W. H. Harrison, Jr., publisher, Chicago, 1886. Not long ago " our baby " was desired by his teacher to choose some small piece and recite. The whole library was ransacked, but little suitable to a " little boy " was found. This little book was not there, or the labor would have been easy. It is a defect in modern education that while children are taught to acquire knowledge, but little aid is given their powers of distributing what they acquire. Reciting does just a little towards it. It practices the memory, and that is some gain.