'KEY to TATE'S ALGEBRA MADE EASY'

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of teachers and self-instructors, containing Full Solutions of the Unsolved Problems and Examples in that work, is now ready, in 12mo. price 3s. 6d.

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New Volume of Progressive French Exercises designed chiefly for the use of Classical Schools, entitled PALESTRA GALLICA, and adapted, mainly, but not exclusively, to the Rev. Dr. COLLIS'S Tirocinium Gallicum, is nearly ready, by the Rev. F. C. SIMMONS, B. A., late Scholar of Lincoln College, Oxford, and Head Master of the Dundee Proprietary School, and H. DURLAC, French Master in Dundee High School. These Exercises are intended for boys in the middle and upper forms of public schools beginning French, and having some knowledge of Latin grammar and a little practice in Latin composition. Especial pains have been taken to introduce continuous composition, requiring only an elementary knowledge of French, at a very early stage.

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Latin Anthology for the Use of the Junior 'Forms in Schools, by the Rev. H. MUSGRAVE WILKINS, M.A., Author of a Progressive Greek Delectus,' of a 'Progressive Greek Anthology,' and of Notes for Latin Lyrics,'-is preparing for publication. The object of this book, which was suggested to the Editor by the Head Master of Charter House, is to supply younger pupils with a selection of simple extracts from the easier Latin authors, in prose and verse, but especially the latter. Schoolmasters want one volume of this class which would supersede, for junior boys, the several volumes they have now to get merely for the sake of 30 or 40 pages in each such as Mr. Long's first three books of Cæsar, Mr. Cookesley's Electa ex Ovidio, Electa ex Ovidii Metamorphosibus, &c. A few notes only will be given, so as not to dispense with the use of the Dictionary.

SYDENHAM'S WRITING SYSTEM,

to be published in December,-is an attempt to remedy a general error into which writing pupils are very apt to fall, viz., the copying from their own writing after the first line has been done, instead of attending to the model at the head of the page. To meet this difficulty, a carefully graduated and synthetical process of writing has been prepared by Mr. GEORGE SYDENHAM, Head Master of the Grammar School, Cannock, upon a series of seven cards. Writing sheets, corresponding to the cards, will be sold in packets; the paper of the very best quality. Copy-books will also be manufactured of the same prepared paper for those who may prefer them to the sheets. Among the distinctive features of this series of cards, the absence of modern embellishments, such as capital and other flourishes, may be noted, a return being made to the old system of plain writing. In the higher numbers of the series simple historical narrative has been substituted for sentimental copies; each exercise thus proving at once a lesson in writing, history, and composition. A packet containing the seven cards of the series, with full explanations, price 1s. 6d.

THE COLLEGE EUCLID, comprising the First Six, and the Eleventh and Twelfth Books, with Notes, Illustrations, and Geometrical Exercises, by A. K. ISBISTER, M.A. Head Master of the Stationers' Company's Grammar School, London, is nearly ready for publication. The chief feature of this College Edition of Euclid, as distinguished from the same Author's School Euclid, will be the addition of a Series of Geometrical Exercises, adapted for students at the Universities, selected chiefly from the Senate House and College Examinations set at Cambridge during the last ten years. Hints for the solution of the Exercises will be given in an APPENDIX, together with a short Treatise on Geometrical Maxima and Minima, Plane Loci, and the application of Geometry to Trigonometry.

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New Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages is in preparation by the Rev. W. L. BLACKLEY, M.A., and Dr. CARL MARTIN FRIEDLÄNDER, Member of the Order of Leopold, Corresponding Member of the French Historical Institute, &c.

In announcing a New Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages, the Authors consider it advisable in a few words to point out its general purpose and its peculiar features. The object they have proposed to themselves has been the production, in a convenient form, of a work calculated especially for the use and assistance of English students of the German language, and thus to supply a real want of the present day, the existence of which may be asserted without disparagement to the learned labours of many predecessors in the same field of knowledge, who, addressing themselves, for the most part, to a different object, have generally achieved a different result.

The projected Dictionary by no means aims at being an "Index Verborum," and will neither seek nor merit approbation for containing multitudes of archaic or merely pedantic words, unknown to the living literature, almost to the living language, they profess to illustrate. Its general purpose will be to present every word at all likely to be needed in interpreting or in speaking the German tongue, and its peculiar additional objects will be as follows:

I. By simplicity of arrangement to enable the student, at the least expense of time and trouble, to discover the exact sense of the words he seeks, with reference to their context in his reading, or their fitness for his speech; and,

II. To supply him copiously with the best equivalents in either language for the abundant and characteristic idioms of the other.

The association in the work of an actual representative of each language may justify the expectation of a useful accuracy being obtained, at least in this latter department.

On the two points, of practical facility and idiomatic phraseology, the compilers expend especial care and pains, in the sincere hope that their treatment of such important features in the undertaking may render it of more than usual value and service to the public.

