all struck the pupil. The rules were stated with great exactness and numberless exceptions were duly noted. Everything was as complete as the scholar-author could make it. The newer kind of Latin Grammar includes explanations and exercises. The pupil is let into the secrets of things: he is told what it is all about. Many of the newer text-books frankly adopt the pupil's standpoint, and address him in the second person. Others are a little afraid of going so far, and content themselves with referring in the third person to the student, saying that he will find this or that the better way to go about his work. Problems are often given, along with certain hints that help the student towards a solution. It is clear that in all this we are trenching upon the teacher's province. The text-book is becoming, to some extent, a teacher on its own account. There are now, in fact, all degrees of the personal appeal in text-books, from the sternly logical kind in which personality of all sorts is rigidly excluded to the kindly, confidential style of the "self-educator" text-books, that frankly try to take the place of the teacher altogether. The fewer the opportunities the student has of obtaining the services of capable teachers, the more he is inclined to fall back upon the text-books that make the personal appeal. But the private student should not confine himself to books of this class. He ought always to have on hand one or two text-books of the severely logical type, and make the best he can of them.
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