individual differences. The first of these is the wide variation among pupils of the same grade with regard to the amount of voluntary reading done. The second is the close correspondence (1) between the boys and girls of the same grade, and (2) between the different grades.

Some of the data which should be considered cannot be tabulated. For example, some of the answers given by the pupils are significant. Some say they have no idea how many books they have read. One boy in the seventh grade says that his mother limits him to three books a week. Others say, "I read everything I can get my hands on." There are many negative answers, as "I have read very few books because my parents do not allow me to read at home." "I started three books this year." "I have read few books because I like magazine stories better." A frequent answer from girls in the high school is that their school work takes so much of their time that they are able to do very little reading except what is assigned. A few answered that they read nothing while school was in session, but read considerable during vacations.

QUALITY.

4. Write the names of ten of those books which you like best, in the order of your preference. If you have not read ten, write the names of those you have read.

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The following list includes all the books reported as "first choice" by 385 boys and 573 girls selected at random. list, however, represents only about 4 to 3 of the total number of times that a large percentage of these books were mentioned. For they were included in the selections of other pupils, though not as "first choice." Following is the list: Grammar School-Books marked "first choice" by both boys and girls.

Books marked "first choice" by boys.

Call of the Wild (6), History of America (5), The Missing Tin Box (4), Thirty-one Years on the Plains (3), Treasure Island (3), A Young Volunteer in Cuba (3), With Lee in Virginia (3), Making the Nine (3), Redskin and Cowboy (3), Burnham Breaker (3), Sandy (2), Boys of '76 (2), Erie Train Boy (2), Out on the Pampas (2), Mysterious Island (2), Stanley's Through the Dark Continent (2), Trumpeter Fred (2), The Boat Club (2), Tom Sawyer (2), David Harum (2), Joe's Boys (1), Lucky Ned (1), Rip Van Winkle (1), Risen from the Ranks (1), Electrical Boy (1), Daniel Boone (1) Beauty and the Beast (1), Our Little Chinese Cousin (1), Little by Little (1), Bleak House (1), Lost Child (1), The Great Cattle Trail, Their Canoe Trip (1), Peck's Bad Boy (1), The Wreck of the Redbird (1), The Pathfinder (1), Life of McKinley (1), American Boy (1), A Trip Around the World (1), The Shadow of a Crime (1), Benjamin Barkley (1), The Silver Medal (1), Wit and Humor (1), The Spy (1), Huckleberry Finn (1), Frank Merril in Camp (1), Old Glory Series (1), Billy Redfoot (1), Young Acrobat (1), Baby Elton, Quarterback (1), The Telegraph Boy (1), Cruise of the Ghost (1), Minnetau the Apache Knight (1), At War with Pontiac (1), Tom Brown's School Days (1), Pioneers of the Great Wild West (1), The Philigree Ball (1), Sevenoaks (1), My Lady of the North (1), Trapped in his own Net (1), White Apron (1), From Throttle to President's Chair (1), Cab and Caboose (1), Napoleon and Blucher (1), King Richard (1), True to Himself (1), Picket's Gap (1), Japanese and Russian War (1), Hildegard (1), Lucky Walton (1), Slow but Sure (1), Heroes of the Navy (1), Cudjo's Cave (1), Merchant of Venice (1), Who Ought to Win (1), The Nick Carter books (1), English Orphans The Kingdom of Nature (1), Letters to Beany (1), King of the Bronchos (1), The Jersey Sky (1), Miss Lochinvar (1), Adventures of a Brownie (1), A Rock in the Baltic (1), Facing Death (1), Conquest of Mexico (1), Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1), The Sea Wolf (1), Down the Mississippi (1), The Sketch Book (1), Scottish Chiefs (1), Captains Courageous (1), Aztec Treasure House (1), Remember the Alamo (1), The Dream of Empire (1), Bound for Annapolis (1), Captain Tom the Privateer (1), The Rider of the Black Horse (1), Wild West (1), The Dog Cruso (1), The Boy Trooper with Sheridan (1), Kidnapped (1), Belt of Seven Totems (1), Uncle Sam's Secrets (1), Sonny, A Christmas Guest (1), Junior Cup (1), Monarch, the big black Bear of Talic (1), Count of Monte Christo (1), Last of the Mohicans (1), The Story of a Bad Boy (1), Opie Read in the Ozarks

(1), The Blazed Trail (1), Stories of Inventors (1), The Valiant Runaways (1), A Star in Prison (1), Young Naval Commander (1), Little Colonel's House Party (1), Life of Kit Carson (1), Scalp Hunters (1), Ten Nights in a Bar Room (1), A Spy of the Civil War (1), Si Klegg and his Pard (1). Books marked "first choice" by girls.

