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L GOODRICH'S CHILD'S UNITED STATES.

Price-retail, 60 cents; wholesale, 45 cents.

IL BERARD'S UNITED STATES-to 1865.

Price-retail, $1.25; wholesale, 94 cents.

IIL YONGE'S ANCIENT HISTORY.

Price-retail, $1.25; wholesale, 94 cents.

I.

GOODRICH'S CHILD'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

is designed as the first book of History for children. It has long been a favorite, and has a wonderfully extensive demand. The author's style of narration is interesting, and his anecdotes are most happy. The illustrations are uncommon and impressive. The book is just the right size for Primarians.

II.

BERARD'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

is a 12mo volume of 303 pages, most tastefully illustrated. It is written in a style which cannot fail to interest and instruct the pupil. "The author is a graceful and vivid writer, with rare skill in condensation." In this book the current of events are followed down to the present time. A reviewer says, "it is gratifying to make the acquaintance of an historian whose statements are facts, and who calls things by their right names."

III.

YONGE'S ANCIENT HISTORY, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE

MAHOMETAN CONQUEST.

The study of Ancient History has been too generally neglected in our schools, because Dooks on the subject have hitherto been too large, containing masses of dry and uninteresting details. Miss Yonge, the well-known author of "The Heir of Redclyffe," has provided a remedy in the pub'ication of her Landmarks of History.

The plan of the book is to bring together the events most necessary to be remembered in ancient history, and to convey a general idea of the characteristics and course of the "Changing Empires" of classical times. In the space, it has been impossible to give much detail. When anecdotes have been introduced, they are such as lead to the better comprehension of the characters and ways of thinking of the great men of old.

The style of the book is pleasant, and will create a desire for larger historical works. It must beget an earnest love for the study of history. Its fascinating influences will draw the young beyond the trashy novels of the day, and create a lasting taste for profitable reading. As a text-book for the study or history, a reference-book for the honie or school library, or even a class reading-book, this volume will prove acceptable.

Copies of the above named books will be mailed, prepaid, for examination with a view to introduction, at the following rates: Child's U. S. 50 cents; Berard's U. S. $1.00; Yonge's Ancient History, $1.00.

When or lered in quantities, for introduction or first use in schools, they will be sent by express at one half the retail prices.

COWPERTHWAIT & CO.,

No. 25 South Sixth St., Philadelphia.

J. W. SCHERMERHORN & CO.,

Publishers,

No. 430 Broome St., New Ye

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This Planisphere is now in use in many of the Schools, Seminaries and Colleges throughout the United States. The Teacher or the Astronomical Observer who wants to "convert mean into sidereal time, to within a ve y small fraction or a minute," is asked to examine the Planisphere, before he pays from Three to Five Hundred Dollars for a sidereal clock.

Highland School, Worcester, Mass.

"I have used Mr. Whitall's Planisphere in my school for several years, and can teach more of the Starry Heavens from it in ene day, than I can in a year from any other Celestial Atlas, Map, or Globe I have ever seen. C. B. METCALF, Principal." Mr. Whitall has many similar testimonials from the first Educators and scientific men in the country. Sold for the Proprietor by

J. W. SCHERMERHORN & CO., 430 Broome St., New York.

THE WOOD-LAWN CEMETERY,

FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK AND VICINITY.

Contains over 300 acres, and is situated on the line of the Harlem Railroad at Wood-Lawn Station. It is reached by Railroad from Twenty-Sixth and Forty-Second streets, and is distant seven miles from the Central Park, two miles from Kingsbridge, two miles and a half from Fordham, and four miles from Yonkers, and is thus easily accessible by carriages and by rail-cars. Trains leave Twenty-sixth street Depot for Wood-lawn at 8.15 and 10.00 A. M., and at 2.30 P. M.; returning, leave Wood-Lawn at 12.50 and 5.03 P. M. Descriptive pamphlets, maps, etc., furnished at the office, 52 EAST TWENTY-SIXTH STREET, opposite the Harlem Railroad Office, or by the Superintendent on the grounds.

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JOSEPH GILLOTT'S STEEL PENS,

OF THE OLD STANDARD QUALITY.

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SECOND SERIES, Ranging from No. 700 to No. 761.

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Or Descriptive Name, and also with Designating Numbers.

For Sale by JOSEPH GILLOTT & SONS, 91 John Street, New York.

HENRY OWEN, SOLE AGENT.

RIDER'S COMPOSITION PAPER.

THE use of the English Language, spoken and written, is sadly defective, even in our Schools. The Teacher who has a sincere desire to improve his pupils In Good English" will have an invaluable aid in Mr. Rider's method of correcting compositions. Under the old plan the teacher passes weary and almost profitless hours writing out corrections which may not be understood by the pupil, even if he takes the trouble

to read them.

The principle embodied in Rider's Composition Paper is that the pupil and not the teacher, shall conect the composition. At the head of the page is a table of usages, rules and laws which are liable to be neglec ted, each appropriately numbered or lettered. The work of the teacher is to underline or bracket the faulty words, and place in the margin a symbol which shall direct the pupil to the proper item in the table. Then the pupil can, at his leisure, examine and analyze the principle violated, and make the necessary correction. Thus he inevitably becomes technically and thoroughly familiar with the requirements of the English Language.

