THE AMERICAN SCHOOL LIBRARY. 



The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge present to the 

 country the commencement of their Library for schools, designed to em- 

 brace, when completed, a few hundred volumes, wriiten and compiled 

 with special reference to the wants of the youth of our country. It will 

 include in the range of its subjects works in the various departments of 

 knowledge most interesting and useful to the great body of the people, 

 including history, voyages and travels, biography, natural history, the 

 physical, intellectual, moral, and political sciences, agriculture, manufac- 

 tures, arts, commerce, the belles lettres, and the history and philosophy 

 of education. 



The increasing interest in the subject of school libraries in several of 

 the States, and the repeated calls upon the Committee for their Library, 

 have induced them to issue the present selection from existing publica- 

 tions to meet the immediate wants of our schools, while they go on, as 

 fast as possible, to complete the plan announced in their pubUshed pro- 

 spectus. They will regard, in the execution of it, the different ages, 

 tastes, circumstances, and capacities of readers. 



The Committee present the following fifty volumes, chiefly standard 

 ■works of permanent interest and value, which have already received ex- 

 tensively the public approbation in this country and in Europe, as the 

 commencement of the series, to be extended from time to time, until it 

 shall comprise a well-selected and comprehensive Library of Useful 

 Knowledge, worthy of a place in every schoolroom of our country. 



It will be the greatest care of the Committee, that the whole be per- 

 vaded and characterized by a spirit of Christian morality calculated to 

 refine and elevate the moral character of our nation. 



HISTORY. 



A View of Ancient and Modern 

 Egypt. By Rev. M. Russell, LL.D. 



Pale.stine, or the Holy Land. From 

 the Earliest Period to the Present 

 Time. By Rev. M. Russell, LL.D. 



History of Chivalry and the Cru- 

 sades. By G. P. R. James. En- 

 gravings. 



The History of Arabia, Ancient and 

 Modern. By Andrew Crichton. 

 2 vols. Engravings, &c. 



The Chinese. A general Description 

 of (he Empire of China and its 

 Inhabitants. By John Francis 

 Davis, F.R.S. With Engravings. 



American History. By the Author 

 of '-American Popular Lessons." 

 With Engravings. 3 vols. 



American Revolution. By B. B. 

 Thatcher, Esq. 



History of New- York. By William 

 Dunlap. 



History of Virginia. By Uncle 

 rbilip. 



VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. 



An Historical Account of the Cir- 

 cumnavigation of the Globe. En- 

 gravings. 



Narrative of Discovery and Adven- 

 ture in Africa. From the Earliest 

 Ages to the Present Time. By 

 Professor Jameson, and James 

 Wilson and Hugh Murray, Esqrs. 



Lives and Voyages of Early Navi- 

 gators. Portraits. 



BIOGRAPHY. 



A Life of Washington. By J. K. 



Paulding, Esq. In 2 vols. With 



Engravings. 

 The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, 



By J. G. Lockhart, Esq. In 2 vols. 



With Portraits. 

 The Life and Actions of Ale.xander 



the Great. By the Rev. J. Wil- 

 liams. With a Map. 

 Memoir of the Life of Peter the 



Great. By John Barrow, Es^ 



Portrait, 



