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In the Press, and speedily will be Reprinted

BY E. H. BARKER, ESQ.

OF THETFORD, norfolk,

THE

AMERICAN FIRST CLASS-BOOK,

OR

Exercises in Reading and Recitations,

Selected principally from Modern Authors of Great BRITAIN and AMERICA, and designed for the use of the highest Class in public and private Schools. BY JOHN PIERPONT, Minister of Hollis-Street Church, Boston, Author of 'Airs of Palestine,' &c. Price 5s.

Extract from the Preface.

This Book has been compiled with a special reference to the public Reading and Grammar-schools of this City. It is the result of an attempt to supply the want, which has long been a subject of complaint among those, whom the citizens of Boston have charged with the general superintendence of their public Schools, as well as with those, who are appointed to the immediate instruction of them,-of a Book of Exercises in Reading and Speaking, better adapted than any English compilation, that has yet appeared, to the State of society as it is in this country, and less obnoxious to complaint, on the ground of its national or political character, than it is reasonable to expect that any English compilation would be, among a people whose manners, opinions, literary institutions, and civil government, are so strictly republican as our

own.

Extract from the Records of the School-Committee, Boston.

At a meeting of the School-Committee, held July 18, 1823. it was ordered that the American First Class-Book be hereafter used in the public Reading Schools instead of Scott's Lessons..

Attest,

WM. ELLIS, Secretary.

The American First Class-Book, which has been favourably known to the public for several years, was intended, as its name imports, for the most advanced classes of the highest Schools, in which reading forms a part of the

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course of instruction. The extensive and increasing circulation, which that valuable selection has received and is receiving, and the success, with which the use of it has been attended, are sufficient indications, that such a book was needed, and that the author has made a judicious selection and arrangement of exercises.

American Journal of Education.

Lately published by the Same :

2. CICERO'S CATILINARIAN ORATIONS, from the Text of Ernesti; with some Notes by the Editor, E. H. BARKER, Ese. of Thetford, Norfolk, and many selected from Ernesti's Edition of Cicero's Works, from his Clavis Ciceroniana, from Scheller and Ernestus Antonius; and with Extracts from Andreas Schottus's Dissertation, entitled Cicero a Calumniis Vindicatus. II. Tacitus's Dialogus de Oratoribus sive de Causis Corrupte Eloquentia, from the Text of Schulze, 1788. III. Several Beautiful Extracts from English Authors, with a Suggestion to the Conductors of Classical Schools to devote one Day in the Week to the Study of English

Literature.

London, 1829: Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. Price 5s. 6d. boards.

3. The GERMANY of C. CORNELIUS TACITUS, from Passow's Text, and the Agricola, from Brotier's Text, with Critical and Philological Remarks, partly Original, and partly Collected. BY E. H. BARKER, ESQ. of Thetford, Norfolk. Fourth Edition, revised,

London, 1828: Sold by Longman and Co., Baldwin and Co., Simpkin and Co., Whittaker and Co., Rivingtons, and other Booksellers. Price 5s. 6d. boards.

NATIONAL READER:

A

Selection of Exercises

IN

READING AND SPEAKING,

DESIGNED

TO FILL THE SAME PLACE IN THE SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED STATES,
THAT IS HELD IN THOSE OF GREAT BRITAIN BY THE COMPILATIONS OF
MURRAY, SCOTT, ENFIELD, MYLIUS, THOMPSON, EWING,
AND OTHERS,

BY JOHN PIERPONT,

COMPILER OF THE AMERICAN FIRST CLASS-BOOK.'
BOSTON, 1828.

RE-EDITED BY E. H. BARKER, ESQ.

Of Thetford, Norfolk,

FOR THE USE OF ENGLISH SCHOOLS.

WITH

AN APPENDIX BY THE PRESENT EDITOR.

LONDON:

WHITTAKER, TREACHER, AND CO.

1829.

Price Four Shillings and Six-pence, bound.

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NORWICH:

PRINTED BY S. WILKIN, UPPER HAYMARKET.

NATIONAL READER:

Selection of Exercises

IN

READING AND SPEAKING,

DESIGNED

TO FILL THE SAME PLACE IN THE SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED STATES, THAT IS HELD IN THOSE OF GREAT BRITAIN BY THE COMPILATIONS OF MURRAY, SCott, enfield, MYLIUS, THOMPSON, EWING,

AND OTHERS,

BY JOHN PIERPONT,

COMPILER OF THE AMERICAN FIRST CLASS-BOOK.'
BOSTON, 1828.

RE-EDITED BY E. H. BARKER, ESQ. Of Thetford, Norfolk,

FOR THE USE OF ENGLISH SCHOOLS.

WITH

AN APPENDIX BY THE PRESENT EDITOR.

LONDON: LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN. Price Four Shillings and Six-pence, bound.

1829.

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