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The New York Evening Post says: "A great will present a series of beautiful works of art to variety of most profitable and entertaining literary the scholar, without spoiling their utility by hiding articles, effectively illustrated, may be found in the monthly part of APPLETONS' JOURNAL, a work which its editors, artists, and contributors, vie with each other in making worthy of the publishing-house whose name it bears."

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The success of scientific books is quite remarkable. Professor Tyndall's "Fragments of Science" went off like a new novel-better than many new novels do. The success of this work, and of Huxley's "Lay Sermons," has induced the publishers to announce a similar collection by Herbert Spencer. The title of this volume will be "Recent Discoveries in Science, Philosophy, and Morals," and will consist of Mr. Spencer's later papers on these subjects.

Dr. Hammond's "Treatise on Diseases of the Nervous System" is, we believe, the most comprehensive work on this subject that has been issued. Dr. Hammond's peculiar talents and experience, for the preparation of such a volume, are well known.

Of the new novel, "Marquis and Merchant," by Mortimer Collins, the London Times says: "We will not compare Mr. Collins, as a novelist, with Mr. Disraeli, but nevertheless the qualities which have made Mr. Disraeli's fictions so widely popular are to be found in no small degree in the pages of the author of 'Marquis and Merchant.'"

EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT.

THE COLORING OF MAPS IN THE SCHOOL

GEOGRAPHIES.

Too much can hardly be said against coloring the maps of our School Geographies in sections, with bright and variegated colors; the effect is bad, and these gaudy daubs soon disgust the scholar, who at once proceeds to use the finger for a brush, and, finding moisture in spittle, is soon busily engaged in reducing the original coloring to the mingled shades of the rainbow, or to the satisfaction of the artist. No good end is served by coloring which is not effected far better by the graver. A single tint for groundwork, and another for water, with colored dividing-lines, is all that is useful; maps accurately engraved and properly printed, as in the CORNELL SERIES,

their perfections. The real object of coloring is to cover the errors and imperfections that are always numerous in maps that are highly colored; to color a well-engraved map is a positive blemish ; to color a bad one, simply makes it worse.

The publishers of the Cornell Series of Geog raphies, aiming at perfection, have expended large sums in surpassing all former achievements in combined efforts of first-class artists, engravers, map-making, and the exquisite productions of the and printers, seen in the maps of the recent editions of these books, are as superior to the maps found in the most of the geographies now claiming attention from educators, as a fine line engraving is superior to a mezzotint or common lithograph,

Teachers and school-officers, who are not already familiar with them, are respectfully request. ed to compare the maps of the Cornell Series, for beauty and accuracy, with those they are now using.

A new and enlarged edition of Miss Youmans's "First Book of Botany" has just appeared. The additional chapters treat of the seed, germination, buds, the aspects of woody plants, etc. The New York Tribune says of the new edition :

"We noticed Miss Youmans's book, upon its first appearance, as developing a new method of study which had large claims upon the directors of primary education. The object of the author was not so much to furnish a botany as a method of mental training. Assuming the next great need of popular education to be to bring the mind Nature, her object was to select some one field of natural phenomena which was best fitted for the purpose, and employ it for the regular systematic and continuous cultivation of the observing powers of the pupil. The want of provision for this kind of study is notoriously the greatest deficiency of our educational system. While the objects, relations, and laws of the living world, are the verities in which all human beings are most vitally concerned, their study, which should be first, is hardly attended to at all. In fact, Nature, as the startingpoint and training-ground of the mind, is as conspicuously absent from the school-culture of to-day as it was from philosophy before the time of Bacon. The gropings and stumblings after object-teaching are indeed an excellent sign of the times, and it is to organize this into a coherent and efficient method-to give it a value as training, and make it introductory to scientific culture that Miss that botany should be introduced into general educaYoumans has prepared her book. She claims tion as a fourth fundamental branch of study, and that it is capable of doing for the observing powers what mathematics do for the powers of calculation. say, would be a most important step in the progThe attainment of such an object, it is needless to ress of primary education, and a most salutary influence in shaping the growing mind of the coun

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try. And any book or method which even partially turn of agents to the field in the following lansecures it, has an imperative claim upon the attention of teachers. It is pretty clear that Miss Youmans's book brings us considerably nearer to this realization than any thing previously offered. It has now had a year's trial, and our most eminent educators testify, with great explicitness and unanimity, to its superior working qualities. Encour aged by this success, the author has revised and enlarged the book, adding half a dozen chapters and many new illustrations, while at the same time the publishers have reduced the price, so as to bring it within the reach of all classes in the common and public schools."

exerted so great an influence for the good of "As to agents, there is no one power that has schools in the West. Superintendent Bateman, of Illinois, and Superintendent Divoll, of Missouri,* bear ample testimony on this point. In a majority of instances they were gentlemen of large practical experience as teachers, well informed as to the most desirable methods of grading, conducting, and governing schools, and not unfrequently firstclass institute-instructors. Their loss, in this last important portion of their work, was keenly felt when they were withdrawn from the field; and, as The De La Salle Monthly, in its last issue, ment of instructors at institutes, we shall welcome little, if any, provision is made by law for the payQuackenbos's Natural Philosophy has be- back this corps of faithful, energetic, competent come so generally recognized as a standard text-men, confident that we reflect the sentiments of a book, that its many merits need no lengthy comment. Written in a clear, interesting style, it makes the study of Natural Philosophy what it should be a most pleasant one-and hence it has become a favorite with teachers and pupils."

