THE AMERICAN Educational Readers. AND HANDSOMELY ILLUSIN MANUFACTURE, GRADATION, AND IN CHEAPNESS, THE MOST BEAUTI FUL SERIES OF BOOKS EVER ISSUED. A NEW GRADED SERIES, TRATED, EXCELLING ALL OTHERS Messrs. IVISON, BLAKEMAN, TAYLOR & CO. have the pleasure of announcing that they have now ready, after many months' preparation and a large outlay, the first four numbers of an entirely new series of school readers which they designate "THE AMERICAN EDU. CATIONAL READERS." They have been published to meet a want that is not supplied by any existing series, in size, gradation, and price; and it is claimed that, in these respects, they are in every essential feature an improvement upon any other books that have preceded them. Attention is invited to the sizes and prices of the works herewith appended: One copy of each of the first four numbers will be sent by mail to teachers and educa tionists, on receipt of ONE DOLLAR, if desired, for examination with a view to introduc tion. Messrs. I. B. T. & Co. have also just added a new and completing work to Prof. Swinton's very popular Word-Book Series, entitled, WORD PRIMER: cents. A BEGINNER'S BOOK IN ORAL AND WRITTEN This work is intended for use after the child has gone through some reading Primer. Attention is called to the following distinctive points which have not heretofore been presented in a book of this kind: Exceedingly short lessons; the grouping of words according to leading ideas; the selection of common words that can be understood by young children; the variety of script exercises, in both words and sentences; the division of the book into specific monthly and yearly sections; review lessons. The book is beautifully printed and substantially bound. We will send sample copies by mail for examination, on receipt of 15 cents. THE EDUCATIONAL Reporter, for May, is ready, and will be sent to all persons engaged la educational pursuits on application, IVISON, BLAKEMAN, TAYLOR & CO., Educational Publishers, 138 & 140 Grand St., N. Y.; 133 & 135 State Street, CHICAGO. PUBLISHED BY ALFRED MUDGE & SON, 34 SCHOOL STREET, FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. TERMS: -$1.50 a year, payable in advance, Eaton and OF Bradbury's Mathematical Series. BRADBURY'S ELEMENTARY GEOMETRY, 116 pp. Price, $1.00. BRADBURY'S ELEMENTARY TRIGONOMETRY, with Tables, 120 pp. 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 aud 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 knowledge, 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 unim. portant matter, and think it will thus be well adapted to supply a long felt want in our higher schools. This is a work of moderate size, and yet contains enough to prepare for teaching and for col lege. It has a large number and great variety of problems, but does not aim to present all the abstract principles included in many 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, définitions 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 Eng land States, and largely West. From Mr. M. O. HARRINGTON, Principal of High School, Danvers, Mass. The clearness and brevity of definitions and logical arrangement of principles are marked fea. tures 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. THE SCHOOL STAGE, A NEW COLLECTION OF JUVENILE ACTING PLAYS FOR SCHOOL AND HOME. Br W. H. VENABLE. Twenty-seven new, short Dialogues and Plays, adapted to School and Home Exhibitions. Handsomely illustrated, and containing plain and full directions relating to costume, properties, and stage "business," in connection with particular Dialogues and Dramas. Sent post-paid, by mail, on receipt of price, $1.25. ALSO: 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. BARTHOLOMEW'S LATIN GRADUAL, to accompany the Grammar. Ready in time for fall schools. Price same as the Grammar. GOOD MORALS AND GENTLE MANNERS. BY ALEX. M. GROW, A. M., Supt. Public Schools, Evansville, Ind. A systematic textbook on Moral and Social Law, adapted to the use of schools and families. 12mo, cloth. Price $1.25. Sample copies 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. For Complete Descriptive Circulars of the above and other new School-Books, address WILSON, HINKLE & CO., Publishers of the Eclectic Educational Series, CINCINNATI and NEW YORK. Therefore it is natural that they should be PREFERRED BY ALL LIVE TEACHERS. These Books are already more widely used in New England than are those of any other series, and their sale is rapidly increasing. If you are contemplating a change in any of your school books, don't make it until you have examined the FAVORITE NEW ENGLAND EDUCATIONAL SERIES published by Cowperthwait & Co. It will cost you nothing to do this, as we are always willing to send specimen books for examination with a view to their adoption, free of charge, on condition that if the books are not adopted, the specimen copies shall be returned to us at our expense. Address, COWPERTHWAIT & CO., Educational Publishers, 628 & 630 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. 37 & 39 Brattle St., Boston. JAMES A. BOWEN, WM. H. FAUNCE, New England Agents. G. E. WHITTEMORE, |