THE INFANT SCHOOL MANUAL, OR TEACHER'S ASSISTANT. CONTAINING A VIEW OF THE SYSTEM OF INFANT SCHOOLS. ALSO A VARIETY OF USEFUL LESSONS; FOR THE USE OF TEACHERS. BY MRS. HOWLAND. NINTH EDITION, REVISED, IMPROVED, AND ENLARGED. WORCESTER: PUBLISHED BY DORR, HOWLAND & CO. Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1831, by DORR & HowLAND, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts MUSIC BOOK FOR INFANT SCHOOLS THE JUVENILE LYRE, or Hymns and Songs, Religious, Moral, and Cheerful, set to appropriate Music. For the use of Primary and Common Schools. It will be recollected that the subject of this work was proposed, and its utility supported by the Rev. Mr. Woodbridge, in his Lecture delivered the last summer before the American Institute of Instruction. This work, the principal materials of which are from the German schools, has been in preparation since that period, and has been edited by gentlemen well known to the public for their ability fully to perform the task. The music is simple, chaste and beautiful, and admirably adapted to the purpose. Each air has a base and harmony, and is equally adapted for the parlor and the school room. Many of the hymns and songs are trans lations from the German, especially for this work; some are selected, and a few original The advantages attending the early cultivation of music, as stated in the preface, are its means of promoting devotional feelings in the worship of God; of pure and rational enjoyment; of health, in its exercise; of the improvement of the heart, and its favorable influence on the mental powers. "No one will question its powers to soften the character and elevate the feelings. It diverts, too, the young from amusements of a questionable character, and it is said that a refor mation has in more than one village district been effected, by introducing vocal music among the youth. In the schools upon the continent of Europe, it has been found materially to promote the good order and discipline of the pupils; to render them more kind to each other, and more obedient to their teachers." The work has received the approbation of the editors of the "Annals of Education," and the "Education Reporter," and many other periodicals; and has been introduced into many schools, and is highly approved by all who have used it HARVAR 047174 STEREOTYPED BY LYMAN THURSTON & Co. BOSTON ADVERTISEMENT. FROM the first notice of Infant Schools, the author has felt a deep and increasing interest for their prosperity. Having perceived the inconvenience to which the teachers of these schools are subjected, by depending much on manuscript lessons, and fearing that this impediment, together with the want of variety, would seriously hinder the progress of this interesting species of instruction, an attempt has been made to provide a remedy by preparing the Manual or Teacher's As sistant. Believing that individual happiness as well as good morals, are the result of pure principles, and that these should be early established in the mind, it was thought an important object to prepare the moral lessons, which it is humbly hoped, if faithfully inculcated, may secure these happy results. As the use of correct language is an object of primary importance, and necessarily becomes the task of the infant, lessons are prepared in various forms of definitions, calculated to assist the pupil, and, at the same time, to excite such a curiosity as will not be satisfied with the knowledge of words, without understanding their meaning and use. |