AND Home Lesson Books, CONTAINING ALL THE REQUIREMENTS IN READING, SPELLING, AND DICTATION, OF REVISED CODE, 1873, BY H. MAJOR, B.A., F.R.G.S., Author of Scripture Readers for Day and Sunday Schools," "Science Questions & Answers," "Extra Subject Series," "The Candidate and Pupil Teachers' Year Book," "Science Manuals, Elementary and Advanced," &c. THE MIDLAND READERS CONTAIN THE FOLLOWING I. They combine a Reading and Home Lesson Book. IV. They are readable, amusing, lively, and instructive; well bound, clearly printed, and graduated. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO. NOTTINGHAM: H. MAJOR, Mansfield Road. PREFACE. The incidents in History that have been selected for reading Consecutive History and Geography must be taught syste- room between | miscalculated reckoned allies-Spanish and French surrender-give in leeward -side from the prophetic-that of a pro wind phet Hardy "He fell with his face upon the deck. turned round as some men were raising him. They have done for me at last, Hardy,' said he. Soon after he had been carried to the cock-pit, his wound was discovered to be mortal; he felt this himself, and insisted that the surgeon should leave him, to attend those whom he might yet save. He was in great pain, and intensely anxious to know how the battle went. 'Will no one bring Hardy to me?' he asked, 'he must be killed! he is surely dead!' At length Hardy came, and the two friends shook hands in silence. After a pause, the dying man faintly uttered "Well, Hardy, how goes the day? 'Very well; ten ships have already struck.' Finding that all was well, |