The Illustrated London Reading Book

Project Gutenberg's The Illustrated London Reading Book, by VariousThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: The Illustrated London Reading BookAuthor: VariousRelease Date: April 6, 2004 [EBook #11921]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LONDON READING BOOK ***Produced by PG Distributed Proofreaders. Produced from images providedby the Internet Archive Children's Library and University of Florida.THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON READING BOOKLONDON:PRINTED AND PUBLISHED AT THE OFFICEOFTHE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS,198, STRAND.1851.THIRD EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS * * * * *[Illustration: PRINCE ALBERT IN HIS ROBES AS CHANCELLOR OF THEUNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.]INTRODUCTION.[Illustration: INTRODUCTION.] To read and speak with elegance and ease, Are arts polite that never fail to please; Yet in those arts how very few excel! Ten thousand men may read--not one read well. Though all mankind are speakers in a sense, How few can soar to heights of eloquence! The sweet melodious singer trills her lays, And listening crowds go frantic in her praise; But he who reads or speaks with feeling true, Charms and delights, instructs, ...