LADIES' READER

Shelter

DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF

LADIES' SCHOOLS

AND

FAMILY READING CIRCLES:

COMPRISING CHOICE SELECTIONS FROM STANDARD AUTHORS, IN

PROSE AND POETRY;

WITH THE ESSENTIAL RULES OF ELOCUTION.

SIMPLIFIED AND ARRANGED FOR STRICTLY PRACTICAL. ESE.

JOHN W. SHOWS,

PROFESSOR DE ELOCUTION,
THE PRACTICAL ELOCUTIONIST, THE SHAKS PEAREAN READER," ETC., ETC.

AUTROR OF

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“ NATURE without Discipline is of small force, and DISCIPLINE without Nuturo
more focble: if exercise or study be void of these, it availeth nothing."

Miles CovxRDALE

PHILADELPHIA:
PUBLISHED BY E. H. BUTLER & CO.

1872.

HOWS' LADIES' BOOK OF READINGS AND RECITATIONS, 12mo.

Enterod according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by

JOHN W. S. HOWS,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New Yrk.