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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard)	73	3	Browse	Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature	56	4	Browse	Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.)	51	1	Browse	Search
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1	43	1	Browse	Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2	40	2	Browse	Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones)	38	2	Browse	Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life	32	2	Browse	Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises	31	1	Browse	Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 3., The Evolution of the Medford public Library. (search)

have great hope for the future. The value and importance of a child's early reading can hardly be overestimated; cultivate in the children a taste for good reading, patriotism, love of truth and beauty. The choice should be not of books written down to children, but the purity of their English should be one of the first considerations. There are so many works that are considered classic and interest all ages to which the attention of children should be drawn. Children derive, wrote Sir Walter Scott, impulses of a powerful and important kind from hearing things that they cannot entirely comprehend. The hearty cooperation of the teachers, and especially of Mr. Morss, the Superintendent of Schools, makes our work in this direction much easier and very much more effective. The plan has been to send a selection of twelve books to every schoolroom in the city, these books to be used by the children in the school, or to be taken home by them at the discretion of the teacher; thus, by m

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