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SELECTIONS

FOR MEMORIZING

BOOK THREE

SEVENTH AND EIGHTH YEARS

REQUIRED FOR THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH YEARS OF ELEMENTARY
SCHOOLS BY THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF NEW YORK STATE

COMPILED AND EDITED BY

AVERY WARNER SKINNER

INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF
NEW YORK STATE

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PUBLISHERS' NOTE

THE poems in "Selections for Memorizing" are those authorized by the Education Department of the State of New York in its syllabus for elementary schools. The revision of this syllabus, published in 1910, necessitated the revision of the original edition of "Selections for Memorizing" to include the new material.

In addition to the selections for memorizing, the new edition now includes the poems designated for appreciative reading in English in seventh and eighth years, and the shorter history poems suggested for collateral reading in the fifth to eighth years.

In order that this material may be available in the most convenient and economical form for pupils' use, it is published in a three book series, as follows:

BOOK ONE. Selections for Memorizing, First, Second, Third and Fourth Years.

Book Two. Selections for Memorizing and History Selections for Collateral Reading, Fifth and Sixth Years. BOOK THREE. Selections for Memorizing, Poems for Appreciative Reading and History Poems for Collateral Reading, Seventh and Eighth Years.

In connection with the poems for appreciative reading in Book Three there are also sufficient notes to guide the pupil to a careful study of these poems in preparing for the elementary English examinations of the eighth year. For the assistance of the teacher, topics for composition, based on these selections, have also been given. In addition to the regular edition the entire contents

of the three books are also published in a single volume, for the convenience of those teachers who wish all the material.

The poems prescribed by the Education Department have been chosen after a careful and exhaustive examination of the best courses of study in the schools of this and other states. It is believed that this grouping of these poems in a single series is exceedingly desirable as it offers to teacher and pupil, in permanent and accessible form, the material for the required work in English and also the shorter selections suggested for reading in connection with the study of history in the grades.

The right to use the copyrighted material contained in this volume has been obtained through purchase or through the courtesy of authors or publishers.

By permission of and special arrangement with Houghton, Mifflin Company, the following poems are used: "Song of the Camp," by Bayard Taylor; “The 'Chambered Nautilus" and "Old Ironsides," by Oliver Wendell Holmes; "The Arrow and the Song," "Spring," "Summer," "Autumn," "Winter," "Paul Revere's Ride" and "The Skeleton in Armor," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; "The Finding of the Lyre," "Rhocus," "The Singing Leaves," "Under the Old Elm" and "Under the Willows," by James Russell Lowell; "The Concord Hymn," by Ralph Waldo Emerson; and "The Song of Marion's Men," by William Cullen Bryant.

The copyrighted selections from the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson - "At Morning" and "A Visit from the Sea" and "The Angler's Reveille," by Henry Van Dyke are used through the courtesy of and by special arrangement with Charles Scribner's Sons, publishers of the works of these authors.

The following poems are used through the kindness. of the publishing houses mentioned: "The Scythe Song," by Andrew Lang (Longmans, Green & Company); "Columbus," by Joaquin Miller (The Whitaker & Ray Company); Selections from "My Study Fire," by Hamilton Wright Mabie (Dodd, Mead & Company); "The Name of Old Glory," by James Whitcomb Riley (The Bobbs-Merrill Company); "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," by Julia Ward Howe (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company); and "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman (David McKay).

Thanks are also due to Mr. Edwin Markham for permission to use "Lincoln, The Man of the People," which was originally entitled "Lincoln, the Great Commoner.'

For valuable assistance in the preparation of the notes that accompany the Poems for Appreciative Reading, thanks are hereby rendered to Mrs. Emogene Sanford Simons, of Albany, N. Y.

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