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The study of Grammar, usually so dry in the beginning for the pupil and teacher, becomes the most pleasant of studies by the use of Professor Greene's plan as presented in this book. II. The New English Grammar, which has also been lately revised, is fast becoming the Standard Text-Book of the country. It is literally the only text-book on any subject that the best teachers all over the country acknowledge as superior to all others in its department. WARREN'S REVISED SERIES OF GEOGRAPHIES. A series of three books adapted to the different grades of schools. They have stood alone for ten years in recognizing Physical Geography as the basis of Political Geography, in preserving a natural and dependent order of topics in presenting the subject; in pursuing a system of suggestive questioning, which requires the pupil to link accidental facts and general principles together. No other Series of Geographies is used in so many of the large cities of the Union. I. The New Primary. This book has just been wholly rewritten and much simplified. It contains eighty-eight pages of clear open type, beautifully illustrated, and is intended as an Introduction to Warren's Common-School Geography. The first thirty pages are devoted to oral lessons, written in a pleasing and attractive, yet dignified style, calculated to convey to the mind of the young pupil vivid pictures of the natural features of the earth's surface. A succinct definition to be committed, in a different style of type, follows each oral description. In the second part of the book, the principles taught in part first are applied to Descriptive Geography. II. The Common-School Geography (Revised). — This is the second book of the series, intended to succeed the New Primary. It has lately been supplied with a new set of copper-plate maps, engraved in the best style. A new commercial map of the United States has just been introduced, showing the principal railroad routes of the country. 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