Our Book Table. STATES. Mason Brothers, 5 and 7 Mercer street. We have great pleasure in calling the attention of our readers to the merits of this work. We not be able to keep the fact to yourself. There is a community where they need just such a person, and you are the very one. Let us labor, and wait. Let us not be content with any present attainments. LOSSING'S PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED We must grow with the age. We must not find ourselves the same identical person from year to year, but rather reaching higher and nobler attainments. We are now passing through a mighty and radical have before us The Primary History and the Hisrevolution as a people. As a nation we shall soon tory for schools and families, both of which we stand on a loftier plane of being; all else must have carefully examined, and do not hesitate to keep pace. Our theory and practice in the great pronounce them the best histories of our country system of education is gradually changing. Let that can be put into the hands of the young. The whole arrangement of the work we much admire. It is divided into six chapters, each containing the record of an important period. Chapter 1, Aborigines; chapter 2, Discoveries; chapter 3, Settlements; chapter 4, The Colonies; chapter 5, The Revolution; chapter 6, The Confederation; with us then set out anew as we stand upon the thresh hold of the new year; gird on our armor and rush boldly into the strife. As editors of THE SCHOOLMASTER, we can only say, that two years have passed since we assumed the guardianship of its columns, and we have done what we could to make our journal worthy of its a Supplement. Not only the events, but their mission. If in any degree, however slight, we have aided in the promotion of the welfare of THE SCHOOLMASTER, and thereby the good of our State, we are rewarded. If we have failed to meet the wishes of our friends, in any respect, it should be set down as an error of the head rather than the heart. causes, are given, and much information in the HATTIE'S TOUR IN THE EAST. Sheldon & Co., During the past two years our subscription list has suffered some depletion. This has been chiefThis series of books, six in number, will describe ly owing to the war and its consequences. The the visit of a company of young tourists to the present advance of the price of paper will affect most interesting and sacred spots on earth, and us seriously. We hope our journal will be foster-will be published in the following order: Hattie' in Egypt, Hattie in Jerusalem, Hattie in the North Country, Hattie in Constantinople, Hattie in Athens. The first of the series, Hattie in Egypt, we have ed and cherished by all lovers of our noble cause. Especially do we urge it upon the attention of teachers actively engaged in the calling. We need one hundred new subscribers, and those, provided none withdraw, will enable us to go on as hitherto. Teachers! will you take care of your journal, the only medium through which your thoughts and plans can be professionally communicated? read aloud to our little ones, and do not hesitate to say, that if the Author had been present at our We wish you A HAPPY NEW YEAR, and with it readings, he would have felt that his object had we bless you for your sympathy and cooperation in the past, while we join hands and hearts in the been fully gained; for the oldest, as well as the work before us. When our sun has set upon the youngest, was absorbed with interest, and a young last year, when the mantle of our profession shall lady who is in an advanced class at school, exhave been folded and laid away, when we lie down claimed, at its close, There, I have learned more of Egypt from that little book than I ever learned at school." to our final sleep, let an anthem of praise from a grateful posterity forever sing our requiem. Ir is really cheering to receive such letters as the following. It is from a lady teacher who only utters the obligation that every teacher should acknowledge and act upon : 66 This book contains a great amount of useful information, as its name implies. Practical knowledge is the demand of the people; but how little there is to meet this demand. Familiar things are generally the least understood, and the inquiring, active minds of children are often blunted by the "don't knows" with NORTHBRIDGE, Jan. 4, 1863. Dear Schoolmaster :· :-I had about concluded to ask you to discontinue THE SCHOOLMASTER to me for the present, but cannot feel quite justified in so doing; have therefore decided to send a dollar. frowning silence and angry year. and ask you to send THE SCHOOLMASTER another which their many questions are met. Parents, as well as teachers, will find all these questions anI think every teacher ought to help sustain an ed-swered here, "in language so simple that a child ucational journal, and I feel particularly anxious that the one in my own State shall be sustained. Respectfully, N. S. B. may understand, yet not so childish as to offend the scientific." THE FLORENCE STORIES. York. Sheldon & Co., New will be published every month. The teacher's desk will contain a great variety of rebuses, Puzzles, enigmas and charades, which have in former sands of its young readers, and a collection of years made it the favorite department of thou"pithy and pointed" maxims, and "curious and amusing" facts, conundrums and anecdotes. Each number will also contain a piece of music suitable for use in the school and family. The English Channel. This is the fourth in the series of these interesting stories for the young by Jacob Abbott. If our little readers have read them carefully, and remember half they have read, we are sure they have a good deal of useful information treasured up, and are eager to add to it,for one great object of books for the young should be to create a desire to read. This is what Abbott does, in a peculiar manner, and he has hundreds of little readers all ready to welcome this new book and join the young travellers in their trip among the Channel Islands. Older ones may read it, with much profit and no less pleasure. It is beautifully illustrated, and should be found by the side of its three predecessors on the shelf of every juvenile library. THE INDEPENDENT.