pendence revolts at being certified and put up on the record as indigent persons. The rate bill system requires every person to pay in proportion to the attendance of his children. How strong then is the inducement of many parents, to wink at absence, and truancy, and how it are they inclined to second by parental authori y the efforts of the teacher to enforce punctuality and regularity of attendance. The fact that the number of children attending school less than four months, uniformly exceeds the number attending a longer time, farnishes strong evidence for believing that the rate bill system is the principal cause of the irregular attendance of scholars. Letters have been addressed to the Superintendent from various parts of the State, urging him to recommend to the Legislature the free school system, and assuring him that the people are ready to sustain the Legislature. 5. Free Schools. A free school is one whose doors are open to all who choose to enter. doubtless a respectable number of persons in every com munity, averse to taxation, not only for the support of schools, but for all the purposes of government. Still the Superintendent has an abiding confilence, that a majority of the legal voters, and a majority of the tax-payers in this State, would vote to support the schools by taxation. The annual reports of this Department furnish reasons for this belief. The money raised by the Supervisors; equal to the amount appropriated from the funds of the State, is cheer. fully voted and paid. In addition to this, many towns, at their annual meetings, vote to raise another sum, equal to that required to be raised by general laws. The aggregate sum thus voted in the State every year is very large: It was in 1847,. $199,000 08 do 1846, 155,974 20 195,051 15 191,473 93 179,800 52 In Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, These sums were raised by the inhabitants of towns, New Hampshire, and Maine, the common schools are voluntarily, and under special laws inserted in the charters nearly free, and in several of the cities and large villages of cities and villages. It would appear from this that the of those States, as well as in some of our own, they are people are not opposed to taxation for free schools. entirely so. In Indiana the question has been recently submitted to the people, and a large majority decided in favor of free schools. Wisconsin has made early and ample provision for a system of free schools. Even in South Carolina the schools are free to the free. I believe it is true, that in every State, county, town, or village, where the question has been submitted to the decision of the people, they have been found in favor of the free system. The system of free schools has been urged upon the attention of successive Legislatures, but has been met by the assertion, and defeated on the alleged ground, that the people were not prepared for it.-This may be true, but I have come to a different conclusion, from the fact that in the eleven localities in this State, where the matter has been submitted to the people, it has, in every case, met their approval. The places in which the free schools are maintained, with the population of each in 1845, are as follows: New York Buffalo...... Brooklyn. .371,223 29,773 59,566 75,038 The probable taxation, and the rate per cent necessary to support a free school system, can be ascertained, by showing the actual expense, in the cities and towns where it is established. In the following table the first column shows the valuation of the city or town in 1847; the second, the whole amount of school money from all sources; the third, the amount of public money apportioned to the city, or town; the fourth, the amount actually raised in the city, or town, besides the public money; and the fifth, the rate of tax upon $100, of valuation : The amount paid on rate bills in Utica $569.45, and in Albany, $67, is included in the school money for those places. In the other places the schools are free--or substantially so, very little being collected on rate bills in Troy, Lansingburgh, Poughkeepsie, Hudson and Flushing. With this table, any one can tell what would be his tax for the support of schools in either of the places named. If he is a resident of New York, and is assessed $4000, he pays a tax of $4.16. If assessed for $100,000 he pays $104. The sum raised in New York for school pur poses appears to be very large, but when it is apportioned upon the tax-payers according to their property, it is a very light tax. And it would be light, even if it were doubled. If the common schools were what they should be, and a system of high schools were engrafted upon them, every child could be educated, the poor gratuitously, and the rich at a less expense than at private schools. In the city of Brooklyn the free schools are supported at the low rate of six dollars tax upon $10,000 of valuation. In the cities the support of schools by a general tax, is but the association of all the citizens to effect an object in which all are mutually interested, and which can be better done by a