ascertained to be about thirteen and a half years. From this it is evident that many can not be more than ten years old. How utterly impossible it is for pupils of such an immature age to understand or comprehend the masterpieces of our literature, can be realized only by those teachers who have exhausted every expedient to accomplish such a result. It is needless, perhaps, to say that the authors of this series of readers, who have had many years' experience in the school-room, have kept this fact constantly in mind; and they confidently believe that the New National Series will be found more pleasing, interesting, and intelligible to young minds than any others ever issued. If teachers of High Schools, Seminaries, and Academies do not find that abstruse and difficult kind of literature which they desire for the most advanced pupils, let them await the appearance of “Barnes’ Collegiate Reader and Speaker,” which is in preparation and will be issued shortly. That these readers may lighten the labors of the teaching fraternity every-where, and add to the pupil's interest and pleasure during the many hours of hard study, is the fervent wish of THE AUTHORS. 1.-SOLDIER FRITZ (I) From the German by J. C. Pickard. 33 4.—MALIBRAN AND THE YOUNG MUSICIAN. 5.--ANECDOTES ABOUT Ants (I) Sir John Lubbock. 49 12.-BEETHOVEN'S MOONLIGHT SONATA 14.—ELEPHANT HUNTING IN AFRICA (I) Sir S. W. Baker. 84 15.—ELEPHANT HUNTING IN AFRICA (II) . . . 24.—THE SOLDIER'S REPRIEVE Mrs. R. D. C. Robbins. 120 . 41.–STANLEY'S SEARCH FOR LIVINGSTONE Edward King. 187 42.-TYPHOONS AND WATER-SPOUTS Philip H. Gosse. 193 45.-AN EXPLOIT OF SIR WILLIAM WALLACE. Sir W. Scott. 205 47.-NICHOLAS NICKLEBY LEAVING SCHOOL. Charles Dickens. 212 50.—An INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH (I) 227 51.-AN INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF Sir WALTER RALEIGH (II) 232 53.-SCENES IN THE YELLOWSTONE COUNTRY W. F. Phelps. 239 54.—THE DISCOVERY OF PHOSPHORUS Rodney Welch. 243 57.—THE BURNING OF Moscow (II) 59.—THE “ARIEL” AMONG THE SHOALS (I). J. F. Cooper. 261 71.-TROPICAL VEGETATION IN SOUTH AMERICA . C. Kingsley. 317 72.-FRANKLIN'S VISIT TO HIS MOTHER Freeman Hunt. 321 . 74.—THE SKY John Ruskin. 331 75.—A DINNER PARTY ÎN ANCIENT THEBES . Mrs. J. D. Steele. 335 . 77.—THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA (I) Washington Irving. 342 78.--THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA (II) 348 80.–LOST ON THE FLOES (I) Elisha K. Kane. 356 81.- LOST ON THE FLOES (II) 362 83.-BENEATH THE FALLS OF NIAGARA . John Tyndall. 370 84.—THE COLISEUM AT ROME Charlotte M. Yonge. 376 66 66 89.—THE RUBBER TREES OF THE AMAZON Herbert H. Smith. 396 |
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