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INDEX TO CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



VIII. Demonstrative Adjec- 

 tives aucl Pronouns . 58 



IX. The Plural of Nouns . 59 



X. Plurals of Pronouns . 77 



XI. Agreement of Adjec- 

 tives Feminine of Adjec- 



tives . . . .78 



XII. Agreement of Adjec- 

 tives Pluralof Adjectives 86 



XIII. Place of the Adjec- 

 tives Kelative Pronoun 



Eu .... 86 



XIV. Plan of the Exercises 

 in Composing French 

 List of Words for Exer- 

 cises in Composing 106, 115, 



131, 147, 171 



XV., XVI. Comparison of 

 Adjectives, etc. . 107, 115 



XVII. Adverbs of Quan- 

 tity, etc. . . .116 



XVIII. The Relative Pro- 

 noun Cardinal aud Or- 

 dinal Numbers, etc. . 132 



XIX. The Verbs Avoir and 

 Etre in reference to Time, 

 Quantity, etc. . . .148 



XX. The four Conjugations 



of Verbs . . .175 



XXI. Idioms followed by 

 the Preposition De . 182 



XXII. Stems and Termina- 

 tions of the Regular Verbs 



Present Indicative . 183 



XXIII. Irregular Verbs : 

 their Present Indicative . 206 



XXIV. Interrogative Form 



of Present Indicative . 215 



XXV. Idiomatic Uses of 

 Verbs . . . .235 



XXVI. Place of the Pro- 

 iiouns .... 251 



XXVII. Eespective Place of 

 the Pronouns . . 252 



XXVIII., XXIX. Use of the 

 Article . . . 271, 276 



XXX. Relative Pronouns . 291 



XXXI. Idiomatic Uses of 

 Mettre, etc. . . .294 



XXXII. Unipersonal Verbs 315 



XXXIII. Place of the Ad- 

 verbs .... 315 



XXXIV. The Indefinite Pro- 

 noun On, etc. . . 316 



XXXV. Reflective Verbs . 332 



XXXVI. Reflective Pro- 

 nouns .... 333 



XXXVII., XXXVIII. Uses 

 of some Reflective Verbs 



334, 342 

 XXXIX. Reflective Verbs 



Conjugated with Eu . 355 

 XL. The Past Indefinite . 356 

 XLI. The Past Participle . 370 

 XLII. Use of the Auxiliaries 37 1 

 XLIII. Idiomatic Expres- 

 sions .... 372 

 XLIV. Uses of Reflective 



and Unipersoual Verbs . 394 

 XLV. The Passive Verb . 404 

 XLVI. Idiomatic Expres- 

 sions .... 405 

 XLVII. Uuipersonal Verbs 



and their Uses . . 406 

 GEOGRAPHY, LESSONS INP 

 Early Notions: the Geogra- 

 phy of the Scriptures . 3 

 Notions of the Poets . . 40 

 Notions of the Greeks and 



Romans . . .75 



Arabian Notions European 

 Travels Discovery of 

 America . . . 100 

 The Geographical Discove- 

 ries of the Sixteenth and 

 Seventeenth Centuries . 140 



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Discoveries of Eighteenth 

 Century . . 167 



Discoveries of Eighteenth 

 and Nineteenth Centuries 193 



Discoveries of the Nine- 

 teenth Century ,236, 271,292, 361 



Explorations aud Discove- 

 ries in Africa, ia30-1868 . 38!) 



GEOMETRY, LESSONS IN : 

 Introduction . .29 

 Definitions . . 29, 52 

 Instruments used in Prac- 

 tical Geometry . 95, 113 I 

 Simple Geometrical Theo- 

 rems .... 156 

 Problems iu Practical Geo- 

 metry 156, 191, 209, 255, 

 287, 308, 337, 384, 411. 



