Page 4 - Third Book of Reading Lessons

PREFACE.
T1rn Tnrnn BooK OF READING LESSONS, of which a new edition is now presented to the Public by the Christian Brothers, will be und to correspond in ma.tter and ar­ rangement with the regoing parts of the series. In its adaptation to the analytic, or explanatory mode of instruc­ tion, as well as in the order, variety, and graduated scale of the lessons, it will be und, not only to harmonise with the educational system of the Institute om which it emanates, but to exhibit its peculiar atures.
In the short sketches of History, Geography, and Sci­ ence, which are scattered throughout the work, the com­ pilers have endeavoured to select whatever was most pictu­ resque and striking, r the purpose of exciting the interest of the youthful mind, by the charms of truth, and present­ ing the wonders of nature in so strong a light, as to render the marvels of ction tame and eble in comparison. In order to accommodate the length of the extracts to the ca­ pacity of the class o readers r whom the Third Book is designed, and to a ord the teachers an opportunity of prac­ tical illustration, it has been considered expedient to render the lessons as short as the nature of the subjects would ad­ mit. By the miscellaneous character of the arrangement, an opportunity is a orded of training the pupil to habits, not only of observation, but of re ection; the rst, by a ref-