THE

NATIONAL

FOURTH READER;

CONTAINING

A COURSE OF INSTRUCTION IN ELOCUTION;

EXERCISES IN

READING AND DECLAMATION,

AND

COPIOUS NOTES, GIVING THE PRONUNCIATION AND DEFINITIONS OF WORDS,
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PERSONS WHOSE NAMES OCCUR IN THE
READING LESSONS, AND THE EXPLANATION OF CLASSICAL

AND HISTORICAL ALLUSIONS.

PUBLISHED BY A. S. BARNES & BURR,

51 & 53 JOIN STREET.
SOLD BY BOOKSELLERS, GENERALLY, THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES.

1859.