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APPROVED SCHOOL-BOOKS

By the Rev. JOHN HUNTER, M.A.

SELECT PLAYS of SHAKESPEARE, with Explanatory

and Illustrative Notes, Critical Remarks, and other Aids to a thorough understanding of each drama. Edited for the use of Schools and Pupils preparing for Examination.. ........12mo. price ONE SHILLING each Play. notes are clear and copious, and never obvious. The series will be of great service to all the classes for whom it is intended; and even to those readers and students who may only desire to peruse the works of our great dramatist with the advantage of a clear and steady light thrown upon the many corrupt, doubtful, and obscure passages which, having originated in the negligence and incapacity of the old printers, still disfigure the text of SHAKESPEARE's plays.' BIRMINGHAM GAZETTE.

'Each of these plays is a separate publication, and all are equally well adapted for scholastic or private study, and for those qualifying for the University Examinations. They are of a handy size, and are well and clearly printed. The introductory remarks give in a condensed form all the ascertained information as to the period when the play was produced, the time the action covers in the historical dramas, the conduct of the plot in the comedies and tragedies, and the historical or other facts to which allusion or reference is made by the characters. The

EXAMINATION-QUESTIONS

on the FIRST

TWO

BOOKS of MILTON'S PARADISE LOST, and on SHAKESPEARE'S MERCHANT of VENICE, for the use of Middle-Class Candidates ............12mo. 18. MILTON'S SAMSON AGONISTES and LYCIDAS; with Notes explaining peculiarities of Grammar, Diction, &c. For the use of Students and Candidates for Examination ..12mo. price 18. 6d.

MILTON'S COMUS, L'ALLEGRO, and IL PENSEROSO, with numerous Notes, Critical, Illustrative, and Explanatory: adapted for use in Training Colleges and Schools .....12mo. 1s. 6d. BOOKS I. to V. of MILTON'S PARADISE LOST; with

a Prose Translation or Paraphrase, the Parsing of the more Difficult Words, Specimens of Analysis, and numerous Illustrative Notes for the use of Candidates. Books I. and II. 18. 6d. each; Books III. IV. and V. price 18. each.

'The student of MILTON will be greatly assisted by this admirable annotated edition of the earlier books of Paradise Lost, which is well adapted for use in training colleges and schools, and is specially designed to prepare candidates for the University Middleclass Examinations. Many of the obscure passages found in this great work are ren

dered thoroughly intelligible in the plain
and sensible paraphrase printed in juxta-
position with the text; and a variety of
information, critical and exegetical, is given
in the notes. The books are well printed on
good paper, very portable, and easily con-
sulted.'
CIVIL SERVICE GAZETTE.

SPENSER'S FAIRY QUEEN; the First Six Cantos of Book I. Unabridged and in the Old Spelling. With Explanatory and Illustrative Notes, including frequent Directions for Grammatical Analysis, &c. ......12mo. 2s. JOHNSON'S RASSELAS, with Introductory Remarks, Explanatory and Grammatical Annotations, Specimens of Interrogative Lessons, Answers to Examination-Questions, &c. New Edition, revised ......12mo. 2s. 6d.

EXERCISES in ENGLISH PARSING, Progressively

arranged and adapted to the Author's Text-Book of English Grammar; with Questions suggesting a Course of Oral Instruction .... .12mo. 6d. PARAPHRASING and ANALYSIS of SENTENCES, simplified for the use of Schools, forming a Manual of Instruction and Exercise for the use of Students, Teachers, &c.. .........12mo. 18. 3d.-KEY, 18. 3d.

SCHOOL MANUAL of LETTER-WRITING: Containing numerous Models of Letters on Commercial and other Subjects; with Exercises in Epistolary Composition, Rules of Punctuation, Explanations of Abbreviated Titles, Commercial Terms, &c. Revised Edition ......12mo. 18. 6d. INTRODUCTION to the WRITING of PRECIS or DIGESTS, as applicable to Narratives of Facts or Historical Events, Correspondence, Evidence, Official Documents, and General Composition; with numerous Examples and Exercises. Revised Edition ..12mo. 28.-KEY, 18.

