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Price, per set with key, mounted on "Excelsior Map Supporter," $19.25. Specimen copies mailed, postpaid, to teachers-for examination-at the introduction prices. Send for full descriptive circulars. D. Appleton & Co., Publishers, NEW YORK, BOSTON, CHICAGO, ATLANTA, SAN FRANCISCO. A PRACTICAL ANALYSIS OF WORDS, By JOHN KENNEDY. A NEW SYSTEM APPLIED TO A MOST IMPORTANT SUBJECT. great storehouse of accumulated knowledge. But the analytical study of the words of the English Language has heretofore been hampered and embarassed by the technicalities of Latin and Greek, with which it has been surrounded, to such an extent as to virtually preclude it from our elementary schools-the very field where it should be pursued with the greatest pleasure and profit. It has been the province of PROF. KENNEDY, in the book whose title heads this column, to present a system of practical analysis of words, free from all technicality, and so simple in its plan as to place the intelligent study of English words within the reach of the intermediate and grammar grades of our Public Schools. His success in accomplishing this object is no longer problematical. Although the published volume is but a few weeks old, it has been adopted and is in actual use in upwards of 50 large public schools in this State, and in the hands of pupils ranging in age from nine to twenty years; and it is the unanimous verdict of the teachers in charge of these classes, that the study is as interesting and delightful, as it is profitable. From a mass of testimonials which have been received, we select two from widely different fields. FROM AN IOWA COLLEGE PRESIDENT. "LENOX COLLEGE, MESSRS. KENNEDY & Co., HOPKINTON, 1A., Feb. 9, 1888. SIRS:-For copy of Practical Analysis of Words,' please accept sincere thanks. I have examined What Words Say' with some care, and find it to be the best work of the kind I have seen. It should be in every Public School in the country. Yours truly, J. A. RITCHEY." President Lenox College. FROM A NEW YORK UNION SCHOOL PRINCIPAL. MESSRS. KENNEDY & Co., “CANAJOHARIE, N. Y., Feb. 11, 1888. 38 Park Row, N. Y. GENTLEMEN:-In response to your request for an opinion of 'What Words Say,' after having given it a trial in the school-room, I am pleased to report that it even more than realizes the high expectations that we had on introducing it. We put the book in all the departments of our school above the primary, and we find that the fourth year pupils are able to handle the work without difficulty and with most positive advantage. My teachers in the junior and intermediate departments report more satisfactory work in spelling than has attended the use of any other work; and what is of still greater importance, we observe that the pupils are beginning to reach out for meanings in words, where before they were apt to be satisfied with mere outside forms. Although the book has been in use but a short time, the beginnings of the formation of a most important habit are already clearly noticeable. One very important result of the introduction of What Words Say,' is that teachers as I have been a teacher well as pupils are of necessity driven to a more intelligent study of language and a student of languages for years, but I cannot take up this book without finding something interesting about the most familiar words which had previously escaped my notice. To me this book has been a new revelation, and I predict that its influence on general education will be greater and better than that of any other book that has been published for years. Respectfully yours, CHAS, F. WHEELOCK, Principal of Union School, Canajoharie, N, Y. "WHAT WORDS SAY" is a book of 176 pages, beautifully printed on fine, strong paper, and containing 200 lessons. It is handsomely bound in cloth, and is a real gem among text-books. Its price, 35 cents, makes it the cheapest book in the market. If you do not find it at your bookseller's, the publishers will mail it to you post paid, on receipt of price; or it may be obtained at the office of the SCHOOL JOURNAL Prices for introduction in schools will be made known upon application to the publishers. KENNEDY & CO., Publishers, 38 PARK ROW, (ROOM 5,) NEW YORK. A PAPER READ BEFORE THE SIGMA XI SOCIETY, AT CORNELL In taking up the treatment of the subject which we have placed upon our programme for discussion this evening, I have been guided by the following views, and have arranged the matter I desire to present to you accordingly. I have assumed that the first object of education is to fit man to take his place among his fellow men as a man; the second to fit him to take his place among the foremost scholars in the science or profession he may have chosen. We can therefore readily see, that we must immediately distinguish between "general" or "preparatory" education, common to all desirous of pursuing higher scientific and professional studies, and between "specific" or "higher education" in the line of chosen profession. With a consideration of the education necessary for attaining the first object of education we intend to occupy our time this evening. It will therefore be in order before offering any suggestions of our own, to see what has been, and what is to-day the practice on that point in countries older than our own, and with a better crystallized system of education. In view of the fact that both French and |