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List of Mr. Cobbett's Books. 



lows: 1. Books for Teaching Language; 2. On Do* 

 HESTic Management and Duties; 3. Oa Rural 

 Affairs: 4. On the ]\L\nagement of National 

 Affairs; 5. History; 6. Travels; 7. Laws; ^. 

 Miscellaneous Politics. Here is a great variety of 

 subjects; and all of them very dry : nevertheless the manner 

 of treating them is, in general, such as to induce the 

 reader to go throvgh the hook, when he has once begun it. 

 I will now speak of each book separately under the several 

 heads above-mentioned. N. B. All the books are bound in 

 hoards, which will be borne in mind when the price is 

 looked at.— W.C. 



1. BOOKS FOR TEACHING KNOWLEDGE. 



EN-GZ.XSH SP£X.X.rN-a-BOOX. 



] have been frequently asked by mothers of families, by ^me 

 fathers, and by some schoolmasters even, to write a book tbat 

 they could begin teaching by ; one that should begin at the begin- 

 ning of book learning, and smooth the way along to my own 

 English Grammar, which is the entrance-gate. J often promised 

 to comply with these requests, and, from time to time, in the in- 

 tervals of political heats, I have tliought of the thing, till, at last, 

 I found time enough to sit down and put it upon paper. The ob- j^'' 

 jection to the common spelling-books is, that the writers aim at j*^ 

 teaching several important sciences in a little book in which the 

 whole aim should be the teaching of spetl'mg Rud reading. We'"* 

 are presented with a little Arithmetic, a little Astronowy, a ^ 

 little Geographv, and a good deal of Religion ! No wonder the 

 poor little things imbibe a hatred of books in the first that they 

 look into! Disapproving heartily of these books,! have care- if" 

 fully abstained from every-thing beyond the object in view; namely, I 

 the teaching of a child to spell ana read ; and this work 1 have ^ 

 made as pleasant as I could, by introducing such stories as children r' 

 most delight in, accompanied by those little wood-cut illustrations i"" 

 •which amuse them. At the end of the book there is a Stepping' i*^ 

 stone to the English Grammar." it is but a step ; it is designed 

 to teach a child the different paj-is of speech, and the use of point 

 •with one or two small matters of the kind. The book is in the 

 duodecimo form, contains 176 pa^esof print, and the price is 1#.6<Z^^ 

 — W. C. 



COBBETT'S ENGLISH GRAMMAR. (PnVeS*:)— This work 

 is in a series of letters addressed to my son James, when he was 

 14 years old. I made him copi/ the whole of it before it weiit to, 

 .press; and that made him a grammarian at once: and iipw atiJe 

 a ©DC it made him will ten by his own Grammar of the Ita» 



