BOOK I. 40 cts. introd. BOOK II. 60 cts. introd. 



TARBELL'S 



LESSONS IN LANGUAGE. 



By H, S, TARBELL, Superintendent of Schools, Providence, RJ, 



Here is at last a series that harmonizes "language " and "grammar" and 

 makes expression through -written forms as natural as thought and speech. 



It is believed that nothing crude, notional, or simply " taking " will be 

 found in the books, however original and attractive they may seem. Five 

 years were spent in maturing the plan, and five years more in working out 

 the details. The most approved text-books American, English, French, 

 and German were studied. A number of the best known specialists in 

 this department assisted. The experience of hundreds of teachers and the 

 capacity of thousands of pupils were consulted. 



A course in which so much good thought has been embodied must possess 

 marked features worthy of attention. The appeal is confidently made to the 

 class-room. All are urged to test our recommendations by actual use. 



Win. E. Buck, Supt. Public Instruction, Manchester, N.H. : I am particularly well 

 pleased with them. They insure better teaching, because most teachers will almost literally 

 follow the text-book and Tarbell's Lessons have evidently been arranged with this fact in 

 view. Accordingly, all subjects are treated with sufficient fullness for the common school 

 and in due proportion with reference to theory and practice. 



A. Wanner, City Supt. of Schools, York, Pa. : They are admirably adapted to teach 

 the pupil " to use his native tongue with readiness, clearness and accuracy in both its spoken 

 and written forms." 



Mary A. Bacon, Teacher of English, Girls' Normal and Industrial School, Milledge- 

 ville, Ga. : I have no hesitation in saying that they are the best books on the subject now in 

 the field. The most inexperienced teacher could not fail of fair success with such texts. 



R. W. Stevenson, Supt. of Schools, Wichita, Kansas : It will, by the force of merit, 

 push itself into many of our best schools. Teachers will find it one of the best arranged and 

 the best graded of the many books on language culture for primary schools. The exercises 

 for composition are fresh and pointed, and if followed must result in making the pupil able 

 to write his thoughts accurately, correctly and clearly. 



N. Somerville, Supt. of Public Schools, Denison, Texas: Tarbell's Lessons in Language 

 have been in use in the public schools of this city five months, and I have had an excellent 

 opportunity of testing their efficiency by actual experiment in the school room. . . . On the 

 whole it may be said that they are without a rival, so far as merit is concerned. 



George S. Albee, Pres. State Normal School, Oshkosh, Wis. : It constitutes the best 

 basis for a child's progress in culture in language known to me. Its lessons are not merely 

 consistent and progressive, which could be said of several other elementary texts in 

 language, but in addition, they constitute a linguistic center, which calls for exercise upon 

 the child's varied field of knowledge. 



CINN & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, 



Boston, New York, and Chicago. 



