happy. What will make man happy? Holiness. What part of man was created after the image of God? The soul of man was created after the image of God. "Let us make man in our image after our likeness." Wherein consisted the image of God, after which the human soul was created? It consisted in knowledge, rigteousness, and holiness. By what is a man peculiarly distinguished? By his figure, or shape, and by his great susceptibility of improvement. From what does man's great susceptibility of improvement arise? From his possessing an inward and thinking power called the mind or soul. By what is the mind or soul of man chiefly distinguished? By its power of acquiring knowledge, and distinguishing between right andwrong, and by its being fitted for immortality or endless existence. How does the mind derive all its first and simplest thoughts? From external objects, or the subjects around us. How does the mind acquire its ideas of external objects? By means of what are called the five senses, seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching or feeling. What are the organs of these? The eyes, the ears, the tongue, the nose, and the fingers. What are the intellectual faculties conferred on man? Sensation, perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and What do you understand by sensation? Any feeling of pleasure or pain which the mind receives through the medium of any of the senses. What is perception? The notice which the mind takes of sensations made by external objects. What is memory? That faculty by which we retain for future use, the thoughts and ideas derived from perception. What is imagination? That power of the mind by which it produces new combinations of thought. What is judgment? That faculty by which we compare one idea with another, so as to ascertain the agreement or difference

reason.

between them. What is reason? The noblest of all the faculties, being that by which the mind connects one idea with another, in order to arrive at some new truth, or conclusion. What do you mean by attention? The vigorous application of the mind to whatever it requires to think about. What is conscience? That power or faculty that decides upon our actions and informs us when we do right or wrong. For what have all these faculties been given us? That we may cultivate and improve them to the utmost of our power, and by that means be fitted for all the duties of life. What was the principal end of God in creating man? That he might adore Him for His wonderful works and make a proper use of the productions of the globe, and praise and glorify Him.

SECTION FOURTH OF WOOD'S INSTRUCTIVE EXTRACTS.

History, Biography, and Travels. The Sciences, Arts, and Occupations of the Ancient Egyptians.

The Egyptians had an inventive genius, and turned it to profitable speculations. The discoverers of any useful invention received, both living and dead, rewards equal to their profitable labours. The first libraries were in Egypt; and the titles they bore inspired the reader with an eager desire to enter them, and dive into the secrets they contained. They were called "Offices for the diseases of the soul," and that very justly, because the soul was there cured of ignorance, the most dangerous of her maladies, and the parent of them all. As their country was level, and

the air of it always serene and unclouded, they were among the first who observed the courses of the planets. These observations led them to regulate the year from the course of the sun; for their year, we are told, was, from the most remote antiquity, composed of three hundred and sixty five days and six hours. To adjust the property of their lands, which were every year covered by the overflowing of the Nile, they were obliged to have recourse to surveys; and this first taught them geometry. They were great observers of nature, which, in a climate so serene, and under so intense a sun, was vigorous and fruitful. By this study and application they invented or improved the science of physic.

The class having read this passage, the following questions may be put to the pupils.

What is meant by a section? A part divided from the rest. What is its literal meaning? A cutting. What is its derivation? Seco, I cut. From what part of the verb does it come? From the supine sectum. Is the verb Greek or Latin? Latin. Conjugate the verb. Seco, secui. What conjugation is it? First. How is it known? By having a long before re of the infinitive. Can you tell me of any other sections? The Conic sections. What are they? The different cuttings of a What is their number and shape? They are five in number, a triangle, circle, ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola. From the same root, do you know any word which signifies party? Sect. One of a sect, sectarian or sectary; a geometrical instrument, sector; a geometrical term, secant; a part of a circle, a segment. From the same word to cut in two? Bisect. In three? Trisect. Creatures nearly cut through? Insects. What is this science called? Entomology. What is meant by history?

cone.

An account of nations. storica. Into what has history been divided? Four parts; ancient and modern, sacred and profane. Give the meaning of each of these. From the same root, one who writes history, historian, and historiographer. What is the derivation and meaning of biography? From Greek bios, life, and grapho, to write, and means a writing about persons' lives. What word derived from Bios means having two or both lives? Amphibious. One who writes his own life? Autobiographer. Can you give me a word which means to travel in foreign lands? Peregrinates. For holy purposes? A pilgrim. What is meant by science? Knowledge. What is its derivation? Scientia, and that from scio, to know. Knowing all things? Omniscient. Knowing beforehand? Prescient. One who knows a thing superficially? A sciolist. What is the general opposite of science? Art. The difference? Science is what we know, and art what we do. The derivation of art? From ars artis, an art. What declension? Ans. the third. How known? By having its genitive in s. From the same root, one who studies the arts, artist, artificer, artisan. An adjective from art in this sense artificial, in another sense artful. The meaning of artful? Cunning. Another word the same? Subtle. Is there anything to be observed in the word subtle? The b is silent. What is meant by occupation, and whence derived? It means trades or professions, and is derived from occupatio, and that from occupo, to possess. Can you give me any other word for ancient? Antique or antiquated. Who were the Egyptians? The inhabitants of Ancient Egypt. What is meant by inventive? Having power to find out. Whence its derivation? Invenio, Latin; from the same root a word means to come before, prevene or prevent. A religious house? Convent. A coming together?

What is its derivation? Hi

Convention. What is meant by genius? Innate talent. Do you know any word very like it? Genus, a kind, plural genera. What is the difference between a man of genius and a man of talent? A man of genius is one who produces some original work, either in philosophy or the arts; whereas a man of talent may have only acquired his ability by practice, as in the art of writing. What particle in our language signifies to turn? Vert. From what derived? Verto. The compounds? Invert, convert, intervert, animadvert. What is the corresponding Greek verb? Strepho. From this word can you give me one which signifies an accident? Catastrophe. What part means a turning? Strophe. What is the meaning of cata? Down, by, from side to side. Compounds? Catechize, cathedral. From strepho can you give me several other examples? Peristrophia, apostrophe. What is meant by profitable? Tendency to profit. Give other synonyms. Advantageous, lucrative. What is meant by speculating? Schemes, theories not reduced to practice. What does the particle spec mean? To see. From what? From specio. Compounds? Spectacle, spectator, inspect, respect, retrospect; and if we take the other corresponding word video, we have from it visible, vision. What is meant by a discoverer? One who finds out. What does the dis mean? Not. Another example? Dislike. What does the dis mean in the word dissolve? Asunder. What is the derivation of cover? Couvrir, French, from the same root. A cover for the head, handkerchief.-Suppose the word attraction should occur, the pupil may be asked, What is the literal meaning of the word attraction? He will answer, A drawing to, or the art or power of drawing to. From what is it derived? Attract. What does the first syllable or prefix, at, of that word signify? To. Give some other examples of that prefix. Attain, attend,