miss Hoppens's _A Great Treason_ (Arnold and André); Cooper's _Last of the Mohicans_ (last French or Seven Years' War); Cooper's _Lionel Lincoln_ (Boston at time of Bunker Hill); Cooper's _Pilot_ (Paul Jones). These six novels by William Gilmore Simms furnish under the guise of fiction a connected and most readable account of the Revolution in the South from the fall of Charleston to 1782: _The Partisan_, _Mellichampe_, _The Scout_, _Katherine Walton_, _The Foragers_, _The Eutaws_. See also Kennedy's _Horse Shoe Robinson_ (South Carolina in the Revolution); Churchill's _Richard Carvel_ (Paul Jones); Guerber's _Story of the Thirteen Colonies_; Guerber's _Story of the Great Republic_; Eggleston's _First Book in American History_; Johonnot's _Stories of our Country_; Mowry's _First Steps in the History of our Country_; Montgomery's _Beginner's American History_. FOR READING OR RECITATION.--Longfellow's _Paul Revere's Ride_; Emerson's _Concord Hymn_; Holmes's _Grandmother's Story of the Battle of Bunker Hill_; Bryant's _Song of Marion's Men_; Pierpont's _General Warren's Address_; Finch's _Nathan Hale_; Bryant's _Nineteenth of April_; Simms's _Ballad of King's Mountain_. CHAPTER XIX. PAGES 296-310. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--For topics to be read in connection with the life and career of Franklin, see the index to Fiske's _The American Revolution_, Fiske's _The Critical Period of American History_ (1783-1789), and Morse's _Benjamin Franklin_ (American Statesmen Series). REFERENCES FOR READING.--Franklin's _Autobiography_ should be read before all other books on Franklin. Read also _Printer Boy_ (Franklin) (Famous Boy Series); _Poor Richards Story_ (Franklin) (Daring Deed Series); Abbott's _Benjamin Franklin_ (Ajax Series) and Parton's _Life of Franklin_. OUTSIDE READINGS.--Butterworth's _True to his Home_ (Franklin); Brooks's _True Story of Benjamin Franklin_. CHAPTER XX. PAGES 311-322. EVERYDAY LIFE ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.