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Reflections upon Learning. By A Gentleman (Thomas Baker). 5th Edition. London, 1714, pp. 288. Exercises in Reading and Recitation. By Jonathan Barber. 2nd Edition. Providence, 1828; pp. 251. A Grammar of Elocution. By Jonathan Barber. New Haven, 1830; pp. 344. A Practical Treatise on Gesture. By Jonathan Barber. Cambridge, 1831; pp. 116. The Standard Speaker. By Epes Sargent. Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1856; pp. 558. Speeches of Henry Lord Brougham, Vol. II. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1841. Essays on Poetical and Prosaic Numbers and Elocution, 2d Edition. John Mason. London: J. Buckland, J. Waugh, 1761; pp. 75, 76, 35. (Three essays reprinted together, the “Elocution,”; third part, having appeared twelve years earlier.) The Manner Pointed Out in which the Common Prayer was read in private by the late Mr. Garrick for the instruction of a young clergyman: from whose manuscript notes this pamphlet is composed. By J. W. Anderson, M.A. London: printed by J. Plymsell, and published by F. and C. Rivington, St. Paul's Church Yard. Entered at Stationer's Hall, 1797. British Education, or The Source of the Disorders of Great Britain. Being an Essay towards proving, that the Immorality, Ignorance, and false Taste, which so generally prevail, are the natural and necessary Consequences of the present defective System of Education—with an Attempt to show, that a Revival of the Art of Speaking, and the Study of our own Language, might contribute, in a great measure, to the Cure of those Evils. Thomas Sheridan, A.M. London: P. and J. Dodsley, MDCCLVI. 536 pp.