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This work is now used in the Boston Latin School.

LETTERS on the GOSPELS.

Second edition. Price 75 cents.

By Miss HANNAH ADAMS.

Extract from the Christian Examiner and Theological Review.

We have been very highly gratified by the perusal of this little book, which, coming out with all the modesty, simplicity, and real learning, which distinguish its author, is calculated we think, to be of very important service in the cause of true religion.

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An ABRIDGMENT of MURRAY'S ENGLISH GRAMMAR. Containing also Punctuation, the Notes under rules in Syntax, and Lessons in Parsing. To the latter of which are prefixed, Specimens illustrative of that Exercise, and false Syntax to be corrected. All appropriately arranged. To all which is adapted, a New System of Questions. From the second Portsmouth edition, enlarged and improved. By SAMUEL PUTNAM. Ste reotype edition. Price 19 cents.

The sale of the former editions of this work has encouraged the editor to offer the public another, containing, as he would hope, some valuable improvements. The object of the questions interspersed through this Grammar, is to lead the learner, while committing his lesson, to discover its meaning and application. As many scholars never use any other than the cheap editions of the Grammar, it is certainly important that such an abridgment should contain, if possible, all the necessary rudiments.

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To the Editor.

SIR-I have examined, with some attention, the third edition of an Abridgment of Murray's English Grammar, published by HILLIARD, GRAY, & Co. Having, for a considerable time, used the former editions of the same work, I was, in some measure, prepared to appreciate this. The lessons in parsing are well chosen and the arrangement of them a valuable improvement. The NEW SYSTEM of QUESTIONS has long been a desideratum in an introduction to the English Grammar, and seems perfectly to answer the end designed. In short, I regard this little book as a highly valuable acquisition to our schools; far preferable to any work of the kind that has come under my observation, and am persuaded that your labor in this department of early science will meet all the encouragement you can desire. I am, Sir, &c. ORANGE CLARK, Principal Portsmouth, June 13th, 1827. of the Portsmouth Lyceum.

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An INTRODUCTION to SYSTEMATIC and PHYSIOLOGICAL BOTANY. By THOMAS NUTTALL, A. M., F. L. S., &c., Lecturer on Botany and Zoology, and Curator of the Botanic Garden connected with Harvard University, Cambridge. 1 vol. Price $2,00.

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The NATIONAL READER; a Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking, designed to fill the same place in the Schools of the United States, that is held in those of Great Britain by the compilations of Murray, Scott, Enfield, Mylius, Thompson, Erving, and others. By

JOHN PIERPONT, Compiler of the American First Class Book. 1 vol. Price 75 cents.

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In Press. The AMERICAN SCHREVELIUS, or Greek and English Lexicon, new and improved edition.

The basis of the work is SCHREVELIUS's well known Lexicon; which, on the whole, in the present state of Greek studies in this country, was thought preferable to any other manual adapted to the use of schools. Schrevelius's work was more particularly intended for the Old and New Testaments, Homer, Hesiod, Musæus, Theognis, Pythagoras, and other Gnomic Authors, Isocrates, Esop, &c.; the author also made use of Portus's Ionic and Doric Lexicons and the Lexicon to Pindar and the other Lyric poets. It was published several times on the continent of Europe during the author's life; and within that period was also republished in England by Hill, who enlarged it considerably, more particularly with words from the New Tes tament, the Septuagint, and the principal poets and orators, as well as the school books of the day. Besides the editorial labor bestowed upon it in England, it has received improvements in France, where a valuable edition of it was published in 1779 by the celebrated scholar Vauvilliers. Of the other editions, we have before us the Italian one in folio, and a German one, reprinted from the Paris copy, at Vienna in 1822, under the editorial superintendence of Kritsch; who justly ob serves, that the Lexicon, as now published, is very different from the ancient editions both in copiousness and explanations; and, in its present state it may with propriety be recommended to the student in Greek literature. The signi

fications given in this work are more copious than the Latin ones of Schrevelius. It has been the intention of the editors, that the work should comprehend all the words which are to be found in Professor Dalzel's Collectanea Majora and Minora, Jacob's Greek Reader, and the other books now studied in our schools and other seminaries of learning.

The improvements made upon the common Schrevelius, in the present edition will amount to not less than ten thousand new articles and very numerous additions to the original articles of the work.

The explanations of the uses of the prepositions and article, which were the subject of particular attention in the former edition, have been still further inr proved in the present one. Another improvement (and one which was not adopted in any edition of Schrevelius till after this work was begun) is the marking of the quantities of the doubtful vowels; and in the present edition this has been more minutely attended to than in the former.

During the progress of the work almost all the Greek Lexicons extant have been occasionally consulted. Those which have been most constantly resorted to are Schneider's admirable Griechisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (or Greek and German Dictionary) and the Greek and German Lexicon of Riemer, who has added much new and valuable matter to Schneider's labors; Planche's excellent Dictionnaire Grec-François ;-Donnegan's New Greek and English Lexicon, the basis of which is Schneider's-Jones's Greek and English Lexicon, and the improved edition of Hedericus; and, for the Scripture words, Schleusner's well known Lexicon and Wahl's Greek and English Lexicon by Mr. Robinson. Besides these aids, as much use, as was practicable in a work of this size, has been made of the labors of eminent critics and commentators on the Greek Classics.

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The RATIONAL GUIDE to Reading and Orthography; being an attempt to improve the arrangement of Words in English Spelling Books, and to adapt the Reading Lessons to the comprehension of those for whom they are intended. By WILLIAM B. FOWLE, Instructer of the Monitorial School, Boston. Price 25 cents.

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Extract from the Preface.

The want of rules for composition, so essential in rhetoric, has been supplied in this edition from the best source-BLAIR's Lectures: and what was deficient even in these has been furnished from Prof. WARD's Lectures on Oratory:-so that with the original matter on the elegant pronunciation of words, on accent, emphasis, and inflexion of voice, and the proper pronunciation of the figures of rhetoric, it is presumed the present work is the most perfect of its kind in the language.

The NEW TESTAMENT of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; in which the Text of the Common Version is divided into paragraphs, the punctuation in many cases altered, and some words, not in the original expunged. 12mo. Price 50 cents. (Called the Revised Testament.)

It is well known to the learned, and should be to all, that the division of the Bible into chapters and verses, the punctuation, and the words usually printed in italics, are of no authority whatever. The several Books of the New Testament, according to the best authority we can get, were written in an uniform character, without capitals, without chapters, without verses, without punctuation, or any break or other index by which to determine whether a particular letter belonged to this or that word, or whether a particular word belonged to this or that sentence; the sense was the only guide to the proper division.

The basis of the divisions which are found in this edition is the Greek Testament edited by Knapp.

The PHILOSOPHY of NATURAL HISTORY, by WILLIAM SMELLIE, Member of the Antiquarian and Royal Societies of Edinburgh. With an Introduction and various Additions and Alterations, intended to adapt it to the present state of knowledge; by JOHN WARE, M. D. Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Second edition. Price $2,25.

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