LAURIE'S GRADUATED ENGLISH READING-BOOKS. The COURSE complete in 5 Books, price 10s. bound, OF FIVE READING-LESSON BOOKS, WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES; Adapted, as a Progressive Course of Reading, for all Classes of English Schools and Families. By J. S. LAURIE, Lately one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools. 8. d. BOOK the FIRST, adapted to Standard II. of the Revised Code, 192 pages Seventh Edition 1 0 BOOK the SECOND, adapted to Standards III. and IV. of the 1 6 BOOK the THIRD, adapted to Standard V. of the Revised Code, 320 pages, Eighth Edition ... 2 0 BOOK the FOURTH, adapted to Standard VI. of the Revised Code, 448 pages, Sixth Edition........ BOOK the FIFTH, containing suitable Elementary Reading for special Highest Classes in large Schools, 496 pp. Second Edit. 3 0 THIS is an entirely new series of Reading Books, carefully adapted throughout to the requirements of modern education. The Five Books are arranged each in corresponding sections, on a serial and uniform scheme of progressive, yet constantly varied, selections. BOOK I. consists of rhymes and fireside stories, fables and parables, and short simple tales, all within the comprehension of children who have mastered the first steps in reading. BOOK II. contains miscellanies, tales of adventure, imaginative and real, anecdotes in natural history, and ballad poetry-all preliminary to the Third Book. Book III. comprises literary selections in prose and verse, descriptive travel, natural history (with reference to the previous section), and narratives of English history. Book IV. to which the Third Book is introductory, is a further extension of the same general plan, with the addition of a division on the more popular branches of Natural Science and Physics, sequentially arranged. BOOK V. which completes the course, forms a further ad.. vance, and a completion of the general plan, and aims at answering the practical purposes of a Class-book of later English literature. Of this Series of Reading-Lesson Books upwards of 80,000 volumes have already been sold. 'MR. LAURIE's excellent Gradua ted Series of Reading-Lesson Books has met with great and well-deserved success.' ATHENEUM. TEPS TO READING; EN, and CO. Paternoster Row. |