This work is well designed to correct prevailing vices of articulation. There is much room for reform in this branch of education, even our best public speakers being guilty of provincial errors, and faulty enunciation. The rules are lucidly explained, and the selections made with taste.
Swan's District School Reader. Same Publishers.
This is a more advanced and more valuable branch of the same series of class books, and is designed for the highest classes of public and private schools.
The Home Journal.—This admirable periodical maintains and advances its enviable reputation. With Morris & Willis as its editors, it needs no endorsement from its contemporaries. It must be, with such genius, tact and experience, all that a weekly periodical can be. We invite attention to the advertisement upon the cover of this number of the Magazine. Those who know the Journal will complain that the advertisers have not told half its merits.
FOOTNOTE:
[1] Fresh Gleanings, pp. 132, 133.
Transcriber's Note:
1. page 133--corrected typo 'mizzen-rroyal' to 'mizzen-royal'
2. page 133--corrected typo 'them erchant' to 'the merchant'
3. page 137--punctuation mark at end of paragraph '...not gone the voyage.,' corrected to "