Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-09-09

TiEaY fn,r works,, complied by the Rev. john Pier.
4 pon.. compose a series which is ind rbtediy mere
suitable fer The purposes lar which ,hcy w"re design
ed, than any pisvinnS publications; and they are more
poD,lIr among those who htro The dire cIipn OF eiuca'
tion than aiy ever published III TIL; country unless Mur'
rays be excepted. There is n decided advantage in
possessing stts nj elementary bucks BY the same al
thor. who has pursued a eimiIsr plan with each, rising
step by step, and ho, II is t" he presumed, would be
better ab le to preserve the proper Gradation of style
amd matter than several different individuals world
This will be found 20 be the case in the present series;
and no matter which appears ~ one is inserted ~ erhur
of,he others, So that The fur compilations may re and
are Intended 10 be used ~ different, classes III the Same
school, without compelling those in the lower classes
to anticipate the labor or pleasure Of the higher, OF
requiring them, on being advanced to a hig her. TO read
over aud over az iii pieces with which they have be.
come IA mi lar in n lower class, as ~ frequently the case
where works By diff rent authors are used.
The matter viii also be- found 10 be of a lively, EN-
Pertaining character, calculated to arrest and fix the Al
tention ofyruth. withou, which all ~ perirnced teach
es are aware it is in vain TO attempt to make good
readers.
National header AT n meeting of The School Com
mi,tec Of the City ~ Boston. holden At the Mayor and
Aldcrmen's Room. Jnly ID. 1929, Voted, That 6 r,cr
points National Render, be introduced into The public
grammar schp Is Of this city, in lieu of . hurrsy's Eng
lsh icadcI..' T.. w. PHILLIPS,
Secretary of the School Committee.
Erisaa from The Records of The School Committee 81
Boston.
A. n meeting Of the School Committee, he'd July
18th. I 8 g, it wat Ordered, That 6 The American First
Glass Book be hereafter used in the public reading
school, instead Of SCOTS Lessons Attest.
WV, WE; Is, Secretary.
CT At a late meeting Of the School Committee, it
WAS also. )ted. to introduce the 6 Introduction TO HE
National Reader into all the public schools Of Boston,
in place of Murral's Introduction.
Tie National Reoder-h atro6iefion 10 die Safional
Rea2y, and The .9nerican First Class 5oof.-These
three are reading books tor schools, ofvarinus Er@des,
by John pierpont, Pastor Of Hollis Street Church, Bos-
ton. Published by Richardson, Lord Il uoibrook.-
These books are all in use in the schools Of this city;
have obtained an extensive circulation in the United
States, and have been republished with a favorable no.
tice in England. The following is all extract Eom Al
English paper Basicn Recorder.
81 The National Reader, mr. Selections, SIC by John
Pierpont. Of Boston: re editcd6y f II B0htr Lon
don. v hittaker, Preacher Il CO 10 the learned MIR
Barker, of Thetfcrd, the public are indebted tor tins
judicious c print of one of the very best S ho0l books
IN our language. II contains upwards of two hundred
well arrang cd and diversified articles in prose and verse,
from the pens OF the most celebrated writer's, incIud
inr a large number of American authors, almost who!-
" unknown to the English teach r, but whose great
merits en,itle them to the attentive pcrussl and st1ii
Gus imitation Of every scholar in the kingdom Lon.
don Examiner.
The above, together with many more new Boston
School Books, just received on sale by
sept 9-St WI 81 MORRISON.