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417 and 419 MONTGOMERY STREET,

San Francisco, Cal.

Offer for sale the largest and best assorted stock of Books in every department of Lit erature on the Pacific Coast. We have recently issued a complete Classified Catalogue of School Books at greatly reduced prices. The Catalogue embraces:

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY, ASTRONOMY, BOOK-KEEPING,
BOTANY, CHEMISTRY, COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC,

CRITICISM, DICTIONARIES, DRAWING, ELOCUTION,
FRENCH, GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, GERMAN,

GRAMMAR, GLOBES, GREEK, GYMNASTICS,

HISTORY, HEBREW, ITALIAN, LATIN,

LOGIC, LITERATURE, MATHEMATICS,

MAPS, MINERALOGY, MYTHOLOGY, OBJECT LESSONS,
PHILOSOPHY, PUNCTUATION, PORTUGUESE, PEN-

MANSHIP, POLITICAL ECONOMY, READERS,

SPELLERS, ETC., RECORDS, SPANISH,

Singing Books, Teacher's Library, Etc.

A full stock of all the Text Books under the above headings can always be found on our shelves, which we will sell as cheap as the cheapest, allowing a liberal discount to the Trade and those ordering in quantities. Send for our Catalogue which will be forwarded postage free to any address.

Our stock of MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS comprises all important works on every subject connected with

LITERATURE, ART, SCIENCE, Etc.

Almost every work published in the United States can be found in our collection, together with many valuable English publications not reprinted in this country.

The Trade, Teachers, Clergymen, and Libraries supplied at a liberal discount. Orders from the country respectfully solicited and carefully attended to. We will be happy to purchase on the best terms for parties in the country any thing not in our line without charging any commission.

Remember that all our goods are for sale at the very lowest rates. Wholesale
A. ROMAN & CO.

and Retail.

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Attention is particularly called to the design of the Combination Desk and Seat, which is tasteful, convenient, cheap, and durable. The stanchions, or end pieces, are iron, to which the wood-work is fastened by screws, making the desk convenient for shipping, as it can readily be put together by any carpenter.

The expense of this desk is but a trifle more than if made with the clumsy wood-ends, while it contains, in a superior degree, all the essential requisites of a good desk and seat. The shape of the end-pieces allows the pupil to get in and out of his seat easily and without noise; and a floor, furnished with these desks, is easily swept.

The desk is durable, strong, and tasteful in appearance.

The standard length of this desk for two pupils, is three feet, 7 inches, and is made of three different sizes, with seats from seventeen inches to thirteen inches high, to accommodate all grades of pupils. No. 1 being the highest; Nos. 2, 3, and 4, in regular gradation.

In addition there is a back seat, made to correspond with the others, to place in the rear of the room, or to use as recitation seats. The desk is permanently fastened to the floor by means of screws. This desk has already been ordered for several large public school-houses, and gives general satisfaction.

IT IS THE BEST AND CHEAPEST DESK MADE IN THE STATE.

Feb.

Address

EASTON & BROTHER,

725 MARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO.

REV. ISAAC H. BRAYTON, A.M., PRINCIPAL.

Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres.

FREDERIC M. CAMPBELL, A.M., AssoCIATE PRINCIPAL,
Professor of Natural Philosophy, Book-Keeping, etc.

HENRY CARVER, A.M.,

Professor of Civil Engineering and Chemistry.

REV. FRANCIS D. HODGSON, A.M.,

Professor of Natural Science and Mathematics.

S. S. SANBORN, A.B.,

The Latin and Greek Languages.

WILLIAM C. DODGE,

Mathematics and English Branches.

G. SCHULTÉ, A.M., (University of Paris.)

The French, Spanish, and German Languages.

M. A. LYNDE, A.M.,

Latin and English Studies, and Head of Primary Department. CHARLES L. DES ROCHERS,

E. B. HIGGINS,

Drawing and Painting.

Music.

