.

.

27

.

.

.

25

.

15

ecapitulation.

143

nd Ad-

PAGE

VIII. Demonstrative Adjec

tives and Pronouns

IX. The Plural of Nouns. 59

X. Plurals of Pronouns

XI. Agreement of Adjec-

tives-Feminine of Adjec-

tives . . . . 78

XII. Agreement of Adjec-

tives--Plural of Adjectives 86

XIIJ. Place of the Adjec-

tives-Relative Pronoun

En

. . . 86

XIV. Plan of the Exercises

in Composing French-

List of Words for Exer-

cises in Composing-106, 115,

131, 147, 174

XV., XVI. Comparison of

Adjectives, etc. 107, 115

XVII. Adverbs of Quan.

tity, etc. . . . 116

XVIII. The Relative Pro-

noun-Cardinal and Or.

dinal Numbers, etc. . 132

XIX. The Verbs Avoir and

Etre in reference to Time,

Quantity, etc. . . . 148

XX. The four Conjugations

of Verbs . . . 175

XXI. Idioms followed by

the Preposition De 182

XXII. Stems and Termina-

tions of the Regular Verbs

--Present Indicative . 183

XXIII. Irregular Verbs :

thei: Present Indicative. 206

XXIV. Interrogative Form

of Present Indicative . 215

XXV. Idiomatic Uses of

Verbs .

XXVI. Place of the Pro-

nouns. ..mi

XXVII. Respective Place of

the Fronouns

XXVIII., XXIX. Use of the

Article . . . 271, 276

XXX. Relative Pronouns · 294

XXXI. Idiomatic Uses of

Mettre, etc. . . . 294

XXXII. Unipersonal Verbs 315

XXXIII. Place of the Ad.

verbs . . . . 315

XXXIV. The Indefinite Pro:

noun On, etc.

XXXV. Reflective Verbs. 332

XXXVI. Reflective Pro-

nouns .

XXXVII., XXXVIII. Uses

of some Reflective Verbs

334, 342

XXXIX, Reflective Verbs

Conjugated with En 355

XL. The Past Indefinite . 356

XLI. The Past Participle . 370

XLII. Use of the Auxiliaries 371

XLIII. Idiomatic Expres.

sions . .

372

XLIV. Uses of Reflective

and Unipersonal Verbs. 394

XLV. The Passive Verb. 404

XLVI. Idiomatic Expres.

sions . . . . 405

XLVII. Unipersonal Verbs

and their Uses . . 406

GEOGRAPHY, LESSONS IN:

Early Notions: the Geogra.

phy of the Scriptures . 3

Notions of the Poets. . 40

Notions of the Greeks and

Romans

Arabian Notions-European

Travels – Discovery of

America

. 100

The Geographical Discove.

ries of the Sixteenth and

Seventeenth Centuries, 140

PAGE

PAGE

PAGE

Discoveries of Eighteenth HISTORIC SKETCHES.

MUSIC, LESSONS IN :

Century

Magna Charta.

Introduction - First Prin.

Discoveries of Eighteenth

Thomas à Becket and the

ciples of Music .

and Nineteenth centuries 193!

Constitutions of Claren

The Monochord-Notes of

Discoveries of the Nine-

don .

the Scale-Great Tone,

.

. 49

. .

teenth Century,236, 271,292, 364

Sir Richard Grenville,

Small Tone, Tonule, etc. 90

Explorations and Discove-

when he cried "No Sar-

The Tetrachords-The Mo-

ries in Africa, 1838–1868 . 389

render". .

dulator, or Pointing

GEOMETRY, LESSONS IN: Charles I., when the Com-

Board-Binary, Trinary,

Introduction

Quaternary, and Senary

. .

mons cried “Privilege". 120

. 29

The Rising of the Labourers

Measures, etc .

Definitions

. 145

under Richard II.. 157

Instruments used in Prac-

Exercises in the Measures. 211

tical Geometry

The Metronome - Beating

.

