PUBLISHED BY CROSBY, NICHOLS & CO., 117 Washington Street Boston.

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VERMONT ENDORSES OUR PRINCIPAL SCHOOL BOOKS. The Vermont Board of Education were appointed by the State to select and publish an Authoritative List of Text-Books for the District Schools in Vermont." In their published report the following is directed to be used for the next five years :

For ordinary District Schools,-TOWER'S ELEMENTS OF GRAMMAR. Published by Crosby, Nichols & Co., Boston."

We also give the following extract from their official report :

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Penmanship, History of the United States, and Composition, though of great importance in every District School, are not mentioned in the Act as topics in reference to which the Board are required to select TextBooks, and therefore they have made no official recommendations in these branches.

"But I am authorized to say, that the Board, as individuals, concur with me in recommending to the consideration of Superintendents, Pa rents, and Booksellers, in Vermont, the following books:

"In COMPOSITION—Tower & Tweed's Grammar of Composition.' CROSBY, NICHOLS & Co., Boston.

"In PENMANSHIP-Payson, Dunton & Scribner's Penmanship, for copy books, (condensed in two numbers.) And Book-keeping adapted to Payson, Dunton and Scribner's Penmanship.' Crosby, Nichols & Co., Boston: “J. S. ADAMS, Secretary."

The books to which we particularly ask the attention of Boards of Education, Committees, Superintendents, and Teachers, are the following:

"A WORK OF SINGULAR MERIT.

TOWER'S ELEMENTS OF GRAMMAR. First Lessons in Language; or, Elements of English Grammar. By DAVID B. TOWER, A. M., and BENJ. F. TWEED, A. M. 16mo. Price 25

cents.

This little Grammar is widely used throughout the United States. No school-book before ever went so rapidly and extensively into use. No other has received such universal and decided praise; and this opinion has been sustained and confirmed by the practical test of the school

room.

HANAFORD & PAYSON'S BOOK KEEPING. For Schools and Academies, adapted to Payson, Dunton, and Scribner's Combined System of Penmanship.

BOOK-KEEPING BY SINGLE ENTRY. For Schools.

BOOK-KEEPING BY DOUBLE ENTRY. For Schools and Academies. Price 75 cents. Blanks 33 cents.

BOOK-KEEPING BY SINGLE AND DOUBLE ENTRY. For High Schools and Academies.

Committees and Teachers may be assured that the high encomiums bestowed upon all the above competent persons who have tested them fully, warrant the publishers in claiming for all these books the highest rank in the department of education to which they severally belong, &c., &c.

CROSBY, NICHOLS & CO.,

PUBLISHERS, . . . 117 WASHINGTON ST., BOSTON. Copies furnished for examination, at two-thiras the advertised price.

THE

Vermont School Journal

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Is intended to be what its name imports, a Journal of Educational News, and a welcome Visitor in every intelligent Family throughout the length and breadth of the Green Mountain State.

Its columns will be open to a candid discussion of every subject of

PRACTICAL INTEREST TO SCHOOLS OF ALL GRADES, from the Family, which is the first and most important School, to the College

It will aim to furnish short and practical articles, so as to give a

PLEASING VARIETY TO ITS CONTENTS.

Subjects that require lengthy discussion, will be treated in a series of articles.

Notices and Reports of Teachers' Institutes and Associations, and of other Educational Meetings, will be welcomed to its pages.

It is conducted by a Committee appointed by the Vermont State Teachers' Association, and is intended to be the organ of that body.

TEACHERS, PARENTS, SCHOOL COMMITTEES, AND SUPERINTENDENTS, will find it a convenient medium of communication for such subjects and items of interest as they may wish to bring before the public.

It will be published monthly, and will contain twenty-four pages, making, for the year, a neat volume of 288 pages.

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VERMONT

SCHOOL JOURNAL,

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Devoted to the Educational Interests of Vermont.

JULY, 1859.

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SCHOOL JOURNAL AND FAMILY VISITOR.

Volume I.

JULY, 1859.

Number IV.

SCHOOL GOVERNMENT.

The success of a teacher depends more upon his ability to govern than on any other item connected with the business of instruction. A man may have all the other qualifications which will eminently fit him for a good teacher, and yet, lacking the art of governing, he will fail in his attempts to instruct a school. It is true there are some pupils, and, now and then, a whole school, that, on account of habits previously acquired, will pursue an orderly course, and, however defective in government the teacher may be, will still make much progress in intellectual attainments. But the pupils in schools badly governed, are not generally such. They are not, usually, those who are attentive and desirous of making large acquisitions of knowledge. The scholastic attainments in such schools must, necessarily, be very small.

The importance of school government is of so great consequence, that the want or defect of this single element in the teacher is sufficient to render nugatory all the other qualifications he may possess, and though he may be at home in all the sciences, and have at his command all the knowledge necessary for a thorough teacher, yet he cannot long satisfy the demands of his pupils, nor the wants of the community, and should never undertake, for any length of time, to instruct a class of even the most orderly pupils in our common schools; for, notwithstanding his profound learning and refined manners, disorder will very soon creep into his schoolroom, and discontent will, consequently, pervade the whole school.