| English Grammar. | R. Morris, LL. D. |
| English Literature. | Rev. Stopford A. Brooke, M. A. |
| Philology. | J. Peile, M. A. |
| Classical Geography. | M. F. Tozer. |
| Shakespeare. | Prof. E. Dowden. |
| Studies in Bryant. | J. Alden. |
| Greek Literature. | Prof. R. C. Jebb. |
| English Grammar Exercises. | R. Morris, LL.D., and H. C. Bowen, M. A. |
| Homer. | Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone. |
| English Composition. | Prof. J. Nichol. |
(Others in preparation.)
The object of these primers is to convey information in such a manner as to make it both intelligible and interesting to very young pupils, and so to discipline their minds as to incline them to more systematic after-studies. The woodcuts which illustrate them embellish and explain the text at the same time.