No. 1. Elements, Short Letters, Words. " 2. Long Letters, Easy Words. " 3. Capitals, Half-line Words. " 4. Text, Double Ruling, Sentences. " 5. Half-Text, Sentences, Figures. " 6. Intermediate, Transcription, &c. " 7. Small Hand, Double Ruling. " 8. Small Hand, Single Ruling. _The Headlines are graduated, up-to-date, and attractive._ =Blackwoods' Universal Writing Books.= Have been designed to accompany the above series, and teachers will find it advantageous to use them as Dictation Copies, because by them the learner is kept continually writing at the correct slope, &c. No 1. is adapted for LOWER CLASSES, No. 2 for HIGHER CLASSES. Price 2d. each. =Practical Teacher.=--"Our readers would do well to write for a specimen of this book, and of the blank exercise-books ruled on the same principle. They are worth careful attention." =School World.=--"Those teachers who are anxious to train their pupils to write in the style associated with Civil Service Competitions should find the copy-books designed by Mr Pearce very useful. The writing is certainly simple; it may, in fact, be reduced to four elements, in which the pupil is rigorously exercised in the earlier books before proceeding in later numbers to continuous writing." =Schoolmaster.=--"Those of our readers in search of new books should see these." =Journal of Education.=--"Aids the eye and guides the hand, and thus checkmates any bias towards error in the slope." UNIVERSITY CALENDARS. =St Andrews University Calendar.= Printed and Published for the Senatus Academicus. Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d. net. =St Andrews University L.L.A. Calendar.= Printed and Published for the Senatus Academicus. Crown 8vo, 1s. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH AND LONDON. TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Bold text is denoted by =equal signs=. Underlined text is denoted by ++double plus signs++. The 3-star triangle symbol is denoted by ***. The yogh symbol is denoted by ȝ; two occurrences in "Winȝet's". A subscript is denoted by _{x}; one occurrence in "CHCl_{3}". Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Except for those changes noted below, misspelling in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. For example, well-known, well known; piquet, picket; round shot, round-shot. Pg 27. 'a voyage' replaced by 'on a voyage'. Pg 29. 'but what' replaced by 'but that'. Pg 121. 'the somewat' replaced by 'the somewhat'. Pg 162. 'biovouacking' replaced by 'bivouacking'. Pg 171. 'no more that' replaced by 'no more than'. Pg 210. 'mauœuvring' replaced by 'manœuvring'. Pg 216. 'now adepts' replaced by 'now adept'. Pg 218. 'reconnaisance' replaced by 'reconnaissance'. Pg 221. 'that those' replaced by 'than those'.