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Excerpt from Macmillan and Co. 'S Selected List of Educational Books for Secondary Schools It may be a mistake to write down to them, but it is, I think, a stillgreater mistake to force good things upon them prematurely, and so create a disgust which it is difficult, in after years, to remove. Poetry intended for their use should appeal to their childish fancies, their fondness for flowers and animals, their delight in story, their mingled love of sentiment and fun. It should be simple in form, and simple in what I may call outward meaning. Some of it will unfold deeper meanings as the years go on some will be discarded as the mind outgrows it; but all may be good of its kind, and all possess something of that quality of suggestiveness which makes it, in the best sense of the word, educational. Trial alone can show how far the present selection fulfils the conditions I have laid down. It is intended for children from seven to ten or eleven, i. E. For those comprised in the Lower or Preparatory Division of High Schools. It will be found to contain (as every selection must that does not sacrifice soundness to novelty) a large number of familiar pieces, but also, I think, an unusually large number that are unfamiliar. The parts are graduated, and intended to be used simultaneously, the second being specially adapted to class reading and recitation. I may add that, though compiled in the first instance for Girls' Schools, there is nothing in the volume to unfit it for use in a Preparatory Boys' School or private school room. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
