From M. S. LITTLEFIELD, Grand Rapids, Mich. I have Dodd's Higher Arithmetic, and unhesitatingly pronounce it the best work for advanced classes I have ever seen. From E. HINDS, Esq., of Newtown Academy. I have recently adopted Dodd's High School Arithmetic, and like it much. Having seen that Prof. Dodd is also author of an Algebra, I should like to see that work before forming a new class. From H. ELIAS, ESQ., Palmyra, Mo. I have fairly tested Dodd's Algebra, and am much pleased with it. If I like his Geometry as well as the Algebra, I shall forthwith introduce it into my school. From PROF. W. H. DE PUY. We have introduced Dodd's Algebra into the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary as a permanent text-book. From R. H. MOORE, Ill. Dodd's Algebra possesses excellencies pertaining to no other work. From REV. J. A. McCANLEY, Va. I am much pleased with Dodd's Algebra, and will introduce it. From OSCAR HARRIS, N. J. I use Professor Dodd's Algebra, and shall continue it as our regular text-book. From PROF. A. L. HAMILTON, President of Andrew College. I have examined with some care Prof. Dodd's Elements of Geometry, and, so far as I am capable of judging, I conceive it to be in many respects decidedly the best work of the kind extant. For simplicity, exactness, and completeness, it can have no superior. Like his Arithmetic and Algebra, in many important particulars, his Geometry stands pre-eminent and alone. A NEW COMMON-SCHOOL ARITHMETIC, by Prof. Dodd, is in press. The Department of Public Instruction in Canada has repeatedly ordered Prof. Dodd's books, as well as many of F. B. & Co.'s other publications, for use in schools. SCHELL'S INTRODUCTORY LESSONS IN ARITHMETIC; designed as an Introduction to the study of any Mental or Written Arithmetic. It contains a large amount of mental questions together with a large number of questions to be performed on the slate, thus combining mental and written exercises for young beginners. This is a very attractive little book, superior to any of its class. It leads the pupil on by the easiest steps possible, and yet insures constant progress. 20 cents. From GEO. PAYNE QUACKENBOS, Rector of Henry street Grammar School, N. Y It is unnecessary to do more than to ask the attention of teachers to this work; they cannot examine it impartially without being convinced of its superior merits. It will, no doubt, become one of the most popular of school-books. From J. MARKHAM, Ohio. I wish to introduce Schell's little Arithmetic. It is just the thing for beginners Send six dozen From G. C. MERRIFIELD, Ind. I am highly pleased with Schell's little book, and shall use it. From D. F. DEWOLF, Ohio. Schell's little book for children is a beau-ideal of my own, and of course it suits. From D. G. HEFFRON, Sup't. Schools, Utica. The School Committee have adopted Schell's Arithmetic for our public schools Send us three hundred. AN INTELLECTUAL AND PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC; The same clearness and conciseness characterize this admirable book that belong to the works of Prof. Dodd. The natural arrangements of the text, and the logical mode of solving the questions, is a peculiar and important feature belonging to this book alone. From PROF. C. M. WRIGHT. I have examined with care and interest Enos' Mental Arithmetic, and shall intro duce it at once into the Academy. From PROFS. D. I. PINCKNEY, S. M. FELLOWS, S. SEARLE, Rock River Seminary We have examined an intellectual Arithmetic, by J. L. Enos, and like it much We shall immediately use it in our school. PROF. PALMER'S BOOK-KEEPING; Key and Blanks. 67 cents. This excellent book is superior to the books generally used, because: 1. It contains a large number of business blanks to be filled by the learner, such as deeds, mortgages, agreements, assignments, &c., &c. 2. Explanations from page to page, from article to article, and to settle principles of law in relation to deeds, mortgages, &c., &c. 3. The exercises are to be written out, after being calculated. In other works, the pupil is expected to copy, merely. Palmer's Book-Keeping is used in the New York Public Schools, and extensively in Academies, It is recommended by Horace Webster, LL. D., G. B. Docharty, LL. D., and a large number of accountants and teachers. REV. P. BULLIONS' ENGLISH AND CLASSICAL SERIES, LATIN LESSONS, WITH EXERCISES IN PARSING. By Geo. Spencer, A. M. Half cloth, enlarged.. 0 63 BULLIONS' PRINCIPLES OF LATIN GRAMMAR. 1.00 BULLIONS' LATIN READER. With an Introduction on the Idioms of the Latin 1 00 BULLIONS' CESAR'S COMMENTARIES.... 