The style is graphic from start to finish--even statistics are made picturesque.
_475 Pages, 131 Illustrations. Uncut edges. Retail price, $1.50. (For introductory price of School Edition send for Circular.)_
_For School Libraries and Reading Circles, this book appeals to a deep and constant taste. For Supplementary Reading in the higher grades it is a mine of interest and delightful instructiveness._
"'Historic Pilgrimages' abundantly justifies its double purpose of serving both the student's needs of a graphic summary of the history of Massachusetts Bay, and the stranger-visitor's need of a preparation for, and a pleasant keepsake of, his journeyings."--_Boston Journal._
Silver, Burdett and Company, Publishers, Boston. New York. Chicago.
A Unique Series of Eight School Readers upon an entirely New Plan, Brilliantly Illustrated with Masterpieces and Original Drawings.
By SARAH LOUISE ARNOLD, Supervisor of Schools, Boston, Mass., and CHARLES B. GILBERT, Superintendent of Schools, Newark, N. J.
This series marks a new era in School Readers. It combines with the necessary technique of reading, a real course in literature. It has the sincere literary atmosphere. The early volumes create the beginnings of a literary judgment. The advanced volumes comprehend the whole range of the world's best writing. The pupil, at the end of the course, _knows what literature means_.
In this achievement these Readers stand absolutely alone. They justify the following deliberate characterizations:
They are the most interesting Readers ever published.
They surpass all other Readers in wise technique.
They are superlative in stimulating thought and creating taste.
They are unequaled in attractiveness of illustration.
They give a better idea of the world's great literature, and more of it, than can be found anywhere else in the same space.
In their first year they were adopted by Boston, New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore, Atlanta; by over a thousand smaller towns; by hundreds of counties; and by the State of Virginia.
The entire series is peculiarly rich in selections and pictures closely connected with American history and American greatness, well fitted to stimulate love of country in the pupil. The "Reader for Seventh Grades," is distinctively and wholly American, and its tales, poems, historical extracts, and illustrations are alive with a proud patriotism.