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Text Book of Biology, Part 1: VertebrataIn the year 1884 I was invited to give tuition by correspondence, in Biology. Although disposed at the time to ridicule the idea of imparting instruction in natural science by letter, I gladly accepted the opportunity thus afforded...

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural SchoolsThis Manual is issued for the purpose of encouraging the introduction and furthering the progress of Household Science in the rural schools of this Province. There are 903 urban and 5,697 rural schools, and 45.87% of the...

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany - For High Schools and Elementary College CoursesAll matter is composed of certain constituents (about seventy are at present known), which, so far as the chemist is concerned, are indivisible, and are known as elements. Of the innumerable...

The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886[xi] [xxxiii] Duke. What, is Antonio here? Antonio. Ready, so please your grace. Duke. I am sorry for thee: thou art come to answer A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch Uncapable of pity, void and empty From...

The Ontario Readers: Fourth BookThe Minister of Education is indebted to Goldwin Smith, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Newbolt, The Earl of Dunraven, Sir W. F. Butler, Frank T. Bullen, Charles G. D. Roberts, W. Wilfred Campbell, Frederick George Scott, Agnes Maule Machar, Agnes C. Laut,...

The Ontario Readers: Third BookThe Minister of Education is indebted to Rudyard Kipling, Henry Newbolt, Beckles Willson, E.B. Osborn, F.T. Bullen, Flora Annie Steel; Charles G.D. Roberts, W. Wilfred Campbell, Ethelwyn Wetherald, Jean Blewett, Robert Reid, "Ralph Connor," John Waugh, S.T. Wood; Henry Van...

Hebrew Life and TimesMost histories have been histories of kings and emperors. The daily life of the common peopletheir joys and sorrows, their hopes, achievements, and idealshas been buried in oblivion. The historical narratives of the Bible are, indeed, to a great extent an...

A Catechism of Familiar Things; - Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. This book, a reprint of a successful English publication, has been so enlarged as to be to all intents and purposes new. It has been carefully revised by...

First Lessons in Geography - Or, Introduction to "Youth's Manual of Geography"The above Books, which are written by Practical Teachers, constitute the most complete Geographical School Series extant; and they are so adapted to each other, that the learner advances from one to the...

The Esperanto Teacher: A Simple Course for Non-GrammariansPerhaps to no one is Esperanto of more service than to the non-grammarian. It gives him for a minimum expenditure of time and money a valuable insight into the principles of grammar and the meaning of words,...