GRIGG & ELLIOT'S 



NEW SERIES OF 



COMMON SCHOOL READERS, 



Numbers First, Second, Third, and Fourth. 



These books are particularly adapted for an introduction into the Schools gene- 

 rally in the South and West ; and Teachers who feel a deep interest in promoting 

 the welfare of their pupils, will, no doubt, after a careful examination, give them 

 the preference over all other Readers now in use. 



To Teachers, Principals and Controllers of Schools, Acade- 

 mies and Colleges, throughout the United States. 



LEE'S PORT, BERKS Co., AUG. 25, 1845. 

 Messrs. Grigg $ Ettiot : 



GENTLEMEN, Accept my thanks for the series of Readers you were so kind as 

 to send me by my friend Dr. Darrah, when he was last in the c;ty. I consider 

 them decidedly the best School Readers I have met with. I have introduced them 

 into the school at this place, and find them fully to answer my expectations. I have 

 also introduced Grimshaw's History of the United States, another of your valuable 

 School publications. I arn very much pleased with Dr. Ruschenberger's works on 

 Anatomy and Botany, which you kindly sent me. They appear to be just the 

 works needed to bring the subject of Natural History within the compass of our 

 Common Schools ; and I intend, during the coming winter, to make an effort to 

 introduce the subject into the school here ; and for this purpose, I would like to 

 possess the whole series of eight uniform volumes, which I have requested Dr. 

 Darrah to procure for me. Very respectfully, H. C. BAKER, 



Principal Lee's Port Seminary. 

 



From the WTiig Courier, Pulaski, Tenn. 



SCHOOL BOOKS. We have received, by the hands of Messrs. Martin & 

 Topp, of Messrs. Grigg & Elliot, Philadelphia, a copy of their " New Series of 

 Common School Readers." As this series has been so often recommended to Teach- 

 ers, School Committees and Parents, by the press, and so far as we are able to 

 judge, justly, properly and worthily too, we feel no hesitancy in endorsing the fol- 

 lowing from JOHN FROST, LL.D., Professor of Belles Letters in the Philadel- 

 phia High School : 



' I have examined your Readers with great pleasure, and have no hesitation in 

 recommending them to the special favour of Parents, Teachers, and School Com- 

 mittees ; they are calculated to be eminently interesting to the young, from the 

 happy style of narration, dialogue and description, which pervades the series ; but 

 their chief excellence is their UNEXCEPTIONABLE MORAL TENDENCY. It would 

 hardly be too much to say, they comprise a complete system of moral instruction, 

 and in this point of view, I know of no books used in Common Schools which are 

 preferable to them." 