combination of the means of all. Sustained by the foregoing statistics, it may be safe to In order to show what would be the operation of the presume, that so large a portion of the State having adopted free school system in a town wholly agricultural, we the free system, and being satisfied with its operation, a will take the town of Duanesburgh, in Schenectady majority of the other section of the State is prepared to ap-county, a town in which there is no considerable village, prove it also. and which will serve as a fair example for the average of the agricultural towns. When it is said that the people are not prepared for free schools, it is only another form of expressing a belief that they are opposed to taxation for their support. There is The valuation of Duanesburgh, in 1847, was $452, 165. The amount of school money raised in the town was prevent the commission of crime, and avoid the evils of $346.94. The rate of taxation therefore was a little more than seven cents and a half upon one hundred dollars of valuation. The amount received from the State The Normal School, under the management of its acwas $346.94, the amount paid on rate bills was $987.16, and the amount raised in the town by rate bills and meet the expectations of its founders and friends, and to tax $13,646,31, and the amount of exemptions was $30,-complished Principal, and able assistants, continues to 31; the wholeexpense of the schools during the year deserve the patronage of the State. For a detailed statement of its affairs, the Superintentherefore was $1,711,25. To raise this last sum by tax would require a rate of thirty cents upon a hundred dol-dent refers the Legislature to the annual report of the Executive Committee. He concurs in the opinion of the If then, each district were required to raise a tax Committee that the abolition of the office of County Suequal to the amount apportioned to it by the town super-perintendent has injuriously affected the school. intendent, the sum would be $1,387.76 for the town of Duanesburgh, and sufficient to support a school during eight months in a year in every district, that being the lars. average time in that town. The continual increase of the common school fund would annually diminish the amount of taxation. It is urged by the opponents of the system that those who have property are taxed to educate their own, as well as the children of the poor; and that those who are blessed with property, but denied children, are also obliged to contribute something for the education of the indigent. Those who have omitted their duty, or are more fortunate than their neighbors in the possession of property have no reason to complain of the trifling burthen which good fortune imposes upon them. But an The appropriation of $15,000 for the erection of a Normal School House has been nearly expended. The house will be ready for the school in May. additional appropriation will be necessary to finish the interior and to furnish it with the conveniences needed I trust the Legislato make it a complete model school. ture will make the necessary appropriation. 7. The District School Journal. The Superintendent would earnestly recommend the continuance of the appropriation of $2,400 to the District School Journal. To secure a more regular and punctual receipt of the Journal, the Superintendent, by a circular, published in the August number, requested the several town superthe first Are property holders wronged or injured by this system intendcats, elected to take their oflices on Monday of November, 1815, to send to this Department en they were regulated by law. Even the income of some kinds of pro-elected, their post-office address, the number of school perty is limited by law. Human beings are property in districts in the town, and the post office to which the South Carolina; and the taxes, assessed upon them, and Journal should be directed for the districts. paid out of the earnings of their labor, go to the support of free schools, while in this State there can be no property in man. Land is property, and in civilized countries it consti tutes the bulk of all property; yet it is not property in the absence of law. What idea of property in land has a Camanche Indian, or a Calmuck Tartar? To him the land is as free for his roaming, as the air for his breathing, or the water for his drink. The wild Bedouin will guard as his own, his tent, his camel, his wife; but his laws are the keenness of his scimetar, and the fleetness of his steed. The security of property is one of the paramount objects of government; but how shall that security be attained? By the stern restraints and crushing force of military power? The experience of the last year, in Europe and America, has proven that there is greater security for persons and property, in the general intelligence and education of the people, than in an overawing soldiery. Europe has been convulsed-cities have been the scenes of fearful and mortal strife-fields have been laid waste by contending armies-governments have been overthrown-revolution has followed