DescriptionPrimary school text: New Education Readers: Book Four. A Synthethic and Phonic Word Method. Reading for the Third Year. By A.J. Demarest and William M. Van Sickle. NY: American Book Co., [1918]. New edition. Small 8vo decorated cloth hardcover. 176 pp, illustrated. Demarest was the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Hoboken, N.J. The reader is for Grade 4 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 on the endleaf and are dated from 1925 to 1927 (also see dated signatures in 2002.222.0010.) Below one of the names is "Fourth Grade." This book is part of a series of at least four books for grades 1 to 4. Small 8vo cloth hardcover