Journeys Through Bookland: A New and Original Plan for Reading, Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children, Volume 1Bellows-Reeve Company, 1909 - Anthologies |
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... English and American Literature , Etc. For parents , teachers , and all who have children under their charge ; for adults who wish to renew their acquaintance with the friends of their youth , or to open for the first time the world's ...
... English and American Literature , Etc. For parents , teachers , and all who have children under their charge ; for adults who wish to renew their acquaintance with the friends of their youth , or to open for the first time the world's ...
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... of Journeys Through Bookland shows in the lower left- hand corner a few daffodils growing . In the pic- ture , too , may be seen some old English houses ers . which help to indicate where this rhyme origi- nated . ITS CONTENTS AND PLAN 19.
... of Journeys Through Bookland shows in the lower left- hand corner a few daffodils growing . In the pic- ture , too , may be seen some old English houses ers . which help to indicate where this rhyme origi- nated . ITS CONTENTS AND PLAN 19.
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... English folk lore . Usually a verse was repeated and then a question asked ; as , " Who was Humpty Dumpty ? " The artist has answered the question for us in the picture . Possibly many people who learned the rhyme in childhood never ...
... English folk lore . Usually a verse was repeated and then a question asked ; as , " Who was Humpty Dumpty ? " The artist has answered the question for us in the picture . Possibly many people who learned the rhyme in childhood never ...
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... English language and valuable for that reason . While it is rather terrifying in some of its details its unreality saves it from harmful possibilities . We are rather inclined to overestimate the un- pleasant consequences of reading ...
... English language and valuable for that reason . While it is rather terrifying in some of its details its unreality saves it from harmful possibilities . We are rather inclined to overestimate the un- pleasant consequences of reading ...
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... English writers chronologically , and the second follows a similar plan with the American authors . The index with which the book closes is for the ten volumes and enables the reader to find the se- lections readily , if he knows either ...
... English writers chronologically , and the second follows a similar plan with the American authors . The index with which the book closes is for the ten volumes and enables the reader to find the se- lections readily , if he knows either ...
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