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The Athenæum Press
GINN & COMPANY · PROPRIETORS
BOSTON · U.S.A.
A LETTER
TO THE READERS OF THIS BOOK.
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Dear Children,—
It would be very stupid indeed to try to read a book written in Arabic or Hebrew; we should soon tire and put it down.
It is just as uninteresting to read English words whose meaning we do not understand; we might as well devote ourselves to a foreign and unknown tongue.