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This series of literature readers is edited by the
president of the University of Chicago Harry Pratt Judson, as to
supply almost the only reading of many children, and stimulate
their taste for good literature and awaken interest in a wide range
of subjects.
In the Graded Literature Readers good literature has been presented
as early as possible, and the classical tales and fables are
largely used. Nature study has received due attention. The lessons
on scientific subjects, though necessarily simple at first,
preserve always a strict accuracy.
These books have been prepared with the hearty sympathy and very
practical assistance of many distinguished educators in different
part of the United States, including some of the most successful
teachers of reading in primary, intermediated, and advanced
grades.
We believe that Graded Literature Readers disclose a broader
knowledge of literature, better taste and judgment in its
selections.
A great consideration governing the choice of all selections has
been that they shall interest children. The difficulty of learning
to read is to minimized when the interest is aroused. School
readers, which supply almost the only reading of many children,
should stimulate a taste for good literature and awaken interest in
a wide range of subjects.
—Harry Pratt Judson
The 2nd president of the University of Chicago
第二册
1 The Larks and the Farmer
2 The Good Soldier
3 Littl e Kitt y
4 A Bird’s St ory
5 The Ant and the Grasshopper
6 The New Moon
7 Chicken-littl e
8 The Robins
9 The Voice in the Wood
10 The St ory of a Leaf
11 The Wind and the Leaves
12 The Littl e Pine Tree
13 In a Minute
14 Sheep
15 Good-bye, Prett y Butt erfly
16 Bessie and the Birds
17 One Good Trick
18 The Three Bill y Goats Gruff
19 The Goose and the Golden Egg s
20 How to Do It
21 The Way to have a Good Game
22 A Useful Animal
23 The Cow
24 A Kind Brother
25 The Cat, the Monkey, and the Chestnuts
26 Bird Thoughts
27 Littl e Red Riding Hood
28 Two Littl e Kitt ens
29 James and His Army
30 Feathers
31 The Clucking Hen
32 A Kind Girl
33 Habits of Flowers
34 The Bee and the Flower
35 The Dog and his Shadow
36 Only a Snail
37 Littl e Ducks
38 The hare and the Tortoise
39 Boats Sail on the Rivers
40 Too Many Doll s
41 The Lost Doll
42 The Snow Man
43 Littl e White Lily
44 Wasps
45 The Wasp and the Bee
46 The Song of the Bee
47 The Three Bears
48 My Shadow
49 The Garden Spider
50 The Young Artist
51 Littl e Things
52 Half Chick
53 Where Go the Boats?
54 Frogs
55 Picc ola
56 A Talk about Redcoat
57 Who St ole the Bird’s Nest?
58 The Shoemaker and the Elv es
59 A Spring Morning
60 The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
61 John’s New Horse
62 Lady Moon
63 Littl e George Washington
64 America
65 The Milkmaid
66 The Golden Touch
67 Sweet and Low
第三册
1 The Dove and the Ant
2 Good-Night and Good-Morning
3 The Bag of Winds
4 The Wind
5 The Sea
6 O Sailor, Come Ashore
7 The St ory of Columb us
8 Hans, the Shepherd Boy
9 The Moon
10 Birds—Bills
11 When
12 Benjy in Beastland
13 Mary Allerton—The St ory of a Litt le Pilgrim
14 Thanksgiving Day
15 A Good Shot
16 Birds—Feet
17 The Land of Counterpane
18 The Fox who Lost his Tail
19 How Lulu Got Lost
20 Seven Times One
21 The Wolf and the Lamb
22 The Skylark’s Spurs
23 THE FAIRIES
24 Birds—Travels
25 So-so
26 Three Companions
27 At alanta’s Race
28 Union Gives St rength
29 Sowing Seeds
30 A Dutc h Lullaby
31 The Ug ly Duckling
32 The Dervish and the Camel
33 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
34 The Village Blacksmith
35 Bees
36 The Sleeping Beauty
37 Jack in the Pulpit
38 Captain Sm ith and Pocahontas
39 Hercules and the Wagoner
40 Leaves
41 The Tree
42 The Boy who Hated Trees
