BELL'S READING BOOKS.

Post 8vo, Strongly Bound, 1/- each.

GRIMM'S GERMAN TALES. (Selected.)
ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES. (Selected.) Illustrated.
GREAT ENGLISHMEN. (Short Lives.)

LAMB'S TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE.
EDGEWORTH'S TALES. (Selected.)

(Selected.)

FRIENDS IN FUR AND FEATHERS. By Gwynfryn.
GREAT SCOTSMEN. (Short Lives.)

GREAT ENGLISHWOMEN. (Short Lives.)

PARABLES FROM NATURE. (Selected.) By Mrs. Gatty.
THE LIGHT OF TRUTH, and other Parables. By Mrs.
Gatty.

MASTERMAN READY. By Capt. Marryat, R. N.
(Abridged.) Illustrated.

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. (Abridged.)

SETTLERS IN CANADA. By Capt. Marryat. (Abgd.))
ROBINSON CRUSOE.

Illustrated.

ARABIAN NIGHTS. (Selected.) Illustrated.

THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. (Abridged.)
SOUTHEY'S LIFE OF NELSON. (Abridged.)
TALES OF THE COAST. By J. Runciman.

MARIE; or, Glimpses of Life in France. By A. R. Ellis.
SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY, AND OTHER ESSAYS FROM
THE SPECTATOR.

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IV.

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With Maps

POETRY FOR Bors. Selected by D. Monro.
LIFE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

and Plans.

Others in preparation.

"I am very fond of your books, as I find that under a good teacher they highly interest the children and make them good readers. The percentage in reading in the boys' school last year was one hundred, and this year ninety-nine. This fact alone speaks volumes for your reading books."-Extract from a Letter from Mr. G. Coppin, Head Master, St. Michael and All Angels, Woolwich.

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It is not every story-book that will bear reading over a sufficient number of times for children to master its vocabulary, or that contains as much information as we may reasonably hope to convey while teaching reading, or such a variety of passages as to give sufficient exercise in the art of reading. The reprints before us are specially chosen as possessing these merits, and they appear to us to be well adapted to their purpose. Copies of these books should be in every school library; they will be read eagerly and with profit."-Schoolmaster.

"That reading books for young people should be at once readable and of good literary quality is a principle too obvious to be disputed, though it is not unfrequently disregarded by the compilers of such works. In these above named [Gulliver's Travels, Vicar of Wakefield, Lamb's Tales], it is distinctly recognized. Standard works of sterling value and great interest to the young are presented to them in a form adapted to their use by the simple omission of extraneous and unsuitable matter, without any further change. Great care and judgment have been exercised in making the incisions, so that no trace of them is discernible by the reader, who can therefore feel no sense of incompleteness The Tales fre entire, those only having been

Athenæum.

LONDON: GEORGE BELL

speare are given for schools."

NT GARDEN.

M. add

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET,

COVENT GARDEN.

1886.

King JOHN.

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

Prince HENRY, his Son.

ARTHUR, Duke of Bretagne.

Earl of Pembroke.

Earl of Essex.

Earl of Salisbury.

Earl of Norfolk.

HUBERT, Chamberlain to the King.

ROBERT FAULCONBRIDGE, Son of Sir Robert Faulconbridge. PHILIP FAULCONBRIDGE, his Half-brother, Bastard Son to King Richard the First.

PHILIP, King of France.

LEWIS, the Dauphin.
Archduke OF AUSTRIA.

Cardinal PANDULPH, the Pope's Legate.

MELUN, a French Lord.

CHATILLON, Ambassador from France.

ELINOR, the Mother of King John.

CONSTANCE, Mother to Arthur.

BLANCH, Niece to King John.

Citizens of Angiers, Sheriff, Heralds, Soldiers, and other Attendants.

SCENE, sometimes in England, and sometimes in France.

NOTE. The following version is reprinted from the copy of Shakspere used by the late Charies Kemble in his public readings. By its careful abridgment, by the omission of all objectionable passages, and the occasional accentuation of emphatic words, it is well adapted for school use, with a view to which short notes have also been appended