Chrestomathy (from the Greek words khrestos, useful, and mathein, to know)'s a collection of choice literary passages, used especially as an aid in learning a foreign language. In philology or in the study of literature, it's a type of reader or anthology which presents a sequence of example texts, selected to demonstrate the development of language or literary style. Examples Bernhard Dorn, A Chrestomathy of the Pushtu or Afghan language, St. Petersburg: 1847 Mencken, H. L., A Mencken Chres… (More on Chrestomathy)