Quackenbus's Text-Books.

First Lessons in C mposition,

IN WHICH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE ART ARE DEVELOPED IN CONNECTION WITH TAB PRINCIPLES OF GRAMMAR; EMBRACING FULL DIRECTIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF PUNCTUATION WITH COPIOUS EXERCISES.

By G. P. QUACKENBOS, A. M..

12mo. 182 pages. Price 63 cents.

These "First Lessons" are intended for beginners in Grammar and Composition, and should be placed in their hands at whatever age it may be deemed best for them to commence these branches. By a succession of pleasing and ingenious exercises, they teach the young student the use of words, and enable him to express his thoughts chastely, forcibly, and elegantly, to analyze a subject properly, and to produce successively, after given models, letters, descriptions, narrations, biographical sketches, essays, and argumentative discourses.

This work, immediately on its publication, came into general use, and its sale nas been steadily increasing ever since. Many teachers who had not before made Composition a regular branch of their course, on account of its dryness, and the want of a proper text-book, found it so easy and pleasant with the aid of these "First Lessons," that they at once introduced it, even among very young classes, with wonderful effect in developing their intellectual powers. The Publishers have yet to learn the first place in which the work has not given entire satisfaction.

From TAYLER LEWIS, LL. D., Prof. of Grock, Union College, Schenectady, N. Y.

We cannot say that this book is the best of the kind, for we have seen nothing like it. It is at the same time a system of grammar and rhetoric. It commences with the alphabet, and ends with a brief, vet very clear and practical, illustration of some of the highest rules of good writing. It may be studied by the child who has just learned to read, whilst, at the same time, it might be of no small service te many of the graduates of our colleges.

From RICHARD S. JAMES, Principal of High School, Norristown, Ohio.

After a careful examination of the book, I am prepared to say that I know of ne work equal to it for simplicity of arrangement, correctness of definition, and adapta tion to the wants of schools. It is THE work.

From G. W. CLARKE, A. M., As80. Princ. of Mt. Washington Coll. Institute, N. Y.

It is calculated in my view (better than any similar work with which I am aequainted) to render a practical knowledge of the English tongue, both more easy to acquire and more easy to impart.

From the late Rector of the Williamsburgh Grammar School.

For an elementary work on Composition, I know none in any degree equal

From the Principal of Clark Seminary, Va.

QUACKENBOS's is, I am persuaded, the best book for beginnen in somposition ew before the public.

ADVANCED COURSE OF

Composition and Rhetoric.

A SERIES OF PRACTICAL LESSONS ON THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PECULIARITIES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, PUNCTUATION, TASTE, THE PLEASURES OF THE IMAGINATION, FIGURES, STYLE AND ITS ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES, CRITICISM, AND THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF PROSE AND POETICAL COMPOSITION. ILLUSTRATED WITH COPIOUS EXERCISES.

By G. P. QUACKENBOS, A. M.

12mo. 450 pages. Price $1 25.

This work is an eminently clear and practical text-book, and embraces a variety of important subjects, which have a common connection, and mutually illustrate each other; but which the pupil has heretofore been obliged to leave unlearned, or to search for among a number of different volumes. Claiming to give a comprehensive and practical view of our language in all its relations, this "Advanced Course " views it as a whole, no less than with reference to the individual words composing it; shows how it compares with other tongues; points out its beauties; indicates how they may best be made available; and, in a word, teaches the student the most philosophical method of digesting his thoughts, as well as the most effective mode of expressing them.

It teaches Rhetoric not merely theoretically, like the old textbooks, but practically, illustrating every point with exercises to be prepared by the student, which at once test his familiarity with the principles laid down, and impress them on his mind so vividly that they can never be effaced.

Hon. A. CONSTANTINE BARRY, State Superintendent of the Common Schools of Wisconsin, in a Report to the Legislature of that State, uses the following strong language in relation to QUACKENBOS'S works on Composition :

"It would be difficult to point out in these admirable books any thing that we would desire to have altered; they meet our wants in every respect, making no unreasonable draft on the time or patience of the teacher, and leaving him no excuse for neglecting to make composition a regular study, even with his younger classes. It is unnecessary to compare these books with others on the subject, for THERE ARE NONE THAT APPROACH THEM in clearness, comprehensiveness, excellence of arrangement, and above all, in direct practical bearing. Affording an insight into the mechanism of language, they will hardly fail to impart facility and grace of expression, and to inspire a love for the beauties of literature."

