Second Book of Reading Lessons (Classic Reprint): With Illustrations From Giacomelli and Other Eminent Artists: With Illustrations from Giacomelli and Other Eminent Artists (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The second book will be found to afford, in its Opening Lessons, an easy transition from the last pages of the Primer to short continuous narratives. In common with all the other Readers of this. Series, the frame-work of the second book is so planned as to avoid all disturbance of Official programmes or Of school classification.

Exercises in the reading of written words and in the writing of printed words are still provided for.

The readings have been chosen with the desire and expectation of making this little book not alone the child's constant companion, but a dearly-loved friend - brimful of charming pictures, overflowing with delightful rhymes and stories. To the English-speaking race the Baltic is the great fountain of folk-lore. Happily we can there find exquisite imagination combined with pure morals and with robust manhood. The winter scenes and amusements there are the originals of our own. When our children take to winter sports, they but live over again the youth of the gray north Fatherland. There, as here, Christmas calls up before the memory not the sad, weeping skies Of milder climates, but the keen.

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