ENGLISH READINGS FOR SCHOOLS

"The virtue of books is the perfecting of reason, which is indeed
the happiness of man."

_Richard De Bury._


"On bokès for to rede I me delyte."

_Chaucer._


English Readings for Schools

GENERAL EDITOR

WILBUR LUCIUS CROSS

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN YALE UNIVERSITY


[Illustration: Woodrow Wilson]




PRESIDENT WILSON'S ADDRESSES

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