Title The English reader, or, Pieces in prose and poetry, selected from the best writers : designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect, to improve their language and sentiments, and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue ; with a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading / by Lindley Murray ; to which, by the aid of a key, is scrupulously applied, Mr. Walker's pronunciation of the classical proper names , and of numerous other words, difficult to pronounce by Israel Alger.