to repeat the experiment. We think, with its increased means, the Institute may, without difficulty, and with great benefit to others, issue its own transactions periodically, and we hope this plan will be adopted.

HELON'S PILgrimage to JERUSALEM. A Picture of Judaism in the century which preceded the advent of our Saviour. Translated from the German of Frederick Strauss. Revised and abridged by BARON STOW, Pastor of the second Baptist Church, Boston. Boston: Wm. D. Ticknor, and Gould, Kendall & Lincoln. 1835. 12mo. pp. 298.

A new edition, somewhat reduced in size and price, of one of the most graphic exhibitions of Judaism, and the peculiar customs and opinions of the age, which has been written. The reader seems to find himself as much at home in the City of David,' as in the scenes in London of a modern story; while there is an elevation and often a sublimity in the style of narrative, and in the illustrations from the Psalms and other portions of Scripture, which render its impressions unusually interesting and deep. It is a valuable present to the student and teacher of the Scriptures. None of either class should leave it unread.

FIRST LESSONS IN ENGLISH GRAMMAR, upon a plan Inductive and Intellectual. By JOHN FLINT, Principal of the English Department of St. Luke's Male School. New York: N. B. Holmes, Bookseller. 1834. 18mo. pp. 107.

In the preface, the author justly observes, 'The little relish, or rather the positive dislike which almost every child evinces for this study, arises not from the nature of the subject, but from the manner in which it is presented to him. He is introduced to the consideration of too many things at once; they are more than his mind can grasp, and he turns from them in despair and disgust. But select for him a single object, unaccompanied by a needless parade of circumstances; and, as he will immediately perceive it to be within his reach, so he will take pleasure in making himself acquainted with it, which having done, give him another, and so on until every object is embraced, taking care however to make them as few as the subject will allow.'

On these principles the author constructs his work. In the first part words are merely classified, without alluding to the details of their inflections. The pupil's knowledge is brought into requisition by examples and sentences, in which he is required to select the words corresponding to the definitions; and as soon as it is deemed practicable, the pupil is called upon to write sentences, involving such parts of speech as are named. The second part describes the varieties and inflections of each part of speech, with similar, practical exercises. The third contains the rules for

forms of words and syntactical parsing. We think this little book will be very interesting to those teachers who are not wedded to old systems. It is decidedly the best introductory work we have seen.

THE MOUNT VERNON READER. A Course of Reading Lessons, selected with reference to their moral influence on the hearts and lives of the Young. Designed for the Middle Classes. By the Messrs. ABBOTT. Boston: John Allen & Co. 1835. 18mo. pp.

252.

Our reading books have generally been compiled, chiefly with the design of furnishing every variety of composition, and every species of exercise in the enunciation of language. The better spirit of the age demands that a higher stamp should be fixed upon our books; and that the sad deficiency of moral influence in our schools, should be in some degree supplied, by preparing books which shall combine moral influence with every branch of knowledge. We were rejoiced to hear the author of a system of Algebra observe, that he had felt it due to the cause of temperance to exclude every example in which the sale or mixing of intoxicating liquors was involved. We cannot better describe the book before us than in the language of the compilers:

'The design then of the Mount Vernon Reader is to exert a direct and powerful moral influence on the hearts of children receiving education in the schools of this country; such an influence as shall make them faithful and industrious in the improvement of their time, obedient and affectionate to their parents, kind towards their playmates, and upright and honest in all their intercourse with others. The selections are designed to produce this effect, not by formal exhortation or precept, but by narratives and delineations of character, such as are calculated to win their way to the hearts of the young, and insensibly to instil those principles and cultivate those habits which will make them useful both to themselves and others, and happy both here and hereafter. The compilers have honestly endeavored to exclude everything which they supposed would be unacceptable to any of the friends of piety and morality, of whatever name.'

We need only add, that we were led on by the interest excited, to look through most of the chapters of this book, and that we think the authors have succeeded in the execution of their design, and in giving that simple and touching character to the whole which is so conspicuous in their books. We doubt whether Lesson VII. does not need some remarks, to prevent wrong impressions, especially when it is read out of school, as it often will be; but we have seen few school books so free from doubtful or objectionable passages.

"Oh how sweet when day-light closes."

(FROM THE GERMAN.)

Furnished for the Annals of Education by LowELL MASON, Professor in the Boston Academy of Music.

Oh how sweet when day-light closes, When the western sun reposes, And the

dew is on the roses,

Brothers! then how sweet to rove Through the

meadow and the grove, Thro' the meadow and the grove- Oh how sweet

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