This textbook is part of a series of school readers to help children acquire the art and the habit of reading well enough to give pleasure not only to themselves, but also to those who listen to them. The selections to be memorized are such as have been recommended and required by the departments of education in New York state and elsewhere. They…

This textbook is part of a series of school readers to help children acquire the art and the habit of reading well enough to give pleasure not only to themselves, but also to those who listen to them. The selections to be memorized are such as have been recommended and required by the departments of education in New York state and elsewhere. They…

This textbook is a seventh-year reader. The book provides daily systematic practice in readings not too difficult for comprehension and yet embracing various styles of literary workmanship and illustrating all the different forms of English composition. Many of the selections are introduced or followed by historical or bibliographical notes.…

This textbook is a sixth-year reader. The pupil who is in his sixth year at school should be able to read quite well. He is now prepared to devote more and more attention to literary criticism. The selections in this book are of a highly interesting character and illustrate almost every variety of English composition. To assist in their…

This textbook is a reader developed on the principle that the expanding life of a child as a citizen of the world demands acquaintance with a considerable portion of the world's best thought as expressed in literature. The general method of presenting these classics rests upon the assumption that literature is addressed to the heart and to the…

This textbook is the seventh reader in a series of school readers to help children acquire the art and the habit of reading well enough to give pleasure not only to themselves, but also to those who listen to them. The contents of this volume have been chosen and arranged to supply the young reader such selections that will be interesting to him…

This textbook is part of a series of school readers to help children acquire the art and the habit of reading well enough to give pleasure not only to themselves, but also to those who listen to them. The selections have been chosen and arranged with strict reference to the capabilities and tastes of the pupils who are to read them, thus making…

This textbook is a fourth-year reader. The lessons in this volume have been prepared and arranged with a view towards several ends: to interest the young reader; to cultivate a taste for the best style of literature as regards both thought and expression; to point the way to an acquaintance with good books; to appeal to the pupil's sense of duty,…

This textbook is a reader intended to develop children's taste for classic, diverse works. In addition to providing a definite and flexible method for teaching beginners to read, effort has been made to include only material that may justly be called classic and that have held up under repeated school use. Care has also been taken to present a…

This textbook is a reader intended to develop children's taste for classic, diverse works. In addition to providing a definite and flexible method for teaching beginners to read, effort has been made to include only material that may justly be called classic and that have held up under repeated school use. Care has also been taken to present a…

This textbook is a fifth reader covering biographical, historical, geographical, scientific, and literary allusions or references; spelling and pronunciation; grammar; definitions, synonyms, and paraphrases; and style and thought in reading selections. Selections from classic literature are included. Writings by authors such as Benjamin Franklin,…

This textbook is a fourth reader covering biographical, historical, geographical, scientific, and literary allusions or references; spelling and pronunciation; grammar; definitions, synonyms, and paraphrases; and style and thought in reading selections. Selections from classic literature are included. Writings by authors such as Benjamin Franklin,…

This textbook is a fifth reader designed to help children acquire the art and the habit of reading well. All the lessons in this volume are easily within the comprehension of pupils in the fifth-year grades of the public schools. The reader covers things like historical and biographical stories, selections relating to nature, letters by famous…

This textbook is a fourth and fifth-year reader. The lessons have been prepared and arranged with a view towards several ends: to interest the young reader; to cultivate a taste for the best style of literature as regards both thought and expression; to point the way to an acquaintance with good books; to appeal to the pupil's sense of duty, and…

This textbook is a reader that introduces the child by very easy steps to the delights of readings. Many of the stories are original, others are children's classics or from folklore, but retold from the original sources so that the book presents them in fresh and unhackneyed form. Some of the stories included are correlated with the great modern…