it and make it, till you shall remember its shape and sound. Its sound is simple, and is expressed in church, chain, bunch. It is related to j. The third is th. Its name is the. Its sound is simple. It is related to th, and is well expressed in them, thither, breathe. The fourth couple is th. Its name is the. It is the close cognate of th. The sound of it is simple, and is plainly expressed in thin, pith, breath. The fifth is ng. Its name is eng. It is a final letter, always being placed after the chief sound of a syllable. It is a nasal or a nose sound, like m and n. Its sound is simple, and expressed in strong, prong ; also, by n in plank, finger. The sixth couple is zh, called zhe. This is not yet introduced into common writing and printing. But it probably soon will be, unless there should be a thorough reformation of our alphabet. Its sound is expressed by s in pleasure, and z in azure. It is the open and flat cognate of sh. It has sound enough to make a syllable, but it has never yet been used for that purpose. You can now read and spell a sentence containing all these six couples-The truth is, in that case, I shall have the pleazhure of singing in the church. NOTE.-In going over the above seven lessons the second time, the letters and words should be written with chalk; the third time, with pencil, on slate, or paper. FORTY SOUNDS Represented by the old Alphabet. This is done as follows: Twenty-three distinct sounds are represented by the twenth-three old available letters, reduced each to one primary sound 23 Six, by the above six couples 6 4 3 - 40 Besides all the trouble of silent letters in the old method or way of spelling, I have already discovered 211 different methods of expressing our 40 primary sounds by sounded letters, or such as cannot be known or determined with certainty to be silent. This is an unspeakable evil in learning to read and write our language correctly, and also in the printing and silent reading of it. All this evil might be avoided by throwing out all silent letters, and giving each distinct primary sound its own one distinct appropriate letter. This I shall endeavor to do in the following remodeled Alphabet, containing just as many letters as we need, each appropriated exclusively to its own one sound. B A REFORMED, ALPHABET OF FORTY LETTERS, Divided into five classes, much according to their dif ferent natures. NOTE.-For my 17 new letters, and for i, (to save the dot,) I use some inversions and some of the old capitals and italics, with c, q, and 3, to save for the present the expense of new types; expecting soon to have as well-formed letters throughout as can be obtained. 2.-The letters in words, designed to give the sounds of those in the Alphabet precisely, are distinguished by being italicized. These have a degree of the vowel nature. The three first are INITIALS, used only in the fore part of a syllable; the fourth is a FlNAL, used only in the latter part of a syllable, or a single utterance. Each of the four last sometimes makes a light syllable, and then it becomes a full vowel. NOTE. The remaining 20 letters have each two names-the first for the fore part of a syllable, the other for the latter part. This would aid the mind in apprehending the sound, and the organs of speech in uttering it. When r is the first of other letters in a syllable, it should be called "re ;" but in every other case ǝr." Forms. 1 Names. Significations. le-gl lull, little, lily, stable. m me-gm mimic, spasm, mum. Consonants in cognate pairs; the first close and sharp, the other more sounding. Forms. Names. Significations. A she-gsh shun, sash, rush. B zhe-gzh pleasure, azure. se-gs sense, sincere, souse. ze-gz zone, rose, bronze, buzzard. the-gth think, pith, sloth. the-gth then, thither, bathe. L f V ve-gv valve, vivid, voice. FIFTH CLASS. Four pure mutes, with their correlatives, which have a |