$1 00 per Annum in Advance. Specimen Number, 10 Cents. THE MONTHLY will contain forty pages or more of such matter as will interest the live Educator. It is the determined purpose of the Publishers to make the AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL MONTHLY invaluable to every educated man and woman in America. No one can regret investing one dollar in this invaluable MONTHLY. It will be stereotyped, and back numbers may always be obtained. SCHERMERHORN, BANCROFT & CO., Publishers, 130 Grand Street, New York City. NEW GYMNASTIC WORKS. I. The Manual of Calisthenics: A Drill Book. Price $1 00. WATSON'S MANUAL OF CALISTHENICS is a scientific and practical Treatise on Physical Culture, affording the most extended and varied course of exercises, with out the use of apparatus, ever published. The INTRODUCTION contains all necessary directions, rules, and explanations for instructors and students, and full and satisfactory sections on Respiration and Vocal Training. The second division, CALISTHENICS, presents suitable exercises for every part of the body, combining in just proportion the practical and the theoretical. They embrace one hundred and thirty elementary positions, and two hundred and fifty classes of movements, involving about seven thousand separate motions. After the elementary movements are mastered, combined ones may be executed without further practice, simply by employing appropriate words of command. These beautiful and effective exercises are formed both by a combination of two or more elementary movements, and by the combined efforts of the students arranged in pairs or squads. The ingenious instructor will not find it difficult to form hundreds of new combinations in like manner, thus securing an inexhaustible supply of pleasing and healthful exercises. All varieties of marking time while executing the movements are given, including counting, Phonetics, Recitations, and Music. Nineteen pieces of Piano-forte Music are introduced in their proper connections. The exercises generally are fitted for both sexes, and for persons of all ages. THE HAND-BOOK OF CALISTHENICS AND GYMNASTICS is a Manual of Physical Training for individuals and families, and a Text-Book for schools and gymnasiums, containing a complete course of exercises, both with and without apparatus. Under the head of Vocal Gymnastics it also presents the most thorough, comprehensive, and practical Treatise on Respiration, Phonetics, and Elocution extant. We have space only for the following notice from Hon. W. H. WELLS, Superintendent of the Public Schools of Chicago: "Watson's Hand-Book of Calisthenics and Gymnastics is beyond all question the most scientific, complete, and useful treatise on physical Culture that has appeared." This work has been adopted by the Board of Education of the City of New York, and it is already used in the Public Schools. Single copies of either of the above books sent by mail on receipt of the price by the Publishers, SCHERMERHORN, BANCROFT & CO., A. ROMAN & CO., San Francisco. August. Instruments for Illustrating Optical Instruments in every variety .MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS, OF THE FINEST QUALITY, -AND JOSEPH RODGERS & SON'S Very Superior Cutlery; The Largest Assortment on the Pacific Coast, WHOLESALE and RETAIL. Country Traders will consult their own interest by examining our Stock and Address LAWRENCE & HOUSEWORTH, OPTICIANS, July 637 Clay Street, San Francisco. WE desire to call the attention of TEACHERS, SCHOOL OFFICERS, and all others interested in EDUCATION to our extensive and well selected stock of SCHOOL AND COLLEGE TEXT BOOKS, embracing all the most approved works now in use in COMMON SCHOOLS ACADEMIES, AND COLLEGES. GLOBES, of all Sizes. ALSO, GUYOT'S WALL MAPS FOR SCHOOLS, WILLSON'S CHARTS, Mounted. MITCHELL'S, PELTON'S, AND CORNELL'S OUTLINE MAPS. School Records, Diaries, and Blanks, for School Use, Slate Pictures and Drawing Cards, School Music Books, School Stationery of all kinds, etc., etc. We have just published a new and very complete CATALOGUE of School Text Books, with prices greatly reduced from former rates, which we will send to Teachers free by mail on application. Teachers and all interested in educational matters are respectfully invited to call and examine our stock. We have also for sale a large assortment of BOOKS in every department of Literature and Science, adapted to Public and Private Libraries. New Books received by every Steamer. Books imported to order. A. ROMAN & CO., Booksellers, Importers, and Publishers, 417 & 419 Montgomery