GERMAN, LESSONS IN: 



Introduction . . .25 



I. German Alphabet . . 26 



II. Sounds of the German 

 Letters . . . . "6 



III. German Handwriting . 37 



IV. The Article and the 

 Verb .... 37 



V. The Nouu : Old Declen- 

 sion . . . .61 



VI. Demonstrative Pro- 

 nouns . . . .61 



VII. Conjugation of the 

 Present Singular of Geheu 

 and Gebeii . . .62 



VIII. Indefinite Article . 66 



IX. Declension of Adjec- 

 tives Old and New De 

 cleusions . . .67 



X. Declension of Adjectives 



Mixed Declensions . 67 



XI. Formation of Adjectives 

 denoting Material . . 94 



XII. The Feminine Gender 

 of Articles Nouns, Ad- 

 jectives, etc. . . .94 



XIII. Nouns of the New 

 Declension . . . 102 



XIV. Absolute Possessives, 



etc 103 



XV. The Plural Number of 

 Articles, Nouus, Adjec- 

 tives, etc. . . .118 



XVI. Use of the Definite 

 Article : Proper Names, 

 etc., etc. . . . 134 



XVII. Personal Pronouns, 

 Verbs of the NQJV Conju- 

 gation, etc. . . . 150 



XVIII. Difference between 

 Verbs of the Old and New 

 Conjugations . . . 162 



XIX. Demonstrative and 

 Substantive Pronouns . 163 



XX. Possessive Pronouns . 179 



XXI. Relative Pronouns . 180 



XXII. The Verb To be, etc. 197 



XXIII. Various Idioms . 197 



XXIV. Conjugation of Verbs 210 



XXV. The Infinitive, etc. . 238 

 XXVI. XXVIII. Separate 



Particles . 239, 245, 246 



XXIX. Position of the Verb, 



etc 259 



XXX. Comparison of Adjec- 

 tives .... 259 



XXXI. Inseparable Particles 292 



XXXII. Various Idioms . 282 

 XXXIII.-XXXV. Peculiari- 

 ties in Verbs, etc. . 302, 310 



XXXVI. Impersonal Verbs 310 

 XXXVII., XXXVIII. Reflec- 

 tive Verbs . . .323 

 XXXIX. XLI. Peculiar 



Idioms . . 324, 346, 382 

 XLII. Subjunctive Mood . 382 

 XLIII. Idiomatic Phrases. 402 



HISTORIC SKETCHES. 



120 



222 



11 



40!) 



Magua Charta . . 



Thomas a Becket and the 

 Constitutions of Claren- 

 don .... 



Sir Richard Grenville, 

 when he cried " No Sur- 

 render 



Charles I., when the Com- 

 mons cried " Privilege" . 



The Rising of the Labourers 

 under Richard II. . .157 



William Sautre, Heretic . 177 



King Charles's Veto on 

 Emigration . 



The Gordon Riots 



The Bloody Assize 



Tho Knights Templars, or 

 Red Cross Knights . 



Simon de Moutfort and the 

 First English Parliament 350 



The Protector of the Com- 

 monwealth . . . 372 



How a London Jury a true 

 Verdict gave, according 

 to the Evidence 



LATIN, LESSONS IN : 



Introduction . . .14 

 Pronunciation of Latin . 14 

 Preliminary Instructions in 

 the Verbs . . 38, 70 

 First Conjugation . . 39 

 Second Conjugation . 70 

 Third Conjugation . . 70 

 Fourth Conjugation . 70 

 Recapitulation . .71 

 Nouns, Substantive and Ad- 

 jective . . . '.98 

 Nouus Concord of Sub- 

 stantive aud Adjective 

 Cases of Nouns Case- 

 eudiugs .... 142 

 The First Declension. . 166 

 The Second Declension . 202 

 The Third Declension . 230, 

 262, 298 



The Fourth Declension . 330 

 The Fifth Declension. . 358 

 Degrees of Comparison . 388 



%* The Key to the Exercises given 

 in any Lesson in Latin will be 

 found at the end of the next 

 Lesson. 



