many branches, and is too rigid, let such remember that each State, year by year, is demanding higher and still higher qualifications in all who are commissioned to labor in this noble profession.

By the advice of many eminent educators, the Complete Examiner is sent forth to the world on its errand of benevolence. It seeks no literary fame, claims no scientific merit. It simply begs to aid those who need its assistance. Receive it kindly, trustingly; it will tell no tales. Should it be the means of aiding PUPILS in preparing themselves thoroughly to be examined for promotion to a higher department, or CANDIDATES in procuring certificates for teaching, and thereby diminish the number of failures and lessen the degree of mortification therefrom, and as a consequence place a higher order of talent in the school-room, as disbursing agents of the infinite fountain of knowledge, the Author will feel amply rewarded for all his care in preparing this little work and sending it forth as a love offering to both teachers and pupils.

THE AUTHOR.

KENOSHA, March 10th, 1864.