Fiske’s The Beginnings of New England.  This is one of the most readable of the authoritative histories.

READINGS IN GEOGRAPHY

Edwards’s The Old Coast Road.  The South Shore road from Boston to Plymouth is one of the most historic roads in the country.  Starting from Boston, Miss Edwards guides her readers through Dorchester Heights, Milton and the Blue Hills, Quincy with its Shipbuilding, Weymouth, Hingham, Cohasset, the Scituate Shore, Marshfield, the Home of Daniel Webster, Duxbury and Kingston.  She concludes with an informing chapter on Plymouth.

Edwards’s Cape Cod, New and Old.  Delightful essays on the Cape—­brief, entertaining, and containing precisely those facts which every reader wants to know.

DRAMATIZATIONS

Longfellow’s _Courtship of Miles Standish_.  Dramatized.  This is equipped with suggestions for stage settings, properties and costumes.

Austin’s _Standish of Standish_.  Dramatized.  Historically true portrayals of character and atmosphere.  There are suggestions for costumes and other details of acting.

Baker’s The Pilgrim Spirit.  This book contains the words spoken by the characters in the various episodes comprising the Pageant presented at Plymouth, Massachusetts, during the summer of 1921.  It re-creates in masterly fashion the atmosphere of old colony times.