Much care and labor have been devoted to the orthoëpical department. The pronunciation of all words liable to be mis pronounced is indicated once in each paragraph, or at the bottom of the page whicre they occur. With respect to the words about the pronunciation of which orthoöpists differ, we have adopted the most recent and reliable authority. Classical and historical allusions, so common among the test writers, have in all cases been explained; and if the authors have not been deceived, every aid has been given in the notes, that the reader may readily comprehend the meaning of the writer. This has been done in a manner more full and satisfactory than they have seen in any other collection, and in every instance at the bottom of the page where the difficulty occurs, so that the reader may not be subjected to the trouble of turning to an index, or consulting a dictionary,--a work which, in general, if done at all, is done with extreme reluctance, even by advanced pupils. In order that the student may still more thoroughly understand what he reads, and for the convenience of that large class of readers who have not leisure to peruse voluminous menoirs of distinguished men, and yet would be unwilling to forego all knowledge of them, we have introduced concise Biographical Sketches of authors from whose works extracts have been selected, and of persons whose names occur in the Reading Exercises. These sketches, presenting a clear and distinct outline of the life, and producing a clear and distinct impression of the character, furnish an amount of useful and available information rarely surpassed by memoirs of greater extent and pretension. Lists of the names of authors, both alphabetical and chronological, have also been introduced, thus rendering this a convenient text-hook for students in English and American Literature. 10. Peter Pounce and Parson Adams. 26. The Cost of Military Glory 28. Biography of Jacob Hays... 31. Ancient and Modern Writers 35. Character of Louis the Fourteenth 57. Rural Life in England in 1763. 63. Parallel between Pope and Dryden. 66. Advantages of Adversity to our Forefathers . Edward Everet. 233 75. The Widow and her Son-concluded. 95. SELECT PASSAGES IN PROSE.. I. Good Use of Memory. II. Injudicious Haste in Stuły --- Locke. III. Studies -- Bacon. IV. Books---Chunning. I. A True Man- Scott. II. A True Woman- Scout. III. The Power of a Word-landor. IV. Moral Force of Ex- ample-Judge McLean. V. Law-- Hooker. VI. Truth 102. Count Fathom's Adventure-concluded. 110. Hamlet's Instruction to the Players. 118. Death of the Old Trapper. 119. Death of the Old Trapper-concluded. 121. The Poet and his Critics ... 131. A Curtain Lecture of Mrs. Caudle. 133. Blennerhassett's Temptation.. - 137. Washington's Sword and Franklin's Staff. J. Q. Adams. 422 145. Speech of Sergeant Buzfuz. 151. Elements of the Swiss Landscape. 163. Cicero at the Grave of Archimedes. 161. The Tomahawk submissive to Eloquence.. .John Neal. 499 164. SELECT PASSAGES IN PROSE. 1. The Stream of Life-Heber. II. Life compared to a River - Dary. III. Ideal Character of Lite-R. II. Dana. Blessings of Religious Faith-Davy. 170. Moral Progress of the American People W. II. Seward. 518 171. SELECT Passages in Prose... I. Our Common Schools-- Everett. II. What Youth shoubi Learn--Hare. III. What Youth should be Taught-- - Dickens. VI. Air and Exercise-London Quarterly Re- view. VII. Pampering the Body at the Soul's Expense .H. B. Wallace. 553 578 .U. B. Wallace. 595 II. PIECES IN VERSE. 18. Lines relating to Curran's Danghter. 1. Succession of Human Beings. II. Death of the Young and Fair. III. A Lady Drowned-Procter. IV. The Life of Man-Beaumont. V. Coronach-Scott. VI. Im- 37. The King and the Nightingales. 49. The Deserted Village-continued 50 The Deserted Village-concluded. 56. A Conqueror's Account of Himself. 62. Extract from the Essay on Criticism. . Alexander Pope. 224 67. The Graves of the Patriots I. The Beauties of Nature, Beatlie. II. Beauty-Gay. III. The Poet-Shakspeare. IV. Flowers-lluni. V. Summer Wind-Bryant. VI. The Last Rose of Summer-- Voore. |
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