undertaking, and that teachers and pupils to whom the books may come will take new joy in their work. It is a pleasure to thank Miss Nebraska Cropsey, Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Indianapolis, for suggestions concerning the teaching of reading covering a period of twenty years, and the many teachers who have tested the books in their classes. G. A. Acknowledgment is made for permission to use selections from the writings of Helen Hunt Jackson, to Little, Brown and Company; and from Eugene Field and Robert Louis Stevenson to Charles Scribner's Sons. The selections from the writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lucy Larcom, Alice and Phoebe Cary, Celia Thaxter and Frank Dempster Sherman are used by special arrangement with Houghton, Mifflin and Company. VI |