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This guide identifies and describes the subject areas covered by the ERIC Clearinghouses. Each Clearinghouse scope statement is provided in the following three-part format: (1) Formal Statement--A comprehensive and detailed description of the scope areas, mainly for use by the ERIC Facility in assigning documents (on the basis of their subject matter) to Clearinghouses for processing, for Clearinghouses in referring documents to other Clearinghouses, and as an aid in indexing a document from the point of view of more than just one Clearinghouse; (2) Explanatory Notes--Supplementary notes that modify, qualify, and explain the formal statement; for use primarily within the ERIC network to ensure that operating staff know of special arrangements for coverage made between or among Clearinghouses; (3) Brief Statements--A summary statement for use in broadly disseminated, systemwide promotional flyers and brochures requiring fairly brief treatment of Clearinghouse scope areas. Scope of interest statements for each Clearinghouse are followed by an alphabetical listing of subject index terms particularly applicable to that scope. The terms are made up primarily, but not necessarily entirely, of Descriptors from the ERIC Thesaurus. The final section of the Guide contains a composite alphabetical listing of all of the applicable subject terms and constitutes, in effect, an overall index to the Guide. It is useful in bringing together concepts/terms covered by more than one Clearinghouse, as well as in determining which Clearinghouse covers a particular concept. (WTB)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert