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PREFACE

LITERATURE THE INTERPRETATION OF LIFE

Whether at home or at school, at work or at play, we spend most of our waking time with other people. Our pleasures and achievements depend largely upon our success in getting along with our companions; our problems and difficulties usually come from human associations. Indeed, a successful and happy life is chiefly the result of living well with other folk.

Great writers have been fascinated by human relationships. Their poems, stories, essays, and novels usually deal with people living and working together. Literature is a mirror of life, reflecting those human interests and problems which grow out of our contacts with one another; one of its chief values is to enable us to understand and to appreciate life. In fact, literature is life.

READING GROUPED ABOUT TOPICS OF SOCIAL LIFE

Literature and Living brings out the social function of literature. Selections have been chosen because they illustrate or illumine the art of living and working together. They have been grouped in units so as to give a simple but systematic survey of the chief factors in social life. Book One contains literature interpreting the elements of community welfare; Book Two, literature interpreting work and vocations; Book Three, literature interpreting civic life and civic obligations. The series thus comprises an analysis of the chief phases of human life as illustrated by selections of literary merit.

VARIETY AND LITERARY QUALITY OF CONTENTS

Literature and Living is outstanding in the variety and the literary quality of its contents. The readings consist of short stories, poems, essays, one-act dramas, together with selections from biographies, narratives, reminiscences, tales of adventure

and travel, and books about science and industry. Each selection has been chosen because of its literary merit, its content value, and its interest to boys and girls. Many of the readings, from the pens of living writers, are new, fresh, and invigorating. Many of the best standard selections have also been included. The variety of selections affords opportunity to teach pupils that true literature, whatever its form or age, is a living reality interpreting life everywhere and at all times.

TRAINING IN HABITS OF READING

Literature and Living provides for systematic training in reading habits. In each Unit some specific reading habit is stressed. In succeeding Units opportunities are given for repeated practice, so that effective reading habits may become fixed. The instruction is designed to cultivate an effective technique for three types of reading experiences; namely, the reading of literature, the perusal of supplementary materials, and the study of text-books. Silent reading receives chief stress, but opportunities are also provided for oral interpretation.

SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS

Literature and Living offers exceptional opportunity for wide supplementary reading. At the beginning of each Unit is given an annotated list of interesting and valuable books. From this list pupils may select attractive titles for individual reading while the class is studying the Unit as a whole. Many of the selections are accompanied by references to parallel or contrasting materials. In addition, a class library of ten books which have proved valuable as supplementary reading is named in each volume; to these books specific references are made at appropriate places. These three types of reading suggestions make possible problems of elementary research and enable teachers to meet effectively the growing demand for wide and worth-while reading to supplement the text-book.

THOUGHT-STIMULATING QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS

Literature and Living stresses the thinking aspects of the reading process. It therefore provides questions and problems