THE Popular Edurator. VOLUME I. ROYS MECHANICS STITU INSTITU STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; LUDGATE HILL, E. C. TO OUR READERS A GLANCE at the opposite Index will snow to the purchasers of this volume what we have done, and are now doing, for the Education of the People. Our exertions have met with wide-spread and heart-felt encouragement, and we gratefully express our acknowledgments for the same. We shall make it our endeavour still more to deserve the encouragement of our subscribers, by increased efforts for their advancement in knowledge and learning. We intend to finish in the next volume, if possible, all the subjects which have been begun in this volume. Of course, it cannct de expected, under such circumstances, that we can commence a great variety of new subjects; as we wish to do justice to those which we undertake. Some of these, however, may be mentioned, as Penmanship, Short-hand, Mechanics, Chemistry, Astronomy, and Natural Philosophy. We have still much to do in Arithmetic, Geometry, and Geography, subjects of the greatest importance to the community at large, and subjects well calculated to expand, improve, and strengthen the reasoning powers; but as the bow must not be always bent, we shall endeavour, from time to time, to relieve these with lighter studies, as we have done in the present volume. 15 FEB 14 III., IV. The Grasses and the Corn Plants.... Classes: 1. Monandria, Mare's-tail, Starwort. 2. Dian- VI. Classes: 4. Tetrandria, Teazle, Woodruff, Madder, &c. VII. C'asses: 6. Hexandria, Hyacinth, Tulip, Lily, &c. 7. Heptandria, Chickweed; 8. Octandria, Heath, Knot- VIII. Classes: 9. Enneandria, Flowering Rush; 10. Decan- dria, Arbutus, Saxifrage, Catch-fly, Stone-crop, &c. IX. Classes: 11. Dodecandria, Loose-strife, Agrimony; 12. Icosandria, Carnation, Pansy, Rhododendron, &c.... Class 13. Polyandria, Christopher, Celandine, Poppy, Lime, Poony, Anemone, &c........... Sections XXIV., XXV., Interrogative Form of Pre- sent Indicative, Plural of the Imperative, &c .... 181 XII. Class 15. Tetradynamia, Sea-kale. Cress, Cabbage, &c. XIII. C ass 16. Monadelphia, Stork's-bill, Robert, Geranium, Sections I., II., the Alphabet, Sounds of the Letters, Diphthongs, Umlauts, Consonauts, &c...... Sections III., IV., V., VI., Chirography, the Article, III. Sections VII., VIII., IX., Pronouns, Verb, Indefinite Sections X., XI., Adjectives, &c...... Sections XII., XIII, Adjectives, Gender, &c... Sections XIV., XV., Nouns, Adjectives, Old Declen- The Dog Tribe, the Esquimaux, the Hare-Indian, the 151 183 161 V. The Dogs of Turkey, and of the Coasts of the Polar 231 .......... 177 VI. The Spaniels, Anecdotes. 264 VII. Tribe Lupus; The Wolf, Anecdotes LESSONS IN ANCIENT HISTORY.-No. I. HISTORY, in its narrowest sense, is the recital of past events. In its wider and higher meaning, it not merely relates bygone occurrences, but inquires into their causes and consequences. These descriptions will hold good at whatever branch of it we look. There is Natural History, which has for its subjects the various natural occurrences which have taken place in the world and the different orders of animal and vegetable life which inhabit it; there is Life History, or biography, which records the sayings and doings of individual men; and lastly, there is the History of Nations, which tells of the various changes and revolutions which have occurred in human society, with the causes which led to them and the results by which they have been followed. It is to this last mitters of great crimes, unless we have a thorough acquaint- PILLARED HALL OF THE PALACE OF CARNAC. class of subjects that the general term History is usually Presenting human nature as it does, in so many different lights, it which a knowledge of history brings with it. spreads out, as in a map, the varied experience of ages, for the instruction and self-guidance of him who reflects while he reads. And from this he learns that the chief elements of human character are the same in all; that the same mental system, however undeveloped in some, and highly culti vated in others, belongs to the whole human family; and thus ages of the world, and under every variety of circumstances, the wholesome and warning lesson is taught him, that, in all as nations, the maxim holds good, that "vice is its own whether it refer to men as individuals, or men collectively is the advantage of the man who is well versed in history, ove punisher, and virtue its own rewarder." How great, then, |