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• Elementos de la lengua inglesa para uso de los españoles. (Por Roberto M'Dermut, en la imprenta de Jorge Long, 1810), by Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Republican compiler : comprising a series of scientific, descriptive, narrative, popular, biographical, epistolary, and miscellaneous pieces, in prose and verse (Cramer & Spear, 1818), by A citizen of Pittsburgh and B. R. Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fourth reader for the use of schools. (Morton and Griswold, 1839), by Samuel G. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English reader, or, Pieces in prose and verse, from the best writers; designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect; improve their language and sentiments ... with a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading. (H. Hill, 1828), by Lindley Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to the English reader; or, A selection of pieces, in prose and poetry, calculated to improved the younger classes of learners in reading, and to imbue their minds with love of virtue. To which are added, rules and observations for assisting children to read with propriety. (R. Christy, 1831), by Lindley Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• The academical reader, comprising selections from the most admired authors, designed to promote the love of virtue, piety and patriotism. (P.N. Wood, 1832), by John J. Harrod (page images at HathiTrust)
• Common school readings: containing new selections in prose and poetry for declamation, recitation, and elocutionary readings in common schools. (H.H. Bancroft and Company, 1868), by John Swett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analytical [-sixth] reader. (Mason Brothers, 1866), by Richard Edwards and J. Russell Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The national fifth reader: containing a treatise on elocution; exercises in reading and declamation; with biographical sketches, and copious notes. Adapted to the use of students in English and American literature. (A.S. Barnes, 1867), by Richard Green Parker and J. Madison Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The standard first[-fifth] reader ... (Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1855), by Epes Sargent (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The American first class book : or, Exercises in reading and recitation : selected principally from modern authors of Great Britain and America, and designed for the use of the highest class, in public and private schools (Carter, Hendee & Co., 1835), by John Pierpont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select academic speaker; containing a large number of new and appropriate pieces, for prose declamation, poetical recitation, and dramatic readings. Carefully selected from the best authors, American, English, and continental ... (E.H. Butler & Co., 1867), by Henry Coppée (page images at HathiTrust)
• The standard speaker; containing exercises in prose and poetry for declamation in schools, academies, lyceums, colleges: newly tr. or comp. from celebrated orators, authors, and popular debaters, ancient and modern. A treatise on oratory and elocution. Notes explanatory and biographical. (Thomas, Cowperthwait & co., 1852), by Epes Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English reader; or, Pieces in prose and verse from the best writers; designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect; improve their language and sentiments and to inculate the most important principles of piety and virtue, with a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading. (B. Olds, 1852), by Lindley Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English reader; or, Pieces in prose and verse, form the best writers; designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect. With a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading. (W. and J. Bolles;, 1834), by Lindley Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• An elocutionary manual : with an introductory essay on the study of literature, and on vocal culture in its relation to an aesthetic appreciation of poetry. (C. Desilver, 1875), by Hiram Corson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American manual, or New English reader: consisting of exercises in reading and speaking, both in prose and poetry; selected from the best writers. To which are added, a succinct history of the colonies, from the discovery of North America to the close of the war of the revolution; the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States. For the use of schools (N. & J. White ;, 1833), by Moses Severance (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English reader : or, pieces in prose and poetry, selected from the best authors. Designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect; to improve their language and sentiments; and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue. With a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading (N. Burrill, 1818), by Lindley Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• The freedman's third reader. (The American tract society, 1866), by W. P. Gibley, Nathaniel Rudd, Samuel Cloues, William J. Pierce, John N. Hyde, Geo. C. Rand & Avery, and Mass.) American Tract Society (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetrical reader; a selection from the eminent poets of the last period of English literature, with a preliminary essay, biographical introd. and notes in French and German. (Kessmann, 1846), by Thomas Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spencer's book of comic speeches and humorous recitations ... (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1867), by Albert J. Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American reader: containing extracts suited to excite a love of science and literature, to refine the taste, and to improve the moral character. Designed for the use of schools. (D.F. Robinson;, 1828), by George Merriam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to the Eclectic reader; a selection of familiar lessons, designed for common schools. (Perkins & Marvin;, 1833), by B. B. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to the English reader; or, A selection of pieces, in prose and poetry, calculated to improve the younger classes of learners in reading, and to imbue their minds with the love of virture. To which are added, rules and observations for assisting children to read with propriety. (E. T. Scott, 1824), by Lindley Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American first class book; or, Exercises in reading and recitation: selected principally from modern authors of Great Britain and America; and designed for the use of the highest class, in public and private schools. (Carter, Hendee & co., 1834), by John Pierpont (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English reader; or, Pieces in prose and poetry selected from the best writers, designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect, to improve their language and sentiments and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue, with a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading (Published by Joseph Pancoast, 1843), by Lindley Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• The progressive third reader, for public and private schools: containing the elementary principles of elocution, illustrated by examples and exercises in connection with tables and rules, and a series of lessons in reading; with original designs and engravings. (Sanborn, Carter, Bazin, 1857), by Salem Town and Nelson M. Holbrook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The third primary reader; consisting of extracts in prose and verse. With exercises in enunciation for the use of the highest classes in primary schools. (Brewer and Tileston, 1858), by George Stillman Hillard, John Andrew, and Hammatt Billings (page images at HathiTrust)
• The little speaker and juvenile reader; being a collection of pieces in prose, poetry and dialogue ... (Collins & Brother, 1867), by Charles Northend (page images at HathiTrust)
• The standard fourth reader, Part two. With spelling and defining lessons, exercises in declamation, etc. (J.L. Shorey, 1871), by Epes Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fourth reader; or, Exercises in reading and speaking. Designed for the higher classes in our public and private schools. (F. Blake, 1856), by Salem Town (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progressive fifth reader. (Oliver Ellsworth ;, 1864), by Salem Town and Nelson M. Holbrook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English reader : or, Pieces in prose and poetry ... (S. Raynor, 1853), by Lindley Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New York reader. No. 1-3 ... (Samuel S. & William Wood, 1814) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English reader, or Pieces in prose and poetry; selected from the best writers. Designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect; to improve their language and sentiments; and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue. With a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading. (Scott, 1821), by Lindley Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• The elementary school reader; or, Moral class book: designed for the use of schools and families ... (E.H. Bender, 1852), by S. S. Randall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The second-class reader: designed for the use of the middle class of schools in the United States. (Odiorne & Metcalf;, 1833), by B. D. Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Englisches lesebuch für die zweite stufe des unterrichts (Hahn, 1857), by F. A. Callin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sunday school celebration book. A collection of dialogues, speeches, hymns, etc., for anniversaries and other occasions. (Perkinpine & Higgins, 1861), by Grace Murray and Ida Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introductory lessons in reading and elocution. Part first. Lessons in reading (A.S. Barnes & Co.;, 1857), by Richard Green Parker and J. C. Zachos (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hemans reader for female schools: containing extracts in prose and poetry, selected from the writings of more than one hundred and thirty different authors. (Sargent, Wilson & Hinkle;, 1860), by T. S. Pinneo (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new juvenile reader: designed for the younger classes in elementary schools. (C.P. Barnes and C. Cropper, 1837), by Albert Picket and John W. Picket (page images at HathiTrust)
