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    Current Educational Literature.

    I sands of the 'Royal School Series' volumes

    I liave been sold since they were first opportunely published . That the books deserve their prosperity there _ can _ _ be — — little _ _ doubt _ .

    ^ ^ ^ [ See page 957 . Mr . David Nutt . —Modern languages form

    i the gist of Mr . butt ' s school publications , which include the * Wellington Series' ; Otto ' s

    ; . ' Conversational Series' ; the Science Student ' ' s , German Series , ' ' University College School

    J Series' ; Tiarks * c Progressive German Series , ' j & c * [ See page 954 .

    I i Religious Tract Society . —The decora-1 tion / ¦ bmean A « j . /^/ AKf s of - \ -r ictures in JL & JL schoolrooms has

    , 1 attracted »* . *—r ^* ^~^ y v « the « . m attention . p lyjiv vCtX » ^ fcj of tJVJ this , lv- '\ - 'XX beneficent vv- 'll ^ lJ JLJLC 4 . KJ Societthe result being the production of a

    1 series y of , ' Coloured Scripture Cartoons' in-1 tended to brihten the walls . In the '

    Christian Classics g ' series of books the aim is to ¦ reproduce — — — in a ™^^^ ¦ cheap ^ " ^ ^~ ^~ ^^^ ^ W *^ ^ and h ^^ F ^ K ^ K ^^^^ fc yet W ^^^ ^^ attractive ^^^ f ^^ Jh ^ ^^ B ^ h ^^ P ^^ ^ V ^^ T ^^^ rf form ^ ^^^ r 9 t * *» ^^ ^ Hp

    some of the great but somewhat inaccessible standard theological works . The series

    entitled 'By-paths of Bible Knowledge' comprises works of Scripture history which are in

    all respects worthy of their general designation . [ See page 930 .

    Messrs . Swan Sonnenschein & Co . —The ' Parallel Grammar Series' edited bProfessor

    , y E . K . Sonnenschein , of the Mason College , Birmingham , comprises books of grammar

    and exercises in Latin , French , German , and English . Books on the ' History and Science

    of Education' occupy a fair share of this list . [ S « e pages 950 , 951 .

    The Sunday School Union . —Nearly all the instructive books tfi issued rf ¦\ bthe Union

    relate — — — to - — — the — - ™ - exp •¦*— - — lan * ^ r . a .. — , ation . ^ ^ ^ r ^ f ^^« ^ of r J ^ n l _^ 3 y w ivine v A A V ^ story ' » - > ' - ^ A A . ^ - ^ < aw ^ ; but there arebesidessome »* # popular fc 1 ^^ books \ fc

    for young folk ^ , * J ' *^ ^ , ^ ' ^ ~^ all **^ ^^ " ^^ , having ^^ - ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^^ very » ^^ a T relig ^^ ^^ - ¦ ^ ious . ^ ^ p ^^ w ^ tone ^^ V ^ ^ ^** *^ rf suitable for their literary % J purpose J . X .

    [ See page 977 . Mr . James Thin , Edinburgh . —As publisher to the Universitof EdinburghMr

    Thin announces various y books suitable , for . study at the great Scottish centre of learning .

    [> S ^ ee pag e 902 . Upright Penmanship . —The 1888

    competition in Jackson ' s New Stylo Vertical Writing Copy Books , which has just closed , we are

    informed lormea has nas proved Droved two two things things : : nrs firstt , , that that vertical writing is taking a wonderfully strong hold upon the public mindas evidenced b

    the large increase this year , in the number y of candidates and competing schools ; and

    secondly , that the system is calculated to effect a revolution in the art of calligrap t 3 * T hy % / . It is

    claimed that upright penmanship possesses itiherent merits of a superior and uni

    character , both as an educational medium and que as a practical art , when the results are examined .

    The quality of the writing as exhibited in the large majority of competing books , eonae of which wiucn we we have have seen seen ourselves ourselvesis ia wonderfull wonderfullv

    good . If the system of uprig , , ht penmanshi y p produces readable , regular , and rapid writing ,

    onl such sucn h as as ea that tuat rtil submitted submitted wish it all success to to our our . notice notioe . , we we can nan y y

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    Some Educational, Books Of A -¦-*. -^^ ^...

