DescriptionPrimary school text: New Education Readers: Book Two. A Synthethic and Phonic Word Method. Development of the Vowels. By A.J. Demarest and William M. Van Sickle. NY: American Book Co., [1918]. New edition. Small 8vo decorated cloth hardcover. 144 pp, illustrated. Demarest was the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Hoboken, N.J. The reader is for Grade 2 and is based on a system developed by the authors from other methods. They call theirs on the title page "Synthetic and Phonic Word Method." Originally published in 1900 and a new edition issued in ca. 1918. This copy has signatures (not by first grade students) on the endleaf and are likely from 1923 to 1928 (see dated signatures in 2002.222.0010 and 2002.222.0013.) This book is part of a series of at least four books for grades 1 to 4. Small 8vo cloth hardcover