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Y THE AMERICAN CLASS READER:
containing series OF lessons in Reading; with
Introductory Exercises in Articulation, Inhec-
ton Emphasis and the other essential clements Of
correct natur Execution Designed for Acadia
miss and common Schools. BY GsonsE VIII
SON, formerly Principal Of the Canandaigua Acc-
deny, and late Principal of tho Livingston Co.
High School.
The design Of the American Class-reader, 10 r.
teach scholars TO read II is not sufc for this
purpose, that book be instructive and entertain
ing, and the selections chasto and classical in point
of diction it should be also properly adapted to
exercise the reader in al the varied tones infeo-
tions and other requisites that belong to correct
cocution.
These will furnish tests of the dezrce OF intslli-
gence, and of attention to tho sens, with which
the pupil roads. They may also be used in teach
ing punctuation, and tho use Of capitals.
A considerable number Of lessons have bocu
selected from the Bible. Apart from the impor.
lance and value Of its divine Instructions, tho
Sacred Scriptures abound in passages unrivalIod
in natural impressive eloquenc,, and admirably
adopted TO the purpose Of improvement in clocri-
ton. In what is lodrhstoricai dialogue, seleo-
lions can no whnrc else be found at all conp,rable
PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL
SYsTEs Of ARITHMETIC, containing a.
ver.I naw metbo..- of operation, and new sys.
tom of Promotion wiz Theoretical explanations
of al tho principal ru!ee. Also, treatise on
Msnsuration, and n brief pras.:cal system Of
Book seeping. by tho author of tn American
Class Rsader.
{" This system Of Arithmetic is designed for he
more advascod pupils in common Schools and
Academies. II does not attempt 10 combine mar,
tai arithmetic with tho use OF ths slate nor to un.
ito in ono book treatise for children of sir, and
TOR youths of sirteea years old. In mental arth-
motto, every thing that could BIO desired, has been
done by Colburn whose admirable littla work 10
now generally used and highly appreeiatea
throughout the United States."J
CANANDAIcUA, july l, 1895.
Mr.. Morse.
Sir-Hsving carefully examined Tho Amer.
lean Class Reader" by GEoRoE WILSON, l hesitats
not TO express my opinion decidedly in its favor;
boclus, | deem il work chsste in its selections.
classical in point of diction, and admirably cal.
culated TO assist youth In becoming correct read
ers. hope that it wilt be universally adopted in
our schools.
Ihayealsoexamined your " Practical and Theo-
retical Arithmetic" by tho sam, author. contain
ing several now methods of op ration, and new
system OF proportion; and hesitate not to sly that
1t is the best work l have seen of the kind.
DANIEL GIBBS.
Teacher Of The Select School, Vienna, ~. Y.
Vienna, June Is, 1886.
Copy of letter from the Rsv. l. s. Spencer.
formerly Principal Of the Canandaigua Academy,
BaooKLyN May 10, 1886.
Mr.. Morse:
Sir--I have worry carefully examined "The
American Glass Reader" by GEoaoE WILSON,
and have no hesitation in expressing my opjnica
ofits excellence. consider it tho best work, for
tho purpose for which it was designed, that have
ever soon. lam confdentit will befoundeminout
" beneficial both to Toachors and Pupils and
cannot but desire its immediate adoption IN osr
Academies and Schools. -
Is. SPENCER
u The above works are published, and cor ~
Wholesale g. Retaii at tho Detroit Boo[stors. 81
- l.. L. MORSE
August o. 1880. ly9