ECLECTIC TEACHER AND KENTUCKY SCHOOL JOURNAL, For Teachers and Friends of Education. Terms: $1 oo a Year. In Clubs, Six Copies, $500. CARLISLE, KY.: PUBLISHED BY THE ECLECTIC TEACHER COMPANY. A Magazine for Teachers and Friends of Popular Education. PROSPECTUS. Being ECLECTIC it occupies a field without a competitor. It contains the choicest selections and abstracts from the ablest writers of the past century, as well as current articles, on education, school systems, methods of teaching and government, school architecture, art, science and literature. In its editorial pages will be found notes and comments on all live issues, educational intelligence, personal references, and a series of articles on methods of teaching. It will be just such a paper as should be read by every teacher in the country. One copy, one year, $1; six copies, one year, $5. AGENTS. We desire to place THE ECLECTIC TEACHER in the hands of ten thousand teachers before the close of the centennial year. In order to do so we want an active agent for each county,west of the Alleghanies, to whom a large cash commission will be given. Write for terms. SUBSCRIBERS. Every true and faithful teacher should enroll himself as a subscriber to this valuable journal. We have faith enough in the fraternity to expect immediate encouragement. Read our monthly testimonials. ADVERTISERS. THE ECLECTIC TEACHER, having a circulation in the entire southwest, is a superior medium for advertising the publishers of books, maps, etc.; the manufacturers of school furniture, appartus and other school supplies; musical instruments; and the publishers of magazines and newspapers. Rates below those of its class and circulation. Send all money by draft or registered letter. Address, Eclectic Teacher Co., Carlisle, Ky. Kentucky NORMAL School, CARLISLE, NICHOLAS COUNTY, KY. This school entered upon its third year September 5. The attendance is greater and the outlook more encouraging than ever before. The Carlisle Academy building has been recently purchased by the Principal of the Normal School. Three hundred students can be accommo dated. W. H. Campbell, one of the first teachers in the institution, has recently become Associate Principal of the School. Attention is called to the following items. 1. Economy-It is the purpose of the Principal to keep the expenses of each pupil as low as possible. The citizens of Carlisle are ready to receive students into their families at the lowest possible rates of boarding. Homes, with everything furnished except washing, may be secured at a cost of $250 to $3.50 per week: club boarding can be had at $2 to 82 50; self-boarding, $150 to $2. Tuition, $10 per session of ten weeks. Text books used in the school can be rented for ten cents a volume per term. 2. Diplomas are equivalent to State certificates. See Charter, Section 5, a copy of which may be found in the Annual Catalogues. This is the only institution in the State whose graduates have such right. The exercises of the first graduating class took place July 6. Diplomas were given to nine-ladies and gentlemen. Students are expected to spend at least one year in the school before graduating. 3: The school year is divided in five sessions: Four of ten weeks each, and one (Normal Institute) of eight weeks. The terms and school work are arranged for the convenience of stunents who may teach part of the year. 4. Students may enter at any time. Tuition for ten weeks succeeding matriculation will be paid in advance. 5. For catalogue giving full information address T. C. H. VANCE, Principal, W. H. CAMPBELL, Associate Principal. The following books have just been recommended for use in the Schools of Kentucky by the State Board of Education: Mitchell's Geographical Text-Books. NEW, ACCURATE, INEXPENSIVE. The Series Comprises-For Public Schools: L. New Primary Geography, II. New Intermediate Geography, (with map drawing). III. New Physical Geography.. Retail Price 80-80 1 80. 188 NOTE. The above books make a complete, practical, and elegant series for Public Schools; sufficiently full in details; well adapted to the various grades in the city or country; containing beautiful maps, topical arrangement of matter, and unequaled in mechanical execution. Please examine before adopting Geographies. Mitchell's New Outline Maps and Key, small series.. $10.00 20 00 Also, Butler's Pictorial United States, 338 pages-with 8 full-paged copper-plate Maps, and 70 Illustrations. RETAIL PRICE $1 50 EXECUTIVE OFFICE, Nashville Tenn., October, 21, 1875. I have read "BUTLER'S PICTOTIAL HISTORY," and I do not hesitate to pronounce it one of the best School Books I have ever examined the simplicity of its arrangement and its historical accuracy will not fail to commend it to the public patronage. JAMES D. PORTER EXECUTIVE OFFICE, Little Rock, Ark., Nov. 17, 1875. I received" Butler's Pictorial History of the United States," and have read it I most heartily recommend it as a work of great merit. As a compendium it is well written, and is most admirábly arranged. I am convinced it will meet with favor wherever it is read. A. H. GARLAND VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, Nashville, Tenn., December 23, 1875. You will please excuse my delay in acknowledging the receipt of a copy of "Butler's Pictorial History of the United States." It pleases me much. The grouping together of facts is natural, the style terse, without being obscure, there is animation in the descriptions of men, places, and events, the pictures are helpful. A student of ordinary memory and judgment will be able to arrange the particular features of this history into a system, and at the end can take a general view from the beginning.. At one point the critical reader, from my stand point, might look for an objection, but the usual dead fly is not in this ointment, if so, I fail to find it. The statements of the book seem to be impartial, as between North and South, East and West. It is a history of the United States, not of a section, and is one of the few school books that can be used in Boston or Charleston. EN MCTYEIRE Special Rates for Introduction. Sample copies sent on one half the retail price. Counties, Towns and Districts, can secure uniformity at slight expense. Correspondence and visits of all interested in education respectfully invited. Address, J. H, BUTLER & CO., Publishers, or O. G. WILSON, Daytou, O., or J. W. PANLETT, Knoxville, Tenn. Recommended by the Kentucky State Board of Eduqation. The following of the Eclectic Educational Series are from the list: McGuffey's New Eclectic Speller, McGuffey's New Eclectic Readers, Harvey's Grammars, Williams's Parser's Manual, THE BEST BOOKS AT THE LOWEST PRICES. The books of the Eclectic Educational Series stand adopted, wholly or in part, in nearly every county in the State. They are also used in the best schools throughout the country and are warmly indorsed by the best teachers. In urging the further introduction of the Series by the Schools of Kentucky, the publishers invite attention to the following I. POINTS OF SUPERIORITY: A COMPLETE SERIES. The Eclectic Series embraces a full line of TextBooks in the branches of Study usually taught in Schools and Colleges. II. A PRACTICAL SERIES. The Authors are Teachers of acknowledged ability and of large and varied experience. The Books stand the test of the class-room, as shown by their long continued use where adopted. III. A PROGRESSIVE SERIES. It embodies the latest reliable scientific data and the most approved methods of teaching. IV. A POPULAR SERIES. It is more widely recommended by prominent educators and more extensively introduced and used than any other series in America. V. AN ARTISTIC AND DURABLE SERIES. In the manufacture of these Books the best material and the most skilled artists in the various departments of the work are employed, insuring thorough excellence in all mechanical features. VI. A CHEAP SERIES. The long experience of the Publishers in the manufacture and publication of School Text-Books, exclusively, and the wide introduction and use of the Eclectic Series enable them to offer their list at the lowest prices. Descriptive circulars on appplication. Correspondence invited. WILSON, HINKLE & CO., Publishers, Cincinnati and New York. |