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SOME PRESS OPINIONS.

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The Schoolmistress.—"There are seven of these charmingly written stories of brave and beautiful deeds by heroes and heroines in various lands. The selection, the introductions, notes, and glossary are by Helen H. Watson. Many teachers devote one lesson a week to the reading of interesting stories, and this book would supply excellent material for such lessons in elementary schools."

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The Schoolmaster.—"The book is intended for use in secondary schools, and is exceedingly well adapted for that purpose."

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The Schoolmaster.—The story is well told in style and language at once suitable for the young and in harmony with the antiquity of the original."

Journal of Education—"It is excellently conceived and done."

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The Schoolmaster.—"The selecting and editing has been thoroughly well done, and the style and binding are such as to make the books a pleasure to handle. They are sure to become favourites."

School World.—"These are intended for secondary-school use, and are well edited: The idea of using Walter Copland Perry's book as a reader is distinctly good, and Mr Peppin's introduction is capital. All the usual valuable features of this excellent series are reproduced in these editions, which may be safely commended as highly interesting matter for literature classes."

School World.—" Besides the glossaries and notes to each canto, this capital little edition contains some well-considered questions, subjects for essays, suggestions for paraphrase, and also of passages suitable for repetition. It will be seen at once that all the necessary material for a useful manual has been collected in these pages. The helps to further study also are worthy of great attention, and, carefully used by a teacher, may be made serviceable in enlarging the grasp of younger minds upon these cantos of Byron's poem. Altogether and in every way commendable."