Chapter XVII: Science and History

_A._ Science.

I. 1. Biology, general.

†Bigelow, Maurice A. and Anna N. Applied Biology. Macmillan.
1911. 583 p. Illus. $1.40. A comprehensive and authoritative
book including general biology, botany, zoölogy, human physiology
and hygiene, embryology. A source book for facts.

†Hodge, Clifton F. Nature Study and Life. Ginn. 1902. 514 p.
Illus. $1.50. Studying nature in the environment, learning how
to tame birds, care for animals, pets, aquarium and vivarium;
how to prevent the spread of insect pests. A guide book with the
children.

†Morley, Margaret W. A Song of Life. McClurg. 1891. 155 p. Illus.
$1.25. A book for little children on the elements of development
of life and a new generation, in plants, fishes, frogs, birds,
mammals; told in story form.

†Verrill, Alpheus H. Boy Collector’s Handbook. McBride. 1915. 290
p. Illus. $1.50. How to collect and preserve minerals, plants,
fresh water animals, shells, stamps, coins, postcards, relics.
Use of camera and microscope in collecting.

II. The Guide to Nature. The Agassiz Assn., Sound Beach, Conn.
$1.00. Interesting articles for children, on nature.

III. The Agassiz Association, Sound Beach, Conn. Edward F. Bigelow,
President. A nature study organization for children.

2. Animals.

°Davidson, Gladys. Helpers without Hands. Stokes. 1914. 117 p.
Illus. $2.25. Animals in all parts of the world, and how they
help man. Illustrated in color by Ed. Noble.

°Dugdale, Florence E. Illus. by E. J. Detmold. Book of Baby
Beasts. Dutton. 1912. 120 p. Illus. $3.00. With 19 large
illustrations in color.

°Eddy, Sarah J. Friends and Helpers. Ginn. 1899. 232 p. Illus.
$.60. Friendly stories and poems about animals and birds.
Illustrated from photographs and famous paintings.

Lang, Andrew. The Animal Story Book. Longmans. 1909. 400 p.
$2.00. Stories of animals from literature and history.

Pierson, Clara D. Among the Meadow People. Dutton. 193 p. Illus.
$1.00. Stories for children of common animals and birds that live
in the meadows.

Schwartz, Julia A. Wilderness Babies. Little. 1905. 226 p. Illus.
$1.50. Stories of how many kinds of animals care for their little
ones.

Seton, Ernest Thompson. Wild Animals at Home. Doubleday. 1913.
226 p. Illus. $1.50. The author’s personal adventures in
studying wild animals in their native habitat. Over 150 sketches
and photographs by the author.

°Book of the Zoo. Dutton. Linen, $.75. Large, beautiful picture
book. (Many others at from $.25 to $2.00.)

°Animal Book. Gabriel & Sons, New York. 25 p. Linen. $.50.
Beautiful animal picture books, illustrations painted from life.

3. Insects, Sea-shore, Birds.

Comstock, John H. Insect life. 1897. 347 pp. Illus. $1.75.
Habits, life histories, appearance, identification.

Kellogg, Vernon. Insect Stories. Holt. 1908. 298 p. Illus.
$1.50. Stories of how the author and a little girl observed and
collected insects.

Mayer, Alfred G. Sea-Shore Life. Barnes. 1906. Illus. Bibl. 181
p. $1.20. Shells and seawood found along the Atlantic coast
of America. Illustrations in color. A source book and aid in
identification.

°Burroughs, John. Bird Stories from Burroughs. 1911. Houghton.
171 p. Illus. $.80. Delightful stories by the great naturalist,
illustrated in color and in black and white by Louis Agassiz
Fuertes.

°Dugdale, Florence E. Illus. by Detmold. Book of Baby Birds.
Dutton. 1911. 120 p. Illus. $3.00. Nineteen large pictures in
exquisite color.

°Miller, Olive Thorne. The Children’s Book of Birds. Houghton.
1915. 212 p. Illus. $2.00. Stories of the common birds,
identification, attracting. Some illustrations in color.
Excellent first book.

Reed, Charles K. Bird Guide. Land birds. $1.00.

Water birds. $1.00 McClurg. Pocket edition, with illustration in
color of each species.

