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AMERICAN IDEALS—THE a better understanding of the American AMERICAN SCENE scene and American trends. Although a study of English literature has An Annotated Reading List always played an important role in our course of study, we welcome a list of books THE purpose of this study is two- from English educators, suggesting what in fold : (1) an approach to best expresses English thought literature in line with contemporary today. educational thought; and (2) a suggested But America offers to England a more exchange list for English students, of ma- perplexing problem in understanding than terial which would help them better to un- does the latter to us. It is difficult for derstand the American scene. After con- Englishmen, whose traditions and institu- siderable discussion the committee decided tions have evolved slowly and steadily that it should consider as a basis for selec- through more than a thousand years, to un- tion the following questions: derstand our country, which, in one hundred 1. Does it portray a phase of the and fifty years, has developed through pro- American scene? gressive periods of exploration and pioneer- 2. Does it represent the thought of a ing endeavor into a great world power. large mass of people? We faced the questions; What literature 3. Is it literature? will best convey to another people the con- No book could meet all three tests. We ception of the composite nature of the thought it should approach two of them. American scene? What would point the We sought material which attained to at way to the contribution which America with least a fair level of expression, including her heterogeneous background eventually the "good book of the hour" as well as that will add to human experience? We found which may be the "book of all time." it necessary to consider the following con- Because we felt some kind of classifica- stituent factors which, woven together, give tion would be helpful we designated certain us the tapestry of American thought: categories. We realize their inadequacy. It 1. Its democratic form of government is difficult to discriminate between a book 2. The pioneer movement across the con- which gives a picture of America and one tinent which depicts a certain aspect. Space does 3. Its educational system not permit cross references. We did not 4. The rapid industrial development seek to paint a happy picture of America; 5. The fabulous wealth drawn from its we sought the best expression of its various natural resources phases, pleasant or unpleasant. 6. Its character as the melting pot The list is not to be considered a course The list is tentative. The committee hopes of study in American literature. A num- the criticisms it will draw will help them ber of books listed are no doubt above the eventually to offer a more fruitful study. average level of secondary students. Others The committee wishes to acknowledge its were included because they would prove indebtedness to the Council's list, Books for helpful to teachers. Several of the standard Home Reading, and the English Club of classics found in courses of study have been Teachers College, . It omitted, not because the committee does not it grateful for invaluable advice to the fol- appreciate their value, but because it sought lowing; Professor Franklin T. Baker and primarily to present material which would Professor Allan Abbott of Teachers Col- help both our own and English students to lege; Miss Helen Ferris, editor of the Jun- [Vol. 16, No. 3 52 THE VIRGINIA TEACHER A panorama of moving America in the ior Literary Guild; Mr. W. W. Waymack, Southwest editor of the Register and Tribune, Des Smoky ■ Will James Moines, Iowa: Miss E. Estelle Downing, A cowboy's account of the relationship—al- Michigan State Normal School, Ypsilanti; most human—between himself and his horse 5 Big Mr. J. Edgar Stonecipher, Principal of 0 The development of an unusually strong per- Roosevelt High School, and Miss Nellie E. sonality through meeting the_ challenge of Behm, Librarian, Des Moines; Mrs. Eva M. adverse circumstances—the motive, a mother s Page, reference librarian of the Des Moines love for her son. Public Library; and Professor George F. The Story of Skyscrapers. .Alfred Morgan Robeson, University of Iowa. Through College on Nothing a Year Christian Gauss The Committee on International Relations