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...welcomed by students and teachers, and the increasing body of visitors to India. The work has been specially prepared to meet the wants of unaided, private study. The author emphatically declares this, and the work bears out the promise of his words. As a classical teacher and a Sanskrit learner, whose opinion may probably have some weight with his brethren, and with others who may wish to study this noble language, the writer does not hesitate to commend this scholarly and well-arranged book as the most practical and serviceable work of the kind known to him. By its assistance...
...even five times a week, the result, it is very probable, would, in the majority of cases, be better than at present, where the attention is protracted and wearied by a long year's work with recitations often no more than once a week, where the interest of the learner is almost sure to flag before the completion of the course...
...AMERICAN BICYCLER: A Manual for the Observer, the Learner, and the Expert. By Charles E. Pratt, A. M, B. Bi. C. (Buffalo Bicycle Club). Boston: Houghton, Osgood...
...carry out the humorous idea of the book, the instructor should lay down his opinions as decisively and finally as the judge on the bench. He is to assume dogmatism in its most absolute phase, and establish a terrorism over the minds of his pupils. Is it for a learner to state objections? By no means. Shall we doubt anything? Not at all. But, to carry dogmatism to its extreme verge, he is at stated intervals formally to proclaim liberty of opinion and invite freedom of discussion. Having thus forced the whole system of metaphysics upon the young idea...
There is no delusion produced by the nobler title of professor; we know the difference both in the manner of giving and the instruction given. The relations between instructor and learner are different, are less restrained and more sociable...