I._b._ °Audubon Bird Charts. Bradley. Large wall charts. Each,
$.50. About twenty-five common birds shown on each chart, in color.
Two charts for land birds, one for water birds.

°Mumford Bird Pictures. A. W. Mumford, Chicago. $1.80 per
hundred. Loose-leaf pictures, natural color and size.

°Audubon Bird Pictures. Appleton. $1.80 per hundred. Pictures
natural size and colorings.

II. Bird Lore. Publication of the Audubon Society. Appleton. $1.00.
Stories of birds and bird life.

III. National Association of Audubon Societies. New York.
Membership organization, with Junior Department for children
interested in birds; issues bird pictures and other bird literature.

4. Flowers, Plants, Gardening.

Levison, J. J. Studies of Trees. Wiley. 1914. 253 p. Illus.
$1.60. Identification, structure and care of trees; woods and
their use.

Mathews, F. Schuyler. Familiar Features of the Roadside.
Appleton. Illus. $1.75. A handbook to aid in identifying flowers
and trees, insects and birds, commonly found.

Mathews, F. Schuyler. Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden.
Appleton. 1915. 306 p. Illus. $1.40. Identification, arranged by
months; illustrated with about 200 drawings.

Stark, F. W. Wild Flowers Every Child Should Know. Doubleday.
$.50. The most common of the wild flowers. Some illustrations in
color.

Dixon, Royal. The Human Side of Plants. Stokes. 1914. 201 p.
Illus. $1.50. Interesting things that plants do, such as going to
sleep, swimming, walking, foretelling the weather; has all the
human interest of purely fanciful tales about flowers, and is
scientifically accurate.

Duncan, Frances. When Mother Lets us Garden. Moffatt. 1910.
111 p. Illus. $.75. Simple directions for outdoor and indoor
gardening. Breathes the spirit of the garden; charming pictures
and quotations.

5. Physics, Chemistry, Physical Geography, Geology, Astronomy.

Clark, Bertha M. General Science. A. B. Co. 1912. 363 p. Illus.
$.80. Physics and chemistry of everyday life. Suggestions for
observations and experiments. Source book.

†Holden, E. S. Real Things in Nature. Macmillan. 1910. 443 p.
Illus. $.65. Comprehensive, including something of each of these
sciences, and some primitive life history.

Blackwelder, Eliot, and Barrows, H. H. Elements of Geology. A.
B. Co. 1911. 475 p. Illus. Bibl. $1.40 Structure of the earth,
work of atmosphere, streams, glaciers; changes in oceans, lakes,
rivers; how mountains and plains are formed; the geological ages
of the past. Source book.

Houston, Ed. J. Wonderbook of the Atmosphere. Stokes. 1907. 326
p. Illus. $1.50. Climate, winds, clouds, storms, rain, snow,
lightning; heat, light and sound waves. Authoritative answering
for the child’s questions. Source book.

St. John, T. M. Fun with Magnetism. St. John. New York City.
Illus. $.35. Book of directions, magnet and apparatus for games.

St. John, T. M. Fun with Electricity. St. John. Illus. $.65.

St. John, T. M. Fun with Chemistry. St. John. Illus. $.65.
Directions for apparatus and games.

Ball, Sir Robert S. Starland. Ginn. 1907. 402 p. illus. $1.00.
Authoritative and interesting accounts of the sun, moon, planets,
comets, constellations.

†°Porter, Jermain G. The Stars in Song and Legend. Ginn. 1901.
129 p. Illus. $.60. Myths of the stars; sky maps showing
constellations. Illustrations by A. Dürer.

Forman, S. E. Stories of Useful Inventions. Century. 1911. Illus.
248 p. $1.00. Tracing development from ancient to modern times
of lighting, heating, vehicles, and modern use of steam and
electricity.

Towle, George M. Heroes and Martyrs of Invention. Lothrop. 1890.
Illus. 202 p. $.75. Inventors in ancient history, Gutenberg,
Palissy, Watt, Fulton, Howe, and others.

Wright, Henrietta C. Children’s Stories of Great Scientists.
Scribner. 1909. 350 p. Illus. $1.25. Interesting stories of
Galileo, Newton, Franklin, Linnæus, Faraday, Agassiz, Darwin,
Huxley and others. Source book.

