THE STUDENT'S MANUAL; designed, by specific directions, to aid in forming and strengthening the intellectual and moral character and habits of the Student. By JOHN TODD, Pastor of the Edwards Church, Northampton.

Extract of a letter from Prof. Stuart to the Author." I thank you very cordially for your STUDENT'S MANUAL. I have not found time yet to read it through; but I have read a number of chapters, and highly approve of both the design and execution. It cannot fail to do good. It will attract by its manly independence of tone, as well as by the sparkling brilliancy of its thoughts. Macte virtute! Persevere in your own advice, and it cannot be that you will not reap a bountiful harvest."

"We do not often meet with a book which contains a greater amount of sound counsel, and honest sense, than this. The views of the author are in general most judicious; the plans he lays out and enforces, are good; and action upon them could scarcely fail to be productive of the best results. He has brought to his task a mind whose experience has been large, and whose acquirements and discrimination are every where apparent. Ends, desirable to be reached, are pointed out with remarkable perspicuity, and the whole scope and intention of the volume cannot be too highly praised."—The Knickerbocker.

"By adapting truth to particular classes of men, a great advantage is gained in point of impressiveness and utility. This is clearly seen in the able and interesting work we have just named. The Author writes as one that has been himself over the ground which he points out to the young student-and he pours out the results of experience, observation and reading, from a full mind, and in forcible and perspicuous language. The topics are rich and varied, and are treated in a way which will attract and fix the attention of the reader; who will be very unfaithful to himself if he does not rise from the perusal, with higher aspirations after excellence and new means for attaining it."-Connecticut Observer.

"This book is just what the title intimates. From our knowledge of the author's mind, we should expect, what we find on examination, a truly valuable work. It supplies a vacancy which no other work has filled. It evinces a thorough acquaintance with the dangers, propensities and excellencies of youthful students, and a warm and discriminating affection for their welfare and happiness. It discusses a great variety of subjects, and all with ease, energy and practical sagacity. No student should fail to possess it and to use it as a manual. It abounds in the most important counsels, in valuable and striking thoughts and illustrations. Every thing is spoken out fully, with a strong perception of its application, as by one who knows others in knowing himself. We recommend it to all young men who are concerned to cultivate their minds and to be respectable and happy in life."-Episcopal Recorder, Philadelphia.

"Mr. Todd is favorably known to the literary and religious community by his Index Rerum, and Lectures to Children. The present volume comes before the public with more pretensions, and will be judg. ed by a higher and more severe standard than has yet been adopted towards the author. It is designed, by specific directions, to aid in forming and strengthening the intellectual and moral character and habits of the Student.' No one can recur to his own academical and collegiate life, without acknowledging the great need of, and the great benefit to be derived from a book of this sort. Though its title confines its design to the student, we venture to say that no young person can read the book with a desire of improvement, and not be made better by it. We are not given to eulogizing or puffing, being greatly deficient in the organ of veneration,' but we must be permitted to say, that Northampton may well be proud of such an author as Mr. Todd discovers himself to be by this volume. It should be put into the hands of every young man, student or not, and faithfully studied. Mr. T's. notions in regard to romantic, fictitious works, will be considered as ultra by some, but in regard to their being indulged in by students, we more than half agree with him. A scholar can always find something better to do than reading novels. Much has been written and done for youth within a few years, but no book before this has appeared to meet the wants of those of riper age, and approaching manhood."-Hampshire Gazette.

Every student ought not only to possess this invaluable book, but to make its contents his own. It is a casket of rich gems. He has but to gain a thorough acquaintance with its precepts, and pursue them rigidly, and he will have no occasion to mourn over lost labor, or time misspent. Every effort will be successful, and every day will carry him onward. The way to intellectual eminence is through a wilderness; and those who attempt to travel it, are often at a loss what course to pursue. Hence many become discouraged, and many waste their strength in wandering about, without gaining an inch of ascent. Mr. Todd has cut a turnpike through, upon which any one, by patient and persevering labor, may travel directly up to the summit. We would recommend the book as an inestimable treasure, not merely to the student, but to apprentices and others who desire to educate themselves, in their spare hours, without the aid of a preceptor. It will teach them how to glean all their leisure moments-how to study, and how to retain what they acquire. And it is not the least of its excellencies, that it connects, in an attractive manner, moral with intellectual culture."-Springfield Gazette.

