Excerpt from Bobbs-Merrill Readers: The Eighth Reader This is well, for skill in reading lies at the basis of success in all lines of study, while a taste for good literature is one of the surest marks of education and culture. The present volume undertakes to use, both in its materials and its method, the best results of the scientific study of the teaching of reading and literature in our schools. Two guiding principles have been followed in the selection of the literary passages to be included: (1) the interest and response of pupils; (2) the purpose to broaden and enrich the pupil's interest in reading by giving him contact with a wide variety of good literature. 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.