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EvKNTS OF HIS LIFE. 55 II. (a) The get-up of a text-book should be h(at, so as to create in the reader a liking for it; and all such aids to attention as the printing of important words in capitals, italics or antique letters, and illustrations by pictures or diagrams, should be frecly availord of. (b) In an clementary text-book, directions for the teacher, if any, should all be collected together either at the beginning or at the end of the book, and things mot intended to be road by the student should ne'e' be infespersed with those intended to be read by him. Il II. The laulugvrage and style of an elementary text-book should be concise and clear, simple and attractive; vulgar words and (as far as possible) provincialisms should be avoided; and the arrangement of the different heads or divisions of the book should be methodical. IV. Text-books on English Grammar and English Composition should, except for the lowest standard, be written in English. V. A text-book should, as far as possible, aim at teaching things pationally and of mechanirally. That is to say, it should, as far as possible, aim at teaching things in a way such that the student may understand what hic is taught instead of having merely to learn it by rote.