New Reading Books---The Best in the English Language, HILLARD'S READERS, NEW SERIES. Hillard's Sixth Reader. Hillard's Fourth Reader, Illustrated. In the Fourth, Intermediate, Fifth and Sixth Readers, a few of the most approved selections in the compiler's former series are reproduced; but the selections, for the most part, are derived from other sources: and the examination of English literature has been very extensive, to find a variety of pieces of intrinsic worth and permanent merit. The Primary Readers were chiefly prepared by a gentleman long engaged in teaching, and of much practical experience in all that relates to education, but under Mr. Hillard's direct and careful supervision. They contain lessons in Enunciation, with brief directions to teachers, and selections in verse and prose for reading lessons. The Exercises in Enunciation are such as can easily be used by young children, with the aid of the teacher. These books are beautifully illustrated with original designs by BILLINGS, engraved by JOHN ANDREW. The sale of nearly 300,000 of the Primary Readers since their publication a few years since, is an evidence of their popularity. Great care has been taken to select ENTERTAINING, CHOICE, and SPIRITED pieces and that the different numbers of the NEW SERIES should be CAREFULLY GRADUATED to the capacity of the classes for which they are designed. RECOMMENDATIONS. "They seem to me an admirable series of Readers, excellently adapted to the wants of the school-room. I hope soon to introduce the Sixth Reader into our classes. Prof. Wm. Russell, who is now giving our School a series of lessons in Elocution, highly commends the series. A. G. BOYDEN, A. M., Principal of the State Normal School, Bridgewater, Mass." "I have taken the first opportunity to examine Hillard's Fifth and Sixth Readers. The introductory treatise on Elocution presents the principles of this art in a clear light, and will be found of great value to teachers and students. I have long known Prof. Bailey as an accomplished teacher of Elocution, and I am glad to see his instructions placed in a form to benefit those who may not be able to hear him. The selections are wisely made, and are adapted to class exercises, while the biographical and historical notes will add auch value to the books for class instruction. HON. DAVID N. CAMP, Supt. of Schools, Connecticut " "The entire set, enriched by large additions from modern authors in the later volumes, is an excellent one for general use in academies or private schools. The editor has not only made careful and judicious selections, but has brought to his task a large degree of sympathy with the wants of pupils, which enables him to set forth the essential rules of elocution in a simple and attractive form. He would be but a poor scholar who should fail to understand lessons so plainly given."-[N. Y. Evening Post. "The high literary cultivation and excellent taste of the compiler have left their impress on every page of the selections. These have been made from authors of sig nal merit, and embrace many of the finest specimens among the masterpieces of English composition. They are accompanied by biographical and critical notes of great value by the compiler, and an introductory treatise on Elocution by Prof. Bailey of Yale College. The habitual use of this series as a reading-book would be almost an education in itself. It initiates the young pupil into the healthiest and sweetest literature, gives him a tempting foretaste of the treasures contained in books, makes him familiar with the style of the greatest authors, and encircles him with an atmosphere of fragrant thoughts and high sentiments. We trust these admirable class-books will not escape the notice of teachers among ourselves, though published in another city, as, without unhandsome comparison, they have been rarely if ever equaled by popular selections."-[New York Tribune. "The entire set is pure in its morals and American in its character,"-Christian Advocate and Journal, New York. School Officers and Teachers are invited to address the Publishers. Copies of the books will be furnished to Teachers and School Officers for examination, or they will be sent by mail on receipt of the postage, which is for the Sixth, 24 cents; Fifth, 16 cents; Intermediate, 12 cents; Fourth, 12 cents; Third Primary, 12 cents; Second Primary, 8 cents; and First Primary, 8 cents. BREWER & TILESTON, 131 Washington street, Boston. Feb., 1864. H. W. ELLSWORTH, Author, Teacher of Penmanship in the Public Schools of New York City. This system is now admitted to be the most EXTENSIVE, PERFECT and PRACTICAL yet published. It is eminently adapted to meet the wants of Schools, and learners of every grade, being the result of extensive practical experience in teaching. It comprises : FOR PRIMARIES. I. A Blackboard Chart of Letters, II. A Series of Copy Slips, (66 Nos.) FOR GRAMMAR AND HIGH SCHOOLS, III. A Series of Copy Books (8 Nos.) per doz. $1.25 1.25 $1.50 1.25 1.00 IV. A Text Book for Teachers, &c., E. F. Steel Pens, per gross, Teachers and Committees desiring the adoption of the best system, can not consistently make a selection without examining these Copy Books. To such, desiring specimens for examination, with a view of introduction, in good faith, sample numbers will be sent free, on receipt of 10 cents for postage; others will remit 10 cents for each number. Purchasers will find decided advantages in dealing directly with the author. H. W. ELLSWORTH, 817 and 819 Broadway, New York City. Send for a Circular of ELLSWORTH'S MODEL WRITING AND BOOK-KEEPING INSTITUTE, for the preparation of Teachers of Penmanship and Book-keeping. Employment is guarantied to all graduates who desire it. Feb., 1864. CAMP'S GEOGRAPHICAL SERIES. CAMP'S PRIMARY GEOGRAPHY, Prepared to accompany Mitchell's Outline Maps, and designed for Primary Schools anu Classes. Price forty cents. This is a sensible book, and presents some important features in striking contrast with other Primary Geographies. Its DEFINITIONS are illustrated on the true method of "object teaching,”— first showing and describing the object, then giving the name. The MAP GEOGRAPHY, of which there is a most judicious selection, is arranged so that it can be recited and illustrated from the Outline Maps. The DESCRIPTIVE PARTS are brief, but interesting, and the selection of matter throughout is such as young pupils may easily comprehend and study with profit. CAMP'S INTERMEDIATE GEOGRAPHY, Prepared to accompany Mitchell's Outline Maps, and designed for Intermediate Schools and Classes. Price sixty cents. This book contains: 1st. INTRODUCTORY LESSON. 