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Page 91 - VI. Crown 8vo. {430 pp.) 2s. Book VI. is fitted for higher Classes, and as an Introduction to English Literature. " They are far above any others that have appeared both in form and substance. . . . The editor of the present series has rightly seen that reading books must 'aim chiefly at giving to the pupils the power of accurate, and, if possible, apt and skilful expression; at cultivating in them a good literary tasie, and at arousing a desire of further reading.
Page 107 - Familiar Words. An Index Verborum, or Quotation Handbook. Affording an immediate Reference to Phrases and Sentences that have become embedded in the English language. Second and enlarged Edition. "The most extensive dictionary of quotation we have met with." — Notes and Queries. Essays by Montaigne. Edited, Compared, Revised, and Annotated by the Author of "The Gentle Life.
Page 107 - Fern World (The). By FG HEATH. Illustrated by Twelve Coloured Plates, giving complete Figures (Sixty-four in all) of every Species of British Fern, printed from Nature ; by several full-page Engravings.
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Page 101 - Butler's Outline Maps, and Key, or GEOGRAPHICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL EXERCISES ; with a Set of Coloured Outline Maps, designed for the use of Young Persons. By the late WILLIAM BUTLER. Enlarged by the Author's Son, J.
Page 94 - The main object of this work is to enable a Beginner to fix the Declensions and Conjugations thoroughly in his memory, to learn their usage by constructing simple sentences as soon as he commences the study of the language, and to accumulate gradually a stock of useful words.
Page 101 - GRAMMAR, &c. A COMPENDIOUS GRAMMAR AND PHILOLOGICAL HANDBOOK OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, for the Use of Schools and Candidates for the Army and Civil Service Examinations. By JOHN GEORGE COLQUHOUN, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.
Page 96 - Part I. MECHANICS, HYDROSTATICS, and PNEUMATICS. Part II. HEAT. Part III. ELECTRICITY and MAGNETISM. Part IV.
Page 107 - This is a book which will delight the young. . . . We cannot imagine a nicer present than this book for children." — Standard. " Is certain to become a favourite with young people.
Page 92 - LITERATURE PRIMERS— Edited by JOHN RICHARD GREEN, Author of "A Short History of the English People.