THE SCHOOL ADVERTISER NO. H. 



AUGUST, 1839. 



THE SCHOOL LIBRARY. 



MARSH, CAPEN, LYON, AND WEBB, 



109, Washington Street, Boston, 



Are now publishing, under the sanction of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Board of Education, a collection of ori- 

 ginal AND selected WORKS, ENTITLED, ' ThE ScHOOL 



Library.' 



The Library will embrace two series of fifty volumes 

 each ; the one to be in 18mo., averaging from 250 to 280 

 pages per volume ; the other in 12mo., each volume con- 

 taining from 350 to 400 pages. The former, or Juvenile 

 Seizes, is intended for children of ten or twelve years of 

 age and under; the latter for individuals of that age, and 

 upwards, — in other words, for advanced scholars and their 

 parents. 



The Library is to consist of reading, and not school, 

 class, or text books ; the design being to furnish youth with 

 suitable works for perusal during their leisure hours ; works 

 that will interest, as well as instruct them, and of such a 

 character that they will turn to them with pleasure, when 

 it is desirable to unbend from the studies of the school 

 room. 



The plan will embrace every department of Science and 

 Literature, preference being given to works relatino- to 

 our own Country, and illustrative of the history, institutions, 

 manners, customs, &c., of our own people. Being intended 

 for the whole community, no work of a sectarian or de- 

 nominational character in religion, or of a partisan char- 

 acter in politics, will be admitted. 



The aim will be to clothe the subjects discussed, in a 

 popular garb, that they may prove so attractive, as to lure 



