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Excerpt from Classics Old and New: A Series of School Readers; A Fifth Reader
Let many of the poems be learned by heart, and not merely by rote. There is in true poetry a power to linger in the memory, to become a part of life and to reappear after long years, fresh and helpful.
Attention is called to the suggested reading found on page 267 et seq. The free circulating library is destined to become a fixed part of all our school life, and its value will depend on the wisdom and literary taste used in the selection of its contents.
In addition to the acknowledgments made in the biographies, my thanks are due to the following publishers for cordial permission to use copyrighted material: to Messrs. Houghton, Mit?in and Company, for Ascent of Mt. Mitchell, by Charles D. Warner, from his On Horseback in Virginia for Dickens, by James T. Fields, from his Yesterdays with Authors for Elms and Other Trees, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, from his Autocrat of the Breakfast Table and for Choosing a Class of People to be Exterminated, from the prose of Edward Rowland Sill; to Messrs. Little, Brown and Company, for the extract from The Man Without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale; and to the Whitaker and Ray Company, for The Defense of'the Alamo, by Joaquin Miller. I am indebted also to Mr. William O. Partridge for permission to use the reproduction of his statue of Pocahontas.
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