Excerpt from A Fourth Reader Comparison of the most approved American and foreign reading books shows that while in England provision for the first years is inferior to our own, the higher English readers are of broader range and better literary quality. This is in part because they are more strictly readers - they do not attempt to cover the many specialties which have attached themselves of late to our own readers; and in part because the power of really good reading to awaken interest and impress itself upon the mind has come to be better recognized. Two views obtain among teachers with regard to the grade of selections appropriate to a lesson in reading. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.