WARD AND LOCK, 158, FLEET STREET,

    LONDON.

    Messrs. WARD and LOCK have much pleasure in announcing that they have just purchased the Copyrights of many of the Valuable

     Illustrated Educational Works

    lately published from the office of the

     Illustrated London News

    . The New Editions of these Popular Books have been most carefully revised, and in their present state arrive as near perfection as possible. It is the intention of the present proprietors of these Educational Books to continue the Series, and they have already made arrangements to this effect.

    The object of the Publishers is to supply a Series of Illustrated Volumes, adapted both for Schools and Private Study, which shall be accurate and complete text-books,

     and at a price within the reach of every one

    .

    The old system of instruction, by which the names of things only were presented to the mind of the pupil, has been long admitted to have been imperfect and unsuccessful. With the young it is necessary to speak to the Eye, as well as to the Mind—to give a picture of an object as well as a description; and the adoption of such a plan of tuition is not only far more effective than that which is confined to words, but is at the same time much less irksome to the teacher, and more pleasant to the pupil. A greater interest is excited, and the representation of the object remains clear and distinct in the mind of the child long after the verbal description has passed away.

    For Particulars of the “Illustrated Popular Educational Works,” see Catalogue.

     JUST READY,

     THE ILLUSTRATED

     WEBSTER

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