• The little speaker and juvenile reader; being a collection of pieces in prose, poetry and dialogue designed for exercises in speaking and for occasional reading in primary schools. (Collins & brother, 1864), by Charles Northend (page images at HathiTrust)
• An American selection of lessons in reading and speaking : calculated to improve the minds and refine the taste of youth and also to instruct them in the geography, history, and politics of the United States ; to which are prefixed rules in elocution, and directions for expressing the principal passions of the mind. Being the third part of a grammatical institute of the English language to which is added an appendix containing several new dialogues (Published by Edward Little & Co., proprietors of the copy right for Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and sold at their bookstore ;, 1811), by Noah Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The class book; or, Three hundred and sixty-five reading lessons, adapted to the use of schools for every day in the year. (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816), by R. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Willson's intermediate fifth reader: on the original plan of the school and family series; embracing, in brief, the principles of rhetoric, criticism, eloquence, and oratory, as applied to both prose and poetry. The whole adapted to elocutionary instruction. (Harper & brothers, 1870), by Marcius Willson (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The speaker; or Miscellaneous pieces, selected from the best English writers, disposed under proper heads for the improvement of youth, in reading and speaking; to which is prefixed An essay on elocution. (Joseph Larkin, 1808), by William Enfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Foods and beverages. (Boston school supply company, 1891), by E. A. Beal (page images at HathiTrust)
• English for use (The John C. Winston Company, 1926), by John Harrie Beveridge, William Dodge Lewis, and Belle M. Ryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• New stories : (Community life), a second reader (Wheeler, 1926), by Marjorie Hardy and Alberta N. Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voice, speech and gesture; a practical handbook to the elocutionary art, comprising also selections in prose and verse adapted for recitation, reading, and dramatic recital. (Grant, 1912), by R. D. Blackman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English school and family reader, containing selections in prose and verse ... on Judaism ... (Bloch pub. and print. co., 1883), by Henry Abarbanel (page images at HathiTrust)
• What a kiss can do, and other recitations for children (The Star Presses, 1925), by Marshall Stedman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The popular speaker: comprising fresh selections in poetry and prose ... containing the selections published in The reading-club, nos. 13, 14, 15, 16. (Lee and Shepard;, 1885), by George M. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• New speeches, dialogues and recitations for young children : containing easy pieces in plain language, readily understood by young children and expressly adapted for school exhibitions, Christmas and other juvenile celebrations. (Dick, 1884), by Russell Kavanaugh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Standard recitations. (New York, 1881), by Prescott (page images at HathiTrust)
• A help to elocution, containig three essays: I. On reading and declamation ... II. On the marks and characters of the different passions and affections of the mind; III. On composition ... To which is added a very large collection of examples in prose and verse (Printed for Fielding and Walker ... and J. Macgowan, 1780) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The standard speaker; containing exercises in prose and poetry for declamation in schools, academies, lyceums, colleges. (Cowperthwait, Desilver & Butler, 1854), by Epes Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The national speaker. (Boston, 1865), by Henry B. Maglathlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to the art of reading, with suitable accentuation and intonation. (Dublin, etc., 1844), by Commissioners of National Education in Ireland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secondary lessons, or The improved reader inteneded as a sequel to the Franklin primer. (Phelps & Ingersoll;, 1839), by Samuel Willard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The university speaker: a collection of pieces designed for college exercises in declamation and recitation; with suggestions on the appropriate elocution of particular passages. (James Munroe, 1852), by William Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comstock's phonetic reader, no. 1. (The author, 1853), by Andrew Comstock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il primo passo all'inglese : ossia, the English narrator con traduzione letterale e colla pronuncia figurata di tutte le parole del testo: libro col mezzo del quale s' impara la pronuncia inglese senza maestro (Silvestri, Dumolard, Laengner, :, 1853), by John Millhouse and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temi sceneggiati : ossiano, Dialoghi italiani ed inglesi per isvolgere le regole della grammatica analitica, o quelle di qualunque altra grammatica inglese (Silvestri, Dumolard, Laengner, :, 1852), by John Millhouse and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Entertainer and entertained (Mayhew Pub. Co., 1911), by Eleanor Hildegarde Magarity (page images at HathiTrust)
