# The Sources of Standard English/Educational Books

October, 1873.
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CLASSICAL.
The Greek text adopted in this Edition is based upon that of Wellauer. But advantage has been taken of the suggestions of Hermann, Paley, Linwood, and other commentators. In the Translation, the simple character of the Æschylean dialogues has generally enabled the author to render them without any material deviation from the construction and idioms of the original Greek.
“The Notes are judicious, and, a rare merit in English Notes, not too numerous or too long. A most useful feature in the work is the Analysis of Müller's celebrated dissertations.” — British Quarterly Review.
The author has aimed to illustrate the general bearings and relations of the Art of Rhetoric in itself, as well as the special mode of treating ​adopted by Aristotle in his peculiar system. The evidence upon obscure or doubtful questions connected with the subject is examined; and the relations which Rhetoric bears, in Aristotle's view, to the kindred art of Logic are considered. A connected Analysis of the treatise is given, sometimes in the form of paraphrase; and a few important matters are separately discussed in Appendices. There is added, as a general Appendix, by way of specimen of the antagonistic system of Isocrates and others, a complete analysis of the treatise called Ῥητοριχὴ πρὸς Ἀλέξαδρον, with a discussion of its authorship and of the probable results of its teaching.
ELENCHI. With a Translation and Notes by Edward Poste,
Besides the doctrine of Fallacies, Aristotle offers, either in this treatise or in other passages of his works quoted in the commentary, various glances over the world of science and opinion, various suggestions or problems which are still agitated, and a vivid picture of the ancient system of dialectics. “It is not only scholarlike and careful, it is also perspicuous.” — Guardian. “It is indeed a work of great skill” — Saturday Review.
IN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. By John Stuart Blackie, Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. Fcap. 8vo.
“Why should the old practice of conversing in Latin and Greek be altogether discarded?” — Professor Jowett.
Professor Blackie has been in the habit, as part of the regular training of his class in Edinburgh University, of accustoming the students to converse in Greek. This method he has found to be eminently successful as a means of furnishing the students with a copious vocabulary, training them to use it promptly, confidently, and with correct articulation, and instilling into them an accurate and intelligent knowledge of Greek Grammar, which he hopes may aid other teachers in realizing the same ends. The present little volume furnishes a series of twenty-five gradu­ated dialogues in parallel columns of Greek and English on a great variety of interesting subjects. The author has had the advantage of submitting his work to the judgment of several scholars of repute, both English and Scotch. The Globe says: “Professor Blackie's system is sensible; his book is likely to be useful to teachers of Greek; and his suggestions valuable to the learners of any language.” ​
Introduction and Notes, translated from the German of Karl Halm. Edited, with Corrections and Additions, by John. E. B. Mayor, M.A., Fellow and Classical Lecturer of St. John's
This volume opens with a List of Books useful to, the Student of Cicero and some account of various editions, mostly German, of the works. of Cicero. The Introduction is based on Halm. The English editor has further illustrated the work by additions drawn, for the most part, (1) from the ancient authorities; (2) from his own private marginal references, and from collections; (3) from the notes of previous com­mentators, A copious ‘argument’ is also given. “On the whole we have rarely met with an edition of a classical author which so thoroughly fulfils the requirements of a good school-book.” — Educational Times. “A valuable edition,” says the Athenæum.
Notes and an Introduction. Translated from the German of Karl Halm, with many additions by A. S. Wilkins, M.A. Professor of Latin in Owens College, Manchester. New Edition. Fcap. 8vo.
The historical introduction of Mr. Wilkins brings together all the details which are known respecting Catiline and his relations with the great orator. A list of passages where conjectures have been admitted into the text, and also of all variations from the text of Kayser (1862), is added at the end. Finally, the English editor has subjoined a large number of notes, both original and selected, from Curtius, Schleischer, Corssen, and other well-known critics, an analysis of the orations, and an index.
Greek Text with English Notes. By B. Drake, M.A., late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Fifth Edition, to which is prefixed ÆSCHINES AGAINST CTESIPHON, with English
An Introduction discusses the immediate causes of the two orations, and their general character. The Notes contain frequent references to the best authorities. Among the appendices at the end, is a chronological table of the life and public career of Æschines and Demosthenes. “A neat and useful edition.” — Athenæum. ​
including Accidence, Irregular Verbs, and Principles of Derivation and Composition; adapted to the System of Crude Forms. By J. G. Greenwood, Principal of Owens College, Manchester. Fourth
This Grammar is intended to do for Greek what the Grammars of Key and others have done for Latin. Until this work was published, no Greek Grammar had appeared based on the system of crude forms, though the system is perhaps still better adapted to Greek than to Latin.
A brief Sketch of the Fables of the Ancients, prepared to be rendered into Latin Verse for Schools. By F. Hodgson, B.D., late Provost of Eton. New Edition, revised by F. C. Hodgson,
The late Provost of Eton has here supplied a help to the composition of Latin Verse, combined with a brief introduction to Classical Mythology. In this new edition a few mistakes haw been rectified; rules have been added to the Prosody; and a more uniform system has been adopted with regard to the help afforded.
With a Commentary by John E. B. Mayor, M.A., Kennedy Pro­fessor of Latin at Cambridge. Part I. Book IX.-XII. Fcap. 8vo.
Prose, with Introductions, Running Analysis, and Notes, by James Lonsdale, M.A., and Samuel Lee, M.A. Globe 8vo.
“The main merits of this version are its persistent fidelity to the sense and spirit of the Latin, the beauty of its form of presentation, its freedom, and its force. To the schoolboy it will be available as a help, because it is, beyond all comparison, the most accurate and trustworthy of all transla­tions.” — English Churchman.
Commentary. By John E. B. Mayor, M.A., Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge. Second Edition, enlarged. Vol. I. Crown
the author is indebted to Professors Munro and Conington. All the citations have been taken anew from the original authors. “A painstaking and critical edition” — Spectator. “For really ripe scholarship, extensive acquaintance with Latin literature, and familiar knowledge of continental criticism, ancient and modern, it is unsurpassed among English editions.” — Edinburgh Review.
classified according to the arrangement of Curtius' Greek Grammar. By J. M. Marshall, M.A., Fellow and late Lecturer of Brasenose College, Oxford; one of the Masters in Clifton College. 8vo.
The system of this table has been borrowed from the excellent Greek Grammar of Dr. Curtius.
after Karl Halm, with Corrections and large Additions by John E. B. Mayor, M.A., Fellow and Classical Lecturer of St. John's
A selection of short passages, serving to illustrate especially the Greek Accidence. A good deal of syntax is incidentally taught, and Madvig and other books are cited, for the use of masters: but no learner is expected to know more of syntax than is contained in the Notes and Vocabulary. A preface “To the Reader,” not only explains the aim and method of the volume, but also deals with classical instruction generally. The extracts are uniformly in the Attic dialect. This book may be used in connection with Mayor's “Greek for Beginners,” “After a careful examination we are inclined to consider this volume unrivalled in the hold which its pithy sentences are likely to take on the memory, and for the amount of true scholarship embodied in the annotations.” — Educational Times.
Rev. J. B. Mayor, M.A., Professor of Classical Literature in King's College, London. Part I., with Vocabulary, 1s. 6d. Parts II. and III., with Vocabulary and Index, 3s. 6d., complete in one
The distinctive method of this book consists in building up a boy's knowledge of Greek upon the foundation of his knowledge of English and ​Latin, instead of trusting everything to the unassisted memory. Greek words have been used in the earlier part of the book except such as have connections either in English or Latin. Each step leads naturally on to its successor; grammatical forms and rules are at once applied in a series of graduated exercises, accompanied by ample vocabularies. Thus the book serves as Grammar, Exercise book, and Vocabulary. The ordinary ten declensions are reduced to three, which correspond to the first three in Latin; and the system of stems is adopted. A general Vocabulary, and Index of Greek words, completes the work. “We know of no book of the same scope so complete in itself, or so well calculated to make the study of Greek interesting at the very commencement.” — Standard.
AND LATIN ETYMOLOGY. By John Peile, M.A., Fellow and Assistant Tutor of Christ's College, Cambridge, formerly Teacher of Sanskrit in the University of Cambridge. New and
These Philological Lectures are the result of Notes made during the author's reading for several years. These Notes were put into the shape of Lectures, delivered at Christ's College, as one set in the “Intercollegiate” list. They are now printed with some additions and modifications, “The hook may be accepted as a very valuable contribution to the science of language.” — Saturday Review.
with an Analysis and Notes, by J. Ll. Davies, M.A., and D. J. Vaughan, M.A. Third Edition, with Vignette Portraits of Plato and Socrates, engraved by Jeens from an Antique Gem. 18mo.
An introductory notice supplies some account of the life of Plato, and the translation is preceded by an elaborate analysis. “The translators have,” in the judgment of the Saturday Review, “produced a book which any reader, whether acquainted with the original or not, can peruse with pleasure as well as profit.”
With Notes Critical and Explanatory, Prolegomena, and Excursus. By William Ramsay, M.A., formerly Professor of Humanity in the University of Glasgow. Edited by Professor George G. Ramsay, M.A., of the University of Glasgow.
scholarship which its author brought to bear upon everything that he undertook are visible throughout. It is furnished with a complete apparatus of prolegomena, notes, and excursus; and for the use of veteran scholars it probably leaves nothing to be desired” — Pall Mall Gazette.
PROSE COMPOSITION. By Alex. W. Potts, M.A., late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge; Assistant Master in Rugby School; and Head Master of the Fettes College, Edinburgh.
An attempt is here made to give students, after they have mastered ordinary syntactical rules, some idea of the characteristics of Latin Prose and the means to be employed to reproduce them. Some notion of the treatment of the subject may be gathered from the ‘Contents.’ Chap. I. — Characteristics of Classical Latin, Hints on turning English into Latin; Chap. II. — Arrangement of Words in a Sentence; Chap. III. — Unity in Latin Prose, Subject and Object; Chap. IV. — On the Period in Latin Prose; Chap. V. — On the position of the Relative and Relative Clauses. The Globe characterises it as “an admirable little book which teachers of Latin will find of very great service.”
Plautus to Suetonius. By H. J. Roby, M.A., late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. Part I. containing: — Book I. Sounds. Book II. Inflexions. Book III. Word-formation. Appendices.
This work is the result of an independent and careful study of the writers of the strictly classical period, the period embraced between the time of Plautus and that of Suetonius. The author's aim has been to give the facts of the language in as few words as possible. This is a Grammar strictly of the Latin language; not a Universal Grammar illustrated from Latin, nor the Latin section of a Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European languages, nor a Grammar of the group of Italian dialects, of which Latin is one. It will be found that the arrangement of the book and the treatment of the various divisions differ in many respects from those of previous grammars. Mr. Roby has given special prominence to the treatment of Sounds and Word-formation; and in the First Book he has done much towards settling a discussion which is at present largely engaging the attention of scholars, viz., the pronunciation of the classical languages. ​“The book is marked by the clear and practised insight of a master in his art. It is a book that would do honour to any country.” — Athenæum.
By the Rev. George Rust, M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford, Master of the Lower School, King's College, London. New
This little work consists of carefully graduated vocabularies and exercises, so arranged as gradually to familiarise the pupil with the elements of Latin Prose Composition, and fit him to commence a more advanced work.
For Use in Schools. With copious Notes. By C. Merivale, B.D. (In the present Edition the Notes have been carefully revised, and a few remarks and explanations added.)
This edition of Sallust, prepared by the distinguished historian of Rome, contains an Introduction, concerning the life and works of Sallust, lists of the Consuls, and elaborate Notes. “A very good edition, to which the Editor has not only brought scholarship but independent judgment and historical criticism” — Spectator.
INTO ENGLISH. By A. J. Church, M.A., and W. J. Brodribb, M.A. With Notes and a Map. New and Cheaper
The translators have endeavoured to adhere as closely to the original as was thought consistent with a proper observance of English idiom. At the same time, it has been their aim to reproduce the precise expressions of the author. The campaign of Civilis is elucidated in a note of some length, which is illustrated by a map, containing the names of places and of tribes occurring in the work. There is also a complete account of the Roman army as it was constituted in the time of Tacitus. This work is characterised by the Spectator as “a scholarly and faithful translation.”
Text, English Notes, and Maps. By A. J. Church, M.A.,
elucidate the text, explaining the various difficulties, critical and gramma­tical, which occur to the student. We have consulted throughout, besides the older commentators, the editions of Ritter and Orelli, but we are under special obligations to the labours of the recent German editors, Wex and Kritz” Two Indexes are appended, (1) of Proper Names, (2) of Words and Phrases explained. “A model of careful editing,” says the Athenæum, “being at once compact, complete, and correct, as well as neatly printed and elegant in style.”
by A. J. Church, M.A., and W. J. Brodribb, M.A. With
The translators have sought to produce such a version as may satisfy scholars who demand a faithful rendering of the original, and English readers who are offended by the baldness and frigidity which commonly disfigure translations. The treatises are accompanied by Introductions, Notes, Maps, and a chronological Summary. The Athenæum says of this work that it is “a version at once readable and exact, which may be perused with pleasure by all, and consulted with advantage by the classical student.”
An English Translation from a Revised Text. With Introduction and Notes. By R. C. Jebb, M.A., Public
The first object of this book is to make these lively pictures of old Greek manners better known to English readers. But as the Editor and Trans­lator has been at considerable pains to procure a trustworthy text, and has recorded the results of his critical labours in an Introduction, Notes, and Appendices, it is hoped that the work will prove of value even to the scholar. “We must not omit to give due honour to Mr. Jebb's trans­lation, which is as good as translation can be . . . . Not less commendable are the execution of the Notes and the critical handling of the Text.” — Spectator. The Saturday Review speaks of it as “a very handy ​and scholarly edition of a work which till now has been beset with hindrances and difficulties, but which Mr. Jebb's critical skill and judgment have at length placed within the grasp and comprehension of ordinary readers.”
Beginners. New Edition, enlarged, with Coloured Sentence Maps.
The Head Master of Uppingham has here sought to supply by easy steps a knowledge of grammar, combined with a good Vocabulary. Passages have been selected from the best Latin authors in prose and verse. These passages are gradually built up in their grammatical structure, and finally printed in full. A short practical manual of common mood con­structions, with their English equivalents, forms a second part. To the New Edition a circle of grammatical Constructions with a Glossary has been added; as also some coloured Sentence Maps, by means of which the different parts of a sentence can easily be distinguished, and the practice of dissecting phrases carried out with the greatest benefit to the student.
