Star.
London, England, 1818-07-25 00:00:00

THE INTERROGATIVE SYSTEM OF
EDUCATION.

TT is now above twenty years since the Proprietor
1 of the undermentioned Works submitted to Conductors of
Schools the first specimens of that series of improved Denten-
tary Books which he had planned for the purpose of facilitating
the Instruction of Youth, and rendering the accrirement of
knowledge at once pleasant, rapid, and certain. This System
has since been known to the world under the denomination of
the Interrogative System; and, as opposed to some popular me-
chanical Systems, its inventor has also defined it, by way of
eminence, the Thinking or Intellectual System—from the obli-
gation to think, or mentally work, on the subject ofatudy which
it imposes on the pupil ; and from the general improvement of
the intellectual faculties, of which habitual mental exercise is a
necessary consequence. This System, in the popular works pub-
lished under the names of Goldsmith, Blair, Barrow, Adair, &c.
has been introduced into nearly every School of character in the
British Empire, and has met with a degree of approbation far
exceeding the original expectations of its author. The principle
of teaching by Questions without Answers, which requires that
the pupil should furnish answers to questions, often complicated,
from the scattered data of his book, demanded various prepara-
tions on the part of the tutor ; but the publication of the Tutor's
Key, containing answers to above six thousand questions, has
removed every difficulty in practice.
Among the competitors of the Interrogative System, the re-
spected name of PESTALOZiI has appeared ; but it ought to be
known that his System is precisely that to which the public at-
tention is now invited, but which way taught in England many
years before the name of Remittent* any manner transpired.
Others have annexed questions to their books, and claimed
kindred merit; but, by an unhappy misconception of th,
prin-
ciple, their questions accord in arrangement exactly with the
order of the data to which they refer, and therefore afford no
exercise to the intellectual faculties. Others again have so far
mistaken the term Interrogative System," as to obtrude on
the Public, under its sanction, a series of awls on the obsolete
plan of question and answer. While others have basely imitated
both the Inventor's plan and his books, and have produced va-
rious superficial, vulgar, and inadequate compilations, whose
only recommendations have been their close imitation of his
title-pages, types, ornaments, and bindings.
As a means of protecting the Public against all such artifices,
and of supporting the reputation of his Series of Books, he has
therefore judged it expedient to subjoin
A COMPLETE LIST of these ORIGINAL WORKS:

1. BLAIR'S UNIVERSAL PRECEPTOR ; or. General Grammar of
all Arts and Sciences ; serving as a Universal Text-Book for
every Class in all Schools, 4s. 6d. with 600 Questions, sold sepa-
rately at las
Gocnssurn's Genstmaa of GENERAL GEOGRAPHY; includ-
ing Problems on the Globes, and 600 Questions for Exercise,
with Maps, Views, &c. Ss. 61.
5. GOLDSMITH'S GRAMMAR of BRITISH GEGOR•PIIY, or De-
tails of the present State of the British Empire in every l'art of
the World, Territorial,-Political, and Commercial, with .daps,
to Views, and 500 Questions-ss.
4. SQUIEE'S GRAMMAR of the lit.r.srevrs of Asramsosrv, illus-
trated with more Engravings than any other Work on the same
interesting Science, and forming the most popular System of
•Astronomy ever published, 'With 500 Questions-9s. 64.
5. RDELNSON'S GRAMMAR of UNIVERSAL HISIORY from the
Creation to the Peace of Pari3, 1814, with 400 Questions, a
Chronolog7, &c. 41.
6. Bcara's GRAMMAR of NATURAL and EXPERIMENTAL Pin-
tosorny in all its Branches; including a cour.e of Chemistry,
Grology, &e. price 63. with 500 Questions, sold separgely, at is.
7. Batthow's 500 Quaartturs on the New Tsisrosstr.sr ; being
the only means ever devised of implanting the Elements of the
Christian Religion in the minds of young Children, ls.
S. Baxitow's 500 QUESTIONS on the Ow Tasrastrlir, eaten-
lated to make Young Persons intimately acquainted with the
Sacred History, ls.
RUNUALL'S GE.V.IMAR of &scorn lltsitier; including all i
the Facts in both the Old and gew Testaments, with 400 Qiues-
done, aLd Maps and Engraving% 4s.
10. ADAIR'S 500 QUESTIONS On Gocnsmirses litsroar of ENG.
LAND, calculated to render Young Persons familiar with the
English History, is.
11. ADAIR'S 500 QUESTIONS on "Auttnay's GRAMMAR, and on
, rßyoffeo unman of ENGLISH COMPOSITION, Is.

12. Bum's Exottsu GKAMMAI, being the comptetest, and
at the !tame tine the most succinct Grammar extut:t, with Exer-
cises, and 400 Questions, s. ed.—And

The TUTIVA'S—Kry to the preceding Twelve Books, containing
Answers to all the 6,lu.stions, or easy ILArences fur the aln.
rivers; wtth an Introduction, explanatory of the System, .ss.
Printed fra. Sir Itaottann Pnim.irs, London; and to be had,
wholnrale and retail, of J. Souttr, St. Paul's Church-yard; :mod
of all Dooloillt:i.