date respectively january, May and September, anu win ve sent to teachers and educationists, without charge, on application. Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS, 138 & 140 GRAND ST., NEW YORK. 133 & 135 STATE ST., CHICAGO. THE BASIS OF THE NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF WEBSTER'S TOGETHER WITH NUMEROUS EXERCISES IN SYNONYMS, IN OPPOSITES, IN ANALYSIS, BY CHARLES W. SANDERS, A.M., AUTHOR OF BERIES SCHOOL READERS;" "ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH WORDS IVISON, BLAKEMAN, TAYLOR & CO., NEW YORK AND CHICAGO. 1873. 168.73.770 18 Je 1927) PREFACE. R. # tida THE aim in this book has been to bring into shape, suitable for daily use in the schools, the clear and complete exhibition of English Orthography and Orthoëpy, found in the last edition of Webster's great American Dictionary. The plan adopted for this purpose is, in several respects, quite out of the beaten track for works of this kind. This will especially appear in the series of exercises on the powers and uses of the vowels, which, though prepared for this special purpose, have, nevertheless, all the simplicity of ordinary spelling lessons. It will appear, also, in the method employed for the illustration of the several Rules for Spelling, which are here supported, not, as is usual, by a few instances, however appropriate, but by such an array of examples, all digested into lessons of convenient size, as can not fail to fix in the mind of the learner the means of determining at once the true spelling of thousands of words. In the collection of TEST WORDS, too, will be found a feature singularly useful for the higher classes in schools, and for Teachers' Institutes; embracing, as it does, over to thousand words, so arranged as to reveal many similarities and differences that ordinarily escape the attention of youth entirely. The whole is eminently practical. It shows the laws and usages of the language in respect to spelling and preciation, explains by comparison, by contrast, by analysis, and by formal definition, the true meaning and application of words; yet all this is done without cumbering the path of the pupil with any perplexing details of theoretic teaching. The treatise on the Powers and Uses of the Letters, the list of Proper Names, Foreign Words and Phrases, with their definitions, as well as the description of Pauses and Marks used in writing, can not fail to be regarded as essential elements in every well-arranged Spelling Book. NEW YORK, July, 1865. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by In the Clerk's Omee of the District Court of the United States for the Southern Electrotyped by SMITH & MCDOUGAL, 82 and 84 Beekman St., N.I. |