2 4 William Blackwood & Sons' List. 



ELEMENTARY SERIES. 



BLACKW00D5' 



LITERATURE READERS. 



Edited by JOHN ADAMS, M.A„ LL.D., 



Professor o( Education In the University of London. 



BOOK I Pp. 228. Price Is. 



BOOK II Pp. 275. Price Is. 4d. 



BOOK III Pp.303. Price 1b. 6d. 



BOOK IV. . . • Pp- 381. Price Is. 6d. 



IN OTE. 



Thi s new Series would seek to do for Literature what has 

 already been done by many series of School Readers for 

 History, Geography, and Science. Man}' teachers feel that 

 their pupils should be introduced as soon as possible to the 

 works of the great writers, and that reading may be learnt 

 from these works at least as well as from compilations 

 specially written for the young. Because of recent changes 

 in Inspection, the present is a specially suitable time for 

 the Introduction of such a series into laiementary Schools. 

 In the Preparatory Departments of Secondary Schools the 

 need for such a series is clamant. 



It is to be noted that the books are not manuals of 

 English literature, but merely Readers, the matter of which 

 is AraWii entirely from authors of recognised standing. All 

 the usual aids given in Readers are supplied j but illustra- 

 tions, as affording no help in dealing ^th Literature, are 

 excluded from the series. 



" The volumes, -whioli are capitally printed, consist of selected 

 readings of increasing difflculty, to 'which notes and exercises are 

 added at the end. The selected pieces are admirably chosen, especially 

 in the later books, 'which will form a beginning for a really sound 

 and wide appreciation of the stores of good Snglish verse and 

 prose."— /4 tbenasum. 



" The selected readings are interesting, and possessed of real 



literary value. The books are well bound, the paper is excellent, 



and the unusual boldness and clear spacing of the type go far to 



compensate for the entire absence of pictorial illustrations."— Ouarrf/an. 



A very excellent gradus to the more accessible heights of the 



English Parnassus The appendices on spelling, 'word-building, 



and grammar are the work of a skilful, practical teacher."— Pa// 

 Mall Qazette. 



" If we had the making of the English Educational Code for 

 Elementary Schools, we should insert a regulation that all boys and 

 girls should spend two 'whole years on these four books, and on 

 nothing else."— Brad/ord Observer. 



"The books are graded -with remarkable skill."- 0/afffow Herald. 



