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JOHI HEY WOOD'S EEW MMGOff READERS ' Ato designed to fulfil in every respect the requirements of the Education Code , as regards size and number of lessons , as laid down in the Revised Instructions to H . M . Inspectors . The language and objects are designed so as to be suitable to the capacities of the children of the respective standards ; due attention is paid to * script '; the habits of exact observation , statement , and reasoning are exercised ; the most difficult words are divided and accentuated ; and all those high moral principles which should imbue the lives of the young are plainly set forth . Throughout the Series , moreover , careful attention is given to the paper , the binding , and the Illustrations . These Readers are profusely illustrated . Primer Primer II 1 . ,. K . 48 32 pp pp . . , , limp limp cloth cloth , , 2 3 d \ d . . Reader Header IY III 224 200 pp . ., cloth cloth , Is Is . . 4 cf . Reader Primer Reader II I complete . 128 . 96 80 pp pp . . . , , cloth cloth cloth , , 8 6 4 < rf d f . . . ' Reader Header x » A « , **» . V - VI vr 224 224 Oo ^ pp pp pp ™ . . , , , clot cloth « i ^« - h v . , , I 1 -i * s * . . Ad aw Ad . , pp , , I reflecting ' Well bound much , credit clearly upon printed the , editor and suitably . '—Practical illustrated Teacher . The . matter has been skilfully chosen , . . . the whole selection the ' very The reading best . '—National matter is ^ , selected Schoolmaster with admirable . judgment . We can with confidence recommend this series as one of ' Well up to the mark in all the essentials of a good and attractive set . . . the variety is great . . . not a lesson that might well have been omitted . '—School . Board Chronicle . JOHN HEYWOOD'S LITERARY READERS . j * A well appointed set of school books . '—Scotsman . TALES FROM SHAKSPEARE IIiX . USTK . ATED . ( A Selection . ) By CHARLES and MABY LAMB . j i Edited of , the with Little Explanatory Holbeck Notes School , & ( Leeds c , for the School use Board of Schools ) ; Author , by AijFONZO of ' Sound Gaedinek , Light , Heat , Head , ' & Master c . { Issued , in Two Forms . THE SCHOOL . EPITION . THE PRIZE EDITION . ? r ^ v " Crown Re 5 d 8 in vo * . B cloth ° ?* k for , price . tlie Higher 1 . ? . 6 d . Standards . N Crown ° 8 vo valuable . cloth or boards instructive , bevelled book , extra could gilt be , price awarded 2 s . 1 i m contain erous The book s illustration full -page bound ^ por , of in tr scenes an ait attractive of from William the blue Shakspeare Shakspearia cloth cover and n plays , and nu- M annotated a f p ^ e edition S I ^ ^ -Y of S S . v aakspearian ^ rtSf „« + vvTe Tales ™ « Or S . fniixr J * -o ^ ie «/ i an a 1 The Tales are followed by a table giving a correct pro- Tne illustrations of scenes from the various plays are ! this nunciation in turn of being the follo Proper wed Names by spelling occurring lessons in on the the Tales long , numerous The footnotes and interesting are full and . explanatory , and thoroughly ! and more difficult words used . explain the characters and expressions used . language * Arran . ged The as annotations an introduction , explaining for child n ren ames to , allusions the " king , and of poets words . " havin Written g special as nearly meanings as possible in Elizabeth in Shakespeare an English ' s , own are I of are pointed great charmingly in value simple in illustrated enabling language , , the and with young the quotations little student volume to to show ough grasp where t altogether the its dramatist force fco is be ' most s a m source eaning stron of gly . great The to be moral enjoyment found of in eac the to h story the play . little is The carefull people tales y 1 for whose use it has been adapted . '—Dundee Courier . I the ' best No bette of the r literary school classic reader 3 for now the in upper the market standards . Apart could from possibl its y highly be chosen entertaining . It well character deserves , to it is be a included really educative among work . ' —Teachers' Aid . the ' d Forma ramatist an himself admirable . ' —Literary reading-book World for elementary . schools . Most children who are taught from it will be eager to read ' No better reader for the upper standards in schools could be selected . '—National . Schoolmaster . Adopted toy the London School Board . THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON . By HERE RUDOLPH : WYSS . Edited , with Explanatory Notes , by Alfonzo Gardiner , Author of * Sound , Light , and Heat , ' Sec . IssuecL in Two Forms . Crown THE 8 vo SCHOOL . cloth , EDITION price 1 * . . 6 d . Crown 8 vo . cloth THE boards PRIZ , bevelled E EDITION , ton . ed paper , extra I and Designed VII . as a Reading Book for Standards V ., VI ., No more welcome or gilt instructive , price 2 * . Prize Book could be explain text The , A footnotes the few natural explanatory , which history note are and s very are botanical placed full , at supplement teaching the end of of and the the found carefully of natural for re chi objec vised ldre ts n and referred than annota Herr to ted in Wysa . the The ' s text inimitable pictorial are numerous illustrations story , thus and text , and very full HstB of tbe spelling follow the notes . interesting . for One a first of clats Her Majesty . I hope ' s Inspectors it will be largel says y : — read * I am . ' glad to see this book prepared for school use ; it is a very suitable one * * Mr Sure . G to ardiuer be an may attractive count readin on obtaining g book . the The gratitude narrative of boy is most s and exciting girls for . what .. a he capital has done prize . ' — for Litbuauy any boy Would or girl . . . . hii 8 * only The to littl be e seen volum and e cannot known fail to circulat to have e an by ever thousands -increasin . '— g National fascination Schoolmaster for the juvenile . mind . ' —Dundee Couiuek . * Forma an admirable reader for the upper standards . '—Tkaohbrs' Aid . JOHN HEY WOOD , Deansgate and Ridgefield , Manchester ; and 11 Paternoster Buildings , London .

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