From the Newark Daily Advertiser. A work adapted to the present state of natural science is greatly needed in all our schools, and the appearance of one meeting all ordinary wants must be hailed with pleasure by those who feel an interest in the cause of education. Mr. Parker's work embraces a wider field, and contains a greater amount of information on the respective subjects of which it treats, than any other elementary treatise of its size, and is rendered peculiarly valuable by the introduction of the science of Pyronomics, together with the new sciences of Electro-Magnetism and Magneto Electricity. We have seldom met with a work so well adapted to the convenience of study and recitation, and regard as highly worthy of commendation the care which the author has taken to prevent the pupil from mistaking theory and conjecture for fact. We predict for this valuable and beautifully printed w the utmost success. From the New York Courier and Enquirer "A School Compendium of Natural and Experimental Philosophy," by Richard Green Parker, has just been issued by Barnes & Co. Mr. Parker has had a good deal of experience in the business of practical instruction, and is, also, the author of works which have been widely adopted in schools. The present volume strikes us as having very marked merit, and we cannot doubt it will be well received. NEW YORK, May, 1848. MESSRS. A. S. BARNES & Co.: Gent. :-I have no hesitation in saying that Parker's Natural Philosophy is the most valuable elementary work I have seen the arrangement of the subjects and the clearness of the definitions render it an excellent adjunct to a teacher. For the last seven years I have used it in various schools as a text-book for my lectures on Natural Philosophy, and am happy to find that in the new edition much important matter is added, more especially on the subjects of Electricity and Electro-Magnetism. With respect, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, GILBERT LANGDON HUME, Teacher of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics in N. Y. city. NEW YORK, May 2, 1848 We have used Parker's Compend of Natural Philosophy for many years, and consider it an excellent work on the various topics of which it treats. Yours, &c. FORREST & McELLIGOTT, Principals of the Collegiate School. From the Lynchburg Virginian. The volume before us strikes us as containing more to recommend it than any one of its class with which we are acquainted. It is adapted to the present state of natural science; embraces a wider field, and contains a greater amount of information on the respective subjects of which it treats, than any other elementary treatise of its size. It contains descriptions of the steam-engine, stationary and locomotive, and of the magnetic telegraph. It embraces a copious account oʻ the principles of electricity and magnetism, under all their modifications, and is embellished by a vast number of illustrations and diagrams. There is appended a series of questions for examination, copious and pertinent 15 FULTON & EASTMAN'S PENMANSHIP, Illustrated and expeditiously taught by the use of a series of Chirographic Charts, a Key, and a set of School Writing-Books, appropriately ruled. I. CHIROGRAPHIC CHARTS, IN TWO NUMBERS. (Price 5.00.) Chart No. 1, EMBRACES PRIMARY EXERCISES, AND ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES IN WRITING. Chart No. 2, EMBRACES ELEMENTARY Principles for CAPITALS Combined, AND ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES FOR SMALL LETTERS COMBINED. II. KEY TO CHIROGRAPHIC CHARTS; Containing directions for the position at the desk, and manner of holding the pen. Also for the exact forms and proportions of letters, with Rules for their execution. (Price 25 cents.) III. SCHOOL WRITING-BOOKS. IN FOUR NUMBERS. (Price 12 cents each.) From the Trustees of the Union School, Lyons, N. Y. The undersigned, trustees of the Union District School of the town of Lyons, take this method of expressing their approval of "Fulton's Principles of Penmanship." They have seen the system in operation, during the past year, in the school with which they are connected, and are fully satisfied of its great superiority over all other systems heretofore used. The "Chirographic Charts," upon which are drawn in large size the different letters and parts of the letters of the alphabet, proportioned in accordance with the rules laid down by the author for the formation of each letter, and which, when suspended, can be seen from all parts of a school-room of ordinary size, they regard as an especial improvement upon, and advantage over, other modes of teaching this art. While the labor of the teacher is by this means lightened a hundred fold, from the fact that the directions and rules thus illustrated, can be explained to a whole class at once, the benefit to the scholar is proportionally increased. The charts being made the property of the district, a uniformity is established in this branch of instruction, and the continual changes in books and methods of teaching, which have heretofore given occasion to so much just complaint on the part of parents and guardians, and which have been so prejudicial to the pupil, are entirely avoided. The brief space necessarily allotted to a notice of this kind, will not permit the undersigned to say all they might say with truth in praise of Mr. F.'s system of instruction. They therefore conclude with the remark that it meets their entire approbation, and they cordially commend it to the favorable notice of the friends of education generally, and would recommend its adoption by academies and ommon schools in this and in other states. Dated Lyons, N Y., April 5th, 1847. A. L. BEAUMONT DE WITT PARSHALL. 25 MRS. EMMA WILLARD'S SERIES OF SCHOOL HISTORIES AND CHARTS. 