The College School forms the Preparatory Department of the College of Califor. nia, in which students are fitted in regular course for the College, in all the required branches,-up to the standard of this or of any of the Eastern Colleges. A well-proportioned general education is bestowed upon those who do not desire to pursue the full college course. Thorough discipline is required in the English branches. Especial attention is given to Mathematics and the Natural Sciences. Competent preparation is imparted for the professions of Civil Engineering and Surveying. Book-Keeping and Penmanship are taught as well as they commonly are in schools exclusively commercial.

The Teachers in this Institution are all professional men, who have occupied prominent positions in the work of education in Colleges or as Principals of Schools and Academies.

The School, with its graded divisions, forms, in connection with the College, a chain of Departments, where, upon a consistent plan, and with steady advancement, students may receive a complete, solid, and finished education. The location is perhaps the best in the State for healthful physical development. The students of twelve years of age and under find a home by themselves at the table and under the care of the gentleman and lady who are their principal instructors. Over all of the students a watchful supervision is exercised. The highest ends and results of education are assiduously sought.

For Circulars and Catalogues, please address Rev. I. H. BRAYTON, Oakland.

Feb.

By MARCIUS WILLSON and N. A CALKINS. Twenty-two in number.
Colored. Six hundred Illustrations.

II. Accompanying Manual of Instruction in ObJECT-LESSONS. By MARCIUS WILLSON.

III. Willson's Series of School and Family Readers. Adopted by the State Board of Education for use in the Public Schools of California.

Notices of the Charts and Manua

The most extensive and perfect series published in this country.-Mass. Teacher.

Will all who read these notices send for these Charts and use them? If you do, our word for it, you will bless us for penning

these lines.-R. I. Schoolmaster.

We shall be glad to see these Charts in every school-house in the land.-Connecticut School Journal.

The most attractive and beautiful school charts ever published We are not afraid of praising the Charts and Manual too highly. Maine Teacher.

We have seen nothing in the shape of school charts so beautiful and valuable as these. The Manual is a work of great merit

Ohio Educational Monthly.

A school-room with these twenty-two Charts suspended on the walls is converted from what is too often a prison of dreariness to a picture-gallery of childish delights. Indiana School Journal,

A good work, suited to the times, and very successful in effecting the object aimed at.-Pennsylvania School Journal.

There has been nothing published in the educational line for years that, to our mind, is such a means of conveying knowledge as these Charts and the Manual that accompany them-lowa Instructor.

The truest expression of the principles of Pestalozzi that has yet been made. There is an energy and naturalness in Prof. Will son's methods which are wanting in some of the foreign works. The Charts and Manual promise to introduce a new era in primary and common school education.-New York Teacher.

The most beautiful American publications of the kind we have seen, and the most completely adapted to the "Object" method of instruction.-Illinois Teacher.

We desire, very positively, to commend Willson's Manual to parents and teachers. It should be in the living room of every family where there are children; it should be read by every parent, and carefully studied by every teacher who aims to succeed in his or her profession -Chicago Post.

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Willson's Manual furnishes more substantial aid to teachers in arranging and filling out a systematic course of object les sons than any other work that has yet been issued. I expected much from the Charts. but was not prepared for anything so elab orate and complete -W. H. Wells, Supt. Pub lic Instruction, Chicago.

I highly approve of the design a ́d execution of these Charts and Manual-S S Randall, Supt. Pub. Instruction, New York City.

These Charts, now in use in the Normal School of New Jersey, are already regarded by our primary teachers as a necessity.Wm. F. Phelps, Principal N. J. State Normal School.

The demand for means of illustration and aids in object teaching is happily met by these Charts and Manual-David N. Camp, Supt. Connecticut Schools.

I am so well pleased with these Charts and the Manual that I shall use them constantly in my own family.-Richard Edwards, Prin. Illinois State Normal School.