MECHANICS : 



Force : its Direction, Mag- 

 nitude, -,ud Application . 17 

 Unit of Force Forces ap- 

 plied to a Point . . 62 

 Forces applied to a Single 

 Point Parallelogram of 

 Forces . . . .83 

 Twisted Polygon Forces 

 applied to Two Points 

 Two Parallel Forces . 123 

 Parallel Forces The Centre 



of Gravity . . . 187 

 Finding Centres of Gravity 219 

 Axis of Symmetry Stable 

 and Unstable Equilibrium 

 Introduction to the 

 Mechanical Powers . 248 

 The Three Orders of Levers 



The Common Balance . 283 

 The Steelyard . . .343 

 To Graduate a Steelyard 344 

 The Danish Balance The 



Bent Lever Balance . 344 

 Further Properties of the 

 Parallelogram and Tri- 

 angle .... 345 

 The Wheel and Axle . . 345 

 The Compound Wheel and 

 Axle . 346 



MUSIC, LESSONS IN : 



Introduction First Prin- 

 ciples of Mufcic . . 27 



The Mouochord Notes of 

 the Scale Great Tone, 

 Small Tone, Toiiule, etc. 90 



The Tctrachords The Mo- 

 dulator, or Pointing 

 Board Binary, Triuary, 

 Quaternary, and Senary 

 Measures, etc . 145 



Exercises in the Measures . -11 



The Metronome Beating 

 Time Notation of the 

 Relative Length of Notes 

 Notation of Slurs, Re- 

 peats, aud Expressions 

 The Standard Scale . 273 



The Management of the 

 Voice, etc. . . .333 



Questions and Tests of Pro- 

 gress . 403 



OUR HOLIDAY : 



La Crosse, the National 



. Game of Canada . .15 

 Football . . . .111 

 Hockey . . . .207 

 Cricket . . . 367, 398 

 Laws of Double Wicket . 398 

 Laws of Single Wicket . 3'J'J 

 Gymnastics. 



The Bag and Ring Exer- 



cs;s .... 47 

 Wand Exercises . . '/! 

 The Dumb Bells . . 79 

 Indian Clubs . . .80 

 Jumping aud Leaping . M :> - 

 The High Leap . . 14:> 

 The Long Leap . .144 

 Leaping with the Pole . 144 

 The Horizontal Bar . 175 

 The Parallel Bars . . 239 

 The Vaulting Horse . 30o 



PENMANSHIP, LESSONS IN 

 11, 21, 36, 60, 68, 93, 109, 117, 

 149, 133, 173, 181, 196, 221, 

 229, 244, 261, 267, 301, 317, 

 325, 349, 357, 380, 397, 407. 



READING AND ELOCUTION: 

 Punctuation 



Characters employed iu 



Writing and Printing . 30 

 The Period The Note of 

 Interrogation The 

 Note of Exclamation . 51 

 The Comma . . . > _' 

 Tho Semicolon . . l-'J 

 The Parenthesis, CrotcluM s 

 imd Brackets The 

 DasU .... 151 

 The Dash (continued) 

 The Hyphen The 

 Ellipsis . . .190 

 The Apostrophe The 

 Quotation Mark The 

 Diaeresis TheAsterisk, 

 Obelisk, Double Obe- 

 lisk, Section, Parallel, 

 Paragraph, Index, Ca- 

 ret, Breve, aud Brace . 218 

 Analysis of the Voice 



Quality of the Voice . 24 J 

 Due Quantity or Loud- 

 ness Distinct Articu- 

 lation Correct Pro- 

 nunciation . . . 286 

 True Time Appropriate 



Pauses . . . 306 

 Ri^ht Emphasis . . 339 

 Correct Inflection . 378, 406 



RECREATIVE NATURAL HIS 

 TORY : 



The Snail . . . .269 

 The Mole - 334 



