LESSONS ON THINGS, intended to improve 

 Children in the Practice of Observation, Re- 

 flection and Description, on the System of 

 Pestalozzi, edited by John Frost, A. M. 

 The publishers request the attention of 

 teachers, school committees, and all who are 

 desirous of improving the methods of instruc- 

 tion, to this work, which is on a plan hitherto 

 unattempted by any school-book in this coun- 

 try, and which has been attended with extra- 

 ordinary success in England. 



The following remarks on the work are ex- 

 tracted from the " Quarterly Journal of Edu- 

 cation." 



" This little volume is a ' corrected and re-corrected' edi- 

 tion of lessons actually given to children, and, therefore, 

 possesses a value to which no book made in the closet 

 can lay claim, being the result of actual experiment. 

 The work consists of a number of lessons, divided into 

 five series; beginning with subjects the most easy and 

 elementary, it gradually increases in difficulty, each suc- 

 cessive step being adapted to the mind of the child as it 

 acquires fresh stores of knowledge. 



" Every part of these lessons is interesting to the child, 

 both on account of the active operation into which his 

 own mind is necessarily called by the vianner in which 

 the lessons are given ; and also by the attractive nature 

 of many of the materials which form the subject of the 

 lessons. In the first and most elementary series, the pupil 

 is simply taught to make a right use of his organs of 

 sense, and to exercise his judgment so far only as relates 

 to the objects about him; and accordingly the matter 

 brought before him at this stage, is such that its obvious 

 properties can be discovered and described by a child who 

 has acquired a tolerable knowledge of his mother tongue." 



OUTLINES OF HISTORY, from the Earliest 

 Records to the Present Time. Prepared for 

 the Use of Schools, with Questions, by John 

 Frost, A. M. 



" The main object of the work is, by giving a selection 

 of interesting and striking facts from more elaborate his- 

 tories, properly and carefully arranged, with chronological 

 tables, to render the sludy of general history less dry and 

 repulsive than it has been heretofore. This, we think is 

 fully accomplished. Very great care appears to have been 

 bestowed on the selections, and in arranging the chrono- 

 logical tables, as well as in the classification of the his- 

 torical matter into parts and chapters. The work will 

 sufficiently recommend itself to all who examine it."— 

 Sat. Evening Post. 



"To concentrate in one comparatively small volume, a 

 complete epitome of the entire history of the world, an- 

 cient and modern, so treated as to present a correct image 

 of it, would seem to be an object to be wished for, rather 

 than expected ; the ' Outlines of History,' however, realize 

 this object."— Asiatic Journal. 



" We consider that Mr. F has done a service to schools, 

 by the time and labor which he has bestowed upon this 

 work ; the marginal dates will be found of great service, 

 but the chapters of questions upon the text, and upon the 

 maps, to illustrate the geography of the history, will es- 

 pecially recommend the work to the attention of teach- 

 ers."— 17. & Gazette. 



Philadelphia, July lOLk, 1831. 

 " The ' Outlines of History,' I consider an excellent 

 class-book of general history for the use of schools. The 

 questions added by Mr. Frost, are a most valuable auxili- 

 ary for the teacher as'well as the pupil. I shall use the 

 ' Outlines' in my school, and cordially recommend it to 

 parents and teachers. S. C. WALKER." 



Philadelphia, April mh, 1831. 

 " Dear Sir,— I have just received a copy of your edition 

 of the ' Outlines of History.' From a cursory perusal, I 

 am disposed to give it a high rank as a school-book. So 

 well satisfied am I with the arrangement and execution 

 of the work, that I intend to put it immediately into the 

 hands of a class in my own school. 



" Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

 " Mr. John Frost." " LEVI FLETCHER. 



FRENCH. 



BY A. BOLMAR. 



A COLLECTION of COLLOQUIAL 

 PHRASES on every Topic necessary to main- 

 tain Conversation, arranged under different 

 heads, with numerous remarks on the peculiar 

 pronunciation and use of various words — the 

 whole so disposed as considerably to facilitate 

 the acquisition of a correct pronunciation of 

 the French. By A. Bolmar. One vol. 18mo. 



A SELECTION of ONE HUNDRED 

 PERRIN'S FABLES, accompanied by a Key, 

 containing the text, a literal and free trans- 

 lation, arranged in such a manner as to point 

 out the difference between the French and the 

 English idiom, also a figured pronunciation of 

 the French, according to the best French works 

 extant on the subject ; the whole preceded by 

 a short treatise on the sounds of the French 

 language, compared with those of the English, 



Les AVENTURES de TELEMAQUE 

 PAR FENELON, accompanied by a Key to 

 the first eight books ; containing like the Fa- 

 bles — the Text — a Literal — and Free Trans- 

 lation ; intended as a Sequel to the Fables. 



The expression 'figured pronunciation,' is above em- 

 ployed to express that the toords in ike Key to the French 

 Fables are spelt and divided as they are pronounced. It is 

 what Walker has done in his Critical Pronouncing Dic- 

 tionary ; for instance, he indicates the pronunciation of the 

 word enough, by dividing and spelling it thus, e-nuf. In 

 the same manner I indicate the pronunciation of the word 

 comptaient thus, kon-te. As the understanding of the 

 figured pronunciation of Walker requires the student to 

 be acquainted with the primitive sounds of the English vow- 

 els, he must likewise, before he can %mderstand the figured 

 pronunciation of the French, make himself acquainted with 

 the 20 primitive sounds of the French vowels. This any 

 intelligent person can get from a native, or from anybody 

 ■who reads French well, in a few hours. 



A COMPLETE TREATISE on the GEN- 

 DERS OF FRENCH NOUNS; in a small 

 pamphlet of fourteen pages. 



This little work, which is the most complete 

 of the kind, is the fruit of great labor, and will 

 prove of immense service to every learner. 



ALL THE FRENCH VERBS, both REG- 

 ULAR AND IRREGULAR, in a small volume. 



The verbs etre to be, avoir to have, purler to speak, 

 finir to finish, recevoir to receive, vendre to sell, se 

 lever to rise, se bien jjorter to be weil, s'en aller to go 

 away, are here all conjugated through — affirmatively 

 — negatively — interrogatively — and negatively and in- 

 terrogatively — an arrangement which will greafly fa- 

 cilitate the scholar in his learning the French verbs, 

 and which will save the master the trouble of explain- 

 ing over and over again what may be much more 

 easily learned from books, thus leaving him more time 

 to give his pupil, during the lesson, that instruction 

 which cannot be found in books, but which must be 

 learned from a master. 



NEUMAN'S SPANISH and ENGLISH 

 DICTIONARY. New Edition, in one vol. 

 16mo. 