Treats of the ordinary mood constructions, as found in the Latin, Greek, and English languages. The Educational Times thinks it “very well suited to young students.”
VI. and VII. of Thucydides, with Notes. A New Edition, revised and enlarged, with a Map. By the Rev. Percival Frost, M.A.,
This edition is mainly a grammatical one. Attention is called to the force of compound verbs, and the exact meaning of the various tenses employed, “The notes are excellent of their kind. Mr. Frost seldom passes over a difficulty, and what he says is always to the point.” — Educational Times.
ENGLISH PROSE, with Notes, Introductions, Running Analysis, and an Index, by James Lonsdale, M.A. and Samuel Lee,
avoided. At the same time, the translators have endeavoured to adapt the book to the use of the English reader. Some amount of rhythm in the structure of the sentence has been generally maintained; and, when in the Latin the sound of the words is an echo to the sense (as so frequently happens in Virgil), an attempt has been made to produce the same result in English. The general introduction contains whatever is known of the poet's life, an estimate of his genius, an account of the principal editions and translations of his works, and a brief view of the influence he has had on modern poets; special introductory essays are prefixed to the “Eclogues,” “Georgics,” and “Æneid.” The text is divided into sections, each of which is headed by a concise analysis of the subject; the Index contains references to all the characters and events of any importance. “A more complete edition of Virgil in English it is scarcely possible to conceive than the scholarly work before us.” — Globe.
related by Diodorus and Thucydides; being a First Greek Reading Book, with explanatory Notes, Critical and Historical. Third
In the last twenty chapters of this volume, Thucydides sketches the rise and progress of the Athenian Empire in so clear a style and in such simple language, that the editor has doubts whether any easier or more instruc­tive passages can be selected for the use of the pupil who is commencing Greek. This book includes a chronological table of the events recorded. The Guardian speaks of the work as “a good plan well executed.”
This book is not intended as a rival to any of the excellent Grammars now in use; but as a help to enable the beginner to understand them.
from the First Book of Livy by the omission of Difficult Passages; being a First Latin Reading Book, with Grammatical Notes.
which may at the same time be made the vehicle for instructing him in the rules of grammar and principles of composition. The notes profess to teach what is commonly taught in grammars. It is conceived that the pupil will learn the rules of construction of the language much more easily from separate examples, which are pointed out to him in the course of his reading, and which he may himself set down in his note-book after some scheme of his own, than from a heap of quotations amassed for hint by others. “The Notes are abundant, explicit, and full of such grammatical and other information as boys require.” — Athenæeum. “This is really,” the Morning Post says, “what its title imports, and we believe that its general introduction into Grammar Schools would not only facilitate the progress of the boys beginning to learn Latin, but also relieve the Masters from a very considerable amount of irksome labour . . . . a really valuable addition to our school libraries.”
SERIES OF EXAMPLES TO THE STUDY OF THE
The following points in the plan of the work may be noted: — 1. The pupil has to deal with only one construction at a time. 2. This construction is made clear to him by an accumulation of instances. 3. As all the constructions are classified as they occur, the construction in each sentence can be easily referred to its class. 4. As the author thinks the pupil ought to be thoroughly familiarized, by a repetition of instances, with a construction in a foreign language, before he at­tempts himself to render it in that language, the present volume contains only Latin sentences. 5. The author has added to the Rules on Prosody in the last chapter, a few familiar lines from Ovid's Fasti by way of illustration. In a brief Introduction the author states the rationale of the principal points of Latin Grammar. Copious Notes are appended, to which reference is made in the text, from the clear and rational method adopted in the arrangement of this elementary work, from the simple way in which the various rules are conveyed, and from the abun­dance of examples given, both teachers and pupils will find it a valuable help to the learning of Latin. ​
CLASSIC VERSIONS OF ENGLISH BOOKS AND LATIN HYMNS.
The following works are, as the heading indicates, classic renderings of English Books. For scholars, and parti­cularly for writers of Latin Verse, the series has a special value. The Hymni Ecclesiæ are here inserted, as partly falling under the same class.
Eclogae e Tennysono. Latine redditæ. Cura A. J. Church,
Latin versions of Selections from Tennyson. Among the authors are the Editor, the late Professor Conington, Professor Seeley, Dr. Hessey, Mr. Kebbel, and other gentlemen.
aliunde excerptis floribus. Latine reddidit Rev. H. Latham, M.A.
Besides versions of Shakespeare this volume contains, among other pieces, Gray's “Elegy,” Campbell's “Hohenlinden,” Wolfe's “Burial of Sir John Moore,” and selections from Cowper and George Herbert.
Hymns of the Mediæval Church. The first Part contains selections from the Parisian Breviary; the second from those of Rome, Salisbury, and York.
chiefly Lyrical, selected and arranged for Use; with Notes and
In this work the editor has selected hymns of a catholic religious sentiment that are common to Christendom, while rejecting those of a distinctively Romish character. ​
MATHEMATICS.
EQUATIONS. Designed for the Use of Students in the Univer­sities.
It is hoped that the methods of solution here explained, and the instances exhibited, will be found sufficient for application to nearly all the important problems of Physical Science, which require for their complete investigation the aid of Partial Differential Equations.
ERRORS OF OBSERVATIONS AND THE COMBINA­TION
In order to spare astronomers and observers in natural philosophy the confusion and loss of time which are produced by referring to the ordinary treatises embracing both branches of probabilities (the first relating to chances which can be altered only by the changes of entire units or in­tegral multiples of units in the fundamental conditions of the problem; the other concerning those chances which have respect to insensible grada­tions in the value of the element measured), the present tract has been drawn, up. It relates only to errors of observation, and to the rules, derivable from the consideration of these errors, for the combination of the results of observations. ​
Students in the University. New Edition. Crown 8vo. cloth.
The undulatory theory of optics is presented to the reader as having the same claims to his attention as the theory of gravitation: namely, that it is certainly true, and that, by mathematical operations of general elegance, it leads to results of great interest. This theory explains with accuracy a vast variety of phenomena of the most complicated kind. The plan of this tract has been to include those phenomena only which admit of calculation, and the investigations are applied only to phenomena which actually have keen observed.
Mathematical Elements of Music. Designed for the Use of Students of the University. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged.
This volume consists of sections, which again are divided into numbered articles, on the following topics: — General recognition of the air as the medium which conveys sound; Properties of the air on which the forma­tion and transmission of sound depend; Theory of undulations as applied to sound, &c.; Investigation of the motion of a wave of air through the atmosphere; Transmission of waves of soniferous vibrations through dif­ferent gases, solids, and fluids; Experiments on the velocity of sound, &c.; On musical sounds, and the manner of producing them; On the elements of musical harmony and melody, and of simple musical composi­tion; On instrumental music; On the human organs of speech and hearing.
As the laws of Magnetic Force have been experimentally examined with philosophical accuracy, only in its connection with iron and steel, and in the influences excited by the earth as a whole, the accurate portions of this work are confined to the investigations connected with these metals and the earth. The latter part of the work, however, treats in a more general way of the laws of the connection between Magnetism on the other hand and Gal­vanism and Thermo-electricity on the other. The work is divided into Twelve Sections, and each section into numbered articles, each of which states concisely the subject of the following paragraphs. ​
OPTICS. Adapted for the use of the Higher Classes in Schools. By Osmund Airy, B.A., one of the Mathematical Masters in
“This is, I imagine, the first time that any attempt has been made to adapt the subject of Geometrical Optics to the reading of the higher classes in our good schools. That this should be so is the more a matter for remark, since the subject would appear to be peculiarly fitted for such an adaptation. . . . . I have endeavoured, as much as possible, to avoid the example of those popular lecturers who explain difficulties by ignoring them. But as the nature of my design necessitated brevity, I have omitted entirely one or two portions of the subject which I considered unnecessary to a clear understanding of the rest, and which appear to me better learnt at a more advanced stage” — Author's Preface. “This book,” the Athenæum says, “is carefully and lucidly written, and rendered as simple as possible by the use in all cases of the most elementary form of investigation.”
By Joseph Bayma, S.J., Professor of Philosophy.
Of the Twelve Books into which the present treatise is divided, the first and second give the demonstration of the principles which bear directly on the constitution and the properties of matter. The next three books contain a series of theorems and of problems on the laws of motion of elementary substances. In the sixth and seventh, the mechanical constitution of mole­cules is investigated and determined: and by it the general properties of bodies are explained. The eighth book treats of luminiferous œther. The ninth explains some special properties of bodies. The tenth and eleventh contain a radical and lengthy investigation of chemical principles and relations, which may lead to practical results of high importance. The twelfth and last book treats of molecular masses, distances, and powers.
TRIGONOMETRY. With Examples. By R. D. Beasley, M.A., Head Master of Grantham Grammar School. Fourth
This treatise is specially intended for use in schools, The choice of matter has been chiefly guided by the requirements of the three days' examination ​at Cambridge. About four hundred examples were added to the second edition, mainly collected from the Examination Papers of the last ten years. In this edition several new articles have been added, the examples have been largely increased, and a series of Examination Papers appended.
TRIGONOMETRY, for the use of the Junior Class of Mathematics in the University of Glasgow. By Hugh Blackburn, M.A., Professor of Mathematics in the University of Glasgow. Globe
The author having felt the want of a short treatise to be used as a Text-Book after the Sixth Book of Euclid had been learned and some knowledge of Algebra acquired, which should contain satisfactory de­monstrations of the propositions to be used in teaching Junior Students the solution of Triangles, and should at the same time lay a solid foundation for the study of Analytical Trigonometry, thinking that others may have felt the same want, has attempted to supply it by the publication of this little work.
Revised Edition. Edited by I. Todhunter. Crown 8vo. cloth.
Professor Boole has endeavoured in this treatise to convey as complete an account of the present state of knowledge on the subject of Differential Equa­tions as was consistent with the idea of a work intended, primarily, for elementary instruction. The earlier sections of each chapter contain that kind of matter which has usually been thought suitable for the beginner, while the latter ones are devoted either to an account of recent discovery, or the discussion of such deeper questions of principle as are likely to present themselves to the reflective student in connection with the methods and processes of his previous course. “A treatise incomparably superior to any other elementary book on the same subject with which we are acquainted.” — Philosophical Magazine.
Volume. Edited by I. Todhunter. Crown 8vo. cloth.
enlarging his treatise on Differential Equations.
In this exposition of the Calculus of Finite Differences, particular attention has been paid to the connection of its methods with those of the Differential Calculus — a connection which in some instances involves far more than a merely formal analogy. The work is in some measure designed as a sequel to Professor Boole's Treatise on Differential Equa­tions. “As an original book by one of the first mathematicians of the age, it is out of all comparison with the mere second-hand compilations which have hitherto been alone accessible to the student.” — Philosophical Magazine.
PRACTICE. By J. Brook-Smith, M.A., LL.B., St. John's College, Cambridge; Barrister-at-Law; one of the Masters of Cheltenham College. Complete, Crown 8vo. 4s. 6d. Part I.
Writers on Arithmetic at the present day feel the necessity of explaining the principles on which the rules of the subject are based, but few as yet feel the necessity of making these explanations strict and complete. If the science of Arithmetic is to be made an effective instrument in developing and strengthening the mental powers, it ought to be worked out rationally and conclusively; and in this work the author has endeavoured to reason out in a clear and accurate manner the leading propositions of the science, and to illustrate and apply those propositions in practice. In the practical part of the subject he has advanced somewhat beyond the majority of preceding writers; particularly in Division, in Greatest Common Measure, in Cube Root, in the Chapters on Decimal Money and the Metric System, and more especially in the application of Decimals to Percentages and cognate subjects. Copious examples, original and selected, are given. “This strikes us as a valuable Manual of Arithmetic of the Scientific kind. Indeed, this really appears to us the best we have seen” — Literary Churchman. “This is an essentially practical book, providing very definite help to candidates for almost every kind of com­petitive examination.” — British Quarterly. ​
These volumes will be found of great value to Teachers and Students, as indicating the style and range of mathematical study in the University of Cambridge.
PHILOSOPHY, for the Degree of B.A. Originally compiled by J. C. Snowball, M.A., late Fellow of St John's College. Fifth Edition, revised and enlarged, and adapted for the Middle-Class Examinations by Thomas Lund, B.D., Late Fellow and Lecturer of St John's College, Editor of Wood's Algebra, &c.
This work will be found adapted to the wants, not only of University Students, but also of many others who require a short course of Mechanics and Hydrostatics, and especially of the candidates at our Middle Class Examinations. At the end of each chapter a series of easy questions is added for the exercise of the student.
Only a few copies remain on hand. Among Contributors to this work will be found Sir W. Thomson, Stokes, Adams, Boole, Sir W. R. Hamilton, De Morgan, Cayley, Sylvester, Jellett, and other distinguished mathematicians.
Schools. By H. Candler, M.A., Mathematical Master of
in use, “The main difficulties which boys experience in the different rules are skilfully dealt with and removed” — Museum.
THEORY. With a Collection of Problems. Second Edition.
In this volume an attempt has been made to produce a treatise on the Planetary theory, which, being elementary in character, should be so far complete as to contain all that is usually required by students in the University of Cambridge. In the New Edition the work has been carefully revised. The stability of the Planetary System has been more fully treated, and an elegant geometrical explanation of the formulœ for the secular variation of the node and inclination has been introduced.
The first part of this work consists of an application of the method of the variation of elements to the general problem of rotation. In the second part the general rotation formula are applied to the particular case of the earth.
AND ASSOCIATED SURFACES OF THE Nth DEGREE. By the Rev. G. F. Childe, M.A., Author of
The object of this volume is to develop peculiarities in the Ellipsoid; and, further, to establish analogous properties in the unlimited congeneric series of which this remarkable surface is a constituent.
