PREFACE THE following collection of Poetical Pieces was selected many years ago and offered to the Public, but more especially to the Juvenile Public, by the present Publishers. To render the selection still more popular, and to identify it more than it has hitherto been with the interests of the school-boy and the school-girl, the Publishers have re-cast the old book, and added fresh pieces and illustrations. It is important to add, that this POETICAL READING Book, while suited for the higher classes in schools generally, is specially adapted to the requirements in Reading of the Fifth Standard of the Revised Code of Education in Elementary Schools. February, 1865. |