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James Baldwin

School Reading By Grades: Fifth YearJames Baldwin School Reading By Grades: Fifth Year PREFACE The pupil who has read the earlier numbers of this series is now prepared to study with some degree of care the peculiarities of style which distinguish the different selections in the present volume. H...

The Story of SiegfriedJames Baldwin The Story of Siegfried The Fore Word When the world was in its childhood, men looked upon the works of Nature with a strange kind of awe. They fancied that every thing upon the earth, in the air, or in the water, had a life like their own, and that every sight ...

Fifty Famous People: A Book of Short StoriesJames Baldwin Fifty Famous People: A Book of Short Stories SAVING THE BIRDS One day in spring four men were riding on horseback along a country road. These men were lawyers, and they were going to the next town to attend court.There had been a rain, and...

Hero TalesJames Baldwin Hero Tales INTRODUCTION In the world's literature there are certain stories which, told ages ago, can never be forgotten. They have within them that which gives pleasure to all intelligent men, women and children. They appeal to the sympathies, the desires, and the admirat...

Old Greek StoriesJames Baldwin Old Greek Stories PREFACE Perhaps no other stories have ever been told so often or listened to with so much pleasure as the classic tales of ancient Greece. For many ages they have been a source of delight to young people and old, to the ignorant and the learned, to...

Fifty Famous Stories RetoldJames Baldwin Fifty Famous Stories Retold CONCERNING THESE STORIES There are numerous time-honored stories which have become so incorporated into the literature and thought of our race that a knowledge of them is an indispensable part of one's education. These stories a...

Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, LincolnJames Baldwin Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln / A Book for Young Americans THE STORY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON THE STORY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON * * * * * I.—WHEN WASHINGTON WAS A BOY When George Washington was a boy...

A Story of the Golden AgeJames Baldwin A Story of the Golden Age TO MAYTHE FORE WORD You have heard of Homer, and of the two wonderful poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which bear his name. No one knows whether these poems were composed by Homer, or whether they are the work of many different poe...

The Book-loverJames Baldwin The Book-lover / A Guide to the Best Reading A Fore WordThe titlepage of this book explains its plan and purpose. The Courses of Reading and the Schemes for Practical Study, herein indicated, are the outgrowth of the Author’s long experience as a lover of books and dir...

Eighth ReaderEighth Reader TO THE TEACHER The paramount design of this series of School Readers is to help young people to acquire the art and the habit of reading well – that is, of interpreting the printed page in such manner as to give pleasure and instruction to themselves and to those who li...