Under these circumstances, it is impossible for the author to avoid indulging the hope, that if the opinion of Dr. Reynolds, a distinguished physician and surgeon of this city, as expressed in a letter received from him sometime since, be correct, that the "House I live in" ought to be studied not only in our week day schools, but in our Sunday schools, it will so far receive the confidence of teachers and parents, as to render it a text book in all our common schools, introductory to the larger and more costly works of other writers. BOSTON, DECEMBER, 1838. CHAPTER X.-COVERING OF THE HOUSE. The periosteum. The muscles. The tendons. CHAPTER XII.-THE COVERING.-THE WINDOWS. General remarks. The human eye. Situation of CHAPTER XIV.-APARTMENTS AND FURNITURE. General remarks. The external ear. Chambers of the nose. The mouth, internally. The sali- vary glands. Passages to the ear. The chest. Cavity of the lungs. The voice. The food pipe. The stomach. The intestines. Gall bladder, &c. |