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LEE & SHEPARD have nearly ready "Elements of Design," by Alfred Rimmer. Incomplete editions have before appeared, but now the work is finished. Mr. J. Eliot Cabot furnishes an Introduction explanatory of the purpose of the book-to make a Drawing Primer, to render drawing easy not “by making it insignificant, but by making clear the essential principles at the outset, and holding them fast to the end." The work will be used as soon as published in the Boston Art School.

MACMILLAN & Co. have in press a new and greatly enlarged edition of Professor Geikie's lectures on Field Geology," delivered two years ago at South Kensington. The author has developed the lectures into a practical manual for the use of geologists, few of whom, we should suppose, would not be glad to avail themselves of the suggestions of so practised an observer. The new volume, which will contain a good many additional illustrations, will be published early this year.

HOUGHTON, OSGOOD & Co. have in press "English Language: its Grammatical and Logical Principles," by Harris R. Greene, formerly Principal of Worcester High School, now Principal of Oread Institute for Young Ladies, at Worcester, Mass. Mr. Greene is confident he has got hold of the root of the matter, and that his book will be a positive addition to our equipment for studying grammar. Very competent teachers who have examined his work speak very highly of it. Mr. Greene discusses carefully the various organic forms of expression common to all languages, and the various elements of thought; but he works from the thought outward to its expression, and not from the expression inward to the thought.

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THE Messrs. Putnam have now ready the first of the Hampton Tracts for the People, edited by Dr. Stephen Smith, General S. C. Armstrong, Mrs. M. T. Armstrong, and Miss Helen W. Ludlow. These Tracts are condensed but comprehensive statements of the fundamental laws of health, with illustrations of the results of breaking these laws, and advice as to the best and easiest way of living in obedience to them. The first numbers of the series will be "Health Laws of Moses," "Duty of Teachers," Preventable Diseases," "Who Found Jamie?" "A Haunted House," and "Woman's Work in Sanitary Reform." They will be issued at 8 cents per number, $5 per 100, $40 per 1000. Undertaken at first as a make a commercial success, since orders for missionary enterprise, they now promise to several thousands have been received at Hampton's from factory-owners, planters, and others in various states.

DAVIS, BARDEEN & Co., who purchased at the Schermerhorn sale the remainders of the Amercan Library of Education series, the plates of which were melted down, announce that the calls for the volumes now out of print have been so frequent that they have decided to start a similar but far more comprehensive series, which will eventually include the six volumes in that library. The new series will be entitled School-Room Classics, and will include only such educational publications as have already won a permanent footing in pedagogical literature. All the volumes will be uniform in by the educational publishers, suggests that size of page with the School Bulletin publicawere the former "as a body to organize and agi- tions, in paper, at 25 cents each. Vol. I. consists of Bishop Huntington's address on "Uncontate the repeal of all taxes on knowledge, whether on books, bound or unbound, on any-chusetts State Teachers' Association in 1855, scious Tuition," delivered before the Massathing which entered into book or its binding,

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with such a modification of our copyright laws as would prevent any one from copyrighting elementary English school-books, they might succeed in getting the boot on to the other foot. In other words, under such a system the people and the retailer would be benefited, but the American book-maker would not." The first clause of the last remark is certainly open to question.

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I am still using Brown's Grammars in this institution, preferring them to others because they are at once comprehensive and methodical. Beginning with an explanation of what grammar is, and the parts into which it is divided, it takes up each part in detail, places the great principles of the language before the eye of the learner, and impresses them upon his mind by definitions and rules so perspicuous, so simple, yet so comprehensive, that he cannot fail to understand them.

Definitions are illustrated by examples; rules are followed by practical exercises both in parsing and false syntax. Parsing commences with etymology, and thus the student not only learns what each part of speech is, but its relation to other words in the sentence. Going on by constant repetitions and easy gradations, he becomes thoroughly acquainted with the whole subject.

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