13 FEBRUARY 1886, Page 24

We have also before us a series of Lengman's New

Readers. (Long- mans and Co.)—The volumes are a First Primer, in which are com- bined the " alphabetic " and " look-and-say " methods of teaching reading ; pictures—and very good of their kind they are—are called in to help ; a Second Primer, on the same principle, in which the learner gets to written characters ; an Infant Reader ; and Readers I., II, 111, for the three first standards. These seem well done. The pictures certainly are good. NVe ought to say that the Primers are both in paper and cloth.