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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. NEW PICTORIAL EDITION. Pictorial Ellustrations of Military Terms. Webster's Dictionary excels in these, and has, among others, pictorial representations of the following: Barbacan, Bastion, Battlement, Bar-shot, Block-house, Bombs, Cannon, Carronade, Chain-shot, Chevaux-de-frise, Caltrop, Limbers, Madrier, Martello Tower, Mortar, Portcullis, Ravelin, Redan, Star Forts, &c. No other English Dictionary in this country has a fourth part of these. SO ALSO ITS DEFINITIONS OF MILITARY TERMS. As, the foregoing, and Abatis, Ambulance, Ambuscade, Armistice, Banquette, Bivouac, Brevet, Caisson, Caliber, Canister-shot, Cantonment, Caponiere, Casemate, Cartel, Chamade, Commissary, Commissariat, Counterscarp, Chef de battaillon, Cul de sac, Dahlgren gun, Minie rifle, Paixhan gun, &c., &c. Sold by all Booksellers. It We ask Teachers, Directors, Superintendents and Commissioners of Schools, and Boards of Education, not acquainted with these Readers, to EXAMINE them, and see if they merit the high commendations everywhere bestowed upon them. We would call attention to the following important points connected with these Readers : I. Their Reputation as School-Books. No other Reading-Books ever published have been so highly commended by Educators, and by the Public Press, as these, and no other have met with so extensive a sale within the first year of their publication. "I look upon the introduction of these Readers as constituting an important era in the history of popular education."-[Prof. A. C. ALLEN, Houston, Miss. "I think this series of Readers leaves nothing to be desired, either in respect to manner, matter, or mechanical execution."-[Prof. WM. F. PHELPS, Principal of State Normal School, N. J. II. Their Adaptation to the System of OBJECT LESSON Teaching. The Lessons in the Early Readers are especially designed to cultivate the Perceptive Faculties of Children, on the proper training of which is based the entire system of Object Lesson Instruction, while the Natural History Departments in the Higher Readers more fully develop the same principles. Connected with the course of instruction contained in these Readers, a series of beautiful colored "Object Lesson" CHARTS, designed for the School-Room, is in course of preparation. III. Their Cheapness. Although the cost of getting up these books is far above that of any other Series of Readers, and although they collectively contain more matter than the same number and grade of books of any other Series, yet they are offered on terms as cheap as the cheapest. "The publishers have had the good sense to reduce the selling price to a nominal sum, which barely leaves a margin for profit."-New York Times. "Notwithstanding the cost of the undertaking, the publishers have put the prices as low as those of other works of the class."-Buffalo Express. "The prices of the books are as low as the prices of other Readers, the cost of which was not onetenth the cost of these, which are incomparably the most beautifully gotten up school-books that we have ever seen."-Church Record. IV. Their Adaptation to Family Reading. These readers are so highly attractive on account of the number, excellence and practical character of their illustrations; the beauty of the paper and printing; the choice character of their Miscellaneous Selections, and the interesting and valuable Sketches of Natural History contained in them, that they are as well adapted to Family Reading as to the uses of the School-Room. "These beautifully illustrated books will set the boys and girls thinking, wondering, admiring, enjoying, on account of hitherto unrevealed beauties that surround us on every side."-Clark's School Visitor. 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WORKS OF HUGH MILLER. CHAMBERS' WORKS. THE OLD RED SANDSTONE; or, New Walks CHAMBERS' CYCLOPEDIA OF ENGLISH in an Old Field. With Plates and Geological Sections. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25. THE FOOT-PRINTS OF THE CREATOR; or, the Asterolepis of Stromness; with numerous Illustrations. With a Memoir of the Author, by Louis Agassiz. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00. TESTIMONY OF THE ROCKS; or, Geology in its Bearings on the two Theologies, Natural and Revealed. With numerous elegant Illustra tions. Royal 12ino. Cloth, $1.25. LITERATURE. Two imperial 8vo. volumes of 700 pages each, double colums, with 300 elegant Illustrations. Edited by Robert Chambers. CHAMBERS' MISCELLANY OF USEFUL AND ENTERTAINING KNOWLEDGE.— Edited by William Chambers. With elegant Illustrative Engravings. 10 vols. Cloth, $7.50. CHAMBERS HOME BOOK, or Pocket Miscel lany; ; a Choice Selection of Instructive Reading for old and young. 6 vols. 16mo. Cloth, $3.00. THE CRUISE OF THE BETSEY; or, a Sim- The above works contain a vast fund of valmer Ramble among the Fossiliferous Deposits uable information, admirably adapted to the School of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or Family Library, furnishing ample variety for over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland. every class of readers. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25. MY SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTERS; or, the Story of my Education. An Autobiography. With a Portrait of the Author. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25. MY FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF ENGLAND AND ITS PEOPLE. With a fine Engraving of the Author. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00. POPULAR GEOLOGY; With Descriptive Sketches from a Geologist's Portfolio. By H. Miller. With a Resume of the Progress of Geological Science during the last two years. By Mrs. Miller. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25. The above 7 volumes are also furnished in sets, printed and bound in uniform style, as follows: Embossed cloth, $8.25; library sheep, $10.00; half calf or antique, $14.00. Of Hugh Miller's works little need be said at the present day. They have achieved a distinguished position among the best productions of the time, and claim a prominent place in every well-chosen library. DR. HARRIS' WORKS. THE GREAT TEACHER; or, Characteristics of our Lord's Ministry. By John Harris, D. D. Introductory Essay by H. Humphrey, D. D. Sixteenth thousand. 