An interesting story of the struggle of a boy of the to put himself through college National Council of Teachers of English The Virginian Owen Wister Ida T. Jacobs, Chairman A romantic picture of cowboy life PICTURES OF AMERICAN LIFE dr. Where but in America. .Oscar H. Wolff Winning of the West. .Theodore Roosevelt The American Procession Agnes Rogers and F. L. Allen TREND TO RECREATE THE PAST Pictorial presentation of American life since Age of Innocence 1860 A conflict in ideas between the old and the As the Earth Turns G. H. Carroll new in New York in the eighteen seventies One year in the life of a typical American Death Comes for the Archbishop family deeply rooted in the soil of Willa Gather Blazed Trail Stewart E. White Story of a noble French priest among the A story of the lumber camps in Michigan Mexicans and Indians in pioneer Southwest The Conqueror Gertrude Atherton Digging in the Southwest Historical novel based on the life of Alexan- Ann Axtell Morris der Hamilton, interesting because of analogy The work of the archseologist in the South- to present-day problems west told as an interesting adventure The Crisis Winston Churchill The Farm A study of the social problems "'■arising out Story of a way of living—characterized by two of the struggle between the North and the intensely American fundamentals, integrity South and idealism—which has vanished except in a Gentlemen Unafraid. .Florence Willoughby few families that have clung to that standard in spite of everything The Grandissimes George Cable Ihc Great Meadow (Daniel Boone) A story of Creole pride in New Orleans in Elizabeth Madox Roberts early nineteenth century A beautifully related story of the Revolu- Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer tionary period in Kentucky, giving the rigors of pioneer life and "showing a new order During clipper ship days in Salem the en- dawning out of chaos" counter of racial and social obstacles by an American merchant captain and his high- House of Mirth Edith Wharton born Chinese wife The failure of a young woman to make her Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come social adjustment in New York in the nineties John Fox, Jr. In the Days of Poor Richard Irving Bacheller Social background of the simple folk of Tennessee during the Civil War period A human story of our struggle for independ- s.s. Luck of Roaring Camp Bret Harte ence and the part played in it Gold rush days in p. John Brown's Body Oregon Trail Francis Parkman Stephen Vincent Benet Exploration of the Northwest p. The Sante Fe Trail Vachel Lindsay An epic based on the Civil War March, 1935] THE VIRGINIA TEACHER S3

Show Boat Edna Ferber rne narDor Life on a floating theatre on the and the The struggle between capital and labor in Mississippi New York p. Song of Hugh Glass.. John G. Neihardt The Pit Frank Norris Early exploration days in the Mississippi A corner in wheat in early twentieth cen- Valley tury So Red the Rose Stark Young The Plutocrat Sympathetic treatment of the South during An American business man, close to carica- the Civil War ture, with the conventional characteristics ASPECTS OF AMERICAN LIFE found m fiction Agrarian: Pioneer Life The Rise of Silas Lapham Able McLaughlins Margaret Wilson William D. Howells Middle West A spiritual triumph over disaster of a self- made American business man in Covered Wagon Emerson Hough toward the end of the nineteenth century Westward Movement—Transcontinental The Show Off George Kelley Edna Ferber A satire on the "go-getter"—an amusing Opening of the Cherokee Strip—Oklahoma story in self-delusion which culminates in a successful business venture for the "go- Giants of the Earth Ole Rolvaag getter and confounds his critics Dakota Industry Vandermark's Folly Herbert Quick Erie Canal—Iowa p. Caliban in the Coal Mines A Lantern in Her Hand Louis Untermeyer Bess Streeter Aldrich Poems Nebraska p. The Man With the Hoe s.s. Main Traveled Roads Edwin Markham Hamlin Garland Labor without hope Wisconsin—Iowa—South Dakota Turmoil Booth Tarkington Agrarian: Years of Development Effect upon a sensitive youth thrown into dr. Beyond the Horizon. .Eugene O'Neill the noise and turmoil of industry A study of two brothers who at a dramatic Professions moment in their lives choose to follow ca- reers for which they are not fitted s.s. Farmer Eli's Vacation. .Alice Brown A young scientist's choice of a