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The Phenomena of Nature familiarly explained . A book for Parents and Instructors , and especially adapted to Schools . Translated from the German o / Wilhelm v 6 n Turk . Wilson . 1832 . The translator ' s hope is amply warranted , ' that , in producing this useful little work in a new dress , a valuable addition has been made to
the juvenile literature of England . ' For its peculiar purpose , we know of no book so valuable . The author ' s object was * to present actual appearances in the language of children , to enlarge their ideas , to give them clear impressions of the properties belonging to objects in nature , and to teach them the relation between cause and efleet / This is done by a series of dialogues on bodies , and their properties in general : earth and its nature , water and the phenomena pertaining to it , air , fire and heat , light , and celestial bodies , with their phenomena .
The interlocutors are a master and child ; the objects themselves are supposed to be employed , whenever practicable ; and directions are given for a number of simple illustrative experiments , which are presumed to be repeated . The best of teachers , in conducting the best of educations , will find this book one of the best of helps . It is a treasure for the intelligent parent or instructor , who wishes to impart an acquaintance with things and not merely with words , and who would rather exercise the intellect than load the memory .
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The Christian Child ' s Faithful Friend , and Sabbath Companion . Vol . IV . Hunter . 1831 . On the completion of another volume of this penny-a-month periodical , we congratulate the conductors on having persevered in their course of quiet and unassuming usefulness , uninterrupted , though not unassailed , aiming-, in the spirit of their Master , to bless the young . A series of articles , entitled fc Useful Knowledge / particularly deserves commendation .
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Faoilu , Celerat Certa ; or , an Attempt to render the Art of Short hand Writing more easy to be acquired , and of more ready application . London . Taylor . The author seems to us to have accomplished the Facilis and Celera , but we cannot so confidently certify the Certa . All inventors of stenographic systems have been in straits betwixt rapidity and readability * They have been compelled to sacrifice the one or the other , or to con ** tent themselves with both in a lower degree than might have been attained of either . The combination is not essential . Short-hand is
used for two very different purposes , and we have only to select a sya * tern adapted to the purpose for which it is to be employed . Schemed distinguished for the celerity with which they may be written recommend themselves to the reporter , and as his notes are immediately written out for use , subsequent legibility is of little consequence * For memoranda , extracts , journals , &c . » a permanently and easily legible short-hand is to be preferred ; and as one may be noon found Whieh *
together with this quality , moves at what , compared with the pace of ft common running hand , is as the ten-mile-an-hour trot of a well-honed tnailHooach , there is no occasion to regret that it is not tha mikroad rate of a reporter ' s pen . Our author ' s plan leans most towards tha rapidity ; but he has aimed at the combination of both by adopting ? determinate modes of abbreviation , according with tha principle * of the English language /
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Critical Notices . —Education . 215
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1832, page 215, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1808/page/71/
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