43 March
44 Circe
45 Hiawatha’s Hunting
46 Benjamin Franklin as a Boy
47 The Dove
48 The Miller, his Son, and their Donkey
49 Robert of Lincoln
50 The Fox and the Crow
51 Hawaiian Children
52 Work
53 Litt le Daffydowndilly
54 Nathaniel Hawt horne
55 Farewell Ad vice
Words in Third Reader
第四册
1 The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean
THE BROTHERS GRIMM
2 SEPTEMBER HELEN HUNT JACKSON
3 Robert Louis Stevenson
4 Travel ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
5 Travelers’ Wonders DR. JOHN AIKIN
6 Ants
7 The Four Sunbeams
8 Sifti ng Boys
9 The Fountain JAMES RUSSEL LOWEL
10 Lewis Carroll
11 What Alic e Said to the Kitt en LEWIS CAROL
12 The Kitt en and the Falling Leaves
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
13 The Snow-Image NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
14 Litt le by Litt le
15 The Hous e I Li ve In
16 Jefferson’s Ten Ru les
17 The Pet Lamb WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
18 The Story of Florinda ABBY MORTON DIAZ
19 The Eagle ALFRED, LORD TENYSON
20 Psalm XXIII
21 Tilly’s Christm as LOUISA M. ALCOTT
22 Under the Greenwood Tree WILLIAM SHAKSPERE
23 Ou r First Naval Hero
24 Hi awatha’s Sailing HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELOW
25 Shun Delay
26 The Walrus and the Carpenter LEWIS CAROL
27 The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy
Perib anou FROM “THE ARABIAN NIGHTS”
28 The Planti ng of the Ap le Tree
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
29 Sir Isaac Newton NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
30 Luc y WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
31 To a Skylark WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
32 Tom Goes down to the Sea CHARLES KINGSLEY
33 Psalm XXIV
34 A Good Samarit an GEORGE MACDONALD
35 The Spartan Three Hundred
36 The Fairy Lif e WILLIAM SHAKSPERE
37 Charles Dick ens
38 Litt le Charley CHARLES DICKENS
39 Tray ROBERT BROWNING
40 The Golden Fleece NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
41 The Star-Spangled Banner FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
42 My Nati ve Land SIR WALTER SCOTT
43 Hunti ng the Grizz ly THEODORE ROSEVELT
第五册
1 A Farewell Appearance F. ANSTEY
2 To-day THOMAS CARL YLE
3 The Old-Fashioned SchoolNATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
4 Sidney Lanier
5 Song of the Chatahoochee SIDNE Y LANIER
6 The Four MacNicols WILLI AM BLACK
7 The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
FELICI A DORO THEA HEMANS
8 The Boston Masacre NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
9 Concord Hymn RALP H WALDO EMER SON
10 Eppie GEORGE ELIO T
11 Charles and Mary Lamb
12 The Magpie’s Nest CHARLE S AND MARY LAMB
13 The Framework of the Body
14 The Bugle Song ALFRED , LORD TENN YSON
15 Robinson Crusoe Gets Supplies from the Wreck
DANIEL DE FOE
16 The Tiger WILLI AM BLAKE
17 The Batles of Crecy and PoitiersCHARLE S DIC KEN
S
18 The Snowstorm JOHN GREENLE AF WHITTIER
19 Ball Bearings
20 The Irish Widow’s Message to her Son in America
ELEN FORRE STER
21 The Larch and the Oak THOMAS CARL YLE
22 Self-Control JOHN HENR Y NEW MAN
23 Caleb and Bertha CHARLE S DIC KEN S
24 To a Butterfly WILLI AM WORD SWOR TH
25 To the Dandelion JAMES RU SSEL LOWEL
26 The Chieftainess and the VolcanoCHARLO TTE M. YONGE
27 Kapiolani ALFRED , LORD TENN YSON
28 An Ascent of Kilauea LADY BRASSEY
29 The Skeleton in ArmorHENR Y WADSWOR TH LONG FELOW
30 The Story of William Shakspere
31 Forest Scene—from “As You Like It”WILLI AM SHAKSPERE
32 The Story of “The Tempest”CHARLE S AND MARY LAMB
33 Animal Mimics HENR Y DRU MMOND
34 The Cloud PERC Y BYSSHE SHELE Y
35 Sir Walter Scott
36 The Archery Contest SIR WALTER SCO TT
37 The Frigate and the GalleysA. T. QUILER -COUC H
