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often copiosly the combination of words to go meaningless sentences bet cely Reading Lessons most have a distinctly moral bearing and therefore mean some thing which lingering in children's memory for years after leaving school would have som eone on their character. In the existie Ver ar Readers for General Eacation, the subjects of Humane Edaction and Nature Stody receive little attention and if even the English Series of Renders have a few lessons kindness mod co ration dumb animals, they fose of the Torce from not uslag Indian Illustrations and scenes of Indian lite. As to homering among the poor, such parents are very rates can provide the means of teaching their children, and forms sentiments and habits or laculeate lessons on the duties the little folkowe to the great Creator and all living creatures, and further assist them to form right ideas of life and conduct The Author trust that this series will be found for elemary lessons in Reading as well as for impressing on the children the ideas referred to above. For this pur posle has placed the beginning the letters of the Tam Alphabet s of Wordschietly familiar times of objects of the Animal and Vegetable kingdoms which are meant to serve as exercises in short and vowel Skids, and in the pronunciation of vowelcoa ts basis for word building in the reading lessons which followincheon has been made to grade the language and subject matter in accordance with the crowing DowS of the child These Elementary Readers have the approval wed wypathy of the President of the Stars SPCA will receive, it is hoped, the approbation of the des rional Authorities who wish to see all School Papil learn unconsciously in their daily lessons, the rest of Ethics as applied scretely to many matters of conduct, both a School and in a rte, in alte to the main perpose of developing the power to read and well