From PROF. JOHN N. PRATT, of the University of Alabama.

"I have been using QUACKENBOs on Composition and Rhetoric in the instruction of my classes in the University, and I am persuaded of its GREAT EXCELLENCE. The First Lessons in Composition, by the same author, I regard as very useful for beginners. Of these two books, I can speak with the greatest confidence, and I do MOST HEARTILY RECOMMEND THEM to all."

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Webster's Quarto Dictionary.

UNABRIDGED.-SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.

PUBLISHED BY C. & G. MERRIAM, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. From DANIEL WEBSTER.

I possess many Dictionaries, and of most of the learned and cultivated languages, ancient and modern; but I never feel that I am entirely armed and equipped in this respect, without Dr. Webster at command.

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From RUFUS CHOATE.

Messrs. G. &. C. Merriam:-Gentlemen, I have just had the honor of receiving the noble volume in which you and the great lexicographer, and the accomplished reviser, unite your labors to "bid the language live." I accept it with the highest pride and pleasure, and beg to adopt in its utmost

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strength and extent, the testimonial of Daniel Webster.

From JOHN C. SPENCER.

It is con

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Unquestionably the very best Dictionary of our language extant. Its great accuracy in the definition and derivation of words, gives it an authority that no other work on the subject possesses. stantly cited and relied on in our Courts of Justice, in our legislative bodies, and in public discussions, as entirely conclusive.

From ELIHU BURRITT.

Webster's great Dictionary may be regarded as bearing the same relation to the English language which Newton's "Principia" does to the sublime science of

Natural Philosophy.

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From PRESIDENT HOPKINS, Williams College.

There is no American scholar who does not feel proud of the labors of Dr. Webster as the pioneer of lexicography on this continent, and who will not readily admit the great and

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The best and safest guide

of the students of our language.

Of the book itself I hear but one opinion from all around me, and do but echo the universal voice in expressing my approval of its great worth, and my belief that it has rendered any further research, or even improvement in our time, unnecessary in its department of instruction.

From JOHN G. WHITTIER.

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From FITZ GREENE HALLECK.

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Arithmetical Series.

BY GEORGE R. PERKINS, LL.D.,

LATE PRINCIPAL AND PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN THE NORMAL SCHOOL OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

I. PRIMARY ARITHMETIC. . 18mo. 160 p. Price 25 cents. II. ELEMENTARY ARITHMETIC. 16mo. 347 p. Price 50 cents. VI. PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC, WITH NUMEROUS EXAMPLES.

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BY GEORGE R. PERKINS, LL.D.

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Cornell's Geographies.

Connell's First Steps in Geography. Child's quarto, with numerous Maps and Illustrations. Price 25 cents. Intended to precede

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COMPLETE AND SYSTEMATIC SERIES!

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SCHOOL GEOGRAPHIES,

CONSISTING OF

Primary Geography. Small quarto, 96 pp. Price 68 cents. This work contains only those branches of the subject that admit of being brought within the comprehension of the youthful beginner. It is illustrated with upwards of seventy sug gestive designs, and sixteen beautiful and clear Maps. This work was first published in 1855, and has already reached a sale of more than 500,000 copies. Intermediate Geography. Large quarto. Revised edition, with new and additional Maps and numerous Illustrations. Price 85 cents. Designed for pupils who have completed a Primary Course in Geography. It, as well as the Primary, contains many peculiar and invaluable advantages of arrangement and system. Grammar-School Geography. Large quarto, with numerous Maps and Illustrationa 108 pp. It includes Physical and Descriptive Geography. Price $1 00. This work is intended to follow the Intermediate, or be used instead of it. Both are alike philosophical in their arrangements, accurate in their statements, judiciously adapted to the school-room, chastely and lavishly illustrated, attractive in their external appearance, and generally, just what the intelligent teacher desires. High-School Geography and Atlas. Geography, large 12mo. 405 pp. Richly Illustrated. Price 75 cents. Atlas, very large 4to. Containing a complete set of Maps for study; also, a set of Reference Maps for family use. Price $150. These volumes are intended for High Schools, Academies, and Seminaries. They cover the whole ground of Mathematical, Physical, and Descriptive Geography. The Atlas will be found fuller and more reliable than former atlases, and will answer every practical purpose of reference for schools and families.

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