Excerpt from Independent Fourth Reader: Containing a Practical Treatise on Elocution, Illustrated With Diagrams; Select and Classified Reading and Recitations; With Copious Notes, and Complete Supplementary Index
The accessory aids furnished for a thorough under standing of the text are unusually complete. The foot notes give the pronunciation oi words that had to be re-spelled for the purpose; definitions; explanations of classical, historical, and other allusions; and biograph ical sketches of persons whose names occur in the read ing lessons. This aid is given in every instance on the page where first needed, and a complete Index to tire Notes is added for general reference.
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