CALIFORNIA STATE SERIES ENGLISH LESSONS BOOK TWO BY ADA VAN STONE HARRIS ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT KINDERGARTENS AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS, OF SCHOOLS, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK AND CHARLES B. GILBERT FORMERLY LECTURER ON EDUCATION, WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, SUPERIN- REVISED BY JOSEPHINE E. SEAMAN STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, LOS ANGELES, CAL. AND CORNELIUS B. BRADLEY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, CAL. SACRAMENTO FRIEND WM. RICHARDSON, SUPERINTENDENT STATE PRINTING HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT OF GINN & CO. COPYRIGHT, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1912, BY SILVER, BURDETT AND COMPANY ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL, LONDON, ENGLAND All rights reserved In the compilation of this book, certain matter First Edition 25,000 October, 1912 PREFACE THIS book consists of two parts: a Course of Language Lessons, and a Grammar. It is quite too common in the higher books of language series either to omit productive language exercises altogether or so to subordinate them to the claims of technical grammar as seriously to impair their effectiveness. As a result, not infrequently the fluency and freedom of expression acquired in the lower grades are lost in the grammar school. This is due in some instances to the requirements of formal examinations and the exactions of "the man higher up," who applies tests, if not actually incompatible with free and effective expression, at least so independent of it as to make it easy to meet them with a minimum of skill in the use of language. A high school principal, whose pupils came to him as the result of such formal tests, when asked in what he found them best equipped and in what most deficient, said, "They are best in English grammar and weakest in English language." Indeed, during the grammar school period there are the strongest of psychological reasons for continuing the free language exercises. The pupils have now |