  BY ALEXANDER BAIN, LL. D.,PROFESSOR OF LOGIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN.1 vol., 12mo. Cloth, price, $1.75. "In the present work I have surveyed the Teaching Art, as far as possible, from a scientific point of view; which means, among other things, that the maxims of ordinary experience are tested and amended by bringing them under the best ascertained laws of the mind."—From Preface. "Dr. Bain's renovated curriculum is certainly extensive enough, even if it omits Greek and Latin. According to this, higher education should embrace—first, science; second, the humanities, including history and the social science, and some portions of the universal literature; and, third, English composition and literature."—New York Evening Express. "The work should become a text-book for teachers, not to be followed servilely or thoughtlessly, but used for its suggestiveness."—Boston Gazette. "Professor Bain is not a novice in this field. His work is admirable in many respects for teacher, parent, and pupil."—Philadelphia North American. "A work of great value to all teachers who study it intelligently."—Boston Advertiser. "At once speculative and practical, entering largely into the philosophy of teaching, and manfully handling facts."—Philadelphia Press. PRIMERSIN SCIENCE, HISTORY and LITERATURE.18mo. Flexible cloth, 45 cents each. I.—Edited by Professors Huxley, Roscoe, and Balfour Stewart.SCIENCE PRIMERS.
II.—Edited by J. R. Green, M.A., Examiner in the School of Modern History at Oxford.HISTORY PRIMERS.
III.—Edited by J. R. Green, M.A.LITERATURE PRIMERS.
(Others in preparation.) The object of these primers is to convey information in such a manner as to make it both intelligible and interesting to very young pupils, and so to discipline their minds as to incline them to more systematic after-studies. They are not only an aid to the pupil, but to the teacher, lightening the task of each by an agreeable, easy, and natural method of instruction. In the Science Series some simple experiments have been devised, leading up to the chief truths of each science. By this means the pupil's interest is excited, and the memory is impressed so as to retain without difficulty the facts brought under observation. The woodcuts which illustrate these primers serve the same purpose, embellishing and explaining the text at the same time. |
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