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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 421
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Syllabic Heading Lessons. By Joseph Myer...
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... Maitre Jpierre. Par Edmond About. A ...
matted among the sand , hold It together and effectually turn tlie moving * mass into solid land . Hereas we saidthe first Napoleon ,
helped the Landais against themselves , . M . , Brernontier , of the "highways and bridges / ' began planting a little earlier than
1800 ; the Landais laughed at him , often made charcoal of his lantations ; but Napoleon took the planting into his own hands ,
reserving p the produce for payment ; and so well has the experiment succeeded that the Government _" sand-hills" alone , utterly-worthless
before , were in 1844 valued at over forty millions of francs . Here is something for us at home : on parts of the Cornish coast and in
Glamorgan the sand is gaining upon the tilled ground . They have been planting extensively here and there in Walesbut why not
, still more ? Why not in Cornwall , too ? Why have we lost villages like Peranzabulon ? We have not yet come to the end of our
improvements in England : by and by land will be so valuable that it will be "worth our while to find out some effectual plan for keeping
the coast at Cromer and north of the Humber from gradually mouldering Into the sea . But the chief good which we get from
reading " Maitre Pierre" and such like books is , first , to have faith in the earth : it has been well said " old earth ?—No : young earth ;"
plenty to be done with it , even in the most seemingly worn-out countries ; we know something about these Landes for 2000 years
at least , yet till yesterday they were in pretty much the state in which Japhet might have seen them ; next , to respect the great
French nationto feel that the definition Is at least incomplete which calls the , m frivolous and thoughtless , to feel that they too are
working forward steadily , and that if they have borrowed from us such words as iele _drainage" & cthey have also reproduced the
, reality which those words represent . We have had enough of fihting in the Old Worldat any rate : it is hard to do away with
rooted g prejudices , and the , French will long have mauvais sujets among them who will cry as an old Norman farmer did to me this
summer , "Oh , a war every now and then is good ; get donne du mouvementl" but there will gradually be fewer and fewer if Maitre
Pierre can but succeed in making them set earnestly to work to
develop the still-unsuspected resources of their country .
Notices Of Books. 421
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 421
Syllabic Heading Lessons. By Joseph Myer...
Syllabic Heading Lessons . By Joseph Myers , 144 , Xeadenhall Street .
The most difficult task the human mind has to achieve is that of connecting signs with sounds—i , e ., learning to read . Of the various
methods adopted , none has proved its efficiency so thoroughly as a simple course of twenty-six printed sheets , arranged from the
simplest sounds to the most difficult combinations . The prefatory remarks tell us " Teaching by sound has been proved by experience
to be the easiest , and quickest , as well as the most thorough , method
of enabling children to read and spell correctly . With this view these
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 421, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/61/
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