career in medical research in preference to one The habit of a lifetime unfits Farmer Eli which offers material reward for the enjoyment of longed-for dreams Careers for Women Catherine Filene dr. Ice Bound Owen Davis A vocational panorama showing opportuni- A close-to-the-soil picture of the Jordan ties open to women in a changing world family in Maine Watching the World Go By Poems of Robert Frost New England life Willis J. Abbot Fifty years of journalism by a notable s.s. Revolt of Mother newspaper man Mary Wilkins Freeman (Other books in this field are listed under A mother accepting patiently her own dis- particular categories: art, drama, music, appointment revolts when her daughter's happiness is at stake autobiography, biography). Business Puritan Convention Babbitt Sinclair Lewis Ethan Frome Edith Wharton e author s conception of a certain type Story told in the manner of stark Greek of AmericanA business man 3 tnangle on a New Dodsworth Sinclair Lewis farm England A more attractive conception of the Ameri- dr. The Great Divide can business man by the same author William Vaughn Moody [Vol. 16, No. 3 54 THE VIRGINIA TEACHER

A conflict of ideals when East met West in Iowa Interiors Ruth Suckow the United States Character sketches The Scarlet Letter,. Nathaniel Hawthorne Little Women Louise M. Alcott Life in a modest home of culture in Con- Amalgamation and Adjustment cord American Beauty Edna Ferber Booth Tarkington The decadence of a great American family A typical American boy and its renaissance through the union with Polish peasant stock The Professor's House Willa Gather Conflict of ideas and ideals in the house- Children of Loneliness hold of a professor in a midwestern college Anzia Yezierska town Stories of a young Russian immigrant girl Seventeen Booth Tarkington Humoresque Fannie Hurst An interesting tale of adolescent life in the A musician's interpretation of the soul of Middle West America through his symphony dr. The Silver Cord Sidney Howard Island Within Ludwig Lewisohn The unhappiness caused' by a mother, self- A psychological, autobiographical tale of ishly devoted to her son conflict between Jew and Gentile Sonny Ruth McEnery Stewart An amusing story of self-direction in edu- The tragic experience of the Indian when cation brought in contact with the white man Tom Sawyer Little Citizens Myra Kelley Huckleberry Finn's companion Children of immigrants in Understood Betsy My Antonia Willa Gather Dorothy Canfield Fisher A Bohemian immigrant girl's surmounting The portrayal of a young orphan in a of adverse circumstances and carrying her simple New England background family with her Within This Present My Mother and I E. G. Sterne . Problem in this country of young person of foreign-born parents A contemporary typical wealthy American family O Pioneers Willa Gather .. .Margaret Ayer Barnes Successful emergence of Swedish and Bo- hemian families in Nebraska into normal Changing American social customs— American life Chicago p. Scum o' the Earth Class Distinction Robert Haven Schauffler Booth Tarkington The contribution of the immigrant A Certain Rich Man Young Man Axelbrod Sinclair Lewis The pursuit of his dream of America by a Scandinavian immigrant Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington Home—Family—Children e. Our Qass Distinctions The Bent Twig. .Dorothy Canfield Fisher Katharine Fullerton Gerould The permanent effect of early training up- No factors common to all communities: on character education, wealth, ancestry, etc. The Children Edith Wharton Victims of divorce of American parents Backward People against an extremely sophisticated conti- Carolina Folk-Plays nental background Frederick H. Koch, Ed. The Court of Boyville William Allen White The Glass Window Lucy Furman Kentucky mountain people when present Friendship Village Zona Gale century progress in education and comforts Wisconsin of life penetrate the community Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain In the Tennessee Mountains The adventures, real and imaginary, of a Charles E. Craddock boy in the region along pioneer Mississippi March, 193S] THE VIRGINIA TEACHER 55

