GRADUATED SERIES OF ENGLISH READING-BOOKS. 



In 5 vols. fcp 8vo price 10 cloth, each of which .Volumes may be had 

 separately as below, 



THE GRADUATED SERIES 



FIVE READING-LESSON BOOKS 



WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES ; 



Adapted, as a Progressive Course of Beading, for all Classes of 

 English Schools and Families. 



Edited by J. S. LAURIE, 

 Editor of the Skitting Entertaining Library, &c. 



*. d. 



FIRST BOOK, 102 Pages, Sixth Edition 1 



SECOND BOOK, 256 Pages, Fifth Edition 1 6 



THIRD BOOK, S12 Pages, Sixth Edition 2 



FOURTH BOOK, 440 Pages, Sixth Edition 2 6 



FIFTH BOOK, 496 Pages, Second Edition 3 



THIS is an entirely new series of Read- 

 ing-Books, carefully adapted throughout 

 to the requirements of modern education. 

 The Five Books are arranged each in cor- 

 responding sections, on a serial and uni- 

 form scheme of progressive, yet constantly 

 varied selections. BOOK I. consists of 

 rhymes and fireside stories, fables and 

 parables, and short simple tales, all within 

 the comprehension of children who have 

 mastered the first steps in reading. BOOK 

 II. contains miscellanies, tales of adven- 

 ture, imaginative and real, anecdotes in 

 natural history, and ballad poetry all 

 preliminary to the Third Book. BOOK III. 



comprises literary selections in prose 

 and verse, descriptive travel, natural 

 history (with reference to the previous 

 section), and narratives of English his- 

 tory. HOOK IV. to which the Third Book 

 is introductory, is a further extension of 

 the same general plan, with the addition 

 of a division on the more popular branches 

 of Natural Science and Physics, sequen- 

 tially arranged. BOOK V., which com- 

 pletes the course, forms a further advance 

 and a completion of the general plan, and 

 aims at answering the practical purposes 

 of a Class-book of later English Litera- 

 ture. 



By the same Author. 

 FIBST STEPS to BEADING: being an Introduction 



to the Graduated Series of English Reading-Books. Fcp 8vo PART I. 

 price 3d, PART II. price 6d sewed; or complete, price \0d cloth. Or 

 the whole conspicuously printed in bold type for Class Teaching, on a 

 Set of Broadside Sheets, price 4* 6d, or price?* the Set of BROADSIDES 

 mounted as 15 Cardboards, or 9* 6d with convenient IRON FRAME; the 

 IRON FRAME, separately, price 2* &d 