-This weekly religious, literary and family journal, edited by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Rev. Joshua Leavitt, D. D. and Theodore Tilton, having a circulation, it is stated, more than double that of any similar newspaper in the world, gives notice in its issue of the first of January, that its subscription price will not be increased, nor its size diminished-that the same terms, viz., two dollars per annum, will be continued, notwithstanding the great advance in white paper. The same array of distinguished contributors, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rev. Messrs. Hatfield and Cuyler, Horace Greeley, Whittier, the poet, and others; also, a sermon by Mr. Beecher, will continue to enrich its columns. THE STUDENT AND SCHOOLMATE FOR 1863. liam T. Adams, (Oliver Optic), editor. James & Co., publishers, No. 15 Cornhill, ton. The publishers, as heretofore, will spare no efforts, no pains or expense, to maintain the high character of the Student and Schoolmate, and to make it a pleasing as well as a safe and instructive Price $1.00 per year, in advance. companion for the children of the United States. ILLUSTRATED SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. The Best Co., publishers, 37 Park Row, New York. The Scientific American is indispensable to every scriptions of nearly all the best inventions as they inventor, as it not only contains illustrated decome out, but each number contains an official list of the claims of all the patents issued from the vious; thus giving a correct history of the proUnited States Patent Office during the week pregress of inventions in this country. We are also receiving, every week, the best scientific journals of Great Britain, France and Germany; thus placing in our possession all that is transpiring in meWil- chanical science and art in these old countries Galen We shall continue to transfer to our columns copiBos-ous extracts from these journals of whatever we may deem of interest to our readers. A pamphlet of instruction as to the best mode of obtaining letters patent on new inventions, is furnished free on application. It is now entering upon its twelfth volume, and an appreciative public has awarded to it a success rarely attained by any similar publication. The publishers intend to maintain the high standard which has given the work its present popularity, useful journal to chemists, architects, millwrights The Scientific American will be found a most and they will continue to employ writers of ac- and farmers. All the new discoveries in the sciknowledged ability to supply its pages with first class juvenile matter. The magazine will contain the interests of the architect and carpenter are ence of chemistry are given in its columns, and stories for children, which shall possess sufficient, interest to challenge the attention of young read-coveries appertaining to these pursuits being pubnot overlooked; all the new inventions and disers, while they impart the highest moral lessons. lished from week to week. Useful and practical Scientific subjects will be treated in a familiar information pertaining to the interests of millstyle, and the facts and phenomena of natural wrights and mill-owners will be found in the Scihistory, natural philosophy, astronomy and chem-entific American, which information they cannot istry will be presented in an attractive manner, possibly obtain from any other source. Subjects and upon the level of the child's understanding. in which farmers are interested will be found disHistory, biography and current topics will receive cussed in the Scientific American; most of the ima due share of attention, and will be rendered attractive by careful preparation expressly for the provements in agricultural implements being illuspages of this work. A speech for declamation, illustrated, and marked for emphasis and gesture Terms to mail subscribers: Three collars a year, by a competent teacher, -a feature of the Student or one dollar for four months. The volumes comand Schoolmate which has been highly commend-mence on the first of January and July. Specied by practical instructors-will appear in each men copies will be sent gratis to any part of the number. An original dialogue, adapted to the country. trated in its columns. wants of school, associations and social circles,- Western and Canadian money or post-office a department in which this magazine has been stamps taken at par for subscriptions. Canadian without a rival, and which has been universally subscribers will please to remit twenty-five cents appreciated among those for whom it is intended-'extra on each year's subscription to prepay postage. . MASON BROTHERS, Nos. 5 and 7 Mercer St., New York, Respectfully invite the attention of Teachers and others to several new School Books, the publica tion of which they certainly would not have undertaken in these hard times had they not been thoroughly convinced of their striking and very important superiority. I. WELLS PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, FOR GRAMMAR, INTERMEDIATE AND COMMON SCHOOLS BY WALTER WELLS, A. M. 128 pages, quarto, with Maps, Charts, Diagrams and Pictorial Illustrations. Price, 85 cents. Characteristics of this new text-book in this important and interesting study, are : — 1. It is a book for Common as well as High Schools. Pupils who can read with tolerable profi-* ciency may profitably commence its study. 