(Mary N. Murfree) p. Patterns Amy Lowell p. The Mountain Woman "Pattern called a war" Dubose Heyward p. Peace Heroes ... .William S. Wabnitz Quare Women Lucy Furman Red Badge of Courage.. . Kentucky mountain folk Psychological study of a soldier in the Civil War, modern in conception The Negro ss. The Return of a Private Black Hamlin Garland James Weldon Johnson Satire and idyl of unknown soldier who A historical chronicle of the educational, returns from Civil War, weary and heart economic, and social growth of the Negro sore p. Litany of the Dark People to Peace Countee Cullen Herman Bernstein, Editor Negro Anthology Interviews with famous Americans and Europeans James Weldon Johnson dr. Sun-Up Lula Vollmer Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar The repercussion of the World War among : "Dunbar was the the mountain folk of North Carolina- only man of our African blood and Ameri- tragedy of backwoods youth drawn into a can civilization to feel Negro life aestheti- war enacted in lands unknown to him and cally and express it lyrically." for causes which mean nothing to him Porgy Dubose Heyward ss. Two Military Executions The emotional reactions to the various human experiences of the primitive south- ern Negro, living in Catfish Row, Charles- e. Unknown Soldier Bruce Barton ton p. We are our Fathers' Sons WAR, PEACE, WORLD CO-OPERATION Wm. Vaughn Moody p. The Arsenal at Springfield AUTOBIOGRAPHY H. W. Longfellow p. Beat, Beat, Drums. . . .Walt Whitman The Education of Henry Adams The Brimming Cup Experiences of a son of the noted Adams family Dorothy Canfield Fisher Jane Ad dams A noble woman's self-analysis which en- ables a wise choice between the enduring Twenty Years at Hull House and changing things in life The development of a Chicago community p. Christ of the Andes. .Edwin Markham center p. The Flag of Peace Mary Antin The Promised Land A Russian immigrant's interpretation of her Charlotte Perkins Oilman America ss. The Horseman in the Sky Mary Austin Earth Horizons Ambrose Bierce The portrayal of the "intimate spiritual side The destruction in war of peace-time moral of this American and mystic, the and spiritual values friend of the Indians of the Southwest" p. I Have a Rendezvous with Death Alan Seeger Americanization of Edward Bok p. Inbrothered Edwin Markham The remarkable career of a Dutch boy who eventually becomes a force in American life p. Mending Wall Robert Frost John Burroughs My Boyhood Munition Makers Should be Curbed With a conclusion by his son, Julian Bur- William E. Borah roughs Speech in the Senate, March 5, 1934 Richard Evelyn Byrd Skyward p. On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines A thrilling account of Byrd's life, including Wm. Vaughn Moody his Polar and trans-Atlantic flights Henry Ford My Life Work Willa Gather In collaboration with Samuel Crowther [Vol. 16, No. 3 56 THE VIRGINIA TEACHER

Benjamin Franklin Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Steamboat days as told by a river pilot A rich life projected against eighteenth cen- Booker T. Washington. . .Up from Slavery tury America in both its domestic and inter- A son of a slave becomes a notable educator national relations and the founder of Tuskegee Institute Hamlin Garland Lillian Wald... .Windows on Henry Street A Son of the Middle Border A New York City community center The development of a farm boy of the Middle Kate Douglas Wiggin West into an important literary figure My Garden of Memory - .. .Roadside Meetings 1884-99 An autobiography of a well-known author — Companions on the Trail 1900 deals with her life objectively. Her list of friends includes the most gifted and interest- A literary chronicle: His contemporaries in ing men and women of her time many fields of accomplishment BIOGRAPHY Will James. .Lone Cowboy: My Life Story Helen Keller The Story of My Life The Adams Family. James Truslow Adams A remarkable woman surmounting her physi- The story of the most distinguished family in the United States portrayed against a cal handicaps background almost covering the life of the James Weldon Johnson republic Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Clara Barton William E. Barton A view of the "inner life of the Negro in Martha Berry Tracy Byers America" A well-written account of an indomitable James Weldon Johnson. . .Along This Way woman of the aristocratic^ South, developing The account of the social and cultural ad- her idea of spreading enlightenment to the ventures of one of the foremost American poor children of the mountains of Southern Negroes Appalachia, Georgia Christopher D. Morley Human Being p. A Book of Americans