SEQUEL TO THE PRIMARY READER OF RUSSELL'S ELEMENTARY SERIES: DESIGNED TO PRECEDE RUSSELL AND GOLDSBURY'S COMMON-SCHOOL SERIES. Br WILLIAM RUSSELL, EDITOR OF THE 'AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION,' (FIRST SERIES,) AUTHOR OF Thirty-fourth Thousand. BOSTON: TAPPAN, WHITTEMORE AND MASON, No. 114 WASHINGTON STREET. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, BY WILLIAM RUSSELL, In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Published by Charles Tappan, No. 114 Washington Street, Boston, RUSSELL'S ELEMENTARY SERIES, NOW COMPLETE. I. A PRIMER. This manual is arranged so as to retain the benefit of systematic instruction and progress, by means of Spelling, at the same time that it presents a progressive series of graduated Reading lessons, for the purpose of applying the principles embodied in the spelling columns, or of being taught apart from syllabication, by such teachers as prefer to dispense with that aid. II. A SPELLING-BOOK. This work pursues the method which is adopted in the Primer; but the more difficult words are followed by definitions and explanations. The Reading lessons are arranged in progressive order, both as to matter and style; and copious instruction is added on Punctuation, Numbers, Abbreviations, Synonymous terms, Words of similar sound, &c. Suggestions to teachers on methods of instruction, are interspersed with the lessons, in all cases which seemed to require such aid. III. A PRIMARY READER. This book contains a selection of easy Reading lessons, adapted to young learners, and preceded by a systematic course of exercises in Articulation and Pronunciation, together with Suggestions to Teachers on Emphasis, Inflections, and Pauses. In difficult passages, these last are farther indicated by appropriate marks. IV. A SEQUEL TO THE PRIMARY READER. This volume is designed to conduct the pupil through a course of Reading lessons, similar in character to those which are contained in the Primary Reader, but adapted to the succeeding stage of advancement, and intended to connect the Elementary Series to RUSSELL AND GOLDSBURY'S COMMON-SCHOOL SERIES, and to NoSSELL'S YOUNG LADIES' READER AND INTRODUCTION. HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY PREFACE. THE volume now offered as a Sequel to the Primary Reader, is designed, in accordance with its title, to extend the rules and principles presented in that work, to a more advanced stage of reading, and to prepare the pupil for the use of the volumes of the Common School Series, prepared by the author and Mr. John Goldsbury. The Exercises in Articulation, and the Suggestions to Teachers on the subjects of Emphasis, Inflections, and Pausing, contained in the introductory part of the Primary Reader, were deemed sufficient for an elementary course of practical elocution. The plan of this Sequel is, accordingly, limited to the application, in detail, of the rudiments there laid down. Both pupils and teachers, it is hoped, will find the present volume an important aid in the details of correct reading, as regards true emphasis, appropriate pausing, and correct inflection, as well as the proper pronunciation of words; suggestive remarks and references, on all these topics, being frequently interspersed with the reading lessons, with a view to the explanation of difficulties, and the recognition of exceptions as well as rules. A glance at the first reading lesson will suffice to show the design of the work, in this respect. For the convenience of teachers who have not previously used the Primary Reader of this series, in the instruction of their classes, a brief summary of the rules on emphasis, inflections, and pauses, is prefixed to the reading lessons. A fuller course of elocution, in all the most useful of its principles, will be found in the Introduction to the American Common |