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THE BATTERSEA SERIES

OF

STANDARD READING BOOKS

FOR BOYS.

WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY

EVAN DANIEL, M.A.,

PRINCIPAL OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, BATTERSEA; MEMBER OF THE
LONDON SCHOOL BOARD.

BOOK I.

FOR

STANDARD I.

LONDON:

EDWARD STANFORD, 55, CHARING CROSS, S.W.

1878.

3987. f. 110

ODLEIAN LIBRARY

DEC 35

OXFORD

PREFACE.

THIS series of Readers is intended to follow The Battersea Primers,' but, being graduated in accordance with the requirements of the New Code, may be used with any Primer.

The aim of the Editor in the earlier books has been to lighten, by the attractiveness of the lessons, the labour of overcoming the mechanical difficulties in learning to read, and to give children a taste for reading. Once a child has been got to love reading, his progress is sure and rapid.

The later books contain much interesting and useful information, but all through the series the Editor has subordinated the communication of knowledge to the primary object of a Reader, viz., the teaching a child to read. When the difficulties of scientific lessons are superadded to the difficulties that

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has to express his grateful ts to many authors and pubkindness in allowing him to from their works.

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