| BOOK I. | Pp. 228. | Price 1s. |
| BOOK II. | Pp. 275. | Price 1s. 4d. |
| BOOK III. | Pp. 303. | Price 1s. 6d. |
| BOOK IV. | Pp. 381. | Price 1s. 6d. |
NOTE.
This new Series would seek to do for Literature what has already been done by many series of School Readers for History, Geography, and Science. Many 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 Elementary 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 drawn entirely from authors of recognised standing. All the usual aids given in Readers are supplied; but illustrations, as affording no help in dealing with Literature, are excluded from the series.
"The volumes, which are capitally printed, consist of selected readings of increasing difficulty, 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 English verse and prose."—Athenæum.
"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."—Guardian.
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."—Pall Mall Gazette.
"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."—Bradford Observer.
"The books are graded with remarkable skill."—Glasgow Herald.