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  The  AMERICAN FIRST CLASS BOOK,  or Exercises  in  Reading and
Recitations, selected principally from Modern Authors of Great Britain and America,
and .designed  for the use of the highest Class in public and  private Schools.   By
John Pierpont,  Minister of Hollis  street Church, Boston.  Author of Airs  of
Palestine, <fec.  Price #1,00.
                            Extract from the Preface.
  This Book has been compiled with a special reference to the Public Reading and Grammar
Schools of this City.  It is the result of  an attompt to 'supply the want, which has long
been a subject of complaint among those  whom the citizens of Boston  have charged with
the general superintendence of 4heir  public schools, as well as with those who are'appoint-
ed to the immediate instruction of them ; of a Book of Exercises in  Reading and Speaking,
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political character, than it is reasonable to expect that any English compilation would be,
among a peoplo whose manners, opinions, literary institutions, and civil  government, are so
strictly republican  as our own.
              Extract from the Records of the School  Committee,  Boston.
  At a  meeting of the School Committee, held July 18, 1823, it  was ordered, that the
American  First Class Book be hereafter used  in the  public  reading  schools  instead of
Scott's Lessons.
                           Attest,               WILLIAM WELLS, Secretary.
  The " American First Class Book" which has been  favourably  known to the public for
several years, was intended, as its name imports, for  the most advanced classes of the high-
est Schools, in which reading forms a part of the  course of instruction.  The extensive
and increasing circulation, which that valuable  selection has received and is receiving, and
the success with which the use of it  has been attended, are  sufficient indications that
such  a  book was needed,  and that the  Author has made a  judicious selection  and ar-
rangement of exercises.—American Journal of Education.

   The  AMERICAN SPEAKER, or  Exercises  in Rhetorick, being  a new
and  copious selection of  Speeches.  Dialogues, and  Poetry, from the best  American
and  English sources, suitable for Recitation.  Price $1,25.
  The obvious want of interesting and modern extracts for the use of schools in which
Rhetorick  is taught,  has produced the present compilation.  Although several oW and ap-
proved pieces are retained, it may bo said with truth that this is a new selection, embody-

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School  and  Classical  Books
 ing the best of what has heretofore been published and much which has never before appear-
 ed in any  school book.  The friends of eloquence will be gratified to  possess so many
 brilliant  extracts in so small a compass, and the American patriot will  ho  glad  of an
 opportunity to  compare the  eloquence of  his countrymen with that of the mother coun-
 try.—Preface.
  This Compilation, of which Mr. Fowle is only the editor, contains a bettor selection of
 modern pieces,  and particularly  dialogues than  any similar book extant.  Tho American
 Journal of Education, whose editor  is a distinguished  Rhetorician, gays, " The American
 Speaker is  a book which we  are glad to see; it adds  much that  is new  and interesting to
 the previous stock, and all the pieces possess that vivacity of character, which is a great
 point in producing animated  delivery—the very soul of good speaking.''

   EASY  LESSONS in  GEOGRAPHY  and HISTORY, by Question  and
 Answer, designed for ihe use of the younger classes in the New  England  Schools.
 Second  edition, revised and improved ;  to  which are prefixed, The  Elements
 of Linear Drawing.  By  Joseph Allen, Minister of Northborough, Mass.
 Price 12£  cents.
  This is one of the happiest attempts for the improvement of primary education  that has
 fallen under our  notice.  The arrangement of the materials is exceedingly judicious; being
 managed so as to lead the young mind gradually through a natural and easy and interesting
 succession  of thought in which the  elements of Geography and national history  are very
 finely combined. No mechanical process of memory is employed; all is rendered intelligible
 and familiar, and at the same time equally instructive and pleasing.  Primary education has
 been very deficient hitherto in aids such as this.   We would  earnestly entreat the atten-
 tion  of School Committees to this practical and useful work. Vastly more may be done with
 young children, than merely  teaching them to spell and read: and  books such as this, in
 the hands of attentive  teachers, might  be rendered as  much a matter of recreation as of
 study; whilst a large portion of tinio now inispent  would be redeemed for the invaluable
 purposes of early improvement.—Journal of Education, Vol.  II. No. 7.

  GREEK GRAMMAR, for  the use of Schools, from  the  German of Phil-
 ip Buttmann, edited  by  Edward Everett.  Second edition.  Price $2,00.
  The deficiency of the Greek Grammars in use in this  comitry, has been generally felt and
 loudly complained of.   Under these circumstunces the translator (Prof. E. Everett)  was
 led to prepare a  translation of the most approved of the Greek Grammars in use in Ger-
 many.  It is well known that the Germans have paid a greater attention to philological
 pursuits than any other  people.  As a philosophical and  practical grammarian, Prof. Butt-
 mann, of the University  of  Berlin, is allowed by his countrymen to hold  the first rank.
 He published three Greek Grammars, of which the smallest is here presented  to  the Ameri-
 can scholar in a translation.  It passed through many editions in  Germany in a short time ;
 and the rapid sale of the first edition of the translation, proves that the merits of the work
 and the value of the author's  labors, are well appreciated in this country.

  GREEK  GRAMMAR, principally abridged from  that of Buttmann, for
 the use of Schools.  Price 62J cents.
                                     Preface.
  The superiority of Buttmann's Greek Grammar over any other is acknowledged; but it ap-
 pears  to many instructors, whose judgment deserves the  highest respect, that the work pre-
 supposes  in those who  are to make use of it more maturity of mind, than is to be expected
 of beginners.  A desire has, therefore, been repeatedly expressed, that  a small Grammar,
 in accordance with  Buttmann,  might be prepared for those entering on  tho study of the
Greek language. Such  a grammar is now offered to the practical teacher-
  This abridgment is designed to contain only the  accidence and first principles of the
 language.   All matter that is not of immediate importance and utility  has been rejected ;
 and it has uniformly been endeavoured to unite simplicity in the arrangement with clear-
 ness and conciseness in  the expressions.  In preparing the work, the best school grammars
 of the Germans  and the English have been carefully consulted on every point,  and  the
judgment of the editor in what is retained and  what is omitted has been directed by a
comparison of the best materials. Particular assistance in these respects has been derived
from the smaller  grammar of Thiersch.
  The practical instructer has here in a small compass all that is essential to be taught
 in preparing a pupil for  any of our colleges.

  The  FRENCH   PHRASE  BOOK,  or  Key to French  Conversation.
Containing the  chief  Idioms of the French Language.   By 31. L'Abise Bossut.
Price 37J cents.
  The Editor feels no hesitation in asserting that after  students have perfected themselves
in the contents, even of this small Tract, they will have no difficulty in reading any French
 book, as far as depends on the peculiar idiom or construction  of the language.  By learning
these  familiar and  idiomatic  phrases, tho  young  English scholar will ucquire the French
 language  and  idiom exactly in the same manner as it is acquired  by a  native—by practice
and example and not by  rule.  Rules are  not  to be despised; but they are rather adapted
to perfect than  to initiate. 
Published by Milliard, Gray, cy-  Co.
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   An INTRODUCTION to  ANCIENT  and  MODERN  GEOGRAPHY,
to w(iich are added Rules for Projecting Maps, and the Use of Globes.  Accompanied
with  an Ancient and Modern Atlas.   By J. A. Cummi.ngs.  Tenth edition, revised
and improved.   Price of Geography, 62£ cents.  Price of Modern Atlas, 75 cents.
Price of Ancient Atlas, 87£ cents.        '
  The very  liberal patronage  which has been  given to this work in its original form, has
imposed on the proprietors an  obligation to improve it  as much as possible.  It is confi-
dently believed that the public will  be  satisfied that this obligation has been faithfully
fulfilled in the present edition.  The work  is considerably reduced in size, by excluding
such tables and abstract statements as are uninteresting and unimportant in an elementary
treatise;  but it contains more than  the preceding editions  of such matter as is useful to
children.
  In Cummings'  Geography Improved, the questions are placed at the end of the several
chapters.   This is more convenient for the scholar than the former arrangement.  Instead
of adding a pronouncing  vocabulary at the end  of the book, most of the difncult names have
their true pronunciation given  where they occur; this will be found a very valuable im-
provement, and it is peculiar  to this Geography.
  A great number of cuts, very neatly engraved, ornament the work, and tend to illustrate
the subjects, and  render them interesting.
  The  simplicity of style and  interesting manner  of description, by  which this work is
characterized, have enabled it to sustain  a high  rank, and secured it a very extensive circu-
lation. It is not  to be forgotten that the  public  are indebted to Mr. Cummings for the general
system of instruction  in this  science which now  prevails, and  which has  been found so
useful. The editor of the present edition has endeavored to retain the  peculiar excellences
of the  original work;  to correct its errors ; and to make such improvements as will render
it worthy of a still  more extensive patronage.  A great part of the  work has  been newly
written, and  it is interspersed with such instructions  to scholars  and teachers, as will
facilitate the study of it, and render it permanently useful.
  The  ATLAS for  the  Improved Edition is  newly engraved, contains a chart showing
the comparative  height of the principal   Mountains, and of the comparative length of the
principal Rivers in the world, and is intended to be as perfect as a work of the kind can be
made.

   CUMMINGS'  PRONOUNCING SPELLING BOOK.  Price  25  cents.
  The extensive sale of this work, and the numerous testimonies of instructers and literary
gentlemen, are sufficient proof of the excellence of its plan  and  execution.  Indeed, those
who consider the importance of teaching their children the correct pronunciation  of the
English language, while they are  learning to read it, cannot  but highly appreciate the plan
of this Spelling Book.  How frequently do we find that the errors in pronunciation, into
which  persons are allowed to  fall in  their childhood, continue to be repeated through life.
It  is certainly much easier for a child to acquire a correct pronunciation, than  for an adult
to  reform a bad one.
  In using Cummings' Spelling Book it  requires but little pains to render the child able to
determine the precise sound of every  letter, and to  make it more natural and easy for him
to  pronounce  the words correctly than incorrectly.  A little embarrassment is experienced
at  first, from the  small letters which are  used to designate the sounds of the others, but this
is readily overcome, and  the scholar is then possessed of a system  which will enable him
to  pronounce all  the words in his book correctly, and the instructer is saved the labor
and frequent interruption which are suffered  by the necessity of  pronouncing  words  for
the scholar.
  In this  edition  a selection of very interesting reading lessons has been added, making
it. it is believed, altogether the best Spelling Book in use.

   CUMMINGS' FIRST  LESSONS  IN  GEOGRAPHY  and  Astronomy.
Price 25 cents.
  It is hardly necessary  to say any thing in  commendation of a work which  is so exten-
sively known, and so generally esteemed.          t
  The public are not, however, sufficiently aware of the ease and advantage with which
such simple  lessons, in these important  sciences, may be learned by small children. The
time which is nearly wasted in the study of Grammar, if employed in acquiring the elements
of more exact, sciences, would give the scholar not only a taste for them, but important in-
formation.  Geography is so simple  a science, that children of six or seven years  of age
may begin  to understand it; and when  a few of its elements are acquired, something may
also be profitably taught them of the worlds around us.
  Cummings' First Lessons is known to be far preferable to any other work in use, for intro-
ducing these subjects  to  the minds  of children.  The proprietors  have taken great pains
to render the work correct, and deserving of a still more extensive patronage.

   The NEW  TESTAMENT of our Lord  and  Saviour Jesus Christ, with  an
Introduction giving  an account of Jewish  and other sects; with Notes  illustrating
obscure  passages, and  explaining obsolete words  and  phrases ;  for  the  use of
Schools, Academies, and Private  Families.  By J. A.  Cummings, Author of An- 
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cient and  Modern Geography.   Second edition.  Revised and greatly improved.
Stereotype edition.  Price  75 cents.

   CUMMINGS' QUESTIONS on the  New Testament, for Sabbath Exer-
cises in Schools and  Academies, wilh  four Maps of the countries through which our
Saviour and his Apostles travelled.  Price 37£ cents.


                          Coltiirn'0  Worfcs.

   COLBURN'S  FIRST LESSONS, or  Intellectual Arithmetic,  upon tho
Inductive Method of Instruction.  By Warren Colburn. A. M.  Siereotype Edi-
tion.  Price of Book 37£  cents.  Price of Plates 12£ cents.
  The merits of this little  work are so well known, and so highly appreciated in Boston
and  its  vicinity, that any recommendation of it is unnecessary, except to those parents
and teachers in  the country, to whom it has not been introduced.  To  such  it may be inter-
esting and important to be informed, that the system of which this work gives the elemen-
tary principles,  is founded on this simple maxim; that, children should be instructed in
cjery science, just sofasttis they can understand it.  In conformity with this principle, the
book commences with examples so simple, that they can be  perfectly comprehended and
performed mentally by children of four or five years of age;  having performed these, tho
scholar will be enabled' to answer the more difficult questions which follow.  He  will  find,
at every stage of his progress, that what he has already done has perfectly prepared him for
what is at present  required.  This will encourage him to proceed, and  will afford him a
satisfaction in his study,  which can never  be enjoyed while performing the merely mechani-
cal operation of cyphering according to artificial rules.
  This method  entirely supersedes the necessity of any rules, and  the book contains none.
The scholar learns to reason correctly respecting all combinations of numbers;  and if he
reasons correctly, he must  obtain the desired result. The scholar  who can be made to un-
derstand how a sum should  be  done, needs neither book nor instructor to dictate how it
must be done.
  This  admirable elementary Arithmetic introduces  the scholar  at once to that simple,
practical system, which accords with the natural  operations of the  human  mind.  All that
is learned in this way is  precisely what will  bo found essential in  transacting the ordinary
business of life, and it  prepares the way, in the  best possible manner, for the more abstruse
investigations which belong  to  maturer  age.  Children of five or six years of age will  be
able to  make considerable progress in the science of numbers,  by  pursuing  this  simple
method of studying it; and it will uniformly be found that this is one of the most useful and
interesting sciences upon  which their minds can bo occupied.   By using this work children
may be farther advanced  at the age of nine or ten, than they can be at the age of fourteen
or fifteen by the common method.  Those who have used it, and are regarded  as competent
judges, have  uniformly decided that more can be learned from it in one year, than can  be
acquired in two years from any other treatise ever published in America.   Those who
regard economy in time and money, cannot fail of holding a work in high estimation which
will afford these important advantages.
  Colburn's First Lessons are accompanied with such instructions as to the proper mode of
using them, as will relieve  parents and teachers from any embarrassment.   The sale of the
work has been so extensive that the publishers have been enabled so to reduce its price, that
it is, at once, the cheapest and the best Arithmetic in the country.

   COLBURN'S  SEQUEL  to  INTELLECTUAL ARITHMETIC,  upon
the Inductive Method of Instruction.  Price $ 1,00.
  This  work consists  of two parts, in the first of which the author has given a great
variety  of questions, arranged according  to the method pursued in the First Lessons ; the
second part consists of  a  few questions, with the solution of them, and such copious illus-
trations of the principles involved in the examples  in the first part of the  work, that the
whole is rendered perfectly intelligible.  The two parts are designed to be studied together.
The answers to the questions in the first part are given in a  Key,  which is published sepa-
rately for the use of instructers.  If the scholar find any sum difficult, he must turn to the
principles and illustrations, given in the second part, and these will furnish all the assistance
that is needed.
  The design of this arrangement is to make the scholar understand his subject thoroughly.
instead of performing his sums by rule.
  The First Lessons contain only examples of numbers so small, that they can be solved
without the use of a slate.  The Sequel commences with  small and  simple combinations,
and  proceeds gradually to the more extensive and varied, and the scholar will rarely have
occasion for a principle in arithmetic which  is not  fully  illustrated in this work.

   KEY to COLBURN'S SEQUEL.   Price 75 cents.

   COLBURN'S  INTRODUCTION to  ALGEBRA,  upon  the  Inductive
Method of Instruction.  Price #1,25.
  Those who are competent to decide on the merits of this work, consider it t(|ual at least,
to ' ither of the others composed by the same author.
  The publishers cannot  desire that it should have a higher  commendation.  The science
of Algebra is so much simplified, that children may proceed with ease and  advantage to the 
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study of it, as soon as they have finished the preceding treatises on arithmetic.  The same
method is pursued in this as in the author's other works; every thing is made plain as ho
proceeds with his subject.
  The uses which are performed by this science,  give  it a  high  claim to more general
attention.   Few of the more abstract mathematical investigations can be conducted without
it; and a great proportion of those, for which arithmetic is used, would tie performed with
much greater  facility and accuracy by an algebraic process.
  The study of Algebra is singularly adapted to discipline the mind, and give it direct and
simple  modes of reasoning, and it is universally regarded as one of the most pleasing studies
in which the mind can be engaged.

  KEY to  COLBURN'S ALGEBRA.   Price 75 cents.

  CORNELIUS   NEPOS,  de vita Excellentium Imperatorum.  From the
third edition of J. H. Bremi.  With English Notes.  Price 75 cents.
  Nepos is, more than any other Roman  writer, suited to be put  into the hands of boys,
who have  made sufficient progress to be able to read a Roman  author in course.  The
simplicity and classical character of his style, the separate lives, full of interest and not long
enough to weary, the extent of history, of which he gives a pleasing outline, by presenting as
in a gallery those illustrious men who directed the fortunes of antiquity, the general purity
of the  moral tendency of his writings, and the favorable moral  influence which always
follows from the true history of great men, are circumstances which  sufficiently explain why
he is so universally adopted in the European Schools, and is  beginning to be introduced in
bo many of our own.
  The  few notes  which  accompany this  edition are selected and abridged from the com-
mentary of Bremi.  In some instances the phraseology of Bradley, an English editor, has
been adopted, where his remarks coincided with those of the  continental editor.  The notes
would  have been selected much more  freely but for fear of making tlie volume too large.
They almost all of them  relate to the questions of grammar and language.  These are the
points, to  which the attention of boys is to be directed.

   In  Press.   An  ELEMENTARY  TREATISE  on MINERALOGY, and
Geology,  designed for  the use of pupils,—for persons attending  Lectures on these
subjects,—and as  a Companion  for Travellers  in  the  United States  of America.
Illustrated wilh  Plates.  By Parker Ci.eaveland, Professor of Mathematics and
Natural  Philosophy, and Lecturer on  Chemistry and Mineralogy, in Bowdoin Col-
lege.  Third Edition in two volumes.
  This work is now extensively known and used in the United States, and has been  re-
ceived with high  approbation in Europe.  The  general plan  of this edition is the same as
that of the second;  but the work is enlarged by the introduction of new species of minerals
and new localities.   Great efforts have  been made to obtain  correct descriptions of the
localities  of American  minerals ;  and more especially to  furnish accurate information
concerning those minerals, which are employed in the useful and ornamental arts.  Although
the  mineral riches  of the United States  have been but imperfectly investigated,  yet suffi-
cient is already known to show their importance in regard both to the wealth of individuals
and the public good.

   A CATECHISM of the  ELEMENTS  of RELIGION  and MORALITY.
By  Rev.  William E.  Channing.
   The first object which the writer of this Catechism has had in view, has been to present
 to  the minds of Children the great elementary principles of moral and religious truth, with
 the utmost possible simplicity of language.

   The CHILD'S COMPANION; being  an  easy  and  concise Reading and
 Spelling Book, for the use of Young Children.   By Caleb Bingham, A. M. Price
 12^ cents.
   Few men have attained  so high eminence  as a  successful Instructor and Compiler of
 School Books as Mr. Bingham.  Though published many years ago,  his books still retain
 their  place in many of  our schools; and where they have  been  displaced by more recent
 compilations, their  place has  been often  supplied by works  of far  inferior  merit—this
 remark is  especially true as applied to the Child's Companion. For simplicity and adapta-
 tion to the comprehension of quite young children, and at  the same  time for  truly philo-
 sophical  arrangement, this work yields to none of the kind in the English language.  The
 steps from the most simple  to the more complicated words  and  sentences, is so easy and
 nntural  that tho child  is brought to master the most difficult without  great effort, and
 above all without disgust.

    M. T.  CICERONIS ORATIONES Selectse,  Notis Anglicis  Ulustratae.
 Editio Quarta.  12mo.  Price #1,50.
   Tho merits of this book, as originally prepared for the use of Phillips Exeter Academy,
  are sufficiently known to the public.  In this new edition,  it has been the principal object
  of  the editor  to exhibit  a better text than has hitherto been given  in the school editions
  of  Cicero, and by a more careful punctuation to place the meaning of the Author in a clearer
  li»ht.  The English .Notes  have most of them been retained, and placed  at the end of the
  volume.   Thoy have however  received  many corrections and additions;  and particularly 
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Voel's  Analytical and Synoptical Tables have been prefixed to the Notes of each Oration,
ghowin* the object of the orator and the course of the argument.  These supersede the neces-
sity of sets of Questions, as they suggest them to the instructor and pupil. On the whole it
is believed that the value of this  book has been essentially increased  in  this  edition, and
that little remains to be desired in this portion of the Latin course pursued in our schools.

Will speedily be Published,

               <&uWn  Ssstem  of   Srauslatfott.

  Applied to the French,—LE  TRADUCTEUR  FRANCOIS,  or  a new and
practical system for translating the French language.   By Mariano Cubi  I So it it,
Second edition, corrected, revised,  and much unproved.

  Applied to the Latin,—The LATIN  TRANSLATOR, or a new and  practical
system for translating the Latin language.

  Applied to the Greek,-The GREEK TRANSLATOR, or a new and practical
system for translating the Greek language.