William Sautré, Heretic

95, 113

177

Simple Geometrical Theo-

King Charles's

Time-Notation of the

Veto on

rems

Relative Length of Notes

. . .

Emigration

. 156

.

The Gordon Riots

Problems in Practical Geo-

-Notation of Slurs, Re-

The Bloody Assize

peats, and Expressions-

metry - 156, 191, 209, 255,

The Standard Scale

The Knights Templars, or

287, 308, 337, 384, 411.

Red Cross Knights . . 311 The Management of the

GERMAN, LESSONS IN :

Simon de Montfort and the

Voice, etc. .

Introduction

First English Parliament 350 Questions and Tests of Pro-

I. German Alphabet . . 26 The Protector of the Com-

gress . . . 403

II. Sounds of the German

monwealth . . . 372 | OUR HOLIDAY :

Letters . .

26 How a London Jury a true

La Crosse, the National

III. German Handwriting.

Verdict gave, according

Game of Canada

IV. The Article and the

to the Evidence

409

Football

. 111

Verb

Hockey

207

.

V. The Noun: Ola Declen: LATIN, LESSONS IN:

Cricket

367, 398

sion

Introduction

Laws of Double Wicket. 398

VI. Demonstrative . Pro:

Pronunciation of Latin

Laws of Single Wicket . 399

nouns.

Preliminary Instructions in Gymnastics.

VII. Conjugation

the Verbs . .

The Bag and Ring Exer.

Present Singular of Gehen

First Conjugation .

cises.

47

and Geben . . .

62

Second Conjugation

Wand Exercises

VIII. Indefinite Article

Third Conjugation.

The Dumb Bells

IX. Declension of Adjec-

Fourth Conjugation

Indian Clubs,

tives-Old and New De.

Jumping and Leaping .

clensions ,

Nouns, Substantive and Ad-

The High Leap . .

143

X. Declension of Adjectives

jective .

The Long Leap . .

144

-Mixed Declensions : 67

Noups - Concord of Sub-

Leaping with the Pole . 144

XI. Formation of Adjectives

stantive and Adjective-

The Horizontal Bar . 175

denoting Material . 94

Cases of Nouns-Case-

The Parallel Bars, 239

XII. The Feminine Gender

endings . .

. 142 The Vaulting Horse 303

of Articles-Nouns, Ad-

The First Declension. . 166

jectives, etc. . . . 94

PENMANSHIP, LESSONS IN-

The Second Declension 202

XIII. Nouns of the New

11, 21, 36, 60, 68, 93, 109, 117,

The Third Declension 230,

Declension

149, 133, 173, 181, 196, 221,

262, 298

XIV. Absolute Possessives,

The Fourth Declension

229, 244, 261, 267, 301, 317,

330

etc. .

103

The Fifth Declension.

325, 349, 357, 380, 397, 407.

XV. The Plural Number of

. 358

Degrees of Comparison . 388 | READING AND ELOCUTION :

Articles, Nouns, Adjec

tives, etc.

118

Punctuation-

The Key to the Exercises giren

XVI. Use of the Definite

in any Lesson in Latin will be

Characters employed in

found at the end of the next

Writing and Printing.

Article : Proper Names,

30

The Period-The Note of

etc., etc. . . . 134 Lesson.

Interrogation - The

XVII. Personal Pronouns,

MECHANICS :

Verbs of the New Conju.

Note of Exclamation . 51

The Comma. .

gation, etc.

. 82

.

Force: its Direction, Mag.

. . 150

The Semicolon . . 122

XVIII. Difference between

nitude, and Application. 17 |

The Parenthesis, Crochets

Verbs of the Old and New
Unit of Force-Forces ap-

and Brackets - The

Conjugations . . .

162 plied to a Point

Dash .

