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. 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. A NEW CEOGRAPHY, BY R. C. SMITH, A. M. JUST PUBLISHED; 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 preparation for 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 con nections. 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 su with the work, for introduction, upon accommodating terms. #pplied J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia. The Perfect Teacher..... The Folly of Pride....... The Rain.... Wound, or Wooned.. The Blue Sky................ 263 A Few Thoughts on a Common Topic........ 279 Final Disposal of the Famous Dighton Rock. 264 The Venerable Bede...... .... 280 264 QUESTIONS FOR WRITTEN EXAMINATIONS. 268 269 Extraction of the Square Root..... Another Laura Bridgman....An Old Man.... 271 Contractions in Multiplication... 282 283 EDITORS' DEPARTMENT. FAMILY SCHOOL FOR BOYS, AT OLD WARWICK, R. ISLAND. This School is designed to hold an intermediate place in the education of lads, and retain the social influence of the family after it becomes necessary to send scholars from home. The limited number of pupils also allows of that special attention and care which cannot be given in large schools. We shall try to do for scholars who may be sent to us, what our editorial associates have led the community to expect, by their kind notice in the last number of THE SCHOOLMASTER. CHARGES FOR BOARD & INSTRUCTION IN COMMON ENGLISH BRANCHES, $40 PER TERM OF ELEVEN WEEKS. Higher branches extra. The Fall and Winter Terms commence on the 9TH OF SEPTEMBER, AND THE 2D OF DECEMBER, 1861, With a recess between of Thanksgiving week. Inquiries can be made in Providence at SNOW & GREENE'S. Communications should be addressed to the Principal, GEORGE A. WILLARD, WARWICK NECK, AUGUST 15, 1861. WARWICK NECK, R. I. INFORMATION FORWARDED ON APPLICATION, BY MAIL, OR OTHERWISE N. B. Every Article of School Furniture from this Establishment will be Warranted. ALL COMMUNICATIONS MAY BE ADDRESSED TO JOSEPH L. ROSS, OFFICE, CHARDON, OPPOSITE HAWKINS STREET, (Near the Revere House,) BOSTON, MASS. Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1860 by JOSEPH L. Ross, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BRISTOL, R. I. The Terms of this Institution for the ensuing year will commence as follows: First Term, on Tuesday, September 10, 1861. The year is divided into four Terms, in order to give to teachers an opportunity of attending the Normal School during the vacations of the Public Schools of the State. BOARD OF INSTRUCTION, JOSHUA KENDALL, A. M., PRINCIPAL. MISS HANNAH W. GOODWIN, MISS ELLEN R. LUTHER, ASSISTANTS. ARRANGEMENT OF STUDIES. The studies of the School are arranged, as far as possible, to meet the wants of actual teachers and those intending to become such. They embrace, First. The Common School Branches," viz: SPELLING, READING, ARITHMETIC, POLITICAL AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, including both teaching and drill exercises in each. be given each week; also Lessons in Vocal Music and in Drawing. ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND ANALYSIS, Second, The "Higher English and Mathematical Branches," and the "Natural Sciences,” viz: A Course of Familiar Conversational Lectures will be given, each term, on topics connected with the Teacher's Life and Duties. Every subject of study and of lecture will be considered with reference to the best methods of teaching it. JOSHUA KENDALL, Principal. jy2m BRISTOL, R. I., June 25, 1860. |