Stories and Readings Selected from the Works of William Dean Howells andArranged by Percival Chubb Director of English in the Ethical Culture SchoolNew York. Th... » 

Stories and Readings Selected from the Works of William Dean Howells andArranged by Percival Chubb Director of English in the Ethical Culture SchoolNew York. The literary culture which we are trying to give our boys and girlsis not sufficiently contemporaneous and it is not sufficiently national andAmerican.... Among the living writers there is no one whose work has a moredistinctively American savor than that of William Dean Howells.... The juvenilebooks of Mr. Howells contain some of the very best pages ever written for theenjoyment of young people.Percival Chubb. «