Hughes's Educational Course. THE YOUNG STUDENT'S FIRST READER. BY JOHN R. LANGLER, B.A., F.R.G.S., OF THE TRAINING COLLEGE, WESTMINSTER ; AUTHOR OF MAIN FACTS OF POPULAR ASTRONOMY;''PICTORIAL JOSEPH HUGHES, F. R. G.S., LATE PRINCIPAL OF POMFRET COLLEGE, PONTEFRACT; AUTHOR OF A PRACTICAL COURSE OF ARITHMETIC;' 'EASY PROBLEMS FOR Ellustrated by Eminent Artists. LONDON: HUGHES & CO., PREFACE. To the child already familiar with the forms of the letters, and with their combinations in short words, this First Reader will present little or no difficulty. He has acquired the habit of grasping 'groups of letters; hence even dissyllables of regular construction will not be so perplexing to him as monosyllables which, on account of their irregularity, have to be learnt each by a separate effort. In this Reader the ordinary combinations are gradually introduced, and no lesson contains words. whose structure has not been previously exemplified. In following out this plan, the system of wordbuilding indicated in the Primer of this series has been consistently maintained. The Editors think it prudent to reserve to a later stage the chief difficulties of the orthography of our anomalous language. The matter of the lessons is intended to afford instruction as well as to attract by varied interest; and the illustrations which enrich the book are from the pencils of the best artists. The type has been selected with reference to the eyesight of young children, which is so seriously impaired by the constant use of small print. LONDON, 1st July 1878. |