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HUGHES'S Unrivalled SERIES of INSPECTORS'

TEST SUMS.

In six packets for the six Standards. Price is. per packet. There are fifty different Cards in each packet and two copies of Answers. The Answers to all the Standards in a Book, 6d.

The Book of HUGHES'S UNRIVALLED SERIES of TEST SUMS contains the whole six Standards, with Answers complete, 25. To prevent disappointment it is particularly requested that the Unrivalled Series of Hughes's Inspectors' Test Sums be asked for when ordering.

OPINIONS.

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The following are specimens of numerous unsolicited Testimonies. A Welsh Master, writes,—“I cannot speak too highly of them. The passes in Arithmetic have increased about 25 per cent., which I in a great measure attribute to their use.

The Head Master of Burnsall Grammar School, writes,-"Your Unrivalled Test Cards are quite a boon to teacher, they only require to be known to appreciate their value. I owe most of my success to the use of them." The Head Mistress of Withycombe School, writes,-"They have proved of infinite service to me."

A Leeds Board Master, writes,-"They are simply unrivalled."

The Head Master of Cwmtirmynach Board School, writes,-"These cards are undoubtedly the best series of Arithmetical Examples ever published. I shall strongly recommend them to teachers in my district.”

A Head Master, writes, "They are excellent cards. It is marvellous to see the improvement after using them."

LONDON: JOSEPH HUGHES,

HUGHES'S GRADUATED EXERCISES IN ARITHMETIC.

In six packets for the six Standards. Price is. per packet.

Many thousands of unsolicited Testimonies have been borne as to their excellence. The following are specimens of Teachers' Opinions.

A Master, writes, "They surpass anything that I have seen in the course of thirty-two years' experience."

A Mistress, writes, "I have always passed 97 and 98 per cent.; and I attribute the success greatly to your cards."

Another Master, writes,-"Last year I got 100 per cent., this year 97; and this I owe in a great measure to your cards."

These cards are specially designed for daily class work, and are the most suitable extant for revising the Arithmetic of each class, and securing accuracy and rapidity in working.

HUGHES'S EASY PROBLEMS for YOUNG THINKERS.

In six packets for the six Standards. Price is. per packet.

The rapid sale of the first editions of these popular "Easy Problems," proves that they supply a want long felt by teachers. The earlier letters in each Standard, while calling into play the reasoning faculties, require but little real thought.

The Head Master of Ashbury School, writes,-"The Problems are admirable." A Teacher, writes,-"I am most anxious to have them at once, as I have heard them highly recommended.”

The School Board Chronicle, says,-"They are well constructed for making the child think, and are carefully adapted to the exercise of the pupil in the work of the respective Standards."

For the use of Teachers.

The Book of Hughes's Easy Problems for Young Thinkers.

Contains the whole six Standards, with Answers, complete, price Two Shillings, cloth.

LONDON: JOSEPH HUGHES,

New and Revised Edition.-The only Cards ever issued specially designed for Girls.

HUGHES'S GIRLS' MODEL EXAMINATIONS in ARITHMETIC.

In six packets for the six Standards.

Price is. per packet.

There are 100 different Examinations in each Standard, with a correct copy of answers. Answers to all the Standards, price 4d., cloth.

The four progressive Examinations on every Card serve admirably as quarterly tests. The last Examination is printed in words, and is a "model" of those specially set for Girls by the various Inspectors throughout the country. These Cards are suited to every kind of School, and are equally serviceable for boys as well as girls.

The Head Mistress of an important Girls' School, writes, "They are valuable Cards."

Standard I. is specially adapted for Infant-schools.

Now ready, for Scotch and English Codes. Atkins' Arithmetical EXAMINATION-PAPERS In five packets for Standards II., III., IV., V. and VI. Price Is. per packet. There are 50 papers (ten varieties of five each) in a packet. **Both sides of the paper are neatly ruled.

COMPOSITION.

HOW TO COMPOSE AND WRITE LETTERS. Fcp. 8vo., 104 pp. Price Is. cloth.