A story, partly autobiographical Rosemary and Stephen Benet John Muir In comic-serious verse, sketches of the varied personalities in American history, including The Story of My Boyhood and Youth Columbus, Washington, lesse James, ■ ■ The reminiscences of a noted naturalist Barnum, and Julia Newberry.. . Julia Newberry's Diary Andrew Carnegie Burton J. Hendrick The social life of Chicago in the latter part A noted American of Scottish birth, who, of the nineteenth century and the author s considering it disgraceful "to die a rich contact with people of note man," devoted his wealth to promote human Michael Pupin progress From Immigrant to Inventor Classic Americans Henry Canby The rise of a Serbian peasant boy to the Irving to Whitman position of professor and internationally Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage known scientist Allan Nevins Jacob Riis Making of an American Pugnacious courage and determination to The development of a Danish immigrant into fight for the ideals he held to be right a power for social betterment Theodore Roosevelt Edison, the Man and his Work George Sands Bryan Ranch Life and Hunting Trail The Dakota days Edison, his Life and Inventions . . .Story of a Pioneer Frank Lewis Dyer Suffrage leader, minister, and physician Boys' Life of Edison Lincoln Steffens Wm. Henry Meadowcraft The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens A challenging arraignment of the influences A Modern Olympian of corrupt practices in city and state govern- Mary Quids Nerney (1934) . ments Edward Alfred Steiner Charles Wm. Eliot, Puritan Liberal From Alien to Citizen Henry H. Saunderson An Austrian immigrant's story A great leader in education March, 1935] THE VIRGINIA TEACHER 57

Ralph Waldo Emerson. . W. H. Page, Life and Letters Mark Van Doren: "One of the most charm- Burton J. Hendrick ing books yet written in America" Notable statesman, ambassador to England Benjamin Franklin. .Sydney George Fisher during the World War Isabelle McClintock Garland Carleton H. Parker Hamlin Garland Cornelia Stratton Parker (Mother of Hamlin Garland) A daughter An American Idyl of the Middle Border Joseph Pulitzer, His Life and Letters Wm. Crawford Gorgas, His Life and Work D. C. Seitz Marie Gorgas and Burton Hendrick A portrayal of one of America's outstanding liberators of journalism, one who stood for A noted physician liberty, progress, and the welfare of mankind Nathaniel Hawthorne Portraits of Women. . . .Gamaliel Bradford A Rebellious Puritan... Lloyd R. Morris Theodore Roosevelt, The Ideals of Romantic Rebel. . Hildegarde Hawthorne Edward H. Cotton Story-biography by his granddaughter G. R. Charnwood John Hay, Life and Letters. .W. R. Thayer Hermann Hagedorn Study of an outstanding American diplomat —a scholar and statesman who won the admi- Charles Proteus Steinmetz ration of both Americans and Europeans (Ear John Winthrop Hammond Eastern relations) A genius in the field of electricity Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. .Silas Bent Mark Twain, Mark Twain's America A liberal in his interpretation of the law Bernard DeVoto Robert E. Lee, the Southerner Mark Twain Albert B. Paine Thomas Nelson Page Whitman and Burroughs Clara Barrus Lee, the American Gamaliel Bradford Their comradeship , a New Portrait George Washington Emanuel Hertz William Roscoe Thayer Life of Lincoln . G. R. Charnwood Woodrow Wilson. . . .Ray Stannard Baker, Master of Men Alonzo Rothschild William E. Dodd Aims to spotlight the one element in Lincoln's INTERPRETATION OF AMERICA personality which grows in significance—his Adams, James Truslow. . .Epic of America mastery over different types of men The author; "An attempt to discover for The Prairie Years Carl Sandburg himself and others, how the ordinary Ameri- Lincoln's development among the plain people can has become what he is today in outlook, of the Middle West character, and opinion" With Malice Toward None , . .The Tempo of Modern Life Honore Willsie Morrow A series of essays dealing with various as- pects of the contemporary scene Lonely Americans. .. .Rollo Walter Brown March of Democracy "It isolates one anywhere to think beyond a The author; "There is no one key,.. .econom- certain point"—Lincoln, Eliot, Emily Dick- ics, religion, politics.. .to an understanding on inson, etc. the whole...I have tried to hold the balance Microbe Hunters Paul de Kruif even" A series of short biographies of scientists in Allen, Frederick Only Yesterday their crusade against disease An informal history of America in the 1920's Modern Great Americans Beard, Charles A. Frederick Houk Law The Rise of American Civilization Alice Freeman Palmer A most penetrating analysis of American thought and institutions by the pioneer in the George Herbert Palmer question, "Where are we headed?" The noble struggle of an American woman to open opportunities for women in the field of , The Myth of Rugged Individualism [Vol. 16, No. 3 58 THE VIRGINIA TEACHER