1 00 BULLIONS' CICERO'S ORATIONS. With reference both to Bullions', and Andrew's, and Stoddard's Latin Grammar. 1 13 BULLIONS' GREEK READER. With Introduction on the Idioms of the Greek 175 1 25 2.00 BULLIONS' LATIN EXERCISES. COOPER'S VIRGIL.. In this series of books, the three Grammars, English, Latin, and Greek, are all on the same plan. The general arrangement, definitions, rules, &c., are the same, and expressed in the same language, as nearly as the nature of the case would admit. To those who study Latin and Greek, much time and labor, it is believed, will be saved by this method, both to teacher and pupil. The analogy and peculiarities of the different languages being kept in view, will show what is common to all, or pecu liar to each; the confusion and difficulty unnecessarily occasioned by the use of elementary works differing widely from each other in language and structure, will be avoided, and the progress of the student rendered much more rapid, easy, and satisfactory. No series of Grammars, having this object in view, has heretofore been prepared, and the advantages which they offer cannot be obtained in an equal degree by the study of any other Grammars now in use. They form a complete course of elementary books, in which the substance of the latest and best Grammars in each language has been compressed into a volume of convenient size, beautifully printed on superior paper, neatly and strongly bound, and are put at the lowest prices at which they can be afforded. The elementary works intended to follow the Grammars-namely, the Latin Reader and the Greek Reader-are also on the SAME PLAN; are prepared with special references to these works, and contain a course of elementary instruction so unique and simple as to furnish great facilities to the student in these languages. NOTICES. From PROF. C. S. PENNEL, Antioch College, Ohio. Bullions' books, by their superior arrangement and accuracy, their completeness as a series, and the references from one to the other, supply a want more perfectly than any other books have done. They bear the marks of the instructor as well as the scholar. It requires more than learning to make a good school-book. From J. B. THOMPSON, A. M., late Rector of the Somerville Classical Institute, N. J. I use Bullions' works-all of them-and consider them the best of the kind that bave been issued in this or any other language. If they were universally used we would not have so many superficial scholars, and the study of the classics would be more likely to serve the end for which it was designed-the strengthening and adorning of the mind. From A. C. RICHARDS, ESQ., Clay Co., Ga. We think Bullions' Latin Grammar, in the arrangement of its syntax and the conciseness of its rules, the manner of treating prosody, and the conjugations of the verbs, superior to any other. If his Greek Reader is as good as the Latin Reader, we shall introduce it. It is almost superfluous to publish notices of books so extensively used. Within the last few months Dr. Bullions' English Grammar has been introduced into the Public, and many of the Private Schools, the Latin School, the English High School, the City Normal School, of the city of Boston; Normal Schools of Bridgewater and Westfield; Marlborough Academy; cities of Salem, Newburyport, &c., Mass.; Portsmouth, Concord, and several academies in New Hampshire; and re-adopted in Albany and Troy, New York. They are used in over seventy_academies in New York, and in many of the most flourishing institutions in every State of the Union. Also, in the Public Schools of Washington, D. C., and of Canada, in Oregon and Australia. The classical Series has been introduced into several colleges, and it is not too much to say that Bullions' Grammars bid fair to become the Standard Grammars of the country. The Publishers feel justified in claiming that the Students' Series is decidedly the best for teaching reading, and spelling that has yet appeared. The plan of teaching includes, in the first steps, an ingenious and original mode of repetition which is very pleasing and encouraging to the pupil. The first books of the series are very instructive, and the later portions consist of fine selections, which are not hackneyed. Prof. Page, late Principal of the New York State Normal School, said of this system: "It is the best I ever saw for teaching the first principles of Reading." Such testimony is of the highest value, and none need be afraid to use the books on such a recommendation. The numerous notices from all parts of the country where these books have been used, cannot be introduced here. They have just gone into the schools of Seneca County, N. Y., without solicitation; and the same is true of many important schools where they have been examined. From C. B. CRUMB, N. Y. The Students' Series is, in my opinion, the best in use. I believe a class of young students will learn twice as much, with the same labor, as they would from any other system. The books of this Series excel in the purity and attraction of their style I have introduced them. DR. COMSTOCK'S SERIES OF BOOKS ON THE SCIENCES, viz: $0.42 1 00 ELEMENTS OF CHEMISTRY. Adapted to the present state of the Science..... 