AMERICAN FIRST CLASS BOOK; OR EXERCISES IN READING AND RECITATION: SELECTED PRINCIPALLY FROM MODERN AUTHORS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA; AND DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF THE HIGHEST CLASS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS. BY JOHN PIERPONT, COMPILER OF THE NATIONAL READER, INTRODUCTION TO THE NATIONAL Twenty-fifth. Edition. BOSTON: Conversation, 20 PUBLISHED BY Comes distinguished, as a si ne gamut: so, no one is ever made aer by studying rules for elocution, even the |