EXERCISE LXIX.-CUPID'S WARNING.-H. F. Gould. [This piece is intended as a lesson in modulation. It illustrates those sudden and easy changes of voice, which belong to the tones of sportive and sly humour.] "TAKE heed! take heed! They will go with speed, For I've just new strung my bow: "Oh! pull away," Did the maiden say, "For who is the coward to mind His bow he drew, And the shafts they flew, Till the maiden was heard to cry, "Oh! take this dart from my aching heart, He said, and smiled, "I'm but a child, And should have no skill to find, E 'en with both my eyes, where the dart now lies; But pray, be calm, And I'll name a balm That's brought by an older hand, And I'm told is sure these wounds to cure: Now I must not stay,— I must haste away, For my mother has bid me try These fluttering things, my glistening wings, END. SCHOOL BOOK ADVERTISER. No. 8. Published annually. May, 1844. THE undersigned have been for several years extensively, and almost exclusively, engaged in the publication and sale of School Books, and have exerted themselves to procure, for this purpose, the best books now before the public, for those branches of study embraced by their publications.. Annexed is a Catalogue of the several works, and, as may be seen, the books are highly recommended by persons who have used them, and by others of influence and of the highest literary reputation, and who do not lend their names to advance the interests of inferior publications. The Authors of the several works are gentlemen who are well and favorably known to the public, and who have either perfected themselves in the knowledge of what is wanted in the school-room by actual teaching there, or by study as to the best modes of imparting instruction. The books are upon systems that have been tried, and found to be the best for imparting information, calculated to reduce the trouble of teaching, and, at the same time, to make thorough and practical scholars; and, in point of mechanical execution, price, &c., it is believed they will compare with any works for the purpose now before the public. We would respectfully call the attention of those interested in the cause of education, having the supervision of Public or Private Schools or Academies, into whose hands this catalogue may come, to the books herein mentioned, and, where changes are to be made in old schools, or where new ones are being established, or new classes are to be provided with text-books, would ask that these may be tried, for which purpose, copies will be supplied, with the privilege of returning if they do not satisfy. The correspondence of School Committees, Town and County Superintendents, and Teachers, is respectfully solicited, when classbooks are wanted for the schools under their charge, and copies of any of the within named will be sent them, if requested, for examination, without charge. JENKS AND PALMER, Boston School Book Depository, 131 Washington St. SCHOOL BOOKS, PUBLISHED BY JENKS AND PALMER, BOSTON. EMERSON'S SPELLING BOOK. THE NATIONAL SPELLING BOOK AND PRONOUNCING TUTOR; containing Rudiments of Orthography and Pronunciation on an improved plan, by which the sound of every syllable is distinctly shown, according to Walker's Principles of English Orthoepy; with Progressive Reading Lessons Designed for the use of Schools in the United States. By B. D. Emerson. Revised from the one hundred and sixtietn edition. This Spelling Book has been so long before the public, and so extensively used in the United States, that nothing need be said to commend it to the attention of those engaged in the cause of education. It has been recently revised and improved by adapting the orthography to the general usage of the present day. Among the recommendations which have been given of it are the following: The ingenious classification of the words, so as to mark accurately the sounds, not only of the accented but of the unaccented syllables; the conciseness and simplicity of the Introduction and Key; the abundance and judicious arrangement of the matter contained in the work, and its faithful mechanical execution-render it, in our opinion, superior to any Spelling Book with which we are acquainted. JOHN FROST, CHARLES FOX, Masters in the Department of Reading and Grammar in the Public Schools, Boston. Having carefully examined a copy of the National Spelling Book, by B. D. Emerson, I do not hesitate to say that, in my opinion, it is beyond all comparison the best book of the kind with which I am acquainted. EBENEZER BAILEY, Late Principal of the Young Ladies' High School, Boston. This Spelling Book is the result of the labors of a practical and popular teacher; and, so far as I have the means of judging, it has the advantage when compared with any other book of the kind that has ever been published, either in Great Britain or in the United States. JOHN PIERPONT, Compiler of American First Class Book, National Reader, &c. We have examined Mr. B. D. Emerson's Spelling Book with care and satisfaction. We think it contains improvements on initiatory books of the same class heretofore used. LEVI HEDGE, LL. D. Prof's. Harvard SIDNEY WILLARD, A. M. University. The National Spelling Book has likewise received the approbation and recommendations of I. I. HITCHCOCK, Instructer, Baltimore, Md.; B. B. WISNER, D. D., formerly Pastor of the Old South Church; WILLIAM JENKS, D. D., Editor of the Comprehensive Commentary; JEREMIAH EVARTS, formerly Corresponding Secretary of the A. B. C. F. M., Boston; FRANCIS WAYLAND, D. D., President of Brown University; B. F. FARNSWORTH, Academical and Theological Instructer, New Hampton, Ñ. H.; S. C. LOVELAND, Author of Greek and English Lexicon of the New Testament, Reading, Vt.; DANIEL ADAMS, Author of the Scholar's Arithmetic, &c.; Rev. N. BOUTON, Rev. N. W. WILLIAMS, Concord, N. H.; WALTER R. JOHNSON, Principal of the High School, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia; BENJ. A. GOULD, late Principal of the Public Latin School, Boston; Capt. PARTRIDGE, Scientific and Military Academy, Middletown; JOHN RICHARDSON, Leicester Academy; R. G. PARKER, Roxbury; and others. INTRODUCTION TO THE NATIONAL SPELLING BOOK, with Easy and Progressive Reading Lessons; for the use of Primary Schools. Revised and Enlarged. By B. D. Emerson, Author of "The National Spelling Book." The