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Scott's Quentin Durward.

Edited for this Series. with an Historical Introduction, by CHARLOTTE M. YONGE, of England. 312 pages. Boards Mailing Price, 50 cents; for introduction, 40 cents. Cloth: 60 and 50 cents.

Irving's Sketch Book.

With full Notes, Questions, etc., for Home and School Use. By HOMER B. SPRAGUE, Ph.D., and M. E. SCATES, formerly of the Girls' High School, Boston. 126 pages. Boards: Mailing Price, 30 cents; for introduction, 25 cents. Cloth: Mailing Price, 40 cents; for introduction, 35

cents.

Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.

HUDSON and LAMB. 115 pages. Boards: Mailing Price, 30 cents; for introduction, 25 cents. Cloth: 45 and 40 cents.

The Arabian Nights.

Selections, edited by Rev. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, D.D. Illustrated. 376 pages. Boards: Mailing Price, 50 cents; for introduction, 40 cents. Cloth: 60 and 50 cents.

The Vicar of Wakefield.

Edited with Notes, for use in Schools. 238 pages. Boards: Mailing Price, 35 cents; for introduction, 30 cents. Cloth: 55 and 50 cents.

Scott's Guy Mannering.

Edited with Notes, and a Historical Introduction by Miss CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. 525 pages. Boar is Mailing Price, 70 cents; for introduction, 60 cents. Cloth: Mailing Price, 85 cents; for introductior, 75 cents.

Scott's Ivanhoe.

Edited with Notes, and a Historical Introduction by Miss CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. 554 pages. Boards: Mailing Price, 70 cents; for introduction, 60 cents. Cloth: Mailing Price, 85 cents; for introduction, 75

cents.

Scott's Rob Roy.

Edited with Notes, and a Historical Introduction by Miss CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. viii+ 507 pages. Boards: Mailing Poe, 70 cents; for in troduction, 60 cents. Cloth: 85 and 75 cents.

Tom Brown at Rugby.

By THOMAS HUGHES. Edited by CLARA WEAVER ROBINSON, with a Sketch of the Author's Life by D. H. MONTGOMERY. Xiii +387 pages. Boards: Mailing Price, 60 cents; for introduction, 50 cents. Cloth: Mailing Price, 70 cents; for introduction, 60 cents.

Benjamin Franklin.

His Autobiography, with Notes, and a continuation of his Life compiled chiefly from his own writings. By D. H. MONTGOMERY. Illustrated. viii+311 pages. Boards: Mailing Price, 50 cents; for introduction, 40 cents. Cloth: Mailing Price, 60 cents; for introduction, 50 cents.

Gulliver's Travels.

The Voyage to Lilliput and the Voyage to Brobdingnag. By DEAN SWIFT. ix + 162 pages. Boards: Mailing Price, 35 cents; for introduction, 30 cents. Cloth: Mailing Price, 45 cents; for introduction, 40 cents.

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Cloth:

By Dr. SAMUEL JOHNSON, with a Sketch of the Author. viii+157 pages.
Boards: Mailing Price, 35 cents; for introduction, 30 cents.
Mailing Price, 45 cents; for introduction, 40 cents.

Selections from Ruskin.

Edited by EDWIN GINN, with Notes and a Sketch of Ruskin's Life by D. H. MONTGOMERY. XXV+148 pages. Boards: Mailing Price, 35 cents; for introduction, 30 cents. Cloth: Mailing Price, 45 cents; for introduction, 40 cents.

OTHER BOOKS FOR SUPPLEMENTARY READING Which may be mentioned in connection with the Classics for Children are:

Washington and His Country.

Irving's Life of Washington, abridged by Prof. JOHN FISKE, with an Introduction and a Continuation, making the work a complete classic history of the United States. See description under History.

Pilgrims and Puritans.

True Stories of the Early History of New England. See description under History.

English History Reader.

See description under History.

Footprints of Travel: or, Journeyings in Many Lands.

See description under Geography.

The Our World Series of Geographies.

See description under Geography. See also Announcements.

HAS

THE SERIES OF CLASSICS FOR CHILDREN

AS been most cordially approved by the press and the critics, and endorsed by teachers, superintendents, and school boards. The books are in wide use (1) as regular readers, (2) as supplementary readers, and (3) in school and home libraries. Out of hundreds of testimonials we can present but a very few:

The Critic, New York: A capital | Burlington, Vt.: These books form series. an admirable series for reading in the home as well as in the school.

Education, Boston: These books are remarkably cheap, well printed, well edited, and should have an extended use.

William H. Payne, Pres. of Peabody Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. I think too much cannot be said in favor of this list of publications, destined, I believe, to create a correct taste for reading, and to displace much that is now working injury to the mental and moral habits of the young.

J. H. Vincent, Supt. of Instruction, Chautauqua Assembly: I desire to express my great satisfaction with the taste, skill, and wisdom of the work. I wish it abundant success.

F. Louis Soldan, Prin. of Normal School, St. Louis, Mo.: The idea underlying these books is meritorious in itself, and its execution admirable.

