LUCIEN OUDIN, A.M

Instructor of the French Language, N. Y. Fret Academy.

I hâve used " Otto's German Grammar." I consider it a very good book ; its abundant vocabularies, and its fuiness in idioms, are especialiy useful. The appendix, also, is very valuable, containing, as it does, some of the most popular and cliaracteristic German Poems which may be turned to niany uses.

Feu. 1, lb65. ADOLPH WERNER,

Prof essor of German ^ New- York Fret Academy

Washington University, St. Louis, Jan. 2, 1865. Mr. S. R. Urbino.

Dear Sir — It gives me great pleasure to inform you that I hâve introduced your édition of " Otto's German Grammar " in n»y classes in tbis University, and that I regard it as the very best German Grammar. for school purposes, that has thus far corne to my notice. Your German éditions of the " Iminensee," " Vergissuieinnieht," and " Irriichter," a»*e gréa* favorites among my pupils; and your "Collège Séries of Modem French Plays," edited by Mr. Ferdinand Bôcher of Harvard Collège, I regard as very useîul foi the recitation room, and for priva te reacling. Yours very truly,

B. L. TAFEL, Ph. D-

Frof essor of Modem Languages and Comparative i,.,\^sy m Washington

Dictation Exercises. By E. M. Sewell, author of " Amy Herbert," and by L. B. Urbino. Boston : S. R. Urbino. " We are already deeply indebted to Miss Sewell, and this little book adds one item more to the list of valuable books which slie lias furnished to us and our children. Tins is emphatically a schoolbook with a soûl in it, and we think nothing can exeeed the ski 11 ctnd ingenuity with which thèse exercises are drawn up. No tvacher can glance at it without at once perceiving its importance ro him; and in our opinion, in the teaching and spelling, it bas ijot its equai. * — Transcnpt.

Dictation Exercises. Bv E. M. Sewell and L. B. Urbino.

(pp. 174.) Boston: S. R. Urbino.

" Bad spelling is so coinmon, in spite of ail our schools, that it is worth the whiie even of an accomplished writer like the author of * Amy Herbert" to prépare a good spelling-book ; for such is tlie volume before us.

" It is arranged, however, on a plan so novel, in English, as to deserve spécial attention. The words are arranged in continuous, though rather ccmical, sentences, which are to be written down, from dictation, by the learner. The iessons are progressive, and cannot fail to interest more than the old columns of disconneeted words. It is well printed by Mr. Urbino." — Commonwealth.

If a child of average capacity, that bas been drilled in an ordinary speUing-book, and then subjected to a course of Iessons in this book of Dictation Exercises, cannot spell correctly the words of the ianguage, it would prove, vvhat I do not believe, that correct spelling cannot be attained by ail pupils, by seasonable study and MU. I believe that every public and private school in America would be greatly benefited by using this valuable treatise.