Providence Daily Advertiser

INTELLECTUAL AND PRACTICAL
GRAMMAR,

In a series of Inductive Questions Connected with exercises in composition, by Roswell C. SMITH, author of Practical and Mental Arithmetic. Names should succeed ideas.

In Consequence of the very rapid sale of the first edition, and the unqualified approbation this work has received from Reviewers, literary men, and some of the first instructors in New England, it was thought advisable to stereotype it, and it is now offered to teachers and the public, at the very low and reduced price of TWENTY-FIVE CENTS APIECE BY THE DOZEN. Although the time usually allotted to the continuance of country schools for the year has nearly half expired, still if what reviewers and others say be true, it may be very profitably introduced the present season. Besides the pupil may continue the study at his leisure; for it is readily admitted by competent judges that a knowledge of Grammar may be acquired from this work either without the aid of an Instructor. It is likewise considered equally useful as a Reading Book.

RECOMMENDATIONS.

From the Massachusetts Spy

" We hazard but little in expressing it as our opinion, that a pupil may be taught more Grammar, and may get a better knowledge of the philosophy of our language, in this mode, in one month, than is ordinarily acquired, in the present mode of instruction, in a year."

From the American Journal of Education, Boston, for Jan. 1830.

"Here is, at last, an attempt to present the subject of grammar in an intellectual form to the mind of the learner. We cannot speak particularly of the work, with the same confidence as to its accuracy in detail, as if we had had full opportunity to bring it to the test of experiment in the school room; but its plan is very nearly that which has been repeatedly suggested in our pages, as what was required to render the study of grammar a suitable discipline for the young mind. The author's method is to draw the pupil into conversation about words, and to put such questions to him as lead his mind to the same conclusions that are usually laid down in books on grammar, in the shape of definitions and rules. The work is, as it ought to be, of a simple and elementary character ; and the illustrations are of that familiar kind which will render the book suitable for general use in schools.

" One great advantage of the plan of this work is that the pupil's mind is kept in continual activity by the variety in the form of the lessons, some of which consist in the correction of improprieties of speech; and others in regular but short and easy exercises to be written on paper or on the slate. The lessons in parsing are, with the exception of the concluding one on the Constitution of the United States, presented in gradual succession, and blended with the Conversation and oral exercises on each class of words. To most teachers this work will probably be the more acceptable for the author's good sense in avoiding unnecessary peculiarities in his views of grammar; for, notwithstanding the originality of the plan, the results of the conversations and exercises will be found to correspond pretty nearly to the more formal and theoretical statements contained in Murray's Grammar ; with this great advantage, that the pupil is enabled, by the arrangement of Mr. Smith's work, not only to understand perfectly every step of his progress, but to obtain the results for himself, by the exertion of his own thoughts. To instructors generally, who have not seen this work, we could not perhaps describe it more accurately than by saying that it is nearly the same thing among books on grammar, that Colburn's works are among books on arithmetic. We hope the resemblance will hold in other respects also, and that this work on grammar will effect as great and as extensive a revolution in the mode of teaching in the branch of which it treats, as has been effected by the labors of Mr. Colburn in his department.""

For sale by

JOHN HUTCHENS.

feb 6

First door west of the bridge.