P CONTAINING AN INTRODUCTORY ARTICLE ON THE WITH A THOROUGH METHOD OF ANALYS AND A CRITICAL PHONIC ANALYSIS OF EN DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF NORMAL AND HIG BY RICHARD EDWARDS PRESIDENT OF THE ILLINOIS STATE NORMAL UND CHICAGO: GEO. SHERWOOD & NEW YORK: TAINTOR & CO 247*172 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, BY GEO. & C. W. SHERWOOD, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Northern District of Illinois. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, BY GEO. & C. W. SHERWOOD, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. THE feeling is very general that the pupi ought to be taught to read understandingly and this feeling we consider reasonable and But it is the almost universal convictic desirable result is seldom attained by the n been most commonly employed in the school This book has been prepared with the furnishing the pupils of our high schools, an classes in the common schools in the coun grammar schools in our cities, with such h them to attain this result. It does not aim pendium of English literature, nor to discl principles of any other science or art. Its teach young persons to appreciate and to rea Reading is not only the key to all know when properly taught, direct means of th mental discipline, bringing the mind, as it with the noblest thoughts uttered in the lar It is assumed by the compiler that the th tion contained in every selection read in thoroughly mastered by the pupils: First, because thus only can the amoun cipline be secured which the reading exercis Secondly, because such a mastery is esse rendering of the piece by the voice. |