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The Messrs. Appleton have issued a new and revised edition of the work, bringing it up to the present day, and embracing all the recent discoveries in physical science.

A COMPLIMENT FOR SCHOOL-BOOK AGENTS. The Publishers' Board of Trade, at their last regular meeting, amended their by-laws by adding the following sections, which, by resolution, will go into effect on the first of next month:

"Travelling agents may be employed, not to exceed ten in number, by each house, privileged to introduce books upon the terms indicated in By-Laws I. and V.; "

"No travelling agent shall be allowed to employ deputy or sub-agents; but all agents shall be employed by, and be directly responsible to, their respective houses."

vast majority of the teachers and school-officers of the West. Let them agitate all they can-agitation is generally productive of good results. They may do harm, unintentionally, in a few instances, from over-zeal, but their work in the main has been, and will be, beneficial."

Dr. Howard Crosby, Chancellor of the University of the City of New York, says of Hadley's Greek Grammar: "My examination of the book has satisfied me that it is the best Greek Grammar accessible to college students in our country."

Wrage's German Method is based on the principles suggested by Marcel in his work, "On the Study of Languages."

The Publishers' Board of Trade have adopted half-retail prices as the introductory rates of Common-School Books, and forty per cent. discount from retail prices, as the rates for introduction of Collegiate Text-Books.

Our Descriptive Catalogue of over three hunThe Western Educational Review for May, in dred Educational Text-Books will be sent to teachcommenting on these sections, welcomes the re-ers and school-officers gratis, on application.

* Price reduced to $1.00. Specimen copy to teachers * Both formerly School-Book Agents.-Publishers of and school-officers, 50 cents.

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Announcement of New Books and New Editions to be published in June, by D. Appleton & Co.

PPLETONS Hand-Book of

American Travel. Northern and Eastern Tour. New edition, revised for the summer of 1871. Including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and the British Dominions; being a Guide to Niagara, the White Mountains, the Alleghanies, the Catskills, the Adirondacks, the Berkshire Hills, the St. Lawrence, Lake Champlain, Lake George, Lake Memphremagog, Saratoga, Newport, Cape May, the Hudson, and other Famous Localities; with full Descriptive Sketches of the Cities, Towns, Rivers, Lakes, Waterfalls, Moun

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The Physiological Effects of Severe and Protracted Muscular Exercise; with Special Reference to its Influence upon the Excretion of Nitrogen. By AUSTIN FLINT, Jr., M. D., Professor of Physiology in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, etc. 8vo, 91 pages.

vous System. By WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, M. D.,
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Appletons' Hand-Book of American A Treatise on Diseases of the NerTravel. Western Tour. Containing full Description of all Through-Routes from the Eastern Cities to the West and Far West, the great Lake and River Routes, and all Lecal Routes. With Maps of States, Routes, and Cities. The most complete work of the kind published. Uniform with "Hand-Book of Travel," Eastern Tour. 12mo. Cloth, flexible. New York Illustrated. New edition for the Summer of 1871, with additional Engravings. "New York Illustrated" contains Views and Descriptions of the Principal Points of Interest in the Great Metropolis. Price, paper covers, 50 cents. Vivia. A Modern Story. By FLORENCE WILFORD, author of "Nigel Bartram's Ideal," etc. 8vo. 170 pages. Price, 50 cents.

Metaphysics; or, the Philosophy of Consciousness, Phenomenal and Real. By H'Y LONGUEVILLE MANSEL, B. D., Waynflete Professor of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy; Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford; Honorary LL. D. of the University of Edinburgh. 12mo, 358 pages. Price, $2.00. The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century, in illustration of the Manners and Morals of the Age. By WM. FORSYTH, M. A., Q. C., author of "The Life of Cicero," "Cases and Opinions on Constitutional Law," etc.; late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. 12mo, 339 pp. Price, $2. By Recent Discoveries in Science, Philosophy, and Morals. By HERBERT SPENCER. 1 vol., 12mo.

Marquis and Merchant. By MORTIMER
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Reminiscences of Fifty Years.
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Light and Electricity: Notes of Two
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A Novel. By WHYTE MELVILLE, author of "Digby Grand," "The Interpreter," "Holmby House," etc. 8vo, 210 pages. Price, 60 cents.

VIVIA.

A Modern Story. By FLORENCE WILFORD, author of "Nigel Bartram's Ideal," etc. Svo, 170 pages. Price, 50 cents.

NIGEL BARTRAM'S IDEAL.

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An Historical Novel of the French Revolution. By S. BARING-GOULD, M. A., author of "Curious Myths of the Middle Ages," ""The Silver Store," etc. 1 vol., 8vo, paper covers. Price, 60c.

VERA.

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MARQUIS AND MERCHANT.

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