LAO
12/8/22

THE

LITERARY READER,

FOR

ACADEMIES AND HIGH SCHOOLS: 1

CONSISTING OF

SELECTIONS, IN PROSE AND VERSE,

FROM

AMERICAN, ENGLISH AND OTHER FOREIGN LITERATURE,

CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED.

INCLUDING

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES,

AND

REMARKS ON THE ART OF READING.

BY MISS ·A, WALL,.
AUTHOR OF THE “MaxUAL OP MORAL8.'.'

BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY JOHN P. JEWETT & Co.,

NOS. 17 & 19 CORNHOLL.

1851.

Era

PUT

2484

ASTOR. LYX AND TILAN FUNDATIONS

R 1.22 L

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by

ÅRETHUSA MALL, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

DEDICATED

TO

The Young Ladies

BROOKLYN FEMALE ACADEMY,

WITH

MANY PLEASANT ASSOCIATIONS AND AFFECTIONATE HOPES, AND WITH THE
DESIRE THAT THIS VOLUME MAY AID THEM IN SUSTAINING THE
REPUTATION OF GOOD READERS WHICH THEY HAVE
ALREADY ATTAINED, AND ALSO ATTRACT THEM FROM
WHAT IS FRIVOLOUS AND TRANSIENT IN LITERA-
TURE, TO THE MORE SOLID AND ENDURING
PRODUCTIONS OF THE BEST MINDS,

BY THEIR FRIEND,

IHE COMPILER.