A REVOLUTION IN SCHOOL READING 



HAS BEEN WROUGHT BY THE USE OF THE 



Classics for Children 



The books in this carefully edited series are widely used 

 in place of the ordinary Reading Books in the upper grades 

 of the Grammar Schools and in the High Schools. They 

 are also used as Supplementary Readers in hundreds of 

 schools throughout the country. 



DESIGN 



To supply material for practice in reading, form a taste for 

 good literature, and increase the mental power of the pupils by 

 providing them with the best works of standard authors, complete 

 as far as possible, and judiciously annotated. 



AUTHORSHIP 



Varied, and of world-wide reputation. In the list of authors 

 are Shakespeare, Ruskin, Scott, Irving, Goldsmith, Johnson, 

 Franklin, Andersen, Kingsley, De Foe, Swift, Arnold, and Lamb. 



EDITORS 



Of recognized ability and discriminating taste. Among them 

 are John Fiske, Edward Everett Hale, Henry N. Hudson, 

 Charlotte M. Yonge, John Tetlow, Homer B. Sprague, D. H. 

 Montgomery, Edwin Ginn, W. H. Lambert, Alfred J. Church, 

 Dwight Holbrook, J. H. Stickney, Margaret A. Allen, and 

 Mary S. Avery. 



INDORSED BY 



Teachers, Superintendents, Librarians, eminent Literary 

 Authorities, and the Educational Press. 



