Fully and handsomely illustrated ; surpassing all others in excel- 

 lence of manufacture, gradation and cheapness." 



Tie lira 



OF 



'NEW GRADED READERS 



ENTIRELY NEW SERIES, IN FIVE BOOKS, embrac- 

 ing many new features ; compiled by several eminent educators who have ac- 

 quired by a life-long experience in the work of elementary education a famili- 

 arity with the wants of pup Is and teachers in this department of instruction. 

 Of the dozen or more series of Readers in use in the Public schools of New 

 York City, the New Graded are more used than all the others combined. 

 They are more extensively used, generally, than any other series that have 

 been issued within the past TEN years. They were adopted in June, 1878, for 

 exclusive use in the Public Schools of the City of Baltimore, upon a report of 

 the Text- Book Committee of the Board of Education, from which the following 

 is an extract : 



" After considering with great care, and for a period of nearly two years 

 past, the several series of Readers submitted for their examination, they have 

 come to the conclusion, with entire unanimity, that the Educational Series of 

 New Graded Readers, p-iblished by Messrs. Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., 

 seems to combine a greater number of merits and advantages thau any other 

 series which the committee hive seen." 



After one term's use, the high commendation of the Committee was em- 

 phasized by the following from the City Superintendent SHEPHERD, dated March 

 3 ist, 1879 : 



" Your Readers g've general and decided satisfaction in Baltimore. I test 

 them very frequently in my visits to our Schools, and with very satisfactory 

 results. The introduc ion of a Reader with us has some significance ; it is not 

 merely placed upon a list to he used at discretion, but every pupil in the grades 

 into which it has been introduced, has and uses the series." 



CATHCARTS LITERARY READER. 



TYPICAL SELECTIONS 



from the Best Authors, with Biographical and Critical Sketches, and 

 numerous notes. Cloth. 438 pages. 



*** The above imy be had, as a rule, from any bookseller, but when not 

 thus obtainable, we will supply them at liberal rates, free of transportation, 



Descriptive circulars and price lists on application. The most liberal terms 

 for introduction, exchange and examination. 



IVISON, BLAKEMAN, TAYLOE & Co., 



PUBLISHERS, 



New York and Chicago. 



