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ECLECTIC PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE. Entirely new. Profusely Illustrated with engravings and colored plates. Adapted to Common and High Schools. About 208 pp. Full cloth. Introduction and sample copy price 60 cents. Exchange price 36 cents.

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ECLECTIC PRIMARY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. By EDWARD S. ELLIS. The most beautiful and interesting primary history published. More than 100 illustrations by the best artists. About 208 pp. Square 12 mo., hf. roan, cloth sides. Introduction and sample copy price 50 cents. Exchange price 30 cents.

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ECLECTIC SYSTEM OF DRAWING. Industrial and Free Hand Draw. ing. By Miss CHRISTINA SULLIVAN, Teacher of Drawing in the Cincinnati Public Schools. In 12 Numbers.

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NEW ECLECTIC GEOGRAPHIES. Two Book Series. The latest and best. Adopted for St. Louis, Cleveland, Milwaukee, New York, Jersey City, etc.

WHITE'S NEW ARITHMETICS. Two Book Series. Uniting Oral and Written Processes, and Embodying the Inductive Method.

NEW ECLECTIC PENMANSHIP.

Revised and re-engraved.

THE POPULAR STANDARDS:

McGuffey's Revised Readers, Speller and Charts,

Ray's New Arithmetics and Algebras,

Harvey's Revised Grammars,

Eclectic History of the United States,

Thalheimer's Historical Series,

Schuyler's Series of Mathematics, etc.

CATALOGUE FREE ON APPLICATION.

VAN ANTWERP, BRAGG & CO., Publishers,

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Worman's Modern Language Series.

GERMAN.

First German Book, after the Natural or Pestalozzian Method, for Schools and Home Instruction. 12mo, 69 pages. 30 cents.

Second German Book, intended to continue the work of the First Book, but also very valuable as a Reading Book in Elementary classes. 12mo, 84 pages.

40 cents.

These little books work marvels in the school-room. The exercises are so developed out of pictured objects and actions, and are so well graduated, that almost from the very outset they go alone. A beginner would have little use for a dictionary in reading them. The words are so introduced, and so often used, that the meaning is kept constantly before the mind, without the intervention of a translation.

An Elementary German Grammar. An easy introduction to the language. 24mo, 300 pages. $100.

A Complete German Grammar. A full and comprehensive treatment of the language for School or Home, with a comprehensive Vocabulary giving Synonymical Equivalents. $1.40.

An Elementary German Reader, carefully graded by extensive notes, making it serviceable to the very beginner. 12mo, 145 pages 90 cents.

A Collegiate German Reader, or Introduction to German Literature. With philological notes and references to the Grammars, and an adequate Dictionary. 12mo, 525 pages. $1.25.

A Manual of German Conversation-the "German Echo." For practice in the spoken language. 203 pages. 90 cents.

It presupposes an elementary knowledge of the language, such as may be acquired from the First German Book, by Professor Worman, and furnishes A RUNNING GERMAN TEXT, allowing the learner, of course, to find the meaning of the words (in the appended Vocabulary), and forcing him, by the absence of English in the text, to think in German.

Copy-Books for Instruction in German Script. Nos. I-III. 15 cents each. FRENCH.

First French Book, after the Natural or Pestalozzian Method, for Schools and Home Instruction (on the same plan as the German). 12mo, 83 pages. 40

cents

Second French Book-Following the First Book in order, or to be used as an Elementary French Reader 50 cents.

Grammaire Francaise, containing only the Essentials of French Grammar, and pointing out the variations of the French from the English. 12mo, 184 pages. $1.00

This book, in perfect accord with the best prevailing methods of language-teaching, should supersede, in American schools, all French Grammars written only for French schools in

France.

Teacher's Hand-Book to the Grammaire Francaise, furnishing the English Teacher ample material for successful use of this book. 12mo, 140 pages. $1.00.

A Manual of French Conversation-the "Echo de Paris." man Echo." 12mo. 212 pages.

90 cents.

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C'est un véritable trésor, merveilleusement adapté au développement de la conversation familière et pratique, telle qu'on la veut aujourd'hui. Cet excellent livre met successivement en scène, d'une manière vive et intéressante, toutes les circonstances possibles de la vie ordinaire.

SPANISH.

First Spanish Book, after the Natural Method (like the German). 12mo, 96 pages. 40 cents."

A. S. BARNES & CO., Publishers.

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American Standard Geographies.

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APPLETONS' GEOGRAPHIES were constructed in accordance with the views of advanced teachers.

APPLETONS' GEOGRAPHIES contain just the amount and kind of knowl.

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on this subject that should be given in a school course.

APPLETONS' GEOGRAPHIES give especial prominence to leading indus

tries and commerce, and their relation to the physical conditions of the country.

APPLETONS' GEOGRAPHIES introduce topics according to their logical development, so as to make each step forward intelligible to the pupil. APPLETONS' GEOGRAPHIES combine beauty of illustration and typography with every element of mechanical superiority.

APPLETONS' GEOGRAPHIES retain the useful, discard the useless, APPLETONS' GEOGRAPHIES embody a natural and philosophical system of instruction.

APPLETONS' GEOGRAPHIES are up to date, statistically, artistically, and educationally.

APPLETONS' GEOGRAPHIES promptly records all geographical changes. APPLETONS' GEOGRAPHIES are, in the best and highest sense, the books of the period.

APPLETONS' GEOGRAPHIES have already become what their title indi cates the Standard.

A specimen copy of Appletons' Higher Geography, containing the new Time Standard, for examination, will be forwarded, post-paid, on receipt of the introduction price.

D. APPLETON & CO., Publishesr,

New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco.

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THE

Educational Journal of Virginia.

Vol. XV.

Richmond, Va., July, 1884.

No. 7.

The Teacher's Professional Library.

It is now beginning to be understood that education is a sciencethat it has fundamental principles susceptible of classification and systematic development. This idea is not yet thoroughly incorporated into the mind of this State, but it is gradually spreading. The idea that anybody can teach school—that a man who is a failure in other vocations will succeed at teaching—is losing its hold on the public mind. It is beginning to be accepted that a man, to make a successful teacher, must have proper training. All men recognize this necessity in the case of the physician, the lawyer, the engineer, the artist. It is difficult to see why this training may be wanting, as is alleged, in a profession which in its true development and faithful exercise demands the solution of far higher problems than any of them. That the need for such training is gaining a firmer hold on the public mind is evinced by the establishment of Normal Schools and the more hearty support given by the teachers themselves to Normal Institutes. Some of our colleges are recognizing this need by establishing chairs of Pedagogics or by providing courses of lectures on professional culture. The existence of this need is not new to those who have studied the subject to any considerable extent. The public mind is gradually being permeated by it. Teaching is rising from a mere vocation to the dignity of a profes

sion.

Education has been regarded by some as simply furnishing the means whereby the individual may become a more skillful and successful "bread-winner." This is a worthy end, but it is not the supreme end in education. The great end of education is the development and cultivation of the faculties of the human mind, so as to produce mental power, to impart information and to form, as the ultimate result, noble character. The work of the teacher is, then, no easy task.

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