QUESTIONS IN PURE AND MIXED MATHEMATICS; with Answers and Appendices on Synthetic Division, and on the Solution of Numerical Equations by Homer's Method. By James R. Christie, F.R.S., late First Mathematical Master at the
This series of Mathematical Exercises is collected from those which the author has, from time to time, proposed for solution by his pupils during ​a long career at the Royal Military Academy. A student who finds that he is able to solve the larger portion of these Exercises, may consider that he is thoroughly well grounded in the elementary principles of pure and mixed Mathematics.
arranged, with Exercises and Examination Papers. By the Rev. T. Dalton, M.A., Assistant Master of Eton College. New Edition. 18mo. cloth. 2s. 6d. Answers to the Examples are
GEOMETRICALLY. Part I., THE ELLIPSE, with Problems. By the Rev. H. G. Day, M.A., Head Master of
The object of this book is the introduction of a treatment of Conic Sections which should be simple and natural, and lead by an easy transi­tion to the analytical methods, without departing from the strict geometry of Euclid.
with their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraical Geometry. By Charles L. Dodgson, M.A., Student and Mathematical Lecturer of Christ Church,
The object of the author is to present the subject as a continuous chain of argument, separated from all accessories of explanation or illustration. All such explanation and illustration as seemed necessary for a beginner are introduced, either in the form of foot-notes, or, where that would have occupied too much room, of Appendices, “The work,” says the Educational Times, “forms a valuable addition to the treatises we possess on Modern Algebra.”
By W. H. Drew, M.A., St. John's College, Cambridge.
In this work the subject of Conic Sections has been placed before the student in such a form that, it is hoped, after mastering the elements of Euclid, he ​may find it an easy and interesting continuation of his geometrical studies. With a view, also, of rendering the work a complete manual of what is required at the Universities, there have either been embodied into the text or inserted among the examples, every book-work question, problem, and rider, which has been proposed in the Cambridge examinations up to the present time.
An Essay towards an entirely New Method of Inte­grating them. By S. Earnshaw, M.A., St. John's College,
The peculiarity of the system expounded in this work is, that in every equation, whatever be the number of original independent variables, the work of integration is at once reduced to the use of one independent variable only. The author's object is merely to render his method thoroughly intel­ligible. The various steps of the investigation are all obedient to one general principle, and though in some degree novel, are not really difficult, but on the contrary easy when the eye has become accustomed to the novelties of the notation. Many of the results of the integrations are far more general than they were in the shape in which they have appeared in former treatises, and many Equations will be found in this Essay integrated with ease in finite terms which were never so integrated before.
PRACTICAL SOLID OR DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY. Containing Problems with help for Solutions. By J. H. Edgar, M.A., Lecturer on Mechanical Drawing at the Royal School of Mines, and G. S. Pritchard, late Master for Descriptive Geometry, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Second Edition,
In teaching a large class, if the method of lecturing and demonstrating from the black board only is pursued, the more intelligent students have generally to be kept back, from the necessity of frequent repetition, for the sake of the less promising; if the plan of setting problems to each pupil is adopted, the teacher finds a difficulty in giving to each sufficient attention. ​A judicious combination of both methods is doubtless the best; and it is hoped that this result may be arrived at in some degree by the use of this book, which is simply a collection of examples, with helps for solution, arranged in progressive sections. The new edition has been enlarged by the addition of chapters on the straight line and plane, with explanatory dia­grams and exercises on tangent planes, and on the cases of the spherical triangle.
CO-ORDINATES, the Method of Reciprocal Polars, and Theory of Projectors. By the Rev. N. M. Ferrers, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Second
The object of the author in writing on this subject has mainly been to place it on a basis altogether independent of the ordinary Cartesian system, instead of regarding it as only a special form of Abridged Notation. A short chapter on Determinants has been introduced.
of St. John's College, Cambridge; Mathematical Lecturer o
The author has written this book under the conviction that the skill and power of the young mathematical student, in order to be thoroughly available afterwards, ought to be developed in all possible directions. The subject which he has chosen presents so many faces, that it would be difficult to find another which, with a very limited extent of reading, combines, to the same extent, so many valuable hints of methods of cal­culations to be employed hereafter, with so much pleasure in its present use. In order to understand the work it is not necessary to have much knowledge of what is called Higher Algebra, nor of Algebraical Geometry of a higher kind than that which simply relates to the Conic Sections. From the study of a work like this, it is believed that the student will derive many advantages. Especially he will become skilled in making correct approximations to the values of quantities, which cannot be found exactly, to any degree of accuracy which may be required. ​
With Notes and Illustrations. Also a collection of Problems, principally intended as Examples of Newton's Methods. By
The author's principal intention is to explain difficulties which may be encountered by the student on first reading the Principia, and to illustrate the advantages of a careful study of the methods employed by Newton, by showing the extent to which they may be applied in the solution of problems; he has also endeavoured to give assistance to the student who is engaged in the study of the higher branches of mathematics, by representing in a geometrical form several of the processes employed in the Differential and Integral Calculus, and in the analytical investigations of Dynamics.
GEOMETRY. By Percival Frost, M.A., and the Rev. J. Wolstenholme, M.A., Fellow and Assistant Tutor of Christ's
The authors have endeavoured to present before students as comprehensive a view of the subject as possible. Intending to make the subject accessible, at least in the earlier portion, to all classes of students, they have endea­voured to explain completely all the processes which are most useful in dealing with ordinary theorems and problems, thus directing the student to the selection of methods which are best adapted to the exigencies of each problem. In the more difficult portions of the subject, they have considered themselves to be addressing a higher class of students; and they have there tried to lay a good foundation on which to build, if any reader should wish to pursue the science beyond the limits to which the work extends.
This book embraces all those branches of Astronomy which have, from time to time, been recommended by the Cambridge Board of Mathematical Studies: but by far the larger and easier portion, adapted to the first three days of the Examination for Honours, may be read by the more ​advanced pupils in many of our schools. The author's aim has been to convey clear and distinct ideas of the celestial phenomena, “It is a working book,” says the Guardian, “taking Astronomy in its proper place in mathematical sciences. . . . It is a book which is not likely to be got up unintelligently.”
with a Brief Sketch of the Problem up to the time of Newton.
These pages will, it is hoped, form an introduction to more recondite works. Difficulties have been discussed at considerable length. The selection of the method followed with regard to analytical solutions, which is the same as that of Airy, Herschel, &c. was made on account of its simplicity; it is, moreover, the method which has obtained in the University of Cambridge. “As an elementary treatise and introduction to the subject, we think it may justly claim to supersede all former ones.” — London, Edin. and Dublin Phil. Magazine.
DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL CALCULUS, for the Use of Colleges and Schools. By G. W. Hemming, M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. Second Edition, with
“There is no book in common use from which so clear and exact a knowledge of the principles of the Calculus can be so readily obtained.” — Literary Gazette.
Treatise in which the Conic Sections are defined as the Plane Sections of a Cone, and treated by the Method of Projection. By J. Stuart Jackson, M.A., late Fellow of Gonville and Caius
This work has been written with a view to give the student the benefit of the Method of Projections as applied to the Ellipse and Hyperbola, When this Method is admitted into the treatment of the Conic Sections, there are many reasons why they should be defined, not with reference to the focus and direction, but according to the original definition from which ​they have their name as plane sections of a cone. This method is calcu­lated to produce a material simplification in these curves, and to make the proof of their properties more easily understood and remembered. It is also a powerful instrument in the solution of a large class of problems relating to these curves.
FRICTION. By John H. Jellet, B.D., Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin; President of the Royal Irish Academy.
The theory of friction is as truly apart of Rational Mechanics as the theory of gravitation. This book is taken up with a special investigation of the laws of friction; and some of the principles contained in it are believed to be here enunciated for the first time. The work consists of eight Chapters as follows: — I. Definitions and Principles. II. Equilibrium with Friction. III. Extreme Positions of Equilibrium. IV. Movement of a Particle or System of Particles. V. Motion of a Solid Body. VI. Necessary and Possible Equilibrium. VII. Determination of the Actual Value of the Acting Force of Friction. VIII. Miscellaneous Problems — 1. Problem of the Top. 2. Friction Wheels and Locomotives. 3. Questions for Exercise. “The work is one of great research, and will add much to the already great reputation of its author.” — Scotsman.
arranged. By the Rev. C. A. Jones, M.A., and C. H. Cheyne, M.A., F.R.A.S., Mathematical Masters of Westminster
This little book is intended to meet a difficulty which is probably felt more or less by all engaged in teaching Algebra to beginners. It is, that while new ideas are being acquired, old ones are forgotten. In the belief that constant practice is the only remedy for this, the present series of miscel­laneous exercises has been prepared. Their peculiarity consists in this, that though miscellaneous they are yet progressive, and may be used by the pupil almost from the commencement of his studies. The book being intended chiefly for Schools and Junior Students, the higher parts of Algebra have not been included. ​
Easy Problems in Geometrical Drawing preparatory to the Study of Geometry. For the Use of Schools. By F. E. Kitchener,
It is the object of this book to make some way in overcoming the difficulties of Geometrical conception, before the mind is called to the attack of Geometrical theorems. A few simple methods of construction are given; and space is left on each page, in order that the learner may draw in the figures.
IN MATHEMATICS. With Answers. By H. A. Morgan, M.A., Sadlerian and Mathematical Lecturer of Jesus
This book contains a number of problems, chiefly elementary, in the Mathematical subjects usually read at Cambridge. They have been selected from the papers set during late years at Jesus College. Very few of them are to be met with in other collections, and by far the larger number are due to some of the most distinguished Mathematicians in the University.
It is a sufficient guarantee of the excellence of this complete edition of Newton's Principia that it has been printed for and under the care of Pro­fessor Sir William Thomson and Professor Blackburn, of Glasgow Uni­versity. The following notice is prefixed: — “Finding that all the editions of the Principia are now out of print, we have been induced to reprint Newton's last edition [of 1726] without note or comment, only introducing the ‘Corrigenda’ of the old copy and correcting typographical errors.” The book is of a handsome size, with large type, fine thick paper, and cleanly cut figures, and is the only modern edition containing the whole of Newton's great work. “Undoubtedly the finest edition of the text of the ‘Principia’ which has hitherto appeared.” — Educational Times.
Use of the Junior Classes at the University and the Higher Classes in Schools. With a Collection of Examples. Fourth edition, revised.
In preparing this work the author's object has been to include in it such portions of Theoretical Mechanics as can be conveniently investigated without the use of the Differential Calculus, and so render it suitable as a manual for the junior classes in the University and the higher classes in Schools, With one or two short exceptions, the student is not presumed to require a knowledge of any branches of Mathematics beyond the elements of Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry. Several additional propositions have been incorporated in the work for the purpose of rendering it more complete; and the collection of Examples and Problems has been largely increased.
A collection of examples and problems has been appended to this work, which are sufficiently numerous and varied in character to afford useful exercise for the student. For the greater part of them, recourse has been had to the Examination Papers set in the University and the several Colleges during the last twenty years.
Examples. By J. B. Phear, M.A., Fellow and late Assistant Tutor of Clare College, Cambridge. Fourth Edition, Crown
This edition has been carefully revised throughout, and many new illustrations and examples added, which it is hoped will increase its usefulness to students at the Universities and in Schools. In accordance with suggestions from many engaged in tuition, answers to all the Examples have been given at the end of the book.
FUNCTIONS, AND THE FIGURE OF THE EARTH. By John H. Pratt, M.A., Archdeacon of Calcutta, Author of “The Mathematical Principles of Mechanical Philosophy.” Fourth
question, “Has the Earth acquired its present form from being originally in a fluid state?” This Edition is a complete revision of the former ones.
AND ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY. With Numerous Examples and Hints for their Solution; especially designed for the Use of Beginners. By G. H. Puckle, M.A. New Edition,
This work is recommended by the Syndicate of the Cambridge Local Examinations. The Athenæum says the author “displays an intimate acquaintance with the difficulties likely to be felt, together with a singular aptitude in removing them.”
Rawlinson, M.A. Edited by the Rev. Edward Sturges, M.A., of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and late Professor of the Applied
Published under the authority of Her Majesties Secretary of State for India, for use in the Government Schools and Colleges in India.
GEOMETRY. By E. M. Reynolds, M.A., Mathematical
This little book has been constructed on one plan throughout, that of always giving in the simplest possible form the direct proof from the nature of the case. The axioms necessary to this simplicity have been assumed without hesitation, and no scruple has been felt as to the increase of their number, or the acceptance of as many elementary notions as common experience places past all doubt. The book differs most from estab­lished teaching in its constructions, and in its early application of Arith­metic to Geometry.
Routh. — AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON THE DYNA­MICS OF THE SYSTEM OF RIGID BODIES. With Numerous Examples. By Edward John Routh, M.A., late ​Fellow and Assistant Tutor of St. Peter's College, Cambridge; Examiner in the University of London. Second Edition, enlarged. Crown 8vo. cloth. 14s.
In this edition the author has made several additions to each chapter. He has tried to make each chapter, as far as possible, complete in itself so that all that relates to any one part of the subject may be found in the same place. This arrangement will enable every student to select his own order in which to read the subject. The Examples which will be found at the end of each chapter have been chiefly selected from the Examination Papers which have been set in the University and the Colleges in the last few years. ​
WORKS
By the REV. BARNARD SMITH, M.A.,
Rector of Glaston, Rutland, late Fellow and Senior Bursar of St. Peter's College, Cambridge.
with numerous systematically arranged Examples taken from the Cambridge Examination Papers, with especial reference to the Ordinary Examination for the B.A. Degree. Twelfth
This manual is now extensively used in Schools and Colleges, both in England and in the Colonies. It has also been found of great service for students preparing for the Middle Class and Civil and Military Service Examinations, from the care that has been taken to elucidate the principles of all the rules. The present edition has been carefully revised. “To all those whose minds are sufficiently developed to comprehend the simplest mathematical reasoning, and who have not yet thoroughly mastered the principles of Arithmetic and Algebra, it is calculated to be of great advantage.” — Athenæum. Of this work, also, one of the highest possible authorities, the late Dean Peacock, writes: “Mr. Smith's work is a most useful publication. The rules are stated with great clearness. The examples are well selected, and worked out with just sufficient detail, without being encumbered by too minute explanations; and there prevails throughout it that just proportion of theory and practice which is the crowning excellence of an elementary work.”
Adapted from the author's work on “Arithmetic and Algebra,” by the omission of the algebraic portion, and by the introduction of new exercises. The reason of each arithmetical process is fully exhibited. The system of Decimal Coinage is explained; and answers to the exercises are appended at the end. The Arithmetic is characterised as “admirably adapted for instruction, combining just sufficient theory with a large and well-selected collection of excercises for practice.” — Journal of Education. ​
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These Exercises have been published in order to give the pupil examples in every rule of Arithmetic. The greater number have been carefully compiled from the latest University and School Examination Papers.
