THE ADVANCED

PROSE AND POETICAL READER,

BEING A COLLECTION OF

SELECT SPECIMENS IN ENGLISH,

WITH

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUESTIONS ON EACH LESSON;

TO WHICH ARE APPENDED,

COPIOUS LISTS OF PREFIXES AND AFFIXES,
WITH EXERCISES ON THE SAME, AND

An Etymological Vocabulary,

OF NEARLY TWO THOUSAND WORDS,

FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND FOR PRIVATE STUDY.

BY

ALEX. WINTON BUCHAN, F.E.I.S.

MASTER OF ST. JAMES' PARISH SCHOOL, GREAT HAMILTON STREET, GLASGOW.

GLASGOW:

WILLIAM HAMILTON, 137 RENFIELD STREET;
OLIVER AND BOYD, EDINBURGH;

AND SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., LONDON.

BOD

Wm. Hamilton, Printer, Renfield Street, Glasgow.