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THE following APPROVED and CLASSICAL ELEMENTARY BOOKS have lately been published for the USE of YOUNG PERSONS of both Sexes. The Defign of the Authors has been to render them interefting and complete, on the several Subjects, claffical and correct in their Style and Arrangement, and of a Size and Price fuited to the bufinefs of Tutors, and to the œconomical views of Parents.

1. CLASSICAL ENGLISH POETRY, for the Use of Schools, and Young Perfons of both Sexes; felected from the beit Authors, with a Preface, indicating the feveral Species of Poetry, and the best Mode of Recitation. By Dr. MAVOR and Mr. PRATT, Author of Sympathy, &c. &c.; intended as a Sequel to Mijs Akin's Poetry for Children. Price 4s 6d. in Boards, or gs. bound.

It is remarkable that, till this Work, there did not exift, in the English Language, any chafte and unexceptionable Collection of the Gems of British Poetry, which could with confidence be put into the hands of Youth of both Sexes, and which at the fame time united the neceffary requifites of quantity and cheapnefs. The present Volume, it is believed, will fupply this deficiency, and be adopted at once as a School-Book in our refpectable Seminaries, and as a part of the Library of every private Family.

2. THE BRITISH NEFOS, or MIRROR of YOUTH; being felect Lives of ILLUSTRIOUS BRITONS, who have been diftinguished by their Virtues, Talents, or remarkable Advancement in Life, with incidental practical Reflections; written purpofely for the Ute of Young Perfons, on the obvious principle,-that_Example is more powerful and more feduc

tive than Precept. By WILLIAM MAVOR, LL.D. Vitar of Hurley, in Berkshire, and Chaplain to the Earl of Dumfries. Price 4s 6d bound.

3. THE LIVES of PLUTARCH, abridged, containing Accounts of all the most illuftrious and estimable Characters of Antiquity; by THE SAME AUTHOR. Price 4s. 6d. bound.

4. SCRIPTURE BIOGRAPHY, for the Ufe of Schools and Moral Families, containing the Lives and Actions of all the principal Characters in the OLD and NEW TESTAMENT, with practical Inference, adapted to real Life, and designed to promote the Imitation of thofe illuftrious Examples. By JOHN WATKINS, A.M. LL.D. Price 55. bound.

5. THE JUVENILE PLUTARCH confifting of the Lives of Extraordinary Children, and of Accounts of the Infancy and early Progrefs of illuftrious Men, intended to stimulate by Example. Price 3s. bound.

6. AN UNIVERSAL and COMPLETE SYSTEM OF SHORT HAND WRITING; being the fame which has been adopted by the Editors of the Encyclopædia Britannica. and which is used in the Courts of Law in the Metropolis. By WILLIAM MAVOR, LL D. Fifth Edition, price 75.68. 7. A COMPLETE and COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY of MUSIC; being an indifpenfable Companion to every Harpsichord, and to every Amateur and Student in Mufic. By THOMAS BUSBY, Mus D. and LL. D. Price

6s. in boards

8. THE ELEMENTS of ENGLISH COMPOSITION; containing plain and practical Directions for Writing the English Language with Eafe, Perfpicuity and Elegance; and defigned, in the progrefs of Education, immediately to fuc ceed to the Study of the varicus English Grammars, and of the Latin and Greek Claffics By DAVID IRVING, A. M. Price 4s. in boards, or 4s 6d, bound.

9. NATURAL HISTORY, founded on the Linnæan Arrangement, with popular and entertaining Defcriptions, in the Manner of Goldsmith and Buffon; embellished with Forty-fix Copper-plates, representing One Hundred and Sixty-fix of the most curious Objects. By the AUTHOR of the BRITISH NEPOS. Price 5s. bound.

10. The fame, with the Plates beautifully coloured, and elegantly bound, priec 125.

TI. VISITS to the MENAGERIE and the BOTANICAL GARDEN at PARIS, containing a rapid and very pleafing View of animated Nature, adapted to the capacities of Children,tranflated from the French of L. F. Jauffret. Price 25:6d. neatly half-bound.

12. THE ELEMENTS OF POLITE EDUCATION; containing all the valuable and unexceptionable Information in the Letters of the late LORD CHESTERFIELD TO HIS SON, felected and arranged by GEORGE GREGORY, D. D. Author of The Economy of Nature, and other Works. Price 4s. 6d. bound.

13. On the first Day of every Month is published a Volume of-An UNIVERSAL HISTORY, ANTIENT and MO. DERN, from the Creation of the World to the Peace between France and England in 1802; to be completed in Twenty-five fmall Volúmes. By WILLIAM MAVOR, LL. D. Author of the British Nepos, &c &c. Price 5s each Volume in boards, or 5s. 6d. half-bound; or upon fmall and co.nmon paper, price 38. 9d. in boards, or 4s. half-bound. N. B. The Antient Hiftory may be had complete in 9 vols. and the Modern in 16 vols.

