A scarce vintage reader that works on broadening a child's vocabulary, working on more difficult words due to silent letters, same letters representing different sounds, and different letters representing the same sounds.

In the Preface, the author contends: The child should focus his attention on a very few words at one time; those words should have a definite meaning and utility to him; and, they should reappear in his writing and in his spelling lessons so that he cannot forget them.  A very charming vintage spelling reader. Scarce.