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This manual, published at the request of many schoolmasters, and chiefly intended for National and Elementary Schools, has been prepared on the same plan as that adopted in the author's School Arithmetic, which is in extensive circulation in England and abroad. The Metrical Tables have been introduced, from the conviction on the part of the author that the knowledge of such tables, and the mode of applying them, will be of great use to the rising generation.
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This Shilling Book of Arithmetic has been prepared for the use of National and other schools at the urgent request of numerous Masters of schools both at home and abroad. The Explanations of the Rules and the Examples will, it is hoped, be found suited to the most elementary classes.
The object of these Examination Papers is to test students both in the theory and practice of Arithmetic. It is hoped that the method adopted will lead students to deduce results from general principles rather than to apply stated rules. The author believes that the practice of giving examples under particular rules makes the working of Arithmetic quite mechanical, and tends to throw all but very clever boys off their balance when a general paper on the subject is put before them.
AND APPLICATION, with numerous Examples, written expressly for Standard V. in National Schools. Fourth Edition.
In the New Code of Regulations issued by the Council of Education it is stated “that in all schools children in Standards V. and VI. should know the principles of the Metric System, and be able to explain the advantages to be gained from uniformity in the method of forming multiples and sub-multiples of the unit.” In this little book, Mr. Smith clearly and simply explains the principle of the Metric System, and in con­siderable detail expounds the French system, and its relation to the ordinary English method, taking the pupil on as far as Compound Division. The book contains numerous Examples, and two wood-cuts illustrating the Metric Tables of Surface and Solidity. Answers to the Examples are appended.
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By the New Educational Code it is ordained that a Chart of the Metric System be conspicuously hung up on the walls of every school under Government inspection. The publishers believe that the present Chart will be found to answer all the requirements of the Code, and afford a full and perfectly intelligible view of the principles of the Metric System. The principle of the system is clearly stated and illustrated by examples; the ​Method of Forming the Tables is set forth; Tables follow, clearly showing the English equivalent of the French measures of — 1. Length; 2. Surface; 3. Solidity; 4. Weight; 5. Capacity. At the bottom of the Chart is drawn a full-length Metric Measure, subdivided distinctly and intelligibly into Decimetres, Centimetres, and Millimetres. “We do not remember that ever we have seen teaching by a chart more happily carried out.” — School Board Chronicle.
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From the novel method and the illustrations used this little book cannot but tend to make the teaching of Arithmetic even to very young children interesting and successful. If the book be used according to the directions of the author, the method of instruction cannot but prove sound and easy, and acceptable to teacher and child. The Standard of Examination fixed by the Education Department for 1872 has been adhered to. The West- Westminster minster Review says: — “We should strongly advise everyone to study carefully Mr. Barnard Smith's Lessons in Arithmetic, Writing, and Spelling. A more excellent little work for a first introduction to know­ledge cannot well be written. Mr. Smith's larger Text-books on Arithmetic and Algebra are already most favourably known, and he has proved now that the difficulty of writing a text-book which begins ab ovo is really sur­mountable; but we shall be much mistaken if this little book has not cost its author more thought and mental labour than any of his more elaborate text-books. The plan to combine arithmetical lessons with those in reading and spelling is perfectly novel, and it is worked out in accordance with the aims of our National Schools; and we are convinced that its general in­troduction in all elementary schools throughout the country will produce great educational advantages.”
This book will go thoroughly into the principles of the System, intro­ducing the money tables of the various countries which have adopted it, and containing a very large number of Examples and Examination Papers. [Nearly ready. ​
TRIGONOMETRY; with the Construction and Use of Tables of Logarithms. By J. C. Snowball, M.A. Tenth Edition.
In preparing the present edition for the press, the text has been subjected to a careful revision; the proofs of some of the more impor­tant propositions have been rendered more strict and general; and more than two hundred examples, taken principally from the questions set of late years in the public Examinations of the University and of individual Colleges, have been added to the collection of Examples and Problems for practice.
PARTICLE. With numerous Examples. By Professor Tait and
In this treatise will be found all the ordinary propositions, connected with the Dynamics of Particles, which can be conveniently deduced without the use of D'Alembert's Principle. Throughout the book will be found a number of illustrative examples introduced in the text, and for the most part completely worked out; others with occasional solutions or hints to assist the student are appended to each chapter. For by far the greater portion of these, the Cambridge Senate-House and College Examination Papers have been applied to. In the new edition numerous trivial errors, and a few of a more serious character, have been corrected, while many new examples have been added.
Ratio and Projection, with numerous Examples. By C. Taylor,
This work contains elementary proofs of the principal properties of Conic Sections, together with chapters on Projection and Anharmonic Ratio.
With numerous Examples. By Septimus Tebay, B.A., Head Master of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Rivington. Extra
The object of the present work is to enable boys to acquire a moderate knowledge of Mensuration in a reasonable time. All difficult and useless matter has been avoided. The examples for the most part are easy, and the rules are concise. “A very compact useful manual.” — Spectator. ​
WORKS
By I. TODHUNTER, M.A., F.R.S.,
Of St John's College, Cambridge.
“They are all good, and each volume adds to the value of the rest” — Freeman. “Perspicuous language, vigorous investigations, scrutiny of difficulties, and methodical treatment, characterise Mr. Todhunter's works.” — Civil Engineer.
No method of overcoming the difficulties experienced by young students of Euclid appears to be so useful as that of breaking up the demonstrations into their constituent parts; a plan strongly recommended by Professor De Morgan. In the present Edition each distinct assertion in the argu­ment begins a new line; and at the ends of the lines are placed the necessary references to the preceding principles on which the assertions depend. The longer propositions are distributed into subordinate parts, which are distinguished by breaks at the beginning of the lines. Notes, Appendix, and a collection of Exercises are added.
The subjects included in the present work are those which have usually found a place in Elementary Treatises on Mensuration. The mode of treatment has been determined by the fact that the work is intended for the use of beginners. Accordingly it is divided into short independent chapters, which are followed by appropriate examples. A knowledge of the elements of Arithmetic is all that is assumed; and in connection with most of the Rules of Mensuration it has been found practicable to give such explana­tions and illustrations as will supply the place of formal mathematical demonstrations, which would have been unsuitable to the character of the work, “For simplicity and clearness of arrangement it is unsurpassed by any text-book on the subject which has come under our notice.” — Educational Times. ​
Great pains have been taken to render this work intelligible to young students, by the use of simple language and by copious explanations. In determining the subjects to be included and the space to be assigned to each, the author has been guided by the Papers given at the various examinations in elementary Algebra which are now carried on in this country. The book may be said to consist of three parts. The first part contains the elementary operations in integral and fractional expressions; the second the solution of equations and problems; the third treats of various subjects which are introduced but rarely into Examination Papers, and are more briefly discussed. Provision has at the same time been made for the introduction of easy equations and problems at an early stage — for those who prefer such a course.
Intended to serve as an introduction to the larger treatise on Plane Trigonometry, published by the author. The same plan has been adopted as in the Algebra for Beginners: the subject is discussed in short chapters, and a collection of examples is attached to each chapter. The first fourteen chapters present the geometrical part of Plane Trigonometry; and contain all that is necessary for practical purposes. The range of matter included is such as seems required by the various examinations in elementary Tri­gonometry which are now carried on in this country. Answers are appended.
Intended as a companion to the two preceding books. The work forms an elementary treatise on demonstrative mechanics. A knowledge of the elements at least of the theory of the subject is extremely valuable even for those who are mainly concerned with practical results. The author has accordingly endeavoured to provide a suitable introduction to the study of applied as well as of theoretical mechanics. The work consists of two parts, namely, Statics and Dynamics. It will be found to contain all that is usually comprised in elementary treatises on Mechanics, together with some additions. ​
This work contains all the propositions which are usually included in elementary treatises on Algebra, and a large number of Examples for Exercise. The author has sought to render the work easily intelligible to students, without impairing the accuracy of the demonstrations, or con­tracting the limits of the subject The Examples, about Sixteen hundred and fifty in number, have been selected with a view to illustrate every part of the subject. Each chapter is complete in itself; and the work will be found peculiarly adapted to the wants of students who are without the aid of a teacher. The Answers to the Examples, with hints for the solution of some in which assistance may be needed, are given at the end of the book. In the present edition two New Chapters and Three hundred miscellaneous Examples have been added. The latter are arranged in sets, each set containing ten Examples. “It has merits which unquestionably place it first in the class to which it belongs.” — Educator.
EQUATIONS. Second Edition, revised. Crown 8vo. cloth.
This treatise contains all the propositions which are usually included in elementary treatises on the theory of Equations, together with Examples for exercise. These have been selected from the College and University Examination Papers, and the results have been given when it appeared necessary. In order to exhibit a comprehensive view of the subject, the treatise includes investigations which are not found in all the preceding elementary treatises, and also some investigations which are not to be found in any of them. For the Second Edition the work has been revised and some additions have been made, the most important being an account of the researches of Professor Sylvester respecting Newton's Rule. “A thoroughly trustworthy, complete, and yet not too elaborate treatise.” Philosophical Magazine.
The design of this work has been to render the subject intelligible to beginners, and at the same time to afford the student the opportunity of ​obtaining all the information which he will require on this branch of Mathematics. Each chapter is followed by a set of Examples: those which are entitled Miscellaneous Examples, together with a few in some of the other sets, may be advantageously reserved by the student for exercise after he has made some progress in the subject. In the Second Edition the hints for the solution of the Examples have been considerably increased.
The present work is constructed on the same plan as the treatise on Plane Trigonometry, to which it is intended as a sequel. In the account of Napier's Rules of Circular Parts, an explanation has been given of a method of proof devised by Napier, which seems to have been overlooked by most modern writers on the subject. Considerable labour has been bestowed on the text in order to render it comprehensive and accurate, and the Examples (selected chiefly from College Examination Papers) have all been carefully verified. “For educational purposes this work seems to be superior to any others on the subject.” — Critic.
Line and the Conic Sections. With numerous Examples. Fourth
The author has here endeavoured to exhibit the subject in a simple manner for the benefit of beginners, and at the same time to include in one volume all that students usually require. In addition, therefore, to the propositions which have always appeared in such treatises, he has intro­duced the methods of abridged notation, which are of more recent origin; these methods, which are of a less elementary character than the rest of the work, are placed in separate chapters, and may be omitted by the student at first.
The author has endeavoured in the present work to exhibit a compre­hensive view of the Differential Calculus on the method of limits. In the more elementary portions he has entered into considerable detail in the explanations, with the hope that a reader who is without the assistance of a tutor may be enabled to acquire a competent acquaintance with the subject. The method adopted is that of Differential Coefficients. To the different ​chapters are appended examples sufficiently numerous to render another book unnecessary; these examples being mostly selected from College Ex­amination Papers, “It has already taken its place as the text-book on that subject.” — Philosophical Magazine.
APPLICATIONS. With numerous Examples. Third Edition,
This is designed as a work at once elementary and compute, adapted for the use of beginners, and sufficient for the wants of advanced students. In the selection of the propositions, and in the mode of establishing them, it has been sought to exhibit the principles clearly, and to illustrate all their most important results. The process of summation has been repeatedly brought forward, with the view of securing the attention of the student to the notions which form the true foundation of the Calculus itself as well as of its most valuable applications. Every attempt has been made to explain those difficulties which usually perplex beginners, especially with reference to the limits of integrations. A new method has been adopted in regard to the transformation of multiple integrals. The last chapter deals with the Calculus of Variations. A large collection of exercises, selected from College Examination Papers, has been appended to the several chapters.
DIMENSIONS. Third Edition, revised. Crown 8vo. cloth.
Examples. Third Edition, revised and enlarged. Crown 8vo.
In this work on statics (treating of the laws of the equilibrium of bodies) will be found all the proposition which usually appear in treatises on Theoretical Statics. To the different chapters examples are appended, which have been principally selected from University Examination Papers. In the Third Edition many additions have been made, in order to illus­trate the application of the principles of the subject to the solution of problems.
PROBABILITY, from the time of Pascal to that of Laplace.
the subtle problems which it involves, the valuable contributions to analysis which it has produced, its important practical applications, and the emi­nence of those who have cultivated it. The subject claims all the interest which illustrious names can confer: nearly every great mathematician within the range of a century and a half comes up in the course of the history. The present work, though principally a history, may claim the title of a comprehensive treatise on the Theory of Probability, for it assumes in the reader only so much knowledge as can be gained from an elementary book on Algebra, and introduces him to almost every process and every species of problem which the literature of the subject can furnish. The author has been careful to reproduce the essential elements of the original works which he has analysed, and to corroborate his statements by exact quotations from the originals, in the languages in which they were published.
principally on the Theory of Discontinuous Solutions: an Essay to which the Adams Prize was awarded in the University of Cam­bridge
The subject of this Essay was prescribed in the following terms by the Examiners: — “A determination of the circumstances under which dis­continuity of any kind presents itself in the solution of a problem of maximum or minimum in the Calculus of Variations, and applications to particular instances. It is expected that the discussion of the instances should be exemplified as far as possible geometrically, and that attention be especially directed to cases of real or supposed failure of the Calculus.” The Essay, then, is mainly devoted to the consideration of discontinuous solutions; but incidentally various other questions in the Calculus of Variations are examined and elucidated. The author hopes that he has definitely contri­buted to the extension and improvement of our knowledge of this refined department of analysis.
I. II. III. containing the subjects of Euclid's First Four Books following the Syllabus of Geometry prepared by the Geometrical Association. Third Edition. Extra fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d. By J. M. Wilson, M.A., late Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge,
on Transversals and Harmonic Division. For the use of Schools. By J. M. Wilson, M.A. Second Edition. Extra fcap.
This work is an endeavour to introduce into schools some portions of Solid Geometry which are now very little read in England. The first twenty-one Propositions of Euclid's Eleventh Book are usually all the Solid Geometry that a boy reads till he meets with the subject again in the course of his analytical studies. And this is a matter of regret, because this part of Geometry is specially valuable and attractive. In it the atten­tion of the student is strongly called to the subject matter of the reasoning; the geometrical imagination is exercised; the methods employed in it are more ingenious than those in Plane Geometry, and have greater diffi­culties to meet; and the applications of it in practice are more varied.
W. P. Wilson, M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Professor of Mathematics in Queen's College, Belfast. 8vo.
“This treatise supplies a great educational need” — Educational Times.
