This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ...to the result required; and then such rules as are (part I. involved in the process can be taught, and are easily remembered after having them thus preceded by the practical demonstrations. The style of writing is at once easy of execution and very legible. It results from the observance of a few simple rules; and its chief merits are, 1st. The exact and well defined nature of all its parts. 2ndly. The harmonious proportions existing between them. 3rdly. Its consequent beauty and legibility. 4thly. The absence of ornaments. Simple forms are placed before the pupil, and he soon finds that any departure from them leads to inconvenience. Mulhaiiser''s method, though apparently satisfactory in theory, was not sanctioned by the Commission of Geneva, without submitting it to the test of practice; when it was unanimously adopted. The Com-Effects of mission in their subsequent Reports, speaks strongly ''fsIop" of the advantage which the Schools of the Canton had Switzerderived from the use of this method, and give some an extraordinary examples of its success. It was soon introduced into the famous Normal School at Lausanne, and was from thence transplanted into all the Village Schools of the Canton de Vaud. Persons saw with surprise the rude children in those Village Schools learn to write in a few months. In the Infant School at Geneva, children five years old were found readily to comprehend and apply its principles, and one of the best known Inspectors, surprised at the ease with which they seemed to understand the system, studied it himself for the purpose of applying it to the instruction of his own son. The Parisian Society of Elementary Education ap-Howtested pointed Commissioners in 1834, to investigate and in.France" report on...