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SCHERMERHORN TEACHERS' AGENCY 353 Fifth Avenue Corner 34th Street Tel. 1285 Madison Square NEW YORK Oldest and best known in United States The success of the Wide Awake Readers has been the leading feature of the firm's educational enterprise, though they have had a large sale for many of the other texts on their new list, and their agents have had the advantage, in their dealings AGENCIES with the school public, of handling modern and active books which do not date back to the "consulship of Plancus." Established 1855 Pendleton, Oregon MIDLAND TEACHERS' Teaching To Read By JAMES L. HUGHES, Inspector of Schools, Toronto The object is to help teachers in making their pupils good readers in the shortest time possible. Reading well means getting thought from visible language-rapidly, accurately, comprehendingly. Old methods made the show exercise of reading aloud the end to be sought. These methods failed, in most cases, to develop swift, accurate readers. 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