e the fewest attractions for the youthful mind.
To prepare a work capable of imparting a thorough knowledge of
this important part of education in an attractive and
entertaining form, to many may appear extremely difficult, if not
impossible; nevertheless, the task has been accomplished in a
highly successful manner by Edwin A. Abbott, Head Master of the
City of London School, in a neat little volume entitled 'How to
Parse.' The author has succeeded admirably in combining with the
exercises a vast amount of useful information, which impacts to
the principles and rules of the main subject a degree of interest
that renders the study as attractive as history or fiction. The
value of the book is greatly increased by an excellent glossary
of grammatical forms and a nicely arranged index. The work
deserves the attention and consideration of teachers and pupils,
and will doubtless prove a highly popular addition to the list of
school-books."--_N.Y. Graphic._

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_Messrs. Roberts Brothers' Publications._

GOETHE'S

HERMANN AND DOROTHEA.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN

BY ELLEN FROTHINGHAM.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

_Thin 8vo, cloth, gilt, bevelled boards. Price $2.00._
_A cheaper edition, 16mo, cloth. Price $1.00._

"Miss Frothingham's translation is something to be glad of: it
lends itself kindly to perusal, and it presents Goethe's charming
poem in the metre of the original.... It is not a poem which
could be profitably used in an argument for the enlargement of
the sphere of woman: it teaches her subjection, indeed, from the
lips of a beautiful girl, which are always so fatally convincing;
but it has its charm, nevertheless, and will serve at least for
an agreeable picture of an age when the ideal woman was a
creature around which grew the beauty and comfort and security of
home."--_Atlantic Monthly._

"The poem itself is bewitching. Of the same metre as Longfellow's
'Evangeline,' its sweet and measured cadences carry the reader
onward with a real pleasure as he becomes more and more absorbed
in this descriptive wooing song. It is a sweet volume to read
aloud in a select circle of intelligent friends."--_Providence
Press._

"Miss Frothingham has done a good service, and done it well, in
translating this famous