VALUABLE SCHOOL BOOKS, 



.% ANDREW MYLNE, A.M. 



Lately published by 

 WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, AND OLIPHANT, WAUGH, ANDlNNES. 



I. THE FIRST BOOK FOR CHILDREN, price 3d. 



II. A SPELLING-BOOK, upon a new Plan, for the Use of Schools. 

 The Second Edition, Part I. and II. I8mo. price 1s. 6d. each bound. 



III. AN EPITOME OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR ; with a Variety of 

 Exercises, for the Use of Schools. The Third Edition Improved, I8mo. 

 Price Is. 6d. bound. 



IV. EXERCISES ON THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND : Containing 

 a regular Series of Questions on all the important Facts of the History, from 

 the Invasion of the Romans to the Peace of Amiens. Chiefly taken from 

 Goldsmith's England, 12mo, price 2s. 6d. bound. 



V. EXERCISES ON THE HISTORIES OF GREECE AND ROME ; 

 containing a regular Series of Questions on all the important Facts of both 

 Histories, chiefly taken from Robertson's Greece and Goldsmith's Rome. 

 The Second Edition improved, 12mo, 2s. 6d. bound. 



VI. OUTLINES OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY : Intended to facili- 

 tate the Labour of Teaching, by exhibiting a simple ArrangeB5th> ^f the 

 Objects of Geography, and by affording appropriate Exercises to the LeSfr*. ~., m 

 er. To which is added, A VARIETY OF PROBLEMS. The Third Edi- 

 tion Improved, 12mo, price 2s. 6d. bound. 



The above publications are intended as a regular series of School-books. 

 The SPELLING-BOOK, part 1st, presents a complete view of the general 

 principles of English Pronunciation, arranged in suc.'i a manner as seems best 

 fitted for the purposes of teaching, and illustrated with copious exercises in 

 the form of short sentences, and little stories peculiarly accommodated to 

 the capacity of children. The chief merit of the plan consists in carefully ex- 

 cluding, from the exercises which accompany each rule, every word which 

 has not been previously explained, or which does not come under some of 

 the heads formerly illustrated. In this way simplicity and consistency are 

 given to English pronunciation, without altering the spelling or disfigu- 

 ring the page, and the learner is freed from all those embarrassments which 

 arise from the constant recurrence of anomalous words. PART 2d contains 

 stories of .greater length, which are intended as promiscuous exercises upon 

 the preceding rules. The chief anomalies o{ English pronunciation are now 

 introduced and placed at the head of each class of lessons, m order to im- 

 press them more strongly upon the mind of the pupil. To the whole are add- 

 ed Notes -in which the author attempts to explain what appears to him the 

 best method of teaching the rules. THE GRAMMAR contains a full and com- 

 prehensive view of the different parts of speech, copious exercises for par- 

 sing, with explanatory foot-notes to assist the learner, and a complete collec- 

 tion of rules and remarks on syntax, accompanied with exercises on false 

 grammar, These exercises are fuller than in any other grammar of the same 

 size ; by which means the expence of a separate book of exercises is saved. 

 This small treatise is chiefly distinguished for the simplicity of its arrange- 

 ment, for the brevity of the rules and remarks, and for containing a great 

 variety of lessons peculiarly calculated to exercise the judgment and ingenu- 

 ity of the learner. THE QUESTIONS ON HISTORY are merely books of ex- 

 ercises. They are intended to assist the teacher in examining his pupils, and 

 are peculiarly calculated to excite the attention, and exercise the ingenuity 

 of the pupil himself. Each question rises out of the preceding, and care has 

 been taken to introduce every important fact, by which means the exercises 

 may be regarded as a kind of abridgement of the respective histories. THE 

 GEOGRAPHY presents a general view of the four quarters of the world, and 

 a minute account of the provinces in each subdivision, with the rivers, lakes, 

 islands, capes, and bays, peculiar to each. The whole is presented in a ta- 

 bular form, and is intended as the materials of each day's lesson. At regu- 

 lar intervals the more important parts of the preceding lessons are presented 

 in the form of questions, or promiscuous exercises. To each section, is sub- 

 joined a short account of the face of the country, the climate, the natural 

 productions, the manufactures and commerce of each subdivision. 