6. Geography and Travel.

Andrews, Jane. Seven Little Sisters. Ginn. 127 p. Illus. $.75.
Stories of children of other countries, as told to children.

°Barnard, H. Clive. Pictures of Famous Travel. Macmillan. 1914.
64 p. Illus. $.75. Ships and explorers from historic to modern
times told chiefly by the 60 pictures, 31 of these in color.

Carpenter. How the World is Fed. 1907. 340 p.

Carpenter. How the World is Clothed. 1908. 340 p.

Carpenter. How the World is Housed. A. B. Co. 1911. 352 p. Illus.

$.60 each. Geographical readers, showing the raising, procuring,
manufacture and transportation of the necessities of life, in all
parts of the world. Source book.

°Dunham, Edith. Jogging Round the World. Stokes. 1905. 80 p.
Illus. $1.50. Steeds and vehicles in strange lands and at home,
with 36 large illustrations from photographs, in color.

Hall, Katherine S. Children at Play in Many Lands. Revell. 1912.
92 p. Illus. $.75. Games played by children in many countries,
with directions.

Morris, Charles. Home Life in Many Lands. Vol. I. Lippincott.
1906. 250 p. Illus. $1.00. A geographical reader describing ways
of living in other countries. A source book.

°Synge, M. B. A Book of Discovery. Putnam. 1912. 554 p. Illus.
$2.50. The world’s explorations from the earliest historical
times to the finding of the South Pole. About 150 illustrations.

Little People Everywhere Series. Little. 14 vol. Illus. $.50
each. Stories of child life, play, home life, centering about
imaginary individual children in some foreign land.

(See also Laura B. Starr, Mary H. Wade. Chap. XV.)

II. Everyland. A magazine for children. Stories and pictures of
children and ways of living in all parts of the world. 156 Fifth
Ave., New York. $1.00.

National Geographical Magazine. National Geographical Society.
Washington, D.C. $2.00. Many interesting articles on countries
and peoples, illustrated with numerous photographs.

Home Progress Magazine. (Chapter I.)

St. Nicholas Magazine. The Century Co. New York. $3.00. Includes
interesting articles on science for children.

Stereographs and lantern slides illustrating geography, travel,
sciences, issued by Underwood & Underwood, New York City, and by
Keystone View Co., Meadville, Pa.

Lanterns and balopticons (for throwing any picture on a screen),
furnished by Bausch & Lomb, New York City.

_B._ History.

1. Anthropology, Primitive and Indian Life.

Clodd, Edw. The Childhood of the World. Macmillan. 1914. 240 p.
Illus. Bibl. (New ed. Revised and enlarged.) $1.20. Prehistoric
man, early migrations; beginnings of inventions, language, arts;
early myths and religion. Source book.

Hall, H. R. Days Before History. Crowell. 1907. 129 p. Illus.
$.50. Especially the early Cave people and Lake people; life of
early Aryans.

Waterloo, Stanley. Story of Ab. Doubleday. 1897. 351 p. Illus.
$1.50. Story of a boy in the time of the Cavemen.

Eastman, Charles A. Indian Scout Tales. Little. 1915. 199 p.
Illus. $.80. Indian methods of making fires, wigwams, cooking,
taming animals, Indian signs and language.

Schultz, J. W. Sinopah, the Indian Boy. Houghton. 1913. 155 p.
Illus. $1.10. True story of an American Indian boy. Illustrations
by E. Boyd Smith.

†Seton, Ernest Thompson. Woodcraft. Doubleday. 1912. 567 p.
Illus. $1.75. Indian traits and ways; Indian names and their
meaning; Indian songs, dances, ceremonies; stories of Indian
characters; scout craft, camping and camp craft. Over 500
illustrations.

2. Ancient and Classic History.

Arnold, Emma J. Stories of Ancient Peoples. A. B. Co. 1901. 232
p. Illus. $.50. Stories and legends of Egypt, Babylon, Assyria,
Phœnicia, Palestine, Persia, India, China.

Gould, F. J. Tales of the Greeks. Harper. 1910. 162 p. Illus.
$.75. Twenty-two tales from Plutarch’s Lives. Illustrations by
Walter Crane.