2. It is the work of a practical Teacher of much experience. The plan and its execution, therefore, are not based on theory or observation alone, but are the result of actual experiment. 3. It treats of such geographical facts as are most general, wide-reaching and comprehensive. Mere details are vigorously excluded, save where they illustrate universal laws and principles. It is perhaps an even greater fault in a school book to attempt to teach too much, than to fail in presenting quite enough. It is hoped that in this book the proper medium is attained. 4. While facts are set forth logically and compactly, and throughout in the direct didactic style, the causes and reasons for the facts are formally though briefly discussed, so as to discipline the understanding as well as the memory. This plan is 5. The matter is arranged in alternate questions, or catch words, and answers. adopted as economizing space, affording better opportunity for conciseness with perspicuity, and rendering the page open and attractive. The questions are short throughout, and the answers gradually increasing in length. Marginal notes serve as a sort of index to the subject matter. 6. The Maps, Charts and Diagrams have been carefully prepared with reference to practical use, fulness. 7. The type is large and plain, the paper clear and white, and the page open and attractive. II. PINNEY & ARNOULT'S FRENCH GRAMMAR, Combining the Oral and Theoretic Methods, and teaching Pronunciation. BY NORMAN PINNEY AND EMILE ARNOULT. Crown 8vo., 520 pages. Price. $1.25. Also, KEY to above, price 75 cents. f This Grammar is pronounced by competent teachers, more complete than any other, combining many important improvements. “A great improvement upon all the works of the kind hitherto published."—[Prof. P. J. Darey, Montreal. "The best work that has ever been published to facilitate the acquisition of the French by the English scholar."-[Jacob Batchelder, Principal of the Salem High School. "A great many valuable improvements."-Prof. J. J. Burnier, New York. "Needs only to be known to take the precedence over all others now in use."-[Boston Transcript. II. WILLIAMS' ENGLISH INTO FRENCH. A Book for Practice in French Conversation. On a new plan. By F. S. WILLIAMS. 12mo. Price, $1. This book is designed for use in connection with any of the speaking French Grammars. Prepared, as it was, to meet a want experienced by the author in his own instructions, it has been received with much interest by the best teachers. "I value it particularly."-[Prof. Miel, Harvard College. "I find the book a valuable addition."— [Prof. Elie Charlier, French Institute, New York. "I think the work will supply a great desideratum."-[Thomas Sherwin, Esq., Principal English High School, Boston. "It surpasses any other book in affording the learner facilities for improvement in French conversation."-[Francis Gardner, Esq., Principal Latin High School, Boston. IV. Pinney's Easy Lessons in Pronouncing and Speaking French. By NORMAN PINNEY. Price, 60 cents. A very easy first book for young beginners. V. REFFELT'S FIRST BOOK IN ARITHMETIC. By HERMAN REFFELT. Price, 20 cents. This modest little book is believed to be a very valuable one, presenting the subject in a manner as attractive and rational as it is new. CATALOGUES of our numerous publications sent gratuitously to any address. Any of the above books sent for examination. by mail, post-paid, on receipt of the price. Very favorable terms for first introduction. MASON BROTHERS, NEW York, Adapted to the Wants of Schools and Academies. BOOK I. A PRIMARY GEOGRAPHY On the Basis of the Object-Method of Enstruction ; Illustrated with numerous Engravings and Pictorial Maps. By FORDYCE A. ALLEN, Principal of the Chester County Normal School, West Chester, Pa. Quarto, 56 pp. Printed in Oil Colors. Retail price, 40 cents. Sent for examination, post-paid, to any teacher, on receipt of 25 cents. THE CLEVELAND (0.) TESTIMONIAL: To the Board of Education of Cleveland: GENTLEMEN : →→ We the undersigned, teachers in the public schools of Cleveland, having examined ALLEN'S PRIMARY GEOGRAPHY on the object-method of instruction, most respectfully ask that you may introduce that work into our schools. DR. THOMAS STERLING, Principal High School. W. W. CUSHING, Principal West St. Clair Grammar School. C. C. ROUNDS, Principal Pearl Street Grammar School. C. F. DUTTON, Principal Hicks Street Grammar School. One of the best evidences of the approval of the work here, is found in the fact that the Board of Education of this city, at the urgent instance of the teachers, unanimously adopted it for use in all the Primary and Secondary Public Schools of this city. L. M. OVIATT, Superintendent of Instruction, Cleveland, Ohio, BOOK II. AN INTERMEDIATE OR COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY, On the basis of the "Object-Method" of Instruction, embracing Physical, Political and Mathemati cal Geography, and so far as expedient, Ancient and Modern History: philosophically prepared and arranged for Common Schools. By FORDYCE A. ALLEN. (In preparation.) BOOK III. SMITH'S NEW GEOGRAPHY, Containing a concise Text and Explanatory Notes. Based on a combination of the Analytical, Synthetical and Comparative.Systems. With more than one hundred Maps, of Religion, Government, Civilization, Races, Countries, Roman Empire, Vicinities, Rain, Wind, Seasons, Isothermals, Solar System, etc., etc., and combining, with much new and valuable matter, many features not found in any other work of its class...By ROSWELL C. SMITH, A. M. Retail price, $1.00. Sent