  Applied to the English, for Spaniards,—The ENGLISH TRANSLATOR^ nuevo
i practieo sistema de traduccion, para los que hablan espanol.   l'ur Mariano Cum
I Soler.
  Until  now, Grammars and  common Dictionaries  have been the only  auxiliaries which
students  have enjoyed in prosecuting the study of a foreign  language.  The intricate
idioms  and delicate  subtleties of expression, have been left to  the oral explanation of the
tutor ; and the proper names as well as the grammatical niceties to the supposed histori-
cal or philological knowledge of the student.  It is evident, that, as it is  within the power
of very  few  learners to command the  continued  attention  of  an  instructor, and of still
fewer, to obtain  a  profound  knowledge of Grammar without  an  acquaintance  with the
language it treats, the progress of the majority must have  been and is much retarded, or at-
tended with many great, often insurmountable, difficulties.
  To avoid all these inconveniences,  by offering speedy success to the student, as the cer-
tain reward for his exertions, is the chief design of the author, in the system  of translation,
which he now offers to the public.   Being circumscribed by the limits  of a mere intro-
ductory  notice, he will briefly state, that  to accomplish his end,  a collection of classic
pieces,  written in the  language to  bo taught, is made, and arranged according to gradual
difficulty.  Notes explanatory of every intricacy of idiom, or nicety of Grammar  are given
at the  bottom of every page, as these obstacles occur. At the end of this  selection, thus
arranged, and thus commented, a vocabulary is  found in which every word without excep-
tion, whether  proper or  appellative, primitive or  derivative, simple or modified, is fully
analyzed, and its signification accurately explained.
  Hence it is apparent, that if the meaning of every  word simply, or of two  or more
combined into an idiom, be placed within the comprehension of the  student, the sense of a
whole paragraph or page, cannot remain for a long time obscure.  These advantages will
not, as  many might, at one glance, suppose, offer unnecessary facilities to the  learner. He
cannot,  unless it  be through the medium of study and reflection conceive the meaning of
any sentence, as it has, in no instance, been conceived for him.  He may find facilities to
attain this object soon and without  despair, but it requires study and constant attention.
Industry finds,  in short,  every incentive for its exercise, as no obstacles  are  presented
which render it useless.  The author may now speak with that confidence with which prac-
tical experience inspires, as this system has already been successfully applied to the French
and Spanish languages.
  How far this new mode  of translation has advantages over the common way now pursued
in teaching foreign idioms; and how  far it has claims, if any, to originality,  will be shown
and clearly demonstrated in a pamphlet which the author is now preparing, and which will
very soon  be published, wholly devoted to this subject.

  ELEMENTARY CATECHISM  on the  CONSTITUTION of the UNI-
TED STATES, for the use of Schools.  By Arthur J. Stansbury.  Price 37^
cents.
  How small a portion of the  citizens of this Republic have even a  tolerable acquaintance
with their own Constitution.'  It appears  that this culpable want  of acquaintance with
what is  of such deep interest to us all, is to be traced to the omission of an  important
part of what ought to be  an  American education, viz. the study of  the civil institutions of
our country.  The foregoing work has  been prepared with a  view  to such an experiment.
It is written expressly for the use of boys, and it has been the aim and effort of the writer
to bring down the subject completely  to  a level  with their  capacity to understand  it.
Whether he has succeeded the  trial must show.  He has purposely avoided  all abstruse
questions, and has confined himself to a simple commonsense explanation of each article.

  DELECTUS  SENTENTIARUM GR.ECARUM,   ad usum  rironum  ac-
commodatus: cum Notulis  et  Lexico.   Editio Americana  tertia prioribis  emenda-
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 and thorough discipline.  The Publishers  have  judged, that, where approbation has been
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 curring in  the Text, but likewise the irregularities of Tense in each Verb  are prominently
 stated, and the  quantity of the doubtful vowels  is also marked in conformity to Morrell's
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 vicinity, with their generic and specific  characters, principal synonyms, descriptions,
 places of growth, and time of flowering, and occasional remarks.   By Jacob Big-
 ei.ow, M. D.   Professor in Harvard  University.   Member  of the  Linnaean Socie-
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 tanical  Class in this city.  It was intended to contain  intelligible descriptions of  the
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 Boston.  Its publication  was at that time rendered necessary  by the  great deficiency of
 books relating to American plants, and by the difficulty of obtaining foreign works of a
 character suited to supply this deficiency. The edition  now  offered to the public contains
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 former descriptions  have been enlarged or amended from re-examination of living plants,
 and  many have been written  out anew.  Although the work more immediately applies to
 Boston and  its environs, yet I  have  inserted  in  this edition all such plants as I have  for-
 merly collected  and described in any part  of the New England  States.  For the conveni-
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to this edition.

  An ELEMENTARY  COURSE of  CIVIL ENGINEERING,  translated
from the French of M. I.  Sganzin,  Inspector General   of Bridges, Roads  and
 Naval  Depots,  late Prolessor in the Royal  Polytechnic   School,  Officer  in   the
 Legion of Honor, and  Knight of the Royal Order of Saint  Michael.   From  the
third French edition,  with  Notes  and  Applications adapted to the United States.
 1 vol. 8vo.  With plates.  Price #2,00.
  The object of the translator in presenting this work to the public is to do something to
supply  what seems to  him a great deficiency in  the  books on practical science in  this
country.  He is  acquainted with no work  in  English,  which contains within a small com-
 pass, and in a form intelligible to common  readers, those elementary principles of Engi-
 neering, which  relate  to building in  stone, brick, or  wood, and  making  roads, bridges,
 canals, and railways.  Nearly all the books to  be found on these subjects  are suited only
 to the  professed Engineor, and are  either too voluminous, or too much involved  in mathe-
 matical language to be accessible or intelligible to the greater part of learners and practi-
 cal mechanics.
  The work of  Sganzin, of which he now offers a translation, seemed better suited than
 any other to the object he had in view.  It has long had a high reputation in France, and  has
 been used as a text book in the department of Civil Engineering at the Royal Polytechnic
School  in Paris ever since it was written.
  In its present  form the translator  hopes it will be found useful not only to the professed
student of Civil Engineering, but to the practical mechanic, and all persons engaged in any
kind of building, in forming a road or railway or  digging a canal.
  This translation is adopted at the  United States Military Academy at West Point.

  FROST'S  ENGLISH  PARSING  EXERCISES.   Five  hundred  Pro-
gressive Exercises in Parsing.  Adapted to  Murray's and other approved  Treatises
of English  Grammar.   By John  Frost.  Price 12£ cents.
  These Exercises, are carefully digested and arranged, so that the pupil learns how to
manage one part of speech and one principle of Syntax, before he proceeds to others.  The
sentences illustrating each rule are  distinctly chutsed,  the difficulties which arise from  the
omission of a given point  of speech  or from a particular species of inversion, are separately
 pointed out and  illustrated, and each important principle of Grammar thus becomes forcibly
 impressed on the youthful mind in association with several familial examples. 
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fluency in parsing.  The language selected is mostly familiar;  and the words of evory lesson,
therefore, are better adapted to the capacity and progress of young pupils, than is the cose
in exercise books which contain abstract sentiments and formal phrasoology.

  The FOUR  GOSPELS of  the NEW  TESTAMENT,  in  Greek,  from
the  text  of Griesbach, with a Lexicon in English, of all the words contained in
them : designed for the use of schools.  Price $2,25.
  Advertisement.  This edition  of the' Four Gospels has been preparod in consequence of
the  new arrangement of the studies in Greek, preparatory to admission in the University at
Cambridge. The Corporation have substituted the Boston edition of Jacob's Greek Reader
and the Four Gospels for the Collectanea Grapca Minora, and the  wholo of the  New  Testa-
ment.   It has been deemed expedient to publish a separate edition of the Gospels.  The text
used is  that of Griesbach, with the'omission of the marginal readings, as not being appro-
priate to a School Book.   A Lexicon of all the words in the Four Gospels, prepared with
great care by a gentleman highly qualified for  the  task,  is subjoined.  It is hoped that the
execution of the work will be found such as to merit the approbation of instructors and render
it useful to learners.

  The  FRIEND of YOUTH,  comprising a great  variety of useful  and in-
teresting  lessons in Prose  and Poetry, adapted to  the  use of schools.   By  Noah
Worcester, D. D.  Second edition.  Price 75 cents.
  The peculiar excellencies of this work consist in the purity and simplicity of the style and
sentiments. In the Friend of Youth the beauty and simplicity of nature have been carefully
regarded, while a pleasing variety has been preserved.
  But the principal object of the author seems to have been to  render the work  totally
destitute of such expressions  and sentiments as  flow from the corrupt passions of men,
and engender discord and  strife.  It is  not too much to say, that in this respect, this book is
eminently distinguished from most of those now in use.  If any Christian will keep in mind,
that love to our fellow men is our first duty as social beings, and compare the amiable spirit,
and the just and benevolent precepts which abound throughout this work,  with the selfish
and contentious effusions of selfish and jarring statesmen, of warring heroes, and of licen-
tious poets, which so frequently disgrace the pages of others, wo think he cannot hesitato
in deciding which will afford him most aid in training up  his children in the way they
should go.

                $rot iFarrar's  J&athematto

  An  ELEMENTARY TREATISE on ARITHMETIC, taken principally
from the Arithmetic of S. F. Lacroix, and  translated from the French with such
alterations  and additions as were  found  necessary in order to adapt it to the use of
American students.  By John Farrar, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Phi-
losophy in the University  at  Cambridge.   Third edition, corrected and somewhat
enlarged.  8vo.  Price #1,00.
  This is a philosophical treatise, in which the rules are all strictly demonstrated, a recom-
mendation which no other Arithmetic published in  this country is known to possess.
  "It is important to remark that the Arithmetic will be of little advantage to any who are
determined not to take the trouble of thinking and who have nothing of the spirit of inquiry
and investigation.  At the same time the book is calculated to awaken this spirit."—Reoieio
of Cambridge Mathematics, Silliman's Journal.

  An  INTRODUCTION  to the  ELEMENTS of ALGEBRA, designed
for  the  use of those who are  acquainted only with the first principles of Arithmetic.
Selected from the Algebra of Euler.  Second edition.  By John Farrar, Pro-
fessor  of Mathematics  and Natural Philosophy.  8vo.  Price #1,50.
  Amid the multitude of more recent troatises there are few in  which the learner will find
more interest and satisfaction than in this.
  " Of Euler it is not necessary to say  much to those who are in  any degree acquainted with
mathematical science.  In clearness and elegance of demonstration and illustration he stands
the prince of mathematicians, and in fertility  of invention he has never been surpassed."—
Review of Cambridge Mathematics, Silliman's Journal.

  ELEMENTS of ALGEBRA.   By S. F.  Lacroix.  Translated from the
French for the use of the students of the University of Cambridge, in New England.
By John Farrar, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.   Second
Edition.  8vo.   Price #1,50.
  This work comprehends  many things not to be  found in Euler.  It has been  generally
preferred in the French schools to all other treatises.
  "Lacroix appears to have been governed in preparing his mathematical works by the
following principles; to give a  demonstration  as rigorous as the nature of the case  would
admit of every rule and principle of which any use is made.  This is very different from the
course pursued in most American and English books upon  mathematics. In our treatises
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 upon Arithmetic and Algebra, with a very few honorable exceptions, the rules are given in
 a very concise and purely didactic form, and whatever attempt there is at an investigation
 of them is thrown into notes which are seldom much consulted. Nor is the student generally
 to blame for not consulting them, as they are usually so ill adapted to the state of his knowl-
 edge that he  finds it impossible to understand them."—Review of Cambridge Mathematics,
 Silliman's Journal.

   ELEMENTS of GEOMETRY.  By A. M. Legendre.  Member of the
 Institute and the Legion of Honor, of  the Royal Society of  London, &c.  Transla-
 ted  from the French for  the  use of the students of  the University at Cambridge,
 New England.  By  John Farrar,  Professor  of Mathematics and Natural Phi-
losophy.  Second edition,  corrected and enlarged.  8vo.  Price  #2,00.
  This is universally allowed to be the best and most complete treatise on the elements
 of Geometry that has yet appeared.
  " On the Geometry of solids or volumes,  the elements ofLegendre and Lacroix are very
 much more complete  than those of Euclid. On this point it is impossible to convey an ade-
quate idea to those who are  not to a considerable extent acquainted with the subject.----
Those who are only acquainted with the Geometry of solids or volumes as given by the older
writers, we are  sure will be surprised and delighted at tho luminous  and novel manner in
 which this part of  elementary Geometry is exhibited.   After what  has been said it is
scarcely  necessary to observe, that American mathematical science is under great obliga-
 tions to the translator  for giving Legendre's elements  in so handsome an English dress.
 The translation  is  faithfully executed  and accurately  printed."—Review of Cambridge
 Mathematics, Silliman's Journal.