revolution-uncertainty and insecurity are stamped upon all things-political changes have been effected only by civil war and commotion. The people of the United States have effected the choice of a Chief Magistrate, involving a change in the policy of the government. It was accomplished in a day, with the cheerful and peaceful acquiescence of the Union. These are the results of the intelligence and moral elevation of the American people. There is a moral and intellectual power in the universal education of the people which furnishes more abiding security for persons and prop rty than disciplined armies. Property must be taxed to support a soldiery. Why should it not then contribute to a system of protection which may preclude the necessity of armies? Crime and pauperism are too often the results of igno; rance. The detection and punishment of the one and the support of the other, are mainly effected by the imposition of taxes upon property. Is it not wise, then, to establish a system of education, universal and complete, which may in a great measure, The difficulty of holding a direct correspondence with those officers, 870 in number, is shown by the fact, that up to December 15, 1817, four months after the publication of the circular, only about half the number had responded. This fact is an additional proof of the necessity of having some officer in every county, or Assembly district, specially charged with the administration of school affairs. As soon as answers shall have been received from all the town superintendents in the State, a new set of mail books will be prepared and great care taken to have the Journal promptly and correctly mailed. Since the town superintendents were authorized to take the Journal from the post-office, in case any district refused or neglected to do so, pay the postage, have the volume bound and placed in the District Library, the expense of the postage and binding to be deducted from the Library money of the delinquent district, very few complaints have been received from post-masters of its being left in the office. 8. School Houses. There is doubtless a gradual improvement going on in huts and unsuitable structures built at the first organizathe State in the construction of school houses. The log tion of many of our school districts, are giving place to more comfortable and convenient buildings. Probably the chief reason for the erection of so many ill-constructed and unsightly edifices, with single rooms and badly arranged desks, has been the want of a suitable work, containing plans and specifications for building school houses of all sizes and forms, adapted to the means and necessities of the various districts. Such a work has been published within the past year and not only contains all that is desirable upon that sub- venient for reference whenever a school house is to be —— I do not hesitate to recommend to the Legislature to authorize the Superintendent to contract with the publishers for a number of copies sufficient to supply one for every district; and that the expense be deducted from the next annual appropriation of library money. 9. Institutions for the Deaf and Dumb, and for the Blind. During the summer I attended the annual examination of the pupils in the Institutions for the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind, in the city of New York. The extraordinary progress made by the scholars in both Institutions, furnishers the strongest evidence of fidelity and devotion on the part of the Instructors. I earnestly commend these noble charities to the continued favor of the State. 10. General Observations. The District School and the district library supply all with knowledge, and open to them its rich and varied stores. In obedience to the settled conviction of the people, that it is the duty of every well constituted government to provide all its citizens with the means of education, the constitution guaranteed the integrity of the Common School School System will be perfected, and continue to exist Fund, and we may therefore hope, that the Common as long as the constitution and laws by which it is guaranteed and governed. CHRISTOPHER MORGAN. DISTRICT SCHOOL JOURNAL. ALBANY, FEBRUARY 1, 1849. TO CORRESPONDENTS.-All exchange papers and communications for the District School Journal should be diected to Albany. If this report, in its details, is not in all respects satisfactory, yet the general results are such as to gratify the most ardent friend of the Common School System Imperfections are pointed out, that the Legislature may amend them. Inaccuracies are exposed, that they may be avoided in future. The school system, like all other institutions, is incomplete, and it cannot be expected that it should work with perfect accuracy. But its The office of the District School Journal is in the defects should be removed, and its discrepencies recon- south east corner of the 3d story, new State Hall, Albany. ciled, by the law-making power, and its various parts, as far as practicable, harmoniously adjusted. There are instances of trustees unable to reed.com, anu