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55 Liberty St., New York

[Illustration: Four True Stories of Life and Adventure

By Jessie R. Smith]

=The Famous Santa Rosa Reproduction Stories=

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=Columbus=
=Captain John Smith=
=Captain Miles Standish=
=Benjamin Franklin=

ONE VOLUME :: LARGE, CLEAR TYPE :: CLOTH BINDING :: 86
CENTS NET :: _By Mail_ 50 CENTS

_A Book to be read by Children and not to them_

_For second year reading_

=A BOOK OF SUCH INTENSE INTEREST THAT THE PUPIL'S ATTENTION IS
CONSTANTLY INVITED TO THE STORY RATHER THAN THE FORM OF PRINT=

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Rapidity in learning to read depends upon the quickness with which the
child's attention shall be drawn to the substance by which the process
is made more or less an unconscious one. The method of this book's
production has been as follows: The story was first related to pupils
from seven to nine years of age, in the best form possible. Some days
later, reproductions, both oral and written, were called for. These
reproductions (many hundred in number) formed the material for most
careful study as to essential elements of plot, salient points of
interest, and =especially the words and forms of expressions used by
children=. By this means the story has been reconstructed. =Portions
over which the children love to linger are brought out to the fullest
extent.= Their words and forms of language, within the limits of
grammatical usage, =are followed scrupulously=. =Less than seven hundred
and fifty words=, all of the commonest use among children, are used in
the entire series.

Without attempting to formulate any principles or a philosophy of
children's interests, the author has simply sought =to draw the material
from the child itself=.

These stories, in typewritten and mimeograph form, were used in the
schools of Santa Rosa, Cal., for many months, and in their present form
are the product of much revision.

"_It may be safely said that in these stories there is a drawing power
for the child that is assurance that a resonant chord in the child
nature has been struck._"--FREDERICK BURK, Clark Univ.

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=The Story of Washington=--By same author. "A children's book by children."
_Illustrated by children_. Cloth, =25= cents.

=WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON