Mentor , or The American teacher's assistant. Being a selection of essays, instructive and entertaining, from the most approved authors in the English language. Intended to diffuse a true taste for elegance in style and sentiment, by exhibiting to the youth of our schools, just models of composition; and with a view to the improvement and amusement of young persons at classical and other schools, and to facilitate the invaluable arts of reading and writing. By John Wood, master of the Episcopal Charity School, and teacher of English grammar, &c. in New-York. [Four lines of verse from Mason].

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M,DCC,XCV. [1795]