In the Introduction, page 101, you learned that the basis of all literature is adventure, and that adventures treated with imagination give us literature.

You have read in Part II stories and poems that deal with adventures in the usual sense of the word-a thrilling or exciting experience. Robert W. Service in "Fleurette" tells of an event such as he himself might have witnessed; what other selections in this group are based upon a real happening that the writer himself experienced or about which he had heard or read?

Still other stories of adventure are based not upon actual happenings but upon legends which the poet or story-teller pictures so vividly that the events related seem to us to have happened just as the writer describes them. Sir Walter Scott took an incident from an old border-ballad and gave us the poem "Lochinvar." What other poem or story in Part II seemed to you to be based upon a legend?.

Then you read a third type of adventure story in which the events are purely imaginary, but the poet sees these incidents so vividly and through his power of expression makes them seem so real that as we read, we, too, are able to see them. In A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare gave free rein to his imagination; what other stories in Part II narrate events that never actually happened?

To be able to visualize what you read is a source of great enjoyment; your imagination is a power of the mind well worth. training. Which selections of Part II were you able to visualize most clearly? Discuss in class the advantages and disadvantages of "our private moving picture show," described on page 103, as compared with a regular "movie."

What did you learn in Part II about ballads? Which ballads would you select as best suited for a public reading? What did

you learn about the short story that will increase your pleasure in reading short stories? What library reading have you done in connection with Part II? What progress have you made in the use of the library catalogue and the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature? Which book review gave you the most pleasure? Which one gave you the most interesting information? What did you learn about public health from book reviews? Which oral discussion suggested by "Theme Topics" in Part II was most helpful in information? Which one was made interesting by illustrative material, such as pictures, sketches, and objects?

What interesting facts did you learn about the Elizabethan drama and about comedy? How did this information affect your dramatization of scenes from A Midsummer Night's Dream? What material did you find in Part II suitable for an interesting Christmas entertainment? What progress in silent reading have you made since you began this book?

The two characteristics of literature that have been emphasized in the introductions to Parts I and II, and in your study of the selections, have been thought and imagination. Literature, we have found, is not just a matter of fine-sounding language, nor is it just dreamy, visionary imaginings of unreal scenes. It is based on fact and observation, but it treats fact and observation by means of imagination, so that a clear light surrounds what is seen and thought. In one of the poems that you have read, Shelley says that the skylark is

Like a poet hidden

In the light of thought,
Singing hymns unbidden
Till the world is wrought

To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not.

Now it is with the last two lines in this stanza that we shall deal in the paragraphs that follow. Read them once more and ask yourself their meaning

To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not.

This introduces a third characteristic of literature. We go to great literature as a source of thought; we go to it for its appeal to our imagination; we go also because it expresses our deepest ideals, our hopes and fears for ourselves and our fellows and our country.

Perhaps you have sometimes felt the thrill that goes through one in the presence of a noble action or of a deep emotion. Someone may have shown strength of character in a crisis, or may have done a big and generous thing, and you say, "He is a man." Or the sight of the flag or of our soldiers returning from war has