14 A HISTORY of GREECE, from the EARLIEST PERIODS, till its REDUCTION into a ROMAN PROVINCE. Intended principally for the Use of Schools, and Young Perfons of both Sexes. By WILLIAM MAVOR, LL. D. Ín Two Volumes, royal 18mo, with Engravings, and a correct Map, price rcs. in boards, 11s. half bound, or 125. handfomely bound and lettered.

15. THE HISTORY OF ROME, from the Foundation of the City till the Termination of the Eastern Empire. By WILLIAM MAVOR, LL.D. In Three Volumes, roval 18mo. Price 158. in boards, illuftrated with Maps and Prints.

16. MAVOR'S HISTORY of FRANCE and NAVARRE, on fine paper, price 5s. 6d. bound.

17. The fame on common paper, price 4s. 6d. bound. 18. MAVOR'S HISTORY of AMERICA, fine paper, price 5s. 6d. bound.

19 The fame, on common paper, price 4s. 6d. bound. 20. MAVOR'S H STORY of SCOTLAND, 5s. 6d. bound. 21. The fame, on common paper, price 4s. 6d. bound. 22. GEOGRAPHY for the USE of SCHOOLS, on a plan fo

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practical to Teachers, and fo highly fafcinating to Pupils, that it cannot fail to recommend itfelf to univerfal adoption, p the moment it is feen. By the Rev. J. GOLDSMITH, A. M. Vicar of Dunnington, and formerly of Trinity College, Cambridge. Price 10s 6d. bound and lettered, decorated with Fifty-fix beautiful and interefting Copper-plates, repre fenting the Manners, Customs, and Dreifes, of all Nations, and illuftrated with new and improved Maps.

23. AN EASY GRAMMAR of GEOGRAPHY, intended as a Companion and Introduction to the above, by the fame Author, illustrated with Maps, price 2s. 6d. neatly bound.

24. AN ENGLISH SPELLING-BOOK, accompanied by a progreffive Series of eafy and familiar Leffons, in the manner of BARBAULD, TRIMMER, EDGEWORTH, BERQUIN, &c. intended as a modern and improved Introduction to the English Language, and to the first Elements of Knowledge. By WILLIAM MAVOR, L.L. D. Price eighteen pence bound, with a liberal allowance to perfons who purchase them by the dozen or hundred.

25. THE BOOK of TRADES; or, Library of the ufeful Arts; illuftrated with 60 copper-plates, in three parts, price 3s. each part, or s. for each part with the plates coloured: either part to be had separately.

26. A VISIT to A FARM HOUSE; or, An Introduction to various Subjects connected with Rural Economy; with several beautiful engraved plates, price 2s. 6d. handfomely half-bound.

27. TABART's Collection of POPULAR STORIES, adorned with elegant plates, by eminent Artifts, in three parts, price of each part 2s 6d. handsomely half-hound, or with the plates beautifully coloured, 2s. 6d. each part:

The first part contains,-Whittington and his Cat: the Children in the Wood; Peronella, Fortunatus; Grifelda; the White Cat; id Robin Hood.

The fecond part contains,—Little Red Riding-hood; Toads and Diamonds; Blue Beard; Pufs in Boots; the Sleeping' Beauty in the Wood; Cinderella; Riquet with the Tuft Hop-o'-my Thumb; 'Beauty and the Beast; and Fortunio.

The third part contains.-Jack the Giant Killer; Tom Thumb; Goody Two Shoes; Tommy Two Shoes; the Se

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ven Champions of Christendom; Valentine and Orfon; · Prince Fatal and Prince Fortune; and the Three Wishes.

28. The WONDERS of the MICROSCOPE, a very curious book, adorned with feveral large plates, price 2s. 6d. 29. The WONDERS of the TELESCOPE, with many plates, price 2s. 6d.

30. The TRAVELS of ROLANDO round the WORLD, with many beautiful engravings, 4 vols. price 12s. halfbound.

e 31. The HISTORY of CARLO; the famous Dog of Drury lane, with his portrait, and feveral other plates, beautifully engraved, price 2s. 6d. neatly half-bound. J 32. PUZZLE for a CURIOUS GIRL, adorned with 12 beautiful vignettes, price 2s. 6d. half-bound, with roan backs.

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37. The HISTORY of BRITISH QUADRUPEDS, with Emany plates, price 28 6d.

38. The HISTORY of BRITISH BIRDS, with many S plates, price is 6d.

39. DIALOGUES for GOOD CHILDREN, by M. P. = price is.

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45. DICTIONARY of POLITE LITERATURE, 2 vols. with many beautiful plates, price 135. in boards.

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43. The JUVENILE LIBRARY; or, Complete Course of Inftructions in every Branch of Polite and Useful Literature, 6 vols price two guineas in boards.,

44. MEMOIRS of DICK the little PONEY, price 2s. 6d.

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