The National Readers and Spellers. THEIR RECORD. These books have been adopted by the School Boards, or officia' anthurity, of the following important States, cities, and towns-in most cases for exclusive use SCHOOL-ROOM CARDS. Baade's Reading Case, A frame containing movable cards, with arrangement for showing one sentence at a time, capable of 28,000 transpositions. Eureka Alphabet Tablet Presents the alphabet upon the Word Method System, by which the child will learn the alphabet in nine days, and make no small progress in reading and spelling in the same time. National School Tablets, 10 Nos. Embrace reading and conversational exercises, object and moral lessons, form, color, &c. A complete set of these large and elegantly illustrated Cards will embellish the school-room more than any other article of furniture. READING. Fowle's Bible Reader The narrative portions of the Bible, chronologically and topically ar ranged, judiciously combined with selections from the Psalms, Proverbs, and other portions which inculcate important moral lessons or the great truths of Christianity. The embarrassment and difficulty of reading the Bible itself, by course, as a class exercise, are obviated, and its use made feasible, by this means. North Carolina First Reader North Carolina Second Reader North Carolina Third Reader Prepared expressly for the schools of this State, by C. H. Wiley, Superintendent of Common Schools, and F. M. Hubbard, Professor of Literaature in the State University. Parker's Rhetorical Reader Designed to familiarize Readers with the pauses and other marks in general use, and lead them to the practice of modulation and inflection of the voice. Introductory Lessons in Reading and Elocution Of similar character to the foregoing, for less advanced classes. High School Literature Admirable selections from a long list of the world's best writers, for ex ercise in reading, oratory, and composition. Speeches, dialogues, and model letters represent the latter department. , ORTHOGRAPHY. SMITH'S SERIES Bupplies a speller for every class in graded schools, and comprises the most complete and excellent treatise on English Orthography and its companion branches extant. 1. Smith's Little Speller First Round in the Ladder of Learning. 2. Smith's Juvenile Definer Lessons composed of familiar words grouped with reference to similar signification or use, and correctly spelled, accented, and defined. 3. Smith's Grammar-School Speller Familiar words, grouped with reference to the sameness of sound of syllables differently spelled. Also definitions, complete rules for spelling and formation of derivatives, and exercises in faise orthography. 4. Smith's Speller and Definer's Manual A complete School Dictionary containing 14,000 words, with various other useful matter in the way of Rules and Exercises. 5. Smith's Etymology-Small, and Complete Ed's. The first and only Etymology to recognize the Anglo-Saxon our mother tongue; containing also full lists of derivatives from the Latin, Greek, Gaelic, Swedish, Norman, &c., &c; being, in fact, a complete etymology of the language for schools. Sherwood's Writing Speller The Writing Speller consists of properly ruled and numbered blanks to receive the words dictated by the teacher, with space for remarks and corrections. The other volumes may be used for the dictation or ordinary class exercises. Price's English Speller A complete spelling-book for all grades, containing more matter than "Webster," manufactured in superior style, and sold at a lower priceconsequently the cheapest speller extant. Northend's Dictation Exercises Embracing valuable information on a thousand topics, communicated in such a manner as at once to relieve the exercise of spelling of its usual tedium, and combine it with instruction of a general character calculated to profit and amuse. Wright's Analytical Orthography This standard work is popular, because it teaches the elementary sounds in a plain and philosophical manner, and presents orthography and or thoepy in an easy, uniform system of analysis or parsing. Fowle's False Orthography Exercises for correction. Page's Normal Chart The elementary sounds of the language for the school-room walla. ORTHOGRAPHY-Continued. Barber's Complete Writing Speller "The Student's Own Hand-Book of Orthography, Definitions, and Sentences consisting of Written Exercises in the Proper Spelling, Meaning, and Use of Words." (Published 1873.) This differs from Sherwood's and other Writing Spellers in its more comprehensive character. Its blanks are adapted to writing whole sentences instead of detached words, with the proper divisions for number ing, corrections, etc. Such aids as this, like Watson's Child's Speller and Sher. wood's Writing Speller, find their raison d'être in the postulate that the art of con rect spelling is dependent upon written, and not upon spoken language, for its util ity, if not for its very existence. Hence the indirectness of purely oral instruction, Pooler's Test Speller The best collection of "hard words" yet made. The more uncommon ones are fully defined, and the whole are arranged alphabetically for convenient reference. The book is designed for Teachers' Institutes and Spelling Schools," and is prepared by an experienced and well-known conductor of Institutes. ETYMOLOGY. Smith's Complete Etymology, Containing the Anglo-Saxon, French, Dutch, German, Welsh, Danish, Gothic, Swedish, Gaelic, Italian, Latin, and Greek Roots, and the English words derived therefrom accurately spelled, accented, and defined. From HON. JNO. G. McMYNN, late State Superintendent of Wisconsin. I wish every teacher in the country had a copy of this work. From PRIN. Wм. F. PHELPS, Minn. State Norma. The book is superb-just what is needed in the department of etymology and spelling. From PROF. C. H. VERRILL, Pa. State Normal Schoo.. The Etymology (Smith's) which we procured of you we like much. It is the best work for the class-room we have seen. From HON. EDWARD BALLARD, Supt. of Common Schools, State of Maine. The author has furnished a manual of singular utility for its purpose. DICTIONARY. The Topical Lexicon, This work is a School Dictionary, an Etymology, a compilation of synonyms, and a manual of general information. It differs from the ordinary lexicon in being arranged by topics instead of the letters of the alphabet, thus realizing the apparent paradox of a "Readable Dictionary." An unusually valuable school book. ENGLISH GRAMMAR. CLARK'S DIAGRAM SYSTEM. Clark's Easy Lessons in Language, Published 1874. Contains illustrated object-lessons of the most attractive charac. ter, and is couched in language freed as much as possible from the dry technicalities of the science. Clark's Brief English Grammar, Published 1872. Part I. is adapted to youngest learners, and the whole forms a complete brief course" in one volume, adequate to the wants of the common school. Clark's Normal Grammar, Published 1870, and designed to take the place of Prof. Clark's veteran "Practical" Grammar, though the latter is still furnished upon order. The Normal is an entirely new treatise. It is a full exposition of the system as described below, with all the most recent improvements. Some of its peculiarities are-A happy blending of SYNTHESES with ANALYSES; thorough Criticisms of common errors in the use of our Language; and important improvements in the Syntax of Sentences and of Phrases. Clark's Key to the Diagrams, Clark's Analysis of the English Language,. The theory and practice of teaching grammar in American schools is meeting with a thorough revolution from the use of this system. While the old methods offer proficiency to the pupil only after much weary plodding and dull memorizing, this affords from the inception the advantage of practical Object Teaching, addressing the eye by means of illustrative figures; furnishes association to the memory, ts most powerful aid, and diverts the pupil by taxing his ingenuity. Teachers who are using Clark's Grammar uniformly testify that they and their pupils find it the most interesting study of the school course. Like all great and radical improvements, the system naturally met at first with much unreasonable opposition. It has not only outlived the greater part of this opposition, but finds many of its warmest admirers among those who could not at first tolerate so radical an innovation. All it wants is an impartial trial to convince the most skeptical of its merit. No one who has fairly and intelligently tested it in the school-room has ever been known to go back to the old method. A great success is already established, and it is easy to prophecy that the day is not far distant when it will be the only system of teaching English Grammar. As the SYSTEM is copyrighted, no other text-books can appropriate this obvious and great improvement. Welch's Analysis of the English Sentence, Remarkable for its new and simple classification, its method of treating conneo dives, its explanations of the idioms and constructive laws of the language, etc. |