SECOND NATURE READER 



i6mo. Cloth. 35 cents 



NATURE MYTHS, STORIES AND POEMS 



For elementary teachers who wish to give a course of nature study 

 based on the phenomena of the changing seasons. It is suitable for 

 use with children in their second and third year of school work. The 

 sentences are short, the language simple; yet the aim in choosing the 

 selections and writing the part which is original has been to give 

 the children reading which shall have for them the same value and 

 interest as good literature has for older minds. The author seeks to 

 prepare the ground and even thus early o plant the seeds which may 

 develop into a taste for good art or literature. The book is excellently 

 illustrated from nature and the masterpieces of art, and the selections 

 are by the best writers, whose books are within the children's com- 

 prehension, Shakespeare, Keats, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Jean 

 Ingelow, Robert Louis Stevenson, and many others. 



COMMENTS ON NATURE SERIES 



Julia Richman, Principal Public School, 77 New York City. 



" We have used Mrs. Wilson's ' Nature Study in Elementary Schools' 

 since June, and my teachers are unanimous in their verdict that it is 

 the best guide to their Nature work that has come to our notice. It is 

 hard to select a special merit in a work so full of good things, but its 

 suggestion and its correlated language work have been of the greatest 

 value. No teacher should be without a copy." 



Charlotte E. Reeve, State Normal School, New Paltz, N. Y. 



" I am exceedingly well pleased with the book. The subject of 

 Nature Study is so comprehensive that I think most teachers feel dis- 

 couraged by the thought of it. The Wilson manual presents such 

 carefully selected subject-matter that the teaching of it becomes a 

 delight rather than an added burden. I shall endeavor to make our 

 pupil teachers feel that it is one of the books that they must own." 



A. J. Davis, Principal State Normal School, Clarion, Pa. 



" I am very much pleased with the plan of ' Nature Study,' and shall 

 gladly bring it to the attention of our science teacher and of the 

 superintendent of the Model School." 



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