THE SILVER-BURDETT READERS FIRST BOOK. 144 pages. Simple, carefully graded, and of intrinsic interest to SECOND BOOK. 175 pages. A text-book in reading, well graded as to vocabulary FIFTH BOOK. 384 pages. A real introduction to literature, English and Ameri- LAGE LIBRARY VICATION COPYRIGHT, 1902, 1906, BY ELLA M. POWERS AND THOMAS M. BALLIET. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PREFACE. IN the preparation of this Third Book, the aim of the editors has been to present to the pupil suitable selections from writings of recognized literary merit. Having largely overcome the mechanical difficulties of reading, he is now able to read with ease and pleasure some of the best juvenile literature. The following features of the book should, we believe, commend it to the favor of teachers: 1. The varied material will be found to be. of intrinsic interest to children. Many of the stories are founded upon historic fact; other selections, stimulating and inspiring, are from classic literature. The literary biography, history stories, fables, fairy tales, and poems afford a wide range of reading, and will help the children to become acquainted with the permanently good in literature. 2. The lessons have been carefully arranged with reference to the increasing difficulty of the thought and of the sentence structure. 3. The vocabularies of this and the preceding books have been graded with great care. No lesson in the First Book contains words not taught in preceding lessons or placed at 5 |