Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-25 00:00:00

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS,

GOOD NEWS FOR CLERKS.
and YOUNG MEN GENERALLY, who desire to improve their
position in this commercial community. They acquire a GOOD
BUSINESS HANDWRITING, COMMERCIAL ARITHMETIC,• and BOOK-
KEEPING by DOUBLE ENTRY, in a few lessons, by applying to Mr.
GEORGE THOMPSON, No. 8, CLAYTON-SQUARE. MOANING
CLASS, Ten to Eleven ; EVENING, Six, Seven, and Eight. Private
Lessons at any hour.
LADIES may acquire the FASHIONABLE style of WRITING.
Class, Three to Four. Lessons, strictly private, by Mrs. THOMP-
SON, at any hour Established 1827.
A Pen for all Writers at the Establishment.

GYMNASIUM. ! GYMNASIUM ! ! GYMNASIUM !! ;
fiLB"
RTIIIIR HITGUENIN, 2, Back Canning-street, (two
doors from Hope-street), begs to inform the public that he
as ESTABLISIIED a PUBLIC GYMNASIUM, at the above address, for
the EXERCISE of the JUVENILE CLASSES of both sexes; on WED-
NESDAYS and SATURDAYS. Young Ladies and young Gentlemen
from three to four, Adult Classes from seven O'clock.
A. H. begs to announce that he has no connection with the
establishment in Lord-street.
Liverpool, Nov. 26, 1858.
MERCHANT TAYLORS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL
- GREAT CROSBY.
—Head , Master—The Rev. J. BERNARD, M.A., of. Magdalen Hall,

This SCHOOL being an endowed Grammar School, under the
patronage and support of the Worshipful Company of Merchant
Taylors, London, is enabled to give, on very moderate terms, an
.anenfinn canal to that of the Great Public Schools. The Head

Maste ,receiies Boarders.
The School Re-opens January 27th

THE FRENCH LANGUAGI

The principles of nature appear so simple, that many, consider-
ing them acknowledged facts, or undisputed truisms, do not
deem them worthy of notice. Thus has been rejected the, fun-
damental law, that the ear alone causes the tongue to move;
for, had this been duly reflected upon, it must, at one period
or another, have led to the discovery of the true method of
teaching languages."—Dufief.
\TONS. RAGONOT (of Paris), Author of the "Sym-
bolic Anglo-French Vocabulary," and of the " Easiest and
glaortest Method of Learning French." The unsuccessfulness of the
prevailing mode, of teaching foreign languages is proverbial; and
the teacher in general

What of

UUIIOIiAL-1 1.141Y.7,.. he laws of nature so far
as to endeavour to impart sounds by the medium of the eyes, and
teach the science of a language before the pupil can lisp its simplest
accents? With such a theory all human devices must necessarily
fail; and hence theenumerous complaints of wasted time and
ineffectual endeavours, from those who have laboured in vain ; and
the general notion that a language can be acquired only in the
country where it is spoken; hence the despair of many students of
the French language of even understanding the rapid conversation
of natives of France. •
All these deplorable consequences may be obviated by the natural
system of teaching languages adopted by Mons. Itagonot.
To carry out the system in its perfection, it is desirable that
several members of a family should take lessons together, much
advantage being derived from numbers.
FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS ATTENDED. PRIVATE LESSONS

GIVEN.
Terms for Evening Classes, £1 ls. per quarter, two Lessons a week
Payable in Advance.

tilir The SYMBOLIC AN G 1.0-FRENCH VOCABULARY," Fifth
Edition, particularly adapted for Schools, &c., approved and sanc-
tioned for the use of the Institutions for the Deaf and Dumb, in
England and France.—To be had from the author, M. RAGONOT,
and sold by all Booksellers.
115, Mount-pleasant, Liverpool.