CHAMBERS'S EDUCATIONAL COURSE.

CLASS-BOOK

OF

SCIENCE AND LITERATURE

Illustrated with Wood Engravings

W. & R. CHAMBERS

LONDON AND EDINBURGH

1869

PREFACE.

This work is intended as a Reading-book for Senior Classes in
Schools.

It consists of two parts: I. SCIENTIFIC; II. LITERARY.

The Scientific Part embraces lessons specially written for the
work on

PHYSICS, HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY, ZOOLOGY,

GEOLOGY, AND BOTANY.

Each of these subjects is illustrated by wood-cuts, and the Geology
is accompanied by a Geological Map of the British Islands. All
technical terms are explained, and their derivation given.

The Literary Part contains SELECTIONS FROM THE POETS, from
Spenser to the present day, arranged in chronological order, and
SELECTIONS FROM THE PROSE-WRITERS, from Hooker to the present
time, similarly arranged.

The Selections are accompanied by explanatory notes, and an
INDEX OF AUTHORS is given at the end of the book, containing
brief notices of their lives and works.

**The Publishers beg to thank the proprietors of the copyright
extracts that occur in this volume for their kindness in allowing
them to appear.