to teachers for examination on receipt of 50 cents. BOOK IV A COMPLETE PRONOUNGING GAZETTEER, Or Geographical Dictionary of th Word; a Teacher's and Pupil's Reference book, containing a notice and the Pronunciation of the names of nearly one hundred thousand places, with the most authentic information respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Mountains, Islands, Rivers, etc., in every portion of the Globe; and a complete Etymological Vocabulary of Geographical Names. By J. THOMAS, M. D., and T. BALDWIN. Price, $6.00. The Gazetteer, being the basis of the other books of the series, and an invaluable aid to the teacher, will be furnished, for the use of teachers and schools in connection with the Geographies, at a very low price. PUBLISHED BY J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia. Sargent's Standard Readers, Charts, &c. Sargent's Standard Series of Readers is now the leading Series used in the Eastern States, and in most of the principal cities of the Union, and comprise five carefully graded Readers, a Primer, and two Spelling Books. These Readers have met with unprecedented success; more than five millions of copies having already passed into schools. Their points of superiority are:-1. The appropriate character of the reading matter, and the great care evident in the preparation. 2. The drilling exercise, and the simple system of reference, by which accuracy in pronunciation is secured. 3. The Explana tory index, by which difficult words are explained, and a taste for etymology is inculcated. 4. Superiority in the careful graduation of the several Readers to different capacities; ease and simplicity being studied, and the labors of the teacher much lessened. 5. Superiority in the mechanical execution, paper, binding, &c., and, in the smaller books, in the wood-cuts. 6. In the Speller a scientific classification of words, with Dictation Exercises, combining all the modern improvements. The present publisher devotes his whole time exclusively to the manufacture and sale of these works. He has paid especial attention to the printing and binding, which have been greatly improved under his charge. The sales are constantly increasing. The testimonials as to the superiority of Sargent's Readers are so numerous, and from such high quarters, that we must refer Committees and Teachers to the pamphlet containing them, which may be had gratis, and postpaid, on application to the publisher. Copies of the Readers will be furnished gratis to School Committees and Teachers, who are desirous of examining the same, with a view to introduction into schools, on application to the publisher. Or they will be sent by mail, prepaid, when the amount of postage is sent in stamps. The postage rates are, on the Fifth Reader, 24 cents; the Fourth, 18 cents; the Third, 15 cents; the Second, 12 cents; and on the First, 9 cents; Standard Speller, 12 cents; Standard Primer, 6 cents; Smaller Standard Speller, 6 cents. The New Lithographed edition of Sargent's Standard School Charts (to accompany Sargent's Standard Readers) is now ready. The Charts are six in number, and each Chart is 22 by 28 inches in dimensions. The Charts may be had either on six single sheets, as they come from the stone, or mounted on three large cards with a Chart on each side. In sheets, these Charts may be nailed or pasted on a wall, and renewed at small expense, when defaced. The six lithographed Charts in sheets, will be sent, by mail, postpaid, for 75 cents. Mounted on Cards, they will be furnished at $1.50 for the set, or 50 cents a card. An explanatory pamphlet goes with them. Address SARGENT'S ORIGINAL DIALOGUES : A Collection for School and Family Reading and Representation. By EPES SARGENT, Author of the Standard Speakers, the Standard Readers, Spellers, &c. The few original Dialogues that Mr. Sargent has published having attained a rare popularity and been in extensive demand for School Exhibitions, &c., Mr. S. has yielded to the solicitations of many of our most eminent teachers in all parts of the country, and consented to prepare the new collection which we here announce. It forms a handsome large duodecimo of 336 pages, with a fine portrait of the author, engraved on steel, and with wood-cuts representing appropriate attitudes in dialogue delivery. Price, $1.00. The usual discount to the Trade. On receipt of one dollar, a copy will be sent, postage prepaid, to any teacher or pupil. From the National Intelligencer: "The dialogues are eminently adapted to representation; vivid, full of action, with characters well discriminated, and language never bordering on coarseness." From the New York Home Journal: The best collection of dialogues in the language. It ought to be introduced into every school in the country where elocution is taught." From the Gardiner (Me.) Home Journal: "Will be a favorite in every academy, high school, grammar school, or county school-everywhere where " boys are boys." It is decidedly the best collection of dialogues for youthful representation that we have ever examined." From the Chicago Democrat: "A book worth having. It is written in excellent style, and calculated to delight all intelligent boys and girls." From the Boston Post: These dialogues seem to be immensely popular with the boys. The book reached a third edition before it had been out ten days." From the Manchester (N. H.) Mirror : "Many a weary search have we had in our school days for just such a book as this." ... Sargent's dialogues are not only such as the young will read and recite with the keenest interest, but they are of a character to delight an audience, and to bring out the elocutionary talents of the speakers. JOHN L. SHOREY, 13 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. |