W. M. Crow, Supt. of Schools, Galveston, Tex.: Permit me to say that I regard your series of Classics for Children as the best literature in the best form that has ever been presented to the young people of our country.

B. B. Snow, Supt. of Schools, Auburn, N.Y.: As to results, I venture to say, from our experience, that no one who undertakes the method [of dispensing with regular "readers"] will willingly abandon it. Our reading exercise is the most interesting exercise of the day. The pupils look

Mellen Chamberlain, Librarian, Boston Public Library: These pub-forward to it eagerly, the interest is lications seem to me to be of great value, whether regarded as home reading or for use in public school.

absorbing, and the exercise is reluctantly discontinued. I may add that the teachers are as much interested

H. O. Wheeler, Supt. of Schools, as the pupils.

Hazen's Complete Speller.

EDITIONS AND PRICES. Part I., Primary: 12mo. Boards. 54 pages. Introduction, 10 cents; allowed for old book, 3 cents. Parts II. and III., Intermediate and Grammar, and Test Speller: 12mo. Boards. 148 pages. Introduction, 20 cents; allowed for old book, 6 cents. Complete (Parts I., II., and III.): 12mo. Boards. 194 pages. Introduction, 25 cents; allowed for old book, 8 cents.

IN this book spelling is taught on a rational plan, by the aid of intelligence as well as memory. It has many features of special merit that practical teachers have been prompt to recognize. W. T. Harris, formerly Supt. of Schools, St. Louis: It gives evidence of long experience on the part of the author in the matter of teaching spelling.

HIGHER ENGLISH.

(See also Classics for Children, pages 3 to 8.)

Minto's Manual of English Prose Literature.

Designed mainly to show characteristics of style. By WILLIAM MINTO, M.A., Professor of Logic and English Literature in the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. 12mo. Cloth. 566 pages. Mailing Price, $1.65; Introduction, $1.50; Allowance, 40 cents.

THE

IIE main design is to assist in directing students in English composition to the merits and defects of our principal writers of prose, enabling them, in some degree at least, to acquire the one and avoid the other. The Introduction analyzes style: elements of style, qualities of style, kinds of composition. Part First gives exhaustive analyses of De Quincey, Macaulay, and Carlyle. These serve as a key to all the other authors treated. Part Second takes up the prose authors in historical order, from the fourteenth century up to the early part of the nineteenth.

H. C. De Motte, Pres. of Chaddock | Literature, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, College, Quincy, Ill.: We are de- N.Y.: Without going outside of this lighted with it. It is one of the most book, an earnest student could get serviceable books I have seen on the a knowledge of English prose styles, subject. I shall recommend it for based on the soundest principles of our work here. (Sept. 23, 1886.) criticism, such as he could not get in any twenty volumes which I know

Hiram Corson, Prof. of English of. (May 14, 1886.)

Minto's Characteristics of the English Poets,

from Chaucer to Shirley.

By WILLIAM MINTO, M.A., Professor of Logic and English Literature in the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. 12mo. Cloth. xi +382 pages. Mailing Price, $1.65; for Introduction, $1.50; Allowance, 40 cents.

THE

HE chief objects of the author are: (1) To bring into clear light the characteristics of the several poets; and (2) to trace how far each was influenced by his literary predecessors and his contemporaries.

Lessons in English.

Adapted to the Study of American Classics.

A text-book for High

12mo. Cloth. xix +403

Schools and Academies. By SARA E. H. LOCKWOOD, Teacher of English in the High School, New Haven, Conn. pages. Mailing Price, $1.25; for introduction, $1.12. Allowance for an old book in exchange, 35 cents.

Thanatopsis and Other Favorite Poems of Bryant.

Prepared especially to accompany Lockwood's Lessons in English. 12mo. Paper. 61 pages. Mailing Price, 12 cents; for introd., 10 cts. THIS is, in a word, a practical High School text-book of English,

embracing language, composition, rhetoric, and literature. It aims to present, in simple and attractive style, the essentials of good English; and, at the same time, to develop a critical literary taste, by applying these technical rules and principles to the study of American Classics.

The plan provides for a course in English extending over the pupil's first year and a half in the High School, the work being preparatory to the study of English Literature as usually pursued in schools of this grade. These “Lessons” include the most important facts concerning the History and Elements of the Language, Common Errors in the Use of English, the Study of Words, Rules for the Construction of Sentences, Figures of Speech, Punctuation, Letter-Writing, Composition, and Biographical Sketches of the seven authors particularly studied, — Irving, Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Hawthorne, Holmes, and Lowell.

No other text-book on English includes so much. It is at once a text-book of rhetoric, a hand-book of composition, and an introduction to American literature. A valuable addition to the book will be found in the lists of references given at the close of most of the chapters and after each biographical sketch. These are intended to aid teachers in their preparation of the lessons, and to furnish pupils with additional sources of information. The work is the outgrowth of years of experience in the schoolThe plan has been thoroughly tested, and proved to be a good one. Both teachers and pupils testify that by this plan the study of English is made exceedingly interesting and far more profitable than it was when more theoretical text-books were in

room.

use.

Teachers will find in the book many valuable exercises and lists of questions, and many helpful suggestions as to methods.

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