PREFACE. THE issue of the third volume of PLEASANT PAGES does not call for any remark except the usual thanks to the Public for the very extensive patronage which the work has received. It may have been expected that, to complete the course of lessons for the half-year, the volume would contain lessons for twenty-six, instead of twenty-four weeks, but, from the extra labour of the Exhibition Supplement, which has been published with the periodical parts of this volume, the Author found it impossible to write the double part necessary for the purpose. This, however, is not entirely a matter of regret, as it is generally felt that children do not require more than twenty-four weeks' instruction during the twenty-six weeks of the half-year. According to the notice in the preface of Volume II., it was intended that this volume should contain courses of instruction on Grammar and Arithmetic, but the Author afterwards thought it more desirable, for many reasons, to reserve these lessons for Vol. IV. The Object Lessons which formed the Supplement alluded to are published in a separate volume, entitled FIRESIDE FACTS FROM THE GREAT EXHIBITION. The Priory House, Clapton, |