Representative selections which appeal closely to children in the grades have been included in the Lakeside Literature Readers. Ready, accurate thought get ting, natural expression, the development of good taste, and the desire to seek wider acquaintance with the world's best literature, should be natural results of a proper study of the selections in this series.

In connection with the reading of these selections, the pupil is given ample introductory and biographical matter and other explanatory helps in the form of notes, definitions, and questions. The series is interesting throughout, and so conveniently arranged and edited as to facilitate study and classroom use. The biographical notes are complete and written in a simple, charming style which emphasizes the human side with its resistless appeal to live children. The introductory notes are crisp, to the point, and invariably invite the pupil's mind into the treasure-field of the selection. The text of each poem and story may be read with clear understanding by the average pupil who follows closely the notes which help him over difficult passages,

Preceding the reading and study of each selection, the teacher should introduce the child to that selection, by means of a sparkling, well-told story which, with charm and suggestiveness, opens the whole field of the study to the mind of the child. The pupil should be shown how to read and how to study. He should be given an opportunity to discuss the selection, to ask questions about it, or even to give his own full and free interpretation of it. The tactful teacher will use her skill and ingenuity to face him constantly toward the truth.

With such a representative collection of selections for the grades, the enthusiastic teacher can but lead her pupils into wider fields of appreciation where the world's best selections shall contain for them none but open secrets.