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nd short vowels, a classification into three analogous orders, brought with it much greater complexity without any adequate compensation in the advantage which might result from it.--_Christian Intelligencer._ His grammar is more intelligible and contains less of unnecessary and doubtful matter, than any other equally complete work with which we are acquainted. We have no doubt that its circulation will prove an important means of recommending the study of the Hebrew language.--_N. Y. Observer._ The publishers are happy to state, from information recently received from the author, that the above work has been adopted as the text-book on Hebrew Grammar at the Theological Seminary, Princeton, N. J., and that it is under consideration, with a like view, at several other institutions in the country. FEMALE STUDENT.--LECTURES TO YOUNG LADIES, comprising Outlines and Applications on the different branches of _Female Education_. For the use of Female Schools, and private Libraries; delivered to the Pupils of the Troy Female Seminary. By _Mrs. Almira H. Lincoln Phelps_, late Vice Principal of that Institution: Author of Familiar Lectures on Botany, etc. This lady is advantageously known as the writer of "Familiar Lectures on Botany," and other popular works for the use of students and the young generally. Her present work may be safely commended to the class for whom it is more especially designed, and to the use of schools in particular, as one of various interest, and of very judicious and useful composition.--_Evening Gazette._ We recommend the work to teachers and all others who are sensible of the vast amount of influence which woman exerts on society, and how inadequately she has hitherto in general been prepared to make that influence beneficial to our race.--_Boston Mercantile Journal._ Her views of the various methods of instructing are _practical_, for they _are the results of experience_. To _parents_, particularly _mothers_ desirous of pursuing the most judicious course in the education of their children, I would recommend this book as useful beyond any other I am acquainted with, in arming them against that parental blindness from which the best of parents are not wholly exempt and which often leads them unawares to injure in various ways the character of their children and lay the foundation of future misfortune for their offspring and sorrow for themselves. To _young women_ who cannot afford the ex
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