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Introductory Fourth Reader. 12mo. 



Designed for those pupils who have finished the Third Reader, and 

 are yet too young or too immature to take up the Fourth. 



Appletons' Fourth. Reader. 12mo. 248 pages. 



It is here that the student enters the domain of literature proper, and 

 makes the acquaintance of the standard writers of " English undetiled " 

 in their best style. Having received adequate preparation in the previous 

 books, he is now able to appreciate as well as to assimilate the higher 

 classics now before him. 



A new and invaluable feature in the editorship of this and the next 

 volume is the *' Preparatory Notes " appended to each selection, for the 

 aid of both teacher and pupil. 



The elocutionary work commenced in the Third Reader is continued 

 and gradually advanced to the higher phases of the subject. Spelling- 

 exercises are also appended, introducing " Words difficult to spell," with 

 both phonic and what arc usually known as orthographic principles for- 

 mulated into rules. Beautifully engraved full-page illustrations embellish 

 the interior of the book, and render it artistically chaste and attractive. 



Appletons' Fifth Reader. 12mo. 471 pages. 



This Reader is the one to which the editors have given their choicest 

 efforts. The elementary principles of the earlier volumes are not forgot- 

 ten in this, but are subordinated to matters germane to more advanced 

 teaching. The " Preparatory Notes " are more advanced than those of 

 the preceding Reader, and seek to direct the mind more to style and the 

 literary character, and lastly to the logical element of the thought. Liter- 

 ary history and criticism are woven into the work in such way as to evoke 

 thought and inquiry in the mind of the young. Extracts are given from 

 Webster, Jefferson, Irving, Audubon, Cooper, Emerson, Wirt, and Wash- 

 ington, along with others from De Quincey, Goethe, Victor Hugo, Byron, 

 Shelley. Milton, Coleridge, and Shakespeare ; and with these is a vast 

 amount of valuable information of every kind. It is, indeed, a text-book 

 of bcUes-letlres^ as well as of reading and spelling. Professor Bailey's 

 lessons in elocution are fuller than in preceding volumes, and can probably 

 not be equaled in the language for perspicuous brevity and completeness. 

 All the departments of recitation — ^the earnest and plain, the noble, the 

 joyous, the sad — sarcasm, scorn, humor, passion, poetrv — are given clearly 

 and practically. The collection of " Unusual and Difficult Words " at the 

 close comprises fifty-four lists of words which should always be kept in 

 mind by the student. 



D. APPLET ON & GO., Publishers, 



NEW YORK, BOSTON, CHICAGO, ATLANTA, SAN FRANCISCO. 