38 Abou Ben Adhem LEIG H HUN T
第六册
1 AMONG THE SHOALS J. F. COOPER
2 RAIN IN SUMMER H. W. LONGFELLOW
3 A DROP OF WATER ON ITS TRAVELSARABELLA BUCKLEY
4 A Ril from the Town Pump NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
5 DAFFODILS WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
6 The Capture of Ticonderoga ETHAN ALLEN
7 To a Waterfowl W. C. BRYANT
8 Guliver in Liliput JONATHAN SWIFT
9 The Two Breaths CHARLES KINGSLEY
10 Psalm XCIII
11 The Lady of Shalot ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
12 The Fal of the Leaf M. R. MITFORD
13 The First News Mesage by TelegraphSTEPHEN VAIL
14 The Shel ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
15 The Cratchits’ Christmas DinerCHARLES DICKENS
16 Patrick Henry’s Spech in the Virginia Convention
17 Each and All R. W. EMERSON
18 Moses Goes to the Fair OLIVER GOLDSMITH
19 Wining the Victoria CrosRUDYARD KIPLING
20 The Charge of the Light BrigadeALFRED, LORD
TENNYSON
21 Poor Richard’s Sayings BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
22 The Uses of Mountains JOHN RUSKIN
23 THE AMERICAN FLAG J.R.DRAKE
24 The Marvelous Tower WASHINGTON IRVING
25 SONNET WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
26 An Account of Indian CustomsCAPTAIN JOHN
SMITH
27 Work THOMAS CARLYLE
28 Mr. Winkle on Skates CHARLES DICKENS
29 The Chambered Nautilus O. W. HOLMES
30 About the Stars CAMILLE FLAMMARION
31 To the Evening Star WILLIAM BLAKE
32 Home-Thoughts from Abroad ROBERT BROWNING
33 Story of a Stone D. S. JORDAN
34 To a Skylark P. B. SHELLEY
35 Sir Keneth and the Flag SIR WALTER SCOTT
36 Song on a May Morning JOHN MILTON
37 GOOD BOOKS JOHN RUSKIN
38 Silvia WILLIAM SHAKSPERE
39 Wonders of the Deep Sea REV. THEODORE WOOD
40 SIR GALAHAD ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
41 On American TaxationWILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM
42 In Praise of Wisdom PROVERBS III. 13-26
43 Storming a Mexican Temple W. H. PRESCOTT
44 The Poet RALPH WALDO EMERSON
45 The Landing of Columbus in the New World and his Return to
Spain WASHINGTON IRVING
內容試閱：
The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean
BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM
Jakob Grimm 1785–1863 and Wilhelm Grimm 1786–1859: German
authors. The Brothers Grimm, as they are familiarly called, wrote
many learned scientific books, but they are best known to children
by their collection of German fairy and folk stories.
1. In a village lived a poor old woman, who had gathered some
beans and wanted to cook them. So she made a fire on her hearth,
and that it might burn more quickly, she lighted it with a handful
of straw.
2. When she was emptying the beans into the pan, one dropped
without her observing1 it and lay on the ground beside a straw.
Soon afterwards a burning coal from the fire leaped down to the
two.
3. Then the straw said: “Dear friends, whence do you come
here?”
The coal replied: “I fortunately sprang out of the fire. If I had
not escaped by main force my death would have been certain. I
should have been burned to ashes.”
4. The bean said: “I, too, have escaped with a whole skin. But if
the old woman had got me into the pan, I, like my comrades, should
have been made into broth without any mercy.” “And would a better
fate have fallen to my lot?” said the straw. “The old woman has
destroyed all my brethren1 in fire and smoke; she seized sixty of
them at once and took their lives. I luckily slipped through her
fingers.”
5. “But what are we to do now?” asked the coal.
“I think,” answered the bean, “that as we have so fortunately
escaped death, we should keep together like good companions. Lest a
new mischance2 should overtake us here, let us go away to a foreign
country.”
