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Richmond. June l7th. hutherfoOrds Buildings, Cary st
School Book Repository.
TOLLINS a. co. have Just opened the follow.
~ ing valuable School Books
Sears Spelling Book-Of which more ,fIan 100 600
copies have been sold within the last three years
The following are selected from among numerous
communications for this work:
Extract from the American Journal of Education,
Boston.
''In many schools in which Walkers Dictionary is u
sed, by scholars of the middle class il has unaccoun
,sby been customary to make use, in the youngest
class of spelling book entirely at with Walkers
principles. This oversight is the of much tro-
bie and much waste of time, in building up and pull
ing down. sad re .budiug-where the first effort
might erect perfect fabric at The spelling
book before Us, IS intended accomplish this object
Df its success we have doubt. The utmost care
has been bestowed its arrangement In several
other particulars which our limits will permit us 10
MENTION presents equal merit. The internal charac
ter ct the book corresponds, in all respects the
ncatness and care of it's execution"
fnProred Reader-1his valuable little work is now
sereo'yped' and can be furnished in any Quantity at
short notice.
RECOMMEND ATOMS
From }. Stowell, Principal of the Lancastcrian
School, in New Haven.
nave pcriised the Improved Header. which y,ri
handed me for examination, with much satisfaction
1t contains much useful information communicated in
such manner, as both to instruct ard please the
reader The plan of defining such words as the
child is supposed full, to understand is one which
ought 10 be adopted in all elementary books f,r chill
''eh' , J. SrowELL.
From the North American Review
"WthOut intending to make any iu,idio,,s conr.r
lSon w',h other works of ,liis class we can say with
ruin tha' II IS Certainly well adapted to the purpose
M W,ei II ~ intended by its highly deserving author
and teachers" " e"''
Lessons IN Greek Parsing or Outlines nj Gyeek
Tr,Ger|Designed as an Int reduction to the study
OF Tue 6reek Grammar, by &. A. Goodrich Professor
oi hhetoric and OratOry in Yale College.
, RECOMMENDATIONS
from Mr. Stoddart, teacher of Greek in the New la
ven Gymnasium
Messrs. Durrie and Peck-In compIiance with your
request, lhave examined Lessons in Greek Psrsnp
ana cheerfnlly express MY decided appreciation of
'ne plaa and execution of the work. Combining the
outlines of Greek and Grammar, with approximate
exercises upon the various reflections it cannot fail IN
increase the interest, and facilitate the progress of
learners, IN acquiring the elements of the lnp,are
In this view, regard valuable Introduction 10 he
study or Greek--preferabe TO any other with which
am acquainted. Yours, etc.
A. sToDDARD.
N Haven Gymnasium, May %, 1899.
! rom L. Kingsley, Professor of the Hebrew Greek
and Latin Languages in Yale College
work. J. l. KINGsIEv '''
Yale College, August I4th, 1920
me PrncIPai OF the Utica Academy, writes as fol-
lows "a work of this kind has long en- wanted in
our schools; and ii is believed that the present little
volume will supply the deficiency The plan of the
works. such as every teacher must approve II be-
GINS with the pupil by parsng IN easy sentences the
HeTent parts OF speech separately, he learns the
infections, and leads him by easy progress of an
plying each rule of etymology and S, ajax as he adj
Nances to familiar and thorough knowledge of the
grammar. The exercise in mutual translation add
much TO The value of the work; experience abuud
ahtly proves that these exercises cannot be introd
ced at too early period in learning the language"
Elements 2 dstTO'lony, Descriptive and physicai-
In which the general phenomena of the heavenly DO.
dies and the theory the tides Familiarity explain
ed and illustrated by numerous diagrams from engra-
plates. e iSd psiu G.,
citate the study Of science peculiarly useful in.
terestlng and sublime, and is intended for schools
academies, seminares of young ladies, lyceums and
for private reading. BY Heryy Wbar, A. N.
-HeaTen
ls as the Book If God, before us set,
Wherein 10 read his wondrous works
[Julioa
J'iidge Plans and Domestic Sketches or visik q,
The Tectrry IF .AIiibourHe Dale, IN OoLs
The following remark is from the Sabbath School
Herald.
eve have ourselves been much pratEed and bene-
fitted by the perusal Of this work. and believe that il
would form valuable accession to a Sunday School
Library"
"ByUas 9r Zion"-Belng a selection of Hymns
complied chiefly for in the Baptist Churches and
Conferences, by Is. II. Hill, Pastor of the Baptist
Church in New Haven.
This little work is recommended by tile Baptist
Convention of Connecticut and New York.
mar PTS