EDITED BY NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER

THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH

IN THE ELEMENTARY AND

THE SECONDARY SCHOOL

THE

TEACHING OF ENGLISH

IN THE ELEMENTARY AND
THE SECONDARY SCHOOL

BY

PERCIVAL CHUBB

PRINCIPAL OF THE HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT OF THE
ETHICAL CULTURE SCHOOLS, NEW YORK

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

1915

All rights reserved

C5
1915

COPYRIGHT, 1902,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1902. Reprinted March, June, July, October, 1903; September, 1905; June, October, 1906; February, October, 1907; February, 1908; June, 1909; July, December, 1910: June, 1912; January, September, 1913; January, August, October, 1915.

Special edition May, 1910.

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TO MY FIRST TEACHERS OF ENGLISH

My Mother and My Father

THROUGH WHOSE ENDEARING LIPS I LEARNED TO KNOW

THE SWEETNESS AND DIGNITY OF MY MOTHER-TONGUE

AND TO LOVE AND REVERE ITS NOBLEST UTTERANCE

IN THOSE FAMILIAR HOUSEHOLD VOLUMES

The Bible, The Pilgrim's Progress, and The Book of Common Prayer