excited and well maintained to the end. The leading, or topical words, being printed in conspicuous type, are impressed more readily upon the mind of the learner. Admirable illustrative maps accompany the text, and the chronological review tables are quite full enough for the general student.

SALLUSTI CATILINA ET JUGURTHA, with explanatory notes, lexicon, etc. By George Stuart, A.M. Philadelphia: Eldredge & Brother. Boston: J. L. Hammett. This adds another volume to the Chase and Stuart Classical Series. The text is based upon a careful comparison of Gerlach and Jordanus, the most approved German editors of Sallust. The grammatical references and notes are numerous, and furnish all the assistance the scholar needs. The lexicon contains the words and names of the text, and the forms of less obvious derivation. It is enough to say that this volume is issued in the same form and prepared with the same care as its predecessors.

THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES, its Causes, Character, Conduct, and Results. By Hon. Alexander H. Stephens. Boston: National Publishing Company. The second and concluding volume of this important work by the Vice-President of the late Southern Confederacy, is now issued. The first volume detailed the causes which led to the secession of the South; the second narrates the story of the War, and gives some insight into the interior workings of the Confederacy. Mr. Stephens possessed every facility for the work he has performed, and his story will be eagerly read. The work is sold by subscription only, and agents are wanted in every county.

A. WILLIAMS & Co., 135 Washington street, send us from the press of Harper & Brothers, Charles Dickens, the Story of his Life, by the author of the "Life of Thackeray." It is exceedingly interesting, and gives much satisfactory information in regard to the great author. Recollections of Eton, by an Etonian, is from the same firm. It is an interesting description of college sports, and a narration of college experiences. The illustrations are by Sidney P. Hall. Veronica is the last number of the Harpers' Library of Select novels.

LIGHTHOUSES AND LIGHTSHIPS; a Descriptive and Historical Account of their Mode of Construction and Organization. By W. H. Davenport Adams. New York: Charles Scribner & Co. This book is well worthy its place in the Publishers' Illustrated Library of Wonders. The lighthouse, from the ancient pharos, with its fire of wood or coal, to the costly structures of the present time, with their powerful illuminating apparatus, records the triumphs of genius and marks the progress of the race. The very name has a sort of fascination. No wonder we have so attractive a volume. The illustrations, as in the preceding volumes of the series, are numerous and fine.

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ANCIENT HISTORY; or the Old States and Empires. For Colleges and Schools. By John Lord, LL.D. New York: Charles Scribner & Co.

LITERATURE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE; comprising Representative Selections from the Best Authors, also lists of Contemporaneous Writers and their Principal Works. By E. Hunt, LL.D., Head-master of the Girls' High and Normal School, Boston. New York: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co.

JUST PUBLISHED,

A Concise History of the United States,

By L. J. CAMPBELL.

BASED ON SEAVY'S GOODRICH.

This book contains 257 pages, with the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, CONSTITUTION, &c., and is suitably illustrated with MAPS and CUTS. No pains and labor have been spared to render the work especially desirable as a Class Book. The attention of Teachers and School officers is invited to the following particulars:

I. Its simplicity of tatement and judiciousness in the selection of facts.

II. Its accuracy in the relation of events, pronunciation of proper names, &c.

III. Its freedom from comparatively useless dates.
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WALTON'S NORMAL SERIES.

This series of Arithmetics consists of three books, viz:

I. A Pictorial Primary Arithmetic.

(Normal edition.)

II. An Intellectual Arithmetic.

(Normal edition.)

III. The Illustrative Practical Arithmetic.

The Illustrative Practical Arithmetic is entirely new. It is designed for Common Schools, Normal Schools, High Schools, and Academies, and will, it is believed, meet the wants of the large majority of the students of written arithmetic, in all grades of schools, more fully than any other arithmetic before the public.

For those who desire to pursue the subject further,

Walton's Written Arithmetic

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Favorable terms will be made for introduction.

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After a successful trial for three years of ROBINSON'S MATHEMATICS in the Schools of San Francisco, this famous Series has been adopted, over great competition, for uniform use in the Public Schools of California. Thus from Maine to California ROBINSON takes the lead.

A NEW BOOK ADDED TO THE SERIES.

FIRST LESSONS IN MENTAL AND WRITTEN ARITH

METIC.

This volume contains 180 pages, and is probably the handsomest Primary School-book yet issued. No expense, either in the drawing or engraving of cuts, has been spared to make its illustrations as attractire and usejul as possible. The idea, outside of the superior merits of the book itself, has been to make it a beautiful work in an artistic sense, and this the publishers think they have done. The methods of study are all original, and are intended to increase interest and decrease difficulties in teaching primary classes. Due prominence is given to methods of Object-Teaching without detriment to the Analytical, Progressive, and Inductive Systems. The book is intended for use in Primary classes where one book only is desired, and for this purpose it can have no equal. Now ready. Price, 40 cts." Liberal terms for introduction, and sample copies for examination.

JUST PUBLISHED:

LITERATURE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

By E. HUNT, A. M., Prin. of The Girls High and Normal School, Boston, Mass. Cloth, 624 pp. The object of this book is to illustrate the power and growth of the English Language by representative selections from some of the most successful authors, and to introduce the student to those whose contributions to its Literature are worthy his attention.

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Abridged from Webster's Quarto, illustrated with nearly TWO HUNDRED Engravings on Wood.

By WM. G. WEBSTER and WM. A. WHEELER.

