Southern District of New-York, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 22d day of August, A.D. 1829, in the L.S. 54th year of the Independence of the United States of America, SamuelKirkham, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the titleof a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the wordsfollowing, to wit:
"English Grammar in familiar Lectures, accompanied by a Compendium,embracing a new systematic order of Parsing, a new system ofPunctuation, exercises in false Syntax, and a System of PhilosophicalGrammar in notes: to which are added an Appendix, and a Key to theExercises: designed for the use of Schools and Private Learners. BySamuel Kirkham. Eleventh Edition, enlarged and improved." In conformityto the act of Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for theencouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, andbooks, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the timetherein mentioned." And also to an act entitled "an act supplementary toan act entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securingthe copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors ofsuch copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending thebenefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etchinghistorical and other prints."
FRED. J. BETTS,Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.
This work is mainly designed as a Reading-Book for Schools. In the firstpart of it, the principles of reading are developed and explained in ascientific and practical manner, and so familiarly illustrated intheir application to practical examples as to enable even the juvenilemind very readily to comprehend their nature and character, their designand use, and thus to acquire that high degree of excellence, both, inreading and speaking, which all desire, but to which few attain.
The last part of the work, contains Selections from the greatestmaster-pieces of rhetorical and poetical composition, both ancient andmodern. Many of these selections are taken from the most elegant andclassical American authors—writers whose noble productions have alreadyshed an unfading lustre, and stamped immortality upon the literature ofour country.—In the select part of the work, rhetorical marks arealso employed to point out the application of the principles laid downin the first part.—The very favorable reception of the work by thepublic, and its astonishingly rapid introduction into schools, since itsfirst publication in 1833, excites in the author the most sanguine hopesin regard to its future success.
After a careful perusal of this work, we are decidedly of opinion, thatit is the only successful attempt of the kind. The rules are copious,and the author's explanations and illustrations are happily adapted tothe comprehension of learners. No school should be without this book,and it ought to find a place in the library of every gentleman who