THE INFORMATION READERS NUMBER 2 EVERY DAY OCCUPATIONS BY H. WARREN CLIFFORD, S.D. BOSTON BOSTON SCHOOL SUPPLY COMPANY 15 BROMFIELd Street 1891 HARVARD COPYRIGHT, 1891, C. J. PETERS & SON, PRESS OF BERWICK & SMITH. PREFACE. TO-DAY'S School curriculum includes only one subject, Reading, in which the text-books have not kept pace with educational progress. There is no substantial difference between the old American Readers, published sixty years ago, and any series now in use. Yet this fact should not cause surprise. One reading-book must resemble another, if both are merely compilations of extracts chosen for elocutionary purposes. Our present readers are, it is true, more sumptuous specimens of book-making, but children are not sent to school to admire book-covers or to look at pictures. No selections from Shakspeare and Milton have been culled for the Information Series. The books contain no "pieces to speak." Excerpts on Constitutional Government, the Destiny of Man, and other trivial subjects, must be looked for elsewhere. Nor is the text of the Informa |