    SOME EDUCATIONAL , BOOKS OF A - ¦ - * . - ^^ ^^ j 1 <^ -V - ^ . ^ * - * - ^ . " ¦ - ^ TT"V T >^ "V "W ^ V

    BYGONE PERIOD . The literature of education may be traced to ¦ W remote times ¦ ¦ and its present »»^ ** high stat - ¦—— — e of

    very perfection V / J . J JL . V > U 1 V Xi ^^ has f XiA . ¦ been m i _ T- T , y « - «* Jk- attained * . V- ^ A ^»*^ f" ^ ^ - * onl - ^^ —— y ¦—— after - »^^ — — various -w ^ -r * . and r ) lanted ln . nt extra , ftd in in ordinary the th « human hnman ordeals breast breast . ^ A is is wish that that whi whi ineradicall ch ch seeks seeks y

    p to widen the ideas and to enable us to more fully grapple with the problems which each and every V ^ V V- ' * - J day > - « . l *» J calls \_/ % Jki-4 . JLIh ^ forth JL , »^ A . L / JJ . Our ^^^^ « - « . A . present XT ^^* - ^ ~ - system «/ of

    education may , to a certain extent , be regarded as the outcome of the scholasticism which so largely prevailed from the ninth to the fourteenth century ; although , perhaps , what is understood

    b bv y the thfi term term scholasticism finhnlastiriism was was the the effect eftect rather rather than the cause of education . But the ponderous disquisitions of the schoolmen have little in common with the crude and feeble scholastic

    literature of succeeding centuries . Primers , A B C ' s , and similar productions may be regarded , perhaps , as our earliest school-books .

    Upon an ancient bas-relief the education of two children of rank is represented , and one about twelve j ears old holds a double tablet , long and

    fastened by a hinge . Some of the table-books must have been very large , for in Plautus a schoolboy seventeen years old is represented as breaking his master's head with -one I These

    * implements ' were probably in use in this country so late as the fifteenth century , and they are alluded to by Chaucer in the Sumpner's Tale

    , thus : — - A His pair felaw of tables had a sta all f of tipped ivory with horn ,

    And Of And all a wrote folk pointel that alway ypolished , yav s the e hem names fetisly any , , good as , he . stood ,

    It is from the fourth edition of Robert Clavel ' s ' Catalogue of Books printed in England' from

    1666 1 fifift to in 1695 1 WAF > , that that we wfi obtain obtain a a clear clear and and dehnite definite idea of the educational works then published , and of Vr n their I . A . A . * t JL . & . \ authors JV VA \ J A- * Xi fc- * ' and » -A / A . J . V >^ booksellers nw' ' X ^ * - *•«—• ' *^ ^* ^ ** ' names Jfc . * m ^^ f j . » m ^** r r ^ r . « Some r-- —<¦ ^^ - » . rfK .. m ^» _ *^ ¦\_ ^ V- ¦¦ X- ¦¦ -- _

    of these are classed under * Miscellanies , ' but the greater 4 Books , Mathematical number are included , ' and also in with the architecture category of , navigationarithmeticgeometryastronomjrart

    military , merchandise , , , painting , , drawing , maps , , , charts , broadsides , * and other prints , copy-books , shorthand writing & c' Under the name of Cocker

    there are no fewer , than . eihteen entrieseach being a vade mecum to some g particular branch , of educational curriculum . There is noty perhaps ,

    any scholastic book so famous as ' Cocker ' s Arithmetick , ' which , from the fact , probably , that it was ' suitable to the meanest acity' has onl

    been completely superseded cap in comparativel , y y modern times . It was first published at the latter end of 1677 having been licensed on September

    , 3 of that year . In Clavel's ' Catalogue' of books printed and published at Michaelmas term , 1 ( 577 , there is the following very interesting entry :

    * Cocker ' s Arithmetick , being a plain and familiar method sutable to the meanest capacity for the full understanding of that incomparable Art , as is

    now taught by the ablest School-masters in city and country ; composed by Edward Cocker , late Practitioner in the Arts of writing , arithmetick , and enraving in Twelves JL V price /\ bound V *« . Is 6 d

    « ¦• * * V- * . 'W A . Jl g t— - * i- */ T 1 1 J Ci | ; ^ A A T T - JLVV ^»^ J ; * LJLA ^ V ^ , I ) *^ V » - * A JL , - » - 17 . V I'V . Printed for T . Passinger , on London Bridge . ' Tliis * 1 sut on f n b book \ l l ' to 4 , - / -v which the - # -V »/^ want ¦¦•¦ rn was t- » ¦?• n of z ^ well -P the 4- r % n written times - # - 4 rr \ i ^ a , attained o f and 4-o i r \ nri quite to 4 ~ t ^\

    a fifty a - sixth edition in s 1767 , and if , Cocker was reallthe author ( of which there to be

    a doubt y ) he deserves the fame which appears the book has acquired . Most of Cocker's books were very

    popular , but perhaps of the thirty or forty publi-0

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 15, 1888, page 916, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15081888/page/14/