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CASSELL, PETTER, AND GALPIN;
AND NEW YORK.

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IN introducing this Third Reading-Book to the notice of the educational public, the publishers beg to call attention to the following characteristics which it possesses:

1. Every difficult word has an intelligible meaning attached to it. Philip's question to the eunuch, "Understandest thou what thou readest?" is especially applicable to scholars at this stage of their school life. They are now commencing, so to speak, to translate the homely Saxon, with which they have been familiar from childhood, into words which are derived from the Latin and Greek languages. It is of the first importance, that every new word which it is sought to introduce into a child's vocabulary should be accompanied by its clear and definite meaning. In many schools there is not a sufficient staff of teachers to effect this by oral explanation. In any case, a book like the present one will be found to give material assistance.

2. The lessons it contains are carefully graduated, and are within the comprehension of children in the Third Standard of the Revised Code, Great care has

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