Little Women (16), Old Fashioned Girl (8), The Crisis (7), Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (6), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (6), What Katy Did (4), Eight Cousins (3), Birds' Christmas Carol (3), Dog of Flanders (3), Gordon Keith (3), Nedra (3), Helen's Babies (3), Thelma (3), The Satinwood Box (3), Josephine (3), Dorothy Vernon (3), Lavender and Old Lace (3), Dotty Dimple books (2), Making Home Happy (2), Alice of Old Vincennes (2), Longfellow's Poems (2), Christmas Carol (2), Polly the New Fashioned Girl (2), The Cash Boy (2), Minute Boys of Lexington (2), Esther (2), Swiss Family Robinson (2), Cousin Maude (2), Deerslayer (2), When Knighthood was in Flower (2), Tom the Bootblack (2), The English Orphans (2), Jack and Gill (2), In the Palace of the King (2), The Lamplighter (2), Fanny Lightman's Choice (1), Nut Brown Joe (1), Three Revolutions (1), Palace Beautiful (1), Uncle Remus (1), The Blue Fairy Book (1), Book of Animals (1), Marjory and her Neighbors (1) His First and Last Appearance (1), Katrina (1), The Flight for the Valley (1), Hildegard's Holidays (1), Daddy Girl (1), Little Brown House (1), Boys of the Fort (1), A Self Raised Girl (1), The Story of Roland (1), Her Mother's Sin (1), Battle of the Glen (1), Tom Playfaire (1), Mozart (1), The Prince of Darkness (1), Our Helen (1), The Gypsy Series (1), High School Days of Harbortown (1), The Master's Violin (1), Nita Garland (1), Tom Sawyer (1), The Three Vassar Girls (1), Margaret (1), The Gentle Pioneer (1), The Princess (1), Nellie's Silver Mine (1), The Newspaper Boy (1), Faerie Queen (1), Zigzag Journeys (India) (1), Two of the Best (1), Janice Meredith (1), Alice in Wonderland (1), Sir Nigel (1), Les Miserables, (1), Birds and their Homes (1), The House with a Thousand Candles (1), Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1), Stepping Heavenward (1), Dora Thorne (1), Rex and Fanny (1), Juliette (1), Won by Waiting (1), Two Little Waifs (1), Andersen's Fairy Tales (1), Nellie Rodney's Sorrow (1), The Prisoner of Zenda (1), Titus (1), Last Days of Pompeii (1), Ruby, the Heart of Gold (1), Bound in Honor (1), The Crossing (1), Man Without a Country (1), Hyperion (1), Two College Girls (1), The Wizard of Oz (1), Pilgrim's Progress (1), The War of the Redskins (1), Twice Told Tales (1), Neighbor Jack wood (1), Crooked Path (1), Lyndell Sherburne (1), Soldiers of Fortune (1), Life of McKinley (1), Marie An

toinette (1), Second Thoughts (1), Old Curiosity Shop (1), The Days of Chivalry (1), Wild Animals I have Known (1), Richard Carvel (1), Lovey Mary (1), John Halifax (1), Not Like Other Girls (1), Daughters of the Sioux (1), Hiawatha (1), Mill on the Floss (1), Children of the Abbey (1), Ivanhoe (1), The Doll's House Party (1).

High School-Books marked "first choice" by both boys and girls.

Books marked "first choice" by boys.

