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Excerpt from The New Century Third Reader This volume has been prepared with the greatest care. The design has been to use only such matter as will please, attract, interest, and instruct the pupil. Each article has been selected with a view to some particular literary merit of its own. As the pupil has now reached the period of his life when he begins to realize that books may be his friends, our object has been to place before him reading matter of such high quality that he will involuntarily form a taste for good literature. The subject-matter of this book covers a wide range of thought and adjusts itself very carefully to the sympathies of childhood. The friendships which the child is thus enabled to form with good authors, will be of inestimable value to him in after life. The mind of the pupil of this age is in the formative period and his tastes are easily directed toward high ideals. To this end careful thought has been given to the selection of matter which can not fail to lead the child to turn unconsciously toward the best things in the life about him, and eventually to branch out into the larger fields beyond. The true teachers will always keep in sight this great purpose in school reading - to so awaken the interest and kindle the enthusiasm of the child that the oral expression will conform to the dramatic requirements of the article. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.