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Title: Eighth Reader

Author: James Baldwin
Ida C. Bender

Release Date: November 28, 2009 [EBook #30559]

Language: English

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[Illustration: David Copperfield at Salem House

(See page 23).]

READING WITH EXPRESSION

EIGHTH READER

BY

JAMES BALDWIN

AUTHOR OF "SCHOOL READING BY GRADES--BALDWIN'S READERS,"
"HARPER'S READERS," ETC.

AND

IDA C. BENDER

SUPERVISOR OF PRIMARY GRADES, BUFFALO, NEW YORK

_EIGHT-BOOK SERIES_

NEW YORK .:. CINCINNATI .:. CHICAGO
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY

AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY.

ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL, LONDON.

B. & B. EIGHTH READER.

W. P. 2

TO THE TEACHER

The paramount design of this series of School Readers is to help young
people to acquire the art and the habit of reading well--that is, of
interpreting the printed page in such manner as to give pleasure and
instruction to themselves and to those who listen to them. In his eighth
year at school the pupil is supposed to be able to read, with ease and
with some degree of fluency, anything in the English language that may
come to his hand; but, that he may read always with the understanding
and in a manner pleasing to his hearers and satisfactory to himself, he
must still have daily systematic practice in the