number of such collateral readings are suggested i MANUAL. Children are likely to read rapidly and in these years, if properly stimulated and guide class that reads easily and with pleasure should need help beyond what is offered in the HELPS TO STUDY a GLOSSARY. This "teaching apparatus " need not be fol too closely. The teacher may find that for a particula this material should be expanded, or abridged, or v She may, indeed, with a class that does not read wel it wise to vary from the order of the book, readin selections in the order of their easiness rather than in topical grouping. She may find time, also, for s menting the reading by drawing from it topics for cor tion work.

The authors make grateful acknowledgment to the o of copyrights for permission to use certain selections Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons for Lanier's "The S the Chattahoochee"; to the Harr Wagner Publishin for Joaquin Miller's "Columbus"; to the Perry Mas for Field's "How the Atlantic Cable Was Laid"; to lin Garland and The Macmillan Company for "A W Farm Scene" from "The Son of the Middle Border.'

Special thanks are due Miss Katherine Morse, New York Training School for Teachers, for valuabl and advice.

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