Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading - Selected from English and American Literature

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading by Horace Elisha Scudder, editorThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading Selected from English and American LiteratureAuthor: Horace Elisha Scudder, editorRelease Date: November 26, 2003 [EBook #10294]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VERSE AND PROSE ***Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Leonard D Johnson and PG Distributed ProofreadersVERSE AND PROSEFORBEGINNERS IN READINGSELECTED FROM ENGLISH AND AMERICANLITERATURE1893PREFACE.The attentive reader of this little book will be apt to notice very soon that though its title is Verse and Prose for Beginnersin Reading, the verse occupies nine tenths, the prose being confined to about two hundred proverbs and familiar sayings—some of them, indeed, in rhyme—scattered in groups throughout the book. The reason for this will be apparent assoon as one considers the end in view in the preparation of this compilation.The Riverside Primer and Reader, as stated in its Introduction, "is designed to serve as the sole text-book in readingrequired by a pupil. When he has mastered it he is ready to make the acquaintance of the world's literature in the Englishtongue." In that ...