A New Classical School-Book, entitled Lessons in

Continuous Latin Prose- Writing, by the Rev. W. WINDHAM BRADLEY, M.A., late Demy of Magdalen College, Oxford; Author of 'Latin Prose Exercises, 'consisting of English Sentences translated from Cæsar, Cicero, and Livy, to be retranslated into the original Latin,' is preparing for publication. Each lesson of this work will consist of a rule in syntax or explanation of some important point with reference to tense, mood, &c., accompanied, when necessary, by further helps, and followed by an English exercise to be translated into Latin, the more difficult Latin words and phrases being given. These exercises will constitute the most valuable part of the work. Some of them will be formed by a compilation of short sentences; but the larger number will consist of paragraphs, some translated from Cicero, Casar, and Livy, others being English versions of passages from the same writers, simplified and adapted for the purpose in view, and others again the original composition of the author. The book will be divided into four parts, progressive as to difficulty. From the first the use of the subjunctive mood will be studiously excluded. And both the first and in some degree the second part will be of an easy character, and adapted for the use of boys not sufficiently advanced to do with tolerable facility and correctness the exercises in any published work on continuous Latin prosewriting known to the author. Simplicity will be throughout a distinguishing feature of the book.-A KEY to this work will be published for the sole use of persons engaged in tuition.

A New Set of Elementary Latin Prose Exercises

by the Rev. H. M. WILKINS, M.A., will shortly be published. This work is intended for the use of the Shell Forms, which constitute a considerable section in our principal public schools, and for similar classes in other institutions. In its scope, therefore, it resembles PART I. of Arnold's Latin Prose, but differs materially from that manual in its arrangement, and especially in being founded on a systematic exposition of the Latin Syntax. This exposition will not be based on the rules of any one Latin Syntax, since there is none decidedly above its rivals, at any rate in point of circulation. It will consist of a clear and simple digest of the most popular Syntaxes: such, for instance, as those in Dr. Kennedy's, King Edward the Sixth's, and the Eton Grammar, among elementary books of this class, and Schmitz's edition of Zumpt, Madvig, and Dr. Donaldson's recently published Complete Latin Grammar, among the larger ones; so as to embody, as far as possible, the various excellences of these works, and also to secure such a wording of the rules as may be most intelligible, because most familiar, to the pupil, who will probably have used one or another of the above Grammars. Each rule will be illustrated by an Exercise, of an easier character than those in Dr. Kennedy's Curriculum, and drawn, exclusively, from the purest classical sources. An English-Latin Dictionary, possessed by every pupil in the Shell, and, generally,

even in the Fourth Form, will supply the more ordinary words; difficult phrases will be suggested, and constructions explained, at the foot of each Exercise.

THE Head Master of Shrewsbury School, in compliance with particular request, has undertaken to edit VIRGIL expressly for School use. The main principle which his experience in teaching has led him to adopt is, that the Notes should be such as a Master, at least in the two highest forms of Public Schools, may justly require all his scholars to prepare as a portion of the lesson. These notes will seldom impart that knowledge which can be obtained from the three Dictionaries supposed to be in the hands of all advanced boys; but they will indicate, by brief examinative questions, what a boy must obtain from his Dictionaries, while they embrace, briefly but sufficiently, whatever is further requisite for the full interpretation of the author. They will contain as much translated matter as may seem necessary to promote taste and guide judgement, while they carefully avoid that luxuriance of English translation which is so unwelcome to every wise Master, as only tending to enfeeble, and often to mislead, the minds of boys. A preface on VIRGIL'S

style, in the nature of a Poetic Syntax, will be given: and to this the learner will often be referred. It is hoped that these principles will recommend themselves to scholars engaged in classical instruction. But, as the notes are not yet in the press, the Editor invites the communication of their opinions, with a view to make the edition as complete as possible for the purpose it has in view. The text of WAGNER will be generally, but not implicitly, followed; and there will be a few critical Latin foot-notes, indicating the departures from that text. The other notes, in English, will be at the end of the volume.

THE Sixth Edition, revised, of the Rev. Profes

THE revisease on the Differential

and Integral Calculus and Calculus of Variations,' is preparing for publication by Messrs. LONGMAN and Co. A knowledge of this branch of the Pure Mathematics is absolutely necessary before anyone can successfully undertake the perusal of works on Natural Philosophy, in which the effects of the observed laws that govern the material world are reduced to calculation. The present treatise, which was favourably received on its appearance in 1834, and has since continued in general use, was originally prepared for the use of students deficient in this knowledge, yet anxious to obtain as much as might enable them to master the chief analytical difficulties incident to the study of Elementary Treatises on the Mixed Mathematics; also with the hope, expressed by the Author, that by its means a subject of high interest might be rendered accessible to an increased number of readers. The work, it is believed, has also been found very useful to candidates for Government appointments, as well as to the military and civil engineer, and to adult students who have not the advantage of a mathematical instructor.

