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THE

JONES READERS BY GRADES

BOOK FOUR

BY

L. H. JONES, A.M.

PRESIDENT OF THE MICHIGAN STATE NORMAL COLLEGE, FORMERLY
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS IN INDIANAPOLIS,
INDIANA, AND CLEVELAND, OHIO

GINN & COMPANY

BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO LONDON

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PREFACE

PUPILS who enter the fourth school year should by that time have mastered to a fair degree the mechanics of learning to read. They may begin therefore to appreciate the better class of literature, in which ideas are put forth in artistic form.

The transition to such literature must needs be made slowly and carefully, inasmuch as the new subject-matter brings with it a somewhat new vocabulary and a more complicated structure of sentence.

The selections in this book have been chosen with especial reference to bridging over this chasm between the thoughts and forms of language familiar to childhood and those appropriate to youth. The selections used for this purpose will be found to hold the interest of pupils and to have a distinct ethical worth.

Attention is called to the notes and explanations in this and the following books of the series. No lesson should be considered mastered until the difficult words and allusions are clearly understood.

The selections from Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Samuel McChord Crothers, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Chandler Harris, Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Olive Thorne Miller, and Kate Douglas Wiggin are used by the kind permission of, and by special arrangement with, Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., the authorized publishers of the writings of these authors.

We are permitted also by the kindness of the publishing houses named below to use the following selections: "The Gladness of Nature," by William Cullen Bryant (D. Appleton & Co.); "A Child's Fancy," by Miriam Clark (Perry Mason Company); "The Factory Boy," by Robert Collyer, and "A True Sportsman," by Sam Walter Foss (Lee & Shepard); "A Band of Bluebirds," by William H. Hayne (F. A. Stokes Company); "The Soul of a Butterfly," by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Longmans, Green & Co.); "Lullaby," by J. G. Holland (Charles Scribner's Sons); and "Duty," by Robert E. Lee (G. W. Dillingham Company). Thanks are due to the Rhode Island Humane Education Committee for permission to reprint "Professor Frog's Lecture."

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