ORTHOGRAPHY AND READING-Continued. 4. PUNCTUATION is inculcated by a series of interesting reading lessons, the simple perusal of which suffices to fix its principles indelibly upon the mind. 5. ELOCUTION. Each of the higher Readers (3d, 4th and 5th) contains elaborate, scholarly, and thoroughly practical treatises on elocution. This feature alone has secured for the series many of its warmest friends. 6. THE SELECTIONS are the crowning glory of the series. Without exception it may be said that no volumes of the same size and character contain a collection so diversified, judicious, and artistic as this. It embraces the choicest gems of English literature, so arranged as to afford the reader ample exercise in every department of style. So acceptable has the taste of the authors in this department proved, not only to the educational public but to the reading community at large, that thousands of copies of the Fourth and Fifth Readers have found their way into public and private libraries throughout the country, where they are in constant use as manuals of literature, for reference as well as perusal. 7. ARRANGEMENT. The exercises are so arranged as to present constantly alternating practice in the different styles of composition, while observing a definite plan of progression or gradation throughout the whole. In the higher books the articles are placed in formal sections and classified topically, thus concentrating the interest and inculcating a principle of association likely to prove valuable in subsequent general reading. 8. NOTES AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. These are full and adequate to every want. The biographical sketches present in pleasing style the history of every author laid under contribution. 9. ILLUSTRATIONS. These are plentiful, almost profuse, and of the highest character of art. They are found in every volume of the series as far as and including the Third Reader. 10. THE GRADATION is perfect. Each volume overlaps its companion preceding or following in the series, so that the scholar, in passing from one to another, is barely conscious, save by the presence of the new book, of the transition. 11. THE PRICE is reasonable. The books were not trimmed to the minimum of size in order that the publishers might be able to denominate them “the cheapest in the market," but were made large enough to cover and suffice for the grade indieated by the respective numbers. Thus the child is not compelled to go over his First Reader twice, or be driven into the Second before he is prepared for it. The competent teachers who compiled the series made each volume just what it should be, leaving it for their brethren who should use the books to decide what constitutes true cheapness. A glance over the books will satisfy any one that the same amount of matter is nowhere furnished at a price more reasonable. Besides which another consideration enters into the question of relative economy, namely, the 12. BINDING. By the use of a material and process known only to themselves, in common with all the publications of this house, the National Readers are warranted to out-last any with which they may be compared-the ratio of relative durability be ing in their favor as two to one. SCHOOL-ROOM CARDS, To Accompany the National Readers. Eureka Alphabet Tablet Presents the alphabet upon the Word Method System, by which the child will learn the alphabet in nine days, and make no small progress in reading and spelling in the same time. National School Tablets, 10 Nos. Embrace reading and conversational exercises, object and moral lessons, form, color, &c. A complete set of these large and elegantly illus trated Cards will embellish the school-room more than any other article of furniture. .*1 50 .*7 50 READING. Fowle's Bible Reader. .$1 00 The narrative portions of the Bible, chronologically and topically arranged, judiciously combined with selections from the Psalms, Proverbs, and other portions which inculcate important moral lessons or the great truths of Christianity. The embarrassment and difficulty of reading the Bible itself, by course, as a class exercise, are obviated, and its use made feasible, by this means. North Carolina First Reader North Carolina Second Reader North Carolina Third Reader 1 00 Prepared expressly for the schools of this State, by C. H. Wiley, Superintendent of Common Schools, and F. M. Hubbard, Professor of Literaature in the State University. Parker's Rhetorical Reader. 1 00 Designed to familiarize Readers with the pauses and other marks in general use, and lead them to the practice of modulation and inflection of the voice. Introductory Lessons in Reading and Elocution Of similar character to the foregoing, for less advanced classes. High School Literature. Admirable selections from a long list of the world's best writers, for exercise in reading, oratory, and composition. Speeches, dialogues, and model letters represent the latter department. ORTHOGRAPHY. SMITH'S SERIES Supplies a speller for every class in graded schools, and comprises the most com plete and excellent treatise on English Orthography and its companion branches extant. 1. Smith's Little Speller First Round in the Ladder of Learning. 2. Smith's Juvenile Definer .$ 20 45 Lessons composed of familiar words grouped with reference to similar signification or use, and correctly spelled, accented, and defined. 3. Smith's Grammar-School Speller. 50 Familiar words, grouped with reference to the sameness of sound of syllables differently spelled. Also definitions, complete rules for spelling and formation of derivatives, and exercises in false orthography. 4. Smith's Speller and Definer's Manual A complete School Dictionary containing 14,000 words, with various other useful matter in the way of Rules and Exercises. 