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PREFACE The success with which my Combined Course of Literary Reading and Composition has met, and the suggestions of practical teachers, have encouraged me to produce this companion volume, which is intended for the use of younger pupils. It is perhaps unnecessary to repeat in detail the principles of the method I have indicated; suffice to say that it is merely an adaptation to the English language of the Reform method that has been in generál use in recent years in teaching foreign languages. The Reader is the nucleus of the book, and on the literary extracts is laid the foundation of the whole instruction in Composition. The passages for reading have been selected not only, as in the case of the earlier book, for their intrinsic literary value, but alsó for their self-contained interest. To be interesting, extracts must be fairly long, and therefore it is impossible to give any comprehensive view over literature. I have attempted only to illustrate various types. To each literary passage is appended a series of exercises in Composition, the aim of which is to develop the characteristics of the text, to train the pupil's 3