We are not necessarily to read for the sake of finding subjects on which to write. Sufficient motive comes from the companionship of a good book. Yet it is interesting and profitable to write out our impressions of what we read - not to reproduce the story, but to tell how we like it and what something in the book has set us to thinking about.

Sometimes we are hungry for a good book but cannot think of one which seems likely to suit our mood. The following list includes books which have appealed to the various tastes of pupils in many schools.

Abbot, The........

Walter Scott

Adventures in the Wilderness...............

W. H. H. Murray

Alexander the Great.........

T. A. Dodge

Animal Intelligence.......

G. J. Romanes

Ants, Bees, and Wasps..........

John Lubbock

Arabian Nights

Audubon, John James......

Mrs. L. Audubon

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Betty Alden................

Jane G. Austin

Bird Ways...............

Olive Thorne Miller

Bits of Travel.........

.Helen Hunt Jackson

Bracebridge Hall ................

Washington Irving

Christmas Carol...............

Charles Dickens

Cicero, Life of .............

Anthony Trollope W. Forsyth

Columbus, Christopher..........

Washington Irving

David Balfour..........

Robert Louis Stevenson

Engineers, Lives of the ..........

Samuel Smiles

Garfield, Life of.............

Sarah K. Bolton

Gulliver's Travels (abridged) . .

Jonathan Swift

Gypsy Breynton Series............

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Heroes and Kings..........

A. J. Church

Hoosier Schoolmaster, The . .

Edward Eggleston

Iliad, The........

Lang, Leaf, and Myers Bryant

Irving, Life of .............

Charles Dudley Warner

Ivanhoe .........

Walter Scott

Jungle Books, The.....

Rudyard Kipling

Kidnapped...............

Robert Louis Stevenson

Last Days of Pompeii, The . .

E. L. Bulwer Lytton

Last of the Mohicans, The . .

James Fenimore Cooper

Lay of the Last Minstrel, The

Walter Scott

Lays of Ancient Rome.............

Thomas B. Macaulay

Lincolin, Life of .............

Ida M. Tarbell

Lionel Lincoln..............

James Fenimore Cooper

Little Women.......

Louisa M. Alcott

Longfellow, Life of..........

Samuel Longfellow

Man without a Country, The

Edward Everett Hale

Master of Ballantrae, The . . .

Robert Louis Stevenson

Memoirs of U. S. Grant

Monastery, The ...........

Walter Scott

My Winter on the Nile ....

Charles Dudley Warner

Odyssey, The.............

G. H. Palmer Butcher and Lang

Oliver Twist.............

Charles Dickens

Outdoor Papers......

Thomas W. Higginson

Pathfinder, The......

James Fenimore Cooper

Pilgrim's Progress, The ....

John Bunyan

Plutarch's Lives

Poor Richard's Almanac . . .

Benjamin Franklin

Prince and the Pauper, The . .

Mark Twain

Quentin Dyrward.............

Walter Scott

Ramona ................

Helen Hunt Jackson

Subjects Based On Imagination II

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm ...............

Kate Douglas Wiggin

RobRoy............

Walter Scott

Scott, Life of..................

John G. Lockhart

Scottish Chiefs...........

Jane Porter

Sharp Eyes...........

W. H. Gibson

Standish of Standish.............

Jane G. Austin

Tales from Shakespeare.......

Charles Lamb

Tales of a Grandfather..........

Walter Scott

Tales of a Traveller..........

Washington Irving

Talisman, The...........

Walter Scott

Tom Brown's School Days.............

Thomas Hughes

Treasure Island.........

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wake Robin...........

John Burroughs

Wilderness Ways.........

W. J. Long

Woodstock..............

Walter Scott

Exercises

12. Write the titles of all the books in the above list that you have read. Underscore once those which you disliked, twice those which you liked fairly well, and three times those which you particularly enjoyed.1

13. Bring to class a list of all the subjects for compositions that are suggested by the foregoing titles.

For example, you may not have read "The Abbot," but the sight of Scott's name reminds you that you have read "Quentin Durward" or "Ivanhoe" or "Kenilworth," and you may have some opinion not only of one of these books as a whole, but of several incidents or characters in it.