SUPERIOR SCHOOL BOOKS. 24mo, 3d., 46 pp., CROSSLEY'S COMPREHENSIVE PRIMER Lessons in Prose and Verse, intended to furnish Moral and Intellectual Instruction, in words of One Syliable only. The OBJECTS selected as the basis of Lessons are such as the child may reasonably be expected to describe in its own simple language, and on which questions may be put regarding use, structure, shape, parts, changes, food, &c. 18mo, blue cloth, 18., CROSSLEY'S COMPREHENSIVE SPELLING. Forty Prose Lessons and forty Poetical ones, including a variety of OBJECTS, such as the Eye, the Ear, the Hand, Corn, Flax, Hemp, Cotton, Rags, Paper, Silk, Skins, &c. &c.; and DUTIES, such as Truth, Love to Parents, Industry, Prayer, &c. &c., are included in this second book. A separate and complete course of Spelling is given under the head Saturday's Lesson. Instead of a multitude of words. which only burden the mind, such only are given as represent families or classes;-then the names of common things; then terms which describe qualities; then a careful selection of verbs; and finally, words of irregular formation. By this means a child, by committing to memory only sixteen short pages, will be able to master the orthography of any word in the language. 18mo, cloth, 8d., 128 pp., HOME AND COMMON THINGS. Sixty-six Lessons, original or compiled, in easy reading, comprising a considerable range of subjects and a large body of important facts. The following are among the subjects:-Races of Mankind, Modes of Living, Dwellings of Men, Stone, Lime, Bricks, Tiles, Wood, Glass, Metals, Paint, Ventilation, &c. Things kept in the House, such as Starch, Salt, Pepper, Arrow-root, Cork, India Rubber, &c. Manufactures-Cotton, Silk, Flax, Wool, &c. Steamengines, Railroads, Steamboats, Gas, Rivers and Canals, Bridges, Shipping, and Commerce. Embracing all the principal subjects relating to HOME. 12mo blue cloth, Is. 6d., CROSSLEY'S COMPREHENSIVE READER, In PROSE and POETRY, with Analyses, and Simultaneous or Gallery Lessons. Each day's Lesson includes, first, a text of Holy Scripture, which may serve as a motto for the day; secondly, a brief Poetical Extract, adapted to improve the taste and excite the affections; and lastly, an Exercise in General Reading. The ANALYSES are prepared on a new plan, including not merely the Roots of Words, but everything requisite to the most exact understanding of the Lesson, as well as to the practical application of it, both to the intellect and to the heart. 12mo, blue cloth, 2s. 6d., CROSSLEY'S COMPREHENSIVE CLASS BOOK, History, Physics, Natural History, Geography, and Miscel.anies. This Volume includes a briet Outline of English History, in 16 Lessons,-8 Course of General History, Ancient and Modern, in 42 Lessons;-a complete Series of Lessons on the various branches of Natural Philosophy, in 58 Lessons; a Systematic Course of Natural History, in 14 Lessons-Fourteen Miscellaneous Lessons on Government, Commerce, Painting and Sculpture, Music and the Arts, the Feudal System, Chivalry, Crusades, British Constitution, Parliament, Common Law, Civil and Statute Law, and Magistracy; -and an extended Series of Geographical, Chronological, and Scientific Notes and Questions, with extensive Appendices, Roots, &c.; forming, as a whole, the cheapest and most comprehensive School Book extent. 12mo, blue cloth, 256 pp., 2s., PROSE AND POETRY; A Supplement to Daily Lesson Book, No. III., and Comprehensive Reader. Containing-First, A Series of Lessons on the Art of Reading, with Exercises for Practice.-Secondly, Specimens of English and American Poets Chronologically Arranged.-Thirdly, Prose Selections, Narrative, Didactic, Pathetic, and Oratorical; intended to furnish practice in that variety of style which is essential to the formation of a good reader. These books are designed to assist Teachers who are anxious to insure Home Application to the subjects of School Instruction, by furnishing the Pupil with the leading facts which form the basis of the School Lessons. PRINCIPLES OF TEACHING; OR, THE NORMAL SCHOOL MANUAL, containing Practical Suggestions on the Government and Instruction of Children, by HENRY DUNN, Secretary to the British and Foreign School Society.-16th Edition, revised and enlarged, extra boards, 3s. 6d. "An excellent and thoroughly practical work, which we should rejoice to see in the hands of all schoolmasters, though their grade should be higher than the class for which it is intended."-Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. 5th Edition, revised, 324 pp., Royal, 2s. 6d., THE ILLUSTRATED NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, By WILLIAM MARTIN. Comprising nearly 1000 Questions, Illustrations, and Experiments; with upwards of 300 Engravings, and 53 Gallery Lessons. 59th Edition, 1s. 8d., bound in red, THE INTELLECTUAL CALCULATOR; A Complete Course of SLATE and MENTAL ARITHMETIC, in a graduated System, including all the usual Rules. This work has been eulogised by Lord Brougham in the House of Lords, (vide bis celebrated Speech on Education,) and been highly applauded by the leading Reviewers. The Proprietors of several prosperous Scholastic Establishments ascribe their success entirely to the introduction of this Arithmetic. The results of its System of Mental Arithmetic, even in very young pupils, astonish the best mathematicians and the most practised men of business. SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., STATIONERS' HALL COURT; |