The author offers this work not as an experiment now for the first time to be tried, but as the result of long experience. Though chiefly designed for the use of children collected in large numbers, it may, with equal advantage, be adopted in smaller assemblages, and in the domestic circle: and may also be rendered serviceable to adults.
EASY LESSONS IN MECHANICS; with Familiar Illustrations, showing the practical Application of the various Mechanical Principles. 3s.
* ON the EDUCATION and TREATMENT of CHILDREN. 2s. 6d.
Contents:—On the means of developing the Bodily Senses in Infancy; Early Development of the Affections; Early Cultivation of the Intellect; Management in Childhood; Amusements and Employments; Sunday; Views of Death; Supernatural Appearances; Politeness; Dress; Gentility; Management during the Teens; Views of Matrimony.
* INSTRUCTIONS for TEACHING ARITHMETIC to LITTLE CHILDREN. By the Rev. T. V. SHORT, B.D. 6d.
* A LITTLE READING BOOK for YOUNG CHILDREN. With many Cuts. 4d.
SCRIPTURE HYMNS IN PROSE. With Cuts. 6d.
The experience of some persons inclines them to prefer compositions in prose, to those in verse, for the exercise of the infant memory. There is at least no disadvantage in having a choice of both.
* A COLLIERY TALE, or VILLAGE DISTRESS. 4d.
The object of this little narrative is, by God’s help, to draw some profit from a recent calamity, which, in its immediate pressure upon the limited community through which it extended, has been most awfully severe.