XIX. Demonstrative and

. . . 154

Forces applied to a Single

The Dash (continued)
Substantive Pronouns.
Point- Parallelogram of

The Hyphen - The

XX. Possessive Pronouns. 179 Forces . . . .

XXI. Relative Pronouns. 180

Ellipsis

Twisted Polygon - Forces

. . . 190

The Apostrophe – The
XXII. The Verb To be, etc. 197 applied to Two Points-
XXIII. Various Idioms 197 Two Parallel Forces

Quotation Mark--The
123

Diæresis—The Asterisk,
XXIV. Conjugation of Verbs 210! Parallel Forces-The Centre

Obelisk, Double Obe.

XXV. The Infinitive, etc. . 238 of Gravity . . .

187

XXVI.-XXVIII. Separate

Finding Centres of Gravity 219

lisk, Section, Parallel,

Particles . 239, 245, 246

Paragraph, Index, Ca-

Axis of Symmetry-Stable
XXIX. Position of the Verb,
and Unstable Equilibrium

ret, Breve, and Brace . 218

Analysis of the Voice-

etc. .

- Introduction to the

Quality of the Voice 242

XXX. Comparison of Adjec

Mechanical Powers .

Due Quantity or Lond-

tives

The Three Orders of Levers

ness-Distinct Articu-

XXXI. Inseparable Particles 292 - The Common Balance . 283

XXXII. Various Idioms . 282 The Steelyard . . . 343

lation – Correct Pro-

nunciation. .

XXXIII.-XXXV. Peculiari.

To Graduate a Steelyard 344

. 285

True Time- Appropriate
ties in Verbs, etc. . 302, 310 The Danish Balance-The

Panses

XXXVI. Impersonal Verbs 310

.

Bent Lever Balance . 344

Right Emphasis . . 339
XXXVII, XXXVIII. Reflec-

Further Properties of the
tive Verbs .
Parallelogram

Correct Inflection . 378, 406

and Tri.

XXXIX. - XLI. Peculiar

angle . . .

3451

RECREATIVE NATURAL HIS-

Idioms. . 324, 346, 382 The Wheel and Axle.

TORY:
XLII. Subjunctive Mood · 382 The Compound Wheel and

The Snail

269
XLIII. Idiomatic Phrases. 402 Axle . . .

The Mole.

.

:

:

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VIII. Demonstrative Adjec Discoveries of Eighteenth HISTORIC SKETCHES. MUSIC, LESSONS IN:

tives and Pronouns

Century

. 167

Magna Charta .

Introduction - First Prin.

IX, The Plural of Nouns. 59 Discoveries of Eighteenth

Thomas à Becket and the

ciples of Music

X. Plurals of Pronouns

and Nineteenth Centuries 193

Constitutions of Claren-

The Monochord-Notes of

XI. Agreement of Adjec-

Discoveries of the Nine-

don .

the Scale-Great Tone,

. .

49

.

tives-Feminine of Adjec-

teenth Century,236, 271,292, 364

Sir Richard Grenville,

Small Tone, Tonule, etc.

tives .

Explorations and Discove-

when he cried “No Sur-

The Tetrachords-The Mo-

XII. Agreement of Adjec-

ries in Africa, 1838-1868. 389

render". . . . 87 dulator, or Pointing
tives-Plural of Adjectives 86 GEOMETRY, LESSONS IN: Charles I., when the Com-

Board-Binary, Trinary,
XIIJ. Place of the Adjec-

mons cried “Privilege", 120 Quaternary, and Senary

Introduction

tives-Relative Pronoun

Measures, etc .
The Rising of the Labourers
Definitions

. 145
29, 52

En . .

Instruments used in Prac.

under Richard II. .

Exercises in the Measures. 211

. 157

XIV. Plan of the Exercises

The Metronome - Beating

tical Geometry .

William Sautré, Heretic

95, 113

. 177

in Composing French-

King

Simple Geometrical Theo.

Charles's Veto on

Time-Notation of the

List of Words for Exer-

rems .

Relative Length of Notes

.

Emigration

cises in Composing--106, 115,

.

.

. 156

. .
Problems in Practical Geo The Gordon Riots .

-Notation of Slurs, Re-

.
131, 147, 174

The Bloody Assize
metry— 156, 191, 209, 255,

.

peats, and Expressiong-

278

XV., XVI. Comparison of

The Knights Templars, or

The Standard Scale 273

Adjectives, etc.

287, 308, 337, 384, 411.

107, 115

Red Cross Knights . . 311

The Management of the
XVII. Adverbs of Quan GERMAN, LESSONS IN : Simon de Montfort and the

Voice, etc. :
tity, etc. . . . Introduction . . . 25 First English Parliament 350

Questions and Tests of Pro.
XVIII. The Relative Pro I. German Alphabet . . 26 The Protector of the Com-

gr688 . . . 403

noun-Cardinal and Or.

II. Sounds of the German

monwealth . . . 372 OUR HOLIDAY:

dinal Numbers, etc. . 1

Letters . . . . How a London Jury a true

XIX. The Verbs Avoir and

La Crosse, the National

III. German Handwriting

Verdict gave, according

Etre in reference to Time,

Game of Canada

15

IV. The Article and the

to the Evidence

Football

111
Quantity, etc. . . . 148 Verb .

Hockey

207

XX. The four Conjugations

V. The Noun: Ola Declen. LATIN, LESSONS IN:

of Verbs

Cricket

398

sion .

61

Introduction

XXI. Idioms followed by

Laws of Double Wicket. 398

VI. Demonstrative Pro-

: 182

the Preposition De

Pronunciation of Latin . 14 Laws of Single Wicket , 399

nouns.

Preliminary Instructions in

XXII. Stems and Termina-

Gymnastics.

VII. Conjugation of the

tions of the Regular Verbs

the Verbs . 38, 70 The Bag and Ring Exer.

Present Singularof Gehen

First Conjugation,

-Present Indicative . 183

ciscs . .

and Geben .

XXIII. Irregular

Wand Exercises

Verbs :

Second Conjugation

VIII. Indefinite Article . 66

Third Conjugation.

thei: Present Indicative. 2

The Dumb Bells

IX. Declension of Adjec.

XXIV. Interrogative Form

Fourth Conjugation .

Indian Clubs

tives—Old and New De.

Recapitulation

of Present Indicative . 215

Jumping and Leaping

clensions :

XXV. Idiomatic Uses of

The High Leap

Nouns, Substantive and Ad-

.

X. Declension of Adjectives

. 143

jective

Verbs .

98

. .

The Long Leap

2

, 144

-Mixed Declensions :

XXVI. Place of the Pro-

Nouns - Concord of Sub-

Leaping with the Pole . 144

XI. Formation of Adjectives

The Horizontal Bar

stantive and Adjective-

175

nouns.

. 251

denoting Material .

Cases of Nouns-Case.

XXVII. Respective Place of

The Parallel Bars. 239

XII. The Feminine Gender

the Fronouns

.252

endings . . . . 142 The Vaulting Horse 303

of Articles-Nouns, Ad-

The First Declension. . 166

XXVIII., XXIX. Use of the

jectives, etc. . . . 94

The Second Declension

PENMANSHIP, LESSONS IN-

Article . . . 271, 276

202

XIII. Nouns of the New

11, 21, 36, 60, 68, 93, 109, 117,
The Third Declension

230,

XXX. Relative Pronouns • 294

Declension . . .

149, 133, 173, 181, 196, 221,

XXXI. Idiomatic Uses of

262, 298

XIV. Absolute Possessives,

The Fourth Declension

229, 244, 261, 267, 301, 317,

Mettre, etc. . . . 294

330

eto. .
The Fifth Declension,

325, 349, 357, 380, 397, 407.
XXXII. Unipersonal Verbs 315 XV. The Plural Number of

358

Degrees of Comparison

XXXIII, Place of the Ad.

READING AND ELOCUTION:

. 388
Articles, Nouns, Adjece

verbs .

. .315

Punctuation-

tives, etc.

118 .The Key to the Exercises giren

XXXIV, The Indefinite Pro

XVI. Use of the Definite

in any Lesson in Latin will be

Characters employed in

noun On, etc. . . 316 Article : Proper Names,

found at the end of the next

Writing and Printing. 30

XXXV. Reflective Verbs. 332

etc., etc.