2d. GEOGRAPHICAL DEFINITIONS, illustrated by picture and map representations of the principal bodies of land and water. 3d. MAPS, on the plan of the Outline Maps, each followed by a Key and Questions for map exercises. 4th. DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY, presenting in a concise form the more important geographical facts relating to each country and the principal cities, and in addition, such peculiar characteristics as are the most striking, and such as will be the most useful to pupils. 5th. GENERAL QUESTIONS, following the description of each grand division, designed as review questions for the Book and Outline Maps. 6th. A PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY of all the geographical names used in the book. CAMP'S HIGHER GEOGRAPHY, Prepared to accompany Mitchell's Outline Maps, and designed for Grammar and High Schools, and the higher classes of District Schools. Price $1.20. This is a new book, on the plan of the INTErmediate Geography, but more extensive. It contains a complete Key to the Outline Maps, a more full description of countries, and an outline of Physical Geography. CAMP'S MAPPING PLATES, Corresponding in size and scales with the maps in the Intermediate and Higher Geographies. Price thirty cents for set of nine plates. MITCHELL'S OUTLINE MAPS, Revised, improved, and important new maps added, by DAVID N. CAMP, Principal of the Connecticut State Normal School, and Superintendent of Common Schools. Price, $15.00 per set. CAMP'S GEOGRAPHIES have a unity of plan, and a conciseness and perspicuity of style, rarely found in a series of school-books; while the use of the OUTLINE MAPS, combined with lessons from the Geographies, is systematized, simplified, and made in the highest degree practical. With this Series, a thorough course of Geography may be obtained more easily, and in much less time than is usually given to the study. Copies will be sent by mail, for examination, on receipt of half the retail price. O. D. CASE & CO., Publishers. HARTFORD, CONN. IMPORTANT LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENT. CROSBY AND NICHOLS RESPECTFULLY ANNOUNCE THAT THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, Which has for the last ten years been so ably conducted by Dr. Peabody, passes now into the editorial charge of PROF. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, AND CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, ESQ., gentlemen who, for sound and elegant scholarship, have achieved an enviable reputation, both in this country and in Europe, and whose taste, education, and experience, thorough loyalty and sympathy with the progressive element of the times, eminently qualify them for the position they have assumed. "THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW" is too well known to the literary world to require an extended notice. The ablest and most permanent publication of the kind in America, (see Appleton's Cyclopedia,) it has through all the changes of management sustained its high position as the leading review of this country, and as an able representative of American mind. Constantly maintaining a high character both for style and critical ability, its influence has been widely felt, and has largely contributed to make American literature what it is. From its commencement it has enlisted the pens of our ablest writers. Its list of editors and contributors includes nearly all our most distinguished authors, and some of our greatest statesmen and jurists, and the reputation of our best known essayists and reviewers are mainly founded upon their contributions to its pages. "THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW" will maintain in the hands of its new editors its established reputation for independent criticism, and for well-considered opinions in politics and literature. In discussing political and social questions, the spirit of the Review will be thoroughly national and loyal. It will defend and illustrate the distinctive principles on which the institutions of America are founded. In literature it will avail itself of the best material of thought and scholarship which the country can supply. In its criticism it will have no ends to serve but those of sound learning and good morals. Bound by strong associations to the past, in sympathy with the present, hopeful for the future, the Review will do its part in the intellectual movement of the times. "THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW" is published quarterly on the first days of January, April, July, and October, in numbers of about three hundred pages each, containing matter equal to four ordinary octavo volumes. TERMS.-Five dollars a year, or one dollar and twenty five cents per number. A new volume of the Review commences with the January number, and the publishers trust that the increased expenditures consequent upon the changes proposed in the future conduct of the work will be met by a generous increase of the patronage of the public. CROSBY & NICHOLS, Publishers, Feb., 1864 117 Washington Street, Boston. |