SEQUEL ΤΟ AMERICAN POPULAR LESSONS, INTENDED FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS: BY THE AUTHOR OF AMERICAN POPULAR LESSONS. "Song of the Inuses, sage historic tale," and "word of holy writ." NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY COLLINS AND HANNAY NO. 230, PEARL STREET. R63255 Southern District of New-York, ss. L. S. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the 31st day of August, A. D. 1827, in the 52nd year of the Independence of the United States of America, Collins & Hannay 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: Sequel to American Popular Lessons, intended for the use of Schools: by the Author of American Popular Lessons. "Song of the Muses, sage historic tale," -and "word of holy writ." In conformity to the Act of 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 time 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." FREDERICK I. BETTS, Clerk of the Southern District of New-York. Withdrawn Garrett Biblical Institute NEW-YORK PUBLIC SCHOOL SOCIETY. To those benevolent and enlightened men, who voluntarily give their patronage to the interests of popular education in New York; whose intelligence and disinterested services are alike bestowed on the diffusion of knowledge and the melioration of character in the less favoured classes of the community, this book of Education is dedicated. Should it meet with the approbation of that society to whose favour it is first addressed, it may, through their influence, directly pass into the public schools; and if its utility should be commensurate to the intention of the author, it would, by this immediate and extensive appropriation, become one among multiplied means employed for the establisment of correct morals, and the exposition of useful truths. 680440 12 2 600 PREFACE. I'AM aware that the preface to a school book is not likely to be much read. Parents will not read it-they commit the literary training of their children's minds to schoolmasters, and leave the choice of elementary helps to their judgment; and schoolmasters and schoolmistresses are, generally, creatures or habit, content with such things as they have. There is, indeed, small hope for the compiler of a school book that teachers will pay much attention to a new one-they usually impute a catch-penny character to every work of this class, and manifest impatience of all solicitation upon the subject of one; so that the apathy of the very persons for whose advantage the book in question is designed, is a discouragement to the individual who would explain its specific purpose. But notwithstanding my knowledge of the fact that any attempt to introduce a new book of education into common use is not a matter of much interest to general readers, my conviction that the public has need of books better adapted to instruction than those now employed for this purpose, induces me to call even reluctant attention to this which I have prepared. It may be necessary, in respect to some parts of our knowledge, to store the memory before we can inform the understanding, but it surely is well, so far as we can, to make all in |