a plan and scope of this, has long been felt. We have had a surfeit of reading matter either too dry and uninteresting, or too empty and declamatory, neither fitted to impart useful information nor a taste for a simple, pure, and elegant style of composition, CONTENTS READING LESSONS. PAGL. ... 1. Pope St. Leo the Great and Attila...... 4 The Story of King Alfred and Saint Cuthbert....... Freeman, 82 10. The Discontented Pendulum..... 14. True Fraternity Produced only by Catholic Faith or Teaching, 17. Description of Virginia..... 18. The Discovery of the Hudson River.... 19. Last Voyage of Henry Hudson...... 22. The Discovery of the Mississippi River 25. Execution of Mary Queen of Scots... 28. The Samo-Continued.. 163 31. A Description of the Banishment of the Acadians from their 13. Suttlement of Maryland. ..... 53. The Taking of Babylon by Cyrus.... 74. Catholic Missions in the Northwest. 75. The Same - Continued....... 78. First Landing of Columbus. 85. Character and Burial of De Soto... 90. The Cruelty of Cromwell in Ireland.. 8 POETRY: LESSON. G. H. Miles, 86 6. The Same-Continued. 89 9. On Conversation...... Ceroper, 95 .Longfelloro, 103 . Bryant, 115 Longfellow, 125 Motherwell, 138 Montgomery, 140 .. Benjamin, 149 Bulwer, 155 Anon, 167 . George H Miles, 168 60. The Deserted Village-Continued. 60. The American Patriot's Song... 67. The Battle of Hohenlinden, 1800.. 71. St. Peter's Church at Rome.. 76. The Heroes of Seventy-Six.... 67. The Mutiny-Sight of Land, etc..... Byron, 364 Bryant, 370 382 Rogers. 383 Whittier, 411 .J. Augustus Shea, 4:26 Rev. Francis Mahony, 440 |