PROBLEMS, on Subjects included in the Cambridge Course. By Joseph Wolstenholme, Fellow of Christ's College, some­time Fellow of St John's College, and lately Lecturer in Mathe­matics
Contents: — Geometry (Euclid) — Algebra — Plane Trigonometry — Geometrical Conic Sections — Analytical Conic Sections — Theory of Equa­tions — Differential Calculus — Integral Calculus — Solid Geometry — Statics — Elementary Dynamics — Newton — Dynamics of a Point — Dynamics of a Rigid Body — Hydrostatics — Geometrical Optics — Spherical Trigonometry and Plane Astronomy, “Judicious, symmetrical, and well arranged.” — Guardian. ​
SCIENCE.
ELEMENTARY CLASS-BOOKS.
The importance of Science as an element of sound educa­tion is now generally acknowledged; and accordingly it is obtaining a prominent place in the ordinary course of school instruction. It is the intention of the Publishers to produce a complete series of Scientific Manuals, affording full and accurate elementary information, conveyed in clear and lucid English. The authors are well known as among the foremost men of their several departments; and their names form a ready guarantee for the high character of the books. Subjoined is a list of those Manuals that have already appeared, with a short account of each. Others are in active preparation; and the whole will constitute a standard series specially adapted to the requirements of be­ginners, whether for private study or for school instruction.
POPULAR ASTRONOMY. With Illustrations. By Sir G. B. Airy, K.C.B., Astronomer Royal. New Edition. 18mo.
This work consists of six lectures, which are intended “to explain to intelligent persons the principles on which the instruments of an Observa­tory are constructed (omitting all details, so far as they are merely sub­sidiary), and the principles on which the observations made with these instruments are treated for deduction of the distances and weights of the bodies of the Solar System, and of a few stars, omitting all minutiœ of ​formulœ and all troublesome details of calculation.” The speciality of this volume is the direct reference of every step to the Observatory, and the full description of the methods and instruments of observation.
MR. LOCKYER'S ELEMENTARY LESSONS IN ASTRO­NOMY. With Coloured Diagram of the Spectra of the Sun, Stars, and Nebulœ, and numerous Illustrations. By J. Norman
The author has here aimed to give a connected view of the whole subject, and to supply facts, and ideas founded on the facts, to serve as a basis for subsequent study and discussion. The chapters treat of the Stars and Nebulœ; the Sun; the Solar System; Apparent Movements of the Heavenly Bodies; the Measurement of Time; Light; the Telescope and Spectroscope; Apparent Places of the Heavenly Bodies; the Real Distances and Dimen­sions; Universal Gravitation. The most recent astronomical discoveries are incorporated. Mr. Lockyer's work supplements that of the Astronomer Royal mentioned in the previous article. “The book is full, clear, sound, and worthy of attention, not only as a popular exposition, but as a scientific ‘Index.’” — Athenæum. “The most fascinating of elementary books on the Sciences.” — Nonconformist.
IN ASTRONOMY. For the Use of Schools. By John Forbes-
PROFESSOR HUXLEY'S LESSONS IN ELEMENTARY PHYSIOLOGY. With numerous Illustrations. By T. H. Huxley, F.R.S., Professor of Natural History in the Royal School
This book describes and explains, in a series of graduated lessons, the principles of Human Physiology; or the Structure and Functions of the Human Body. The first lesson supplies a general view of the subject. This is followed by sections on the Vascular or Venous System, and the Circulation; the Blood and the Lymph; Respiration; Sources of Loss and of Gain to the Blood; the Function of Alimentation; Motion and Locomotion; Sensations and Sensory Organs; the Organ of Sight; the ​Coalescence of Sensations with one another and with other States of Con­sciousness: the Nervous System and Innervation; Histology, or the Minute Structure of the Tissues. A Table of Anatomical and Physio­logical Constants is appended. The lessons are fully illustrated by numerous engravings. The new edition has been thoroughly revised, and a considerable number of new illustrations added, several of these having been taken from the rabbit, the sheep, the dog, and the frog, in order to aid those who attempt to make their knowledge real by acquiring some practical acquaintance with the facts of Anatomy and Physiology. “Pure gold throughout.” — Guardian. “Unquestionably the clearest and most complete elementary treatise on this subject that we possess in any lan­guage” — Westminster Review.
These Questions were drawn up as aids to the instruction of a class of young people in Physiology.
PROFESSOR OLIVER'S LESSONS IN ELEMENTARY BOTANY. With nearly Two Hundred Illustrations. New
This book is designed to teach the Elements of Botany on Professor Henslow's plan of selected Types and by the use of Schedules. The earlier chapters, embracing the elements of Structural and Physiological Botany, introduce us to the methodical study of the Ordinal Types. The con­cluding chapters are entitled, “How to dry Plants” and “How to describe Plants.” A valuable Glossary is appended to the volume. In the preparation of this work free use has been made of the manuscript materials of the late Professor Henslow.
PROFESSOR ROSCOE'S LESSONS IN ELEMENTARY CHEMISTRY, INORGANIC AND ORGANIC. By Henry E. Roscoe, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry in Owens College, Manchester. With numerous Illustrations and Chromo-Litho of the Solar Spectrum, and of the Alkalies and Alkaline Earths,
facts and principles of Modern Chemistry in a plain but concise and scientific form; suited to the present requirements of elementary instruction. For the purpose of facilitating the attainment of exactitude in the knowledge of the subject, a series of exercises and questions upon the lessons have been added. The metric system of weights and measures, and the centigrade thermometric scale, are used throughout the work. The New Edition, besides new wood-cuts, contains many additions and improvements, and includes the most important of the latest discoveries, “As a standard general text-book it deserves to take a leading place.” — Spectator. “We unhesitatingly pronounce it the best of all our elementary treatises on Chemistry.” — Medical Times.
In ordering, please specify Macmillan's Edition.
POLITICAL ECONOMY FOR BEGINNERS. By Millicent
This work has been written mainly with the hope that a short and elementary book might help to make Political Economy a more popular study in boys' and girls' schools. In order to adapt the book especially for school use, questions have been added at the end of each chapter. In the New Edition each page has been carefully revised, and at the end of each chapter after the questions a few little puzzles have been added, which will add interest to the book and teach the learner to think for himself. “Clear, compact, and comprehensive.” — Daily News. “The relations of capital and labour have never been more simply or more clearly expounded.” — Contemporary Review.
ELEMENTARY LESSONS IN LOGIC; Deductive and Induc­tive, with copious Questions and Examples, and a Vocabulary of Logical Terms. By W. Stanley Jevons, M.A., Professor of Logic
In preparing these Lessons the author has attempted to show that Logic, even in its traditional form, can be made a highly useful subject of study, and a powerful means of mental exercise. With this view he has avoided the use of superfluous technical terms, and has abstained from entering into questions of a purely speculative or metaphysical character. For the puerile illustrations too often found in works on Logic, examples drawn ​from the distinct objects and ideas treated in the natural and experimental sciences have been generally substituted. At the end of almost every Lesson will be found references to the works in which the student will most profitably continue his reading of the subject treated, so that this little volume may serve as a guide to a more extended course of study. The Guardian thinks “nothing can be better for a school-book,” and the Athenæum calls it “a manual alike simple, interesting, and scientific.”
LESSONS IN ELEMENTARY PHYSICS. By Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., Professor of Natural Philosophy in Owens College, Manchester. With numerous Illustrations and Chromo­liths of the Spectra of the Sun, Stars, and Nebulæ. New Edition.
A description, in an elementary manner, of the most important of those laws which regulate the phenomena of nature. The active agents, heat, light, electricity, etc., are regarded as varieties of energy, and the work is so arranged that their relation to one another, looked at in this light, and the paramount importance of the laws of energy, are clearly brought out. The volume contains all the necessary illustrations, and a plate represent­ing the Spectra of Sun, Stars, and Nebula, forms a frontispiece. The Educational Times calls this “the beau ideal of a scientific text-book, clear, accurate, and thorough.”
THE OWENS COLLEGE JUNIOR COURSE OF PRAC­TICAL CHEMISTRY. By Francis Jones, Chemical Master in the Grammar School, Manchester. With Preface by Professor
This little book contains a short description of a course of Practical Chemistry, which an experience of many years has proved suitable for those commencing the study of the science. It is intended to supplement, not to supplant, instruction given by the teacher. The subject-matter has been very carefully compiled, and many useful cuts are introduced.
LESSONS IN ELEMENTARY ANATOMY. By St. George Mivart, F.R.S., Lecturer in Comparative Anatomy at St Mary's
already acquainted with Anatomy. The author has endeavoured, by certain additions and by the mode of treatment, also to fit them for students in medicine, and generally for those acquainted with human anatomy, but desirous of learning its more significant relations to the structure of other animals. The Lancet says, “It may be questioned whether any other work on Anatomy contains in like compass so proportionately great a mass of information.” The Medical Times remarks, “The work is excellent, and should be in the hands of every student of human anatomy.”
MANUALS FOR STUDENTS.
Flower (W. H.) — AN INTRODUCTION TO THE OSTE­OLOGY OF THE MAMMALIA. Being the substance of the Course of Lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1870. By W. H. Flower, F.R.S., F.R.C.S., Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology. With numerous Illustrations. Globe 8vo. 7s. 6d.
Although the present work contains the substance of a Course of Lectures, the form has been changed, so as the better to adapt it as a handbook for students. Theoretical views have been almost entirely excluded: and while it is impossible in a scientific treatise to avoid the employment of technical terms, it has been the author's endeavour to use no more than absolutely necessary, and to exercise due care in selecting only those that seem most appropriate, or which have received the sanction of general adoption. With a very few exceptions the illustrations have been drawn expressly for this work from specimens in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.
BRITISH ISLANDS. By J. D. Hooker, C.B., F.R.S., M.D., D.C.L., Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. Globe
The object of this work is to supply students and field-botanists with a fuller account of the Plants of the British Islands than the manuals hitherto in use aim at giving. The Ordinal, Generic, and Specific characters have been re-written, and are to a great extent original, and drawn from living or dried specimens, or both. “Cannot fail to perfectly fulfil the purpose for which it is intended.” — Land and Water. “Containing the fullest and most accurate manual of the kind that has yet appeared.” — Pall Mall Gazette. ​
By Daniel Oliver, F.R.S., F.L.S., Keeper of the Herbarium and Library of the Royal Gardens, Kew, and Professor of Botany in University College, London. With numerous Illustrations.
This manual is, in substance, the author's “Lessons in Elementary Botany” adapted for use in India. In preparing it he has had in view the want, often felt, of some handy résumé of Indian Botany, which might be serviceable not only to residents of India, but also to any one about to proceed thither, desirous of getting some preliminary idea of the Botany of that country. “It contains a well-digested summary of all essential know­ledge pertaining to Indian botany, wrought out in accordance with the best principles of scientific arrangement.” — Allen's Indian Mail.
Other volumes of these Manuals will follow.
A Course of Lectures delivered at the Royal College of Science for Ireland. By Robert Stawell Ball, A.M., Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics in the Royal College of Science for Ireland (Science and Art Department). Royal 8vo.
The author's aim has been to create in the mind of the student physical ideas corresponding to theoretical laws, and thus to produce a work which may be regarded either as a supplement or an introduction to manuals of theoretic mechanics. To realize this design, the copious use of experimental illustrations was necessary. The apparatus used in the Lectures, and figured in the volume, has been principally built up from Professor Willis's most admirable system. In the selection of the subjects, the question of practical utility has in many cases been regarded as the one of paramount importance. The elementary truths of Mechanics are too well known to admit of novelty, but it is believed that the mode of treatment which is adopted is more or less original. This is especially the case in the Lectures relating to friction, to the mechanical powers, to the strength of timber and structures, to the laws of motion, and to the pendulum. The illustrations, drawn from the apparatus, are nearly all original, and are beautifully executed. ​
Account of Man in Early Times. By Edward Clodd, F.R.A.S.
Professor Max Muller, in a letter to the Author, says: “I read your book with great pleasure. I have no doubt it will do good, and I hope you will continue your work. Nothing spoils our temper so much as having to unlearn in youth, manhood, and even old age, so many things which we were taught as children. A book like yours will prepare a far better soil in the child's mind, and I was delighted to have it to read to my children.”
CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY. By Josiah P. Cooke, Jun., Ervine Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy in Harvard College.
The object of the author in this book is to present the philosophy of Chemistry in such a form that it can be made with profit the subject of College recitations, and furnish the teacher with the means of testing the students faithfulness and ability. With this view the subject has been developed in a logical order, and the principles of the science are taught independently of the experimental evidence on which they rest.
to the study of Physical Phenomena. By Amedee Guille­min. Translated from the French by Mrs. Norman Lockyer, and Edited, with Additions and Notes, by J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S. With 11 Coloured Plates and 455 Woodcuts. Second
“Translator and Editor have done justice to their trust. The text has all the force and flow of original writing, combining faithfulness to the author's meaning with purity and independence in regard to idiom; while the historical precision and accuracy pervading the work throughout, speak of the watchful editorial supervision which has been given to every scientific detail. . . . Altogether, the work may be said to have no parallel, either in point of fulness or attraction, as a popular manual of physical science.” — Saturday Review. ​
By J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S. With Coloured Plate and numerous illustrations. Second Edition. Crown 8vo.
This forms volume one of “Nature Series,” a Series of Popular Scientific Works now in course of publication, consisting of popular and instructive works, on particular scientific subjects — Scientific Discovery, Applications, History, Biography — by some of the most eminent scientific men of the day. They will be so written as to be interesting and intelli­gible even to non-scientific readers. Mr. Lockyer's work in Spectrum Analysis is widely known. In the present short treatise will be found an exposition of the principles on which Spectrum Analysis rests, a description of the various kinds of Spectroscopes, and an account of what has already been done with the instrument, as well as of what may yet be done both in science and in the industrial arts.
with Appendices, Engravings, Maps, and Chromolithographs. By H. E. Roscoe, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry in Owens College, Manchester. Third Edition, revised throughout. Royal
“In six lectures he has given the history of the discovery and set forth the facts relating to the analysis of light in such a way that any reader of ordinary intelligence and information will be able to understand what ‘Spectrum Analysis’ is, and what are its claims to rank among the mast signal triumphs of science of which even this century can boast.” — Non­conformist. “The illustrations — no unimportant part of a book on such a subject — are marvels of wood-printing, and reflect the clearness which is the distinguishing merit of Mr. Roscoe's explanations.” — Saturday Review. “The lectures themselves furnish a most ad­mirable elementary treatise on the subject, whilst by the insertion in appendices to each lecture of extracts from the most important published memoirs, the author has rendered it equally valuable as a text-book for advanced students.” — Westminster Review.
for use in Colleges and Schools. Adapted for the preparation of Students for the Government, Science, and Society of Arts Ex­aminations. With a Preface by Professor Roscoe. 18mo.
and more strongly that by no method can accuracy in a knowledge of chemistry he more surely secured than by attention to the working of well-selected problems, and Dr. Thorpe's thorough acquaintance with the wants of the student is a sufficient guarantee that this selection has been carefully made. I intend largely to use these questions in my own classes, and I can confidently recommend them to all teachers and students of the science.”