The Period–The Note of

Lesson.

XXXVI, Reflective Pro-

Interrogation - The

XVII. Personal Pronouns,

nouns.

Note of Exclamation. 51

Verbs of the New Conju.

MECHANICS:

XXXVII., XXXVIII. Uses

The Comma . .

gation, etc.

. 82

Force: its Direction, Mag-
. . . 150

.

of some Reflective Verbs

. 122

The Semicolon
XVIII. Difference between

pitude, and Application. 17
334, 342

The Parenthesie, Crochets
Verbs of the Old and New Unit of Force-Forces ap-

XXXIX, Reflective Verbs

and Brackets - The

Conjugations . .

plied to a Point . .

Conjugated with En 355

Dash. . . .154

XIX. Demonstrative and Forces applied to a Single

XL, The Past Indefinite . 356

The Dash (continued)

Substantive Pronouns • 163 Point-Parallelogram of

XLI. The Past Participle , 370

Forces.

The

XX. Possessive Pronouns. 179

Hyphen - The

. . . 83

XLII. Use of the Auxiliaries 371

180 Twisted Polygon - Forces

Ellipsis .

XXI. Relative Pronouns

. . 190
XLIII. Idiomatic Expres.

The Apostrophe - The
XXII. The Verb To be, etc. 197 applied to Two Points-

sions . . . . 372

Quotation Mark-The

XXIII. Various Idioms . 197 Two Parallel Forces 123

XLIV. Uses of Reflective

Diæresis-The Asterisk,

XXIV. Conjugation of Verbs 210 Parallel Forces—The Centre

and Unipersonal Verbs. 394

Obelisk, Double Obe.

XXV. The Infinitive, etc.. 238 of Gravity . . . 187

XLV. The Passive Verb. 404

XXVI.-XXVIII. Separnte

Finding Centres of Gravity 219

lisk, Section, Parallel,

XLVI. Idiomatic Expres.

Particles 239, 245, 246

Paragraph, Index, Ca-

Axis of Symmetry-Stable

sions .

ret, Breve, and Brace . 218

. .

XXIX. Position of the Verb,

and Unstable Equilibrium

XLVII. Unipersonal Verbs

Analysis of the Voice

etc. .

**? 259

.

- Introduction to the

and their Uses . . 406 XXX. Comparison of Adjec-

Quality of the Voice 242

Mechanical Powers .

248

GEOGRAPHY, LESSONS IN:

259

.259

Due Quantity or Lond-

The Three Orders of Levers
Early Notions: the Geogra-

ness-Distinct Articu.
XXXI. Inseparable Particles 282 -The Common Balance . 283

lation - Correct Pro-

phy of the Scriptures . 3 XXXII. Various Idioms . 282 The Steelyard . . . 343

XXXIII.-XXXV. Peculiari-

nunciation .

Notions of the Poets.

To Graduate à Steelyard 344

.

. 40

. 283

True Time-Appropriate
Notions of the Greeks and

ties in Verbs, etc. . 302, 310 The Danish Balance-The

, 75

Bent Lever Balance

Pauses

Romans

344

. .

XXXVI. Impersonal Verbs 310

. 306

Right Emphasis . . 339

Arabian Notions-European

XXXVII, XXXVIII. Reflec-

Further Properties of the

Travels - Discovery

tive Verbs

of

: ... 323

Parallelogram

Correct Inflection . 378, 406

and Tri.

America

XXXIX. -- XLI. Peculiar

angle . . .

. 345 RECREATIVE NATURAL HIS.

The Geographical Discove-

Idioms. . 324, 346, 382 The Wheel and Axle.

TORY:

ries of the Sixteenth and XLII. Subjunctive Mood · 382 The Compound Wheel and

The Snail.

Seventeenth centuries . 140 XLIII. Idiomatic Phrases. 402 | Axle . . . . 346' The Mole . . . . 334

. 103

Somero:

134

tires

:

in particles 292

100