PUBLISHED BY ALFRED MUDGE & SON, 34 SCHOOL STREET, FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. TERMS: -$1.50 a year, payable in advance. OF Eaton and Bradbury's Mathematical Series. BRADBURY'S ELEMENTARY GEOMETRY, 116 pp. Price, $1.00. BRADBURY'S ELEMENTARY TRIGONOMETRY, with Tables, 120 pp. Price, $1.00. The Two Books in one volume, $1.50. These works are becoming very popular as text-books, though they have been published but a few months. They answer more nearly than any others in these branches the growing demand for brief and concise books suited to the present grade of High Schools and Academies. They contain enough to prepare for college, and to lead to the higher mathematics, and the practical questions at the close of the different books, and exer ises for original demonstration are features of great interest and value. They have already been introduced in a large number of the best schools in different parts of the country. From Prof. FRANCIS BOWEN, Harvard College, Cambridge. Your Elementary Geometry is far the best introduction to the study which I have yet seen. It has the great merit of conciseness, omitting all irrelevant or otherwise needless matter, and contains within a small number of pages all the Plane and Solid Geometry which the pupil needs to know before he can be admitted to Harvard College. Then the Practical Questions and Geometri cal Exercises are so judiciously prepared as not to perplex the student with needless difficulties, and yet to give him the quickness in computation, the readiness in applying his previous know edge, and the skill in devising geometrical modes of proof for himself, which are a necessary preparation for the study of the higher mathematics. Your work ought to be made the only textbook on the subject for use in our Academies and High Schools. From A. J. SWAIN, Esq., Principal of Stevens High School, Claremont, N. H. The Geometry I am specially pleased with, inasmuch as it gives the student something to do as well as learn, and is particularly adapted to schools where the time for Geometry is limited. From Mr. J. C. BULL, Teacher in American Asylum, Hartford. I am specially pleased with the idea upon which it is founded that of the omission of unimportant matter, and think it will thus be well adapted to supply a long felt want in our higher schools. THOMPSON, BIGELOW EATON'S & BROWN ALSO PUBLISH BRADBURY'S ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA. 250 pp. Price, $1.25. This is a work of moderate size, and yet contains enough to prepare for teaching and for college. It has a large number and great variety of problems, but does not aim to present all the ab stract principles included in any larger works. The book can be completed in one year in any well graded school, and has been introduced and is used in a large majority of the High Schools of New England, and extensively elsewhere. EATON'S SERIES OF ARITHMETICS. The different works of this series are believed to be better fitted than any others for the use of Grammar and Common Schools, Academies, High and Normal Schools. The examples are practical, definitions clear and concise, methods of analysis business like, and the books present the latest and most approved methods of mathematical instruction. The series is used exclusively in the Boston schools, and more than any other series in the New England States, and largely West. From Mr. M. O. HARKINGTON, Principal of High School, Dancers, Mass. The clearness and brevity of definitions and logical arrangement of principles are marked features of merit in Eaton's Mathematical Series. From Mr. T. P. MARRYATT, Principal of High School, Peterboro', N. H. After using Eaton's Algebra a year, I can say that it has more than fulfilled my expectations. I have given the Geometry a pretty thorough examination, and am decidedly of the opinion that it is the book we want. From C. W. RANLET, Esq., Chairman of School Committee, Holyoke, Mass. We have Eaton's Arithmetic and Algebra already, and are so well pleased with them that we shall continue them. From MERRITT YOUNG, Esq., Teacher, Warsaw, Wayne Co., Iowa. I know of no works of the kind that I consider equal to Eaton's Arithmetics. Single copies of above works sent postage paid on receipt of half price. Liberal Terms for first introduction. Descriptive Catalogue of above, and other valuable Educational Works, sent on application to the Publishers. THOMPSON, BIGELOW & BROWN, 25 and 29 Cornhill, Boston. Eclectic Classical Series. Messrs. WILSON, HINKLE & CO. take pleasure in announcing the first two books of the Eclectic Classical Series, by Prof. G. K. BARTHOLOMEW, a practical and experienced classical teacher: BARTHOLOMEW'S LATIN GRAMMAR. A concise and systematic arrangement of the laws of the Latin tongue, prepared with special reference to class use in schools and colleges. In the treatment of Etymology, the verb is placed first; in Syntax, the examples precede the rule. Printed in large, clear type: small type carefully avoided. 276 pp., 12mo, half roan. Price, $1.50. Sample copies to Teachers, and supplies for first introduction, $1.00. NOW READY. BARTHOLOMEW'S LATIN GRADUAL, to accompany the Grammar. Ready in time for fall schools. Price same as the Grammar. ALSO: GOOD MORALS AND GENTLE MANNERS. By ALEX. M. Gow, A. M., Supt. Public Schools, Evansville, Ind. A systematic text-book on Moral and Social Law, adapted to the use of schools and families. 12mo, cloth. Price, $1.25. Sample copy to Teachers, and supplies for introduction, 84 cents. THE ECLECTIC SYSTEM OF PENMANSHIP IN ONE BOOK. Sample copy. book of Eclectic Penmanship, containing copies selected from all the books of the series. Will be sent for examination with a view to introducing the Eclectic Penmanship, for 10 cents. 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THE CULTURE OF THE IMAGINATION.* If we were called upon to state, in few words, our notion of the sum of all human knowledge, and therefore of the end of all possible training, our answers would probably be widely different; but, at the end, perhaps we could do no better than to adopt the dictum of John Ruskin, that it is, To know where we are, where we are going, and what we are going to do about it. It will be easy to discover at least one source of comfort in this definition. It omits the question concerning the "origin of the species." That momentous inquiry of our day, Where did we come from? is not deemed an essential. While, then, as Mr. Froude remarks, the greatest of England's natural philosophers is gravely observing the courtships of moths and butterflies to prove the "descent of man" from an African baboon, in the schools-if we follow Mr. Ruskin's definition-we can afford to drop the question. The last of the questions proposed, and by far the gravest connected with our existence, Where are we going, and what are we going to do about it? is within the province of the theologians to be decided. At least, if there are any doubts about the matter which can be removed, they are masters of the institutions in which information ought to be sought. But the other department of knowledge, that field of information and inquiry which centres about "Where we are," it is the particular business of the schools to control and investigate. * Read at the Essex County Teachers' Association in 1872, and at the Middlesex Association in 1873. |