Last of the Mohicans (4), Frederick the Great (3), College Book on Football (2), Hiawatha (2), Kidnapped (2), Brewsster's Millions (2), The Clansman (2), Barnaby Rudge (2), The Craftsman (1), On the Cross (1), East Lynn (1), Huckleberry Finn (1), Life of Thomas Jefferson (1), Two Years Before the Mast (1), Man Without a Country (1), Merchant of Venice (1), Calumet K (1), Wild Animals I Have Known (1), In Defense of His Flag (1), In Old Virginia (1), Rob Roy (1), Two Little Savages (1), Paul Jones (1), General Grant's Memoirs (1), Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1), The Sage Brush Parson (1), The Spy (1), From Darkness into Light (1), Brace and Bold (1), A Journey to Australia (1), The Right of Way (1), Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare (1), Hearts Courageous (1), Robin Hood (1), Full Back (1), The Slavers of Old New York (1), Hon. Peter Sterling (1), Pickwick Papers (1), Self Help (1); How to Take Care of the Body (1), Quincy Adams Sawyer (1), The Jungle Book (1), Romeo and Juliet (1), Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1), By England's Aid (1), Winning His Way (1), The Silent Places (1), Harry Harding's Last Year (1), Gypsy Breynton (1), Life of Lincoln (1), Sesame and Lilies (1), Old Curiosity Shop (1), Essays of Elia (1), Beverly of Graustark (1), Hoosier Schoolmaster (1), Down the Ravine (1), The Deerslayer (1), A Tale of Two Cities (1), With Dewey in Manila (1), Captain Blake (1), Electricity for Everybody (1), Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde

(1), Selections from Shakespeare (1), Cadet Days (1), Told in the Hills (1), Hearts and Hands (1), The Sea Wolf (1), Tom Brown's School Days (1), All Aboard (1), Lazarre (1), The Master of Electricity (1), The Boy Spy (1.)

Books marked "first choice" by girls.

Nedra (8), Lorna Doone (5), Ramona (4), Uncle Tom's Cabin (4), Last Days of Pompeii (4), Little Women (4), Castle Craneycrow (3), Lavender and Old Lace (3), Barriers Burned Away (3), Lamplighter (3), Lovey Mary (2), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (2), In the Palace of the King (2), Little Minister (2), Colonel Carter of Cartersville (2), John Halifax (2), The Masquerader (2), English Orphans (2), The Vicar of Wakefield (2), Kenilworth (2), Jane Eyre (2), The Lady of the Lake (2), The Pit (1), West Point Colors (1), The Second Violin (1), Bob Burton (1), A Coral Ship (1), Elsie Dinsmore (1), Tales of a Traveler (1), Life of Washington (1), St. Elmo (1), Successors of Mary I (1), Sandy (1), Audrey (1), Ten Nights in a Bar Room (1), Rose in Bloom (1), A Daughter of the Rich (1), Lady Betty (1), St. Vedas (1), The Joy of Life (1), Land of Joy (1), Evangeline (1), Black Douglas (1), Stepping Heavenward (1), Old Glory Series (1), The Pirates (1), Sunset Pass (1), Silver Threads (1), Lyndell Sherburne (1), Princess Aline (1), The Blazed Trail (1), Tales of a Wayside Inn (1), The Witch's Head (1), Red Rock (1), A Genuine Lady (1), The Christian (1), Old Curiosity Shop (1,) Henty's books (1), Adam Bede (1), The Gambler (1), The Telegraph Boy (1), My Boys (1), Soldiers of Fortune (1), The Cost (1), Not Like Other Girls (1), Sherlock Holmes (1), Beside the Bonny Brier Bush (1), Sesame and Lilies (1), Do and Dare (1), The Day of the Dog (1), Donovan (1), Fortunes of Oliver Horne (1).

The above list shows only the general types of literature which pupils in all grades like to read best. In order to get the real status of their preference it is necessary to count each book or series of books as often as it occurs in all the lists. The following table includes the most popular of these books and series and the number of times each was chosen. By "series" is meant all the books of one author. In many series one or two books predominate, as Little Men and Little Women, David Copperfield, Black Rock, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, and Graustark.

These books represent about 25% of the total number of selections made by the pupils in the grammar school, and about 20% of those made in the high school. They represent very fairly the types of books preferred by pupils in the grammar grades, but they do not represent all the types which are in favor among high school pupils. Those not mentioned in the