and its Nerves
Vertical Section of Head of
Porpoise-Vertical Sec-
tion of Rabbit's Head-
Under-side of Head of
Spotted Dogfish-Nasal
Sac of Sturgeon
Human Tongue-Tongue of
Chimpanzee-Circumval-
late Papilla-Fungiform
Papilla-Filiform Papillæ 289
Tongue of a Cat-Filiform
Papillæ of a Leopard-
Tongue of a Fieldfare-
Tongue of an Ostrich-
Tongue of a Chameleon.
Section of Hairless Skin-
Section of Hairy Skin-
Tip of the Forefinger 353
Organs of Touch of Ver-
tebrata, Mollusca, Arti-
culata, Coelenterata, and
Protozoa
ARCHITECTURE, LESSONS IN:
Introduction
319
Anti
Prefixes: Apo to Dun.
Derivation-Prefixes: E to
163
XX. Possessive Pronouns. 179
XXI. Relative Pronouns 180
XXII. The Verb To be, etc. 197
XXIII. Various Idioms
. 197
XXIV. Conjugation of Verbs 210
XXV. The Infinitive, etc. 238
XXVI-XXVIII. Separate
Particles
239, 245, 246
XXIX. Position of the Verb,
etc.
XXX. Comparison of Adjec-
tives
XXXI. Inseparable Particles 282
XXXII. Various Idioms 282
XXXIII.-XXXV. Peculiari-
ties in Verbs, etc. 302, 310
XXXVI. Impersonal Verbs 310
XXXVII, XXXVIII, Reflec-
tive Verbs
XXXIX. XLI. Peculiar
Idioms
324, 346, 382
XLII. Subjunctive Mood 382
XLIII. Idiomatic Phrases. 402
PENMANSHIP, LESSONS IN-
11, 21, 36, 60, 68, 93, 109, 117,
149, 133, 173, 181, 196, 221,
229, 244, 261, 267, 301, 317,
325, 349, 357, 380, 397, 407.
READING AND ELOCUTION:
Punctuation-
Characters employed in
Writing and Printing.
The Period-The Note of
Interrogation
Note of Exclamation.
The Comma
Ar no period in the history of our country was it less
necessary to offer an apology for introducing a national
work on Education than at the present time. So keen is
the competitive spirit of the age, that the advantage of
knowledge in the struggle for advancement is apparent
to all. The mighty power of steam applied to railways
and vessels has developed national and international com-
munication to a degree not dreamt of at the commence-
ment of the century. Telegraphy presents to our view
the daily contemporaneous history of the world; and the
Press, relieved from those shackles which impeded its
action and fettered its influence, has become a powerful
medium for the communication of thought between the
leading minds of the age. In the political condition of our
own country a change has been wrought, the consequences
of which the boldest prophet avows his inability to predict,
but which all parties agree will be fraught with good or
evil, according to the degree in which the new recipients
of power may be possessed of the knowledge to use that
power aright. The necessity of Education, therefore,
which was fiercely combated when this work first saw
the light, is now universally admitted, and the mode
and the system alone remain to be discussed. So patent
is this, that the illustrious chief of the Conservative
Party has been pleased to accept the dedication of this
work to himself. Gratifying as is this complimentary
recognition of the services which the original edition of
the POPULAR EDUCATOR has rendered in the promotion
of National Education, we feel that the basis of our
present claim upon the co-operation of all the friends of
that great movement consists in this-that our system
has been tested, its efficiency has been proved, whilst a
sale of 500,000 copies has testified, on the part of those
for whom it was designed, their appreciation of the work
and their estimate of its value.
But some twenty years have elapsed since the POPULAR
EDUCATOR first issued from the press, and during that
period considerable advances have been made in many of
the departments of knowledge. To perfect the work in
accordance with all the discoveries up to the present
day, we have found it necessary to introduce many new
subjects, and to re-model many of our old lessons, and
we shall spare no expense in making these changes as
complete as possible. To amuse, to instruct, to elevate,
will be our constant endeavour. To render the work-
man more perfect in his vocation, the soldier and sailor
better fitted for the higher positions of his profession,
the naturalist more conversant with the beauties of
Nature, the politician further acquainted with the im-
portant events in the history of his country, and to
place at the command of the student for the Civil Ser-
vice or University Examinations all the branches of
education necessary for his advancement, no effort
will be wanting. Our ambition is to place in every
English Home an Educational Encyclopædia, invaluable
as a manual of study and a work of reference, which,
whilst simple, progressive, and interesting in its style,
shall be powerful for the improvement and the advance-
ment of its students.
In the three great departments of knowledge which
this Work will embrace-History, Science, and Lan-
guages-the end of such instruction, viz., its practical
application to the affairs of life, will be kept steadily in
view. Science will be taught not merely as abstract
truth or an interesting intellectual exercise, but as
embodying in all its branches those principles, a know-
ledge of which will explain the various phenomena of
the world, and enable us to avail ourselves more
intelligently, and therefore more successfully, of all the
varied material with which Nature has supplied us.
Instruction in Languages-whether living or dead-
will be so conveyed as to enable the student not only to
understand a given set of books in any particular tongue,
but to make him master of the language itself by
gradual and easy, but yet real and tangible stages.
The Historic Sketches, by means of which we shall
teach History, will, we hope, render that study no longer
a mere record of battles, an obituary of kings, a mighty
chaos of incident; but will illustrate how each nation has
discharged its functions in the world's history-how each
epoch has played its part in the drama of a nation's life.
A reference to our list of contents will show that under
various heads will be included every branch of study
which can possibly be useful in the varied walks of life.
The great aim and object of this Work is to enable
the people to educate themselves. We have only to ask
them to realise the magnitude and grandeur of the work
in which they will be engaged if they determine to do
Obstacles will be overcome by united resolution.
Every difficulty surmounted will be additional strength
for further victories. A good education is the best
legacy we can leave to our children. It is the best
investment we can make for ourselves. The educated
man in every walk of life carries with him his own
capital-a capital unaffected by monetary crisis-an
investment whose interest is not regulated by the
success of speculation-a legacy which none can dispute,
and of which none can deprive.
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