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Page 98 - These Primers are extremely simple and attractive, and thoroughly answer their purpose of just leading the young beginner up to the threshold of the long avenues in the Palace of Nature which these titles suggest.
Page 108 - ... Chapsal had to relinquish their claims, and a general demand sprang up for new educational works, in connection with the teaching more particularly, of French. It is for the purpose of meeting this desideratum that Messrs. HACHETTE have issued the series of works the list of which is appended, and which, taking the pupils from the nursery, lead them gradually on till they are qualified to compete for Scholarships and Exhibitions at the Universities. The complete Educational Catalogue may be had...
Page 99 - THE BLANK-PAGED BIBLE. The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, with copious References to Parallel and Illustrative Passages, and the alternate pages ruled for MS. Notes.
Page 104 - Part I. MECHANICS, HYDROSTATICS, and PNEUMATICS. Part II. HEAT. Part III. ELECTRICITY and MAGNETISM. Part IV.
Page 104 - BOOK OF SCOTTISH SONG; A Collection of the Best and most Approved Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern ; with Critical and Historical Notices regarding them and their Authors, and an Essay on Scottish Song.
Page 97 - 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 98 - Rush. — SYNTHETIC LATIN DELECTUS. A First Latin Construing Book arranged on the Principles of Grammatical Analysis. With Notes and Vocabulary. By E. RUSH, BA With Preface by the Rev. WF MOULTON, MA, DD New and Enlarged Edition.
Page 106 - Eminently practical, well stored with examples of wider range and more varied character than are usually given in such books, and its method of treatment being thoroughly inductive, it is pre-eminently the book for general use."— English Journal of Education.
Page 106 - Without exception, the best book of its class we have seen. We recommend its immediate adoption by all public and private teachers.
Page 104 - NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. An Elementary Treatise. By Professor DESCHANEL, of Paris. Translated and Edited, with Extensive Additions, by Professor EVERETT, DCL, of Belfast.