The Children's First-second Reader

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Ginn & Company, 1892
 

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Página 48 - the History of the World is summarized in the stories of Kabla the Aryan boy, Darius the Persian boy, Cleon the Greek boy, Horatius the Roman boy, Wulf the Saxon boy, Gilbert the Knight's page, Roger the English boy, Fuller the Puritan boy, Dawson the Yankee boy, and Frank Wilson the boy of 1885.
Página 42 - ... that is now working injury to the mental and moral habits of the young. JH Vincent, Supt. of Instruction, Chautauqua Assembly: I desire to express my great satisfaction with the taste, skill, and wisdom of the work. I wish it abundant success.
Página 82 - Tell if you were frighten' d When first you felt the cold; And, in the splendid summer, While you flush and grow, Are you ever out of heart Thinking of the snow ? Did it feel like dying When first your blossoms fell ? Did you know about the spring ? Did the daisies tell ? If you had no notion, Only fear and doubt, How I should have liked to see When you found it out ! Such a beautiful surprise ! What must you have felt, When your heart began to stir, As the snow began to melt ! Do you mind the darkness...
Página 47 - Sisters, and tells more of the peculiarities of the various races, especially in relation to childhood. Dame Nature unfolds in " Stories Mother Nature Told " some of her most precious secrets.
Página 31 - Cloth. 225 pages. For introduction, 80 cents. This unique and attractive series of text-books consists of a Teachers' Manual and eight small books for pupils, arranged somewhat on the lines of classification in city graded schools. The idea of a neat, compact, and inexpensive drill book for each grade, with a manual for the teachers, is showing results in a larger amount of work accomplished, a more thorough understanding of principles, and greater ease in applying them ; also in convenience, neatness,...
Página 47 - THE JANE ANDREWS BOOKS A remarkable series of attractive and interesting books for young people, — written in a clear, easy, and picturesque style. This is the famous Jane Andrews series which has been for many years an old-time favorite with young folks. Other juvenile books come and go, but the Jane Andrews books maintain the irresistible charm they always have had. THE SEVEN LITTLE SISTERS WHO LIVE ON THE ROUND BALL THAT FLOATS IN THE AIR.
Página 47 - One ia struck with the peculiar excellence of its style, — clear, easy, graceful, and picturesque, — which a child cannot fail to comprehend, and in which ' children of a larger growth ' will find an irresistible charm.
Página 42 - ... useful notes and explanations at the bottom of the page rather than at the end of the book. The omissions in the " Water-Babies " do not destroy or injure the connection of the story, but have the happy effect of making it a real fairy story, that children can understand and read with great benefit. This series of books ought to be in each school in the land. If loaned to the pupils to read at home, I believe that the children will progress rapidly in their ability to seize the meaning of words...
Página 85 - seven times" over and over, Seven times one are seven. I am old, so old, I can write a letter; My birthday lessons are done; The lambs play always, they know no better; They are only one times one.
Página 40 - ... literature so widely current. It is believed also that constant dwelling upon such models of simple, pure, idiomatic English is the easiest and on all accounts the best way for children to acquire a mastery of their mother-tongue. A large portion of the course has been devoted to history and biography, as it has seemed specially desirable to supplement the brief, unsatisfactory outlines of history with full and life-like readings. The annotation has been done with modesty and reserve, the editors...

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