This volume embraces a careful selection of more than 18,000 of the most important words of the language. The introduction contains, besides the Pictorial Illustrations, Tubles of Money, Weight, and Measure, Abbreviations, Words, l'hrases. Proverbs, &c., from the Greek, the Latin, and the Modern Foreign Languages, Rules for Spelling, &c., &c.: making altogether the most complete and useful pocket companion extant. It is beautifully printed on tinted paper, and bound in three different styles. Cloth, 75 cts.; flexible, 85 cts.; tucks, gilt edges, $1. Sent by mail on receipt of the price.

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Upon the frames of these slates are indelibly printed, directly upon the wood, exercises in Printing, Writing, Drawing, and the Roman and Arabic Numerals.

SLATE No. 1 presents to the eye of the pupil Capital and small letters, penned in the simplest manner possible, and so arranged as to lead to a ready acquisition of the Alphabet. Upon the opposite side, the elementary principles of Drawing are developed in such manner and order as to lead to Inventive Drawing.

LATE No. 2 is intended for more advanced pupils, affording studies in Script, thus instructing the young mind in Writing. Upon the opposite side are given the elementary principles of curved line Drawing, together with more difficult exercises in the drawing of Animals, Fruit, Leaves, and many of the common objects of daily life.

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EATON'S PRIMARY ARITHMETIC. Beautifully illustrated, and made attractive for beginners.

EATON'S INTELLECTUAL ARITHMETIC. On a progressive plan, with numerous drill exercises for review.

EATON'S COMMON SCHOOL ARITHMETIC. A complete practical arithmetic, full enough for all ordinary business purposes.

EATON'S HIGH SCHOOL ARITHMETIC.
High Schools and Academies.

A thorough and exhaustive treatise for

EATON'S ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA. Designed for beginners, and yet sufficiently full for the preparation of students for College.

EATON'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL ARITHMETIC. Unites the Common School and High School Arithmetics, and is sometimes preferred where only one Written Arithmetic is used.

EATON'S ELEMENTS OF ARITHMETIC. A short course of Written Arithmetic, designed for Evening Schools and special classes.

Eaton's Series present a full and practical exposition of the metric system of weights and measures, and the latest and most improved methods of mathematical instruction.

From hundreds of testimonials, in regard to the high character and successful working of Eaton's series in the schools, we present the following:

From Hon. John D. Philbrick, Superintendent of Public Schools.

BOSTON, Sept. 23, 1869. The use of Eaton's Arithmetics in all the grades of our public schools, during the past four years, has only added new proofs of their excellence. The protracted and severe test to which they have been subjected in the school-room has fully confirmed the opinion of their merits expressed by me some years ago.

From C. Goodwin Clark, Esq., Master of Lincoln School.

BOSTON, July 9, 1869. After using your Arithmetics four years, I can sincerely indorse the testimony given to their merits. They have stood the test of use and criticism, and are now standard works on arithmetic. From A. P. Marble, Esq., Superintendent of Public Schools.

WORCESTER, MASS., June 15, 1869. Eaton's Common School Arithmetic has been used in the schools of this city with good success for several years. For a ciear statement of important principles, in connection with a sufficient number of fair test questions, and for the absence of all mere lumber, I do not know that it has a superior in the field which it covers.

From A. P. Stone, Esq., Principal of High School.

PORTLAND, ME., July 6, 1869. I have examined Eaton's Arithmetic with considerable care, and am very favorably impressed with its merits, Its definitions, rules, and enunciations of principles are remarkably clear and comprehensive; and the explanations and examples are adniirably adapted to illustrate the principles of the science, and to give the pupil an understanding knowledge of the subject. The work seems to me eminently philosophical and practical, and well worthy of use in the school-room. From H E. Sawyer, Esq., Principal of High School, and Superintendent of Schools. MIDDLETOWN, CONN., Jan. 20, 1869. Eaton's Arithmetics have been used in the public schools in this city for nearly four years, and have given satisfaction generally to the teachers. The Primary and the Intellectual are well adapted to their purpose. The rules in the Common School are concise, the explanations clear, and the examples good. It is probably one of the best books of its class and kind.

From Prof. Wm. B. Graves, Instructor in Phillips Academy.

ANDOVER, MASS., Nov. 19, 1869. I have used Eaton's Algebra one term. It is entirely satisfactory in the class-room. My impression is, that it is superior to any other elementary algebra.

Eaton's Arithmetics are used exclusively in the public schools of the city of Boston; also used in whole or in part in the cities of Worcester, Lynn, New Haven, Bridgeport, Waterbury, Middletown, Meriden, Norwich, Newport, Dover, Bath, Biddeford, and Saco.

Eaton's Arithmetics have been adopted by the State Boards of Education of California and Nevada as the arithmetics for the schools of those States.

They are used very extensively in the cities and towns of Iowa, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and other States.

THOMPSON, BIGELOW & BROWN also publish:

BRADBURY'S TRIGONOMETRY AND SURVEYING.
PHILBRICK'S AMERICAN UNION SPEAKER.
PHILBRICK'S PRIMARY UNION SPEAKER.
PHILBRICK'S PRIMARY SCHOOL TABLETS.
SMELLIE'S PHILOSOPHY OF NATURAL HISTORY.
WORCESTER'S GENERAL HISTORY.

THE UNIVERSAL SPEAKER.
QUESTIONS IN ARITHMETIC.
QUESTIONS IN GEOGRAPHY.
HALL'S MANUAL OF MORALS.
SCHOOL SERVICE BOOK.

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THOMPSON, BIGELOW & BROWN, 25 & 29 Cornhill, Boston.