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BARNES' NEW NATIONAL READERS

NEW

NATIONAL

FIFTH READER

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CHARLES J. BARNES

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JOHN S. PRELL

Civil & Mechanical Engineer.

NEBAWRFRANCISCO, CALCAGO

AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

Copyright, 1884, by A. S. BARNES & CO.

Printed by

A. S. Barnes & Company
New York, W. S. K.

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With the publication of this book, our series of readers designed for the use of graded and ungraded schools, is completed.

Concerning the simplicity and careful gradation of the letter-press, a word of explanation is necessary.

It is evident, even to the casual observer, that pupils terminate their school life at a much earlier age now than ever before.

This is due, in part, to

1.- Better methods of instruction, which advance pupils more rapidly toward the completion of their course of study.

2.- A feverish desire on the part of the young to commence their life-work

3. The humble circumstances of many parents, who, consequently, need the assistance of their children in the every-day affairs of life, and take them from school by the time they have finished the third reader.

The average age at which most pupils complete the course of study in our public schools has been

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ascertained to be about thirteen and a half years. From this it is evident that many can not be more than ten years old.

How utterly impossible it is for pupils of such an immature age to understand or comprehend the masterpieces of our literature, can be realized only by those teachers who have exhausted every expedient to accomplish such a result.

It is needless, perhaps, to say that the authors of this series of readers, who have had many years' experience in the school-room, have kept this fact constantly in mind; and they confidently believe that the New National Series will be found more pleasing, interesting, and intelligible to young minds than any others ever issued.

If teachers of High Schools, Seminaries, and Academies do not find that abstruse and difficult kind of literature which they desire for the most advanced pupils, let them await the appearance of "Barnes' Collegiate Reader and Speaker," which is in preparation and will be issued shortly.

That these readers may lighten the labors of the teaching fraternity every-where, and add to the pupil's interest and pleasure during many hours of hard study, is the fervent wish of

THE AUTHORS.

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