BACON'S ADVANCEMENT of LEARNING, Annotated Summary of Books I. and II. with numerous Extracts from the Work and Specimens of Examination-Questions.....

......12mo. 28

London: LONGMANS and CO.

By the Rev. JOHN HUNTER, M.A.

EXERCISES in the. FIRST FOUR RULES of ARITHMETIC, constructed for the Application of New Artificial Tests, by which the Teacher may expeditiously ascertain the Correctness of the Results. Third Edition... .12mo. 6d.

SOLUTIONS of QUESTIONS in ARITHMETIC and BOOKKEEPING used in the Civil Service Examinations of 1862, and published in the Appendix to the Eighth Report of the Commissioners: with a SUPPLEMENT containing Examples in Account-States, &c. ...12mo. 18. 6d. MODERN ARITHMETIC: a Treatise adapted for School

Work and for Private Study; containing numerous improvements in aid of the Preparation of Candidates for Public Examinations. 12mo. 3s. 6d.-KEY, price 58. MERCANTILE EXERCISES in ADDITION of MONEY and in the CALCULATION of PER-CENTAGES; including numerous Examples of a General and Simple Method of treating Per-Centage Problems, with Answers to the Exercises ...12mo. 1s. 3d.

SELF-INSTRUCTION in BOOKKEEPING; a Treatise Explaining Simply, and by numerous Examples, the Principles and Practice of the Single and Double Entry. Adapted to prepare Youths for Commercial Life, or for Public Examinations ...12mo. price 28.

EXAMINATION-QUESTIONS in BOOKKEEPING by

DOUBLE ENTRY, preceded by full Directions for the True Stating of Dr. and Cr.-with the ANSWERS.. ....12mo. 2s. 6d.

.....12mo. 1s.

HUNTER'S EXAMINATION-QUESTIONS and DIRECTIONS, as above, separated from the ANSWERS.. RULED PAPER for the various Forms of Account-Books required in HUNTER'S Examination-Questions in Bookkeeping, 5 sorts, price 18. 6d. per Quire. PROGRESSIVE

EXERCISES in BOOKKEEPING by DOUBLE ENTRY, including Account-States, Partnership Accounts, Private Journal and Ledger, &c. ....... .12mo. 18. 6d.-KEY, price 28. 6d.

An EASY INTRODUCTION to the HIGHER TREATISES on the CONIC SECTIONS

EXAMINATION-QUESTIONS

MENTS of ALGEBRA, PART I.

.12mo. 88. 6d.-KEY, 28. on COLENSO'S ELE.12mo. 2s. 6d

COLENSO and HUNTER'S INTRODUCTORY ALGEBRA; Containing the Chief Rules in the First Part of Colenso's Elements of Algebra, simplified, with Additional Illustrations, and followed by a large Appendix of New Examples arranged in the order of the Rules.........18mo. price 28. 6d.-KEY, 2s. 6d.

A STANDARD ALGEBRA,in accordance with the Regulations of the New Code, 1872, for STANDARDS IV. V. and VI. explaining in simple language the Rudiments of the Science to Simple Equations inclusive.......18mo. 18.-KEY, 18.

ELEMENTS of PLANE TRIGONOMETRY, for Beginners;

with numerous Problems, and Tables of all the Natural Sines, &c. required for the Solution of the Exercises ..18mo. 18.-KEY, 9d.

ELEMENTS of MENSURATION, simplified for the use of

Beginners; with numerous Original Problems and Progressive Exercises. New Edition, Revised and Stereotyped ....18mo. 9d.-KEY, 9d.

TREATISE on LOGARITHMS: with Copious Tables of Selected Logarithms; explaining simply the Nature and Use of Logarithms and Logarithmic Tables, the Principles and Methods of their Construction, and their Application: with numerous Examples and Exercises...............18mo. 18.-KEY, 98,

London: LONGMANS and CO.

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