Age of Lavoisier down to the present time. By Ad. Wurtz.
“The treatment of the subject is admirable, and the translator has evidently done his duty most efficiently.” — Westminster Review. “The discourse, as a résumé of chemical theory and research, unites singular luminousness and grasp. A few judicious notes are added by the translator.” — Pall Mall Gazette.
SCIENCE PRIMERS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
early stage of the pupil's course has now become generally recog­nized, and is enforced in all Schools under Government inspection. For the purpose of facilitating the introduction of Science Teaching into Elementary Schools, Messrs. Macmillan are now publishing a New Series of Science Primers, under the joint Editorship of Professors Huxley, Roscoe, and Balfour Stewart. The object of these Primers is to convey information in such a manner as to make it both intelligible and interesting to pupils in the most elementary classes. They are clearly printed on good paper, and illustrations are given whenever they are necessary to the proper understanding of the text. The following are just
Chemistry in Owens College, Manchester. 18mo. 1s. Second
Natural Philosophy in Owens College, Manchester. 18mo. 1s.
Geikie, F.R.S., Murchison-Professor of Geology and Mineralogy
Everyone ought to know something about the air we breathe and the earth we live upon, and about the relations between them; and in this little work the author wishes to show what sort of questions may be put about some of the chief parts of the book of nature, and especially about two of them — the Air and the Earth. The divisions of the book are as follows: — The Shape of the Earth — Day and Night — The Air — The Circulation of Water on the Land — The Sea — The Inside of the Earth. ​
In these Manuals the authors have aimed, not so much to give informa­tion, as to endeavour to discipline the mind in a way which has not hitherto been customary, by bringing it into immediate contact with Nature herself. For this purpose a series of simple experiments (to be performed by the teacher) has been devised, leading up to the chief truths of each Science. Thus the power of observation in the pupils will be awakened and strengthened. Each Manual is copiously illustrated, and appended are lists of all the necessary apparatus, with prices, and directions as to how they may be obtained. Professor Huxley's introduc­tory volume has been delayed through the illness of the author, but it is now expected to appear very shortly. “They are wonderfully clear and lucid in their instruction, simple in style, and admirable in plan.” — Educational Times.
In preparation: —
INTRODUCTORY. By Professor Huxley.
&c. &c.
MISCELLANEOUS.
illustrate some of the Differences between Elizabethan and Modern English. By the Rev. E. A. Abbott, M.A., Head Master of the City of London School. For the Use of Schools. New and
The object of this work is to furnish students of Shakespeare and Bacon with a short systematic account of some points of difference between Eliza­bethan syntax and our own. A section on Prosody is added, and Notes and Questions. The success which has attended the First and Second Editions of the “Shakespearian Grammar,” and the demand for a Third Edition within a year of the publication of the First, have encouraged the author to endeavour to make the work somewhat more useful, and to render it, as far as possible, a complete book of reference for all difficulties of Shakespearian syntax or prosody. For this purpose the whole of Shake­speare has been re-read, and an attempt has been made to include within this Edition the explanation of every idiomatic difficulty that comes within the province of a grammar as distinct from a glossary. The great object being to make a useful book of reference for students, and especially for classes in schools, several Plays have been indexed so fully that with the aid of a glossary and historical notes the references will serve for a complete com­mentary. “A critical inquiry, conducted with great skill and knowledge, and with all the appliances of modern philology .... We venture to believe that those who consider themselves most proficient as Shakespearians will find something to learn from its pages.” — Pall Mall Gazette. “Valuable not only as an aid to the critical study of Shakespeare, but as tending to familiarize the reader with Elizabethan English in general.” — Athenæum.
This little book consists of the notes of a number of simple lessons on sanitary subjects given to a class in a National School, and listened to ​with great interest and intelligence. They have been made as easy and familiar as possible, and as far as they go may be deemed perfectly trust­worthy. One of the author's main attempts has been, to translate the concise and accurate language of science into the colloquial nursery dialect comprehensible to children. The book will be found of the highest value to all who have the training of children, who, for want of knowing what this little book teaches, too often grow up to be unhealthy, defective men and women. The Contents are — I. Introductory. II. Fresh Air. III. Food and Drink. IV. Warmth. V. Cleanliness. VI. Light. VII. Exercise. VIII. Rest.
A sort of impression rests on most minds that French literature begins with the “siècle de Louis Quatorze;” any previous literature being for the most part unknown or ignored. Few know anything of the enormous literary activity that began in the thirteenth century, was carried on by Rulebeuf, Marie de France, Gaston de Foix, Thibault de Champagne, and Lorris; was fostered by Charles of Orleans, by Margaret of Valois, by Francis the First; that gave a crowd of versifiers to France, enriched, strengthened, developed, and fixed the French language, and prepared the way for Corneille and for Racine. The present work aims to afford information and direction touching these early efforts of France in poetical literature. “In one moderately sized volume he has contrived to introduce us to the very best, if not to all of the early French poets.” — Athenæum. “Industry, the insight of a scholar, and a genuine enthusiasm for his subject, combine to make it of very considerable value.” — Spectator.
By the Rev. Henry Calderwood, LL.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Edinburgh. Second Edition. Crown
While in this work the interests of University Students have been con­stantly considered, the author has endeavoured to produce a book suitable to those who wish to prosecute privately the study of Ethical questions. The author has aimed to present the chief problems of Ethical Science, to give an outline of discussion under each, and to afford a guide for private study by references to the Literature of the Science. The uniform object has been to give a careful representation of the conflicting theories, supplying the reader with materials for independent judgment. ​
Delamotte, F.S.A. Progressively arranged, with upwards of
This work is intended to give such instruction to Beginners in Drawings and to place before them copies so easy, that they may not find any obstacle in making the first step. Thenceforward the lessons are gradually progressive. Mechanical improvements, too, have lent their aid. The whole of the Plates have been engraved by a new process, by means of which a varying depth of tone — up to the present time the distinguishing character­istic of pencil drawing — has been imparted to woodcuts. “We have seen and examined a great many drawing-books, but the one now before us strikes us as being the best of them all.” — Illustrated Times. “A concise, simple, and thoroughly practical work. The letter-press is throughout intelligible and to the point.” — Guardian.
SIGHT, on an entirely new method. By A. D'Oursy and A. Feillet. Especially adapted for Pupils preparing for Ex­amination.
The method followed in this volume consists in presenting the grammar as much as possible by synoptical tables, which, striking the eye at once, and following throughout the same order — “used — not used;” “changes — does not change” — are easily remembered. The parsing tables will enable the pupil to parse easily from the beginning. The exercises consist of translations from French into English, and from English into French; and of a number of grammatical questions.
Rev. J. R. Green, M.A. For the use of Colleges and Schools.
and Explanatory, and an Introduction on the Teaching of English. Chiefly for use in Schools. Edited by J. W. Hales, M.A., late Fellow and Assistant Tutor of Christ's College, Cambridge, Lecturer in English Literature and Classical Composition at King's
been used as a class-book by the Editor. It is intended as an aid to the Critical study of English Literature, and contains one or more of the larger poems, each complete, of prominent English authors, from Spenser to Shelley, including Burns' “Cotter's Saturday Night” and “Twa Dogs.” In all cases the original spelling and the text of the best editions have been given: only in one or two poems has it been deemed necessary to make slight omissions and changes, “that the reverence due to boys might be well observed.” The Introduction consists of Suggestions on Teaching of English. The latter half of the volume is occupied with copious notes, critical, etymological, and explanatory, calculated to give the learner much insight into the structure and connection of the English tongue. An Index to the Notes is appended.
OF THE TEUTONIC LANGUAGES. Being at the same time a Historical Grammar of the English Language, and comprising Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, Early English, Modern English, Icelandic (Old Norse), Danish, Swedish, Old High German, Middle High German, Modern German, Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Dutch.
This work traces the different stages of development through which the various Teutonic languages have passed, and the laws which have regulated their growth. The reader is thus enabled to study the relation which these languages bear to one another, and to the English language in particular, to which special attention is devoted throughout. In the chapters on Ancient and Middle Teutonic Languages no grammatical form is omitted the knowledge of which is required for the study of ancient literature, whether Gothic, or Anglo-Saxon, or Early English. To each chapter is prefixed a sketch showing the relation of the Teutonic to the cognate languages, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit. Those who have mastered the book will be in a position to proceed with intelligence to the more elaborate works of Grimm, Bopp, Pott, Schleicher, and others.
ENGLAND AND FRANCE. By the Rev. C. Hole. On
The different families are printed in distinguishing colours, thus facilitating reference. ​
and Explanatory Notes. By the Rev. J. M. Jephson. Second
It is important to find some substitute for classical study, and it is believed that such a substitute may be found in the Plays of Shakespeare. For this purpose the present edition of the “Tempest” has been prepared. The introduction treats briefly of the value of the study of language, the fable of the play, and other points. The notes are intended to teach the student to analyse every obscure sentence and trace out the logical sequence of the poet's thoughts; to point out the rules of Shakespeare's versification; to explain obsolete words and meanings; and to guide the students taste by directing his attention to such passages as seem especially worthy of note for their poetical beauty or truth to nature. The text is in the main founded upon that of the first collected edition of Shakespeare's Plays.
for Children. By Frances Martin. Second Edition. 18mo.
This volume consists of nearly 200 Poems selected from the best Poets, ancient and modern, and is intended mainly for children between the ages of eight and twelve.
This is a selection of poetry intended mainly for girls and boys between the ages of twelve and seventeen.
DICTIONARY. By Gustave Masson, B.A.,
to Language,) will be found to occupy a larger relative place than in any logical work written since the time of the famous “Art of Thinking.” “We heartily welcome his book as one which is likely to be of great value in Colleges and Schools.” — Athenæum.
comprising Chapters on the History and Development of the Language, and on Word-formation. By the Rev. Richard Morris, LL.D., Member of the Council of the Philol. Soc., Lecturer on English Language and Literature in King's College School, Editor of “Specimens of Early English,” &c. &c. Third
Dr. Morris has endeavoured to write a work which can be profitably used by students and by the upper forms in our public schools. English Grammar, he believes, without a reference to the older forms, must appear altogether anomalous, inconsistent, and unintelligible. His almost un­equalled knowledge of early English Literature renders him peculiarly qualified to write a work of this kind. In the writing of this volume, moreover, he has taken advantage of the researches into our language made by all the most eminent scholars in England, America, and on the Continent. The author shows the place of English among the languages of the world, expounds clearly and with great minuteness “Grimm's Law,” gives a brief history of the English language and an account of the various dialects, investigates the history and principles of Phonology, Orthography, Accent, and Etymology, and devotes several chapters to the consideration of the various Parts of Speech, and the final one to Deri­vation and Word-formation. “It makes an era in the study of the English tongue.” — Saturday Review. “He has done his work with a fulness and completeness that leave nothing to be desired.” — Non­conformist. “A genuine and sound book.” — Athenæum.
Schools. Containing a graduated Selection from modern Authors in Prose and Verse; and copious Notes, chiefly Etymological. By
This is a Selection from the best modern authors of France. Its dis­tinctive feature consists in its etymological notes, connecting French with the classical and modern languages, including the Celtic. This subject has hitherto been little discussed even by the best-educated teachers. ​
containing an Alphabetical List of nearly 800 Familiar Words similar in Orthography or Sound and the same Meaning in both Languages, followed by Exercises, Vocabulary of Words in frequent use. Familiar Phrases and Dialogues; a Sketch of German Literature, Idiomatic Expressions, &c.; and a Synopsis of German
METHOD OF TEACHING TO READ. By A. Sonnenschein
Comprising:
the Language. 1d. (Also in Large Type on Sheets for
A Series of Books in which an attempt is made to place the process of learning to read English on a scientific basis. This has been done by separating the perfectly regular parts of the language from the irregular, and by giving the regular parts to the learner in the exact order of their difficulty. The child begins with the smallest possible element, and adds to that element one letter — in only one of its functions — at one time. Thus the sequence is natural and complete. “These are admirable books, because they are constructed on a principle, and that the simplest principle on which it is possible to learn to read English.” — Spectator.
of History, Ethnology, and Geography. By the Rev. Isaac Taylor, M.A. Third and cheaper Edition, revised and
In this edition the work has been recast with the intention of fitting it for the use of students and general readers, rather than, as before, to ​appeal to the judgment of philologers. The book has already been adopted by many teachers, and is prescribed as a text-book in the Cambridge Higher Examinations for Women: and it is hoped that the reduced size and price, and the other changes now introduced, may make it more generally useful than heretofore for Educational purposes.
This little work is chiefly intended for teachers and learners. It took its rise from questionings in National Schools, and the whole of the first part is merely the writing out in order the answers to questions which have been used already with success. A chapter on Learning Language is especially addressed to teachers.
Elements of Grammar taught in English,” adapted for the Use of
Music arranged for four Voices. Edited by the Rev. E. Thring
There is a tendency in schools to stereotype the forms of life. Any genial solvent is valuable. Games do much; but games do not penetrate to domestic life, and are much limited by age. Music supplies the want. The collection includes the “Agnus Dei,” Tennyson's “Light Brigade,” Macaulay's “Ivry,” &c. among other pieces.
LISH POETRY. Selected and Arranged, with Notes, by R. C. Trench, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin. Extra fcap. 8vo.
This volume is called a “Household Book” by this name implying that it is a book for all — that there is nothing in it to prevent it from being confidently placed in the hands of every member of the household. Speci­mens of all classes of poetry are given, including selections from living authors. The Editor has aimed to produce a book “which the emigrant, finding room for little not absolutely necessary, might yet find room for ​in his trunk, and the traveller in his knapsack, and that on some narrow shelves where there are few books this might be one.” “The Archbishop has conferred in this delightful volume an important gift on the whole English-speaking population of the world.” — Pall Mall Gazette.
to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training School, Winchester.
