RECOMMENDATIONS OP THE CLASSICAL READER. 



FROM THE JOURNAL OF THE TIMES, BENNINGTON, VT, 



Nov. 1828. 



The Classical Reader. By Rev. W. P. Greenwooil and 

 G. B. Emerson. Boston : Lincoln & Edmands. 



" Our hig-her schools should be nurseries of taste, sentiment and 

 polite literature, as well as of learnings and science ; and they are 

 approximating nearer and nearer to perfection. Within the last 

 ten years, there has been a complete revolution in school-books all 

 over the country, from those designed for children of six years up 

 to those who have entered upon manhood — a revolution, of incalcu- 

 lable importance to the republic. It has given us an entire new- 

 course of reading, fitted to refine, enlarge, and liberalize the mind, 

 to impregnate and quicken the slumbering seeds of genius, to ex- 

 cite an intense interest in the scholar, and to lift up the lowest un- 

 derstanding. The capacity of the child and the youth is now met 

 — not undervalued nor exaggerated by its guides, as formerly. 

 And this is but the beginning of improvement — the blossoming of 

 the fruit. 



" Among the best books, both as to fitness and merit, for the 

 use of the higlior schools, stands conspicuously the Classical 

 Reader. Its selections are made fiom the writings of the most em- 

 inent English and American writers, and embrace a great vari- 

 ety of topics. But, above all, it is to be valued for its uniform 

 morality and religious sentiment. Its every page, like a clear 

 bky, is lustrous v/ith st ry gems ; and the whole is a garden of 

 flowers, of every kind and shape, plucked irum two great flourish- 

 ing nations — so that the perfume hovers in clouds around your 

 path as you progress onward. With such a book, there is no ne- 

 cessity of turning over the leaves to find a readable piece ; open 

 where you will, your attention is fixed as by a spell. This praise 

 will not seem exaggerated, when it is stated that among the con- 

 tributors to the work are Campbell, Southey, Montgomery, Chal- 

 mers, Mrs. Hemans, Jane Taylor, and Miss Edgeworth, with a large 

 number of the best writers that England has ever produced ; and 

 also Webster, Irving, Everett, Wayland, Chanuing, Percival, and 

 Mrs. Sigourney, among many other distinguished American writers. 



" The Classical Reader is printed on a beautiful type, is hand- 

 somely bound, and comprises 400 pages. We recommend this 

 work to the principals of Seminaries and teachers of schools in 

 Vermont." 



FROM THE UNITED STATES GAZETTE, PHILADELPHIA. 



Sept. 1828. 

 " We have had upon our table, for several days, a useful school- 

 book, entitled, the Classical Reader, by the Rev. F. W. P. Green- 

 wood and G. B. Emerson. We have looked through the selections, 

 made from English and American Writers, have read with renewed 

 pleasure, the extracts that formed in their original works • parts of 

 a perfect whole ;' and feel authorized to commend the book, as one 

 to be read with pleasure and profit in schools. Mr. Murray's 

 books are giving way to works of a character more suited to the 

 times ; and we believe the Classical Reader will be found calcu- 

 lated to supply the deficiency of Mr. Murray's compilations." 