1 00 1 25 OUTLINES OF PHYSIOLOGY, both Comparative and Human. To which is added 1 25 NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS. Illustrated with numerous Cuts.. valuable feature.... NATURAL HISTORY OF BEASTS. Ditto.. 1 00 30 50 50 All the above works are fully illustrated by elegant cuts. The Philosophy has been republished in Scotland, and translated for the use o schools in Prussia. The many valuable additions to the work by its transatlantic editors, Prof. Lees, of Edinburgh, and Prof. IIoblyn, of Oxford, have been embraced by the author in his last revision. The Chemistry has been entirely revised, and contains all the late discoveries, together with methods of analyzing minerals and metals. Portions of the series are in course of publication in London. Such testimony, in addition to the general good testimony of teachers In this country, is sufficient to warrant us in saying that no works on similar subjects can equal them, or have ever been so extensively used. Continual applications are made to the publishers to replace the Philosophy in schools where, for a time, it has given way to other booke. The style of Dr. Comstock is so clear, and his arrangement is so excellent, that no writer can be found to excel him for school purposes, and he takes constant pains to include new discoveries, and to consult eminently scientific men. HON. J. OLNEY'S GEOGRAPHICAL SERIES. PPIMARY GEOGRAPHY; with Colored Maps. 25 cents. QUARTO GEOGRAPHY; with elegant Cuts, Physical Geogra phy Tables, Map of the Atlantic Ocean, &c. 75 cents. OLNEY'S SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY AND ATLAS. Containing Ancient Geography, Physical Geography, Tables, an entirely new Chart of the World, to show its physical contorination, as adapted to purposes of commerce, and also for the purpose of reviewing classes; also a Chronological Table of Discoveries. $1 12. OLNEY'S OUTLINE MAPS. Of the World, United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Canada, with Portfolio and Book of Exercises. $6. All the recent improvements are included in Olney's Quarto and School Geographies. They are not obsolete or out of date, but fully "up to the times." In elegance or completeness they are not surpassed. Mr. Olney commenced the plan of simplifying the first lesson, and teaching a child by what is familiar, to the exclusion of astronomy. He commenced the plan of having only those things represented on the maps which the pupil was required to learn. He originated the system of classification, and of showing the government, religion, &c., by symbols. He first adopted the system of carrying the pupil over the earth by means of the Atlas. His works first contained cuts, in which the dress, architecture, animals, internal improvements, &c., of each country are grouped, so as to be seen at one view. His works first contained the world as known to the Ancients, as an aid to Ancient History, and a Synopsis of Physical Geography, with maps. In short, we have seen no valuable feature in any geography which has not originally appeared in these works; and we think it not too much to claim that, in many respects, most other works are copies of these. We think that a fair and candid examination will show that Olney's Atlas is the largest, most systematic, and complete of any yet published, and that the Quarto and Modern School Geographies contain more matter, and that better arranged, than any similar works; and they are desired to test the claims here asserted. It is impossible to give here more than a fractional part of the recommendations, of the first order, which the publishers have received for the foregoing list of books. Enough has been given to show the claims of the books to examination and use. All these works are made in very neat, durable style, and are sold as low as a moderate remuneration will allow. Copies supplied to teachers for their own use at one-fifth off from the retail price, and postage paid. Large institutions are furnished sample copies without charge. FARMER, BRACE & Co. No. 4 Cortlandt Street, New York. |