HISTORICAL READER,

EMBRACING

Selections from Standard Writers of

Ancient and Modern History,

INTERSPERSED WITH

ILLUSTRATIVE PASSAGES FROJ BRITISII AND AMERICAN POETS;

WITI

EXPLANATORY OBSERVATIONS, NOTES, ETC.:

TO WHICH ARE ADDED A

VOCABULARY OF DIFFICULT WORDS, AND BIOGRAPHICAL

AND GEOGRAPHICAL INDEXES.

BY

JOHN J. ANDERSON, A.M.,
Author of a “Grammar School History of the United States," a "Pictoriat
School History of the United States," a "Manual of General llistory."

a “History of Encipa,' "The United Siat: Rucles," elc., etc.

NE! YOWE:
CLARK & MAY NARI, PULLISIERS,

734 BROADWAY,

1885.

Inderisa
BAC

656099 A Junior Class History of the United States,

ASTOR

Hlustrated with hundreds of portraits, views, maps, etc.

A Grammar Schoof History of the United States. Annotated; and illustrated with numerous portraits and views, and with more than forty maps, many of which are colored. 300 pp. 16mo.

A Pictorial School History of the United States. Fully illustrated with maps, portraits, vignettes, &c. 404 pp. 12mo.

A Manual of General History. Illustrated with beautifully colored maps showing the changes in the political divisions of the world, and giving the location of important places. 419 pp.

A School History of England. Illustrated with colored maps showing the geographical changes in the country at different periods. 300 pp.

12mo.

12mo.

544 PP.

Anderson's Bloss's Ancient I listory. Illustrated with colored maps and a chart. 445 pp. 12mo.

The Historical Reader, embracing selections in prose and verse from standard writers of Ancient and Modern History ; with a Vocabulary of Difficult Words, and Biographical and Geographical Indexes. 12mo.

The United States Reader, embracing selections from eminent American historians, orators, statesmen and poets, with explanatory observations,

The whole arranged so as to form a complete class-manual of United States History, to which are added a Vocabulary of Difficult Words and a Biographical

Authors. 12.no.
A School History of Rome. In preparation.
A School History of Greece. In preparation.
A School History of France. Now ready.

notes, etc.

PREFACE.

Most teachers of history have found it a very difficult task to awaker: in the minds of their pupils a genuine and abiding interest in this branch of knowledge, from the fact, doubtless, that text-books proper to be used as class-manuals are necessarily brief, and therefore too barren of details to impress the imagination and make the narrative picturesque and entertaining. It is, certainly, of indispensable importance that the pupils should have permanently fixed in their minds a general outline of the subject, and this is all that, in an ordinary school course, they can be expected to accomplish ; but it is of equal importance that, in doing this, they should imbibe a taste for historical reading, and that in the instruction which they receive, some direction should be given as to the authors by the perusal of whose writings this taste may be gratified.

The work here submitted to the public.is designed to aid in effecting these objects. As its nanıe indicates, it is intended to be used, not as a book of lessons to be committed to memory and recited, but : Reading Buck to be used independently, or to accompany any of ihe ordinary school-man nals of history, and to be read in connection with the study of them.