V A COURSE OF ENGLISH READING, ADAPTED TO EVERY TASTE AND CAPACITY: WITH Literary Anecdotes. BY THE REV. JAMES PYCROFT, B.A. TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD; PERPETUAL CURATE OF ST. MARY'S, BARNSTAPLE; AUTHOR OF "RECOLLECTIONS OF COLLEGE DAYS," SECOND EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER-ROW. M Bedication. TO HENRY B. H. BEAUFOY, ESQ., F.R.S. Dear Sir, Considering the generous interest you have evinced in the endowments of the City of London School, and the facilities afforded men of letters in your extensive library, I beg to dedicate to you my "Course of English Reading," trusting that it may contribute to your benevolent designs of assisting the early efforts and the later progress of those who pursue the paths of learning. Yours, dear Sir, With much respect, Barnstaple, Jan. 1. 1850. Very faithfully, THE AUTHOR. 7 PREFACE ΤΟ THE SECOND EDITION. MISS JANE C. divided her in-door hours into three parts: the housekeeping and dinner-ordering cares of life claimed one part; hearing two younger sisters say their lessons a second part; and during the third and most delightful remainder she would lock her chamber door, and move on the marker of Russell's "Modern Europe" at the rate of never less than fifteen pages an hour, and sometimes more. Being so vexatious as to ask wherein her satisfaction consisted, I was told-in the thought that she did her duty; that she kept her resolution; that she read as much as her friends; that continually fewer histories remained to read; and that she hoped one day to excel in literature. A + |