PHILIPS'

SERIES OF READING BOOKS

FOR

PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.

EDITED BY

JOHN G. CROMWELL, M. A.

PRINCIPAL OF ST MARK'S COLLEGE, CHELSEA.

SECOND BOOK.

LONDON:

GEORGE PHILIP & SON, 32 FLEET STREET;
LIVERPOOL: CAXTON BUILDINGS, SOUTH JOHN STREET, AND
49 & 51 SOUTH CASTLE STREET.

1874.

3984. f. 119!

5. The Sun, Moon, and Stars

6. Good Friends

7. Good Friends-continued

8. The Blind Boy to his Mother

9. The Nest under the Waterfall

10. Hursley May-day Song (Keble)

11. Rats

12. The Omnibus Driver and his Rat

13. Waste not, Want not

14. The Dog that went to London by himself

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30. Shopkeeping

37. The Holy Land

25. The Love of a Horse for its Master

26. The Love of a Horse for its Companion.

27. Foresight (Wordsworth)

28. The Slip between the Cup and the Lip

29. The Grateful Sparrow

31. The Child left alone (Mrs Hemans)

32. Letter from Hastings to London

33. Shopkeeping-continued

34. Shopkeeping-continued

35. Spring in the Lake District (Wordsworth)

36. Robin Redbreast's Long Journey.

38. Letter from a Little Girl to her Mother

39. The Sick Child's Christmas Song

40. The Raven

41. The Magpie

42. Birds' Nests

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43. The Bird's Nest

School")

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44. Langley School (adapted, by permission, from "Langley

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55. The Cottager to her Infant (Miss Wordsworth)

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56. Letter from a Little Girl about her Squirrel

57. Letter-continued

58. The Doll .

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82. Sweet Soap-Suds (by permission, from "Little Lectures,"

85. The Beauty of this World and the Next (Bishop Heber)

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