The New Century Fourth Reader: Selected and Adapted from the World's Standard Literature (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The New Century Fourth Reader: Selected and Adapted From the World's Standard Literature

In placing this book in the hands Of pupil and teacher, it will not be amiss to Offer a few suggestions on the art of reading. Few understand this simple art; yet to have mastered it means that we are to get, through life, twice, often thrice and four times, as much from what we read. With the Fourth Reader we begin to study something more than the pronunciation of words. From this point on, reading should be a training in the gathering up of thought from the words or symbols with which we have already become more or less familiar.

It is a matter of surprise how much thought a printed page con tains. The greater the writer, the more there is in a page of his writing. To extract all that the classic author has stored away for us is by no means easy. The truth is, we must re-create his thought, his dreams, his noble conceptions, after him; in short, we have to share in his genius and his skill. In our case, fortunately, he is our guide, and leads us if we are only willing to be led.

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