A short study of the excesses in indusj;ry_ apd Lincoln, Abraham business to which present day rugged individ- Selections; "Gettysburg" ualism has led "Cooper Union Speech" , America Faces the Future "Mrs. Bixby's Letter" Leaders in education, politics, labor, and eco- nomics attempt to answer tne question : "How Lippmann, Walter Interpretations to go forward along lines already made clear The United States in World Affairs by the lamp of experience and engineering rationality" Interpretation of current events by an out- standing American student of public affairs Beard, Mary Mencken, Henry American Language America Through Women's Eyes An elaborate and independent discussion of Beer, Thomas Mauve Decade the relation between British and American Many facets of American life toward the end English of the nineteenth century, treated satirically Mumford, Lewis The Arts Boon, M. J The American Adventure An appraisal of modern civilization, viewing An interesting study of significant factors optimistically the effects and potentialities of responsible for the American achievement science Bowers, Claude G Tragic Era Over street, H. A. The tragic story of the South in the twelve We Move in New Directions years following the death of Lincoln and a Parrington, Vernon Louis close-up of the fighting factions Main Currents in American Literature Butler, Nicholas Murray.. Looking Forward Roosevelt, Franklin D. e. Canby, Henry S. Traveling Intelligently in America Inaugural Address March 4, 1933 Roosevelt, Theodore. . . .True Americanism ) The Age of Confidence American Ideals Chase, Stuart A Strenuous Life An attempt to show the way to a new social order by an economy planned by technicians Sherman, Stuart P The Main Stream and scientists Essays ranging from Lincoln to Ring Lardner Frank, Glenn Thunder and Dawn Sullivan, Mark Our Times The outlook for Western _ Civilization with A journalist's presentation of the important special reference to the United States events of the twentieth century Frankfurter, Felix Thomas, Norman America's Way Out The Public and Its Government An outstanding American Socialist offers his A supplement to Schuyler C. Wallace s Our solution of America's economic problem Governmental Machine p. Untermeyer, Louis Prayer e. Gideonese, Harry D. Van Doren, Carl World Depression-World Recovery The Contemporary American Novel World recovery possible through understand- ing of the true meaning of economic world Wallace, Henry A. . .America Must Choose interdependence > New Frontiers Hatfield and Roberts A member of the Cabinet points to new paths The Spirit of America in Literature in a changing world Wallace, Schuyler C. Hazard, Lucy Lockwood Our Governmental Machine In Search of America Popular in appeal—"sound" in doctrine An anthology of prose and poetry depicting both American and foreign views of Ameri- White, Wm. Allen cans Commencement Address at the Krapp, George Philip University of Kansas, June, 1934 The English Language in America p. Whitman, Walt A scholar shows that in its interesting change Selections: "I Hear America Singing" "the English language in America has shared to as great an extent as the American people "Manahatta" have shared in the development of the civili- "Pioneers! O Pioneers! zation of the modern world. March, 1935] THE VIRGINIA TEACHER 59 p. Engle, Paul America Remembers Sherman, Stuart... The Genius of America American Song p. Untermeyer, Louis Landscapes A lyrical presentation of America's heritage Van Dyke, Henry The Mansion and destiny A study of a man of wealth who finds hap- Rugg, Harold piness through unselfish service History of American Civilization e. White, William A Mary White American Government and Culture A character sketch of a young American girl of the Middle West THE ART OF LIVING e. Wilson, Woodrow p. Austin, Mary