cies are soon corrected when the pupil begins to read history.

The course of history has been modified by songs, ballads, and stories.
The influence on the national spirit and ideals of songs such as _Rule
Britannia_ and _The Marseillaise_, of stories such as _Uncle Tom's
Cabin_, of novels such as those of Dickens and of Charles Reade is
incalculable.

A few poems and prose compositions are given here as suggestions; a
fuller list may be found in Allen's _Reader's Guide to English History_,
Ginn & Co., 30c.

Poems: _Boadicea_, Cowper; _Recessional_, Kipling; _Edinburgh After
Flodden_, Aytoun; _Hands All Round_, Tennyson; _Columbus_, Joaquin
Miller; _Waterloo_, Byron; _The Armada_, Macaulay; _The Revenge_,
Tennyson; _The Charge of the Light Brigade_, Tennyson.

Prose: "United Empire Loyalists," Roberts' _History of Canada_,
Chap. XV; "Departure and Death of Nelson," Southey; _Montcalm and
Wolfe_, Parkman; "The Crusader and the Saracen," in Scott's _The
Talisman_; "The Heroine of Castle Dangerous," in _Stories of New
France_, Machar and Marquis; "Adam Daulac," in _Martyrs of New
France_, Herrington.

HISTORY AND SCIENCE

The connection between history and science is very close, because it was
only after the invention of writing that history, the record of human
progress, became possible. Further, the remarkable way in which the
chief stages in the development of civilization coincide with certain
inventions and discoveries makes the study of history very incomplete
without a knowledge of the inventions and discoveries, inasmuch as these
opened a road for human development. (See p. 119.)

To make this evident, it is enough merely to mention a few comparatively
recent inventions, such as the mariner's compass, the printing-press,
gunpowder, the steam-engine, the power-loom, the cotton-gin, and the
telegraph.

To the introduction of the mariner's compass in the fourteenth century,
by which sailors were made independent of landmarks and the stars, and
could therefore go more boldly into the open sea, we owe the
explorations of the fifteenth century that culminated in the discovery
of America, and the way to India by the Cape of Good Hope. The
introduction of gunpowder in the fourteenth century gave the lower and
middle classes a weapon that made them equal in power with the nobles
and brought about the downfall of the feudal system and the rise of
modern democraci