Gould, F. J. Tales of the Romans. Harper. 1910. 167 p. Illus.
$.75. Stories from Plutarch’s Lives. Illus. by Walter Crane.

°Gulick, Charles B. Life of the Ancient Greeks. Appleton. 1907.
350 p. Illus. Bibl. $1.50. Daily life among the Athenians; their
houses, clothing, occupations, education, social life, customs,
child life. Nearly 300 illustrations. Source book.

†Shaw, Charles D. Stories of the Ancient Greeks. Ginn. 1903. 300
p. Illus. $.60. Part I contains many of the myths; Part II, Greek
history in story form. Source book.

3. Mediæval to Modern.

Andrews, Jane. Ten Boys on the Road from Long Ago to Now. Ginn.
243 p. $.50. Stories of the boy life of ten famous men of ancient
and mediæval times.

°O’Neill, Elizabeth. A Nursery History of England. Stokes. 1904.
186 p. Illus. $2.25. Story of England for children; many large
colored illustrations.

Steedman, Amy. When They Were Children. Stokes. 1914. 387 p.
Illus. $1.60. Stories from childhood of forty-five famous men
and women in mediæval and modern history, including writers,
scientists, artists, inventors.

(See also Forman, Towle and Wright, Chapter XVII, A 5.)

4. American.

Barber, Lucy L. A Nursery History of the United States. Stokes.
1916. 180 p. Illus. $2.00. Simple story of great events. Ninety
illustrations, many of them in color.

Bass, Florence M. Stories of Pioneer Life. Heath. (_a_) 1900. 136
p. Illus. $.40. Settling of Middle West; perils of pioneer life;
stories of Marquette, Boone, Lincoln.

Brooks, Eldridge S. The Century Book for Young Americans.
Century. 1896. 250 p. Illus. $1.50. Story of a children’s
pilgrimage to historic homes and buildings in Boston, Plymouth,
New York, Washington, the South, the Middle West.

Earle, Alice Morse. Child Life in Colonial Days. 1909. 418 p.
Illus. $2.50. Home life, clothing, food, play, discipline. Many
illustrations.

†Eggleston, E. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans.
A. B. Co. 1895. 159 p. Illus. $.40. Stories of explorers,
soldiers, statesmen, scientists, inventors, writers, artists.

Eggleston, E. Stories of American Life and Adventure A. B. Co.
1895. 214 p. Illus. $.50. Historical stories, home life and
customs; from all periods and regions.

Gordy, Wilbur F. Stories of American Explorers. Scribner. 1906.
206 p. Illus. $.50. Explorers on sea and land, from Columbus to
La Salle. Source book.

Stone, Gertrude, and Fickett, M. Grace. Everyday Life in the
Colonies. Heath. 1905. 109 p. Illus. $.35. Tells graphically of
homes, apparel, occupations, travel, play.

Stimpson, Mary S. Child’s Book of American Biography. Little.
1915. 251 p. Illus. $1.00. Thirty men and women, statesmen,
writers, inventors, artists, scientists.

5. Anniversary Days.

Olcott, Frances J., compiler. Good Stories for Great Holidays.
Houghton. 1914. 461 p. Bibl. $2.00. Includes all civic and
religious holidays observed in America. Stories from various
writers appropriate to each holiday.

Schauffler, Robert H., editor. Series on Our American Holidays.
Moffatt. 1908-14. about 300 p. per volume. $1.00 each. One volume
devoted to each holiday, giving origin, significance, appropriate
quotations, suggestions for celebration.

6. Bibliography.

Cleveland Public Library. Reading Lists for Special Days. H. W.
Wilson Co. Minneapolis. 1911. 148 p. Paper, $.25. Lists of books
and magazine articles with references, for understanding and
celebration of special days.

Andrews, Chas. M.; Gambrill, J. Montgomery; Tall, Lida Lee.
Bibliography of History. Longmans. 1911. 224 p. $.60. With
descriptive and critical annotations on each reference. Includes
history in all ages and countries, technical and popular,
historical fiction, children’s stories preparatory to history.

III. American School Peace League. Boston. Membership organization,
with Junior Department for children; issues literature.