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MARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
FROM THE GIFT OF

CHARLES HERBERT THURBER
MAR 10 1926

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit:

District Clerk's Office.

BE it remembered, that on the eighth day of November, A. D. 1830, In the fifty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Richardson, Lord, and Holbrook, of the said District, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit:

"A Second Book for Reading and Spelling. By Samuel Worcester New Edition."

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an act, entitled, "An Act supplementary to an act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints " JNO. W. DAVIS,

Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.

REMARKS TO TEACHERS.

This Book is designed by the author to be used next after his PRIMER, or any other First Book for Reading and Spelling.

The words contained in it, are such as children use, and understand; the subjects treated of, are familiar and interesting; and the author has endeavored to make the style easy.

Words of this class, are very irregular: and no arbitrary arrangement can afford much assistance in learning to spell them. They need to be spelled many times, and in various combinations with other words.

The columns for spelling consist of words taken from the Reading Lessons. While studying his lesson for reading, the scholar will frequently meet with words which can be more easily pronounced by referring to the Spelling Lesson, where they are divided, and the silent letters are italicised. It is expected that, in this way, the Reading and Spelling Lessons will be learned at the same time. The teacher is requested to explain the meaning of Italic letters.

Several derivatives from a word are sometimes given, where they do not all occur in the Reading Lesson.

Though the Spelling Lessons in the first part of the Book may be so difficult, that the scholar will

aeed some assistance from his teacher, yet as he advances, he will find them to grow easier, as he will already have become familiar with many of the words which they contain.

In some cases, the teacher will probably find it best, to require the scholar to spell only a part of the columns, when he first reads the Lessons. After going over a few of them in this way, he may go back, read the Lessons again, and spell all the words.

The words for spelling are so arranged, that it will be best to learn, in the first place, the four short columns in the upper row, and then the next four.

The Cuts with which the Book is embellished, have been added to illustrate the Lessons, and render them more interesting to children.

The author has been able to select but few Lessons, which appeared to him well adapted to so young scholars as those for whom this Book is designed. A little assistance has been derived from an English work by Mr. Hornsey, and from Stories translated from the French, and lately published in New York.

The present edition of this book contains thirty-six pages more than the former. The new

lessons are those which follow page 108, and are somewhat more difficult than the rest. Two lessons, entitled Foolish Fears and Joseph's School Room, were principally extracted from an English work of Mrs. Fenwick.

S. W.

1. The little boys and girls who have read my PRIMER, may be glad to have me give them a new book. You must learn to read and spell all the words in this SECOND BOOK, and to tell what is said in each Lesson.

2. The first thing that we shall talk about, is the Sun.

3. The Sun gives us light and heat. It is so bright, that it will hurt your eyes to look much at it. The light and heat of the Sun, make the trees. and grass, and all the plants grow.