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PREFACE The series of Nature Readers is intended to fill up a gap is Elementary school book and reading inter for the Instruction of children in Primary Schools and Indian Homes. It is well know that no attempt has been made to fill up the gap for nearly half a century of educational effort to bring out special books on Nature Stody and Animal Life calculated to arouse and cultivate an interest in the world in bonts. But now that the Educational Codle Dermits the rise of a variety of Renders and class.000ks Our Primary Schools, this cives ample opportunity introduction of special Readers to interest children in the study of Nature and instruct them in their duties to the dumb creatures around them Moch has been done to teach young people the elements of history. scography and arithmetic and even science. Why should not similar effort be made to tract thens s to their doties to the damb companions of man and promote the cause of Human Education in schools and the culture of the power of observation and Nature Knowledge in the elementary stages of thought and learning, through the early reading books This plan will help to instil in the minds of children the lessons of kindness to all creatures, and gives reality to the teaching by calling Mention to the animals and other in obicsts a r man and emphasing the duty of more to them in and out of the school.com and the Home and thus enlarging their sympathies. Amodim says__ Whatever you would put into the life of a nation put into its schools in Indin except lan Levr superior schools, the experience of Educational Ins pectors and other competent jaxges is that the ordinary ron of Elementary School teachers cannot supply chat the text book fais to give. The book is everything Especially the Vernacular School Primers now in the are
