This textbook is the seventh reader in a series of illustrated primary readers. The chief aim of this series of readers is to develop, to a greater degree than has usually been done, the pupils' reading abilities, appreciation of literature, self-reliance, and good judgment in reading. This book is a unit in itself. In its careful selection of content, its schedule of readings, its study guides in the reader itself, and its varied suggestions for individual differences and further reading, the book furnishes guidance for a year's course.