in this book afford abundant opportunity for practice. Any practice to be valuable must be guided; no book can take the place of a teacher. The book presents materials and objectives; the teacher must see that the materials are rightly used and that the objectives are reached. A Plan of Work by Weeks, in which the material is definitely assigned, will be found in the Supplement. The selections from Longfellow, Hawthorne, and Emerson are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers of their works. Acknowledgment is due to the American Book Company for permission to use selections by the following authors: Fanny E. Coe, M. F. Maury, Charles E. Finch, George W. Hunter and Walter G. Whitman. The author gratefully acknowledges her indebtedness to Dr. Franklin T. Baker of Teachers College, Dr. Otis W. Caldwell of the Lincoln School of Teachers College, and Mr. Edwin Fairley of the Jamaica High School, for helpful and constructive criticism of the manuscript; and to George S. Laidley for his encouragement, his criticism, and his help in every stage of the undertaking. MARY FONTAINE LAIDLEY A |