SUPERIOR BOOKSTFOR SCHOOLS. 
ABBOTT’S READER; a Series of familiar Pieces, in 
Prose and Verse, calculated to produce a Moral Influence on the 
Hearts and Lives of Young Persons. By the Authors of the Young 
Christian; The Corner-Stone; The Teacher, &c. 3s. 
The design of this Reader is, to exert 
a direct and powerful moral influence 
upon the hearts of children; such an 
influence as shall make them faithful 
and industrious in the improvement of 
their time, obedient and affectionate to 
their parents, kind towards their play- 
mates, and upright and honest in their 
intercourse with others The selections 
are designed to produce this effect, not 
by formal exhortation or precept, but 
by narratives and delineations of cha- I 
racter, such as are calculated to win 
their way to the hearts of the young, 
and insensibly to instil those principles, 
and cultivate those habits, which will 
make them useful, both to themselves 
and others, and happy both here and 
hereafter. The compilers have honestly 
endeavoured to exclude every tiling, 
which they supposed would be unac- 
ceptable to any of the friends of piety 
and morality, of whatever name. 
* THE INSTRUCTOR; or, PROGRESSIVE LESSONS 
in GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: 
A Series of Elementary Books, especially suited for Schools and Families- 
Under the general title of the In 
structor, is comprised a 
little books, by means of which children 
may be led through a progressive course 
of Exercises in various branches of 
Elementary Knowledge. These books 
may be put into the hands of such 
children as can readily spell common 
words, and read easy lessons. — The 
Instructor may, indeed, appear to be 
somewhat in advance of such scholars ; 
but the object of the work is not onlv 
carry the pupil forward , — to impart in 
series of ! formation, and to exercise the mind. 
As the series advances, the subjects 
gradually rise, though, of course, care 
is taken to keep the lessons within the 
comprehension of the children for whom 
they are designed. And at the end of 
each lesson is a series' of Questions for 
the purpose of exercising the reader. 
The first Six Volumes, in Thirty-six 
Numbers, contain the following sub- 
jects, illustrated by numerous Engra- 
vings : — 
to furnish reading lessons, but also to 
VOLUME I. (or in Nos. 1 to 6.) 
TALES and CONVERSATIONS on Familiar Subjects. 
VOLUME II. (or in Nos. 7 to 12.) 
The HOUSE. MATERIALS used in BUILDING!. FURNI- 
TURE. FOOD and CLOTHING. 
VOLUME III. (or in Nos. 13 to 18.) 
The UNIVERSE. The THREE KINGDOMS of NATURE. 
THE HUMAN FORM. LESSONS on HEALTH. 
VOLUME IV. (or in Nos. 19 to 24.) 
The CALENDAR ; The Year, Months, Weeks, Days. The 
SEASONS. APPEARANCES of NATURE. 
VOLUME V. (or in Nos. 25 to 30.) 
DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY : The various Divisions of the 
World; their People and Productions; with MAPS. 
VOLUME VI. (or in Nos. 31 to 36.) 
ANCIENT HISTORY. 
