Excerpt from Classics for the Kansas Schools: Eighth Grade This book aims not only to increase the-pupil's knowledge of a subject, but also to intensify his interest and direct him to related material - in short, to cultivate the extensive reading habit and the library method of study. It seeks to direct and make purposeful the pupil's outside use of books, magazines, and newspapers, bringing to bear upon his school reading the experience and knowledge gained from these sources, thus weld ing together the school, the library, and the home in the develop ment of right habits of reading and study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.