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JUST PUBLISHED.

A GUIDE TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION; or one hundred and twenty subjects analyzed, and illustrated from analogy, history and the writings of celebrated ancient and modern authors, to teach the art of argumentation and the development of thought. By Rev. Dr. Brewer, Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Revised and adapted for the use of Schools in the United States. Price, 87 1-2 cents.

"The Guide to English Composition is divided into four parts; the First Part contains fortyfive themes, in which the moral inference or conclusion alone is omitted; the Second Part contains thirty-seven themes, in which the introduction and historical illustrations are likewise omitted; the Third Part contain thirty-seven themes, in which every division is omitted, except the six or eight reasons, and the quotations; and the Fourth Part contains eighty additional subjects for exercise, in the English, French, Italian and Latin languages. The four parts therefore contain 200 themes more or less developed. *** The divisions omitted in the several parts are not from caprice, but according to a regular gradation of difficulties. THIS BOOK IS HIGHLY APPROVED BY THOSE WHO HAVE EXAMINED IT.

By the same Author.

BREWER'S GUIDE TO SCIENCE; or the Scientific Knowledge of things familiar. 63 cents.

"This book contains an amount of useful information never before connected in a shape so convenient for study, and so easy for reference."

BREWER'S GUIDE TO ROMAN HISTORY, from the earliest period to the close of the Western Empire. Carefully revised and adapted for use in families and Schools in the United States. 63 cents.

"The discrimination with which the mythical traditions that have so long passed as truth are separated from the authentic history, is an excellent feature of the work. Its conciseness, its clear arrangement, and its accuracy of detail, recommend it to the practical teacher."—Ñ. ¥. Tribune.

BUYARD'S FRENCH PRACTICAL TEACHER; a complete Grammar of the French Language on the Progressive system; by which the acquisition of writing and speaking French is made easy. Comprising 244 exercises and a vocabulary. 5th edition. $1.00.

BUYARD'S FRENCH PRACTICAL TRANSLATOR, or Easy Method of learning to translate French into English. $1.00.

The above two books are the best and most practical elementry works yet written for French students, and are extensively used.

CONVERSATIONS ON COMMON THINGS, or a Guide to Knowledge. By Miss D. L. Dix.

This book has been introduced into the common schools of New York and Philadelphia. THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALITY AND THE PRIVATE AND POLITICAL OBLIGATIONS OF MANKIND. By Jonathan Dymond. Abridged, and provided with questions for the use of schools. By Mrs. C. M. Kirkland. 38 cents.

POETRY FOR SCHOOLS, designed for reading and recitation. The whole selected from the best poets in the English language. By Eliza Robbins, author of American Popular Lessons, &c. A new and revised edition, with additions. 75 cents.

"We have no hesitation in pronouncing this the very best work of the kind we have seen.” -Albany Register.

"A really useful book, which should be familiar to all engaged in teaching."-Home Journal

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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."

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