THE INTERROGATIVE SYSTEM 
IT is now al-ovc tirenty years since the Prnprieter of the 
vndermenlioned Works submitted to Conductors of Schools 
'he first specimens of that scries of improved Elementary 
Books, trhick he had planned for the purpose of facUHat 
ing the Instruction of Youth, and rendering the acquire 
went of Knowledge at once pleasant, rapid, and certain. 
The susteni has since been known to the World under the 
denomination of the INTERROGATIVE SYSTEM; ami 
as opposed to some popular mechanical sysl ms, it\- Ini tutor 
has also defined it, by way of eminence, the 2TIJNKING, 
or INTELLECTUAL SYSTEM,— from the oltigation to 
THINK, nr mentally work, nti the siiljeet of study, which 
it imposes on the pupil; and from. Ike general impriwe- 
-ne.nt of the ixTrxLKCTUAi. Faculties, of which hubitmiL 
mental exercise is a neces.airy consequence. This system, in 
the popular IVorks published, uniter the names of Goh»- 
sMiTii, Blaie, Bakeuw, Adair, Sjc. has been introduced into 
ncarlq every School of character in the British Empire., 
and has met with a degree of approbation far excaedin-g 
the original expectalirfn of its Aiilhor. 'The principle of 
teaching by Questions without Ansv/eks, which re- 
quires lliai the Pupil should furnish .diiswcrs to Quesliaiis 
often complicated from the .scattered data of his Book, 
demanded various preparations on the part of the. Tutor ; 
but the publication of the TUTOR' S KE\ , containing 
Answers to abnvi; Six Thousand Qneslioits, has removed 
every difficulty in practice. 
Among the cmnpetilors of the Interrogative System, 
the resjmeted name of Pestalozzi has appeared; but it 
ouAit to be known, that his system is precisely tlwt to wkici 
the public attention is now invited, but which was taught 
in .England many yea.rs btforc the nnnie of Pestalozz' 
in any manner transpired. The only variation consists in 
the Questions of the Swiss Philanihropist being confnea 
ihiejly to moral subjects, whereas the English System, be- 
sides its moral features, has been extended to almost every 
branch of education. 
Others have n.nnexcd Questions to their Books, aim 
claimed kindred merit ; hut by an unhappy musconceptm’* 
of the principle, their Questions accord in arrangement ex- 
