EDUCATIONAL WORKS PUBLISHED BY OLIVER AND BOYD, EDINBURGH; SOLD ALSO BY SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., LONDON. A Specimen Copy of any Class-book will be sent to Principals of Schools, post free, on receipt of one-half the retail price in postage stamps. Applications to be addressed to Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh. ENGLISH READING, GRAMMAR, ETC. In the initiatory department of instruction a valuable series of works was DR M'CULLOCH'S SERIES OF CLASS-BOOKS. These Books are intended for the use of Schools where the general mental They form, collectively, a progressional Series, so constructed and graduated Yet it is The subject-matter of the Books is purposely miscellaneous. That the moral feelings of the pupil may not be without their proper NEW AND GREATLY IMPROVED EDITIONS. Do. Large Type Edition, in two parts, price 2d. each. or on Roller, 18. 8d. Dr M'Culloch's Second Reading-Book. 3d. Dr M'Culloch's Third Reading-Book, containing simple Dr M'Culloch's Fourth Reading-Book, containing only ENGLISH READING, GRAMMAR, ETC. In the initiatory department of instruction a valuable series of works was prepared by Dr M'CULLOCH, formerly Head Master of the Circus Place School, Edinburgh, afterwards Minister of the West Church, Greenock. DR M'CULLOCH'S SERIES OF CLASS-BOOKS. These Books are intended for the use of Schools where the general mental culture of the pupil, as well as his proficiency in the art of reading, is studiously and systematically aimed at. They form, collectively, a progressional Series, so constructed and graduated as to conduct the pupil, by regular stages, from the elementary sounds of the language to its highest and most complex forms of speech; and each separate Book is also progressively arranged, the lessons which are more easily read and understood always taking the lead, and preparing the way for those of greater difficulty. Yet it is The subject-matter of the Books is purposely miscellaneous. always of a character to excite the interest and enlarge the knowledge of the reader. And with the design of more effectually promoting his mental growth and nurture, the various topics are introduced in an order conformable to that in which the chief faculties of the juvenile mind are usually developed. That the moral feelings of the pupil may not be without their proper stimulus and nutriment, the lessons are pervaded throughout by the religious and Christian element. NEW AND GREATLY IMPROVED EDITIONS. Dr M'Culloch's First Reading-Book. 1d. Do. Large Type Edition, in two parts, price 2d. each. in a series of Sheets for hanging on the Wall, 18.; or on Roller, 18. 8d. Dr M'Culloch's Second Reading-Book. 3d. Dr M'Culloch's Third Reading-Book, containing simple Pieces in Prose and Verse, with Exercises. 10d. Now printed in larger type. Dr M'Culloch's Fourth Reading-Book, containing only |