It. EWING.

Literary Notices,
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TowS's SPELLING AND DEFINING Book. lpp. $780, lsraoi
Towa's ANALYSIS OF the Dervaye Words OF the English


Language. tpp. l6o lsmo)


THE LITTLE THINKER: By SALEM Town, A. NJ. Parts


j. and II. Containing Reading Lessons arranged as


exhibit the various senses OF Words Opp l23 24mo
THE SPELLERs COMPANION: By SALEM Town, A. N


(pp. $50. l8mo) Clement Packard, $50 PearlsI


These works furnish complete series Of Spell
ling and primary Reading-Books for Schools, so
arranged as to illustrate each other and thus
greatly facilitate the progress Of the learner.
For instance, each lesson in the reading-book, or
'Speler's Companion, is made to exhibit the
different shades of meaning of the words con-
tained in some indicated section of the 'Speller
and Deiner,' obyiating the objectioa originally
and properly made to the latter, that it did not
set forth all the meanings Of the words it assumed
to define, and therefore might mslead where it
proposed to instruct. This Improvement was
much needed, and will do great good. Other i'm
provements and additions have been made in the
last editions in various parts of the orgsal series,
to which The Spoilers Companion is new and
very important accession.


MIR. Town has done much to promote the cause
of elementary Education among US by these books.
The idea of defining by parallel columns the words
in spelling lesson is good one, ia spite of the
mperfections which must attend its execution.
We still think Mr.. Cobo's new Spelling-Book in
respects the best get published; beside that,
we know no rival to Mr. Towns works : while
each exhibits vast improvements on any published
earlier than 1887.