A SURE AND CERTAIN ROAD TO GOOD HAND-WRITING.
After over a quarter of a century of public favour, are everywhere acknowledged as the best for simplicity and thoroughness. With these Copy-books the pupil advances in the art of writing with ease and rapidity, while the labour of the teacher is very greatly lightened. They are used in nearly all the best schools in Great Britain and the Colonies, and are adapted to the new Educational Code.
I. It is the production of an experienced Schoolmaster.
II. It gradually advances from the Simple Stroke to a superior Small-hand.
III. The assistance given in the primal lesson is reduced as the learner progresses, until all guidance is safely withdrawn.
IV. The number and variety of the copies secure attention, and prevent the pupils copying their own writing, as in books with single head-lines.
V. The system insures the progress of the learner, and greatly lightens the labours of the teacher.
=DARNELL'S UNIVERSAL TWOPENNY COPY-BOOKS=, for the Standards. 16 Nos., Fcap 4to.
_STANDARD I._ 1 Elementary. 2 Single and Double Letters. 3 Large Text (Short Words).
_STANDARD II._ 3 Large Text (Short Words). 4 Large Text (Short Words). 5 Text, Large Text, and Figures.
_STANDARD III._ 6 Text, Round, Capitals, & Figures. 7 Text, Round and Small. 8 Text, Round, Small, & Figures.
_STANDARD IV._ 9 Text, Round, Small, & Figures. 10 Text, Round, Small, & Figures. 11 Round, Small, and Figures.
_STANDARD V._ 12 Round, Small, and Figures. 13 Round and Small. 14 Round and Small.
_STANDARD VI._ 15 Small Hand. 16 Small Hand.
=DARNELL'S LARGE POST COPY-BOOKS.= 16 Nos., _6d._ each. The first ten of which have on every alternate line appropriate and carefully-written copies, in Pencil-coloured Ink, to be first written over and then imitated; the remaining numbers having Black Head-lines for imitation only. _The whole gradually advancing from a simple Stroke to a superior Small-hand._
No. 1 Elementary (Strokes, &c.) 2 Single Letters. 3, 4 Large Text (Short Words). 5 Text, Large Text, and Figures. 6 Round Text, Capitals, & Figures. 7 Text, Round & Small. 8, 9, 10 Text, Round, Small, & Figures. 11, 12 Round, Small, and Figures. 13, 14 Round and Small. 15, 16 Small-hand.