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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following authors and publishers for permission to use selections from their copyrighted publications: The American Magazine, for a selection by Marston T. Bogert. The American Review of Reviews, for a selection by Sylvester Baxter. Walter E. Andrews and The Youth's Companion, for a story, "The Boy Who Was Different." The Association Press, for a selection from Around the Fire, by Hanford M. Burr. Richard G. Badger, publisher, for a poem from The Road to Everywhere, by Glenn Ward Dresbach. William E. Barton, for "A Parable of White Paper." The Campfire Girls, Incorporated, for the "Ode to Fire." The Century Company, for a poem, "The Song of the World," by Isabel Bowman Finley; selections by Cleveland Moffett, from Careers of Danger and Daring; by Edwin E. Slosson, from Creative Chemistry, copyright 1919; by Francis A. Collins, from The Wireless Man; and for a story, "Getting Up to Date," by Roberta Wayne. Chautauqua Press, for a selection by Frederick Starr, from Some First Steps in Human Progress. Contemporary Verse, for "The Civil Engineers," by Phoebe Hoffman. W. B. Conkey Company, for "Which Are You?" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Russell H. Conwell, for "Acres of Diamonds." Frank Crane, for "Boy Wanted." Dodd, Mead & Company, for a selection from Jean Henri Fabre's Insect Adventures, copyright 1917. For a poem from Berton Braley's Songs of the Workaday World, copyright 1915, by George H. Doran Company, New York. Doubleday, Page & Company, for selections by Stanley Waterloo from The Story of Ab; by Ray Stannard Baker from The Boy's Book of Inventions; for "A Deal in Wheat," by Frank Norris; and for "A Romance of a Busy Broker," by O. Henry, in

The Four Million; and for two poems by Edwin Markham, from Gates of Paradise and Other Poems. Fitzgerald Publishing Company, for "A Song of Panama," by Alfred Damon Runyon. Ginn & Company, for a selection by William H. Allen, from Civics and Health, and for the privilege of adapting certain diagrams from A Second Book of Compositions, by Thomas H. Briggs and Isabel McKinney. Harper & Brothers, for selections by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, from Marooned in the Forest, and "The Genuine Mexican Plug," by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens). Mrs. Nellie S. Hancock, for "The Story of Two Boys," by H. Irving Hancock. Harcourt, Brace & Company, for "Work Gangs," from Smoke and Steel, by Carl Sandburg. Myron T. Herrick and The Youth's Companion, for "The Habit of Thrift." Henry Holt & Company, for "Under a Telephone-Pole," from Chicago Poems, by Carl Sandburg. By permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers, for poems by John Greenleaf Whittier, Edna Dean Proctor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harold T. Pulsifer, and for selections from The Home Builders, by Lyman Abbott, and from Grandfather's Chair, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Gardner Hunting and The Youth's Companion, for "Going After a Job." Mitchell Kennerley, for a selection from Our Wasteful Nation, by Rudolf Cronau. Rudyard Kipling, for the poem, "L'Envoi." Ladies' Home Journal, for a story by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd. The Living Age, for a poem, "Bridge Builders," by Evelyn Simms. Leverett S. Lyon and Marshall Field & Company for a selection published in Fashions of the Hour. McClure's Magazine, for a selection by Ellen Velvin. The Macmillan Company, for selections from The Making of an American, by Jacob A. Riis; from The Call of the Wild, by Jack London; The Story of Human Progress, by Leon C. Marshall; and for poems by Sara Teasdale and John Masefield. Mershon Company, for a poem by John Boyle O'Reilly. National Geographic Magazine, for "An American Fable," by

Gifford Pinchot. The Journal Dailies (Ottawa, Canada) and Mrs. Virna Sheard, for a poem, "Postmen." The Outlook, for "Katherine," by Minnie J. Reynolds. Fleming H. Revell Company, for a selection from Men Who Made Good, by John T. Faris. Reilly & Lee Company, for "Just a Job," from Just Folks, by Edgar A. Guest. Roberts Publishing Company, for "A Song from the Suds," by Louisa May Alcott. Two selections by Elbert Hubbard, reprinted by permission of The Roycrofters, East Aurora, N. Y. Harold O. Rugg, for a selection from The Western Movement and the Growth of Transportation. Alfred Damon Runyon, for "A Song of Panama." For a selection reprinted by permission of The Saturday Evening Post, by Floyd W. Parsons, copyright 1924. Charles Scribner's Sons, for "Turkey Red," by Frances Gilchrist Wood; "Pete of the Steel-Mills," by Herschel S. Hall; "A Piece of Red Calico," by Frank R. Stockton; "How Phileas Fogg Won His Wager," by Jules Verne; "The Glory of Ships" and "Work," by Henry van Dyke; "The Heart of the Tree," by Henry C. Bunner; and “The Vigor of Life," by Theodore Roosevelt. For a selection from The Land We Live In, by Overton B. Price, used by and with the permission of Small, Maynard & Company, Inc. Frederick A. Stokes Company, for selections from Uncle Sam, Wonder Worker, by William A. Du Puy, copyright 1913, and by P. Chalmers Mitchell, from The Childhood of Wild Animals, copyright 1912. John C. Winston Company, for a selection from Our Beginnings in Europe and America, by Smith Burnham. For a selection from The Age of Big Business, by Burton J. Hendrick, one of The Chronicles of America Series, published by Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.

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PREFACE

LITERATURE THE INTERPRETATION OF LIFE

Whether at home or at school, at work or at play, we spend most of our waking time with other people. Our pleasures and achievements depend largely upon our success in getting along with our companions; our problems and difficulties usually come from human associations. Indeed, a successful and happy life is chiefly the result of living well with other folk.

Great writers have been fascinated by human relationships. Their poems, stories, essays, and novels usually deal with people living and working together. Literature is a mirror of life, reflecting those human interests and problems which grow out of our contacts with one another; one of its chief values is to enable us to understand and to appreciate life. In fact, literature is life.

READING GROUPED ABOUT TOPICS OF SOCIAL LIFE

Reading and Living brings out the social function of literature. Selections have been chosen because they illustrate or illumine the art of living and working together. They have been grouped in units so as to give a simple but systematic survey of the chief factors in social life. Book One contains literature interpreting the elements of community welfare; Book Two, literature interpreting work and vocations. The series thus comprises an analysis of the chief phases of human life as illustrated by selections of literary merit.

VARIETY AND LITERARY QUALITY OF CONTENTS

Reading and Living is outstanding in the variety and the literary quality of its contents. The readings consist of