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Of Collins & CO. may also be had THE LATEST EDITIONS Of all the other works of the same author, namely: "Animated by the favourable reception of the " English Reader," Mr. Murray here purfues the fame object; and has not only compiled a judicious and well-arranged fupplement for the higher claffes of learners, (The Sequel to the English Reader,) but in order to complete his undertaking, has prepared an Introduction to it, for the younger claffes. We have no doubt that the public will be pleased with the additions, to both the fronts of the original building. The whole is truly useful and well arranged." Monthly Review, Auguft, 1801. SEQUEL TO THE ENGLISH READER. "We have already borne our teftimony to the high merit of Mr. Murray, as an acute grammarian, and as blending in his various works, with common happiness, a delicate and correct tafte both in litera. ture and morals. We are pleafed, though not furprifed, to fee that the public has demanded a new edition of the refpectable work now before Annual Review, 1804. us." "We regard, as a very valuable improvement, the biographical and eritical Appendix, introduced into this edition of the " Sequel to the English Reader' This compilation appears more free from objectionable paffages, and better adapted to the improvement of youth, than any other of the kind which we have feen." Eclectic Review, June, 1805. "We have no hesitation in recommending this felection, as the best of its kind." Critical Review, May, 1895. THE POWER OF RELIGION ON THE Mind. "This work, which has been long and justly admired, has, in the laft edition, received many alterations and improvements; and, in its prefent enlarged ftate, forms, in our opinion, one of the best books that can be put into the hands of young people. The fubject is grave and important; but Mr. Murray has rendered it highly interesting and engaging, by a judicious felection of anecdotes and examples; which, by the intermixture of pious reflections, he teaches the reader to apply to his own benefit." Guardian of Education, Auguft, 1803. INTRODUCTION AU LECTEUR FRANÇOIS. This little Volume, which is defigned for the ufe of perfons who have just begun to learn the French language, is compofed of extracts from French writers of reputation, who are diftinguished by the propriety and usefulness of their fentiments. Mr. Murray has exercised his ufual caution and judgment in these felections: and his explanations, in the Appendix, of the idiomatical expreffions and difficult phrafes, which occur in the extracts, are well calculated to fimplify, and confequently to facilitate, the study of the language." Anti-jacobin Review, April, 1807. ENGLISH GRAMMAR. ABRIDGMENT OF MURRAY'S GRAMMAR. A KEY TO THE EXERCISES. The Tenth edition, much improved, with a copious INDEX to the Grammar, Exercises, and Key. "Mr. Murray's Grammar, Exercises, and Key to the Exercifes, form altogether, by far the most complete and judicious analyfis of the English language, that has hitherto been publifhed. The rules for compofition are excellent; the examples are felected with tafte and judgment; and the execution of the whole displays an unusual degree of critical acutenefs and fagacity." Annual Review, 1802 |