FOR SCHOOLS AND PAROCHIAL LIBRARIES.

THE popularity which the Series of Reading-Books known as Books for Young Readers" has attained, is a sufficient proof that teachers and pupils alike approve of the use of interesting stories with a simple plot, in place of the dry combinations of letters and syllables, making no impression on the mind, of which elementary reading-books generally consist. There is also practical testimony to the fact that children acquire the power of reading much more rapidly when the process involves something more than the mere mechanical exercise of the faculties of sight and memory.

The publishers have therefore thought it advisable to extend the application of this principle to books adapted for more advanced readers; and to issue for general use in schools a series of popular works, which they venture to think will in practice be found more adapted for the end in view than the collections of miscellaneous and often uninteresting extracts which are generally made to serve the purpose.

These volumes are printed in legible type, and strongly bound in cloth, and are sold at 1s. or 1s. 6d. each, post 8vo.

GRIMM'S GERMAN TALES. (Selected.) 1s.
ANDERSEN'S DANISH TALES. (Selected.) Ls.
GREAT ENGLISHMEN. Short Lives for Young Children. 1s.
LAMB'S TALES FROM SHAKSPEARE. (Selected.) Is.
EDGEWORTH'S TALES. A Selection.

1s.

FRIENDS IN FUR AND FEATHERS. By Gwynfryn. ls.
PARABLES FROM NATURE. (Selected.) By Mrs. Gatty. 1s.
MASTERMAN READY. By Capt. Marryat. (Abgd.) 1s. 6d.

Suitable

for

Standards

II. and III.

Standards

SETTLERS IN CANADA. By Capt. Marryat. (Abgd.) 1s. 6d. IV. and V. GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. (Abridged.) 1s.

ROBINSON CRUSOE. 1s. 6d.

MARIE; or, Glimpses of Life in France. By A. R. Ellis. 1s.
POETRY FOR Bors. Selected by D. Monro.

1s.

SOUTHEY'S LIFE OF NELSON. (Abridged.) 1s.

LIFE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. With Maps and
Plans. 1s.

Standard

VI.

Others in preparation.

LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

M. adds

SHAKSPERE FOR SCHOOLS.

KING HENRY V.

AS ABRIDGED BY

CHARLES KEMBLE

WITH

NOTES FOR SCHOOL USE.

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET,

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

King HENRY THE FIFTH.
Duke of Gloster,

Duke of Bedford, Brothers to the King.

Duke of Exeter, Uncle to the King.

Duke of York, Cousin to the King.

Earls of Salisbury, Westmoreland, and Warwick.

Earl of Cambridge,

Lord SCROOP,

Sir THOMAS GREY,

Sir THOMAS ERPINGHAM, GOWER, FLUELLEN, Officers in

King Henry's Army.

BATES, COURT, WILLIAMS, Soldiers in the same.

NYM, BARDOLPH, PISTOL, formerly Servants to Falstaff.

CHARLES, King of France.

LEWIS, the Dauphin.

Dukes of Burgundy, Orleans, and Bourbon.

The Constable of France.

Governor of Harfleur. MONTJOY, a French Herald.

ISABEL, Queen of France.

KATHARINE, Daughter of Charles and Isabel.

QUICKLY, Pistol's Wife, an Hostess.

Lords, Ladies, Officers, French and English Soldiers
Messengers, and Attendants.

The SCENE, at the beginning of the Play, lies in England; but afterwards wholly in France.

NOTE.-The following version, is reprinted from the copy of Shakspere used by the late Charles 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.