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HOW TO TRAIN YOUNG EYES AND EARS; being a MANUAL of OBJECT LESSONS for PARENTS and TEACHERS. By MARY ANNE Ross, Mistress of the Church of Scotland Normal Infant School, Edinburgh. 1s. 6d.

HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY, a MANUAL intended for Female Training Colleges, and the Senior Classes of Girls' Schools. By MARGARET MARIA GORDON (Miss Brewster), Author of " Work, or Plenty to do and how to do it," etc. Eighth Thousand. 2s. GREEK SYNTAX, with a Rationale of the Constructions, by JAMES CLYDE, LL.D., one of the Classical Masters of the Edinburgh Academy With Prefatory Notice by JOHN S. BLACKIE, Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. Second Edition. 48.

GREEK GRAMMAR for the Use of Colleges and Schools. By Professor GEDDES, University of Aberdeen. Fifth Edition. 4s. LATIN GRAMMAR for ELEMENTARY CLASSES. By D'ARCY W. THOMPSON, M.A.Cantab., one of the Classical Masters of the Edinburgh Academy. Second Edition. 2s.

THE FUNCTIONS of SI and QUI, with special reference to German Theories. By GAVIN HAMILTON, Elgin Academy. 8vo. 6s.

THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ITALIAN GRAMMAR. With numerous Exercises and Examples, illustrative of every rule, and a selection of Phrases and Dialogues. By E. LEMMI, LL.D., Italian Tutor to H. R. H. The Prince of Wales. Sixth Edition. 5s.

GRAMMAR OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE.

By

AUGUSTE BELJAME, B.L., Paris. Third Edition. 2s.; or with
Exercises, 3s. 6d. Exercises separately, 2s.

THE PORT ROYAL LOGIC. Translated from the
French, with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix. By THOMAS
SPENCER BAYNES, B.A. Fifth Edition. 4s.

SCHOOL REGISTER. PUPIL'S DAILY CLASS REGISTER OF MARKS. Space for 52 Weeks. 2d. Constructed so as to furnish all the information required by Government.

SCHOOL REGISTER OF ATTENDANCE, ABSENCE, AND FEES. Arranged by MORRIS F. MYRON, Parochial Schoolmaster of Clyne Intended for use in Boys', Girls', or Mixed Schools. 1s. Each folio will serve 50 Pupils for a Quarter.

A specimen copy of any Book will be sent POST-FREE on receipt of the retail price in postage stamps.

GORDON'S SCHOOL AND HOME SERIES,

NOW PUBLISHED BY OLIVER AND BOYD.

THE object of the SCHOOL AND HOME SERIES OF READING BOOKS is at once to provide CHEAP EDITIONS OF JUVENILE CLASSICS FOR HOME READING, and to place interesting and attractive Books within the reach of SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL LIBRARIES.

From the Report of the Jurors of the International Exhibition. "The Jury have been interested in observing that a somewhat bold experiment of the Messrs GORDON of Edinburgh has been tried with great promise of success. These Publishers have reprinted, under the name of the 'School and Home Series,' some of the most Popular Tales for Children, including, besides Robinson Crusoe and Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, the most attractive stories of Fairies and Giants. They have not attempted by annotation or abridgment to make their books look like treatises, but have been content to rely on the fascination of the stories themselves, as the best means of overcoming the mechanical difficulty of reading."

THE CHILD'S STORY BOOK. Illustrated. Cloth, 1s.; or, extra gilt, for Prizes, 1s. 6d. Also, in 6 Parts, 2d. each, viz.:

1. Jack and the Bean-Stalk. Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper. Little Red Riding-Hood. The Babes in the Wood.

2. Tom Thumb. Little Jack Horner. Puss in Boots. Jack and Jill. Old Mother Hubbard. The Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe. Whittington and His Cat. The Old Woman Tossed up in a Basket. Little Bo-Peep.

3. Jack the Giant-Killer. Ding Dong Bell. Beauty and the Beast. Four-and-Twenty Tailors. Henny-Penny. A Man of Words and not of Deeds. The Three Bears. I had a Little Husband. Simple Simon. Sing a Song of Sixpence.

Old Mother Goose. The

4. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The Wolf and the Goats. One, two; button my shoe. Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son. The Wolf and the Fox. The Fox and the Farmer.

5. Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp.

