GOLDEN BOOK OF CHOICE READING SUPPLEMENTARY TO SECOND READER EDITED BY WILLIAM SWINTON AUTHOR OF WORD-BOOK, GEOGRAPHICAL AND LANGUAGE SERIES, ETC. AND GEORGE R. CATHCART AUTHOR OF LITERARY READER, ETC. NEW YORK .: CINCINNATI CHICAGO AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY FEB 18 1919 Edmention Deft. febriary STANDARD SUPPLEMENTARY READERS. que. T 758.90.790 (1) Educ THE SUPPLEMENTARY READERS form a series of carefully graduated reading-books, designed to connect with any of the regular series of five or six Readers. These books, which are closely co-ordinated with the several Readers of the regular series, are: I. Easy Steps for Little Feet: Supplementary to First Reader. - In this book the attractive is the chief aim, and the pieces have been written and chosen with special reference to the feelings and fancies of early childhood. II. Golden Book of Choice Reading: Supplementary to Second Reader. This book presents a great variety of pleasing and instructive reading, consisting of child-lore and poetry, noble examples, and attractive object-readings. III. Book of Tales; being School Readings Imaginative and Emotional: Supplementary to Third Reader. - In this book the youthful taste for the imaginative and emotional is fed with pure and noble creations drawn from the literature of all nations. IV. Readings in Nature's Book: Supplementary to Fourth Reader. This book contains a varied collection of charming readings in natural history and botany, drawn from the works of the great modern naturalists and travelers. V. VI. Seven American Classics. Seven British Classics. The "Classics are suitable for reading in advanced gram mar grades, and aim to instill a taste for the higher literature, by the presentation of gems of British and American authorship. Copyright, 1880, by Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Company. PREFACE. N the series of Supplementary Readers, the plan IN of which is given on the opposite page, the "GOLDEN BOOK" is designed to furnish such supplemental reading as may fill the hiatus between the regular Second and Third readers. It forms a close connection with any well-graded Second Reader, great pains having been taken in turning to account by new associations the stock of words already learned from the lower readers. It is hoped that the matter of this book will justify its title that it will furnish to the child-mind "apples of gold in pictures of silver." The pieces in the "Golden Book" comprise three classes: child-lore and poetry, noble examples, and attractive nature-readings-adapted severally to the imaginative, the emotional, and the perceptive faculties of the young. |