"Mr. Todd's book is intended as a kind and friendly monitor to young men. It is designed to fill that important vacancy which occurs in the life of the student after he has left his home, and before his mind is so disciplined and his judgment so matured, that he can withstand assaults upon his principles and the allurements of the world. It is a critical period for young men. They need a friend constantly near them at this time of life. They are beyond the reach of parental counsel and their teachers are much of the time out of their sight. The Manual can always be at hand on their study-table. It would prove an infallible guide to duty, if properly read and its instructions closely followed out. It is full of practical wisdom and wholesome truths, and their application is enforced by illustrations after the author's usual forcible and happy manner. Mr. Todd has labored diligently, and we think very successfully, in producing a valuable and important work."-Northampton Courier.

"In our opinion, Mr. Todd has thrown together some of the best practical lessons for Students, or for young men generally, that we have ever seen embodied in a single work. The advice suits the experience of students as they are in our colleges. The author evidently knew the wants, the temptations of the young-and he has furnished them with a book which if carefully read, and its precepts adopted, will lead them through all difficulties."-U. S. Gazette, Philadelphia.

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"We have looked through this volume with more than ordinary care, and certainly with more than ordinary interest. Every student has felt the need of a friend, willing and able to instruct him on the thousand questions which arise in relation to his course of studies, time of labor and exercise, his health, diet, discipline of mind, &c. tached hints on all these subjects may be found scattered through a library; but they have never been placed within the student's reach, nor reduced to a form that rendered them useful. The work before us is, in this point of view, invaluable. It not only excites a literary ambition, but directs it to the noblest objects and guides its efforts with a wisdom and propriety deserving the highest commendation. Every student has felt and regretted, in advanced years, the time wasted by a misapplication of intellectual labor. Still more, perhaps, has he lamented habits of mind then acquired which no subsequent efforts could correct. To avoid these dangers, and to ensure the student all the advantages of sage and at the same time animated counsel, he should refer frequently to the Manual. It will be found a pleasing volume, its lessons being always conveyed in an easy and attractive style, and urged by familiar historical or other illustrations."-Philadelphia Gazette.

"A great many books have been written which contain a great many good things that have been entirely lost to the persons whom they were designed to benefit, in consequence of their being clothed in a style of composition so entirely uninteresting as to require an effort to search them out, such as few readers are willing to bestow. Many attempts have been made to open a volume of experience to that class of young men to whom the book before us is particularly addressed, but most of them have either been dogmatically repulsive or as dry in detail as Briggs' Cookery or M'Kenzie's 5000 Receipts. But on opening this Manual, you are not invited to saw wood or to a solitary walk for health, but you join arms with the author and go with him while he enters into all the views, feelings and habits of a student, and seems to live over again a student's life: "As I look back," says he, " upon the days when I was a 'student,' I can see that here I went wrong, and there I mistook; here I missed a golden opportunity, and there I acquired a wrong bias; and as I sometimes walk past a college, as it is lighted up for evening study, I pause, and sigh, that I cannot go back and begin life again, carrying with me my present experience. I think, too, I can see, that if there had been such a book as I am now attempting to write for students, put into my hands at an early period, it would have been of incalculable advantage to me. I have strong hopes of saying what will be useful, inasmuch as I shall principally draw from my own experience and from the remembrance of my own wants." The author's object has undoubtedly been most happily accomplished. His experience has been the experience of almost every one who has lived the "student's" life, and it has been related in a manner which does not solicit, but commands attention."-Providence Journal.

Has just published a Second edition of

INDEX

OR

RERUM:

INDEX OF SUBJECTS; intended as a Manual,
to aid the Student and the Professional Man, in
preparing himself for usefulness. With an Intro-
duction, illustrating its utility and method of use.
By JOHN TODD, Pastor of the Edwards Church,
Northampton. The plan of this work is very sim-
ple, and so exceedingly well adapted to the pur-
pose for which it is intended, that it has received
the approbation of all who have examined it.

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RECOMMENDATIONS.

From Professor Worcester, of Amherst College.