6. This plan pleased the two others, and they set out on their
way together. Soon, however, they came to a little brook, and, as
there was no bridge, they did not know how they were to get
over.
At last the straw said: “I will lay myself across, and then you
can walk over on me as on a bridge.”
7. The straw, therefore, stretched herself from one bank to the
other, and the coal, who was of an impetuous3 nature, tripped
forward quite boldly on the newly built bridge. But
when she reached the middle and heard the water rushing beneath
her, she was, after all, frightened, and stood still.
8. The straw then began to burn, broke in two pieces, and fell
into the stream. The coal slipped after her, hissed when she sank
into the water, and breathed her last.
The bean, who had prudently stayed behind on the shore, could not
help laughing at these events, and laughed so heartily that she
burst.
9. It would have been all over with her also, if, by good
fortune, a tailor who was traveling in search of work had not sat
down to rest by the brook. Pitying the poor bean, he pulled out his
needle and thread and sewed her together. She thanked him prettily,
but, as the tailor used black thread, beans since then have a black
seam.
Robert Louis Stevenson
1. The famous Scotch author, Robert Louis Stevenson, was born in
Edinburgh, November 13, 1850. He was a delicate child with a sweet
temper and a happy, unselfish disposition, who bore the burden of
ill health bravely in childhood as in later life. In “The Land of
Counterpane,” a poem which you may remember, he tells some of the
ways in which he amused himself during the idle days in bed.
2. When he was well enough to be up, he invented games for
himself and took keen delight in the world of out-door life.
3. His education was carried on in a somewhat irregular fashion.
He attended schools in Edinburgh, and studied with private tutors
at places to which his parents had gone for the benefit of his
health or of their own. He thus became an excellent linguist1, and
gained wide knowledge of foreign2 life and manners. He early showed
a taste for literature, beginning as a boy the careful choice of
language which made him a master of English prose.
4. Stevenson’s father had planned to have him follow the family
profession3 of engineering. With this in view he was sent to
Edinburgh University in the autumn of 1868. Later he gave up
engineering and attended law classes; but law, like engineering,
was put aside to enable him to fulfil his strong desire for a
literary life.
5. His first stories and essays, published in various magazines,
met with favorable notice. In 1878 he published his first book, “An
Inland Voyage,” the account of a canoe4 trip with a friend.
6. The mists and east winds of his native Scotland proved too
harsh for his delicate lungs, and year after year he found it
necessary to spend more and more time away from his Edinburgh home.
On one of these journeys in quest5 of health, he came to America,
and in “Across the Plains” he describes his journey in an emigrant6
train from New York to San Francisco. It was on this visit to
California that he met Mrs. Osbourne, who became his wife in
1880.
7. “Treasure Island,” a stirring tale of adventure, was published
in 1883. It was followed by two other boys’ stories, “The Black
Arrow” and “Kidnapped.”
8. In 1887 Stevenson and his wife again visited America. They
hired a yacht1 and spent two years sailing among the islands of the
South Seas, finally visiting Apia in Samoa. Samoa pleased
Stevenson, and as the climate suited him, he decided to make his
home there. At Vailima, his Samoan home, he spent four happy years
with his wife and his mother. Then his health failed, and he died
suddenly, December 3, 1894. He was buried, as he had desired, on
the summit of a mountain near his home.
9. Besides many novels and volumes of essays, Stevenson was the
author of four volumes of poetry. The best known of these is “A
Child’s Garden of Verses,” a book of delightful child poems from
which the poem “Travel” is taken.
Travelers’ Wonders
BY DR. JOHN AIKIN
Dr. John Aikin 1747–1822: The author of many scientific and
literary works. This selection is from “Evenings at Home,” a volume
of stories for children written by Dr. Aikin and his sister, Mrs.
Barbauld. A hundred years ago, there were few books written
especially for young people, except grammars, histories, and other
text-books, and this volume of instructive stories was very
popular.
“Ah, ah, papa!” cried Elizabeth, “I have found you out.”
1. One winter evening Captain Compass was sitting by the fireside
with his children around him.
“Oh, papa,” said little Jack, “do tell a story about what you
have seen in your voyages. We have been reading some wonderful
tales of adventure. As you have sailed round and round the world,
you must have seen many strange things.”
