MERICAN SCHOOL FURNITURE WORKS, CORNER OF HAWKINS AND IVERS STREETS, BOSTON. JOSEPH L. ROSS, Proprietor. No. 8. Ross's New York Primary Double Desk and Chairs. The above and all other articles of SCHOOL FURNITURE are MANUFACTURED AND WARRANTED BY JOSEPH L. ROSS, Hawkins Street, Corner of Ivers Street, Boston. OSS takes pleasure in referring to the following gentlemen, who are acquainted with the quality of his work, viz. BILLINGS BRIGGS, Esq., Chairman of Committee on Public Buildings, from 1847 to 1852. JOHN P. OBER, Esq., Chairman of the above Committee for 1852. JAMES MCALLASTER, Esq., Superintendent of Public Buildings. MARITAN DISHON The following SCHOOL BOOKS, many of them recently published, are perhaps the most popular Books, as a Series, ever issued. Teachers and friends of education are respectfully requested to examine the same, under the assurance that they are already preferred by a large body of intelligent educators, viz. : BULLIONS'S SERIES OF GRAMMARS-English, Latin, Greek; and the ELEMENTARY CLASSICS, consisting of Practical Lessons in English Grammar; The Principles of English Grammar; An Analytical and Practical English Grammar; Introduction to do. ; Exercises in Parsing; (SPENCER'S) Latin Lessons; Latin Grammar; Latin Reader; Cæsar; Cicero; Sallust; (CoopER'S) Virgil; First Lessons in Greek; A Greek Grammar and Greek Reader. THE ANALYTICAL AND PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR is in use in the Public Schools of Boston, Normal School at Bridgewater, in Salem, Middleboro' Academy, Quincy, and over seventy Academies in New York, &c. DODD'S ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA, a new work. DODD'S ELEMENTARY AND PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC. DODD'S HIGH SCHOOL ARITHMETIC, containing Practical Mensuration, Exchange, Life Insurance, and Annuities. By J. B. DODD, A. M., President of Transylvania University. This last Book has just been introduced into the Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., Middleboro' Academy, Preparatory Department of the Normal School, West Newton, and other places in New England. COMSTOCK'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, just revised and enlarged. COMSTOCK'S ELEMENTS OF CHEMISTRY, just revised and enlarged. The Philosophy has been very greatly improved, and commands the admiration of teachers. Ericsson's Caloric Engine has been added. The Chemistry is again a new work, and contains much new matter. BROCKLESBY'S METEOROLOGY, including Rain, Wind, Waterspouts, Hail, Electricity, Aurora Borealis, &c., for High Schools. BROCKLESBY'S VIEWS OF THE MICROSCOPIC WORLD, one of the most interesting books ever published, also for High Schools. OLNEY'S SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY AND ATLAS, with the late CENSUS; a MAP OF THE WORLD, as known to the Ancients; and a MAP OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD. OLNEY'S QUARTO GEOGRAPHY, elegantly illustrated, including the Census and Physical Geography. These Maps are just revised and engraved by SHERMAN & SMITH, engravers for Government surveys. They contain all Railroads in operation, and other internal improvements, and are rapidly going into schools from which others had displaced them. THE STUDENT'S SPELLER, PRIMER, and READER, Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4. No Books recently published have created a greater sensation among Teachers than the Student's Series. D. P. PAGE, formerly of Mass., when Principal of the New York State Normal School, said of the system on which these readers are based, "It is the best system I ever saw for teaching the first principles of Reading. Books sent for examination on application by letter or otherwise. A complete assortment of School Books, besides the above Works, may be had of the Publishers, PRATT, WOODFORD & CO. No. 4 Cortlandt Street, New York. FOR SCHOOLS, RETAILERS, MECHANICS, FARMERS, ETC. E. C. & J. BIDDLE, No. 6 So. Fifth Street, Philadelphia, HAVE JUST PUBLISHED "AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON BOOK-KEEPING, by Single and Double Entry, designed for Common Schools, by S. WORCESTER CRITTENDEN." The work has been prepared with reference to the capacity of pupils of "Common" or "Grammar" Schools, and elucidates the principles of the science, and the application of those principles to the more simple modes of keeping accounts, so that they may, it is believed, be fully understood by the class of persons referred to; at the same