AUTHOR OF development of English liteRATURE AND LANGUAGE, ENGLISH
MASTERPIECE COURSE, ESSENTIALS OF ENGLISH, COMPLETE rhetoric,

MAN AND HIS RELATIONS, ESSENTIALS OF GEOMETRY, PLANE

AND SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY, LESSONS IN ENGLISH

GRAMMAR, FIRST LESSONS IN ENGLISH

Children are not to be taught by rules, which will be always slipping out
of their memories. What you think it necessary for them to do, settle in them
by an indispensable practice. —Locke

The matter should in some way or other be supplied.

-Bain

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To my Friend

DR. R. W. STEVENSON

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WHOSE YEARS OF SERVICE HAVE BEEN YEARS OF PROGRESS IN METHODS OF INSTRUCTION AND OF HELPFULNESS TO THE CAUSE

OF POPULAR EDUCATION