A mental museum for the rising generation : comprising, Part I. Familiar conversations on natural history and the universe, reflections on providence, etc.; Part II. Lessons calculated to excite a taste for reading and mental improvement - on industry, economy, preservation of health, etc.; Part III. Various instructive and entertaining articles and poetry ; with an appendix containing the Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the first free circulating library, etc. Designed for the middle classes of readers in American schools and families. Adapted to American customs and manners and proposed as a substitute for foreign compilations of reading lessons, by Jesse Torrey

Title:	A mental museum for the rising generation : comprising, Part I. Familiar conversations on natural history and the universe, reflections on providence, etc.; Part II. Lessons calculated to excite a taste for reading and mental improvement - on industry, economy, preservation of health, etc.; Part III. Various instructive and entertaining articles and poetry ; with an appendix containing the Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the first free circulating library, etc. Designed for the middle classes of readers in American schools and families. Adapted to American customs and manners and proposed as a substitute for foreign compilations of reading lessons
Author:	Torrey, Jesse, fl. 1787-1834
Note:	Thomas Desilver, 1829

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