intemperate, avere of town superintendents incompetent, and dishonest; of districts quarrelsome and blind to their true interests; yet these are all exceptions to the general rule. When we reflect that nearly a million of dollars is disbursed by eight hundred and seventy town superintendents in small sums, and at different times, to about thirty-two thousand trustees, and that the accounts of this expenditure are rendered by this legion of officers, we must see that perfect accuracy cannot be expected. And yet the account of disbursements and receipts varies but a few thousand dollars. If the reports of Trustees show that 393,517 children have attended school less than four months during the year, we are also reminded that less than fifty years since the masses of the people were unable to obtain even the rudiments of an education. We must also recollect that the enlightenment and refinement of all ancient and most modern countries was limited to the favored few, and that the avenues to favor and preferment, except through the church, were closed against every person who could not claim descent from some Norman robber, or other freebooter, whom plunder had enriched and wealth ennobled. If we consider, too, that over 350.000 children have attended school more than four months during the year, and that the attendance is every year increasing, we shall find no cause for discouragement. The actual school age is from four to twenty-one, (legally between five and sixteen,) and under the present organization of our schools, it is scarcely possible that all the children of the State should not attend at least four years in the course of seventeen. Any person of ordinary capacity, who has had from four to six years instruction in the Common School, is fitted to perform well his part in most of the avocations of life. If he has been taught that most important part of all instruction, how to learn, he will continue to add to his acquisitions of knowledge. District School Journal. Subscribers wishing it to be continued, will please forward their names and address, with the amount of subscription. SCHOOL LAWS. The following pertinent and sound Resolutions were unanimously adopted by the Monroe County Teachers' Association: WHEREAS We believe in the axiom, that intelligence and virtue run parallel with liberty-the more the former is diffused among the people, the more varied the blessings following from the latter; consequently it is incumbent upon all earnestly to support such measures as seem best calculated to promote the cause of Popular Education; therefore 1. Resolved, That while we are opposed to continual change in our School Laws, making them difficult to be understood, and perplexing to School Officers and Teach ers, yet we are fully convinced that the existing law needs material alteration. 2. Resolved, That under the present system there is not sufficient stimulus to improvement; there is a want of efficient supervision, of reliable reports and datas, which have heretofore contributed to, and are especially calculated to promote the advancement of Common School Education. 3. Resolved, That Town Superintendents of Schools, cannot from their sphere of action be expected to do ail that is requisite for the best interests of schools-that the compensation allowed them per day is inadequate to the services required, and but few can be found able and willing to work at a pecuniary loss, however important their services may be to the public. 4. Resolved, That we cordially approve of the recom mendation of Gov. Fish, and the State Superintendent of Common Schools, for re-enacting the law creating tho office of County Superintendent, or District Superintendent of Schools. 5. Resolved, That Superintendents of Schools should be elected by the people, and should receive such salary as to ensure the best talent. It must be borne in mind, that it is not the object of the Common School to make finished scholars. Its great object is to give to all the first elements of an education. Such are the relations which the different employments in life have to each other, that but few are needed to become scholars by profession. The Common School 6. Resolved, That the present law in relation to the system gives to the community at large, without respect manner of collecting school bills, is an anomaly in legis to condition or means, the opportunity which, without it,lation. Teachers of Common Schools being singled out would be enjoyed only by the rich, for the free unfolding as a class of creditors who must wait sixty days for their and development of individual inclinations, tastes, and pay after the money is due. 7. Resolved, That while we regard it as primarily obpowers of mind. ligatory upon all parents to provide for the education of their children, no less than to furnish for them necessary food and clothing, we regard it advisable as a State policy, that the State should establish a system of Free Schools throughout the State. 