These Children are

Learning to Sing the Patriotic Selections They Have Memorized. (See pages 77-83.)

SUPPLEMENTARY READING
AND MEMORIZING

IN THE SCHOOLS OF NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA,
CHICAGO, NEW ORLEANS, AND OTHER CITIES

SECOND YEAR

COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY GRADES

BY

MELVIN HIX

Bachelor of Education, Teachers' College, Columbia University; Designer of
"A Brief Outline of the Books I Have Read"; "A Brief Outline of My
History Lessons"; and author of "Fifty English Classics Briefly Outlined.”

REVISED EDITION, CAREFULLY CORRECTED

COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY HINDS, NOBLE & ELDREDGE

HINDS, HAYDEN & ELDREDGE, INC.
NEW YORK CITY

PUBLIC LIBRARY

885545

ASTOR, LENOX AND
ILDEN FOUNDATIONS

1919

The Approved Selections *

For Memorizing and Supplementary Reading

Revised Edition, Carefully Corrected

The Approved Selections for Memorizing and Supplementary Reading in the Schools of Greater New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, New Orleans and many other cities.

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The Approved Selections for the First Year
The Approved Selections for the Second Year .25
The Approved Selections for the Third Year
The Approved Selections for the Fourth Year
The Ahproved Selections for the Fifth Year
The Approved Selections for the Sixth Year
The Approved Selections for the Seventh Year
The Approved Selections for the Eighth Year

These Selections are recommended for memorizing and for Supplementary Reading in all Elementary Schools. Write for our special terms for class supplies.

FOREWORD.

This book is the second of a series of eight designed to furnish material for memory work and for supplementary reading in elementary schools. These books have been compiled and arranged according to the tastes and opinions of our leading educational authorities as recorded in the courses of study in the chief cities of the United States. All of the pieces required or suggested for second year memory work in the schools of New York City will be found in this book. To these have been added enough suitable selections to meet the needs of the schools of Philadelphia and Chicago and many other cities. In the case of Chicago, use has been made of the Report of the Committee on English of the Chicago Principals' Association; in all other cases, the compiler has had before him the course of study now in force in each of the principal cities of our country. After a careful examination of them, it is believed that the material here furnished will satisfy the needs of second year classes in more than ninety per cent. of the schools of the United States.

It is, of course, impossible to include in a book like this every selection laid down for second year work in every course of study. That would be to exhaust the supply and leave no material for the other primary books. Teachers who may wish to use other selections

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