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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850,

By D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court & he United States for the Southern District of New York.

TIONAL HINTS FOR TEACHERS.

nt volume differs from Part 3. of the Introduction in two

ins some selections from poetry: inserted rather in ac the views of others, than in consequence of any change xpressed in Part III.: it being still my opinion, deliberately much experience and observation, that poetry is the worst ading to form a flexible and graceful delivery. Its tennonotonous manner is so strong, that even a practised s continually on his guard, will insensibly yield to its d glide into song. Nor is this all: it is an additional the introduction of poetry into our primary school-books, ises, especially poetry of the higher grade, such as comsually most anxious to insert in these books, the most ing to be found in the whole circle of English literature. e passionate and figurative: demanding, on the one hand, ever-varying emotions due utterance, much power and expression, and, on the other, to render its ideas intelligible, knowledge not merely of the primary and fundamental, vative meaning of words; with the sources also and the e imagery; and in short with all those verbal artifices on uch of the elevation and beauty of popular poetry depends. pils in the common schools this perception and command ions, the last and highest attainment of oratory; this exintimate acquaintance with language, the fruit of long and ulture? If not, such reading is manifestly beyond their should be deferred to a more advanced period of their eduen they may have measurably formed their habits of de be able to bring to the exercise somewhat more of innd maturity of judgment.

ed by the importance of these considerations, I earnestly
I to teachers, the propriety of passing the poetical selec-
e made, by, until their class or classes shall have read the
gh at least a half a dozen times; and should they not allow
read at all, I shall have the higher opinion of their capacity
s. This, however, as they may choose.

ead of subjoining to each section, as in Part 3., definitions
of the more difficult words in it, I have, in the main, con-
self with a quotation of those words which in my judgment
efinition: here and there only, inserting an equivalent after
be defined, and more frequently as well as more fully ex
xamples of idiomatic usage. I have adopted this plan,
ause the process of definition, if entered upon at all, should
ed to every word. Words rarely occurri: g may need ex