[List No. 1.] 
SUPERIOR BOOKS FOR SCHOOLS 
AND FAMILIES, 
PUBLISHED BY 
JOHN W. PARKER, WEST STRAND, LONDON. 
Those to which a * is prefixed, are published under the Direction of the 
Committee of General Literature and Education, and are upon the Second 
Supplemental List of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 
* ENGLISH GRAMMAR. By the Rev. Dr. RUSSELL, 
Rector of St. Botolph’s, Bish< 
Charter-House School. Is. 6d . 
No language can be more simple and 
intelligible than that in which the 
Rules of this Grammar are expressed, 
and the heaviness of a dull treatise is 
relieved by occasional queries from the 
Pupil. The construction of Sentences, 
and the force of the Prepositions and 
* ARITHMETIC TAUGHT 
The principal novelty of this Arithmetic 
consists in the Questions, by which the 
learner may be enabled to examine and 
teach himself. At the same time, it is 
thought that many Teachers may profit 
by the facilities which the questioning 
:, and late Head Master of 
Conjunctions, are illustrated by ex- 
amples from the English Bible ; while, 
at the same time, the tone of the work 
is cheerful. Emphasis is treated very 
perspicuously; and the Grammar 
closes with most useful Questions on 
the Rules. 
BY QUESTIONS. Is. 6d. 
affords, and learn to ground those whom 
they have been in the habit of teaching 
by rote. The Rules have been stated in 
short and easy sentences, and more than 
ordinary care has been taken to show' 
the manner of the several operations. 
A FIRST BOOK on GEOMETRY, including Plane and 
Solid Geometry, and an Introduction to Trigonometry. Is. 6d. 
In this work will, it is believed, be found able to the purposes of instruction, 
all the essential Propositions of Plane ! All such propositions as are not in 
and Solid Geometry. The method of their nature strictly elementary, and 
demonstration which has been followed necessary to the various applications of 
is that of Euclid ; but throughout, an the science of Geometry, have been 
attempt has been made to give it a i omitted, and thus the whole is brought 
character of greater simplicity, and within the extremely small compass of 
thus to render it more generally avail- | sixty-six propositions. 
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