    An   ELEMENTARY   TREATISE  on PLANE  and  SPHERICAL
TRIGONOMETRY, and on the  application of Algebra  to Geometry : from  the
Mathematics of Lacroix and Bezour.   Translated from  the  French for the  use
of the students of the  University  at Cambridge, New  England. Second edition.
 8vo.  Price #1,50.
  The treatises upon Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, though concise, are abundantly
sufficient for all  the ordinary purposes to which they are applied.  The portion on Conic Sec-
tions developes the leading properties of these curves in a very plain and satisfactory manner.
  Although the analytical method is adopted it will be found to  be attended with little or
 no difficulty.  The immense advantages which it gives over the geometrical cannot  but be
perceived by the diligent and faithful student.  New steps are supplied and all the aid to
be derived from  frequent references, are afforded, that the less experienced learner may pro-
ceed with as  much  dispatch as tho  nature of the  subject  will admit.  The  formulas in
Trigonometry and Conic Sections which will be sought in vain in  the common treatises will
be found to be of the greatest importance in the  higher parts of Natural Philosophy and
especially in Astronomy.

  An ELEMENTARY  TREATISE  on the Application  of Trigonometry
to Orthographic and Siereographic  Projection, Dialling, Mensuration of Heights and
Distances, Navigation, Nautical Astronomy, Surveying and Levelling ; together with
Logarithmic and other Tables ; designed for the use of the students of the University
at Cambridge, New  England.  8vo.   Price  #2,00.   (This  work is lettered Topo-
graphy.)
  The several parts of this volume are prepared with great care ; the best English and French
works were consulted and no pains spared in condensing into a small compass what was
deemed most important  relating to the topics  here  treated. The Logarithmic tables  are
from the stereotype  plates of Bowditch's Practical Navigator,  the correctness of which
is too well known to  need any recommendation.

  FIRST PRINCIPLES of the DIFFERENTIAL and INTEGRAL CAL-
CULUS, or  the Doctrine of Fluxions, intended  as an  Introduction to the Physico-
Mathemalical Sciences;  taken chiefly from  the Mathematics  of BezouT.  And
translated from the  French for the use of the students of the University at Cambridge,
New England.  8vo.  Price #1,50.
  This will be found far more easy and  satisfactory than the English  treatises upon this
 subject.  It was selected on account of the plain and perspicuous manner for which the author
 is so well known, as  also on account of its brevity and adaptation in  other tespects to  the
 wants of those who have but little time to devote to such studies.

  An  ELEMENTARY  TREATISE  on  MECHANICS,  comprehending
the Doctrine of 'Equilibrium  and  Motion, as  adapted to Solids  and Fluids, chiefly
compiled,  and  designed for the use of  the students of the University at Cambridge,
New England.   By John Farrar, Prolessor of Mathematics and Natural Philoso-
phy.  8vo.  Price #4,00.
  Under the term Mechanics, are comprehended, in this work, not only those topics which
 are usually treated under this name,  but  also  Hydrostatics and Pneumatics.  The leading
propositions are demonstrated with great strictness, and are derived one after another from
a very tew fundamental principles. There is throughout particular reference to Hie, practical
uses of th« science
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   ELEMENTS  of  ELECTRICITY,  MAGNETISM,  and  ELECTRO-
 MAGNETISM,  embracing the late Discoveries and Improvements, digested into the
 form of a Treatise ; being the Second Part of a Course of Natural Philosophy, coin-
 piled for the use of the students of the University at Cambridge, New  England.   By
 John Farrar, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. 8vo. Price #3,50.
  Many phenomena and theories are made known in this treatise that the reader will seek
 in vain in tho best  English works on these subjects.

   An  EXPERIMENTAL  TREATISE  on  OPTICS, comprehending  the
 Leading Principles of the Science, and an explanation of the more important and
 curious Optical  Instruments and Optical  Phenomena, being the  Third Part of a
 Course of Natural Philosophy, compiled for the use of the Students of the University
 at Cambridge, New  England.  By John  Farrar,  Professor of Malliematics  and
 Natural Philosophy.  8vo.  Price #3,00.
  This treatise is mostly confined to what is capable of being established and illustrated by
 experiment.  In the Notes to this and the foregoing vohime are collected many recently dis-
 covered facts and principles  that  have not yet been embodied into the form of a treatise.

  An  ELEMENTARY TREATISE on   ASTRONOMY,  adapted to  the
 the  Present Improved state of the Science, being the  Fourth Part  of a Course
 of Natural  Philosophy, compiled for the use of the students of  the  University at
 Cambridge, New England.  By John Farrar, Professor of Mathematics and Nat-
 ural Philosophy.  8vo.  Price  #3,75.
  This is a plain and familiar view of the subject.  It is intended to be at once popular
 and profound.  A great part of it may be read without difficulty by persons little skilled in
 the pure Mathematics; other parts will require more attention and study and somewhat
 more aid from the subsidiary sciences.

  ELEMENTS  of  NATURAL  PHILOSOPHY.   By E.  G.  Fischer,
 Honorary Member of the  Academy of Sciences of Berlin, Professor of Mathematics
 and  Natural Philosophy in one of the Colleges  of  the  same city, &c. &c.  Trans-
 lated into  French, with  Notes and  Additions, by M.  Biot, of the Institute of
 France ; and now translated from the French into  English for the use of Colleges
 and  Schools in the United States.  Edited  by John Farrar, Professor of Mathe-
 matics and Natural Philosophy in the University at Cambridge, New England.  8vo.
 Price #3,00.
  This is an ingenious eompend of Mechanical and Physical Philosophy that  has been much
 used and highly approved in  the German and French schools.

  The  GREEK  READER,  hy  Frederick Jacobs, Professor of  the
 Gymnasium at Gotha, and Editor of the Anthologia.  From the last  German edi-
 tion, adapted  to  Buttmann's  Greek  Grammar.  Second Boston edition.  1 vol.
 8vo.  Price #2,25.
                     Extract from the North American Review.
  The Greek Reader, having  been compiled by one of the leading scholars of the age, is
 prepared throughout in a pure  and masterly manner;  proceeds methodically from  the
 simplest combination of words to the common attic style ; and is so composed, that whilo
the rules of grammar are  illustrated in easy succession, an  outline is given  of mythology,
 ancient geography, and Grecian history.  It is used  in almost all the good schools in Ger-
 many, and has there gained a decided expression of public opinion in its favor, as the best of
 the  many similar works, which have been produced by the scholars of that prolific country.
  In regard to the  American edition, the chief question concerns its accuracy;  and  this
 quality it  possesses in an eminent degree.   As the Notes and Lexicon  are  in English, it
 affords the means of learning Greek without  the embarrassing intervention of another foreign
tongue.  That it contains references to the American translation of Buttmann's Grammar,
will make it the more valuable to  those who  possess that work, without diminishing its util-
 ity for  those, who continue to use the more  ancient manuals.
                       Preface to the Second Boston Edition.
  This edition of the Greek  Reader has been prepared  with great care.  The Lexicon has
been revised by a scholar of distinguished accuracy, and great pains have been bestowed
 in inserting such words and significations of words, as had accidentally been omitted in
 the  first edition, and in making  other improvements in conformity with the suggestions of
experienced instructeis.  In  the typographical execution of the work, the traces of a diligent
 and skillful revision of the  press will  probably be perceived.  The text has undergone a
 thorough revision,  having been collated with the German edition of this work, as  well
as compared with some approved edition of tho  several authors from whom the extracts are
 taken; and the references to the  Grammar  have been  accommodated to the second edi-
 tion  of Buttmaith's Grammar.
  At a meeting of the Corporation of Harvard College,
  Voted,  '* That this work  be made use of in examining candidatts for admission into tho
 University after the year 1826, instead of Graxa Minora."

  DEUTSCHES  LESEBUCH far Anfanger,  i. e.  German  Reader  for 
Published by Hilliard,  Gray, fy Co.             11
Beginners.  Edited  by  Dr.  Charles  Follen, of Harvard University.  1  vol.
Price #1,25.
  The  design of this  book is expressed  in the Preface.  ' It is intended to meet an urgent
want of all those  who are engaged either in teaching or studying the German language in
this country.  It introduces the learner  to the master works of modern German literature,
and furnishes the teacher with a large number of classical examples, to illustrate the rules
and peculiarities of the language.'  The book is divided into a prosaic, and a poetical part.
The  prosaic part contains, in chronological  order, select pieces from the works of Losing,
Wieland,  Herder, Engel, Gtithe,  Johannes,  Miiller, Schiller, Heeren, A.  W. Schlegel, F.
Schlegel,  Wackearoder, Hardenberg, Tieck, and  Hoffmann.  The poetical part exhibits
specimens of various kinds of poetry, by Schiller, Gbthe, Burger, Herder, Tieck, and KSrner.
  A  sketch of the history of German literature from the earliest times to the present, is
contained  in the Preface.
  " This  is one of the  pleasantest and  best selections we  are acquainted with, for  the
purpose of introducing a beginner  to the knowledge of a  foreign language.  The object
of it, as stated in the preface, is to give a  collection of examples  illustrative of the  rules
and peculiarities of the language, from works of acknowledged classical rank,  and at the
same time to afford the learner a foretaste of the modern German literature.  This object is,
we think, well attained ; and though a task of no very formidable nature,  yet it is one not
unworthy  of the attention of the learned scholar who has prepared the book, and to whom
we are indebted for contributing his efforts to increase the moans of cultivating one of tha
most useful and important languages of the present day."—North American Review.

   In  Press.   A PRACTICAL  GRAMMAR  of the German  Language, by
Dr.  Charles Follen, Instructer of the German Language at Harvard University,
Cambridge.   12mo.
  This work is calculated to serve as a guide  to the teacher; as well as to those who wish
to study the German language without the aid of an  instructer.  The author has consulted
the most important  grammatical works  which have heretofore been published, on the con-
tinent of Europe, and in England; with particular reference to the grammars of  Heinsius,
Noehden, and Rowbotham.  He has endeavored to comprise in his grammar all that seemed
to him  really useful  for acquiring a  practical knowledge of the German  language;  with-
out entering  into too minute details, or indulging in idle speculations.  Every rule of the
language is illustrated by examples, and  exercises for translating from German into English,
and  from  English into German.  The pronunciation  is facilitated  by an analysis of all the
sounds which  belong  to the German language, and by marking the accent of every  word
which occurs in this Grammar.