• Choice readings from standard and popular authors, embracing a complete classification of selections, a comprehensive diagram of the principles of vocal expression, and indexes to the choicest readings from Shakespeare, the Bible, and the hymn-books (Ginn & Co., 1890), by Thomas Clarkson Trueblood and Robert I. Fulton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sunburst of Ireland reciter : a selection of the most celebrated addresses delivered by Irish orators and patriots at the bar, from the dock. in the senate, and on the battle-field : with a variety of national pieces, in poetry and prose, suitable for recitation. (Glasgow, 1869) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new select speaker ... : together with rules and exercises for physical culture and elocution ... (National Pub. Co., 1916), by Jeannette M. Stratton and Josephine W. Stratton (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Witt's improved school speaker : containing many most entertaining, vigorous, thrilling, pathetic and amusing short poems and short prose pieces; giving full scope to every diversity of talent, whether of voice, attitude or facial expression ... (De Witt, 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections for reading and elocution. (Boston, 1879), by Joseph Wadsworth Keene (page images at HathiTrust)
• North America (The Century co., 1914), by Harrison Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lecture expressive à l'usage de toutes les écoles. Recueil de morceaux choisis de prose et de vers avec de nombreuses annotations sur la ton, l'inflexion, l'accent et la manière de phraser. (Paris, 1884), by Léon Ricquier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Camps and firesides of the revolution (The Macmillan company, 1912), by Albert Bushnell Hart and Mabel Hill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ten great events in history (D. Appleton and company, 1887), by James Johonnot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Entertainer and entertained (Mayhew Publishing Co., 1911), by Eleanor Hildegarde Magarity (page images at HathiTrust)
• One hundred choice selections in poetry and prose. (P. Garrett & Co., 1878), by Phineas Garrett and Nathaniel K. Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The speakers' library; the latest and most popular literary gems for public and parlor entertainment. (Elliott & Beezley, 1891), by Daphne Dayle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hand-Fibel. (Oehmigke, 1872), by Otto Schulz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The junior class-book: or, Reading lessons, for every day in the year. (Printed for M.J. Godwin and Co., 1824), by W. F Mylius (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical class-book: or, Reading lessons for every day in the year; selected from the most popular English poets, ancient and modern. (Printed for Baldwin, Craddock and Joy [etc.], 1825), by W. F. Mylius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kellogg's wonder books. Second book (Phonetic) ... (T.D. Kellogg, 1877), by Theodore D. Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Englisches lesebuch für anfänger nebst wörterbuch und sprachlehre. (A. Mylius, 1795), by Friedrich Gedike (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gettysburg speech, Lincoln; The great carbuncle, Hawthorne; Bunker Hill oration, Webster; The deserted village, Goldsmith; Enoch Arden, Tennyson. (Ainsworth & Company, 1900), by Abraham Lincoln (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of reading; containing a number of useful rules, exemplified by a variety of selected & original pieces ... together with dialogues, speeches, orations, addresses, and harangues ... (Boston, 1803), by Daniel Staniford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second reader (Indiana School Book Co., 1904), by Annie Klingensmith (page images at HathiTrust)
• McGuffey's new fourth-fifth eclectic reader : instructive lessons for the young ... (W.B. Smith & Co., 1857), by William Holmes McGuffey (page images at HathiTrust)
• One hundred choice selections. Nos. 1-3, 5-13, 16-20. (P. Garrett & Co., 1871), by Phineas Garrett and Nathaniel K. Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Choice dialect and other characterizations. (The Penn Publishing Company, 1893), by Charles C. Shoemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our town and city animals (Heath, 1937), by Frances E. Clarke and Katherine Louise Keelor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hawthorne's great book of recitations and dialogues; containing the very best of each kind,tragic,sentimental and comic. (Hurst & Co., 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro sketches, end-men's gags and conundrums. (Regan Pub. Corp., 1924), by William De Vere (page images at HathiTrust)
• A first reader for foreigners (American Book Co., 1911), by Mary Frances Sharpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Crabtree basic series ... (University Pub. Co., 1940), by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Lu Verne Crabtree Walker, and Eunice Katherine Crabtree (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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