The School Reader

SUCH has been the unparalleled demand for this book, together with the other numbers of Sanders' Series, that the Publishers have found it necessary to re-stereotype the work -the plates having become too much worn for further use. The plates, from which the present Edition is printed, have been cast from an entirely new font of type, obtained especially for that purpose.

The demand for Sanders' Series is rapidly increasing, and its circulation is becoming daily more general. It is believed that the several books in the series, need but be examined to receive the unqualified approbation of all who feel an interest in the cause of sound elementary instruction. The public may be assured that the works shall not be surpassed in mechanical execution by any books published.

PUBLISHERS.

ENTERED

According to Act of Congress, in the year Eighteen Hundred and Forty, BY CHARLES W. SANDERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

PREFACE.

THE APPROVAL, as evinced in the reception of the first number of the School Readers, is to the Author a gratifying pledge, that his further efforts in the completion of his proposed SERIES, will be equally sustained and appreciated.

The GRADUAL ADVANCE, both in style and matter, which characterizes the former, has been carefully studied in the present number.

It has been thought by some, that the only advantage, derived from the use of the shorter words, consists in their being easier in the combination of their letters. This, however is a mistake; since, with the beginner, it is his most difficult task to apply the proper accent. But, in the use of MONOSYLLABLES, there is not even a possibility of a mistake in this respect; so, as it regards other words, those of the least number of syllables, will, of course, cause the learner the least trouble, in giving them a ready and correct ACCENT. Hence, it will be seen, that there is an important advantage gained in the use of the shorter word,—an advantage which a longer word could not supply.

In reading, the habit of INATTENTION to the subject, is, perhaps, the most common fault among the younger classes in our schools. To obviate this evil, the Author has endeavored not only to bring each subject within the comprehension of the most limited capacities, but also to render it, at the same time, sufficiently winning and attractive to allure the mind of the learner to such a voluntary exertion, as shall readily enable him to answer any question which his teacher may think proper to ask.

From the interesting results which have already attended the use of MUSIC in our primary schools, and at the request of those especially entitled to his regard, the Author has been induced to insert, at the close of the present work, such easy, familiar TUNES as are well adapted to promote, to some extent, an early cultivation of so pleasing and useful a

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