12mo. Cloth, 85 cents. THE GREAT COMMISSION; or, the Christian Church charged to convey the Gospel to the World, A Prize Essay. With an Introductory Essay by W. R. Williams, D. D. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00. THE PRE-ADAMITE EARTH. Contributions to Theological Science. By John Harris, D. D. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00. MAN PRIMEVAL; or, the Constitution and Primitive Condition of the Human Being. With a Portrait of the Author. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25. PATRIARCHY; or, the Family, its Constitution and Probation. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25. SERMONS, CHARGES, ADDRESSES, &c. Two elegant volumes, octavo. Cloth, each $1.00. The immense sale of all this author's works attests their intrinsic worth and great popularity. BAYNE'S WORKS. THE CHRISTIAN LIFE, Social and Individual. "The powerful hand of a great master is visible in all these pages."-Pres. Banner. Works by Dr. Wayland. By Fran ELEMENTS OF MORAL SCIENCE. MORAL SCIENCE ABRIDGED, and adapted ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. By Francis Wayland, D. D. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25. POLITICAL ECONOMY ABRIDGED, and adapted to the use of Schools and Academies, by the Author. Half mor., 50 cents. The above works by Dr. Wayland have received the most hearty commendations of Reviewers, Teachers, and others, and have been extensively introduced into the leading colleges and higher schools throughout the country. BUNGENER'S WORKS. THE PREACHER AND THE KING; or, Bourdaloue at the Court of Louis XIV. By L. F. Bungener. With Likeness and Biographical Sketch of the Author. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25. THE PRIEST AND THE HUGUENOT; or, Persecution in the Age of Louis XV. Two volumes. 12mo. Cloth, $2.25. This is not only a work of thrilling interest, -no fiction could exceed it, but, as a Protes tant work, it is a masterly production. DR. WILLIAMS' WORKS. LECTURES ON THE LORD'S PRAYER. By "Dr. Williams is a profound scholar and a brilliant writer."-N. Y. Evangelist. MEMOIR OF ROGER WILLIAMS, Founder of The publishers have the pleasure to inform the friends of popular education that they now have in press, and will soon publish, A NEW PRIMARY GEOGRAPHY, PREPARED BY PROFESSOR F. A. ALLEN, Principal of Chester County Normal School, West Chester, Pennsylvania, designed as the first book of the series, of which Smith's Geography forms a part. The work is the result of many years of observation and experience in the school and lecture-room, and is emphatically primary in its character. The author has proceeded upon the hypothesis that the study of geography will be superficial and profitless unless attention is at first directed to subjects and objects either already or readily made familiar;- that a commencement embracing home scenes, people, animals, plants, etc., furnishes the only standard by which the child can judge of similar objects in other parts of his own, or in foreign countries. The work will be copiously illustrated by pictures, and picture-maps, executed in the finest style of the art; the former will fully illustrate the text and take a prominent part in the presentation of the subject, the latter, printed in colors, will show the young pupil at a glance the geography of a country by such pictures upon the map of that country as will exhibit its great physical features, Zoology, Botany, Ethnology, and the occupation of its people. The publishers feel assured that this book, prepared, as it has been, by a teacher of experience, and upon nature's plan, will supply a want long felt by the best educators of the country. SMITH'S NEW GEOGRAPHY Containing a Concise Text, and Explanatory Notes, WITH OVER 100 MAPS, FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. AUTHOR OF SEVERAL SCHOOL BOOKS....... ......QUARTO. PRICE $1.00. SMITH'S NEW GEOGRAPHY has been in course of preparationfor many years, and is the crowning production of the distinguished author. No pains have been spared to combine in this work ALL that is essential to a complete and comprehensive School Geography, and great care has been taken in its construction to render it of the greatest practical usefulness in the school-room and family. The following are some of its features which deserve attention : I. Clearness and comprehensiveness of expres- and terms. This feature is of great practical valsion in the Text, especially in the Definitions; it ue to teachers, and intelligent scholars. being the aim of the author to teach the pupils just what they want to know, and in as few words as practicable. II. Superior colored Maps. exhibiting the Races, Religions, Governments, and states of Civilization of different nations. III. Forty-four Vicinity Maps of the Principal Cities on the globe. IV. Thirty-two large full-paged Maps of States and Countries. VI. Comparative Map on a uniform scale, exhibiting the relative size of the different Countries and larger Islands on the globe. VII. Railroad Map of the United States, exhibiting the principal railway lines, with their connections. VIII. Physical Geography, with Humboldt's System of Isothermal Lines. IX. Outline of Mathematical Geography. V. Copious Marginal Notes and Explanations, X. Geographical Clock, exhibiting the relative giving the derivation and meaning of difficult words time of day under different degrees of Longitude. FROM THE MASS. TEACHER. "All we have to say is, that this Geography is a novelty and a choice one too. If we had to select to-day a geographical text-book for our own use we should choose this." ** TEACHERS will be furnished with copies of the work, in flexible covers, by mail, for examination, upon receipt of 25 cents in money or postage stamps, by the Publishers; and schools will be supplied with the work, for introduction, upon accommodating terms. J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia. |