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THE ADVANCED PROSE AND POETICAL READER,

A Collection of Select Specimens of English Literature, with Explanatory Sates and Questions on each Lesson; to which are appended Lists of Prefixes and Affixes, and an Etymological Vocabulary.

BY ALEXANDER WINTON BUCHAN, FELS,

Teacher, West Regent Street Academy, Glasgow.

- It is no wisdom,” says Dr Arnold, “to make boys produjes of information, ME » is our wisdom and our duty to culturate their faculties, each in its season—int the memory and imagination, and then the judgment: to furnish them with the means, and to excite the desire of improving themseires, and to wait with confdence for God's blessing on the result.”

With this maxim of Dr Arnold's in view, the lessons embracing a great vamety of subjects) are selected both on account of the elegance and liveliness of their sty 2 and of the interesting nature of the information they contain, and they are su arranged that the master can at once mark of exercises for the scholar with whi be both pleasing and of immediate use. Each Lesson is accompanied by a set of questions (numbered for facility of reference) constructed with the special view of leading the pupil into a train of thought similar to that which the author quoted from may be supposed to have followed, and in preparing answers to which the pupil may have the pleasure of feeling that he is not a mere passive recipiens of knowledge, but a co-operator with the author himself Whatever knowledge the mind acquires in this way may be supposed to affind great delight, and to de lastingly retained; for the memory becomes the storehouse of what the rasua has comprehended, and the judgment approved"-From Pry fiare.

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