PRINCIPALLY CONSISTING OF HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, AND LAPTED TO THE CAPACITIES OF YOUTH, AND DESIGNED Entended for the Use of Schools. BY A. T. LOWE, M. D. STEREOTYPED AT THE BOSTON TYPE AND STEREOTYPE Foundry, WORCESTER : PUBLISHED BY DORR AND HOWLAND. 1831. HARVARD DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT: DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE. [L. S.] BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-first day of September, A. D. 1625, in the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. T. Lowe, M. D. of the said district, has deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit: "Second Class Book; principally consisting of Historical, Geographical, and Biographical Lessons, adapted to the capacities of youth, and designed for their improvement. Intended for the use of Schools By A. T. Lowe, M. D. author of the Columbian Class Book." In conformity to the Act of the 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 times therein mentioned ;" and also to an Act entitled "An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled, Án 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." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. PREFACE. THE Second Class Book is designed for the use of Schools, particularly as a reading book for the second or lower classes; and in the selection of the various extracts of which it is composed, care has been taken that the language and sentiment might be adapted to the understanding and improvement of younger scholars. The design of this volume embraces the plan of the Columbian Class Book, with the exception that the Notes appended to many of the following chapters are less minute than in the former work; asitude, subdivisions, and comparatively unimpont boundaries, which might tend to embarras the minds of youth, are omitted. Questions, principally referring to the notes, are added in an appendix, and the Instructer will exercise his discretion of the propriety of their application, until the second reading of the book. It has been a principal object with the compiler to select such lessons as are calculated to engage the interest of the scholar, and to exercise the memory in the acquisition of facts, sufficiently simple for his understanding, yet important as a primary step to the higher branches of education. Should these purposes result in any considerable degree from the introduction of this volume as a second class reading book, the expectations of the author will be fully realized. Ashburnham, Mass. 1826. |