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Part III. of "School Songs and Poetry" forms a continuation of tho Juvenile Series, Part II., suited to more general use. It contains a collection of school poetry adapted either for general purposes as a reading book, or for recitation and singing. For this latter purpose the pieces are connected with appropriate airs, published separately under the title of the "Young Singer's Book of Songs," where they are arranged, with the words, for the voice and the pianoforte (Burns and Lambert).

The Introduction, admitted on all hands to be so desirable, of the recreation of singing into the school-room, often meets with an impediment, in the difficulty of commanding at all times the services of a competent music-master. The airs, however, to which the songs in this collection are adapted in the "Young Singer's Book of Songs" are for the most part so easy and