Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1842-02-11
NEW READING BOOK FOR SCHOOLS,

THE MONITORLAL READER. ore Monitor,
to Youth, holding up TO heir ri,n Models ,rhereby
toform their oten Characters. by Danid .idams.
Author Of adams Ner arithmetic.
Extracts from the Preface.
"T1IE ~MONlTOk1AL READER posses disfinc-
tive traits The object is to supply what is believed
to be the great desideratum in our schoolg-.i series
of exercises relating 10 what concerns the practical
matters Of life. truth, integrity, honesty, industry.
temperance, forethought, %frugali;y. patient endurance
OF adversely, and whatever else tends 10 form and
fix the character OF youth.
We wish 10 imp, IS it on the minds of those, into
whose hands THESE exercises shall come, now, in this
seed ti,neOf life, what is here 50 abundantly incul-
Gated, that Every man is cnlphaticaly the architect
OF his own fortune'-that with themselves i, lies
whether they shall ever be any thing or nothing
that n moneyed capital to begin with docs not weigh a
whit in the balance for or against them,-,hat, COMING
into life wi h health. strength, capacity for labor rood
education, a useful and respectable trade, habits of
industry, sobriety, pnnctua!ity, iruealiv, and above
all. with n good and unsullicd character, they have
the best OF all capital moral capital the nobl, ST
Of all power moral power and the most certain
means OF honest ana honorable accumulation and
fortune, and may be sure, under circumstances ordi-
narily propitOus, TO rise to that competency ofinfu.
ence, respect, and general confidence, and that hon.
orabie measure of wealth and independence. wlicl,
should fully satisfy a reasonable and virsuous ambi
ion"
Extracts from Recc, lamentations.
The influence will all be found on the side of virtue
morality and religion. Occasional comments are
given. Ditficul, or unusual words are defined. Prose
and poetry are suitably in,ermin2lc led =. IT is hard
Is to be imagined thai this book should fail of popu.
llrity. 1t certainly would not, had il not so man,
competitors that had got tho start Of ii in the race
Ne II ia is nictt'c il such as 10 give fair promise O.
ultimate success IN the conicst,-B Boston I,fcorder.
DIR. Adams Having examined to some pyter,
your Mnniiorjni Reader, ! am pleased with ins nl,n
t. object and he mann,i in which it has been crrcr.
.led. 1t seems adapted 10 the intellectual ami mora
improvement; Of those for whose Use il was dosioued
! trust II viii prov" 10 he y hat It's author .onLly nm.
~,!cipa,cs. (Icv)I. $. BARSTOW, Kecnc.
1t s Just such "A book as our New ENGLAND how,
and piIls will G clad TO see. for it inculcatcs in ;
pleasing manner, industry, frugaiRy, truth, honesty
temperance, peace, kindness, iortltude, and a chcerf,
piety. The Vocabulary, end at the and the orrsrre.
ment for defining words. vii add to its value in IN,
ionds Of a indiciuls teacher.
Rev) ABEL A. LlVERMORE, Keene.
We nave also recommendation from a number q
individuals aud periodicals, among which are d. Crcs
by, Precep,or of the High School Nashua J. New.
ton Brown, Professor Of Theology Mt New Hampton
i is also adopted by the Associations of Schoo
Teachers IN Cheshire and Hlllsboro' counties, anc
by the School of Concord.
About 5000 copies have been published, and mos,l,
disposed OF.
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