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"The literature of a people should be the record of its joys and sorrows, its aspirations and its shortcomings, its wisdom and its folly, the confidant of its soul."

-JAMES RUSSELL LOWell.

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SEVENTH READER

American Life and Literature for Grammar
Grades and Junior High Schools

BY

FRANKLIN T. BAKER

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN TEACHERS COLLEGE
AND SUPERVISOR OF ENGLISH IN THE

HORACE MANN SCHOOL

AND

ASHLEY H. THORNDIKE

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1918

All rights reserved

HARVARD
COLLEBE
LIBRARY

46 +226

COPYRIGHT, 1918,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1918.

PREFACE

THIS Volume of the Everyday Classics is prepared with a two-fold purpose: (1) to introduce young people to a part of that common cultural material which is now a part of our inheritance, and (2) to put them into sympathy with some of the feelings and ideals which are in a special sense AmeriThe importance of unifying our national life has not for more than a century seemed so urgent as in these last few years. The school, and particularly the literature read there, have long been recognized as among the most potent means of building such national unity.

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It has been our purpose also so to choose and arrange the material of the book as to provide for that real study and reflection, that growing consciousness of power-that should come from the courses in the highest elementary grades and the Junior High School. The administrative segregation of the Junior High School from the grades below it should be based on a course of study differentiated, but not too sharply, from the work of the preceding year. One way of doing this is to bring like elements in the work into groups constituting larger units.

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Most of the selections in this volume will suggest to the alert teacher other books and articles on similar themes, particularly in the field of contemporary literature. A

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