   GOULD'S VIRGIL, with English Notes, and a Key for  Scanning.  Pub-
Itus  Virgilius  Maro.  Bucolica, Georgica,  et  ^Eneis.   Accedunt Clavis  Metrica,
Notuke Anglicse,  et Quaestiones, nee non  Index  vocabulorum  Uberrima.   Cura
B. A. Gould.   In Usum  Scholae  Bostoniensis.   8vo.  Price #3,50.
  This edition of Virgil is printed without the usual order of construction, or interpretation.
The  use of these pernicious helps not only prevents the pupil from ever acquiring the power
of reading with ease and pleasure without them, but it is utterly subversive of one of the
principal objects of studying the language,—that mental discipline which is acquired by the
practice of critical  and exact analysis.
  If the habit of reading independently of artificial assistance be  once formed, the want of
such assistance is not felt.  And it is found  by experience that boys who  have never  used
an order or interpretation, read Horace and  Juvenal, as  readily as  they  do Cicero  and
Tacitus; and even  witk more confidence ; since they are aided by Prosody in  overcoming
many doubts in poetry, which they have no means of solving in prose.  The use of the
interpretation is discontinued in the best schools both in England and in this country;  as is
also  tho absurd custom of explaining by Latin notes, which boys do not understand.
   To aid the scholar in overcoming  the  real difficulties  in understanding  this author,
copious English notes are added at  the end.  A list of the verses most difficult to scan is sub-
joined, with  the  method of scanning  each.  A few questions are also added,  which may
expedite the labor of the teacher in ascertaining whether the pupil has been thorough in
his preparations.
   The work is published on a fine paper, and beautiful type; and is, altogether, far superior
to any other edition of Virgil in use.
                  Extracts from the North American Review.  No. 52.
   It is  printed with  great neatness, in a type of sufficient size, producing well defined, well
filled, well rounded letters, such as the eye  may dwell upon without  pain  or weariness.
We  are acquainted with no edition, which, as regards typography, the  accuracy of the text,
and  the correctness of punctuation, we should believe,  will be read with more satisfaction.
We  rejofce to find this edition of Virgil excluding the order of construction, or the interpre-
tation, which has so long disfigured our school Virgil, and other Latin poets.  This interpre-
tation, and translations into English  of similar demerit,  have often been  the miserable
crutches by which boys have limped  their  weary way  through the jEneid, wholly unsuspi-
cious that they were in company with one of the greatest poets of ancient or modern times.
   Tho notes  are  various in their kind ;  and not among the least frequent or useful are those
of a philological character.  The  editor will not be accused of superfluity or prolixness in
this  part of his work; and his  reasons  for  brevity are such as every person of similar expe-
rience will accept withomt hesitation. 
12                   School and  Classical Books
                National Oaiette and Literary Register.  July 13,1827.
   Mr. Gould has rendered much service to the ends of classical education in this country,
 by his editions of Virgil  and  Adam's Latin Grammar, and his Etcerpta from Ovid, with
 Notes and Questions.  The Virgil, in  particular, deserves  to  be widely  known, from  the
 peculiar correctness of the text, which is substantially Heyne's, the variations from that,
 the best extant, being slight, and such only as  a careful collation of all the acknowledged
 authoritirs appeared to require.
   Both the Virgil  and the Ovid are printed not merely with remarkable accuracy, but in a
 handsome form.  Whatever is  well done in this way promotes, or supports the cause of clas-
 sical literature and tho good old system of instruction, which are assailed in public opinion
 by empirical speculations and schemes of " tricking short cuts and littlo fallacious facilities."
 Of the many  contemporary innovations  with regard to the communication of knowledgo
 and the general culture  of the  mind, they are but very few  which deserve  to be stylod
 improvements.

   GOULD'S  GRAMMAR :—ADAM'S  LATIN  GRAMMAR, with  some
 Improvements, and the following  Additions:  Rules for the Right Pronunciation of
 the Latin Language; a Metrical Key to the Odes of Horace ; a List of Latin Authors
 arranged according to the different  ages of Romap  Literature ; Tables, showing  the
 value of the  various Coins,  Weights,  and  Measures, used  among  the Romans.
 By Benjamin A.  Gould, Master  of the Public Latin School,  Boston.,  Price,
 bound, #1,00.
   "It must  be remembered  that if the  Grammar be the first book put into the learner's
 hands, it should be the last to leave them."—Preface to Buttmank's Greek Grammar.
   This edition is adopted by  the University at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is  recom-
 mended to the use of those who are preparing for that Seminary.
                       Extracts from the Journal of Education.
   Mr. Gould  has in  this edition of the Grammar rendered to classical instruction one of
 the most valuable services  it  has hitherto received in  this country.
   His endeavors to promote a uniform and correct pronunciation of Latin are an important'
 addition to the value of the Grammar.
   The acquisition of a correct pronunciation  should be an object of attention, as early as
 possible in the course of instruction.
   With regard to the general merits of the rules we need  say nothing, after stating that
 they are sanctioned  by the authority of our most reputable literary institutions.
   On one circumstance, connected with the improved edition of Adam's Latin Grammar,
 we congratulate every instructer.  The care taken  to accent penultimate syllables seems
 likely to succeed in banishing the hideous mispronunciations  with which  our  School and
 College exercises wore, and are  sometimes disgraced.
   We cannot  take  leave of this valuable  school book without expressing our warmest
 approbation  of it, and our gratitude for the facilities which its editor has afforded our youth
 for their progress in a language which is essential to a full understanding of their own;
 which is the  avenue  to  professional life,  and  to  the highest and most honored spheres of
 public usefulness.

   GOULD'S  OVID,  with  English Notes.   P^xcerpta  ex  scriptis  Publii
 Ovidii Nasonis.  Accedunt Noiulaa  Anglicas et Quaestiones.   In usum Scholac Bos-
 lonicnsis.  This selection  embraces portions of the Metamorphoses,  Epistles,  and
 Fasti. 8vo.   Price #1,25.
                             Extracts from the  Preface.
  In  preparing this little volume from the writings of Ovid, great care  has been taken  to
 admit nothing in the slightest degree indelicate, or improper tor the study  of youth.  Ona
 object has been to furnish examples of the different kinds of measure used by this polished
 and fascinating  writer.  It is  not  a little surprising that in  the whole course of studies
 preparatory  for, and  pursued  at our Colleges,  not a verse of pentameter measure occurs.
 This is the more surprising, since, in addition to the frequency of its  use, this kind of ver-
 sification may be considered one of the most easy and graceful which the  ancient poets used.
  As this book is designed for a  kind of introduction  to fabulous history, the  notes give a
 more full account of the subjects connected with the matter immediately under considera-
 tion, than might otherwise seem expedient.
  The questions are designed to direct the student's attention to the subjects  of the notes, as
 well as to those of the text; for a knowledge of the characters here introduced will generally
facilitate a proper understanding of all subsequent studies in Latin and Greek.
     Extracts from the United  States Reriew and Literary Gazette, for August, 1827.
  As  in his Virgil, so in these  selections from Ovid, Mr. Gould has rejected the order  of
 construction anil the interpretation and for reasons, we think, perfectly  satisfactory. Tho
 Notes, too, [in English] are of the same judicious character as those in his Virgil.  And
besides those which are intended to  assist the  pupil merely in the business of  interpreting
 the author, many of them are devoted to tho explanations of names which occur so frequently
in the Metamorphoses, and which have so much to do with the fabulous history of ancient
times.
  The Questions annexed are  well adapted to direct the pupil's attention  to what is most
worthy of his notice, and thus  to fix in his memory many important facts in uncient mytho-
 '"i'}, and history, and geography. 
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  We  cannot close our remarks without expressing our obligations to Mr. Gould for this
additional contribution to tin- cause of good learning.  While  we look not only with com-
placency, but with great satisf.ietion, upon the various useful enterprises that engage the
busy world about us, we are delighted occasionally, to greet the scholar, who comes to take
tho rising generation  by the  hand, and make them familiarly acquainted with the favorite
poets of ancient times.

   GOULD'S  HORACE, with English Notes.   Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera;
accedunt  clavis metrica et notulae  Anglicae, Juventuti  accommodalae.  Cura B. A.
Gould.   12mo.
  This edition of Horace has been prepared with much care  for tho use of young gentlemen
at School and at College; and of course is free from all indelicacies.  It is of the duodecimo
form, and of a size convenient for use, with the notes at the end.  The notes are concise, and
adapted to the degree of information which  the student is supposed to possess at that stage
of his  classical education when this  author is usually studied.  It is presumed that most
students have become  acquainted  with the leading characters in classical history and
mythology  before they  take  Horace.   For this reason the notes are chiefly confined  to  the
illustration of the text, i. e.  the peculiarities of this author,  and  to such explanations  of
the manners and customs of the time, and of the characters introduced, as seem necessary to
a right understanding of the poet's allusions.

   GRAGLIA'S NEW POCKET DICTIONARY of the Italian  and  English
Languages.  With a  compendious Elementary Italian  Grammar, from the last Lon-
don edition.  (AW Stereotyping.)
  The general  approbation, with which the numerous editions of this valuable little Dic-
tionary, have been received ;—the rapidity, with which fourteen editions of it have been ex-
hausted in England ;—und its universal adoption by the instructers of the Italian  language
in this  country, are a sufficient, recommendation of the work  and a proof of its superiority to
others  compiled  on the same plan.  "Several attempts," says the preface to  the fourteenth
London edition,  "have  been made to surpass this  Dictionary; but it still keeps up its  ad-
vantages and the last edition was sold in half the  time of the preceding one."
  The vocabulary is  copious and various, the definitions accurate, many difficult phrases
and peculiar idioms explained, and the most common poetical terms, which often occasion so
much embarrassment to beginners,  are  introduced and defined.  Numerous re-publications
have, however,  been  made at London, without a proper attention to the correction of typo-
graphical errors—and in consequence, the accents are often misplaced, the words both Italian
and English, so mis-spelled, as  to produce important misrepresentations of the  sense, and
the genders, parts of speech, &c. incorrectly stated.   In the American edition, these errors
have been carefully corrected, the whole text examined by  the folio edition of Albertis,
many definitions  and idioms added, and the vocabulary itself enlarged by about two thousand
of the  most important  words, omitted in the London copies.—To make it more useful, the
texts of tho classics  most commonly  read in the  schools and by beginners in this country,
as the Scelta of Goldoni, tho Notti Romane of Verri, the Gerusalemma Liberata, the Trage-
dies of Monti, and the  Italian  Reader, compiled  for the use of Harvard University, have
been consulted,  and  several  hundred words not  contained in London editions have been
added from them.

