Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28

gives some rules for reading punctuation, and the
use Of capitals and contains seventy lessons in 24O
duodecimo pages. These lessons, both prose and
verse, are arranged with spelling and definitions
before, and blackboard exercise after, each. The
selections are judicously made and their arrange
ment progressive The retail price is 80 cents a
copy mn.
7.-Sterkug's Southern Fourth Reader This
is a handsome duodecimo of 3l2 pages, containing
a hundred and three lessons Introductory to the
reading lessons are eight pages devoted to elocu-
articulation tones, Infections emphasis, ac-
cents, pauses, and that kind of thing which con-
tains great deal of useful because practical mat
ter Each reading lesson is preceded by an exer-
else of spelling and defining, and is followed by one
designed to cultivate the faculty of defining. The
selections are of excellent character, mostly but not
exclusively from southern authors, and are both
prose and verse, mainly the former The retail
price is $l.35.
S.-Sterlag's Southern Fifth Reader concludes
the series of Readers The introduction contains
both the treatise on elocution found in the fourth
and one on style, with examples. The extracts are
similar in character to those in the fourth, but are
higher The spelling and defining feature are not
continued in this. The extracts amount to hum
dred and seventy-six, and the number of pages is
456 The retail price is $l.62
The publishers have in press a Southern Orator
by the same author; also Southern High School
Speller, and series of Copy Books, consisting OF
nine books progressive and designed to take the
place of Beers, Spencer, and Payson Dunson and
Scribner, and the score of others now in use with
us.
As to the above-enumerated series Of Readers
there are some points in common which we shall
indicate and which should recommend them to the
patronage of the south. The extracts are, to a
greater extent than in any other series, taken from
southern writer's; and, while everything sectional
or recrimiatiye towards the north is avoided, the
tone and character of these pieces are genuinely
southern and suggestive of southern modes o1
thought and feeling. We regard this as a strong
point in favor of these books for southern USE
Northern writer's are freely selected from, whenev
er their writings are in themselves desirable We
find extracts from New England itsef-Bancroh
Mrs Sigourney, j. l.. Stephens, Webster, Bowles
and Longfellow; and others from such men as lr
wing and Paulding England Ireland, Scotland
France, and Germany are also represented. AL
the southern states are represented. Of Soutt
Caroinians there are eleven-Grimke, Hammond
Palmer, Simms, Preston, Calhoun, Legare, Mrs
McCord, Timrod, Howe, and Hayne. We look il
vain for examples of slang patois, negro or pro
vincial language, and similar blemishes; all O.
which are so calculated to mislead the young mine
as to what is genuine English.
The main competition this series has now to NEE
with lies between it and that which is being ISSUED
with the name of Prof Holmes upon its title-page
and which has some things to commend it; but no
half as many as the one before U.s..
Southern teachers have now an opportunity o
getting rid of reading books that contain selections
offensive to sectional feeling and Of adopting sucf
are in themselves equal to the best Of any section
And upon the matter of photography, these book
are better than all others, because far as we ar
advised every one of the northern readers conform
| to Websters abominable spelling, which has re
Gently been thrown out of use even in one Of the
leading cities north 1t is high time that we were
entirely rid of it, and rid of it forever.
We commend these books to our teachers, be
cause we consider them the best Southern Series
in the market
They are on sale in Columbia, and are in the
market generally.