'Telling, cramming, needless explanations, and rote-learning enfeeble the CHICAGO JOHN C. BUCKBEE AND COMPANY 122 AND 124 WABASH AVENUE 594385 C BY JOHN C. BUCKBEE AND COMPANY University Press: Inscribed to E. L. C. 'There be those who sow beside The waters that in silence glide, Trusting no echo will declare Whose footsteps ever wandered there.' LEPAR LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY PREFACE. THIS book, as its title implies, is written for children. Accordingly, the whole discussion proceeds along the line of evolution. Facts are adduced and amply illustrated before principles are stated; ideas are developed before terms are given. The child is made to perceive before he is asked to remember, and to reason before he is required to generalize. Starting with a thought as the unit, the pupil is familiarized with the form and structure of the sentence, its subject and its predicate; with oral and pictorial analysis; with the offices of the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the verb, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, the interjection; then with the subdivisions of the parts of speech, with the processes of inflection, and, finally, with the laws of construction. No Only one topic is presented at a time. new difficulty is introduced until the one in hand is fully mastered. Invention is taxed con |