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M.  L'Abbe Bossur.   Price  371 cents.
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Koy to the conversational idioms of the Italian language; and when  these idioms are once
mastered, the whole language  is easily attainable.   It cannot fail to be eminently useful to
beginners.
   COLLECTANEA GR^ECA MINORA  ;  with Explanatory Notes,  collect-
ed  or  written  by Andrew Dalzel, A. M. F. R. S. E.   Professor of Greek in the
University of Edinburgh.  Sixth Cambridge edition ;  in which the Notes and Lexicon
are  translated from the Latin into English.   1  vol. 8vo.  Price #2,25.
                        Preface to the Sixth Cambridge Edition.
  It has long been a complaint, that the notes of Collectanea Gra-ca Minora, being written in
Latin,  were not so useful as they might be to begisners, for whose use they  were prepared.
In this edition,  therefore, the notes and lexicon have been translated  into English; so that
the work  may be used without any previous knowledgo of the Latin language. So nu-
merous are the words and idioms in Latin authors, which may  be illustrated by a knowledge
of the  Greek language, from which they were borrowed, that no reasonable man can doubt
that the Greek  should be studied first.
  In this edition a few notes have been added, particularly upon the most difficult part—the
extracts from TyrUcus.  The text  also has been  diligently compared  with  the latest and
best editions of the works, from which the extracts were made,  belonging to  the library of
Hirvml University; and a few new readings havo been  introduced, which throw light
on  obscure passages.   It is hopod, therefore, that  those  who have heretofore used and  ap-
proved the work, will  be still better satisfied with  it, now that it U more free from errors,
and nioro easy and instruetixe to young students.
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Sumptibus  Hilliard,  Gray et  Soc.  Bibliopolarum, Bostonise.   2 vols.   8vo.
Price #7,00.
                       Extracts from a Review of this Edition.
  The  best criterion by which to estimate the value  of works  designed to facilitate the
purposes of education,  is actual  experiment.  The  present  selections from Greek literature
have been many  years  before the public, and have constantly been coming more widely into
use.  Of the  first  volume there  have appeared in England and Scotland at least eight, wo
believe  nine,  several editions, and five or six of the  second; and  in the  Unitod States, we
have now the fourth edition of  the  whole work from the press of the University at Cam-
bridge.  A  book, to meet with such success, must be well adapted to its end.
  Of all the  editions which have thus far appeared in  Great Britain or America, we do not
hesitate to pronounce this to be the most correct.  It  exhibits the clearest  marks of  inde-
fatigable diligence and conscientious accuracy on the  part of its learned and unassuming
editor.   Instead  of vague and indiscriminating praise, we  will endeavor to explain its pe-
culiar  advantages.  Our account will be a short one, though the labors which we  com-
memorate extended through years.
  The  chief object  of the American  editor, Professor John S. Popkin of Cambridge, was
to make the book a correct one.  It had gone through so many editions, and each new ono
had repeated so many of the errors of the  last, and made so  many of its own, that both
the text and the notes had become very  much disfigured.  Not only accents and letters  were
often wanting, but words, and sometimes whole lines were omitted.; especially in the notes.
In the  third American edition,  these were in  a  good degree amended; in the fourth the
same purpose has been  most assiduously pursued.  To do this the  original  sources of the
notes and text were  consulted, and these,  together  with other good editions of the several
writers, were diligently compared.  Not a tew fractures and dislocations were  repaired
by means of an  early edition of the  Collectanea.  When the sense was found  broken and
obscure, it appeared on  examination that words, lines, and sometimes several lines had been
omitted; particularly where a  word  was repeated  at  no  great  distance,  the  intervening
words  were sometimes passed over in printing.
  We  hope we  have said enough to justify our preference of Professor Popkin's edition of
the Gra^ca Majora over  any other. To give a more distinct idea of what he has accomplish-
ed, we venture to affirm,  after a close  computation  which  may  be  relied  upon, that of
errata  in the copy greuter and less, he has  corrected as many as ten thousand.  If after all
his care and pains, he has made any  or  left any, they can be easily marked and corrected,
as the  present  edition  has been made on  stereotyped  plates. It was an undertaking of
long and toilsome diligence to correct the press and the copy of a work of this kind, collected
from so many sources, and referring to bo many authorities.
  Not  less than five hundred volumes were of necessity consulted.

  An  EPITOME of GRECIAN ANTIQUITIES.   For the use of Schools.
By Charles  D. Cleaveland.   Price #1,00.
                                 To the Publishers.
  I received a  few days since your  letter of inquiry concerning the " Epitome of Grecian
Antiquities," and am happy in the opportunity of expressing an opinion of that little work.—
While  it was in progress the  plan received my full approbation ;  and the diligence of the
compiler in procuring  and consulting all the  proper authorities  and the  unusual  care be-
stowed in superintending the publication  led me to expect a well executed work.  In this
I have not been disappointed.   Potter's Archaslogia  Graca is voluminous and expensive,
and the works of Robinson and Bos  have not been re-published in this country.   Suinc work
of the  kind is absolutely necessary for the classical student in every stage of his progress.
In this state of things Mr. Cleaveland's well  digested manual supplies a deficiency and
obviates an objection, which has heretofore existed, to making Grecian Antiquities a separate
and particular study in our Academies and Classical Schools.
                                    WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN,
                                                 Professor at Dartmouth  College.

   In   Press.   GROVES'S  GREEK  LEXICON.   A  Greek  and English
Dictionary.   By the  Rev. John Groves.   With additions, by the American editor.
  The object of the compiler of this work (as stated in his  Preface) was, to offer to tho
public a Dictionary, which young  Greek scholars could use with ease and advantage  to
themselves; but sufficiently full to  be equally serviceable  as they advanced ;  a book, that
would answer for  School,  for College, and  more particularly for reading the Now Testament
and the Septuagint.
  In the arrangement of the words, the alphabetical method has been adopted, as best suited
to the capacity and diligence of the  young learner.  Immediately after each word is placed
its form of declension  or conjugation,  together with any peculiarity attending it, such  as
the  attic genitive of  contracted nouns, the future  or perfect of any dialect  peculiar  to
certain verbs, &c.  Next is placed the derivation or composition of  the word.  Tho English
 significations of the  Greek word follow next.  In this part two or three synonyms have been
 given  for each signification.  After the significations are subjoined any irregularities or va-
 rieties arising from  dialect, &c. and some of the more difficult inflexions of each  word are 
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 added.  A considerable number of new words have been introduced.  These consist of words
 occurring in the authors usually read, and in the Soptuagint, which are not to be found in
 fcchrevelius. They are also taken  from the Greek tragedies now generally read at schools,
 and from elementary books latterly introduced.   All the inflected parts of words which are
 in bchrevehus  are  to  be found in this Dictionary, with many  others. These consist of
 oblique cases of nouns, pronouns,  and participles; of persons, tenses, moods, &c. of verbs.
 I here is no English attached  to these parts and inflexions, but a reference is  given to the
 theme,  where all the significations will  be found.  This part of the work  has been par-
 ticularly attended to  where  it respects  the New Testament; and  thus the work will be
 useful both to beginners and to those persons who may wish to revive their knowledge of
 Greek,  especially of the New Testament; they will  also find in this Dictionary all tho
 words occurring in the Septuagint.  Every thing has been retrenched that did not  coincide
 with the young scholar's capacity; and he has  here given  to him what he  will notice at
 present, instead of what he may look for  at a more advanced period  of his  studies ; he has
 here laid before him what will bo immediately useful, for what might be serviceable hereafter.
  This  American edition, in conformity with the plan of the work,  will be improved by the
 addition of considerable supplementary matter particularly adapted to the wants of younger
 students, for whose use the work is principally designed.

   Will speedily  be Published.   HOMER'S  ILIAD,  with English  Notes.
 In 2 vols,  on the plan of Gould's edition of Virgil, Ovid, Horace, &c.

   ELEMENTS  of LOGIC,  or  a  Summary  of the General Principles and
 Different  Modes of Reasoning.  By Levi  Hedge, LL. D.  Professor  of Natural
 religion,   Moral  Philosophy, and Civil Polity, in Harvard  University.   Stereotype
 edition.  Price 87£ cents.
  Professor Hedge  made his  Logic after  twenty years experience in teaching  the science.
 His  object was to form a system adapted to  the present improved  state of intellectual
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 instruction they furnish on  the article of reasoning  is almost exclusively confined to the
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 of reasoning by which the practical business of life is carried on.  The success which has
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 munity.  It has superseded those before used in most, if not all, the Colleges  in Now England
 and  in several of those  in  the middle, southern, and western states,  ft is also extensively
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 In the  dift'eient editions this treatise  has been carefully revised  by  the author, and in
 the fourth  edition two  chapters were  added, containing the principles of controversy—and
 a body  of  rules for the interpretation of written documents.

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 scriptive   Letter Press.   By James I'wton, Member of the  Royal  College of
 Surgeons, London.  1 vol.  8vo.  Price #2,75.
  " Of muscular actions, even of those well understood, some of the  most curions are inca-
 pable of popular explanation, without the aid of Plates  and  Figures."—Paley's Theology,
 Chap. ix.
  Paley's  Natural  Theology has long been held in high estimation as a  work eminently
 useful to  young persons both for the quantity and clearness of the information it  imparts,
 and  the valuable  deductions  and conclusions which the  author establishes in the  progress
 of his work. But every  person not previously  conversant with  the subject must have felt
 the  want   of some figures,  some delineations  for the eye,  in order  to comprehend  fully
 the subjects treated of. These illustrations are beautifully executed  in thirty six  litho-
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 and  many  similar and curious operations in the vegetable kingdom.  It  is an indispensable
accompaniment to one of the best books in  the English language.

  In Press.  A GRAMMAR of the ITALIAN LANGUAGE, with Exercises.
By  Pietro Bachi.   Instructer at Harvard  University.  12mo.
  This  book has  been  compiled from  the best  Grammars  of the Italian tongue, extant in
 Italian,  English, and French,  special use having  been made of Barberi's  celebrated  "Gram-
mairo des  Grummaires  Italiennes."  It is divided into four parts,  Pronunciation, Orthogra-
phy, Analogy, and Syntax.  Tho pronunciation  is more  fully treated  than  in any  other
Grammar, and illustrated by English combinations of letters representing the Italian sounds.
Every Italian word  is accented throughout the book, so that the pupil grows familiar  with
the genius of the language in this respect, while he is acquiring a knowledge of its grammat-
 ical=structure.  Tho verbs are given  with  unusual fulness,  and the  irregular verbs are
arranged and exhibited after a new  method very convenient  for  reference.—The   rules
of the Syntax are supported by examples  carefully cited from the best writers, and followed
by appropriate  exercises.  A  copious  Alphabetical Index closes the volume.

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English  Notes.   An  expurgated edition of the  Satires of Juvenal,  with  copious
English Notes, after the plan of Gould's edition of Virgil.   By the editor of Greek
Delectus,  Phcedrus, &c. 
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   IRVING'S  ELEMENTS of  ENGLISH  COMPOSITION; serving as a
sequel to the study of Grammar.  By David Irving, LL. D.  Author of the Lives
of the Scottish Poets.  Second American from the sixth London edition.  Price #1,25.
                             Extracts from the Preface.
  Though it was my principal object to treat of prose composition, yet a few observations
on poetry incidentally occur.  The  remarks which have been suggested with regard to tho
nature of figurative language, apply equally to prose and  to poetry j but the  poets have
furnished me with the most copious  and beautiful illustrations.
  The rules of criticism are more successfully inculcated  by particular examples  than by
general precepts.  I have therefore endeavored to collect abundance of apposite quotations,
in order to illustrate every branch of the subject.

   An INTRODUCTION  to  LINEAR DRAWING ;  translated  from  the
French of  M. Franckur ; with alterations and additions to  adapt it to the use of
Schools in  the  United States.   To which is added, the  Elements of  Linear Perspec-
tive ;   and  Questions on  the whole.  By William B.  Fowi.e, Instructer  of  tho
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                          From the Translator's Preface.
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be well received.  Besides the  professions which make tho  art of drawing their particular
study,  anatomists, naturalists, mechanics, travellers, and  indeed all persons of taste and
genius, have need of it, to enable them to express their ideas with precision, and make them
intelligible to others.
  Notwithstanding the great utility of this branch of oducation, it is a lamentable fact, that
it is seldom or nover taught in the public schools, although a very largo proportion of  our
children have no other education than these  schools afford.  Even in the private schools
where drawing  is  taught, it is too  generally the  case tnat no regard is  paid to  tho geo-
metrical principles on which the art  depends.  The translator appeals to experience when
he asserts, that not one in fifty of those who have gone through a course of instruction in
drawing, can do more than copy such drawings as  aro placed before them.  Being ignorant
of the certain rules of the art, (and they are the most certain  because mathematical,) they
are always in leading strings, and unless endowed with uncommon genius, never originate
any design,  and rarely attempt to draw from nature.  It is  to remedy this defective mode
of teaching, that the translator has been induced to present this little work, on the elements
of drawing, to the American public.
                            Preface to the Second Edition.
  The favorable  reception of the first edition of this Treatise, has induced the Translator
to revise it carefully, and to add to it a Second Part, containing the elements of Perspec-
tive Drawing, to which the First Part is a good introduction.
  Questions, also, upon the more important parts of the book are added; and tho Translator
hopes  that  this  more correct and enlarged edition will meet with the same favor that a
liberal public has bestowed upon its predecessor.

