114 A Catalogue of Boohs 



Sect. I. — For the Purpose of teaching a few Gardeners, or other Young 

 Men or Women, assembled for the Purpose of Mutual and Social Im- 

 provement, how to proceed. 



1. Instructions for conducting Schools en the Madras System. London, 3d edit. 1812. \%mo. Is. 



2. The Madras School Grammar ; or new system reduced to questions and answers. 12mo. 2s. 



3. The Madras School ; or elements of tuition. 8vo. 1815. 12s. 



4. Hollingsworth's Recommendation of the Madras .System. 8vo. 2s. 6d. 



5 Improvements in Education as it respects the industrious class of the community ; containing, 

 among other important particulars, an account of the institution for the education of one 

 thousand poor children. London, 3d edit. 1806. 8vo. Is. Gd. 



Sect. II. — English Grammar and Composition. 



6. Mavor's English Spelling Boole, 12mo. Is. Gd. 



7. Murray's English Grammar. VHmo. bound. Longman and Co. is. 



8. Murray's Exercises to the English Grammar. 12mo. bd. Longman and Co. 2s. Gd. 



9. Murray's Key. l2mo. bd. Longman and Co. 2s. Gd. 



10. Fulton's Pronouncing Spelling Book. 12mo. Is. 



11. Fulton and Knight's English Dictionary. \2mo. is. Gd. 



These two books of Fulton's are decidedly the best for Scotchmen. 



12. *Sir John Sinclair's Observations on the Scottish dialect. Lond. 1782. 8vo. 4s. 



13. Smith's English Grammar. Whittaker, 1822. This work contains an ample store of Scotticisms. 



14. The Essentials of English Grammar, on a practical plan, for the use of classical and French 



schools, and private learners. With an Appendix, &c. By a Member of the University 

 of Oxford. 18mo. 3d edit. bd. Chappie. Is. Gd. 



15. *Angus's New System of English Grammar, with exercises and questions for examination, 



interspersed with critical notes and explanatory observations, chiefly of vulgar Anglicisms, 

 Scotticisms, examples of bad arrangement, of ambiguity, &c. Glasgow. 1812. 12mo. Is. Gd. 



16. Errors of Pronunciation, and improper expressions, used frequently, and chiefly by the in- 



habitants of London. To which are added those in similar use, chiefly by the inhabitants of 

 Paris. Lond. 12mo. Lackington and Co. 3s. Gd. 



17. Scotticisms, vulgar Anglicisms, and Grammatical Improprieties corrected, tyc. By Hugh Mit- 



chell, A.M. Glasgow. 1799. Is. 



18. *Beattie's Scotticisms, in alphabetical order. Is. 



19. *Bank's English Master ; or Student's Guide to Reasoning and Composition ; exhibiting an 



analytical view of the English language, of the human mind, and of the principles of fine 

 writing. 8vo. 10s. 

 90. *Rees's Todd's Johnson's Dictionary. 18mo. 3s. 



21. Sheridan's Pronouncing, Explanatory, and Spelling Dictionary, improved by Jones. London. 



12mo. 3s. Gd. 



22. Brown's Union Dictionary, containing all that is useful in Johnson, Sheridan, and Walker. 



London. \%mo. bd. 10s. Gd. 



23. Crabb's English Synonymes explained. 8vo. Is. 



24. Synonymes of the English Language critically and etymologically illustrated. 12mo. bd. 4s. Gd. 



Sect. III. — Languages. 



We decidedly recommend the natural or Hamiltonian method of ac- 

 quiring languages, firmly convinced from our own experience, from ob- 

 servation of the modes of teaching languages in foreign countries, from Mr. 

 Dufief's work, and from a Dissertation in the Edinburgh Review (June 

 1826), that it is far preferable to all others. It is stated in the Edinburgh 

 Review, that " a person of mature habits, eager and energetic in his pur- 

 suits, and reading seven or eight hours per day, might, though utterly igno- 

 rant of a letter of Greek, learn to construe the four gospels, with the most 

 punctilious accuracy, in three weeks by the key alone. Some children, 

 utterly ignorant of French or Italian, would learn to construe the four 

 gospels, in either of these languages, in three weeks ; the Latin in four 

 weeks ; the German in five weeks." We have no hesitation in asserting, 

 that a young gardener, by devoting an hour every day to reading Mr. Ha- 

 milton's Keys for three years, without the trouble of committing a single 

 sentence to memory, might acquire a very tolerable knowledge of Latin 

 and French, and as much Greek as he could have any occasion for. 



A gardener ought to have at least a slight knowledge of Latin to enable 

 him to understand botanical descriptions, and the meaning and government 

 of specific names, as well as for the continual recurrence of fragments of, 

 or derivations from that language, occurring almost in every book. He 

 ought to have a slight knowledge of Greek, because of it the generic names, 

 and the names of classes and orders, are composed ; and he ought to know 

 something of French, as a language continually occurring in books, and as 

 the names of our best pears, and various other fruits and vegetables, are in 