8. Resolved, That a copy of these Resolutions be forwarded by one of the Corresponding Secretaries of this Association to the Members of the Assembly from this county, with a request that they be presented to the Legislature of this State now in session. This number of the District School Journal is nearly filled with the admirable report of Hon. CHRISTOPHER MORGAN, the efficient Superintendent of Common Schools of this State. It is clear in its statements of the condi tion of the school funds and matters pertaining to the school system of this state, and eminently practical in suggestions for the improvement of its workings. The subject of school supervision is ably presented, and we trust will induce the restoration of a most valuable fea ture in the system, with such modifications as experience will readily suggest. The benefits of a Free School System are clearly and unreservedly enforced. We have no doubt that this portion of the report will be fully sustained by pub.ic opin ion. The time has arrived for the people of this state to adopt the principle that its capital shall educate its mind. A more opportuno period for putting such a system in eration cannot occur than the present, as it would have the benefits of the labors of the present enlightened and practical Superintendent. op We hope the friends of a Free School System will lose no time in obtaining signatures to petitions for the passage of such a law, and forward the same to the department at Albany. A Free School bill is now before the Senate, which will undoubtedly pass at this Session of the Legislature, if the friends of popular education will press the subject by means of petitions. We again refer our readers to the conclusive arguments of the State Superintendent, and hope they will lose no time in pressing this subject upon the attention of the present Legislature. Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God to remove by death the President of this Association, Arthur M. Foster, who was one of its founders, and who was at all times and in all capacities, one of its ablest, most efficient, and most useful members; therefore Resolved, That the Monroe County Teachers' Association has in his death sustained a loss which is most deeply deplored by it as a body, and by its members as individuals. Resolved, That the cause of education, to which he had devoted the best energies of a powerful and highly cultivated intellect, and in which he labored with great zeal and assiduity, has by this painful dispensation of Providence been deprived of the support of a masterly mind, and of the labors of one who never grew weary in well-doing. Resolved, That this Association deeply sympathize with his afflicted family in their painful bereavement, and that it mourns with them, the loss of a head to which it had been wont to look for guidance and direction in its duties. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be presented by the Secretary of the Association to the wife of the deceased, and that they be published in the District School Journal. STATE OF NEW-YORK, A destructive fire, which occurred at Syracuse, on the morning of the 6th inst., destroyed the mail books and all the back numbers for the past year of the District School Journal. The office of the Journal will be immediately removed to Albany, where all letters may be addressed to the care of the Department. The several Town Superintendents of the State are requested, without delay, to report to this Department their own names, the name of their town and their post office address, the number of school districts, the school house of which is situated in their town, and the post office to which the Journal shall be directed for each district. The publication of the Journal will not be suspended, the February number being now in press. The papers will be directed to the Town Superintendents and School Districts, as fast as the returns are received. Newspapers will confer a favor by copying this circular. CHRISTOPHER MORGAN, The Superintendent Common Schools. From the above, it will be seen that all the books and other property belonging to the District School Journal have been destroyed. This occurred when two new sets of mail books, carefully revised from the returns of Town Superintendents, were nearly completed. loss and consequent embarrassment attending it, will be overcome as rapidly as possible. In the mean time, we hope school officers and subscribers will do all in their power to enable us to replace our mail books, by forwarding information in regard to omissions or errors in the direction of this paper. Subscribers in other states will confer a favor, if omissions are known to them, by informing the editor, as the paper can be sent only to those whose letters were saved. COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS OF SCHOOLS-GOV. FISH, among the many sensible and sound things in his Message, intendent of Common Schools. The repeal of the law recommends the restoration of the office of County Superproviding for the appointment of this officer, was of that species of legislation in opposition to the wishes of the people, for which there is no accounting, It is true petitions