This textbook presents lessons in reading and English pronunciation. The alphabetical letters or signs employed in the English language being very complicated figures, it is necessary that children, for a considerable space of time, should be practised in drawing simple geometrical figures before they are taught writing. By this geometrical drawing their eyes will be taught to seize the shape of an object and their hand to delineate it with accuracy; the mere painting of alphabetical characters, which is commonly styled penmanship and considered as a necessary accomplishment, instead of being a difficult labor, would then be only an amusement for children. Before the author teaches writing to children, they must therefore learn to draw all kinds of lines, to form all kinds of figures, angles, triangles, rectangles, squares, circles, polygons, with a good deal of exactness.