BARTON'S WORKS. 



A NEW SYSTEM OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR. By W. S. BARTO>, 

 A. M. 12mo, half Morocco. 75 cents. 



This work is designed as a Text-book for the use of schools and academies. It is the result of long 

 experience, and will be found to possess many peculiar merits. 



VIEWS OF EXPERIENCED TEACHERS. 



FROM W. T. WALTHALL, A. M., SUP'T OF SCHOOLS FOR CITT AND COUNTY OF MOBILE. "I 

 Yegard it as a decided improvement upon any work of the kind in use as a text-book iu our schools, 

 With which I am acquainted." 



FROM S. S. SIIEEMAJC, A. M., PRESIDENT OF THE JUDSON FEMALE INSTITUTE, MARION, 

 AiA. " It is a valuable contribution to our elementary text-books." 



FROM H. TALBIRD, D. D., PRESIDENT OF HOWARD COLLEGE, MARION, ALA. "In my opin- 

 ion, it will not only meet with general favor, but supplant every other work of the kind." 



FROM THOS. B. BAILT, A. M., PRIN. I. O. O. F. COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL, COLUMBUS, 

 Miss. "Everyone remembers the difficulties he encountered in the study of English Grammar. 

 Every teacher well knows the tedium of a recitation in that study. To the pupil it was dry, unintel- 

 ligible and mysterious ; to the teacher laborious in the extreme. Heretofore grammarians have pro- 

 duced confusion rather than order in the youthful mind. The very first lesson made him shudder 

 as his eyes ran over the jargon of technicalities. 



"I am happy to state that Mr. Barton's New System of Grammar supplies the desideratum. Every 

 scholar and teacher should return him sincere thanks, for he has divested it in a great measure of its 

 hidden mystery. By his system, the pupil is gradually initiated into its principles each lesson, 

 like a proposition in geometry, paves the way to the succeeding one, until, by a gradual and philoso- 

 phical process, he is made to comprehend the whole science. Every rule and principle is illustrated 

 by numerous examples ; some of these the pupil will parse, and others correct ; these again are fol- 

 lowed by appropriate exercises in COMPOSITION. This last feature is a novel and valuable addition 

 to the usual mode of instruction. In thus applying what he has learned, the pupil is taught to WRITE 

 as well as to speak correctly. Having determined to adopt this Grammar in my own school, I would 

 recommend it to others." 



" Our estimable and learned townsman, Rev. W. S. Barton, is at work in a masterly manner, 

 remodelling the school books of the day, and reducing them to the easy comprehension of the young, 

 thus placing it in the power of parents to witness the rapid and profitable advancement of their chil- 

 dren, with less mental exertion to the pupil, and infinitely less labor to the teacher. God speed the 

 work in which he is engaged, and may a discerning public mete out to him more patronage than hia 

 modest ambition relies upon, or anticipates." ALABAMA WHIG. 



" This work has met with general favor from teachers and professors, and bids fair to supplant 

 every other book of the kind." AM. PUB. CIRCULAR. 



"From an attentive examination of Prof. Barton's New System of English Grammar, we are con- 

 vinced that his method combines a greater degree of simplicity, clearness and precision, than any 

 other treatise within our knowledge. In our opinion, he has rendered a dry, irksome study a pleasant 

 and agreeable recreation." 



PRACTICAL EXERCISES IN ENGLISH COMPOSITION ; on, THE 

 YOUNG COMPOSER'S GUIDE. By W. S. BARTON, A. 1L 12mo, half Mor. 75 cts. 



The work here presented, it is stated in the preface, is designed as a SEQUEL TO THE AUTHOR'S 

 NEW SYSTEM OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR, which forms a gradual introduction to the first principles of 

 composition. The plan pursued in the following exercises, as in the work mentioned, is founded 

 on the application of the principle of imitation. The pupil is conducted progressively from the 

 simplest expression of thought to the practice of connected composition. 



The treatise will be found useful in assisting such aa have only the opportunity of a "common- 

 school education," to express their ideas with taste and perspicuity ; while to those having the advan- 

 tage of a more general course of instruction, it will serve as a practical introduction to a critical study 

 of English literature. 



Having laid down rules for the use of Capital Letters, Spelling and Pronunciation, with copious 

 examples for illustration, the author proceeds to the Structure of Sentences. These are classified, 

 and then each kind is analyzed. Under each section are given faulty or defective examples, which 

 the pupil is required to correct. It is in this practice, involving not only a familiarity with the rules, 

 but also the power of correctly applying them, that the pupil will find the great benefit of the work to 

 consist. 



For young persons just beginning to practice the art of composition, as well as those more advanced 

 and somewhat accustomed to write, there is probably no one work that will be found In all respects 

 co serviceable aa this, (g) 