The Eagle's Song When a Man Comes to Himself Cabot, Richard Clark. .What Men Live By The period in the life of a youth when he The author gives his prescription for health- begins to develop a sense of values ful mental and physical living NATURE e. Canby, Henry Seidel Essay Poetry for the Unpoetical Car Window Botany... .Lida F. Baldwin e. Crothers, Samuel.... Humanly Speaking The author: Essays "betray the influence of Arcturus Adventure, Edge of the some of the mass movements of the day" Jungle, Jungle Night, Jungle Peace , Among Friends William Beebe Friends, books, learning Wake Robin John Burroughs Douglas, Lloyd. .Forgive us our Trespasses Everybody's Garden A well-told story of the regenerating influence of forgiveness upon an embittered youth Walter Prichard Eaton , Magnificent Obsession A House in the Country. . .John Erskine Psychological study of the powers of an ideal, The Story of the Thousand applied to every-day living Year Pine Enos Mills e. Erskine, John Our National Parks John Muir Moral Obligation to be Intelligent Surf Fishing Christopher Morley e. Fosdick, H. E. Face of the Fields, Watchers The Hope of the World in the Woods Dallas Lore Sharp As I See Religion The Comradeship of Trees Twelve Tests of Character Margaret Sherwood e. Fullerton, Katherine Gerould Who Owns the Mountains? New Simplicity Plain living and high thinking—our need Henry Van Dyke e. Grayson, David On Making Camp Adventures in Contentment Stewart Edward White Adventures in Friendship Poetry Herrick, Robert. . . .The Master of the Inn To a Phcebe-Bird Witter Bynner Keller, Helen Three Days to See The Joys of the Road, Lewis, Sinclair Work of Art Green Fire Bliss Carman Realistic study of a typical small business man Song of Summer. .Paul Laurence Dunbar who considers the business of hotel keeping a fine art Birches Robert Frost Martin, Edward S. April Theodosia Garrison A Father to his Freshman Son Day's End Herman Hagedorn Page, Kirby, ed. Trees Joyce Kilmer Recent Gains in American Civilization Song of the Chattahoochee By students and critics in their respective Sidney Lanier fields: Charles Beard, Stuart Chase, Charles A Tulip Garden Amy Lowell S. Johnson, Oswald Garrison Villard, H. E. Fosdick, John Dewey and others God's World, Afternoon on e. Repplier, Agnes Women Enthroned a Hill Edna St. Vincent Millay [Vol. 16, No, 3 60 THE VIRGINIA TEACHER

The Pine at the Timber-Line Art and Nature Appreciation Harriet Monroe George H. Opdyke Fog, Evening Waterfall. . .Carl Sandburg *Art in Every Day Life. .H. & V. Goldstein Many, Many Moons; Slow Smoke; *Art through the Ages Helen Gardner Wings Against the Moon. .Lew Sarett Autobiography (Architecture) Blue Squills, Full Moon, Frank L. Wright Leaves Sara Teasdale Experiencing Pictures.. .Ralph M. Pearson God of the Open Air, History and Ideals of American Art Indian Summer Henry Van Dyke Eugen Neuhaus Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun Men of Art Thomas Craven Walt Whitman Modern Architecture Frank L. Wright Sea Call Margaret Widdemer The Modern Movement in Art MYTH, LEGEND, FOLK LORE R. H. Wilenski American Negro Spirituals Modern Tendencies in Sculpture James Weldon Johnson American Song Bag Carl Sandburg New World Architecture.. Sheldon Cheney Cowboy Songs and other Frontier Ballads New Backgrounds for a New Age John Avery Lomax Edwin Avery Park Devil's Ditties Jean Thomas Primer of Modern Art Sheldon Cheney Stories of the Kentucky mountain people with Story of American Painting the songs appropriate to the scene and the Charles H. Caffin occasion ♦Understanding the Arts.... Helen Gardner Green Pastures Marc Connelly MUSIC A modern mystery play, quite in the manner of the mystery of the Middle Ages, portray- Music Appreciation for Children ing the story of the Bible as conceived in Victor Publishing Co. southern Negro folk-lore Legend of Sleepy Hollow Music Appreciation for the Student Washington Irving L. Lawrence Erb and G. Schirmer Among the Dutch along the Hudson Music and Romance Old Man Adam and his Chillun Hazel Gertrude Kinscella Roark Bradford Text book in music appreciation for Junior Basis of Green Pastures and Senior High School Paul Bunyan James Stevens Native Elements in American Music Stories of the lumberjacks of the Northwest John Tasker Howard Pueblo Folk Stories. . .Charles F. Lummis American Scholar—Summer, 1934 Stories of the Pueblo Indians of Our American