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NATIONAL EDUCATION.

Now Publishing, the cheapest and best Series of Educational Books ever issued, entitled ILLUSTRATED TWO-PENNY SCHOOL BOOKS,

DIVIDED INTO THE FOLLOWING SERIES:

1. FIRST SPELLING AND READING.

2. SECOND SPELLING AND READING.

3. GRADUATED GRAMMAR.

4. WRITING AND COMPOSITION.

5. ARITHMETIC.

6. GEOGRAPHY.

Forming Vol. I,, price 1s. 6d.

7. GEOLOGY.

8. ASTRONOMY.

9. NATURAL HISTORY. 10. ENGLISH HISTORY.

11. PHYSICAL TRAINING.

12. MORAL CULTURE.

Forming Vol. II., price 1s. 6d.

The Numbers may be had separately, price 2d., and the Numbers and Volumes will always be kept in print.

London: HOULSTON and STONEMAN, 65, Paternoster Row; and all Booksellers.

In the Press, and shortly will be Published, price 2d. each,

ILLUSTRATED TWO-PENNY HOUSEHOLD BOOKS.

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These Twelve Numbers, bound into One Volume, will comprise a work which no housewife should

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Earh Number will be Sllustrated by excellent Wood Engravings.

UNIFORM WITH THE ILLUSTRATED TWO-PENNY SCHOOL BOOKS.
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FIRST BOOK OF PELLING AND READING.

SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS.

common mode of teaching a child the letters of the alphabet has been to point all out in succession, until they were remembered by the child in their consecutive This is a slow and unsatisfactory method. The impression of each letter on aind is erased by that which is shown next. A better way is to call the child's tion to only one or two letters at a lesson, give their sounds very distinctly, speak their appearance, and let him look at them until he can distinguish them, and heir sounds or names. The following plan will be found to be quite original, and sults will afford the greatest satisfaction. Cut out the large letters from this book, putting them a little distance off, send the child to fetch A, or N, or W, as you may imine. After a little while you may proceed to amuse and instruct the child by ng the letters down upon objects, of the names of which the letters form the initials. : put T on the Table, and say

"The T is on something that's spelt with a T;
Look about, look about, and bring it to me."

The child will be amused to seek and find the letter, and will learn to distinguish nly the letter T, but to understand that the piece of furniture from which he took etter is called a Table, and that its name begins with a T.

his simple couplet will serve to rhyme with the letters B, C, D, E, G, P, and V; the letters may be placed variously upon the Bed, a Board, a Basket; a Chair, a a Cradle; a Door, a Dresser, a Drugget, a Desk, Dimity; an Ear, an Egg or Egga Glove, a Glass, Gauze, Gooseberry; a Pitcher, a Poker, a Plum, a Pie or Piea Pudding, a Penny, Paper, &c.; a Vine-leaf, a Vegetable, Velvet, a Vase, &c. &c. n anything nice turns up, as a prize, it will prove a reward.

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The following couplets will include the rest of the alphabet :

"There's an A upon something that's spelt with an A;
Look about, look about, bring the letter this way!"

The letter may have been put upon an Apron, on the teacher's Arm, an Acorn, or e. This couplet will serve also for K and J. The K may be placed upon a Key, a , a Knob of a door; and the J upon a Jar, a Joint (of a table), a Jug, Jean, Jane, -it being proper, when the letter is placed upon a person, to say some one, instead me-thing.

"There's an F upon something begins with an F;

Go find it-you hear me-I know you're not deaf!"

The letter may be placed upon a Footstool, a Fan, a Fender, a Fire-screen, a Flower, Floor, Flannel, the teacher's Foot, &c.

"There's an H upon something that's spelt with an H;

And, that if you try, you are able to reach!"

The letter may be placed on the Hearth-rug, a Hand, the Head of the teacher, at, &c.

"There's an L upon something that's spelt with an L;
Look about, look about, till its place you can tell!"

The letter may be placed on the Lock or Latch of a door, on a Leg, a Lemon, a -uce, Lace, Lead, Leather, &c.

"There's an M upon something that's spelt with an M;

I've some letters here, so put it with them!"

The letter may be placed upon a Mat, a Mantle, upon Mamma, a Man, Metal, &c.

"There's an N upon something that's spelt with an N;

Look about, look about, till you find it again!"

It is less painful to learn in youth than to be ignorant in age.

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Learning is wealth to the poor, and an ornament to the rich.

The letter may be placed upon the teacher's Neck, upon the Nurse, a Nut Nutmeg, &c.

"There's an O upon something that's spelt with an 0;

To bring it to me,-I will thank you to go."

The letter may be placed upon an Orange, an Onion, an Oil-cloth, Ormolu, Ottoman, &c.

"There's a Q upon something that's spelt with a Q;

Look about till you find it, and bring it here too!"

The letter may be placed upon a Quill, a Quilt, a Quadruped (the cat, or dog), &c

"There's an R upon something that's spelt with an R;

Go fetch it for me, it is not very far!"

