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The Civil Service History of England: being a Fact-Book of English History, arranged especially for Examination Candidates, Public Schools, and Students generally. By F. A. WHITE, B.A. Revised and enlarged by H. A. DOBSON, of the Board of Trade. With Maps, &c. Fcp. cloth, 2s. 6d.

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The aim of "The Civil Service History of England" is to present the leading facts of our rough island-story" in an order so simple, and so unincumbered by irrelevant matter, as to place the candidate in a position to acquire them rapidly and exactly, and to return precise and satisfactory replies to a fair proportion of any set of questions put to him in order to test his knowledge of the subject.'-EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE.

The Civil Service Geography, General and Political; arranged especially for Examination Candidates, and the Higher Forms of Schools. By the late LANCELOT DALRYMPLE SPENCE, of H. M. Civil Service; revised throughout by THOMAS GRAY, of the Board of Trade. Second Edition, carefully revised and enlarged. With Woodcuts and six Coloured Maps. Fcp. cloth, price 2s. 6d.

A thoroughly reliable as well as a most ingenious compendium of geography."'CIVIL SERVICE GAZETTE. A better book for fixing the most prominent data in the memory could not be conceived.'-PAPERS FOR THE SCHOOLMÁSTER.

The most recent political changes of territory are notified, and the latest statistics inserted from authoritative sources.'-ATHENEUM.

The Civil Service Orthography: a Handy Book of English Spelling. With ample Rules and carefully arranged Exercises. Adapted for the use of Schools and of Candidates for the Civil and other Services. By E. S. H. B. Fcp. cloth, price 2s. 6d.

Of 1,972 rejections of Candidates for the Civil Service during five years, all except 106 were for deficiency in Spelling or Arithmetic.

This is a very handy, carefully written, and complete little book.'-PALL MALL GAZETTE, Sept. 12, 1870. Really a praiseworthy effort to simplify and improve the method of teaching the irregularities, anomalies, and difficulties of English orthography. Much thought and labour have evidently been expended upon this little work, which is a credit to its Author, and deserves to become generally known.'-EDUCATIONAL TIMES, Sept. 1870.

The Civil Service Book-keeping-Book-keeping no Mystery: Its Principles Popularly Explained, and the Theory of Double Entry Analysed; for the use of Young Men commencing Business, Examination Candidates, and Students generally. By an EXPERIENCED BOOK-KEEPER, late of H. M. Civil Service. Second Edition, fep. cloth, price 28.

"We have never seen a work which expressed with greater force and plainness the mode of keeping accounts.'-CIVIL SERVICE GAZETTE.

It is clear and concise, and exactly such a text-book as students require.'-QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION.

BY JOSEPH PAYNE,

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Vice-President of the Council of the College of Preceptors, &c.
Payne's Studies in English Poetry; with
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Text-Book for the Higher Classes of Schools. Fifth Edition.

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