« The above series, taken separately or collectively, is considered one of the 

 most valuable contributions to the cause of education which has ever been pub- 

 lished in this country." 



This interesting Series of Books has already met with the most flattering recep- 

 tion from the American press. They have been introduced into the public schools 

 of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio, Maine, New York, Tennessee, Alabama, 

 Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, the Carolinas, &c, and many of the first class Semi- 

 naries of Learning in the United States. The moderate price of this series is a 

 great recommendation, being half the price of the common school books in use, 

 on the same subject. 



Yale College, Dec. 19, 1845. 



I think this an excellent work — condensed, lucid, exact, and comprehensive — a 

 safe guide for the pupil, and a useful review for the teacher. The illustrations 

 are numerous and exact. B. SILLIMAN. 



■Extract of a Report to the American Institute. 



Your committee with much pleasure recommend this highly valuable book to 

 the attention of those who conduct our Schools, Academies, and Colleges, as a 

 work excellently calculated to give the first outlines of the very important study 

 of Geology to students. Nor do we hesitate to say, that all men, except learned 

 Geologists alone, will feel, after its perusal, that they have received a great re- 

 ward for a very small expense of time and money. JAMES J. MAPES. 



GRIGG & ELLIOT'S NfE¥7 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. 



Parents and Teachers will please read the following notice of this invaluable 

 series of Elementary School Books. 



We called attention to the above-named series of Common School books several weeks 

 since, when publishing an advertisement for tlte sale of them by some of our merchants. 

 Since that time we have had opportunity to give them a thorough examination, and wa 

 feel it due to the community in which we live, and the proprietors of those interesting pub- 

 lications, to notice them more particularly. They certainly contribute a valuable addition 

 to our stock of elementary literature; in their plan and details presenting an intimate 

 acquaintance with the necessities that demanded their production, and developing, in their 

 prosecution, a wisdom and zeal in adapting the material at hand to the attainment of the 

 object in view, every way worthy of commendation and confidence. 



The First Class reader is exactly such a book as would interest and impress the minds 

 and hearts of little boys and girls. Composed of short and easy words, embodying plea- 

 sant and profitable instruction, it is just the thing for infant learners, who find in it such 

 words as they can readily pronounce, and such ideas as they can easily comprehend. In 

 the Second and Third Class Readers the style increases in the intricacy of diction and the 

 elevation of sentiment, in beautiful consistency with the progress of attentive and studious 

 pupils, in the more advanced stages of primary school education. The Fourth Class 

 Reader is an invaluable compendium of deeply interesting and instructive facts, argu- 

 ments and inferences, drawn from that unfailing repository of truth, the history of the men 

 and manners of by-gone times. It is a reprint of the " Beauties of History," consisting of 

 anecdotes of men and women made illustrious by the splendor of their talents and virtues, 

 or rendered eternally infamous by the vileness of their characters and crimes. It is, there- 

 fore, a fit companion for those who are completing their term of study, preparatory to 

 entering the great arena of life; inviting and encouraging them by the bright example of 

 the good, to walk in wisdom's narrow path, and warning Uiem, by the wretchedness and 

 ruin of the vicious, from entering the broad road of sin and death. 



After the table of contents of the Second Reader, is a chapter giving directions for the 

 attainment of a correct and elegant style of reading, the great importance of which all 

 know the value of, but few attain. For the truth of these remarks, we refer to the books 

 themselves. 



.*** Public, private and social libraries, and all who purchase to sell again, supplied on 

 the most reasonable terms with every article in the Book and Stationery line; including 

 new novels, and all new works in every department of literature and science. 



Uy Particular attention will also lie paid to all orders, through country merchants, or 



by mail, for Law, Medical and Miscellaneous Books, for public and private libraries, and 



Bo effort will be spared to complete all such orders on the most reasonable terms. 



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