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ENGLISH READING AND COMPOSITION.

In 12mo, Price 3s. 6d., strongly bound.

READINGS IN SCIENCE AND LITERATURE FOR SENIOR CLASSES. BY DANIEL SCRYMGEOUR,

ONE OF THE MASTERS OF THE CIRCUS PLACE SCHOOL, EDINBURGH.

In 12mo, Price 2s., cloth,

A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION,

PART I.

BY ROBERT ARMSTRONG,

HEAD MASTER, NORMAL INSTITUTION, EDINBURGH.

Second Edition, in 12mo, pp. 312, price 2s. 6d., strongly bound,
RHETORICAL READINGS FOR SCHOOLS,

BY WILLIAM M'DOWALL.

INSPECTOR OF THE HERIOT FOUNDATION SCHOOLS, EDINBURGH.

SELECTIONS FROM CRITICAL OPINIONS.

"We have never before seen Rhetorical Readings so well selected. Mr M'Dowall's volume has been compiled with singularly good taste and judgment, gleaning from the whole range of English literature, ancient and modern, and so mingling gaiety with gravity, poetry with prose, as to call forth by turns all the emotions, and to exercise every faculty. It is a capital School-book, and we confidently recommend it to all our readers who desire to practise them. selves, their children, or their pupils, in the most useful, but most neglected. art of reading aloud."-The Critic.

"The selection of passages from the best authors has been made with taste and judgment. Old favourites, it is true, are made to give place to the writer of the day; and the volume is not composed in the usual proportion-one third Shakspeare, a second third shared between Pope, Dryden, and Milton and the remainder to the Spectator, Rambler, Parliamentary Debates on the American War, the Revolution of '89, and the Slave Trade. On the contrary

Mr M'Dowall has wisely introduced to his juvenile readers such moder authors as Hare, Carlyle, Alison, Dickens, Sydney Smith, Peel, Keates, Whately, Robert Hall, Longfellow, Jerrold, Cobbett, O'Connell, Basil Hall, &c. We hop to hear that his labours are appreciated."-Educational Times.

EDINBURGH: SUTHERLAND AND KNOX.

LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL AND CO.

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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.

Third Edition, in Foolscap, cloth, with Illustrations, price 1s.,
FIRST CLASS-BOOK OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY :

INORGANIC NATURE.

BY WILLIAM RHIND,

LECTURER, HIGH SCHOOL, EDINBURGH.

THIS work embraces the subjects of the Atmosphere, Heat, Rain, Clouds, Electricity, Ocean, Mountains, Rivers, with Special reference to Europe and the British Islands.

With numerous Illustrations, in Foolscap, cloth, price 1s. 3d., RHIND'S SECOND CLASS-BOOK OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY: ORGANIC LIFE.

THIS portion treats of the Organization and Distribution of Plants, Animals, and Man; and, in combination with the FIRST CLASS-BOOK, forms a complete Course of Natural Science, systematically arranged on the basis of Geographical Development.

The two parts can be had together or separately.

NOTICES OF THE FIRST BOOK.

"We commend this work as carrying out the new and engaging method of teaching Geography; it has also the special merit of being carefully adapted to the purposes of class teaching. We have no doubt that books of this description are rapidly taking the place of works on Geography too long in use in our Schools. Mr Rhind states his conviction, that pupils of ten years of age are capable of appreciating the subjects so admirably arranged in this little book; if so, Schoolmasters and Parents are negligent who withhold these improvements in school literature from their children. We include parents in this censure, because we know how often the teacher has to contend with obstacles from that quarter in the introduction of new books."-Educational Times.

"Mr Rhind has furnished an excellent book, which will not fail to command the patronage of the better class of Schools. In this much-condensed production, there is a large amount of very important matter, and we can, with great confidence, recommend it as admirably adapted to promote its object "Christian Witness.

EDINBURGH: SUTHERLAND AND KNOX.
LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL AND CO.

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