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CHAMBERS'S CYCLOPEDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the earliest to the present time. Connected by a Critical and Biographical History.

Edited by Robert Chambers, assisted by Robert Carruthers and other eminent gentlemen.

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THREE HUNDRED ELEGANT ILLUSTRATIONS.

The Cyclopædia of English Literature now presented to the American public, originated in a desire to supply the great body of the people with a fund of reading derived from the productions of the most talented and the most elegant writers in the English language. It is hoped hereby to supplant, in a measure, the frivolous and corrupting productions with which the community is flooded, and to substitute for them the pith and marrow of substantial English literature; something that shall prove food for the intellect, shall cultivate the taste, and stimulate the moral sense.

The design has been admirably executed, by the selection and concentration of the most exquisite productions of English intellect, from the earliest Anglo-Saxon writers down to those of the present day. The series of authors commences with Langland and Chaucer, and is continuous down to our time. We have specimens of their best writing headed in the several departments, by Chaucer, Shakspeare, Milton,-by More, Bacon, Locke,-by Hooker, Taylor, Barrow,-by Addison, Johnson, Go'd-mith,-by Hume, Robertson, Gibbon,-set in a biographical and critical history of the literature itself. The whole is embellished with splendid wood engravings of the heads of the principal authors, and of interesting events connected with their history and writings. No one can give a glance at the work without being struck with its beauty and cheapness. It is in fact A WHOLE ENGLISH LIBRARY FUSED

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The editor, Robert Chambers, is distinguished as the author of several historical works connected with Scotland, and as joint editor of Chambers' Edinburgh Journal.

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[Teachers generally, who have examined Mr. Grimshaw's Histories of the United States and England, and Teachers are requested to call and examine these works improved editions of Goldsmith's Greece and Rome, have before selecting for their schools any book on Natural His-given them a decided preference to any other Histories in ory, these being very cheap, and having been approved by use as school books, and any person who will examine distinguished and scientific men. them, will find about one thousand errors in each correc"I have examined Dr. Ruschenberger's publication-ted; and teachers ordering these works, will do well to "Elements of Geology,'-from the text of Beudant, Mil- say, "Grimshaw's Improved Editions" ner, Edwards & Achille, Compte. CONVERSATIONS ON NATURAL PHILOSO"I think this an excellent work condensed, lucid, PHY-in which the elements of that science are famiexact, and comprehensive-a safe guide for the pupil, liarly explained. Illustrated with plates. By the author and a useful review for the teacher. The illustrations of "Conversations on Chemistry," &c. With consideraare numerous and exact. (Signed) ble additions, corrections and improvements in the body Yale College, Dec 19, 1845." of the work, appropriate questions and a glossary. By The above valuable series of books have been introdu- Dr. Thomas P. Jones. ced into many of the public and private schools of New- CONVERSATIONS ON CHEMISTRY -in which York, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Ohio, Pennsylva- the elements of that science are familiarly explained and nia, Illinois, Indiana, &c. &c., and are pronounced by all, illustrated by experiments and engravings on wood: among the most valuable series ever issued from the From the last London edition, in which all the late disAmerican press. coveries and improvements are brought up to the present bound time, by Dr. Thomas P. Jones. stitched The learned and distinguished Professors Silliman and stitched Bigelow, speaking of these works, observe — " They are bound satisfied that the works contain the fundamental principles stitched and truths of the sciences, expressed in a clear, intelligistitched ble, and interesting manner, and that the present editions

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CHAPTER XI. Teachers' Duties to the Parents of his

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CHAPTER VI. Right modes of Teaching. Sec. 1.-
Pouring-in Process. Sec. 2.-Drawing-out Frocess. Pupil.
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CHAPTER XII. Teachers' care of his health.
CHAPTER XIII. Relation of the Teacher to his Profes-

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CHAPTER XIV. Miscellaneous suggestions.
Concluding remarks..

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