ELEMENTARY ENGLISH. [Send for our Common School Catalogue.] Stickney's Readers. Introductory to Classics for Children. By J. H. STICKNEY, author of The Child's Book of Language, Letters and Lessons in Language, etc. Introduction prices: First Reader, 24 cents; Second Reader, 32 cents; Third Reader, 40 cents; Fourth Reader, 50 cents; Fifth Reader, 60 cents; exchange allowances respectively: 5 cents, 8 cents, 10 cents, 10 cents, and 12 cents. THESE are distinctively reading-books. Their object is to help the pupil to a mastery of the rudiments of reading in the easiest way and the shortest possible time, and to provide an ample quantity of the reading-matter that will be best for practice, for implanting a literary taste, and for personal culture. Whitney's Essentials of English Grammar. For the Use of High Schools, Academies, and the Upper Grades of Grammar Schools. With a Supplement of Extracts for practice in parsing. By Prof. W. D. WHITNEY, of Yale University. 12mo. Cloth. 287 pages. Mailing price, 85 cents; introduction, 75 cents; allowance for old book, 25 cents. THIS is an English grammar of the English language, prepared by the best philologist in the country. It is clear, practical, and complete. It proceeds from facts to principles, and from these to classifications and definitions. Mechanical forms, unnecessary classifications, and abstract definitions are avoided. The exercises, selected from the best English writers, leave none of the usual and regular forms of English structure untouched. The facts of English grammar are presented in such a way as to lay the best foundation for the further and higher study of language in all its departments. F. J. Child, Prof. of English, Har- | has been that they would learn nothvard University: I do not know that I ever before saw an English grammar which I would permit my children to look into, so great the chance ing or be taught something false. I regarded Prof. Whitney's undertaking and book as a service to humanity as well as to education. CLASSICS FOR CHILDREN. (See first page of Contents for list.) In forming the mind and taste of the young, is it not better to use authors who have already lived long enough to afford some guaranty that they may survive the next twenty years? "Children derive impulses of a wonderful and important kind from hearing things that they cannot entirely comprehend." - SIR WALTER SCOTT. IT T is now eight or nine years since we began publishing the Classics for Children, and the enterprise, which at first seemed a novel one, may fairly be said to have passed the stage of experiment. It has been the aim to present the best and most suitable literature in our language in as complete a form as possible; and in most cases but few omissions have been found necessary. Whether judged from the literary, the ethical, or the educational standpoint, each of the books has attained the rank of a masterpiece. The series places within reach of all schools an abundant supply of supplementary reading-matter. This is its most obvious merit. It is reading-matter, too, which, by the force of its own interest and excellence, will do much, when fairly set in competition, to displace the trashy and even harmful literature so widely current. It is believed also that constant dwelling upon such models of simple, pure, idiomatic English is the easiest and on all accounts the best way for children to acquire a mastery of their mother-tongue. A large portion of the course has been devoted to history and biography, as it has seemed specially desirable to supplement the brief, unsatisfactory outlines of history with full and life-like readings. The annotation has been done with modesty and reserve, the editors having aimed to let the readers come into direct acquaintance with the author. The books are all printed on good paper, and are durably and attractively bound in 12mo. A distinctive feature is the large, clear type. Illustrations have been freely used when thought desirable. The prices are as low as possible. It has been felt that nothing would be gained by making the books a little cheaper at the expense of crowding the page with fine type and issuing them in a style that would neither attract nor last. The best proof of the need of such a course is the universal approbation with which it has been received. CLASSICS FOR CHILDREN. THIS HIS series now includes nearly forty volumes. Those suitable only for primary and grammar school grades are named only in the price-list at the beginning of this Catalogue. (For a fuller description, see our Common School Catalogue.) The following are designed for the higher grades. The first of the two prices is the mailing price, the second is for introduction. Scott's Lady of the Lake. EDWIN GINN. 268 pages. Boards: 40 and 35 cents. Cloth: 60 and 50 cents. Canto I., 5 cents. Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel. MARGARET ANDREWS ALLEN. 150 pages, with map. Boards: 35 and 30 cents. Cloth: 45 and 40 cents. Scott's Talisman. DWIGHT HOLBROOK, Principal of Morgan School, Clinton, Conn., with an Introduction by Miss CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. xii + 454 pages. Boards: 60 and 50 cents. Cloth: 70 and 60 cents. Scott's Quentin Durward. CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. 312 pages. Boards: 50 and 40 cents. Cloth: 60 and 50 cents. Scott's Old Mortality. D. H. MONTGOMERY. 510 pages. Boards: 70 and 60 cents. Cloth: 85 and 75 cents. Scott's Marmion. D. H. MONTGOMERY. 307 pages. Boards: 50 and 40 cents. Cloth: 60 and 50 cents. Scott's Guy Mannering. CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. 525 pages. Boards: 70 and 60 cents. Cloth: 85 and 75 cents. Scott's Ivanhoe. CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. 554 pages. Boards: 70 and 60 cents. Cloth: 85 and 75 cents. Scott's Rob Roy. CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. viii+507 pages. Boards: 70 and 60 cents. Cloth: 85 and 75 cents. Stories of the Old World. ALFRED J. CHURCH, M.A., author of Stories from Homer, Livy, Virgil, etc. 354 pages. Boards: 50 and 40 cents. Cloth: 60 and 50 cents. Plutarch's Lives. From Clough's Translation. Edited by EDWIN GINN, with Historical Introductions by W. F. ALLEN. xvi +333 pages. Illustrated. Boards: 50 and 40 cents. Cloth: 60 and 50 cents. Irving's Sketch Book. HOMER B. SPRAGUE, Ph.D., and M. E. SCATES, formerly of the Girls' High School, Boston. 126 pages. Boards: 30 and 25 cents. Cloth: 40 and 35 cents. Irving's Alhambra. ALICE H. WHITE. 291 pages. Boards: 50 and 40 cents. Cloth: 60 and 50 cents. The Arabian Nights.. EDWARD EVERETT HALE. Illustrated. 376 pages. Boards: 50 and 40 cents. Cloth: 60 and 50 cents. The Vicar of Wakefield. 238 pages. Boards: 35 and 30 cents. Cloth: 55 and 50 cents. Hughes's Tom Brown at Rugby. CLARA WEAVER ROBINSON, with a D. H. MONTGOMERY. Xiii +387 pages. 70 and 60 cents. Benjamin Franklin. Sketch of the Author's Life by His Autobiography and a continuation of his Life compiled chiefly from his own writings. D. H. MONTGOMERY. Illustrated. viii+311 pages. Boards: 50 and 40 cents. Cloth: 60 and 50 cents. Swift's Gulliver's Travels. The Voyage to Lilliput and the Voyage to Brobdingnag. ix + 162 pages. Boards: 35 and 30 cents. Cloth: 45 and 40 cents. Johnson's Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. viii+157 pages. Boards: 35 and 30 cents. Cloth: 45 and 40 cents. Selections from Ruskin. EDWIN GINN, with Notes and a Sketch of Ruskin's Life by D. H. MONTGOMERY. XXV + 148 pages. Boards: 35 and 30 cents. Cloth: 45 and 40 cents. The Two Great Retreats of History: I. The Retreat of the Ten Thousand, taken from Grote's "History of Greece "; II. Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow, an abridgment of Count Ségur's narrative. D. H. MONTGOMERY. XV+318 pages and two maps. Boards: 50 and 40 cents. Cloth: 60 and 50 cents. Heroic Ballads, With Poems of War and Patriotism. Edited with Notes by D. H. 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