TO THE FIRST REVISED EDITION.

THE AMERICAN SELECTION, though well received and much used in schools, has been thought susceptible of improvement: the compiler has therefore made some alterations, omitting some pieces, which are believed to be less adapted to interest young minds, and substituting others, which cannot fail to be as interesting as useful. The present edition comprehends a great variety of sentiment, morality, history, elocution, anecdote and description; and it is believ ed, will be found to contain as much interesting matter, as an compilation of the size and price.

NEW HAVEN, SEPT. 1804.

District of Connecticut, yà.

BE it remembered, that on the thirteenth day of January, in the twenty-eight year, of the Independence of the United States of America, Noah Webster, June of said District, Esq. hath deposited in this office the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, viz. "An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking; calculated to improve the minds and refine the taste of youth; to which are prefixed, Rules in Elocution, and directions for expressing the principal passions of the mind. By Noah Webster, Esq. Author of Dissertations on the English Language, Collection of Essays and Fugitive Writings, the Prompter, &c." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." CHARLES DENISON, Clerk.