THE SHAKSPEARIAN READER BY J. W. S. HOWS. 12mo. 447 pages. Price $1 25. This work is prepared expressly for the use of Classes in schools and the reading circle, and contains a Collection of the most ap proved Plays of Shakspeare, carefully revised, with introductory and explanatory notes. "This is a very handsome volume, and it will prove, we believe, a very popular one. Probably no man living is better qualified for the task of preparing a work of this kind than Prof. Hows, who has long been a teacher of elocution, and from his lectures on Shakspeare, has acquired a high reputation for his masterly analysis of the grest dramatist. The only fault that we find with his book is that he has left out the comic parts, and has given nothing of Falstaff. But his reasons for the omission are sound and scriminating."-Neno York Mirror. PRIMARY SPELLER AND READER. BY ALBERT D. WRIGHT. Price 12 Cents. This little volume of 144 pages combines a Primary Spelling-book and Reader, happily illustrated with numerous cuts, intended to attract the attention of the young, and to suggest thought for oral instruction and conversation. It is confidently believed, that the proper use of this little book will obviate most of the difficulties experienced at the commencement of a child's education. As fast as the letters are learned, an application is immediately made of them. No word is given in which a letter occurs that has not been previously learned. The capital letters are taught one at a time, and by review in reading lessons. The words are systematically presented, being classified by their vowel sounds and terminating consonants; and generally, at the end of each class, they are arranged into little spelling lessons. The learner is immediately initiated into reading lessons, composed of words of two or three letters, and is then led progressively into more difficult words. "This 18 an excellent little book for children, and an improvement on all other Pri mary Lessons"-N. Y. Observer. “We most heartily commend it to the favorable regard of teachers and parents."— Teachers' Advocate. CLASS-BOOK OF POETRY. BY ELIZA ROBBINS. Containing a judicious, beautiful, and interesting Collection of Poetry for the Use of Children in Schools, and private reading. 12mo. 16mo. 252 pages. Price 75 cents. Extract from the Author's Preface. "In no way is a graceful and refined style of speech so naturally formed as by poetic language made thoroughly familiar to the young, 'I do not like poetry; I cannot understand it,' often say half-taught children. Give them the poetry of good writers, with a little necessary comment, and you will remove all obscurity from the most instructive and effective poetry, and all distaste to it. I have endeavored to do this in the following collection, and I trust that while it exhibits 'only things pure,' 'lovely, and of good report,' it may also give much plea sure, and be serviceable accordingly." GUIDE TO KNOWLEDGE. BY ELIZA ROBBINS. 16mo. 400 pages. Price 63 cents. This contains a large amount of useful information, communicated in an entertaining and easy style of familiar questions and answers on every-day subjects, such as children are constantly asking questions about "The basis of this work is the Child's Guide to Knowledge-an elementary book which has been much used in England for many years, and is particularly adapted to our own country and nation. It commences with questions and answers on those elementary topics which occupy the attention of the young mind, and ranges over the complete circle of useful knowledge. It is a storehouse of various information for the young. We know of no elementary book, that with the necessary aid of judicious in structors, and suitable illustrative helps, can be made more useful to youth. Accom panying, is a dictionary of technical terms. We cordially recommend it to the notion of teachers."-Journa, and Messenger. This work is designed to afford to pupils in common schools and academies a know ledge of the Animal Kingdom, not by making it a tiresome study, overloaded with Incomprehensible technical terms taken from Latin and Greek, but as a scientific, amasing, instructive, and useful occupation for the juvenile mind, imparting a taste for collecting and preserving zoological specimens, and furnishing subjects for interesting and elevated observation. THE CHILD'S FIRST HISTORY OF ROME. BY MISS E. M. SEWELL. 18mo. 255 pages. Price 50 Cents. In the preparation of this work for the use of children, the authores has drawn her materials from the most reliable sources, and incorporated them into a narrative at once unostentatious, perspicuous, and graphic, aiming to be understood by those for whom she wrote, and to impress deeply and permanently on their minds the historical facts contained in the book. The entire work is clothed in a style at once pleasing and comprehensible to the juvenile mind. "The author of this work has been very successful in her style of narration, & well as gone to the best sources accessible for her facts. While there is nothing light and trivial in her manner, there is all the vivacity of the most lively fireside story-teller; and those things, "of which it is a shame to speak," she gets over with great judgment, delicacy and tact. While it is eminently a child's book, we greatly misjudge if it should not prove a favorite with adults, especially that class who cannot command time to read protracted histories."