88. Extract from a Speech delivered in Congress on the 89. Fulton's Account of his First Steamboat....JOSEPH STORY. 264 91. Settlement of New England. 92. The Coming of the Pilgrims. CHARLES SPRAGUE. 274 95. On the Nature of Thunder-Storms Edinburgh Review. 281 96. Duties of Ainerican Citizens.. 97. On the Death of President Harrison. GEORGE Putnam. 287 99. The Graves of a Household. 101. The Coronation of Winter. 113. The Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius.. .Shakspeare. 325 114. Antony's Address to the Roman Populace. ...Ibid. 329 115. Cassius instigating Brutus, &c... 117. Religion the cause of the Settlements of New Eng- 118. Conclusion of a Discourse, &c.. 119. Dr. Bowditch at Home..... 120. Rienzi's Address to the Romans. 121. Speech of Catiline before the Roman Senate. Croly's Catiline. 346 122. Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul... Addison. 347 126. Recollections of Hannah More. 129. An Address to the Deity... 131. The Burial of Sir John Moore.. 132. Extract from a Speech on the British Treaty. FISHER AMEs. 376 133. Character of Leverett Saltonstall... STEPHEN C. Phillips. 380 135. The Value of Christian Faith... 136. Death of Gertrude, and the Lament of Outalissi.. Campbell. 390 138. On laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Mon- ument, 17th of June, 1825... DANIEL WEBSTER. 397 139. On the Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, 17th 140. Devastation of the Carnatic by Hyder Ali.. 146. The Progress of Knowledge. 147. The Study of Natural History. 152. A Song for St. Cecilia's Day. 154. Speech upon the Bill for the Relief of the Widow of 157. Idea of a Perfect Woman.. 162. The Influence of Poetry.. 163. Evidences of Christianity 164. Extract from the Life of Jeremiah Smith..J. H. Morison. 460 165. A Paraphrase on Psalm LXXIV.. Ibid. 464 168. Intemperance... DR. BEECHER. 465 INDEX OF AUTHORS. Lesson. Lesson. 117. DOANE, GEORGE W.. . 144. .152. .63. 65. EMERSON, GEORGE B.. 40. 132. EVERETT, ALEXANDER H. ..55. .90. .126, 127. 102. Franklin, (translation)......123. . 129. Gallagher, William D.. ..142. ..62. GOODRICH, S. G... ...146. 4, 29. 7. 35, 36. ..23. 98, 99. .56. .79. HOWE, SAMUEL G........ ..110. Irving, WASHINGTON..17, 18, 42, 64, 112, 156. .74. 108. .5. 159. . 105. ..33, 34. .....4, 71. ..161. LONGFELLOW, H. W...43, 60, 61. ..57. Lesson. Lesson. ...39, 149. SIGOURNEY, MRS... 49, 103. .111. ..50. .153. 13. SPRAGUE, CHARLES...21, 47, 92, . 26, 27. 93. .4, 83. Story, JOSEPH...12, 19, 89, 118. 128. ..164. 72. ..130. .46. 73. Uhland, (translated)..... .160. 82. Upham, CHARLES W. ......148. 53. 41. . 143. 138, 139, 155. . 165. ...69. Wilson, Alexander .104. .. 134. 76, 131. Wordsworth, William.....31, 32. 72. Young, Edward.. ..87. THE DISTRICT SCHOOL SCHOOL READER. ARTICULATION. A distinct articulation forms the basis of good reading. It should, therefore, receive our first attention. The organs of speech are as susceptible of improvement, and as much strengthened by proper exercise, as the limbs of the body; and if we would secure a perfect enunciation, the voice should be frequently exercised upon the elementary sounds of the language, both simple and combined, and classes of words, containing sounds liable to perversion or suppression, should be forcibly and accurately pronounced. a: fate, hate, rate, gauge, bait, great, deign ; nation, station, danger, chamber, neighbor ; - arraign, abase, convey, delay ; — fatalist, patriot, feignedly; — occasion, dictator, spectator. The Faculty of Speech. ALEXANDER Young. The faculty of speech is one of the noblest and most valuable gifts which a bountiful providence has bestowed on us. It is the appropriate endowment of man— that which, more than any other, distinguishes him from the rest of |