The School board directory for England and Wales, and year book for ... -1876

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Page 36 - BELL'S READING-BOOKS. FOR SCHOOLS AND PAROCHIAL LIBRARIES. The popularity which the ' Books for Young Readers ' have attained is a sufficient proof, that teachers and pupils alike approve of the use of interesting stories, with a simple plot in place of the dry combination of letters and syllables, making no impression on the mind, of which elementary readingbooks generally consist.
Page 44 - Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to authorise the appointment of any agents of a candidate in a municipal election, but if in the case of a municipal election any agent of a candidate is appointed, and a notice in writing of such appointment is given to the returning officer, the provisions of this Act with respect to agents of candidates shall, so far as respects such agent, apply in the case of that election...
Page 26 - Where the age of any child is required to be ascertained or proved for the purposes of this Act, or for any purpose connected with the elementary education or employment in labour of such child, any person, on presenting a written requisition in such form and containing such particulars as may be from time to time prescribed by...
Page 49 - Bench for a rule calling on the auditor and the guardians to show cause why a writ of certiorari should not issue to bring up the school fees account, together with the allowance by the auditor and his reasons for the allowance.
Page 30 - SCHOOL GRAMMAR. With very copious Exercises, and a Systematic View of the Formation and Derivation of words ; together with Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and Greek Roots, which explain the Etymology of above Seven Thousand English Words.
Page 45 - Any ballot paper which has not on its back the official mark, or on which votes are given to more candidates than the voter is entitled to vote for, or on which anything, except the said number on the back, is written or marked by which the voter can be identified, shall be void and not counted.
Page 65 - Be 60 years of age (if a man), or 55 (if a woman), unless the pension is applied for on the ground of failure of health. (2.) Pensions will be granted to those teachers only who have been...
Page 36 - BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS. In Eight Parts. Limp Cloth. Srt. each ; or extra binding, is. each. Part I. contains simple stories told in monosyllables of not more than four letters, which are at the same time sufficiently interesting to preserve the attention of a child. Part II. exercises the pupil by a similar method in slightly longer easy words; and the remaining parts consist of stories graduated in difficulty, until the learner is taught to read with ordinary lacility. ' 104 George Bell and Sons'...

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