precision of feeling." Reading poetry aloud is therefore an accomplishment worthy of earnest cultivation. "Of equal honor with him who writes a grand poem is he who reads it grandly," Longfellow has said, and Emerson, "A good reader summons the mighty dead from their tombs and makes them speak to us." To sit still and listen attentively is a polite accomplishment and to reproduce accurately what one has heard is as practically useful as it is unusual. * * * * * Transcriber's Notes: Punctuation normalised. Page 18, "she" changed to "the" (in which the) Page 23, "rep-spected" changed to "respected" (to be respected) Page 24, "leis-sure" changed to "leisure" (little refining leisure) Page 44, "is" changed to "it" (reads it grandly) End of Project Gutenberg's Children and Their Books, by James Hosmer Penniman