THE

AMERICAN

COMMON-SCHOOL READER

AND

S P E A K E R:

BEING A

SELECTION OF PIECES IN PROSE AND VERSE,

WITH

RULES FOR READING AND SPEAKING.

BY

JOHN GOLDSBURY, A.M.,
COMPILER OF TEB COMMON SCHOOL GRAMMAR,' AND 'SEQUEL,' AND TBACHER OR

THE HIGH SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASS.,

AND

WILLIAM RUSSELL,
AUTHOR OP 'LESSONS IN ENUNCIATION,' 'THE AMERICAN ELOCUTIONIST,' 'PRIMARY
RBADER, ETC., AND TEACHER OF ELOCUTION IN THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY,
AND PHILLIPS AND ABBOT ACADEMIES, ANDOVER, MASS., AND AT

THB THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, EAST WINDSOR, CONN.

SIXTY SIXTH THOUSAND.

BOSTON:

TAPPAN, WHITTEMORE AND MASON,

PUBLISHED BY

TAPPAN, WHITTEMORE & MASON,

114 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON.

NEW READING BOOKS,
NOW USED IN MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED TOWNS.

THE SERIES CONSISTS OF

1. RUSSELL'S PRIMER.
2. RUSSELL'S READING AND SPELLING BOOK.
3. INTRODUCTION TO RUSSELL'S PRIMARY READER
4. RUSSELL'S PRIMARY READER.
5. RUSSELL'S SEQUEL TO THE PRIMARY READER.
6. RUSSELL AND GOLDSBURY'S INTRODUCTION TO

THE AMERICAN COMMON SCHOOL HEADER

AND SPEAKER. 7. RUSSELL AND GOLDSBURY'S AMERICAN COMMON

SCHOOL READER AND SPEAKER.

PUTNAM'S ARITHMETIC. THE AMERICAN COMMON SCHOOL ARITHMETIC ; in which the principles of the Science are fully explained, and applied to the Solution of a great variety of Practical Examples - Designed for the use of Common Schools and Academies. By RUFUS PUTNAM, Principal of the Bowditch (English High) School, Salem, Mass.

Two Editions are published of this Arithmetic, one with a Key, containing answers, and the other without.

COMER'S BOOK-KEEPING.
A Simple Method of Keeping Books by Double Entry, without the
trouble or formula of the Journal. By G. N. Comer, Accountant. FIFTA
EDITION.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1844,

BY JOHN GOLDSBURY,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

HARVARD

UNIVERSITY KDULE 882

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