Boston, [blank]
Subtitle: Sir, The art of reading gracefully, requires so much exertion on the part of a master to teach, and on the part of a pupil to learn, that it may be considered as impossible to be taught to youth at that early period of life ... If my endeavors may in any measure contribute to supplying the defect above-mentioned, they shall not fail of being called into exercise, should encouragement be given to the proposal I take the liberty of enclosing herein ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 26856
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1794
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Oral reading; Teachers
Notes: Signed: Benjamin Dearborn.

The only known copy, held by the Massachusetts Historical Society, lacks the accompanying "proposal," and is dated in ms.: April 1794.

Evans 26856

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2711