Download or read book Our Country's Readers, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Leonard Lemmon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Country's Readers, Vol. 2 AN attempt is made in this, the Second Book of our country's readers, to present material that is interesting to the child. The mere process of get ting thought from the printed page is task enough to tax his powers to the utmost; if we add to the great difficulties of this process, tasks for study in history, science, and the arts, he goes to his reading with aversion. On the other hand, in the world of the imagination and the emotions, he is very much at home. Trailing clouds of glory do we come, as Wordsworth has it. If: we give him sufficient material from this. Magic world of the imagination, he will brave the difficulties of the technical process cheerfully and successfully. Fortunately, this old, gray world of ours has a great storehouse of litera ture simple enough in conception, buoyant enough in spirit, and warm enough in color to fascinate the child. The work of the editor of such a primary book as this, is to make a proper selection from this storehouse and to present it in language simple enough for the child at this stage of his develop ment in the art of reading. 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.