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BY WILLIAM W. SMITH,
Principal of Grammar School No. 1, New-York; Author of The Speller’s Manual.
This work contains about fourteen thousand of the most useful words in the English language, correctly spelled, pronounced, defined, and arranged in classes, together with rules for spelling, prefixes and suffixes, with their significations, rules for use of capitals, punctuation and other marks used in writing and printing, quotations from other languages used in English composition, abbreviations, &c., to which is added a Vocabulary for reference. Words which resemble each other in pronunciation, but have different meanings, are arranged together, and occupy about one eighth of the entire work, containing nearly three hundred pages. The sentences for examples for pupils (each embracing two or more of these words) will be found very instructive and interesting. While The Speller and Definer’s Manual supplies all that can be desired in an ordinary dictionary or speller, it furnishes much important information that cannot be found in these, and presents a study, usually dry and uninteresting, in a natural and attractive manner. It is adapted to the capacities of children, and will essentially aid the teacher in the work of instruction by suggesting questions and ideas that are very often overlooked amid the anxieties of the school-room.
It will be found to be one of the most useful works for schools or SELF-INSTRUCTION ever issued as a text-book, and its examination will abundantly repay any friend of education.
The Manual has been adopted by the Board of Education for use in the Public Schools of New-York City.
We invite attention to the following extracts of notices of this work from city papers: