The Columbian reader
Subtitle: comprising a new and various selection of elegant extracts in prose and poetry for the use of schools in the United States. : To which is prefixed an introduction on the arts of reading and speaking
By: by Rodolphus Dickinson, Esq. author of Geographical descriptions, &c
Edition: Second edition.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 43854
Publisher: Published by R.P. & C. Williams, Boston, and Ezekiel Goodale, Hallowell.--For sale by them at their respective book-stores, and by most of the book-sellers in New-England. E. Goodale, printer.
Published: 1818
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Reading; Elocution; Youth; Conduct of life; Statesmen
Notes: Copyright May 22, 1815 by R.P. & C. Williams.

"Introduction. General observations on the arts of reading and speaking."--p. [IX]-XXXVIII.

Includes biographical sketches of American and British statesmen, p. 109-165.

Shaw & Shoemaker 43854

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.