NEW LANGUAGE LESSONS: AN ELEMENTARY GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION. BY WILLIAM SWINTON, 99.66 AUTHOR OF "HARPER'S LANGUAGE SERIES, 'BIBLE WORD-BOOK," ETC. THE present text-book is a ne Swinton's Language Lessons. It ha -first, the desire of better fitting mediate book of Harper's "New L conviction that an elementary man bining the essentials of English Gra find especial welcome in ungraded s The remarkable favor with whi received has suggested the propriety at least the spirit of the old. In was set forth in the following words In the actual test of the school-room durin it has been found that the vitalizing elements sons are, first, the analytic or inductive me theory of language; and, secondly, the aff work. Accordingly, in the preparation of approved features have been retained; but it aim to remould the book on a more comp more systematic arrangement and a more of the subject. Wherever the book was thou for instance, according to many, on the side of grammatical forms-it has been "toned the effort has been made to produce a thoroug To the thousands of teachers who gave the a reception exceptional in the history of text sires to commend the New Language Lessons more worthy of their acceptance, and, in hi proach to their ideal. 2. om during the past four years, elements of the Language Lestive method of unfolding the the affluence of constructive ion of the present book these ; but it has been the author's re comprehensive plan, with a more orderly development of as thought to be weak-as, the side of too great a neglect Ftoned up;" and, throughout, thorough, working text-book. ave the old Language Lessons of text-books, the author de Lessons as being, in his belief, WILLIAM SWINTON. |