Edue T375,90. sto Harvard College Library Dec. 20, 1918. Transferred from PREFACE. MCGUFFEY'S NATURAL HISTORY READERS are intended to furnish supplementary reading within a field which is always fresh, interesting, and instructive to children. By dispensing with lists of words for spelling, diacriticals, definitions, and paragraph numbers, and by developing a real and apparent unity in the subjects treated, they introduce the child at once into the form, style, and method of the literature of books. By a natural link of association, they conduct the reader from the more familiar to the less familiar facts about animals, thus awakening his attention, stimulating his powers of observation, and leading him to discern, compare, and think for himself. The publishers have spared no expense in presenting to the eye accurate pictures of the more prominent subjects of the text. With a single exception, the illustrations have been designed specially for this work. Copyright, 1887, By VAN ANTWERP. BRAGG & Co. M'G. FAM ANIM. |