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classification of the Capital letters is the only possible one, unless the divisions be unreasonably multiplied.

They may be arranged in the following order:

Class I:	V, U, W, N, M, Y.
Class„ II:	O, A, C, G, E.
Class„ III:	P, B, R.
Class„ IV:	I, J, T, F.
Class„ V:	S, L.
Class„ VI:	D, H, Q, X, Z.

This or some similar grouping of the Capitals should be followed that the instruction may be properly graduated, the scholars being specially urged to examine and imitate the engraved headline copies, for if the pupil succeed in securing a vivid mental conception of the true outline of any letter he will find little difficulty in transferring that conception to paper; the trouble as previously intimated is not so much with the fingers as with the brain.