   The LATIN READER.   Part  First.  From  the fifth  German  edition,
by Frederic Jacobs, Editor of the Greek Anthology, the Greek Reader, &c. &c.
Edited by  George Bancroft.  Stereotype  edition.  Price 87i| cents.
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of Gotha, who having long been engaged in the cares of instruction and  the pursuits of a
scholar, is  in every  respect qualified to make judicious  selections  for the purposes of
teaching.                          , .                                 »-
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that it forms an  easy introduction to the languago and  character of the Roman world.
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land and on the continent.  This seemed to him the best; and having already used it in tho
school with which he is connected, he has found his opinion confirmed by his experience.
  This work is very fast taking the place of Liber  Primus,  Historiai, Sacra; Viri Roma?, &c.
  The advantages of this work are, that it proceeds by gradual and easy steps, from the ex-
amples of the first principles  of Grammar, usual  in Primary  books, to the more  difficult
Latin of the  authors to be studied next in course—thus including in one volume what com-
monly occupies two or more.  The necessity of adapting the matter to the gradual progress
of the pupil has secured a variety of  selection, sufficient to keep the attention  excited;  and
thus  to obviate  the  motive for a frequent change of works: while the amount of useful
knowledge  bound up in these pages exceeds that to be found in most other books of the same
description.
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having the  minute irregularities of Declension, Gender, and Tense, and also the component
parts of compound words, noted in full, by a gentleman of well known accuracy and judgment.

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contains select  fables  from Pluedrus; these are followed by extracts taken almost entirely
from Cicero and  Livy : the volume closes with an abridgment of Justin, tor the excel-
lence of which  the name  of Jacobs is alone a sufficient  recommendation.  Most  ot the
"Short Narrations" wero selected by Doring, who  acted in concert with Jacobs.   A tew
more have been added from the  twelfth German edition of an elementary work, compiler!
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the text has under-one a thorough revision ; that  uniformity has  been introduced in tne
ortho»raphy, which is now made to conform  to  that of the Latin Dictionaries  in common
use ;  and that  equivocal words have  been marked with  accents  in the usual way, and
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by conforming  the Latin words to the English collocation, which occupies a considerable
proportion of every work on this subject which has  fallen within our knowledge.
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 a New  System of Questions. From the second  Portsmouth edition, enlarged and
 improved.  By Samuel Putnam.  Stereotype edition.  Price 19 cents.
   The sale of the former editions of this work has encouraged the editor to offer the publie
 ■mother containing, as he would hope, some valuable improvements.
   The object of th8e questions  interspersed through this Grammar, is  to lead the learner,
 whilp committing his lesson, to discover its meaning and application.
   As many scholars never use any  other than the  cheap editions of the Grammar,  it is cer-
 tainly important  that such an abridgment should contain, .f possible, all  the necessary

 rudiments.                disposition to abandon  Murray entirely,  and adopt divisions
 Md  arrangements altogether  new.  Every new system will, without doubt, present some
 '"1 "d valuable view's.  But whether,  upon  the whole, any single system can at present
 be found, more sctntific, or affording pater facilities in learning to  speak and write our
 language correctly, is greatly to be douhted.
                                    To the Editor.
   «,r -I have examined, with some attention, the third edition of an Abridgment of Mur-
  ravsE^'lish Grammar,  published by HiLLiARD, Gray, & Co.  Having, for a considerable
   fme  used the former editions  of the  same  work,  I was  in  some measure, prepared to ap-
 preciate  th.  The lessons in  parsing are well chosen and the arrangement of them a valua-
 PM» fmnrovement.  The-New  System of CIuestions has long been  a  desideratum ,n an
 fn^dKTu "he English Grammar, and  seems perfectly _to answer the end designed.
   n ,hort I re'ard this little book as a highly valuable acquisition  to our schools;  far pref-
   «M„ to anv work of the kind that has come under my observation,  and  am persuaded
  tZt your fabor in this  department of early science will  meet all the encouragement  you

  can desire.               ^ ^    ^              ORANGE CLARK, Principal
    Portsmouth, June  12th, 1827.'                            •/ the Portsmouth Lyceum.

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   MURRAY'S  INTRODUCTION to the English Reader, or a Selection
of Pieces in Prose and Poetry, calculated to improve the Younger Classes in  Head-
ing, and to imbue their minds with the love of virtue.   To which is added, Rules and
Observations for assisting children to read with Propriety.   Improved by the addi-
tion of a Syuonymising  Vocabulary, of the most  important  Words, placed over the
sections, from which they are selected, and divided, defined, and pronounced accord-
ing to the principles of John Walker.  Walker's Pronouncing Key, which gov-
erns the Vocabulary, is  prefixed to the work.   Price 37£ cents,
  "This Introduction is full of simple, natural, and interesting pieces.  It is we think the
best juvenile selection in the English language.  It produces moroover a fine animation and
an intelligent style of reading,  which  are great aids to general improvement.  The present
edition of this useful work, has an important addition to recommend it, as mentioned in
the title given above."—Journal of Education, Vol. 2, No. 9.
  The Introduction  to the  English Reader is considered the best of Mr. Murray's reading
books;  and this  is no small praise,  when the popularity and excellence of them all  is
considered.
  The Introduction  now offered to tho public i9 improved by the addition of a vocabulary
of the most  important and difficult  words prefixed to each section, showing their pro-
nunciation and definition.  This mode is far preferable to having a general  vocabulary  ap-
pended to  the work, which is  troublesome to the scholar and therefore apt to be neglected,
or, if much recurred to, causes the book to be sooner defaced and destroyed;—and much
better than having  the pronunciation given in the body  of the work, which blurs and dis-
figures the page and renders the book, to tho young, almost illegible.

  NEUMAN and BARRETTI'S  DICTIONARY of the Spanish and Eng-
lish Languages;  wherein the  words  are  correctly explained, agreeably to their
different meanings,  and  a great variety of terms, relating to the  Arts, Sciences,
Manufactures, Merchandise, Navigation, and Trade, elucidated.  Stereotype edition,
carefully revised, and  enlarged by the addition of many thousand words extracted
from the  writings of the most  Classical Spanish and English  Authors, many  of
which are  not to be found in any  other Dictionary of those Languages; and also
great additions  from the Dictionaries of Connelly  and Higgens, the  Spanish
Academy,  &c.  To which are added Directions for finding the difference between
the Ancient and Modern  Orthography, by F. Sales, Instructer of French and Span-
ish at Harvard University, Cambridge.  2 vols. 8vo.

   An  INTRODUCTION  to   SYSTEMATIC   and  PHYSIOLOGICAL
BOTANY.  By Thomas Nuttall, A. M., F. L. S., &c, Lecturer on Botany and
Zoology,  and Curator of the  Botanic Garden connected with Harvard University,
Cambridge.  1 vol.  Price §2,00.
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ferent subjects, which are the offspring of avarice, or of the pride of authorship.
  The work is accompanied by twelve  very beautiful lithographio engravings; and its entire
execution is characterized by neatness  and precision.
  In conclusion, we would  only remark, that it has fully answered the expectations we had
formed of it, from a knowledge  of the high attainments of its author, and that, in our opin-
ion, it constitutes by far the most valuable treatise that can he  put  into  the hands of a
 Scrson just commencing this delightful study.  To those who are acquainted with Mr.
 Iuttall's  former  productions, it need not  be mentioned, that his style  is simple, con-
densed, and highly perspicuous; precisely what a style ought to be in all works of a similar
nature.—American Journal of Science and Arts.

   The  NATIONAL READER;  a  Selection of Exercises  in  Reading and
Speaking, designed to fill the same place in the Schools of  the United States, that
is  held  in those of Great Britain  by the  compilations of Murray,  Scott, Enfield,
Mylius,  Thompson,  Erving, and  others.  By John  1'ierpont, Compiler of the
American First Class  liook.   1 vol.  Price 75 cents.
  "Induced by esteem for the compiler, as well as  by a deep interest for whatever concerns
the subject of education,  we  have examined the National Reader with  care, and with
satisfaction."
  " Finding the work thus deserving  of favor, we earnestly recommend it to the adoption
of all  teachers of youth who desire to instil into their pupils a taste for moral and literary
beauty, and a love of country."—National Intelligencer, Oct. 11, 1827.
  "The  National Reader is designed  for the  common schools of the United States, but it
will bo found a valuable introduction to the First Class Book in those higher institutions in
which that work is used.  After carefully and thoroughly examining this compilation,  we
confidently  and  with pleasure  recommend it to the notice of teachers,  school committees,
and all  others interested  in the education of the  young.  The selection  of lessons is  pe-
culiary rich, and sufficiently diversified."—" We could not easily name a book of equal size
which contains so great a variety of classically chaste and interesting matter; and we think
it  well worthy of a place in  every parlor as  a  volume  of elegant extracts."—American
Journal of Education, Oct. 1827. 
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  " This is one more added to the many fine selections for schools which have been published
within  a few years."—"The National Reader contains a suitable proportion of extracts
from our own writers,  both in poetry and prose, and is  manly enough not to think it anti-
national to borrow from the  stores of England.  We do not know that a better book of the
kind could be made.''—Christian Examiner, Sept. and Oct. 1827.
  " We are anxious to add our feeble testimony to the excellence of this compilation.  It is a
volume calculated to fill a high and an important place in our schools.  The selections are
made chiefly from American  writers of  high standing,  and they are happily adapted to
convey  useful information, to improve the taste, to interest the feelings, and to leave the
best moral and religious impressions. We were exceedingly pleased to observe its serious
character ; and we should  think that no one could attentively peruse it,  without being the
wiser and better; without being more sensible of his obligations to be virtuous and devout;
without a deeper  conviction that he  is immortal and responsible.  We are fully  persuaded
that,  where it is used in schools, it cannot fail  to produce the most desirable effect on the
dispositions and conduct of the youth."—" In preparing this volume the compiler has con-
ferred a favor on  the community, which we trust they will cheerfully  acknowledge by ex-
tensively introducing it into  their  schools."—-Greenfield  Gazette and Franklin Herald,
Dec. 1827.
  Our  limits do not permit us even to make  extracts from the highly favorable notices
which have been taken  of the National Reader by the Christian Intelligencer and Eastern
Chronicle of Maine, the  Courier, Statesman, and Galaxy of Boston, the Troy Sentinel, the
Western Monthly Review, for Oct.  1827, and the  Statesman, Daily Advertiser, Albion,
Morning Courier, Mirror, and other journals of New York.