-Christian Mirror, 標 TA A FIRST HISTORY OF GREECE. BY MISS E. M. SEWELL. 18mo. 355 pages. Price 63 Cents. This work is designed to impart to young people a more clear and understandable knowledge of Grecian history than is attainable through any of the numerous works on that subject that have been accumulating during the last century. By selecting and presenting clearly and concisely only prominent characters and events, and not overloading and rendering their perusal irksome by a mass of minor details, the authoress has rendered an essential service to the youth of our country. "Miss Sewell is eminently successful in this attempt to set forth the history of Greece in a manner suited to the instruction of the young. The chronology is lucid, the events are well selected, and the narrative is perspicuous and simple. The facts and the me thod of presenting them are taken mainly from the work of Bishop Thiriwall, an excellent authority, and the work as a whole is the best with which we are acquainted for the use of children in their lessons of Grecian History, whether in the school-room or the family circle."-Providence Journal. "She has faithfully condensed her subject, from the Siege of Troy, B. c. 1184, to the destruction of Corinth, and the annexation of Greece, as a province to the Roman Empire, B. c. 141; forming a most excellent outline, to be filled up by the future acqui tions of the reader. The chronological table of cotemporary events attached is valuable addition.-Cincinnati Daily Times. MANUAL OF GRECIAN AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. BY DR. E, F. BOJESEN. WITH NOTEs and questIONS BY REV, THOMAS K. ARNOLD, The present Manuals of Greek and Roman Antiquities are far supe rior to any thing on the same topics as yet offered to the American public. A principal Review of Germany says of the Roman Manual: 'Small as the compass of it is, we may confidently affirm that it is a great improvement on all preceding works of the kind. We no longer meet with the wretched old method, in which subjects essentially distinct are herded together, and connected subjects disconnected, but have a simple, systematic arrangement, by which the reader readily receives a clear representation of Roman life. We no longer stumble against countless errors in detail, which, though long ago assailed and extirpated by Neibuhr and others, have found their last place of refuge in our manuals," HISTORY OF ENGLAND. BY MRS. MARKHAM. REVISED BY ELIZA ROBBINS. 12mo. 387 pages. Price 75 Cents. This work covers a period from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Reign of Victoria, containing questions adapted to the use of schools in this country. "Mrs. Markham's History was used by that model for all teachers, the lat› Dr. Arnold, master of the great English school at Rugby, and agrees in its character with his enlightened and pious views of teaching history. It is now several years since I adapted this history to the form and price acceptable in the schools in the United States. I have recently revised it, and trust that it may be extensively serviceable in education. "The principal alterations from the original are a new and more convenient division of paragraphs, and entire omission of the conver sations annexed to the chapters. In the place of these I have affixed questions to every page that may at once facilitate the work of the teacher and the pupil. The rational and moral features of this book first commended itself to me, and I have used it successfully with my own scholars."-Extract from the American Editor's Preface. MANUAL OF ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY 12mo. 396 pages. Price $1 00. This work was originally prepared by Wilhelm Pütz, an emineut German scholar, and translated and edited in England by Rev. T. K. Arnold, and is now revised and introduced to the American public in a well-written preface, by Mr. George W. Greene, teacher of modern languages in Brown University. As a text-book on Ancient History for Colleges and advanced Acaderies, this volume is believed to be one of the best componds pub lished. HAND-BOOK OF MEDIÆVAL GEOGRAPHY & HISTORY BY WILHELM PUTZ. TRANSLATED BY REV. R. B. PAUL, M. A 1 Vol. 211 pages. 12mo. Price 75 Cents. The characteristics of this volume are: precision, condensation, and luminous arrangement. It is precisely what it pretends to be-a manual, a sure and conscientious guide for the student through the crooks and tangles of Medieval History. All the great principles of this extensive period are carefully laid down, and the most important facts skilfully grouped around them. MANUAL OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY. BY WILHELM PUTZ. TRANSLATED BY REV. R. B. PAUL, M. A. 12mo. 336 pages. Price $1 00. This volume completes the series of the author's works on geography and history. Every important fact of the period, comprehensive as it is both in geography and history, is presented in a concise yet clear and connected manner, so as to be of value, not only as a text-book for students, but to the general reader for reference. Although the facts are greatly condensed, as of necessity they must be, yet they are pre sented with so much distinctness as to produce a fixed impression on the mind. It is also reliable as the work of an indefatigable German scholar, for correct information relating to the progress and thanges of states and nations-literature, the sciences and the arts-and all that combines in modern civilization. |