5. Smith's Hand-Book of Etymology The first and only Etymology to recognize the Anglo-Saxon our mother tongue; containing also full lists of derivatives from the Latin, Greek, Gaelic, Swedish, Norman, &c., &c; being, in fact, a complete etymology of the language for schools. Sherwood's Writing Speller. The Writing Speller consists of properly ruled and numbered blanks to receive the words dictated by the teacher, with space for remarks and corrections. The other volumes may be used for the dictation or ordinary class exercises. Price's English Speller 15 15 15 *15 A complete spelling-book for all grades, containing more matter than "Webster," manufactured in superior style, and sold at a lower priceconsequently the cheapest speller extant. Northend's Dictation Exercises 63 Embracing valuable information on a thousand topics, communicated in such a manner as at once to relieve the exercise of spelling of its usual tedium, and combine it with instruction of a general character calculated to profit and amuse. 25 Wright's Analytical Orthography This standard work is popular, because it teaches the elementary sounds in a plain and philosophical manner, and presents orthography and orthoepy in an easy, uniform system of analysis or parsing. Fowle's False Orthography The elementary sounds of the language for the school-room walls, 45 .*3 75 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. CLARK'S DIAGRAM SYSTEM. Clark's First Lessons in Grammar 50 1 00 60 60 Clark's Key to English Grammar The theory and practice of teaching grammar in American schools is meeting with a thorough revolution from the use of this system. While the old methods offer proficiency to the pupil only after much weary plodding and dull memorizing, this affords from the inception the advantage of practical Object Teaching, addressing the eye by means of illustrative figures; furnishes association to the memory, its most powerful aid, and diverts the pupil by taxing his ingenuity. Teachers who are using Clark's Grammar uniformly testify that they and their pupils find it the most interesting study of the school course. All Like all great and radical improvements, the system naturally met at first with much unreasonable opposition. It has not only outlived the greater part of this opposition, but finds many of its warmest admirers among those who could not at first tolerate so radical an innovation. it wants is an impartial trial, to convince the most skeptical of its merit. No one who has fairly and intelligently tested it in the school-room has ever been known to go back to the old method. A great success is already established, and it is easy to prophecy that the day is not far distant when it will be the only system of teaching English Grammar. As the SYSTEM is copyrighted, no other text-books can appropriate this obvious and great improvement, 4 00 Welch's Analysis of the English Sentence. 1 10 Remarkable for its new and simple classification, its method of treating connectives, its explanations of the idioms and constructive laws of the language, &c. ETYMOLOGY. Smith's Complete Etymology, Containing the Anglo-Saxon, French, Dutch, German, Welsh, Danish, Gothic, Swedish, Gaelic, Italian, Latin, and Greek Roots, and the English words derived therefrom accurately spelled, accented, and defined. The Topical Lexicon, This work is a School Dictionary, an Etymology, a compilation of syn. onyms, and a manual of general information. It differs from the ordinary lexicon in being arranged by topics instead of the letters of the alphabet, thus realizing the apparent paradox of a "Readable Dictionary." An unusually valuable school-book. 1 25 1 50 GEOGRAPHY. THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL SYSTEM. 65 1 00 I. Monteith's First Lessons in Geography, $ 35 1 88 The only complete course of geographical instruction. Its circulation is almost universal-its merits patent. A few of the elements of its popularity are found in the following points of excellence. 1. PRACTICAL OBJECT TEACHING. The infant scholar is first introduced to a picture whence he may derive notions of the shape of the earth, the phenomena of day and night, the distribution of land and water, and the great natural divisions, which mere words would fail entirely to convey to the untutored mind. Other pictures follow on the same plan, and the child's mind is called upon to grasp no idea without the aid of a pictorial illustration. Carried on to the higher books, this system culminates in No. 4, where such matters as climates, ocean currents, the winds, peculiarities of the earth's crust, clouds and rain, are pictorially explained and rendered apparent to the most obtuse. The illustrations used for this purpose belong to the Lighest grade of art. 2. CLEAR, BEAUTIFUL, AND CORRECT MAPS. In the lower numbers the maps avoid unnecessary detail, while respectively progressive, and affording the pupil new matter for acquisition each time he approaches in the constantly enlarging circle the point of coincidence with previous lessons in the more elementary books. In No. 4, the maps embrace many new and striking features. One of the most effective of these is the new plan for displaying on each map the relative sizes of countries not represented, thus obviating much confusion which has arisen from the necessity of presenting maps in the same atlas drawn on different scales. The maps of No. 5 have long been celebrated for their superior beauty and completeness. This is the only school-book in which the attempt to make a complete atlas also clear and distinct, has been successful. The map coloring throughout the series is also noticeable. Delicate and subdued tints take the place of the startling glare of inharmonious colors which too frequently in such treatises dazzle the eyes, distract the attention, and serve to overwhelm the names of towns and the natural features of the landscape. |