   In   Press.   The AMERICAN  SCHREVELIUS, or  Greek  and English
Lexicon, new and improved edition.
  The basis of the work is Schrevelius's well known Lexicon; which, on the whole, in
the present state  of Greek studies in this country, was thought preferable to  any other
manual adapted to the use of schools.  Schrevelius's work was more  particularly intended
for the  Old  and New Testaments, Homer, Hesiod, Musseus, Theognis, Pythagoras, and other
Gnomic Authors, Isocrates, iEsop.&c.; the author also made use of Portus's Ionic and Doric
Lexicons and the Lexicon to Pindar   and  the other Lyric poets.  It was published several
times on the continent of Europe during  the author's life ; and within that period was also
republished in England by Hill, who enlarged it considerably, more particularly with  words
from  the New Testament, the Septuagint, and the principal  poets and orators,  as well as
the school books of the day. • Besides the editorial labor bestowed upon it in England, it has
received improvements  in  France, where  a valuable edition  of it  was published  in 1779 by
the celebrated scholar Vauvilliers. Of the other editions, we have before us the Italian one
in folio, and a German  one,  reprinted from the Paris copy, at Vienna in  1822, under the
editorial superintendence of Kritsch ; who justly observes,  that  the  Lexicon, as now pub-
lished,  is very different from the ancient editions both  in copiousness and explanations ;
and, in its present state it may with propriety be recommended to  the student in  Greek
literature.   The  significations given in  this  work are more copious than the Latin ones of
Schrevelius.  It has been the  intention of the  editors, that the work should comprehend all
the words which are to be  found in Professor Dalzel's Collectanea  Majora and Minora,
Jacob's Greek Reader, and the other books now studied  in our schools and other seminaries
of learning.
  The improvements made upon the  common Schrevelius, in the present edition will amount
to not less than ten thousand new articles and  very numerous  additions  to  the original
articles of the work.
  The explanations of the uses of the prepositions and article, which were the subject of
particular  attention in  the  former  edition, have been still further improved in  the present
one.  Another improvement (and one which was not adopted in any edition of Schrevelius
till after this work was begun) is the marking of the quantities of the doubtful vowels; and
in the present edition this has been more minutely attended to than in  the former.
  During the progress  of the work almost all  the Greek Lexicons extant have been occa-
sionally consulted.  Those which have been  most  constantly resorted  to are—Schneider's
admirable  Griechisch-Deutsches Wb'rterbuch   (or Greek and German Dictionary) and the
Greek and  German Lexicon of Riemer,  who  has added much new and valuable matter to
Schneider's labors; Planche's  excellent Dictionnaire  Grec-Francois;—Donnegan's New
Greek and English Lexicon, the basis of which is Schneider's ;—Jones's Greek and English
Lexicon, and the improved edition of Hedericus ; and, for the Scripture words, Schleusner's
well  known Lexicon and  Wahl's Greek and English Lexicon by Mr. Robinson.  Besides
these aids, as  much use,  as  was practicable  in  a  work of this size, has been made of the
labors of eminent critics and commentators on the Greek Classics.

    PHJEDRI FABUL-rE EXPURGATE.  Accedunt Tractatus de versu Iam-
bico, Notulae Anglic* et Questiones.  In usum Scholae Bostoniensis.  Price 62£ cents.
   Phsedrus comes strongly recommended to the study of the young.   He has clothed the most
beautiful of jEsop's fables in an elegant, pure, and simple style.  With the interest of  the
Fabto he has united the graces of poetry, and the graver wisdom of philosophy.  His writings
are eminently pleasing and manly ;  and he has succeeded beyond most  authors  in what he
Btates to be his design, at once to amuse  and  to  instruct.  In the present edition, the text
has been carefully corrected, according to the  best texts, the Notes are  very full, con-
taining a  good deal of Mythological and Historical matter together  with Questions  an- 
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nexed.  But the most important  improvement Is tho attention devoted to Iambic Verse.
This measure, a favorite in the English as well  as in the Latin and Greek languages, has
been hitherto strangely neglected in our schools. It was  thought, that  in publishing an
edition of Phecdrus, one of the best and easiest  specimens of Iambic  writers,  a favorable
opportunity was offered for  introducing  the study of this elegant and popular ineasuro,
and of course an insight into all the Latin and Greek Tragedy and Comody.  Accordingly
some  few,  but  comprehensive remarks on Iambics have been subjoined including a scale of
feet adapted to Phaidrus; and the Notes  have been interspersed with explanations of all
the difficult lines.  The  work is prepared and  printed according  to the plan of  Gould's
Virgil  and Ovid, particularly for the use of the Boston Public Latin School.

   The RATIONAL GUIDE to Reading  and Orthography ; being an attempt
to improve the arrangement of Words in  English Spelling Books, and to adapt the
Reading Lessons  to  the comprehension of those for  whom they are intended.  By
William B. Fowle, Instructer of the Monitorial School, Boston.   Price 2ft cents.
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happily adapted to the  capacity of young children, and are  excellently  suited to aid a
gradual and sure progress in the principles of reading.
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they are  all written in a very interesting style; and many of them  convey useful moral
instruction.
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lish press, we  are enabled to make a comparison  which  is highly favorable to Mr. Fowle's.
There  is no work of  the kind, as  far as  we know, which is equally well adapted to the
use of  beginners in reading and spelling ; or which an instructer may use  with so much ad-
vantage and pleasure.'—Journal of Education.
  This Spelling Book is elegantly stereotyped, and although,  by its peculiar arrangement
and classification of words and  lessons, it is  admirably  adapted for  the use of beginners,
still it  contains as many words, with less extraneous matter than any other Spelling Book,
and is suitable for the higher classes also.

   A  RHETORICAL  GRAMMAR;  in which  the  common improprieties
in Reading and  Speaking  are detected,  aod the sources of Elegant Pronunciation
are pointed out.   With a Complete Analysis  of the Voice, showing its specific Modi-
fications, and  how they  may  be applied lo  different species  of sentences, and the
several figures of  Rhetoric.  To which are added Outlines of  Composition, or plain
Rules for  writing Orations and Speaking them in Public.  By John  Walker,
Author of the Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, Elements of Elocution  &c.   Second
American  edition.   1 vol. 8vo.  Price #2,25.

   The  NEW TESTAMENT  of our Lord and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ; in
which the Text of the Common Version is divided into paragraphs, the punctuation
in  many cases  altered, and  some words,  not  in tho. original expunged.   Vimo.
Price 60 cents.  (Called the Revised Testament.)
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authority whatever.  The several Books of the  New Testament, according to  the  best au-
thority we can get, were written in an uniform character, without  capitals,  without chap-
ters, without verses, without punctuation, or any  break or other index by which to determine
whether a particular letter belonged to this or that word, or whether a particular word be-
longed to this or that sentence ; the sense was the only guide to the proper division.
  The basis of the divisions which are found in this edition is the Greek Testament edited by
Knapp.

   The PHILOSOPHY of NATURAL HISTORY, by William  Smellie,
Member of the Antiquarian and  Royal  Societies of  Edinburgh.   Wilh an Intro-
duction and  various Additions and Alterations,  intended  to  adapt  it lo  the present
state of knowledge ;  by John Ware,  M. D. Fellow of the Massachusetts  Medical
Society, and of the American Academy  of Arts and Sciences.  Second   edition.
Price  #2,25.
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popular, as it is one of the most instructive treatises upon  the subjects to which it relates.
Although it does not profess to be a complete system of Natural History it still contains  a
great variety of  facts interesting  to  the scientific Naturalist; and although  not adapted
to all  his wants, is at least  calculated to minister to his pleasure. It is more particularly
intended for the use of those who are lovers of nature in general; who admire and love to
study her works, but have not leisure or  ability  to acquaint themselves wiih the technical
details of science.  It dwells principally upon such subjects as are within the comprehen-
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played in the construction of their habitations—the mode in which they obtain their food—
their  means and  instruments of defence and attack—their care of and attention  to their
offspring—their docility, powers of imitation, &c. &c.  Hence the work has  been always
found one of the most interesting which could be put into the hands of the young.
  la the American edition no essential alterations  have been made in its plan or details. 
Published by Hilliard,  Gray,  fy  Co.
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 a few chapters have been omitted, as relating to subjects  which would not be interesting or
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 is  calculated to interest the minds of the young, to convey to them much useful knowledge,
 and to give them a taste for tha wonders and beauties of nature.

   The THIRD  CLASS BOOK; comprising  Reading Lessons  for young
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of reading.  It is not however,  in its present form, well suited to the purposes of a  school
book.  The volume is too expensive for general use, and contains much which can  neither
be applied nor understood  by the majority of pupils.  It occurred to the compiler, that an
abridgment of Walker's Treatise divosted of all minute disquisition, and rendered strictly
practical  in its character, might be a useful manual for  schools.  This  idea has been
confirmed  by some intelligent friends whom he has consulted, and hence this little  volume
is  now offered to the public.  Tho alterations which  have  been attempted in the present
compendium, are not numerous.   They consist in occasionally varying the order of the rules,
in  simplifying their language, and in  supplying a few additional examples for practice.
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   The BIBLE CLASS TEXT BOOK; or Biblical  Catechism, containing
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  A  PRIMER  of the  ENGLISH LANGUAGE  for the  use  of Families
and  Schools.   By Samuel Worcester.  Stereotype edition.   Price 121 cents.
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of mothers,  than if he had  published an octavo volume on the philosophy  of instruction
or on the duties of  mothers.  Instead of formally discussing his method, (which appears
to us decidedly the best ever offered  to  the public,]  we will furnish  some  extracts from
the work itself, which will serve to give an idea of the spirit of the plan.
  ' In order to teach  this Primer, it will be absolutely  essential that the instructer should
abandon the common method  of teaching  children to read and spell.  The author, therefore,
earnestly requests all teachers to attend carefully to the directions which precede the several
classes of lessons.
  1 It is not, perhaps, very important that  a child should know the letters before it begins to
read,  it may first learn to read words by seeing them, hearing them  pronounced, and having
their  meaning  illustrated; and afterwards it may learn to analyse them, or name the letters
of which they are composed. Those instructers  who  choose to  adopt this method, may
commence with  Lesson  I, and  require the scholar to read all the words in six  or eight
lessons, without  attempting  to spell them; and then to  recommence the  book with the
alphabet, and spell the words selected from each reading lesson.'
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thought and feeling,  it would  be  idle to praise.  The book carries, within itself, its best
recommendation to a parent's heart."—Journal of Education,

^Worcester's  SBlementarg  OTorfcs on  l^tstorg  atrtu

                              Ofeograjriis.

  ELEMENTS of HISTORY, Ancient and Modern,  with Historical Charts.
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      2. Chart of Sacred History.                 7. Historical Chart of France.
      3. Chart of Ancient Chronology.             8. Chart of American History.
      4. Chart of Sovereigns of Europe.            9. Chart of Biography.
      5. Chart of Modern Chronology.             10. Chart of Mythology.
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                             Maps in the Ancient Atlas.
         J. Roman Empire.                          4. Asia Minor.
         2. Italy.                                  5. Palestine.
         3. Greece.
                             Maps in the Modern Atlas.
         1. The World.                     7. France, Germany, Netherlands,
         2. North America.                      Switzerland, &c.
         3. United States.                   8. England, Scotland, and Ireland.
         4. Eastern and Middle States.       9. Asia.
         5. South America.                 10. Africa.
         6. Europe.
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         2. North America.                    10.  Palestine.
         3. United States.                    11.  Comparative Heights of Mountains.
         4. South America.                    12.  Comparative Lengths of Rivers.
         5. Europe.                           13.  Statistical Summary of the United
         6. British Isles.                            States.
         7. Asia.                            14.  Statistical Summary of Europe.
         8. Africa.                           15.  Statistical Summary of the Globe.
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