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The Globe Readers. Book III. Compiled and Edited
by Alexander F. Murison, Sometime English Master at Aberdeen Grammar
School (1884)
Note
THE interest in Nature, awakened in
the previous Books, is here extended and deepened.
Various quadrupeds, and several
kinds of birds, as well as some other animals, engage attention to their
habits and conditions of life. Certain familiar trees are surveyed in the
forest, and followed to the workshop. There is tea, and coffee, and cocoa,
with sugar to sweeten them. There are a few incidents from history, and a
few scenes from fiction. There is a dash of adventure, and a spice of
humour. The activities of youth are considered; good impulses are
encouraged and strengthened; and the mind is touched with the joys and
sorrows of one's fellows. The prose is lightened by alternations of
poetry, and the scenes of both are rendered vivid by numerous
illustrations.
The lessons are carefully
graduated. After each, lists for spelling are arranged, and meanings are
fully explained.
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