6. Sindbad the Sailor. The Crooked Man. Ride a Cockhorse. Tom Thumb's Alphabet. The House that Jack Built. The Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin. I saw a Ship a-Sailing. ROBINSON CRUSOE. UNABRIDGED. With Illustrations. 8d. THE ROBINS. By MRS TRIMMER. With Illustrations. 6d. LAME JERVAS. By MISS EDGEWORTH. With Illustrations. 4d. TO-MORROW. By Miss EDGEWORTH. With Illustrations. 4d. LAMB'S TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE. Illustrated. 1s.; or in Four Parts, 3d. each, viz. :

1. The Tempest. Taming of the Shrew. Romeo and Juliet. Twelfth Night.

2. A Midsummer Night's Dream. A Winter's Tale.

King Lear. Hamlet.

3. Macbeth. Much Ado about Nothing. As You Like it. All's Well that Ends Well.

4. Merchant of Venice. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Comedy of Errors. Timon of Athens.

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. 8d.; or in 2 Parts, 4d. each, viz.:

1. Travels in Lilliput.

2. Travels in Brobdingnag.

Published by Oliver and Boyd.

CHRISTISON'S FRENCH CLASS-BOOKS.

21st Edition, 18mo, 18. 4d. bound,

AN EASY GRAMMAR of the FRENCH LANGUAGE,

with EXERCISES and DIALOGUES. BY JOHN CHRISTISON, Teacher of Modern Languages in the Dundee Public Seminaries.

This work was compiled for young beginners, and for those who have not time to go through a more extended course. It contains all the useful Rules of Syntax, accompanied with numerous Examples.

Also, KEY to the Work, 8d.

7th Edition, 18mo, 18. 4d. bound,

CHRISTISON'S RECUEIL DE FABLES ET CONTES

CHOISIS, à l'Usage de la Jeunesse.

This work is intended as a sequel to the author's Grammar: it leads the scholar gradually from the simplest to the more difficult style of French composition. A copious Vocabulary is added, embodying every word contained in the Grammar.

8th Edition, fcap 8vo, 2s. 6d. bound,

CHRISTISON'S FLEURY'S HISTOIRE DE FRANCE,

À LA JEUNESSE,

more difficult and idiomatic Passages.

With Translations of the

Fcap 8vo, 2s. 6d, bound, or with 4 Maps, 28. 9d,

SYSTEM of MODERN GEOGRAPHY, with OUTLINES of ASTRONOMY, and PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY: Comprehending an Account of the Principal Towns, Climate, Soil, Productions, Religion, Education, Government, and Population of the various Countries. With a Compendium of Sacred Geography, Problems on the Globes, Exercises, etc. By JOHN WHITE, F.E.I.S., Edinburgh. 24th Edition, Enlarged and carefully Revised throughout.

175th Edition, 18., or with 4 Maps, 18. 3d.,

WHITE'S ABSTRACT of GENERAL GEOGRAPHY,

comprehending a more Minute Description of the BRITISH EMPIRE, and of PALESTINE, or the Holy Land, etc. With numerous Exercises. For the Use of Junior Classes.

** This Work has also been thoroughly Revised.

12mo, large type, Reduced to 3s. 6d. bound,

DUNCAN'S GREEK TESTAMENT; with GRIESBACH'S

Various Readings. New Edition.

9th Edition, 18mo, 1s. 6d. bound,

ECTIONES SELECTE; or, Select Latin Lessons in

Superseding the use and expense of the common Elementary Authors. With a Vocabulary. By C. MELVILLE, late of the Grammar School, Kirkcaldy.

[Continued at end of the Pook.

A

DICTIONARY

OF THE

ENGLISH LANGUAGE,

CONTAINING THE

PRONUNCIATION, ETYMOLOGY, AND EXPLANATION
OF ALL WORDS AUTHORIZED BY EMINENT WRITERS:

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

A VOCABULARY OF THE ROOTS OF ENGLISH WORDS,

AND

AN ACCENTED LIST OF GREEK, LATIN, AND SCRIPTURE

PROPER NAMES.

BY

ALEXANDER REID, LL. D.,

LATE HEAD MASTER OF THE EDINBURGH INSTITUTION; AUTHOR OF
66 RUDIMENTS OF ENGLISH COMPOSITION," ETC.

SEVENTEENTH EDITION.

EDINBURGH:

OLIVER & BOYD, TWEEDDALE COURT.
LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL,

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