SANDERS NEW SERIES OF READERS: CONSISTING OF THE NEW SPELLER AND DEFINER, 15 cts. | REVISED FIFTH READER. 75 cta. THIS Series of Readers have obtained an unprecedented popularity. Within a recent period, they have received the OFFICIAL RECOMMENDATION of the Superintendents of Public Schools in several S.ates, besides the unqualified approbation of Practical Teachers and intelligent Friends of Education in all parts of the Union. The Hon. A. CONSTANTINE BARRY, Superintendent of Public Instruction in Wisconsin, after full examination, adopted and recommended the entire Series to the schools of that State. The Hon. N. W. EDWARDS, while occupying the office of Superintendent of Illinois, after long examination and comparison, selected the entire Series, and said, "I can not too strongly urge their immediate adoption.” The Hon. DAVID L. GREGG, while Secretary of State of Illinois, said of the first Series, "I am entirely satisfied with their superiority over any other works of the kind now in use." The Hon. THOMAS H. BENTON, JR., while Superintendent of Iowa, said, "I give Sanders' New Series of Readers my unqualified approbation." The Hon. ROBERT ALLYN, Commissioner of Public Schools, Rhode Island, says: "I have no hesitation in recommending Sanders' Readers most warmly and cordially to all Teachers and School Committees. No other Series within my knowledge promises so well." The Hon. WM. SPRIGG HALL, Superintendent of Schools for the Territory of Minnesota, has adopted the entire Series. which have officially adopted a Uniform Series of School Books since the issue of the within Series. Superintendents of several other States have expressed their approbation of them. These Readers have also been approved and adopted by more than TWO HUNDRED Principals of Ward and Public Schools in the city of New York; by more than THREE HUNDRED Town Superintendents in Wisconsin; by a LARGE MAJORITY of the County School Commissioners of the State of New York; by a majority of the School Superintendents of the States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey; are now in use in more than TEN THOUSAND Schools in the United States and Canada, and are selling at the rate of more tha A MILLION COPIES A YEAR. Such extended use and general popularity are decisive proof of their practical value and attractiveness, which Teachers and the friends of education will not fail to appreciate. The Educational Journals (Organs of Teachers Associations) of New York, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Rhode Island, have strongly commended them, as also the leading Religious Journals of the principal denominations, TO TEACHERS AND SCHOOL OFFICERS. Theso Readers present the strongest claims of solid merit, practical adaptation, easy and skillful progression, immense variety, neat and tasteful execution, reasonable price, and a wider and more abiding popularity than has ever been accorded to any series of School Books in this country. A Descriptive Catalogue, containing a mass of testimonials, with terms, etc., of these Readers and other School Books, will be sent, prepaid, on application. IVISON & PHINNEY, NEW YORK. NEW SPELLER. DEFINER, AND ANALYZER: EMBRACING A PROGRESSIVE COURSE OF INSTRUCTION IN ENGLISH ORTHOGRAPHY ATIVE AND COMPOUND WORDS: THE WHOLE INTER- SPERSED WITH APPROPRIATE READING LESSONS, BY CHARLES W. SANDERS, A.M. CORRECTED EDITION. NEW YORK: IVISON & PHINNEY, 48 & 50 WALKER ST. NEWBURG: T. 8. 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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, BY CHARLES W. SANDERS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District ELECTROTYPED BY THOMAS B. SMITH, 82 & 84 Beekman-street, N. Y. PRINTED BY, J. D. BEDFORD & CO., 115 Franklin-street. PREFACE. THIS New Speller, Definer, and Analyzer, is threefold in design, as the name implies. It leads the learner gradually through all those elementary lessons in language, which are essential to a complete knowledge of the sounds of individual letters, and the various combinations of the same, when employed to form syllables and words. With the forms and sounds of words, that is, with the spelling and pronunciation, it deals thoroughly; but it by no means stops here. It employs almost every possible expedient for the development of their meanings also: comparing and contrasting them one with another, unfolding their significations by formal definitions, and everywhere rendering prominent those distinctions which are likely to escape the notice of youth. In pursuance of this object, also, the latter portion of the volume is devoted to a brief, though systematic and comprehensive course of instruction in the analysis of Derivative and Compound words. This is done in a manner so simple, and, at the same time, so thorough, it is believed, as to furnish an easy, interesting, and quite sufficient introduction to the study of Etymological Analysis, as presented in any of the larger works on this subject, prepared for the use of schools. In reference to this part of the work, we cheerfully acknowledge our obligations to Mr. James N. McElligott, of this city, with whose consent and that |