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A Series of Books in which an attempt is made to place the process of ''learning to read English on a scientific basis. This has been done by'' separating the perfectly regular parts of the language from the irregular, and by giving the regular parts to the learner in the exact order of their ''difficulty. The child begins with the smallest possible element, and adds to'' ''that element one letter — in only one of its functions — at one time. Thus'' ''the sequence is natural and complete. “These are admirable books, because'' they are constructed on a principle, and that the simplest principle on which it is possible to learn to read English.” —.

In this edition the work has been recast with the intention of fitting it for the use of students and general readers, rather than, as before, to