OPINIONS CONCERNING 



FIEST BOOK OF BOTANY. 



IT is bnt rarely that a school-book appears which is at once 

 so novel in plan, so successful in execution, and so suited to 

 the general want as to command universal and unqualified ap- 

 probation, but such has been the case with Miss Youmans's 

 First Book of Botany. Her work is an outgrowth of the most 

 reqent scientific views, and has been practically tested by care- 

 ful trial with juvenile classes, and it has been everywhere wel- 

 comed as a timely and invaluable contribution to the improve- 

 ment of primary education. We select the following out of the 

 mass of testimonials which have come to us from the highest 

 sources, and commend them to the attention of teachers, par- 

 ents, and boards of education : 



From PBO*. JOHK S. HART, Principal of the Trenton Normal School. 



This little book seems to me to supply the very thing needed in our con re e 

 of primary instruction. I refer not to the study of botany, but to the method 

 of studying it here developed. We have here a fourth fundamental branch of 

 Btudy, which shall afford a systematic training of the observing powers ; and 

 its general introduction into our primary schools would work a great and most 

 important revolution in our whole system of education. 