1. WILLARD'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, OR REPUBLIC OF AMERICA, 8vo. Price $1.50. II. WILLARD'S SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. III. WILLARD'S AMERICAN CHRONOGRAPHER, $1.00. A CHART OF AMERICAN HISTORY. I. WILLARD'S UNIVERSAL HISTORY IN PERSPECTIVE. $1.50. II. WILLARD'S TEMPLE OF TIME, $1.25. A CHART OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY WILLARD'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. The large work is designed as a Text-Book for Academies and Female Seminaries: and also for District School and Family Libraries. The small work being an Abridgment of the same, is designed as a Text-Book for Common Schools. The originality of the plan consists in dividing the time into periods, of which the beginnings and terminations are marked by important events; and constructing a series of maps illustrating the progress of the settlement of the country, and the regular advances of civilization. The Chronographic Chart, gives by simple inspection, a view of the divisions of the work, and the events which mark the beginning and termination of each period into which it is divided. A full chronological table will be found, in which all the events of the History are arranged in the order of time. There is appended to the work the Constitution of the United States, and a series of questions adapted to each chapter, so that the work may be used in schools and for private instruction. The Hon. Daniel Webster says, of an early edition of the above work, in a letter to the author," I keep it near me, as a Book of Reference, accurate in facts and dates.” WILLARD'S AMERICAN CHRONOGRAPHER, To measure time by space is universal among civilized nations, and as the hours, and minutes, and seconds of a clock measure the time of a day, so do the centuries, tens, and single years of this Chronographer, measure the time of American History. A general knowledge of chronology is as indispensable to history, as a general knowledge of latitude and longitude is to geography. But to learn single dates, apart from a general plan of chronology addressed to the eye, is as useless as to learn latitudes and longitudes without reference to a map. The eye is the only medium of permanent impression. The essential point in a date, is to know the relative place of an event, or how it stands in time compared with other important events. The scholar in the school100m, or the gentleman in his study, wants such a visible plan of time for the study of history, the same as he wants the visible plan of space, viz., a map for the study of geography, or of books of travels. Such is the object of Willard's Chronographer of American History. Extract from a Report of the Ward School Teachers' Association The Committee on Books of the Ward School Association respectfully report: That they have examined Mrs. Willard's History of the Urated States with peculiar interest, and are free to say, that it is in their opinion decidedly the best treatise on this interesting subject that they have seen. * As a school-book, its proper place is among the first. The language is remarkable for simplicity, perspicuity, and neatness; youth could not be trained to a better taste for language than this is calculated to impart. The history is so written as to lead to geographical examinations, and impresses by practice the habit to read history with maps. It places at once, in the hands of American youth, the history of their country from the day of its discovery to the present time, and exhibits a clear arrangement of all the great and good deeds of their ancestors, of which they now enjoy the benefits, and inherit the renown. The struggles, sufferings, firmness, and piety of the first settlers are delineated with a masterly hand. The gradual enlargement of our dominions, and the development of our national energics, are tracer with a minute accuracy, which the general plan of the work indicates. The events and achievements of the Revolution and of the last war, are brought out in a clear light, and the subsequent history of our national policy and advancement strikingly portrayed, without being disfigured by that inge (19) of party bias which is so difficult to be guarded against by historians of their own times. The details of the discovery of this continent by Columbus, and of the early settlements by the Spaniards, Portuguese, and other European nations, are all of essential interest to the student of American history, and will be found sufficiently minute to render the history of the continent full and complete. The different periods of time, together with the particular dates, are distinctly set forth with statistical notes on the margin of each page,—and these afford much information without perusing the pages. The maps are beautifully executed, with the locality of places where particular events occurred, and the surrounding country particularly delineated. These are admirably calculated to make lasting impressions on the mind. The day has now arrived when every child should be acquainted with the history of his country; and your Committee rejoice that a work so full and clear can be placed within the reach of every one. The student will learn, by reading a few pages, how much reason he has to be proud of his country-of its institutions-of its founders-of its heroes and statesmen and by such lessons are we not to hope that those who come after us wi be instructed in their duties as citizens, and their obligations as patriots? Your Committee are anxious to see this work extensively used in all the schoo.s in the United States. (Signed,) SENECA DURAND, The Committee would respectfully offer the following resolution : Resolved, That Mrs. Emma Willard's History of the United States be adopted by this Association, and its introduction into our schools earnestly recommended. At a meeting of the Board of the Ward School Teacners' Association January 20th, 1847, the above Resolution was adopted.-(Copied from the Minutes.) From the Boston Traveller. We consider the work a remarkable one, in that it forms the best book for general reading and reference published, and at the same time has no equal, in our opinion, as a text-book. On this latter point, the profession which its author has so long followed with such signal success, rendered her peculiarly a fitting person to prepare a text-book. None but a practical teacher is capable of preparing a good school-book; and as woman has so much to do in forming our early character, why should her influence cease at the fireside-why not encourage her to exert her talents still, in preparing school and other books for after years? No hand can do it better. The typography of this work is altogether in good taste. From the Cincinnati Gazette. MRS. WILLARD'S SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.-It is one of those rare things, a good school-book; infinitely better than any of the United States Histories fitted for schools, which we have at present. It is quite full enough, and yet condensed with great care and skill. The style is clear and simpleMrs. Willard having avoided those immense Johnsonian words which Grimshaw and other writers for children love to put into their works, while, at the same time there is nothing of the pap style about it. The arrangement is excellent, |