time the entries are such as are likely to occur in the actual operations of business in our country, and the language used, though simple, is not puerile in style, so that the work is equally adapted to the use of adults whose business pursuits render an acquaintance with only the less complex forms of Book-keeping necessary to them-such as Retailers, Mechanics, Farmers, &c. The author has embodied in it the methods of imparting a knowledge of the science of book-keeping which an experience of eight years as principal of a large Commercial Institute, and conference with the book-keepers of many of the largest commercial houses in the great cities of our country, have led him to believe to be the best. The same general plan is pursued in this as in the author's larger work; and since that has met with the most flattering approval of many of the very best practical accountants in the principal cities of the Union, confirmed by a large and steadily increasing sale, the publishers feel warranted in commending the present publication to the attention of the classes for whom it is designed. The work is arranged with special reference to the larger treatise of the author, and forms a good introduction to the study of either the Counting House or High School edition. A KEY, which contains all the different Journals, Ledgers, Balance Sheets, &c., that are omitted in the treatise itself, has been published, for the use of Teachers. Also, BLANK BOOKS for writing out the exercises contained in the work. The prices of the several Works of Mr. C. are as follows: The above named works are for sale with PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO., No. 110 Washington Street, Boston; and by Booksellers generally. TRANSACTIONS OF THE MASS TEACHERS ASSOCIATION. Volume -1845-7. 304 pp., 12mo, BOUND IN CLOTH, PRICE 50 CENTS. Containing the Journal of Proceedings from the Origin of the Association to the Fourth Annual Session, and the following Lectures: I. On the Claims of Teaching to the Rank of a Distinct Profession. By II. On the First Principles of School Government. By Rev. J. P. Cowles. IV. On Thorough Instruction. By Joseph Hale. V. On the Relations of Education to its Age. By Samuel W. Bates. Charles Hammond. VII. On Teaching, as a Profession. By Nelson Wheeler. Postage, any distance in the United States, 14 cents prepaid, or 21 cents not prepaid. JUST PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL COOLIDGE, 16 Devonshire Street, Boston. WARMING & VENTILATING WAREHOUSE Nos. 51 and 53 Blackstone Street, Boston. WE give our personal attention to Warming and Ventilating public or private bu gs. School-houses, academies, seminaries, colleges, &c., receive our first attenti ur improvements are constructed on strictly scientific principles, and are meeting w reat success and favor with school committees, teachers, and other scientific gen en, far surpassing any other mode of warming and ventilating educational buildin ther in this or any other country. The great object sought, and by these improvements fully attained, is, first, pure fre arm air, free from red-hot iron heat and coal gas, so common with the common iron-p t-air furnaces, to which may be attributed more causes of sickness and disease among th teachers and pupils, than all other causes together. Secondly, a free circulation of fresh air through the school departments, by ode of ventilation. Third, the great durability of the furnace, and the ease and facility of its manageme Fourth, the new economical plan of burning anthracite and bituminous coal, wood,& thout any change in the apparatus. Fifth, impossibility of setting the buildings on fire in which the furnace is located. At either of our Boston or New York houses may be found an extensive and sele sortment of Warming and Ventilating apparatus, among which are CHILSON'S PATE R-WARMING AND VENTILATING FURNACES, Dr. Clark's school stove for coal-a ttern of wood ventilating stoves for school-houses, &c., Portable Furnaces, Emerso ntilators for roofs of buildings, Smoky Chimneys, &c., Hot Air Grates, Ceiling Ventilators, Arnott's and the self-acting Room Ventilator, &c., &c. THE MASSACHUSETTS TEACHER. EDITED BY A COMMITTEE OF 213 215 Hampden County Teachers' Association,.. Lecture of Mr. Parish on School Government,. RESIDENT EDITORS' TABLE:-Report of School Committee of Danvers, 216; Report of School Committee of Springfield, 219; Excursion to Nan- tucket, 223; Book Notice, 224; American Institute of Instruction, 224; |