INTRODUCTION

TO

THE ENGLISH READER:

OR,

A SELECTION OF PIECES,

IN PROSE AND POETRY;

Calculated to improve

THE YOUNGER CLASSES OF LEARNERS IN READING;
And to imbue

THEIR MINDS WITH THE LOVE OF VIRTUE

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

RULES AND OBSERVATIONS

FOR ASSISTING CHILDREN TO READ WITH PROPRIETY.

BY LINDLEY MURRAY,

AUTHOR OF AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR, &c. &c:

To which, by the aid of a Key, is scrupulously applied, Mr. Walker's Pronunciation of
the Classical Proper Names, and of numerous other words, difficult to pronounce;
With an APPENDIX,

Consisting of words selected from the reading lessons, with definitions.

Utilius homini nihil est quam recte loqui.......Phædrus.

BY ISRAEL ALGER, JUN. A. M.

Author of " Alger's Murray's Grammar," "English Exercises," and Editor
of the Pronouncing Bible and Testament, &c., &c.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY ROBERT S. DAVIS,
SUCCESSOR TO LINCOLN, EDMANDS, & CO.
No. 120, Washington Street.