This, it is believed, was probably the first work which drew general attention in this country to the importance and interest of the critical and historical study of English. It still retains its place as one of the most successful, if not the only, exponent of those aspects of words of which it treats. The subjects of the several Lectures are, (1) Introduction; (2) On the Poetry of Words; (3) On the Morality of Words; (4) On the History of Words; (5) On the Rise of New Words; (6) On the Dis­tinction of Words; (7) The Schoolmaster's Use of Words.
This is a series of Eight Lectures, in the first of which Archbishop Trench considers the English language as it now is, decomposes some specimens of it, and thus discovers of what element it is compact. In the second Lecture he considers what the language might have been if the Norman Conquest had never taken place. In the following six Lectures he institutes from various points of view a comparison between the present language and the past, points out gains which it has made, losses which it has endured, and generally calls attention to some of the more important changes through which it has passed, or is at present passing.
in Senses Different from their Present. Fourth Edition, enlarged.
This alphabetically arranged Glossary contains many of the most im­portant of those English words which in the course of time have gradually changed their meanings. The author's object is to point out some of these changes, to suggest how many more there may be, to show how slight and subtle, while yet most real, these changes have often been, to trace here and there the progressive steps by which the old meaning has been put off and the ​new put on, — the exact road which a word has travelled. The author thus hopes to render some assistance to those who regard this as a serviceable discipline in the training of their own minds or the minds of others, Although the book is in the form of a Glossary, it will be found as interest­ing as a series of brief well-told biographies.
It has been felt of late years that the children of our parochial schools, and those classes of our countrymen which they commonly represent, are capable of being interested, and therefore benefited also, by something higher in the scale of poetical composition than those brief and somewhat puerile fragments to which their knowledge was formerly restricted. An attempt has been made to supply the want by forming a selection at once various and unambitious; healthy in tone, just in sentiment, elevating in thought, and beautiful in expression.
GOLDEN DEEDS. A Reading Book for Schools and General Readers. By the Author of “The Heir of Redclyffe.” 18mo.
A record of some of the good and great deeds of all time, abridged from the larger work of the same author in the Golden Treasury Series. ​
HISTORY.
By Edward A. Freeman, D.C.L., late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. With Five Coloured Maps. Second Edition.
The rapid sale of the first edition and the universal approval with which it has been received, show that the author's convictions have been well founded, that his views have been widely accepted both by teachers and learners, and that the work is eminently calculated to serve the purpose for which it was intended. Although full of instruction and calculated highly to interest and even fascinate children, it is a work which may be and has been used with profit and pleasure by all. “I have, I hope,” the author says, “shown that it is perfectly easy to teach children, from the very first, to distinguish true history alike from legend and from wilful inven­tion, and also to understand the nature of historical authorities and to weigh one statement against another. I have throughout striven to connect the history of England with the general history of civilized Europe, and I have especially tried to make the book serve as an incentive to a more accurate study of historical geography.” In the present edition the whole has been carefully revised, and such improvements as suggested themselves have been introduced. “The book indeed is full of instruction and interest to students of all ages, and he must be a well-informed man indeed who will not rise from its perusal with clearer and more accurate ideas of a too much neglected portion of English History.” — Spectator.
The object of the present series is to put forth clear and correct views of history in simple language, and in the smallest space and cheapest form in which it could be done. It is meant in the first place for Schools; but it is often found that a book for schools proves useful ​for other readers as well, and it is hoped that this may be the case with the little books the first instalment of which is now given to the world. The General Sketch will be followed by a series of special histories of particular countries, which will take for granted the main principles laid down in the General Sketch. In every case the results of the latest historical research will be given in as simple a form as may be, and the several numbers of the series will all be so far under the supervision of the Editor as to secure general ac­curacy of statement and a general harmony of plan and sentiment; but each book will be the original work of its author, who will be responsible for his own treatment of smaller details. The Editor himself undertakes the histories of Rome and Switzerland, while the others have been put into the hands of various competent and skilful writers.
The first volume is meant to be introductory to the whole course. It is intended to give, as its name implies, a general sketch of the history of the civilized worlds that is, of Europe, and of the lands which have drawn their civilization from Europe. Its object is to trace out the general rela­tions of different periods and different countries to one another, without going minutely into the affairs of any particular country. This is an object of the first importance, for without clear notions of general history, the history of particular countries can never be rightly understood. The narrative extends from the earliest movements of the Aryan peoples, down to the latest events both on the Eastern and Western Continents. The book consists of seventeen moderately sized chapters, each chapter being divided into a number of short numbered paragraphs, each with a title prefixed clearly indicative of the subject of the paragraph. “It supplies the great want of a good foundation for historical teaching. The scheme is an excellent one, and this instalment has been executed in a way that promises much for the volumes that are yet to appear.” — Educational Times.
I. GENERAL SKETCH OF EUROPEAN HISTORY. By Edward A. Freeman, D.C.L. Third Edition. 18mo. cloth. 3s. 6d.
II. HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By Edith Thompson. 18mo. 2s. 6d.
“Freedom from prejudice, simplicity of style, and accuracy of statement, are the characteristics of this little volume. It is a trustworthy text-book ​and likely to be generally serviceable in schools” — Pall Mall Gazette. “Upon the whole, this manual is the best sketch of English history for the use of young people we have yet met with.” — Athenæum.
III. SCOTLAND. By Margaret Macarthur. 2s.
IV. ITALY. By the Rev. William Hunt, M.A. 3s.
The following will shortly be issued: —
FRANCE. By the Rev. J. R. Green, M.A. GERMANY. By J. Sime, M.A.
FRANCE AND ENGLAND: consisting of Outlines and Dates. By Charlotte M. Yonge, Author of “The Heir of Redclyffe,”
This tabular history has been drawn up to supply a want felt by many teachers of some means of making their pupils realize what events in the two countries were contemporary. A skeleton narrative has been con­structed of the chief transactions in either country, placing a column between for what affected both alike, by which means it is hoped that young people may be assisted in grasping the mutual relation of events, “We can imagine few more really advantageous courses of historical study for a young mind than going carefully and steadily through Miss Yonge's excellent little book.” — Educational Times.
II. By the Author of “The Heir of Redclyffe.” Extra fcap.
The endeavour has not been to chronicle fads, but to put together a series of pictures of persons and events, so as to arrest the attention, and give some individuality and distinctness to the recollection, by gathering together details at the most memorable moments. The “Cameos” are intended as a book for young people just beyond the elementary histories of England, and able to enter in some degree into the real spirit of events, and to be struck with characters and scenes presented in some relief “Instead of dry details,” says the Nonconformist, “we have living pictures, faith­ful, vivid, and striking.”
struggles of Plantagenet and Valois. It refers, accordingly, to one of the most stirring epochs in the mediæval era, including the battle of Poictiers, the great Schism of the West, the Lollards, Agincourt and Joan of Arc. The authoress reminds her readers that she aims merely at “collecting from the best authorities such details as may present scenes and personages to the eye in some fulness;” her Cameos are a “collection of historical scenes and portraits such as the young might find it difficult to form for themselves without access to a very complete library.” “Though mainly intended,” says the John Bull, “for young readers, they will, if we mistake not, be found very acceptable to those of more mature years, and the life and reality imparted to the dry bones of history cannot fail to be attractive to readers of every age.”
from the Best Authorities. Edited and arranged by E. M. Sewell and C. M. Yonge. First Series, 1003-1154. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. Second Series, 1088-1228. Crown
When young children have acquired the outlines of History from abridge­ments and catechisms, and it becomes desirable to give a more enlarged view of the subject, in order to render it really useful and interesting, a difficulty often arises as to the choice of books. Two courses are open, either to take a general and consequently dry history of facts, such as Russel's Modern Europe, or to choose some work treating of a particular period or subject, such as the works of Macaulay and Froude. The former course usually renders history uninteresting; the latter is unsatisfactory because it is not sufficiently comprehensive. To remedy this difficulty, Selections, continuous and chronological, have, in the present volume, been taken from the larger works of Freeman, Milman, Palgrave, and others, which may serve as distinct landmarks of historical reading. “We know of scarcely anything,” says the Guardian of this volume, “which is so likely to raise to a higher level the average standard of English education.” ​
DIVINITY.
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This book is written in the form of dialogues carried on between a teacher and pupil, and its main object is to make the scholar think for himself. The great bulk of the dialogues represents in the spirit, and often in the words, the religious instruction which the author has been in the habit of giving to the Fifth and Sixth Forms of the City of London School. The author has endeavoured to make the dialogues thoroughly unsectarian. “Wise, suggestive, and really profound initiation into religious thought.” — Guardian. “I think nobody could read them without being both the better for them himself and being also able to see how this difficult duty of imparting a sound religious education may be effected.” — From Bishop of St. David's Speech at the Education Conference at Abergwilly.
Mr. Abbott is already known as a most successful teacher of religious truth; it is believed that this little book will show that he can make Bible lessons attractive and edifying even to the youngest child. The book is quite devoid of all conventionality and catechetical teaching, and only en­deavours in simple language and easy style, by means of short stories and illustrations from every quarter likely to interest a child, to imprint the rudiments of religious knowledge, and inspire young ones with a desire to love and trust God, and to do what is right. The author wishes to imbue them with the feeling that at all times and in all circumstances, whether in town or country, at work or at play, they are living in the presence of a heavenly Father, who is continually speaking to them with the Good Voices of Nature and Revelation. The volume contains upwards of 50 woodcuts.
parables, to be read out to little children as an introduction to Bible reading. They are certainly admirably adapted for the purpose. The style is colloquial and will be understood and appreciated by the youngest child, and the parables themselves are very interesting and well chosen.” — Standard.
Great Prophecy of Israel's Restoration (Isaiah, Chapters 40-66). Arranged and Edited for Young Learners. By Mat­thew Arnold, D.C.L., formerly Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Oriel. Third Edition. 18mo.
“Schools for the people,” the power of letters — which embraces nothing less than the whole history of the human spirit — has hardly been brought to bear at all. Mr. Arnold, in this little volume, attempts to remedy this defect, by doing for the Bible what has been so abundantly done for Greek and Roman, as well as English authors, viz. — taking “some whole, of admirable literary beauty in style and treatment, of manageable length, within defined limits; and presenting this to the learner in an intelligible shape, adding such explanations and helps as may enable him to grasp it as a connected and complete work.” Mr. Arnold thinks it clear that nothing could more exactly suit the purpose than what the Old Testament gives us in the last twenty-seven chapters of the Book of Isaiah, beginning “Comfort ye,” &c. He has endeavoured to present a perfectly correct text, maintaining at the same time the unparalleled balance and rhythm of the Authorised Version. In an Introductory note, Mr. Arnold briefly sums up the events of Jewish history to the starting-point of the chapters chosen; and, in the copious notes appended, every assistance is given to the complete understanding of the text. There is nothing in the book to hinder the adherent of any school of interpretation or of religious belief from using it, and from putting it into the hands of children. The Preface contains much that is interesting and valuable on the relation of “letters” to education, of the principles that ought to guide the makers of a new version of the Bible, and other important matters. Altogether, it is believed the volume will be found to form a text-book of the greatest value to schools of all classes. “Mr. Arnold has done the greatest possible service to the public. We never read any translation of Isaiah which interfered so little with the musical rhythm and associations of our English Bible translation, while doing so much to display the missing links in the con­nection of the parts.” — Spectator. ​
ARRANGED. An Amended Version, with Historical and Critical Introductions and Explanatory Notes. By T. K. Cheyne, M.A., Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.
The object of this edition is simply to restore the provable meaning of Isaiah, so far as this can be expressed in modern English. The basis of the version is the revised translation of 1611, but no scruple has been felt in introducing alterations, wherever the true sense of the prophecies appeared to require it. “A piece of scholarly work, very carefully and considerately done.” — Westminster Review.
Edition of “The Psalms Chronologically Arranged, by Four
In making this abridgment of “The Psalms Chronologically Arranged,” the editors have endeavoured to meet the requirements of readers of a different class from those for whom the larger edition was intended. Some who found the large book useful for private readings have asked for an edition of a smaller size and at a lower price, for family use, while at the same time some Teachers in Public Schools have suggested that it would be convenient for them to have a simpler book, which they could put into the hands of younger pupils. “It is a gem,” says the Nonconformist.
Middle Age. From Gregory the Great to the Excommunication of Luther. Edited by William Stubbs, M.A., Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. With Four Maps constructed for this work by A. Keith Johnston. Third Edition.
Although the ground-plan of this treatise coincides in many points with that of the colossal work of Schröckh, yet in arranging the materials a very different course has frequently been pursued. With regard to his opinions the late author avowed distinctly that he construed history with the specific prepossessions of an Englishman and a member of the English Church. The reader is constantly referred to the authorities, both original and critical, on which the statements are founded. For this edition Professor Stubbs has carefully revised both text and notes, making such corrections of facts, dates, and the like as the results of recent research warrant. The doctrinal, historical, and generally speculative views of the late author have been preserved intact. “As a manual for ​the student of ecclesiastical history in the Middle Ages, we know no English work which can be compared to Mr. Hardwick's book.” — Guardian.
REFORMATION. By Archdeacon Hardwick. Third
This volume is intended as a sequel and companion to the “History of the Christian Church during the Middle Age.” The author's earnest wish has been to give the reader a trustworthy version of those stirring incidents which mark the Reformation period, without relinquishing his former claim to characterise peculiar systems, persons, and events according to the shades and colours they assume, when contemplated from an English point of view and by a member of the Church of England.
This volume forms a Class-book of Old Testament History from the earliest times to those of Ezra and Nehemiah. In its preparation the most recent authorities have been consulted, and wherever it has appeared useful. Notes have been subjoined illustrative of the Text, and, for the sake of more advanced students, references added to larger works. The Index has been so arranged as to form a concise dictionary of the persons and places mentioned in the course of the narrative; while the Maps, which have been prepared with considerable care at Stanford's Geographical Establish­ment, will, it is hoped, materially add to the value and usefulness of the Book, “A careful and elaborate though brief compendium of all that modern research has done for the illustration of the Old Testament. We know of no work which contains so much important information in so small a compass.’ — British Quarterly Review.
the Connexion of the Old and New Testament. With Four Maps.
