This work, originally published in 1886, is in the public domain. As a reprint of a digitized library book, this edition contains a few stray marks and imperfections. It is my hope that this line of classic Greek readers will provide intermediate students with a wealth of accessible Greek texts for extensive reading and building fluency. _ “The essence of good teaching seems to me to lie in presenting to boys an infinite succession of problems carefully graduated according to the exact stage of their progress. Power is what we want; and the feeling of getting on, the feeling of doing something with one's knowledge, the pleasure of following a connected story—all this awakens interest, makes brain and heart work with eye and ear, intelligence with memory, and gives in fact that sense of power which is one of the chief sources of power itself… “These selections are somewhat graduated, so that the beginning is made still easier than the rest; in the first hundred lines there are no augmented tenses, in the first three hundred none which are not specially explained in the notes. All through, the words are, as far as possible, put in the order in which they should be taken; the sentences are very short, and there is a Vocabulary containing not only all the words, but all the more difficult forms of words used.” —from the Preface