"It is just the thing. I have never had a system so complete as
yours. I shall take an early opportunity to speak to the whole body
of students in regard to it, and shall advise every man to buy a copy."
From Professor Olmsted, of Yale College.

"I am happy to say, that the plan and execution of the Index Re-
rum, are both such as will fully meet my approbation; and I shall re-
commend it to my pupils, as a valuable auxiliary to their studies."

From Professor M. Hopkins, of Williams College.

"I have no hesitation in saying, that the plan of the Index Rerum,
by Mr. Todd, is better adapted to the object for which it is intended,
than any other with which I am acquainted. Its great excellence
consists in its simplicity, and this renders its advantages so obvious,
that to those who want any thing of the kind, an inspection of the
work must preclude the necessity of any recommendation. It will
give me pleasure to speak well of it here."

From Professor M. P. Jewett, of Marietta College, Ohio.

subse-

"Of the necessity of something of the kind to hold fast the thousand
important facts and sentiments which refuse to be detained by the
slight associations of the moment, I have been fully, painfully sensible.
A few years ago I adopted the plan recommended by Locke, but
soon relinquished it, as requiring too much time and labor.
quently purchased the Cambridge Theological Common Place Book,
but here I found myself embarrassed by a printed Index of subjects
designed only for professional reading. And it is only in the plan of
the Rev. Mr. Todd's work that I find an arrangement exactly suited to
the wants of the professional and literary man.'

"I fully concur in the favorable opinion expressed of the simple ar-
rangement and utility of the Index Rerum."
GEORGE BANCROFT.

From M. A. H. Niles, Professor of Languages, in South Hanover
College, Indiana.

"It gives me pleasure to express my concurrence in the opinions
that have been given, commendatory of the "Index Rerum," by Rev.
John Todd, of Northampton, Mass. I would particularly recommend
the use of it, to all young persons, both as a means of inspiring a love
of reading, and of making their reading useful."

From the Commercial Herald, Philadelphia.

"INDEX RERUM.-Every reading man has felt the difficulty of re-
taining in his memory the names of books in which he has seen able
dissertations on any given subject, or from which he acquired any spe-
cific information; felt the inconvenience of not being able to refer to
the subject, whenever occasion might require: hence the importance
of noting down, at the time, the book and page which contains infor-
mation that strikes us as valuable, with a view of being able to refer
to it at any subsequent period.

Now, the book, whose name heads this article, is designed for the
purpose of an index to facts, sentiments, subjects, &c. which, having
been read, are considered worth remembering, or which may strike
us as worth being again referred to. We once heard the remark made,
by a gentleman of great acquirements, that next in importance to be-
ing thoroughly acquainted with a subject, was the knowledge of where
it could be found ably treated of. The remark was the result of long
experience, and was true. The Index Rerum is designed to supply
this secondary knowledge."

From the U. S. Gazette.

"INDEX RERUM.-A volume which may be of inestimable value to
the student, and even general reader. It is entitled the "Index Re-
rum." It is the mode adopted by the Rev. John Todd, of Northamp-
ton, Mass. for retaining for good use the valuable portion of all his
reading. It is a folio post, ruled and lettered, for the reception of the
hints that occur to the reader. For example, suppose you were read-
ing Lowth's Lectures on Hebrew Poetry, and you believe that his re-
marks upon the character of the book of Job might be hereafter refer-
red to with advantage, you turn to your Index, and under the letter J.
you write

JOB-the book investigated-Lowth's Heb. Poet. Lect. 33 and 34.
Or, in reading this very article, you should feel that the notice of a
good work is deserving remembrance, you write:

INDEX-notice of U. S. Gazette, May 20. Mem. to purchase a

copy.

By this mode, the drudgery of a common place book is saved, one
is spared the trouble of copying the whole of the article of which re-
membrance is desired."

From the National Gazette, Philadelphia.

"The quarto Index Rerum, or 'Index of Subjects intended as a
manual to aid the student and professional man in preparing himself
for usefulness,' is better adapted to its purpose than any work of the
kind which we have seen. The author of the arrangement is the Rev.
John Todd, of Northampton, Mass. We could not recommend too
strongly the use of it to all persons who would turn their reading to
full account. Mr. Todd's sensible introduction explains the method,
which is as simple as it is efficacious."