A sequel to the author's Class-book of Old Testament History, continuing the narrative from the point at which it there ends, and carrying it on to the close of St. Paul's second imprisonment at Rome. In its preparation ​as in that of the former volume, the most recent and trustworthy authorities have been consulted, notes subjoined, and references to larger works added. It is thus hoped that it may prove at once an useful class-book and a convenient companion to the study of the Greek Testament. “A singularly clear and orderly arrangement of the Sacred Story. His work is solidly and completely done.” — Athenæum.
for National and Elementary Schools. With Map. 18mo.
for National and Elementary Schools. With Map. 18mo.
These works have been carefully abridged from the author's larger manuals.
This may be regarded as a sequel to the Class-books of Old and New Testament History. Like them, it is furnished with notes and references to larger works, and it is hoped that it may be found, especially in the higher forms of our Public Schools, to supply a suitable manual of instruction in the chief doctrines of the English Church, and a useful help in the preparation of candidates for Confirmation. “It is indeed the work of a scholar and divine, and as such, though extremely simple, it is also extremely instructive. There are few clergymen who would not find it useful in preparing candidates for Confirmation; and there are not a few who would find it useful to themselves as well.” — Literary Churchman.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND, with Scripture Proofs, for Junior
Book of the Catechism. For the use of Candidates for Confirma­tion.
THE COMMANDMENTS. A Manual for Parents and School­masters. To which is added the Order of the Scriptures. By the Rev. F. Denison Maurice, M.A. Professor of Moral Philosophy
PRAYER, with a Rationale of its Offices. By Francis Procter, M.A. Tenth Edition, revised and enlarged. Crown 8vo.
In the course of the last twenty years the whole question of Liturgical knowledge has been reopened with great learning and accurate research; and it is mainly with the view of epitomizing extensive publications, and correcting the errors and misconceptions which had obtained currency, that the present volume has been put together. “We admire the author's diligence, and bear willing testimony to the extent and accuracy of his reading. The origin of every part of the Prayer Book has been diligently investigated, and there are few questions of facts connected with it which are not either sufficiently explained, or so referred to that persons interested may work out the truth for themselves.” — Athenæum.
TO THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. Re-arranged and supplemented by an Explanation of the Morning and Evening Prayer and the Litany. By the Rev. F. Procter
As in the other Class-books of the series. Notes have also been subjoined, and references given to larger works, and it is hoped that the volume will be found adapted for use in the higher forms of our Public Schools, and a suitable manual for those preparing for the Oxford and Cambridge local examinations. This New Edition has been considerably altered, and several important additions have been made. Besides a re-arrangement of the work generally, the Historical Portion has been supplemented by an Explanation of the Morning and Evening Prayer and of the Litany.
Four Friends. An Amended Version, with Historical Introduction and Explanatory Notes. Second and Cheaper
To restore the Psalter as far as possible to the order in which the Psalms were written, — to give the division of each Psalm into strophes, of each strophe into the lines which composed it, — to amend the errors of translation, is the object of the present Edition. Professor Ewald's works, especially that on the Psalms, have been extensively consulted. This book has been used with satisfaction by masters for private work in higher classes in ​schools. The Spectator calls this “one of the most instructive and valuable books that has been published for many years.”
Catechism Illustrated and Explained, for the use of Clergymen, Schoolmasters, and Teachers. By the Rev. Arthur Ramsay,
A clear explanation of the Catechism, by way of Question and Answer, “This is by far the best Manual on the Catechism we have met with.” — English Journal of Education.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH. By William Simpson, M.A.
A compendious summary of Church History.
This manual is designed to serve as a handbook or road-book to the Student in reading the Analogy, to give the Student a sketch or outline map of the country on which he is entering, and to point out to him matters of interest as he passes along.
R. Chevenix Trench, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin. New
The study of synonyms in any language is valuable as a discipline for training the mind to close and accurate habits of thought: more especially is this the case in Greek — “a language spoken by a people of the finest and subtlest intellect; who saw distinctions where others saw none, who divided out to different words what others often were content to huddle confusedly under a common term. This work is recognised as a valuable companion to every student of the New Testament in the original. This, the Seventh Edition, has been carefully revised, and a considerable number of new synonyms added. Appended is an Index to the Synonyms, and an Index to many other words alluded to or explained throughout the work. “He is,” the Athenæum says, “a guide in this department of know­ledge to whom his readers may intrust themselves with confidence. His sober judgment and sound sense are barriers against the misleading influence of arbitrary hypotheses.” ​
CANON OF THE NEW TESTAMENT DURING THE FIRST FOUR CENTURIES. Third Edition, revised. Crown
The author has endeavoured to connect the history of the New Testament Canon with the growth and consolidation of the Church, and to point out the relation existing between the amount of evidence for the authenticity of its component parts, and the whole mass of Christian literature. Such a method of inquiry will convey both the truest notion of the connection of the written Word with the living Body of Christ, and the surest conviction of its divine authority. Of this work the Saturday Review writes: “Theo­logical students, and not they only, but the general public, owe a deep debt of gratitude to Mr. Westcott for bringing this subject fairly before them in this candid and comprehensive essay As a theological work it is at once perfectly fair and impartial, and imbued with a thoroughly religious spirit; and as a manual it exhibits, in a lucid form and in a narrow compass, the results of extensive research and accurate thought. We cordially recommend it.”
The author's chief object in this work is to show that there is a true mean between the idea of a formal harmonization of the Gospels and the abandonment of their absolute truth. The treatise consists of eight chapters: — I. The Preparation for the Gospel. II. The Jewish Doctrine of the Messiah. III. The Origin of the Gospels. IV. The Charac­teristics of the Gospels. V. The Gospel of St. John. VI. & VII. The Differences in detail and of arrangement in the Synoptic Evangelists. VIII. The Difficulties of the Gospels. “To a learning and accuracy which commands respect and confidence, he unites what are not always to be found in union with these qualities, the no less valuable faculties of lucid arrangement and graceful and facile expression.” — London Quarterly Review.
monument of the piety of our ancestors.” — Daily News.
“A brief, scholarly, and, to a great extent, an original contribution to theological literature. He is the first to offer any considerable contribu­tions to what he calls their internal history, which deals with their relation to other texts, with their filiation one on another, and with the principles by which they have been successively modified” — Pall Mall Gazette.
Collection and Reception of the Holy Scriptures in the Christian
The present book is an attempt to answer a request, which has been made from time to time, to place in a simple form, for the use of general readers, the substance of the author's “History of the Canon of the New Testament.” An elaborate and comprehensive Introduction is followed by chapters on the Bible of the Apostolic Age; on the Growth of the New Testament; the Apostolic Fathers; the Age of the Apologists; the First Christian Bible; the Bible Proscribed and Restored; the Age of Jerome and Augustine; the Bible of the Middle Ages in the West and in the East, and in the Sixteenth Century. Two Appendices on the History of the Old Testament Canon before the Christian Era, and on the Contents of the most ancient MSS. of the Christian Bible, complete the volume. “We would recommend every one who loves and studies the Bible to read and ponder this exquisite little book. Mr. Westcott's account of the ‘Canon’ is true history in its highest sense.” — Literary Churchman.
Relation to Reason and History. New Edition. Fcap. 8vo.
This Essay is an endeavour to consider some of the elementary truths of Christianity as a miraculous Revelation, from the side of History and Reason. If the arguments which are here adduced are valid, they will go far to prove that the Resurrection, with all that it includes, is the key to the history of man, and the complement of reason.
Understanding of the English translation of the Old Testament, by reference to the Original Hebrew. By William Wilson, D.D., Canon of Winchester, late Fellow of Queen's College,
many years. Its object is to enable the readers of the Old Testament Scriptures to penetrate into the real meaning of the sacred writers. All the English words used in the Authorized Version are alphabetically arranged, and beneath them are given the Hebrew equivalents, with a careful expla­nation of the peculiar signification and construction of each term. The knowledge the Hebrew language is not absolutely necessary to the profit­able use of the work. Devout and accurate students of the Bible, entirely unacquainted with Hebrew, may derive great advantage from frequent reference to it. It is especially adapted for the use of the clergy. “For all earnest students of the Old Testament Scriptures it is a most valuable Manual. Its arrangement is so simple that those who possess only their mother-tongue, if they will take a little pains, may employ it with great profit.” — Nonconformist.
SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES. By Charlotte M. Yonge, Author of “The Heir of Redclyffe.” Globe 8vo. 1s. 6d.
A Second Series. From Joshua to Solomon. Extra fcap. 1s. 6d. With Comments, 3s. 6d.
Actual need has led the author to endeavour to prepare a reading book con­venient for study with children, containing the very words of the Bible, with only a few expedient omissions, and arranged in Lessons of such length as by experience she has found to suit with children's ordinary power of accurate attentive interest. The verse form has been retained, because of its con­venience for children reading in class, and as more resembling their Bibles; but the poetical portions have been given in their lines. When Psalms or portions from the Prophets illustrate or fall in with the narrative they are given in their chronological sequence. The Scripture portion, with a very few notes explanatory of mere words, is bound up apart, to be used by children, while the same is also supplied with a brief comment, the purpose of which is either to assist the teacher in explaining the lesson, or to be used by more advanced young people to whom it may not be possible to give access to the authorities whence it has been taken. Professor Huxley, at a meeting of the London School Board, particularly mentioned the selection made by Miss Yonge as an example of how selections might be made from the Bible for School Reading. See Times, March 30, 1871. ​
Catalogue of Works on Education, Physical and Mental, General and Special.
This interesting little volume is the result of a visit to France in 1859 by Mr. Arnold, authorized by the Royal Commissioners, who were then inquiring into the state of popular education in England, to seek, in their name, information respecting the French Primary Schools. “A very interesting dissertation on the system of secondary instruction in France, and on the advisability of copying the system in England.” — Saturday Review.
AND COLLEGES. By Sophia Jex-Blake. Crown 9vo.
“In the following pages I have endeavoured to give a simple and accurate account of what I saw during a series of visits to some of the Schools and Colleges in the United States. . . . I wish simply to give other teachers an opportunity of seeing through my eyes what they cannot perhaps see for themselves, and to this end I have recorded just such parti­culars as I should myself care to know.” — Author's Preface. “Miss Blake gives a living picture of the Schools and Colleges themselves in which that education is carried on.” — Pall Mall Gazette.
By Archibald Maclaren, the Gymnasium, Oxford. 8vo.
The ordinary agents of health are Exercise, Diet, Sleep, Air, Bathing, and Clothing. In this work the author examines each of these agents ​in detail, and from two different points of view. First, as to the manner in which it is, or should be, administered under ordinary circumstances: and secondly, in what manner and to what extent this mode of adminis­tration is, or should be, altered for purposes of training; the object of “training,” according to the author, being “to put the body, with extreme and exceptional care, under the influence of all the agents which promote its health and strength, in order to enable it to meet extreme and excep­tional demands upon its energies.” Appended are various diagrams and tables relating to boat-racing, and tables connected with diet and training. “The philosophy of human health has seldom received so apt an exposi­tion.” — Globe. “After all the nonsense that has been written about training, it is a comfort to get hold of a thoroughly sensible book at last.” — John Bull.
GENERAL EDUCATION. By Richard Quain, F.R.S.
Having been charged by the College of Surgeons with the delivery of the Hunterian Oration for 1869, the author has availed himself of the occa­sion to bring under notice some defects in the general education of the country, which, in his opinion, affect injuriously all classes of the people, and not least the members of his own profession. The earlier pages of the address contain a short notice of the genius and labours of John Hunter, but the subject of Education will be found to occupy the larger part. “An interesting addition to educational literature.” — Guardian.
The introductory chapter of this little work contains a history of the National Game, and is followed by a chapter giving Definitions of Terms. Then follow ample directions to young cricketers as to the proper style in which to play, information being given on every detail connected with the game. The book contains a number of useful illustrations, including a specimen scoring-sheet. “We can heartily recommend to all cricketers, old and young, this excellent Guide to the Cricket-ground.” — Sporting Life. ​
Thring, M.A., Head Master of Uppingham School. Second
“An invaluable book on a subject of the highest importance.” — English Independent.
Essays on Subjects connected with Education. By Isaac Tod­hunter, M.A. F.R.S., late Fellow and Principal Mathematical
Contents: — The Conflict of Studies — Competitive Examinations — Private Study of Mathematics — Academical Reform — Elementary Geo­metry — The Mathemathical Tripos.
SKATING: Being the Theory and Practice of the Art as de­veloped in England, with a Glance at its Origin and History. By H. E. Vandervell and T. M. Witham, Members of the London
“The authors are evidently well qualified for the task they have under­taken; and although they have selected a title for their work which might possibly deter a diffident learner from looking into its pages, they have nevertheless begun at the beginning, and without assuming any knowledge on the part of the reader, they have clearly pointed out, by a series of in­structive diagrams, the footprints of the skater, as developed in lines and figures, from the lowest to the highest stage of difficulties” — The Field. “The volume may be accepted as a manual for the use of all skaters.” — Bell's Life.
POCKET BOOK. By Colonel Sir Garnet Wolseley, C.B.
This book is indispensable to every soldier, whether of the Regular Army or of the Volunteers, who seeks to be an intelligent defender of his country. Full instructions are given on the widest and minutest matters, and the ​book is written in a clear, lively style, that at once arrests attention and conveys the desired knowledge. The New Edition contains all the most recent Regulations for the Army and Volunteers; also, for the first time, the Uses and Management of Railways in the operations of War are fully discussed. The Times says, “Everybody feels that it is just what he wanted;” the Daily Telegraph, “Every soldier who wishes to under­stand his profession ought to have it;” and the Volunteer Service Gazette strongly recommends Volunteers to peruse it diligently.
A Series of Addresses and Arguments on the Claims of Scientific Education. Edited by Edward L. Youmans, M.D.
Contents. — Professor Tyndall “On the Study of Physics;” Dr. Daubeny “On the Study of Chemistry;” Professor Henfrey “On the Study of Botany;” Professor Huxley “On the Study of Zoology;” Dr. J. Paget “On the Study of Physiology;” Dr. Whewell “On the Educa­tional History of Science;” Dr. Faraday “On the Education of the Judgment;” Dr. Hodgson “On the Study of Economic Science;” Mr. Herbert Spencer “On Political Education;” Professor Masson “On College Education and Self Education;” Dr. Youmans “On the Scientific Study of Human Nature.” An Appendix contains extracts from dis­tinguished authors, and from the Scientific Evidence given before the Public Schools Commission.
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