2. “That I have, my son,” said Captain Compass, “and, if it will
interest you, I will tell you some of the curious things I have
seen.
3. “Once about this time of the year I was in a country where it
was very cold. To keep warm, the people had garments made from an
animal’s outer covering which they stripped off his back while he
was yet alive. They also wore skins of beasts, these skins being
made smooth and soft in some way.
4. “Their homes were made of stones, of earth hardened in the
fire, or of the stalks of a large plant which grew in that country.
In the walls were holes to let in the light; but to keep out the
rain and the cold air these holes were covered with a sort of
transparent1 stone, made of melted sand.
5. “They kept their homes warm by means of a queer kind of rock
which they had discovered in the earth. This rock, when broken,
burned and gave out great heat.”
6. “Dear me!” said Jack, “what wonderful rock! I suppose it was
somewhat like flints that give out sparks when we knock them
together.”
“I don’t think the flints would burn,” said the Captain;“besides,
this was of a darker color.
7. “The food, too, of these people was strange. They ate the
flesh of certain animals, roots of plants, and cakes made of
powdered seeds. They often put on these cakes a greasy matter which
was the product of a large animal.
“They ate, also, the leaves and other parts of a number of
plants, some quite raw, others prepared in different ways by the
aid of fire.
8. “For drink they liked water in which certain dry leaves had
been steeped. I was told that these leaves came from a great
distance.
“What astonished me most was the use of a drink so hot that it
seemed like liquid fire. I once got a mouthful of it by mistake,
taking it for water, and it almost took away my breath. Indeed,
people are often killed by it; yet many of them are so foolish that
they will give for it anything they have.
9. “In warmer weather these people wore cloth made from a sort of
vegetable wool growing in pods upon bushes. Sometimes they covered
themselves with a fine glossy1 stuff, which I was told was made out
of the webs of worms. Think of the great number of worms required2
to make so large a quantity of stuff as I saw used!
“The women especially wore very queer things. Like most Indian
nations, they wore feathers in their headdress.
10. “I was also much surprised to see that they brought up in
their houses an animal of the tiger kind, with sharp teeth and
claws. In spite of its natural fierceness this animal was played
with and caressed by timid women and children.”
11. “I am sure I would not play with it,” said Jack.
“Why, you might get an ugly scratch if you did,” said the
Captain. “The speech of these people seems very harsh to a
stranger, yet they talk to one another with great ease and
quickness.
12. “One of their oddest customs is the way that the men have of
greeting the women. Let the weather be what it will, they uncover
their heads. If they wish to seem very respectful, they stay
uncovered for some time.”
13. “Why, that is like pulling off our hats,” said Jack.
“Ah, ah, papa!” cried Elizabeth, “I have found you out. All this
while you have been telling us about our own country and what is
done at home.”
14. “But,” said Jack, “we don’t burn rock, nor eat grease and
powdered seeds, nor wear skins and worms’ webs, nor play with
tigers.”
15. “What is coal but rock?” asked the Captain, “and is not
butter grease; and corn, seeds; and leather, skins; and silk, the
web of a kind of worm? And may we not as well call a cat an animal
of the tiger kind, as a tiger an animal of the cat kind?
16. “If you remember what I have said, you will find with your
sister’s help that all the other wonderful things I have told you
about are ones we know quite well.
“I meant to show you that to a stranger our common things might
seem very wonderful. I also wanted to show you that every day we
call a great many things by their names without ever thinking about
their nature; so it is really only their names and not the things
themselves that we know.”
We wear clothes made from sheep’s _____.
Our shoes are made of the skin of beasts, made smooth and soft;
this is called _____
Some houses are built of _____, which are made of earth hardened
in the fire.
_____are holes to let in light and air.
In these holes is put _____, which is made of melted sand.
_____is a rock which burns.
We eat _____, _____, and_____ , which are the flesh of
animals.
We eat cakes made of the powdered seeds of and _____
We also use for food_____ , _____, and _____, which are the roots
of plants.
The leaves of _____are cooked and eaten
_____ grows in pods upon bushes, and is used for making
Clothes
_____.is a glossy fabric made out of the webs of worms.
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