Indian Education

A two years' course in which accidence and syntax are correlated from the beginning and the reading of continuous passages of Latin is made the basis of the teaching in each Lesson. [...] Never before in the history of English Literature has any single book of reference been produced which can in any way compare with Webster's New International Dictionary in respect to the tremendous amount of information which it incorporates Moreover it excels not only in the vast number of defined terms—many thousands in excess of any work of the same pretensions—but in the amplitude and lucid [...] Beware of cheap reprints of the Unabridged and of unauthorized and unreliable issues of smaller dictionaries also of larger so-called Webster dictioaries not of the genuine Webster series. [...] If every member of every Legislative Council in India every Indian Journalist and Vakil every Indian Zemindar and employer of labour were to study this little book of 118 pages and master s contents there would be an end of that ( confusion of 4? deas which makes the work of the Agric aural Department so difficult and hearbreaking and impedes the progress of industrialism. [...] The book is divided into ten chapters giving the necessary points to be known about the following :—The Human Body ; Food and Cookery ; Water Supply ; Ventilation ; Disposal of Refuse ; The Care of the Sick and of Children ; The Management of Money ; Methods of Cleaning the House and the Choice and Care of Clothing.