In the preparation of these Charts and Manual you have done a great and good work for the cause of school and home education in America.-J. L. Tracy, Assistant Superintendent of Pub. Instruction of Missouri. I am delighted with the School and Family Charts" and the accompanying "Manual." I desire to make the Charts the basis of my talks on Object-Lessons at the Educational Conventions which I am holing.-E. P. Weston, Superintendent of Schools of Maine.

They are the most complete of any Prmary School Charts I have yet seen.-J. M. Gregory, Supt. Pub. Instruction of Michigan.

I have shown your "School and Family Charts" to our Board of Education, and every one is delighted with them. No such charts have ever before been published in any country.-George W. Minns, Principal of Normal School, San Francisco.

The School and Family Charts" are the cheapest and best we have seen. We could not well do without them.-J. V. Montgomery, Principal Penn. State Model School.

Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, Franklin Square, New York.

Eaton's Intellectual Arithmetic.

This book, though it has been ready but a few weeks, has been adopted for all the Public Schools of Boston, in place of Warren Colburn's First Lessons, for the whole State of California, and for many important towns.

Extract from the Preface.

The Pestalozzian or Inductive Method of teaching the science of numbers is now universally approved by intelligent teachers. The first attempt in this country to apply this method to Mental Arithmetic resulted in the publication of Colburn's First Lessons, a work whose success has not exceeded its merit. It was, however, a useful experiment rather than a perfect realization of the Inductive system of instruction. That the subsequent books of the same class and purpose have failed to correct its defects, and thus meet the demand it created, is due evidently to their departure from the true theory as developed and exemplified by Pestalozzi.

The Author of this work has endeavored to improve upon all his predecessors, by adhering more closely than even Colburn did to the original method of the great Swiss Educator, and by presenting, at the same time, in a practical and attractive form, such improvements in the application of his principles as have stood the test of enlightened experience.

Extract from the Boston Text Book Committee's Report, June, 1864. Eaton's Intellectual Arithmetic is formed upon the same plan, drawn from the same source, as Colburn's, viz.: from Pestalozzi. It is more gradually progressive than Colburn, thus avoiding some of the abrupt transitions which occur in his work. The exercises in Abstract Numbers are more broken up, and more largely interspersed with practical questions; and thus the interest of the pupil is awakened and weariness avoided. In the matter of Definitions, and the Tables of Weights, Measures, and the examples illustrating each, it is an improvement upon Colburn, and the whole subject of per centage is treated in a much more comprehensive manner, and the illustrations and applications more various. The book is better printed and better bound than Colburn; indeed, just in proportion as one approves of Colburn's First Lessons, he must the more approve of Eaton's Intellectual, which is, in fact, simply Colburn out Colburned.

From the Rhode Island Schoolmaster.

It has all of the jewels of the excellent old Colburn, with the modern improvements beautifully set. It is a triumphant success in the production of a progressive work for young learners.

Eaton's Complete Series of Standard Arithmetics.

ADAPTED TO THE BEST MODE OF INSTRUCTION,

USED IN ALL THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE CITY OF BOSTON. ADOPTED FOR USE IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.

I. Eaton's Primary Arithmetic.

II.

III.

IV.

Eaton's Intellectual Arithmetic.

Eaton's Common School Arithmetic.
Eaton's New Treatise on Arithmetic.

This Series is distinguished by

1. The thorough and scientific manner in which all the principles are developed and illustrated.

2. The clearness, precision, and brevity of its rules and definitions.

3. The logical and satisfactory explanations.

4. The prominence of analysis throughout the series.

5. The practical character of each book.

6. The being based upon the inductive and analytical plan, which teaches the pupil to think and reason.

7. The mechanical style in which the books are manufactured.

Copies of Eaton's Arithmetics mailed to Teachers and Committees for examination on receipt of the prices affixed: Primary, 5 cents; Intellectual, 10 cents; Common School and Treatise, 20 cents each.

Nov.

TAGGARD & THOMPSON, Publishers,

29 CORNHILL, BOSTON.

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