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. OIIENDoHFFs NEW METHOD or LEANING THE lTAI-
IAN LANGUAGE, with Additions ana Corrections
b. FELIx FoRREsrr D Appleton & Co. view YORK
The improvements introduced OF ate years have
cleared away most OF the obstacles TO the acquiring OF
foreign languages, and few men have done as much
toward this removal Of the dry sticks Of grammar from
tie path OF progress as the able author OF this work
/ onendorfs German and French Methods are wen and
PECULIARLY suown end The present work on the same
principle applied 10 Italian It supplies pressing want
long felt by the student in that language and will do
much toward introducing knowledge Of the beautiful
language of Dante to the American public. The prnc
PIE Of the work is progressive and nducye the same
by which child acquires its native language. Com
mencng with the simplest phrases, the learner is led
step by stop the most difficult acquiring pronuncis
ton construction and photography all at once and hav
ing the genius Of the language drilled into him by repe
ttion with one quarter the labor required under the
old systems. TO those studying Italian without mas
ter this work is invaluable and enables them 10 read
and write ii with facility in very short time
rys "THE LITERARY REGISTER, AND RECORD
or Books AND SCHOOLS" is the title Of new Quarter
ly edited by VIM. ii. GILDEE The present number Is
filed with notices Of new works and variety OF srt.
cles on numerous and interesting subjects II Is pub
/ Hshed st Philadelphia Price 81 year.
~ Sculpture Proofs AND SCRIPTURE Il
LusTRATIoNs OF UNITARIANIsM BY JOHN WILSON Is
the title Of neat printed l2mo. volume published by
the Unitarian Association of the State Of Newfork-
The Preface that the present volume Is an ezper
ment upon the interest Of the public mind in the sub
ject II will speedily be followed by others il shall
obtain general or considerable circulation II also FAR
Their states confidently anticipated that all Trnar-
ans who read this book viii be very slow thonceiorward
70 charge untarisns with setting up Reason Against
Scripture or deriving their opinion from some other
source than the Bible.
~ CHAMBERss CYCLOPEDA or ENGLISH IL
TERAruRE, No. g. just issued contains great number
Of interesting and valuable selections from the different
writer's of the periods between Sir Thomas Oyerbury
and Samuel Butler including John selden John Earle
Jeremy Taylor John Knox George Buchanan, John NIL
ton and host of other popular authors The number
is proiusely illustrated with Wood Engravings and
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TIE NEW CHURCH QUARTERLY REVIEW Or, PhHo
sopJioaI Ma1a.inf No. January. March. le4l
london Sisspass Mer-hei S CO. Boston One
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This is g new periodical, Just started with the
view of expeundng and vndicatng the con Joint system
Of Philosophy and Theology, propounded by sweden
borg The leading articles are l. SEedsnboTgs ff'R'
cipia evidently from the accomplished pen OF Mr. VIII
kinson; H. Religioa and Philosophy Ill The Mana
scripts of Sreden5o7g ". Reformation by Punishment
V The connection beveea Theology Psychology and P1ys
| oloev From the elaborate review of the Princpis II
would appear that that work falls very little short OF the
Principal of Newton The following is another OF swe
denborg's remarkable anticipations
"One striking and important fact are bound to no
,ce-the identity OF electricity and lightning Il was IN
June 1852 we believe that Frsnkns celebrated exper
ment was performed by which this Identity WAS esiao
shcd Yet no less than 10 years previously namely m
| ira Swedenborrs Principal was published IN when
This same truth reasoned minor consequent III
bis philosophy. such the condolences whieh nave
never vet ts,d any attempted application oil swe
denbores Philosophy. ana which might surprise even
the skcptc into belief at least in the briisney ana
! originality of the authors genius
However reluctant the world may be 10 admit The
fact vet the evidence irresistible that nearly every
GRAND result OF modern science whether In Astronomy
Physiology Chemistry or Psychology was reached and
announced by swcdcnborg hundred years ago
Mr.. John Allen, l39 Nassaust 10 the agent ior The
above and similar works in this city.
THIS PRACTICAL FRENCH TEACHER; or New Method
of Learning to Read, Write and Speak the French
Language by NORMAN PINNEy, N.
The Practical French Teacher, if permitted &c
stand upon its own merits might safely be left TO the
dscernmen, of the public Had it been 50 permitted
probably would have cared to anticipate the yer
dict of that public. But since the friends Of the book
are determined by every possible means, TO swim upon
the current buoyed up by o3eaa0Igs name while
the time they sPsrng no pains to underratc
and dispsrage him feel bound to show that Il has no
affinity with Olendorfs Method thst il is neither
.,ff NOT
even entitled to the credi, of successful imitation
Mr. Pinneys book is. be has entitled it New
Method not Onendorfs New Method as lie claimed
for IT, but New Method pr Sc our late worthy
President would probably have styled IT, We intend Il
prove what here advanced and we intend 10 DO by
! something more than assertion
The fret impression produced by an examination o.
the French Teacher is thst its author almost total
ignorant of the practical working Of Oendoris OF any
similar method OF teaching languages This Is caused
BY the great haste and aorupness with which new and
dissimar clements constantly succeed each other and
The absence of all remark explanation where il Is
most needed. Now II Is 10 be borne in mind that Oon
dorfs system was not cXcogtAted IN the closet 1t Is
the fruit OF solitary study or the ohspns oil an &C
tive Imagination. lts author IS an eminent prAcuca
teacher one who knows by experience the difficulties
learners have to encounter lie therefore always sble
TO give at the proper time and place precisely that eN
plapguon which the Learner needs. and which eNperi
cncc In the school room has taught him cannot be dis
pensed with lie always oresees the state Of the STUDENT
mind and this enables him 10 know the exact time Tor
Introducing a new element with what guards 20 sur
round H. bnd how FAR 1t is either safe profitable tc
proceed In his earliest published work after giving
detailed statement OF the process by which he had form
cd his lessons he thus concludes have felt neees
ssry thus 70 explain how have succeeded step by step
In forming my Method tia, might anticipate those
who should feel disposed 10 critcise my work bee
TO remind them that this Method not Ike many 9th
ers the work of day the product OF heTy inasna
ton but the fruit of seventeen yesrs labor and expert
ence" Now 1t il very clear that Mr. Pinneys Method
is NOT the fruit of any such labor and experience
bears evidence its face that II s the work OF mar
who Is endeavoring 20 ascertain how many words and
constructions OF language he can crowd into given
space In the form Of lessons without stopping TO reject
or trying 10 ascertain by experiment whether the learn
err can comprehend and digest bis lessons as he pro
ceeds So certain are that every one who gives the
two works trial viii endorse the justice OF these re
marks that we are not anxious press the matter far
Their upon the readers attention as
We have said that The Practical French Teacher 4
not as Is clsiuned for H. constructed upon OendoTn
Method The very life of that Method Is Imitation and
frequent r,psfifioH Now where there are no models OF
where the models imperfect or insufficient there
can he no correct imitation Of the constructions OF ian
guage and the repeating OF word TWO OF three unes