for its repeal were sent to the Legislature year after year, but they were few and generally came from counties where some local cause operated against the law-as, for instance, a county wherein an incompetent Superitendent had been chosen. Had the friends of the law supposed that there had been the least probability of a repeal, the legislature could have been flooded with remonstrances against such unwise action. We have observed with no inconsiderable interest the working of the system of which County Superintendents formed a part. The effect upon the character of the schools in this section, at least, can but be computed to that of a plentiful supply of gypsum upon a comparatively unproductive soil. An interest was awakened throughout the community, and every where there seemed 7. to be a juster appreciation of the importance of the influ- and other Text Books. His Natural Philosophy is received with ence and mission of our common schools than had ever uncommon favor by teachers, and is very generally adopted where it is made known. A copy will be sent to teachers who wish to before prevailed. Teachers caught the spirit-the peo-examine it. ple caught it, and all labored in concert for the ele- THE SCIENCES. CHAMBERS' EDUCATIONAL COURSE. vation of the character of these Colleges of the people. 1. Treasury of knowledge. 2. Elements of Drawing in Perspec And, in our opinion, to no one thing was this awakened tive. 3. Elements of Physiology, (Vegetable and Animal.) 4. Ele 5. Elements of Geology. interest more owing than to the County Superintendents.ments of Chemistry, with illustrations. with illustrations. Elements of Zoology, with illustrations. And since the abolition of the office, we have observed a Elements of Natural Philosophy, with illustrations. falling off in the interest upon this subject which hitherto These works are revised by M. D. Reese, LL. D., from the latest prevailed; and we are glad that Gov. FISH has recomEdinburgh Editions, and are recommended by some of our most dis tinguished educators, as being highly adapted to the schools of this mended the restoration of the office, as one of the first country. They are extensively used in the schools of Great Britain. acts of his incoming administration This recommenda- and are pronounced the best series for schools ever emanated from tion should be followed up by the friends of such a mea- the English press. Teachers and school committees are recomsure, in circulating petitions and obtaining signatures in mended to examine the works. favor of the re-enactment of the law creating the office County Superintendent of Schools.-Buff. Com. Adv Abridgements of both the above works, by the author, for the use of Schools and Academies. Ronn Antiquities and Ancient Mythology, by C. K. Dillaway, A. The Young Lailles' Class Book, by E. Bailey, A. M. Blake's Natural Philosophy, being Conversations on Philosophy, with explanatory notes and questions. HISTORY. 1. Willard's History of the United States, or the American Republic. 2. Willard's School History of the United States-new editions brought down to the present time. 3. Willard's American Chronographer-a chart of American History. 4. Willard's Universal History. 5. Willard's Temple of Time. 6. Gould's Alison's History of Europe. The Historical Works of Mrs. Willard stand unrivalled as Text Books for schools. BOOK KEEPING AND PENMANSHIP. Fulton & Eastman's Book Keeping, by Single Entry. The methods of accounts here presented, furnishes that part of a common edu script type, and presents the forms in beautiful hand writing to the cation which in practical life is most indispensable. It is printed in eye of the learner. Fulton & Eastman's Principles of Penmanship-Illustrated an expeditiously taught by the use of a series of Chirographic Charts, a Key, and a set of School Writing Books, appropriately ruled. Fulton & Eastman's Chirographic Charts, in two numbers. Chart No. 1 embraces primary exercises and elementary principles in writ bined, and elementary principles for small letters combined. The Liceronian, or the Pro san method of teaching the Latin lan-ing. Chart No. 2 embraces elementary principles for capitals con guage. By Barnay Sears, Sec. Mars, Board of Education. Principles of Zoology, touching the structure, development, distribution and natural arrangement of the races of animals, living and extinct; with numerous illustrations. For the use of schools and colleges. Part I. Comparative Physiology,-by Louis Agassiz and Augustus A. Gould. Published by jan 1-3t GOULD, KENDALL & LINCOLN, Boston, Chambers' Miscellany, FOR DISTRICT SCHOOL LIBRARIES. Chambers' Miscellany is universally acknowledged as the very best work for the District Sbhool, Social, Family and Parish Library; its wide range of subjects happily adapt it to almost all tastes and is objectionable to none. It has been frequently examined by both teachers and school committees, and but one opinion expressed-and that highly commendatory; the following is from George B. Emerson, Esq., of the Boston School Committee: tions for the position at the desk, and manner of holding the pen: Key to Fulton & Eastman's Chirographic Charts, containing direcalso, for the exact forms and proportions of letters, with rules for their execution. Fulton & Eastman's School Writing Books, in four parts. SCIENCE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Clark's new English Grammar. A practical grammar in which words, phrases and sentences are classified according to their offices and their relations to each other; illustrated by a complete system of Diagrams, by S. W. Clark, A. M. "It is a most capital work, and well calculated, if we mistake not. to supersede, even in our best schools, works of much loftier pretersion."