A New Work on English Grammar, Language,

and Literature, is nearly ready for publication, by Mr. JACOB LOWRES, Author of A System of English Parsing and Derivation,' &c. to be entitled 'Grammar of English Grammars, and forming an advanced Manual of English Grammar and Language, Critically and Historically considered. In the preparation of this work the Author has kept mainly in view the questions set on these subjects at the annual Government Examinations for Certificates and QueenScholarships, and his object is to produce a work which, in a concise form, will contain information sufficient to answer all such questions. Points of difficulty are dwelt upon largely, and the differences of grammarians on disputed points are set forth fully in the notes and remarks. One important feature of this work is, that it contains a brief account of the most eminent writers of English Literature, specimens of the language in every stage of its history, and quotations from nearly every English Grammar of note.

THE Revised Code. In January will be

published, adapted to the Requirements of the Revised Code, in Six volumes, at prices varying from Threepence to Eighteenpence, The Standard Series of Cheap Readers for Village and Night Schools,' edited by J. S. LAURIE, Editor of the Graduated Series of Reading Lesson Books,' &c. A few words of explanation are necessary in order to account for the appearance, immediately after the completion of the Graduated Series,' ofa new set of reading books under the superintendence of the same Editor. The two series are not rivals, nor is the one preparatory or supplementary to the other. The wants which they are designed to meet are separate and distinct.

Amongst the schools aided by public grants, there is a very large number for which the Graduated Series' is either too expensive, or in which its adoption is rendered out of the question on account of the very brief average term of the pupils' attendance. Such schools are entirely dependent for reading books on the cheapest and shortest of the existing compilations; and are, therefore, for the most part, forced to choose from a number of compendious text-books of general information, which, whatever may be their merits, are certainly too dry and uninteresting, and too ill adapted to the wants of the youthful mind to promote the acquirement, with anything like ease or rapidity, of the special art of reading. The deficiency in this respect, of the books in ordinary use has, for some time, been apparent to intelligent teachers and school managers, and will be still more strikingly brought to light by the definite and practical requirements on the subject of reading, which are enforced in the Revised Code. There is, indeed, no greater desideratum in the class of schools referred to than a set of books which shall be within the reach of the poorest child in the kingdom, and which shall impart a real stimulus to the study and the practice of reading; and that is the desideratum which the Editor of the present series hopes to aid in supplying. The

new 'STANDARD' READERS are constructed on the same fundamental plan as the 'Graduated Series,' but with a view to a less comprehensive range of mental culture; and it is intended that they should present, though within narrower limits and in a cheaper form, the same features of interest and attractiveness for the young, to which, in that series, so unusual a prominence is given.

The Editor's ideas of what a reading book should be, and what it should not be, have been so fully set forth in the widely-circulated prospectus of the 'Graduated Series,' that a repetition of them may be dispensed with. Suffice it here to state, that the main principles which have directed the compilation of the STANDARD SERIES' are these:-that the lessons should be sufficiently entertaining to enable a child to read them with pleasure; that the ideas expressed should be not only easily intelligible in themselves, but rendered perfectly clear and distinct by the employment of simple language, uninvolved grammatical constructions, short sentences, and a careful system of punctuation; that when a moral maxim is inculcated, it should be not merely sound in itself, but also capable of being genuinely appreciated by a child; and that in all except the earlier volumes, where the utmost possible variety is essential, a marked preference should be given to the narrative style whether in verse or prose. It will be found that the progression of the lessons is uniformly easy and gradual, while the arrangement aims at variety. Poetry for repetition also occupies a prominent place in all the volumes of the series. The different volumes are so graduated into each other, that the end of the first corresponds with the beginning of the second, and the end of the second with the beginning of the third, and so on. In short, the series has been prepared as one book. At the same time, the annexed table shows, all the volumes have a distinctive character, each answering as nearly as may be to the stage for which it is designed, and all harmonizing with the various phases through which the youthful mind passes in the process of its developement.

The method according to which the columns of words in the earlier, and the meanings in the later volumes are arranged, will, it is hoped, meet with the approval of teachers, and the occasional introduction of the script character will, it is believed, be found advantageous. With regard to the typography, a point of no slight importance, it will be perceived that it is not only clear and distinct, but also that there is a gradation from what is technically called 'English,' in the Primer to 'Brevier' in the SIXTH Book, the same general character of type, however, being preserved throughout.

Strict attention has been paid to the strength of the binding. The convenient size of the books will save them much of the wear and tear to which unwieldy volumes are exposed; while the price renders it possible for each pupil to possess a copy for himself instead of sharing it (according to a common and very uneconomical practice) with another.