improved edition of this book has received such alterations and additions as will render it a suitable introduction to the New National Spelling Book, as well as the National Spelling Book, for which it was originally designed. B SCHOOL BOOKS, PUBLISHED BY JENKS AND PALMER, BOSTON. WORCESTER'S ELEMENTARY DICTIONARY. Án Elementary Dictionary for Common Schools; with Pronouncing Vocabularies of Classical, Scripture, and Modern Geographical Names. By J. E. Worcester. The Elementary Dictionary is, for substance, a reduced form of the Comprehensive Dictionary, and is especially adapted to the use of Common Schools. It contains a very full list of the words of the English language which are in good use; and, including its vocabularies, it possesses important advantages over all other common school dictionaries. The pronunciation of the words is carefully given, in a form very easily understood, and in accordance with the best usage and the most approved authorities. The best edition of Walker's School Dictionary, together with its vocabularies, contains about 31,200 words, upwards of 12,000 less than this. The Elementary Dictionary comprises the following divisions:1. Dictionary Proper, 2. Words from Foreign Languages, 3. List of Americanisms, 4. List of Words of various Orthography, 5. Greek and Latin Proper Names, 6. Scripture Proper Names, 7. Modern Geographical Names, Total number of words, Words, 32, 240 do. 403 WORCESTER'S COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY. A Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language, with Pronouncing Vocabularies of Classical, Scripture, and Modern Geographical Names. By J. E. Worcester. Carefully Revised and Enlarged. 424 pp. duodecimo. This Dictionary, in regard to those words for the orthography, pronunciation, or definition of which an intelligent English reader has the most frequent occasion to consult a dictionary, is probably the most complete work of the kind extant. It contains, besides a very full vocabulary of common English words, many technical terms, and a copious list of such words and phrases from foreign languages as are often found in English books, very full vocabularies of Classical and Scripture Proper Names, and a vocabulary of words of doubtful or various orthography, which, together with the rules and remarks accompanying them, embrace nearly all the difficult and doubtful cases that often occur in English orthography. This edition is also furnished with an Appendix, containing additional words, and a pronouncing Vocabulary, comprising about 3,000 Modern Geographical Names. The volume comprises about 66,000 words, to all of which the pronunciation is given; being more than twice as many as are found in the school editions of Walker's Dictionary, together with their vocabularies. In the preparation of this Dictionary, pronunciation has been a leading object, and has received particular attention; and as a Pronouncing Dictionary, it will be found to possess peculiar advantages. A prominent feature in the plan consists in the exhibition of authorities respecting words of various, doubtful, or disputed pronunciation; and this volume is so constructed as to exhibit, with respect to all the class of words for which a Pronouncing Dictionary is chiefly wanted, the modes in which they are pronounced by all the most eminent orthoepists. The Comprehensive Dictionary is required to be used in the Public Schools of Boston, and has been introduced into numerous other schools, academies, and seminaries in different parts of the country. In Worcester's Dictionary a more careful and judicious attention appears to me to have been paid to orthography, in order to render it correct, consistent, and accommodated to the best present usage, than in any other work of the kind with which I am acquainted; and this Dictionary has, therefore, been adopted as the general guide with respect to orthography, in works printed at the University Printing House in Cambridge. CHARLES FOLSOM, Formerly Printer to the University. WALTER R. JOHNSON, A. M., Principal of the High School, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, says:-I have examined this Dictionary with great satisfaction. The plan and execution of the work appear to me equally worthy of commendation. C ties by which alone danger and difficulty can be surmounted, but all the while covering him, as with a shield. When we think of him, at midnight and in mid-winter, thrown from a frail raft into the deep and angry waters of a wide and rushing western river, thus separated from his only companion through the wilderness, with no human aid for miles and leagues around him, buffeting its rapid current, and struggling through driving cakes of ice, when we behold the stealthy savage, whose aim, against all other marks, is unerring, pointing his rifle deliberately at him, and firing, over and over again,-when we see him riding through showers of bullets on Braddock's fatal field, and reflect that never, during his whole life, was he wounded, or even touched, by a hostile force, do we not feel that he was guarded by an Unseen Hand? Yes, that sacred person was guarded by an unseen hand, warding off every danger. No peril by flood or by field was permitted to extinguish a life consecrated to the hopes of humanity, and to the purposes of heaven. For more than sixteen years he rested from his warfare, amid the shades of Mount Vernon, ripening his mind by reading and reflection, increasing his knowledge of practical affairs, entering into the whole experience of a citizen, at home, on his farm, and as a delegate to the colonial Assembly; and when, at last, the war broke out, and the unanimous voice of the Continental Congress invested him, as the exigency required, with almost unbounded authority, as their Commander-in-Chief, he blended, although still in the prime of his life, in the mature bloom of his manhood, the attributes of a sage with those of a hero. A more perfectly fitted and furnished character, has never appeared on the theatre of human action, than when, reining up his war-horse, beneath the majestic and venerable elm, still standing at the entrance of the old Watertown road upon Cambridge Common, GEORGE WASHINGTON unsheathed his sword, and assumed the command of the gathering armies of American liberty. |