Cover Nr. 2 BOOK OF TALES BEING SCHOOL READINGS, IMAGINATIVE AND EMOTIONAL IN PROSE AND POETRY SUPPLEMENTARY TO THIRD READER EDITED BY WILLIAM SWINTON AUTHOR OF WORD-BOOK, GEOGRAPHICAL AND LANGUAGE SERIES, ETC. AND GEORGE R. CATHCART AUTHOR OF LITERARY READER, ETC. NEW YORK CINCINNATI .: CHICAGO AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY PUSTANDARDY SUPPLEMENTARY READERS. 670105 THE SUPPLEMENTARY READERS form a series of carefully ASTOR LENOX AND, Titanated Frading books, designed to connect with any of the reguleries offre or six Readers. 191 These books, which are closely co-ordinated with the several Readers of the regular series, are : I. Easy Steps for. Little Feet: Supplementary to First Reader. In this book the attractive is the chief aim, and the pieces have been written and chosen with special reference to the feelings and fancies of early childhood. Golden Book of Choice Reading: Supplementary to Second Reader. This book presents a great variety of pleasing and instructive reading, consisting of child-lore and poetry, noble examples, and attractive object readings. III. Book of Tales; being School Readings Imaginative and Emotional: Supplementary to Third Reader. - In this book the youthful taste for the imaginative and emotional is fed with pure and noble creations drawn from the literature of all nations. IV. Readings in Nature's Book: Supplementary to Fourth Reader. This book contains a varied collection of charming readings in natural history and botany, drawn from the works of the great modern naturalists and travelers. V. Seven American Classics. VI. Seven British Classics. The "Classics" are suitable for reading in advanced grammar grades, and aim to instill a taste for the higher literature, by the presentation of gems of British and American authorship. Copyright, 1880, by Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Company. E-P 13 CITY OF NEW YORK PREFACE. In the series of Supplementary Readers, the plan of which is given on the opposite page, The Book of Tales" is designed to furnish class-reading supplemental to any Third Reader of the regular series. The book is so graded that it may advantageously be begun early in the grammar-school course. At this period, in the regular class-room work, pupils are engaged in the study of arithmetic, geography, and grammar; and it is precisely here that a corrective to the one-sidedness of technical routine is demanded. A deep craving is felt in all young minds for the food of fancy and feeling if not satisfied by the healthful and pure in the realms of imagination and emotion, this craving will only too often find food in the garbage of perverted and sensational reading. : The scope of "The Book of Tales " is well indicated by its sub-title. It consists of readings "imaginative and emotional." The wide domain of the folk-lore of all nations has been explored for those beautiful creations that have instructed and delighted successive generations. A body of these creations forming, so to speak, the classics of fancy |