As a time-saving invention for the teacher, it is most important, besides reducing composition to an orderly and scientific method.

Three styles" First Series," "No. Two" and "No. Three",-lately issued, are receiving an enthusiastic welcome.

The tables are neatly printed at the head of large sheets of letter paper, properly ruled with blue and red lines.

I. THE FIRST SERIES

Is intended for such beginners in the Art of Composition as may be careless in penmanship, in spelling, in the use of capitals, etc., etc. Its proper use will prevent the pupil from falling inte habits of indifference to the scores of little faults which are easy to acquire but difficult to mend.

II. THE SECOND SERIES

Reviews the greater points of the first and attends to selection of words, grammatical construction, formation of sentences, paragraphing, condensing, etc., etc.

III. THE THIRD SERIES,

Without forgetting the errors corrected in the first and second, has reference to Rhetorical correctness and elegance, and the cultivation of the very best style of finished English Composition.

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J. W. SCHERMERHORN & CO., Publishers,

430 BROOME ST., New York.

WATSON'S MANUAL OF CALISTHENICS.

IT contains an extended and varied course of physical exercises, without apparatus. The INTRODUCTION embraces all needful directions, rules and explanations for instructors and pupils, with sections on phonetics and respiration. Throughout the book the exercises are arranged in accordance with well-known principles of anatomy, physiology and hygiene. They have been thoroughly tested in our schools, securing the happiest results. These exercises, practised habitually and energetically, cannot fail to yield to youth grace, agility, suppleness, a ready hand, as well as robust health, solid strength, and power of endurance. Almost any school-room or parlor will suffice for the exercises. For those who wish to use the piano to enliven the excrcises, there are several pieces of music prepared by the best masters.

The book is profusely and richly illustrated from original designs. It is printed on superior tinted paper, and bound in best style. A reviewer writes: "This is the most elaborate and satisfactory attempt yet made to apply practically to educational purposes the great truths of physiology, relating to physical culture and training. The work has evidently been prepared by one who is conscious of the requirements of the learner, and has studied the most effectual way of meeting and supplying them. To those in authority, whose influence would be effectual in promoting the circulation of this book, it becomes a positive duty so to do by every means in their power. All who have the physical welfare of the human race at heart, and understand how powerless the intellect is to contend against the burden of a feeble and emaciated frame, are equally interested in its teachings, and answerable, each in his own sphere, however small it be, for the consequers of neglect ing them."

Copies for examination will be mailed on receipt of $1.00.

J. W. SCHERMERHORN & CO., Publishers, 430 Broom St., N. Y.

Messrs. J. W. SCHERMERHORN & CO.

THE

Have in preparation the First Number of
GEOGRAPHICAL

REVIEW,

To be Conducted by Rev. Prof. W. L. GAGE,

Whose labors as the biographer of CARL RITTER, and the interpreter of his Writings, are sufficient evidence of his fitness for this undertaking.

The object of the GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW is to familiarize the American Teachers and the better instructed classes of readers with the latest results of Geographical Exploration. The pages of Petermann's Mittheilungen, Koner's Zeitschrift fur Erdkunde, Annales des Voyages, and other leading Journals conducted in the interest of this Science, will be freely drawn upon. Maps, illustrative of recent discoveries, will be introduced when they may contribute to the better understanding of the subject. Articles from American Geographers will form an interesting feature of the work. The entire plan and execution of the enterprise will, it is hoped, make it an indispensable auxiliary to all progressive Teachers.

THE GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW will be issued in MONTHLY PART3 of 32 pages, at a subscription price of TUREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM in advance. Subscription books are now open.

J. W. SCHERMERHORN & CO., Publishers,

OUR

430 BROOME SRREET, New York.

WORLD;

Or, First Lessons in Geography,

BY MISS MARY L. HALL.

CONTAINS TWELVE PAGES OF MAPS, PRINTED IN COLORS, AND NUMEROUS

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Small quarto, 116 pp. Price 90 cents.

This book is cordially recommended by many prominent educators. Prof. GEORGE B. EMERSON says of it:

"The author has learned how to teach; she loves and understands children, sympathizes with their wants, and knows how to interest them, and to gain and keep their attention. The language she uses is addressed to their imagination and curiosity, and singularly well adapted to their capacity."

"So interesting is this little book, and so wisely chosen in the substance of the lessons, that it would be a blessing to pupils and teachers wherever it should be used."

Copies for examination will be sent to teachers on receipt of 60 cents.

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Rewards reduced to a Useful and Perfect System.

HE good effect of an accurate register of deportment and scholarship in promoting a healthy spirit of emulation and scholarly pride, is acknowledged by all. Yet such a register is rarely kept. Teachers generally have not time to record each recitation as it occurs. Other duties crowd upon them so that the record must be neglected for the time, and afterwards made up from memory. Perfect accuracy being impossible in such cases, confidence in the record is weakened, and its moral force, in a great degree, lost.

The AIDS secure the good results of accurate records and reports, with less expense of time and labor, and also an active parental interest naturally awakened by a system of daily reports.

The AIDS may be used in various ways. The following is convenient: In the morning give each pupil a CARD, (five merits representing a perfect day,) to be forfeited for misdemeanor, or failure in recitation. SINGLE MERITS and HALF MERITS are for pupils who fail to retain their CARDS and yet are worthy of some credit. Five Cards held by any pupil are exchanged for a CHECK, (25 Merits,) representing a perfect School Week. Four Checks are exchanged for a CERTIFICATE OF MERIT, representing one hundred Merits, or a perfect Monsh. These Certificates bear the pupil's name and are signed by the teacher. The number held shows the pupil's standing in School.

If a PRIZE is to be awarded at the close of the session, there can be no mistake in determining to whom it belongs; and the decision being made by each pupil exhibiting the Cards and Certificates received, no suspicion of favoritism can arise.

The AIDS are neat in design, and are beautifully printed in the BEST Colors. The Certificates are prizes which children wil admire and cherish. The Single Merits and Half Merits are printed on card. board; the Cards and Checks on heavy paper, and may be used many times. This makes the system very cheap. The AIDS are put up in sets of 500, there being 85 CERTIFICATES, 120 CHECKS, 200 CARDS, and Ico SINGLE MERITS and HALF MERITS. Price per set, $1.25. By mail, prepaid, $1.35. J. W. SCHERMERHORN &CO., Publishers,

430 BROOME STREET, New York.

Send for our complete List of Books, Maps, Charts and School Merchandise.

NEW PATENT INK WELLS FOR SCHOOLS.

Fig. 1 represents top view of cover; 2, top view of well without cover 3, bottom of cover: 4, edge of cover: 6, well complete; 6, key to cover. The Ink Well (5) is inserted into desk through hole bored for the purpose, so that the flange rests on surface of desk, and is secured in place by screws in countersunk holes. Flange of well has on its outer edge a lip, which alone rests on desk, leaving space within below interior part of flange. This space allows room in which pins projecting downward from lower side of cover may freely move. Pins have heads (as seen in 1), and are first inserted through apertures large enough to admit them freely in flange of well (as in 2). From these apertures extend, concentrically in opposite directions, curved slots, just wide enough to allow necks of pins to pass freely. Lower edges of these slots have slight inclination downward from apertures, so that as cover is turned the heads of pins become wedged against inclined surfaces, and draw cover closely upon well, on which it fits tightly. Cover is fastened by key (Fig. 6).

This new well is simple, and while it contains the combined excellences of the best wells now in use, it remedies the defects of all. 1st. We have a neat and secure fastening for the cover, which can only be removed with the key, which should be kept by the teacher or janitor.

24 The well itself, after being fastened by two common screws, never need be removed; the glass lining orly being removed for cleaning, which can be done by unscrewing the cap with the key.

3d. It will not get out of order,-by its simplicity of arrangement there is no lining to corrode. It cannot burst and spill the ink, and cannot be removed and lost by the pupils.

4th. It can be used in the holes made for other wells. 5th. It is economical.

Price of Ink Wells per dozen, $3.50; Keys for same, no charge. HENRY M. SHERWOOD, 107 MONROE STREET, CHICAGO, ILL.

J. W. SCHERMERHORN & CO., 430 BROOME STREET, NEW YORK. They manufacture and sell Heavy Plain Glass Fonts or Ink Wells, per dozen, $1 20; Japanned Covers for same, $1 20; Brass Covers, very neat and elegant, $1 25.

HALL'S GREAT GEOLOGICAL CHART,

Size 6ft. 6in. by 5ft., finely engraved and superbly colored,

Exhibits the order in which the successive strata of rocks are arranged, and the characteristic fossils which have mainly afforded the key to this arrangement. It gives the appearance that would be presented if a section were made from the surface towards the centre of the earth, exposing the edges of the different layers. It is, in fact, such representation as may be seen in the banks of many rivers, as the Niagara, or in the high rocky cliffs of the lake or ocean shores, only it is much more extended.

This beautiful chart was prepared by Professor Hall, that it might render a study so delightful in Itself, and so practically useful, more extensively introduced, and more easily understood.

Only a limited number of these charts were produced from the lithographic stones. The subscribers have for sale a few of them, fresh and perfect.

Price, Mounted on Cloth and Rollers, $18 00; Wholesale price, for Teachers...
Key to Hall's Geological Chart...

$12 00 100

J. W. SCHERMERHORN & CO., 430 BROOME STREET, NEW YORK.

The Novelty Microscope.

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PATENTED MAY 24, 1864.

For the examination of LIVING INSECTS this is far superior to any other glass, as it confines them within the focus during the examination,-feet up or down, as you please. It is also suitable for examining flowers, leaves, seed, cloth, wool, minerals, the skin, &c., being adapted to a greater variety of purposes than any other glass ever invented.

Price $2. Sent by mail, postage paid, on receipt of the price; or with Twelve beautiful mounted Objects adapted to its use for $3.50.

J. W. SCHERMERHORN & CO.,

430 Broome Street, New York.

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