Street, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. July. A THE Fourth Term of this Institution will commence on the sixth of July and end on the sixteenth of December, 1864. Tuition free. Text books furnished from School Library. GENERAL REGULATIONS. I. All pupils, on entering the School, shall be required to sign the following declaration of intention: "We, the subscribers, hereby declare that our purpose in entering the State Normal School is to fit ourselves for the profession of Teaching, and that it is our intention to engage in teaching in the Public Schools of this State." II. Male candidates for admission must be at least eighteen years of age; and female applicants at least fifteen years of age; and all must possess a good degree of physical health and vigor. III. Examinations of candidates for admission shall be held during the opening week of each term, and in such form and manner as may be prescribed by the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees and the Principal, and the candidate so examined shall be admitted to such classes as their qualifications may entitle them to enter. IV. The Principal of the School shall be authorized, under the direction of the Executive Committee, to examine and admit applicants at any time during the term, when it shall appear that such candidates could not present themselves at the opening of the term. V. No pupil shall be entitled to a Diploma who has not been a member of the School at least one term of five months; but certificates of attendance, showing character and standing, shall be given to all who pursue an undergraduate or temporary course of study. GENERAL REMARKS. The object of the California State Normal School is, to provide for the Public Schools of the State a class of well-trained professional Teachers. The course of study as adopted for the School in its present stage of advancement, may seem very plain and unassuming, compared with the more pretentious lists of sciences and languages pursued in many private institutions; but it should be borne in mind that the aim of the Normal School is to teach thoroughly what it assumes to teach, and that its purpose is to fit Teachers for the actual duties of our public school-rooms, rather than to graduate merc literary scholars. As the maximum number the School can accommodate is not yet reached, pupils will be received from any county in the State, without reference to the county apportionment allowed by law. Applicants who desire further information will apply by letter to the Superin tendent of Public Instruction or to the Principal of the School. Public School Teachers, who have already been engaged in teaching and whe wish to avail themselves of the advantages offered by the Experimental School for imparting a thorough knowledge of the system of Object Training, can enter the Senior Class, if sufficiently advanced in their studies, and graduate at the end of a six months' course. July. SUB-JUNIOR CLASS. Arithmetic-Eaton's Common School; Mental. Grammar-Quackenbos'. Geography-Warren's Common School, and Physical; Cornell's Outline Maps; Map of California; Outline Map Drawing. History of United States—Quackenbos'. Penmanship-Burgess' System. Drawing-Burgess' System. ReadingWillson's Fourth Reader. Spelling. Oral Exercises-Willson's Charts. Elocu tion-Analysis of Elementary Sounds. Blackboard-Writing and Drawing. Vocal Music. School Calisthenics and Gymnastics. Elementary Instruction-Sheldon's. JUNIOR CLASS. Arithmetic-Eaton's Higher. Algebra-Davies' Elementary. GrammarQuackenbos'. Geography-Warren's Physical; Guyot's Wall Maps. History of United States-Quackenbos'. Botany-Gray's. Physiology-Hooker's. Readng-Willson's Fifth Reader. Definitions and Spelling. English Composition. Elocutionary Exercises - Russell's. Elementary Instruction - Sheldon's. Vocal Music. Schools Calisthenics and Gymnastics. SENIOR CLASS. Arithmetic - Eaton's Higher. Algebra - Davies' Elementary. Geometry. Grammar—Quackenbos'. Rhetoric-Quackenbos'. Geology-Hitchcock's. Natural Philosophy-Quackenbos'. History-Worcester's Compend. PhysiologyHooker's. Botany - Gray's. Physical Geography - Guyot's Earth and Man. Bookkeeping. Select Readings. Art of Teaching-Russell's Normal Training; Russell's Vocal Culture; Sheldon's Elementary Instruction; Page's Theory and Practice. Constitution of the United States. School Law of California. Use of State School Registers, Forms, Blanks, and Reports. Vocal Music. School Calisthenics and Gymnastics. OFFICE-South-east corner of Montgomery and Jackson streets. EBENEZER KNOWLTON............ Teacher of Elocution and Light Gymnastics. July. |