-Rahway Register. CIVIL ENGINEERING. work on this subject with which I am acquainted; equally adaptes. Gillespie's Manual of Road Making. "In all respects, the best to the wants of students of civil engineering, and the purposes of persons in any way engaged in the construction or supervision of roads." "I have examined it with a good deal of care, particularly with reference to its suitableness to form parts of a library for young persons. It is indeed a library of itself, and one of great value. It would be-Prof. Mahan, U. Š. M. A. difficult to find one superior to it. I would recommend it very strongly." In ten volumes, elegant gilt cloth; or twenty volumes, plain cloth. Price $10 per set. Also, CHAMBERS' CYCLOPÆDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. A selection of the choicest productions of English authors, from the earliest to the present time; connected by a critical and biographical history. Edited by Robert Chambers. In two octavo vols., with upwards of 300 elegant illustrations. Price, in cloth, $5. GOULD, KENDALL & LINCOLN, jan 1-3t Publishers, Boston. Education! Education! DAVIES' SYSTEM OF MATHEMATICS. The Arithmetical Course for Schools.-1. Primary Table Book 2. First Lessons in Arithmetic. 3. School Arithmetic. The Academic Course.-1. The University Arithmetic. 2. Practical Geometry and Mensuration. 3. Elementary Algebra. 4. Elementary Geometry. 5. Davies' Elements of Surveying. The Collegiate Course.-1. Davies' Bourdon's Algebra. 2. Davies' Legendre's Geometry and Trigonometry. 3. Davies' Analytical Geometry. 4 Davies' Descriptive Geometry. 5. Davies' Slades, Shadows and Perspective. 6. Davies' Differential and Integral Calculus. These Works have an established National reputation, and will be the common standards to which the largest portion of the students of the present day will hereafter refer. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. TEACHING. Page's Theory and Practice of Teaching, or the motives and me thods of good school keeping. A work like this, which has reached its tenth edition in less than two years, needs no recommendation. GOOD SCHOOLS AND GOOD HOUSES. School Architecture, or Contributions to the Improvement of School Houses, by Henry Barnard, Commissioner of Public Schools, Rhode Island. This work should be in the hands of every friend of good schools. The above works are published by A. S. BARNES & CO., 51 John street, New-York, and sold by booksellers generally throughout the United States. jan 1-3m Adams' Arithmetical Series. The attention of Preceptors of Academies, Teachers and Superin tendents in our Common Schools, and all those interested in educa tion, is invited to the full series of Arithmetical Works now published, Copics will be furnished for examination on application to either of the Publishers. 1. Primary Arithmetic, or Mental Operations in Numbers; being an introduction to Adams' New Arithmetic, revised edition. 2. Adams' New Arithmetic. revised edition; being a revision of Adams' New Arithmetic, first published in 1827. 3. Key to the revised edition of Adams' New Arithmetic. 4. Mensuration, Mechanical Powers, and Machinery. The princi ples of mensuration analytically explained, and practically applied to the measurement of lines, superfices, and solids; also, a philosophi cal explanation of the simple mechanical powers, and their applic tion to machinery. Designed to follow Adams' New Arithmetic. (In press) 1. Parker's First Lessons in Natural Philosophy, embracing the 5. Book Keeping. This work contains a lucid explanation of the Elements of the Science. Ilustrated with numerous engravings.science of accounts, a new, concise and common sense method of Designed for young beginners. Book Keeping by Single Entry, and various forms of Receipts. Or 2. Farker's Compendium of Natural and Experimental Philosophy,ders, Notes, Bonds, Mortgages, and other instruments necessary for embracing the Elementary Principles of Mechanics, Hydrostatics, the transaction of business. Accompanied with Blank Books for the Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Acoustics, Pyronimics, Optics. Astronomy, use of learners. Published by Galvanism, Magnetism, Electro-Magnetism, Magicto-Electricity, wall a description of the Steam and Locomotive Engines. Illustrated by numerous diagrams. Mr. Parker is widely known through his "Aids to Composition," dec. 1-3m COLLINS & BROTHER, New-York. |