forms the concluding part of the present work. So many of them are to be prescribed for a lesson, as the learner is thought capable of committing to memory; and after they have all been carefully learned in this manner, so much of the lesson of the day may be pointed out as an exercise in spelling, as is sufficient to be learned at one time. The author may here remark, in conclusion, that in the division of words into syllables, he was not guided by the usual rules laid down by those who have written on the subject; but that he always chose the method that seemed to him most easy for the child to make out the word. END OF THE FOURTH BOOK. Printed by Oliver & Boyd, |