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THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO.

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THE ADVANCED PROSE AND POETICAL READER,

A Collection of Select Specimens of English Literature, with Explanatory Notes and Questions on each Lesson: to which are appended. Lists of Prefixes and Affixes, and an Etymological Vocabulary.

BY ALEXANDER WINTON BUCHAN, FELS,

Teacher, West Regent Street Arademy, Glasg «.

-It is no wisdom,” says Dr Arnold, “to make bogs produjus of ufırnation · put » is our wisdom and cur duty to cultivate their facultus, each in 13 sedan. —Ã ̈¢ the memory and imagination, and then the judgment: to furawà diễn ra chư means, and to excite the desire of improving themseires, and tu wait ità cungdence for God's blessing on the result.””

With this maxim of Dr Arnold's in view, the lessons (embracing a great variety of subjects) are selected both on account of the elegance and liveness of their st; d, and of the interesting nature of the information they contain, and they are su arranged that the master can at once mark off exercises for the scholar which wi be both pleasing and of immediate use. Each Lesson is accompanied by a set o questions (numbered for facility of reference constructed with the special view of leading the pupil into a train of thought similar to that which the author quoted from may be supposed to have followed, and in preparing answers to which the pupil may have the pleasure of feeling that he is not a mere passive recipient of knowledge, but a co-operator with the author himself Whatever know.dge the mind acquires in this way may be supposed to afford great delight and to de lastingly retained; for the memory becomes the storeboase of what the reason has comprehended, and the judgment approved"-From Proface.