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GRADUATED SERIES OF ENGLISH READING.BOOKS
Just published, in 5 vols. fep. 8vo. price lOs. cloth, eaeh of
.. which Volumes may be had separately, as below,
THE GRADUATED
SERIES
OF
FIVE READING-LESSON BOOKS
WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES;
Adapted, as a Progressive Course of Reading, for all classes
of English Schools and Families.
8. d.
FIRST BOOK, comprising: 192 Pa~es •••.•••.••.•.•••••• 1 0
SECOND BOOK, comprising 256 Pages ••••••••••••••.• 1 G
'rHIRO BOOR, comprisin~312 Pug-cs, Second Edition •. 2 0
lroull'l'I1 UOOK, comprising 440 Pages, Second Edition. 2 G
l"lFTll llooK, about 500 !lages .0.0 •••••• 0 iI ••••• o •••••• 3 0
THIS is an entircly new series of English Reading-Lesson
. Books, in which the difficnltr of the Exercises is graduated
chiefly with reference to the_mental capacity requisite to comprehend
nnd grasp the information conveyed; and also, as far as possible,
with reference to the peculiarities of grammatical construction. The
object of tIle Series is no less to facilitate the acquisition of the art of
reading than to form a pupil's taste, and to tempt him to pursue his
studies voluntarily. The five books are arranged, cach in corres~
ponding sections, on aserial nnd uniform scheme. DOOI{ 1. price 18.
consists of rhymes and fireside tales, fables and parables, and ~hort
simple stories, adapted to the comprehension of children who have
mastered the first steps in reauing. BOOK II. price ls. Ger. contains
miscellanics, tales of adventure, imaginath'c and real, anecdotes ill
natural llistory, aud ballad poetry-all preliminary, to the Thinl
Book. BOOlt. Ill. price 28. com prises literary selections in prose and
verse, descripth'c travel, natural history (with reference to the pre.
"iOUB section), and landmarks of Eng-lish Mstor)'. nOOK IV•.
prIce 2s. Gel. to whial the 'l'hird Book lS introductory, is a furtller
extension of the same general plan, with the addition of a division on
tllC more populnr branches of Natural Science and Physics, sequentinIly
nrran~cd. BOOK V. price 3s. ,,.hich completes the Coursc, nims
Lomloil: LONGMAN, GHEEN, and CO. I'atel'1l0stel' How.