Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Second Reader contained more complicated animal stories, also some frightening ones ? big bears, fierce tigers ? and the im mortal legend of George Washing ton and his father's cherry tree. In Dr. McGuffey's stories, children got bright new silver dollars when good, said "No, ma'am" to their mothers. Their rooms were "cham bers." Their dog was Rover. People went "down cellar...
Napoleon bestrode his charger on the original Third Reader coyer, wherein quotations from the Bible were introduced, together with The Old Oaken Bucket and other verse, instructive articles such as "How a Fly Walks on the Ceiling," and the splendid tale of "Harry and His Dog Frisk...
...Muir's analysis of the idiot's mind is more intense than the acuteness of a clinical report, for he sharply transmits to the reader the emotional reaction to large events, strained through a limited but unimpassive consciousness. He has maintained a changing balance of domination in the wills of his characters, and the movement of successive mutations of superiority and inferiority mark the progressions in the plot. Mr. Muir's psychology, symbolism, and philosophy are inextricably dove-tailed, while the constant flux of affirmation and negation in the mind of Hans may be capable of many interpretations. There...
ANTHOLOGIES, notably elastic things, are usually indicative of the anthologist's turn of mind; every reader hopes that somewhere in a collection of verses, stories, plays--whatever be the subjects--he will discover the compiler's preference--some certain favorite, some especial fancy. But such an ambition is in vain as far as Professor Gay's "Riverside Book of Verse" is concerned. The entire range of the selections is even, balanced, and proportionate. From the opening "Cuckoo Song" (which also heads another well know anthology, "The Oxford Book of English Verse") to the modernism of Miss Lowell's "Lilacs" there...
...Venetia marries Young Raphael, who is by this time reconciled with his father; Saville and Ysabel are living in Paris, and all the minor characters have conveniently died off. Venetia has always known that she would marry Young Raphael--so has the reader--but the interest is kept up till the end, as the characters at times become so involved with one another--that it takes a long time and even an extra paragraph...