Music. .John Tasker Howard and Arizona An excellent chronological study of Ameri- can music—from its beginnings up to today, Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving including national airs, religious themes, folk- Dutch legend of Catskills songs, jazz Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings The Victrola Book of the Opera Joel Chandler Harris Victor Publishing Co. Legends of the old plantation in Negro dia- lect—Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Mr. Bear, etc. DRAMA ARTS Our Changing Theater ART, ARCHITECTURE Richard Dana Skinner Appreciation of Art Eugen Neuhaus The best plays of the outstanding dramatists of the past decade *Art Appreciation Romance of the American Theater M. R. Collins and Q. L. Riley Mary Caroline Crawford Spotlights and Footlights ♦Texts for secondary schools. March, 1935] THE VIRGINIA TEACHER 61

Rich in reminiscences of the American stage er Zook, and to other federal officers, both and stage folk administrative and legislative. The Theatre Guild. . Walter Prichard Eaton History of the first ten years It is to be regretted that this editorial can- Theatre through the not end here. It cannot because certain con- David Belasco comitants of the relief provided the schools are unfortunate, to state it mildly. The FOREIGN WRITERS OF AMERICA public welfare, as it is tied up with educa- e. Advice to a Frenchman going to tion, demands that the federal administra- America Andre Maurois tion and the teaching profession identify e. Farewell to America and remove the liabilities in the situation. Henry W. Nevinson Most of these liabilities originate from An Englishman's penetrating criticism of America the fact that there has been no federal pro- e. Foreigners Stephen Graham gram for the emergency help of education. p. L'Amerique de Roosevelt..Bernard Fay There has been merely a general relief pro- Mark Twain Stephen Leacock gram. The emergency assistance provided dr. Melting Pot Israel Zangwill education has been incidental to the larger e. Oxford as I See It Stephen Leacock program. The administrative set-up and A comparison between Oxford and American the policies governing relief to the unem- universities; treated in kindly, semi-satirical vein ployed have been used in providing educa- tional assistance. Practices, doubtless nec- Key to abbreviations— essary in dealing with an emergency propo- dr. drama p. poetry e. essay s.s. sition, the relief of millions of unemployed, have been carried over and applied in as- sisting well organized, going concerns—the WANTED: A FEDERAL schools and colleges of the nation. A series of evils has resulted. Relief ad- POLICY FOR EDUCATION ministrators, unacquainted with school DURING the past year approximately needs and procedures, have dictated educa- $200,000,000 of federal funds were tional policy with unfortunate effects. For expended for the financial support example, in some hard pressed school dis- of education. This money literally prevent- tricts, it has been necessary for regular and ed the collapse of thousands of schools and well qualified teachers to be replaced by in- colleges. It meant the difference between digent and poorly qualified teachers in or- some educational opportunity and little or der that schools might be kept open. no opportunity for millions of children and Particularly unfortunate, from the view- youths. It provided subsistence for thous- point of a professional group, are the meth- ands of unemployed and destitute teachers. ods it has been necessary to use to secure It financed classes for adults and other ac- relief funds for education. Responsible ad- tivities which are of large significance to ministrative officials let it be known that ed- future educational progress. These are some ucation would receive aid only when condi- of the items on the credit side of the ledger. tions became desperate and pressure was For this indispensable help in a time of applied. A virtual invitation was extended great need, the teaching profession and the to the profession to bring pressure from public in general owe a debt to Secretary back home and through Congress as a con- Ickes, Administrator Hopkins, Commission- dition for receiving relief for education. Reprinted with permission from The Phi Delta Such pressure got results. It was used fre- Kappan. January, 1935. quently during the past year in the interest