Stepping Stones to Literature: A Reader for Higher Grades. Hardbound - 1898

New York:: Silver, Burdett & Company, 1898.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: light green cloth with red and darker green text and vignette; some puckering to the cloth on the spine; light rubbing; Very Good condition. The publisher's promotional insert has been affixed to the front paste-down endpaper.. small 8vo (7.75 inches tall) . Lexicon. Description: Many black and white illustrations -- primarily portraits and reproductions of masterpieces of art, but there are a few photographs as well. The publisher's blurb for this series states, ''a series of readers which meets the needs of all primary and grammar grades. These readers give a better idea of the world's great literature, and more of it, than can be found elsewhere in the same space.'' A sample of the selections here: Tales of a Grandfather by Sir Walter Scott; The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith; The Passing of Arthur by Alfred Tennyson; Pickwick's Drive to Manor Farm by Charles Dickens; The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron; The Tempest by Charles and Mary Lamb; Herve Riel by Robert Browning; King Henry the Eighth by William Shakespeare; and much more. Each author is introduced before the piece begins.