The letter may be placed upon a Radish, a Ring, a Rug, a Raisin, a Raspber Rice, a Ribbon, &c.

"There's an S upon something begins with an S;

What that something is, I will leave you to guess!"

The letter may be put upon a Stool, a Saucer, a Sock or Stocking, a Stone, a So (piece of music), Satin, Scissors, Seat, Shoe, Silk, Spoon, Sugar, &c.

"There's a U upon something that's spelt with a U;
Look about, look about, you will find it is true!"

The letter may be put upon an Umbrella, an Urn, upon Uncle's lap, &c.
"There's a W on something that's spelt with a W;
Look about for it, I hope I don't trouble you!"

The letter may be put by the Window, on a Work-box, on a Wardrobe, against t Wall, upon a piece of Wood, on some Worsted, &c.

The following may serve an existing difficulty, and the variety may amuse the child:

"There's nothing about us that's spelt with an X;

So I'll show it to you-I've no wish to perplex !"

"There's a Y that's on something that's spelt with a Y;

So to find it I'd have you immediately try."

The letter may be placed upon a Yard-stick, anything Yellow, or on a Youth.

"In finding these letters, you'll smile when 'tis said,

You've pleased me by something that's spelt with a Z."

Explain to the child that he has displayed Zeal, and this will afford you a suita opportunity to encourage him to the zealous pursuit of knowledge, which may be t more impressed upon him by pleasing remarks about the different objects from whi he took the letters. By this system even infants may be instructed in the forms letters, and in their proper sounds; for each couplet (with the exception of H) has be formed to rhyme upon the exact sound of the letter. There are few adult persons will admit that simple rhymes are musical to children, and that they impress the mi very vividly. We all remember

"Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross,

To see an old woman get up on her horse."

Here was a bit of doggrell without rhyme or purpose, for horse can scarcely be s to rhyme with cross; and yet how many delighted children have listened to it o and over again. All the faculties of the child will be brought into operation by t system, which will not be less interesting than the well-known game of

"The beans are buttered, and very well buttered indeed!"

The letters having been carefully cut out, the small ones being allowed to rem underneath, the learner may afterwards be exercised in placing them back in t proper situations. The whole of the alphabet being printed to fall upon one surf this will be found easily practicable.

We have discarded the irrational infliction upon the child of the unmeaning uncongenial sounds of syllables, such as "ak, ek, ik, ok, uk," and "ba, be, bi, bo, 1 &c., which we find in Markham's "Plain and Easy Method," and similar error: Guy, Fenning, Mavor, &c.; and prefer, after imparting a knowledge of the alpha to introduce the child to such simple words as may be already familiar to his ear, as he may require to utter immediately his lessons are at an end.

It is good to know much, but better to make good use of what we know.

So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee.

ADDRESS TO PARENTS AND TEACHERS.

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E subject of Popular Education very properly excites considerable attention at this e. And, as the result of this excitement, various books have been offered to the blic as contributions to the desired end. Some works have appeared with conerable parade, and have, for the sake of sudden popularity, hacked the elements of acation in a manner little calculated to promote the diffusion of the latter, or to exalt e character of the Press as the organ of the national mind. Convinced that one of e most material aids to popular improvement may emanate from the production of really excellent series of Elementary Book, at the lowest possible price, we have dressed ourselves to this object, and the "ILUSTRATED TWO-PENNY SCHOOL BOOKS" the result. These Books are designed equally for use in Nurseries and in Schools. inspection of them will show that they have been written with considerable care, d that many new features and improvements have been introduced. The Series is ended to consist of

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The whole of the Series comprising the First Volume will appear almost simultaneously. Upon the arrangement of this our First Spelling and Reading Book, considerable re has been bestowed. It will be found to contain One Hundred and Twenty-Seven refully graduated Lessons in Spelling, and Twenty-five Reading Lessons, illusated by Twenty-five instructive Engravings.

It will be seen that we have discarded the usual attraction of these first books-a ctorial Alphabet, in which letters and figures are intermixed, to the production of scurity in the former. The remarks of an experienced Teacher in the first volume of he Family Friend first called our attention to this subject. The writer we have alluded says:- "There should be set before the children a single letter, in bold, hard, outline. here should be no heavy, black lines contrasting hair-drawn ones; no flourishes; thing but such a plain form as a young child could not mistake-nothing but a bare eleton outline." The same lady advises that teachers should form letters of bits of ths and tape laid upon a table, or the floor, and that the children should be taught to imitate them. Of the evil of pictorial letters we have been sufficiently convinced by examining an old and standard work, and also a modern one, which has been received with a large amount of favour, when its demerits, which are very numerous, are taken into account. From the former we copy the Q for Quail, and from the other the letter U. It is

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true that by the side of each a small and plain letter is given. But all who know the habits of

ildren will at once understand how much their attention must be diverted by these ctures from the precise form to be imprinted upon their minds.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the mind.

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