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By JOHN TAYLOR, author of "Great Lessons from Little Things." The School Guardian, says,—“Mr. Taylor's 'How TO COMPOSE AND WRITE LETTERS,' is intended for pupil teachers, senior scholars, and candidates for examinations. There are good hints on letter-writing, and a long list of abbreviated titles, which will be a great boon to many. The book, which is neatly printed and got up, will be a help to many a beginner in the art of English Composition.' The Educational News, says,—“The little book before us is not only a text book on composition to some extent, but everything to be attended to in writing letters is treated exhaustively. Skeleton subjects for composition, specimens of finished composition and letter-writing, and a great variety of topics on which to write, make up, together with preliminary rules and directions, a book which will be found most serviceable in the class-room."

LONDON: JOSEPH HUGHES,

DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

LESSONS on COOKERY. BY BARBARA Wallace Gothard,
late Organising Cookery Lecturer at the Cheltenham School of Cookery and
Literary Institute, Hull, &c. Price 2s. 6d., extra cloth, gilt lettered.
The Leeds Mercury, says,- "An excellent little volume."

The School Guardian, says,—"Beginning with sensible instructions on kitchen management and the art of keeping everything clean, it proceeds to actual Cooking, with recipes and much valuable information on the properties of foods; also the time of year at which meat, fish, poultry, fruit, and vegetables are in season. A book to be much commended." The Schoolmaster, says, "The book is well got up, strongly bound, and contains a great variety of recipes."

The Scholastic World, says, "This book can be highly recommended to all who are interested in this important subject."

ELOCUTION.

Morrison's Selections from Addison's Spectator. Neatly bound in Cloth.

Price 6d.

By THOMAS MORRISON, M.A., Rector of the Free Church Training College, Glasgow. "Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,

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elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."-Dr. JOHNSON.

HUGHES'S ELOCUTION for PUPIL TEACHERS Based upon Grammatical Analysis: with Copious Extracts from the best Authors. Price 3s. 6d. By W. S. Ross, Author of "The Book of English Literature," &c.

The Ayr Advertiser, says,—"A volume of upwards of 400 pages, and full of deeply interesting matter to the student. We regard the volume as a valuable contribution to the cause of education."

The Head Master, Royal Academy, Inverness, says,-"I heartily recommend the work to the attention of teachers."

EUCLID.

The DIFFICULTIES of EUCLID SIMPLIFIED. By W. J. DICKINSON, formerly Normal Master and Lecturer on Euclid and Grammar at the Battersea Training College. Price Is., cloth.

The Riders set at the Scholarship and Certificate Examinations for one year are worked out in full,

A list of Geometrical Exercises, every one of which has been set at either Pupil Teachers' or other Examinations, is appended.

LONDON: JOSEPH HUGHES,

MANSFORD'S SCHOOL EUCLID.

Books I. and II. FOR PUPIL TEACHERS. Price One Shilling.

In this little Manual the propositions are so arranged as to bring out the relations of the several parts. Exercises and explanatory notes are appended to each proposition, and the diagrams have been specially engraved to shew the distinction between the constructive parts and the data. A series of one hundred miscellaneous exercises, classified according the propositions on which they depend, is given at the end.

New vol., Just Issued.-Price 2s. 6d.

Mansford's Complete Key to the School Euclid,
And 100 Additional Exercises; with SOLUTION OF GEOMETRICAL
EXERCISES, Explained and Illustrated.

This Key has been prepared specially for Teachers who use the School Euclid. The one hundred additional exercises (which are worked out in full) are so arranged that a Teacher can select a suitable exercise for any proposition. An appendix on the Second Book of Euclid has also been added.

EXAMINATION QUESTIONS.

ENLARGED EDITION. EXAMINATION! EXAMINATION! EXAMINATION!
"BEYOND PRAISE." "CAPITAL."

HUGHES'S HANDBOOK OF EXAMINATION
QUESTIONS.

Contains thousands of Examination Questions in Arithmetic,
Geography, and Grammar and Analysis. Hughes's Unrivalled
Series of Inspectors' Test Sums, for the six Standards, complete,
with Answers, have just been added.

Price 5/- strongly bound, cloth.

Pronounced the handiest, cheapest, and best collection of bona-fide Examination Questions ever issued.

The following are samples of numerous unsolicited Testimonials from teachers of the highest experience,—

A London Board Master, writes,

"Your Handbook of Examination

Questions is simply invaluable. I use it constantly."

The Head Master of the Endowed School, Ledsham, writes,-"I found your
'Handbook of Questions' of immense service the last few weeks pre-
ceding examination."

The Head Master of West Linton (Scotland) School, writes, "I am sorry
I was so long without so admirable a book for all departments."

LONDON: JOSEPH HUGHES,

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