The author feels impelled to set forth the purpose and the scope of this _volume, lest the student of education in search of new theories and experimentations in the physi ology and the psychology of reading, be led astray. This book is given solely to the task of aiding teachers, who are seeking a method that has stood the pragmatic test, and that may, therefore, help them in their day's work. The author acknowledges his indebtedness to the large number of teachers from whose methods of 'instruction, he has gleaned much that is practical in this volume.