Page's Theory and Practice of Teaching.

THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING;

OR THE

MOTIVES OF GOOD SCHOOL-KEEPING. BY DAVID PAGE, A. M.,

LATE PRINCIPAL OF THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, NEW YORK.

1 received a few days since your Theory and Practice, &c.,' and a capital theory and capital practice it is. I have read it with unmingled delight. Even if I should look through a critic's microscope, I should hardly find a single sentiment to dissent from, and certainly not one to condemn. The chapters on Prizes and on Corporal Punishment are truly admirable. They will exert a most salutary influence. So of the views sparsim on moral and religious instruction, which you so earnestly and feelingly insist upon, and yet within true Protestant limits. IT IS A GRAND BOOK, AND I THANK HEAVEN THAT YOU HAVE WRITTEN IT."-Hon. Horace Mann, Secretary of the Board of Education in Massachusetts.

"Were it our business to examine teachers, we would never dismiss a candidate without naming this book. Other things being equal, we would greatly prefer a teacher who has read it and speaks of it with enthusiasm. In one indifferent to such a work, we should certainly have little confidence, however he might appear in other respects Would that every teacher employed in Vermont this winter had 'he spirit of this book in his bosom, its lessons impressed upon his heart!"-Vermont Chronicle.

"I am pleased with and commend this work to the attention of school teachers, and those who intend to embrace that most estimable profession, for light and instruction to guide and govern them in the discharge of their delicate and important duties."— N. S. Benton, Superintendent of Common Schools, State of New York.

Hon. S. Young says, "It is altogether the best book on this subject I have ever

Been."

President North, of Hamilton College, says, "I have read it with all that absorbing self-denying interest, which in my younger days was reserved for fiction and poetry. am delighted with the book."

Hon. Marcus S. Reynolds says, "It will do great good by showing the Teacher what should be his qualifications, and what may justly be required and expected of him."

"I wish you would send an agent through the several towns of this State with Page's Theory and Practice of Teaching,' or take some other way of bringing this valuable book to the notice of every family and of every teacher. I should be rejoiced to see the principles which it presents as to the motives and methods of good schoolkeeping carried ut in every school-room; and as nearly as possible, in the style in which Mr. Page illustrates them in his own practice, as the devoted and accomplished Principal of your State Normal School."-Henry Barnard, Superintendent of Common Schools for the State of Rhode Island.

"The Theory and Practice of Teaching,' by D. P. Page, is one of the best books of the kind I have ever met with. In it the theory and practice of the teacher's duties are clearly explained and happily combined. The style is easy and familiar, and the suggestions it contains are plain, practical, and to the point. To teachers especially it will furnish very important aid in discharging the duties of their high and responsible profession.”—Roger S. Howard, Superintendent of Common Schools, Orang: Còn Vi

Northend's Teacher and Parent.

A NEW VOLUME FOR THE TEACHER'S LIBRARY.

THE TEACHER AND THE PARENT:

A Treatise upon Common-School Education, containing Practical Sug gestions to Teachers and Parents. By CHARLES NORTHEND, A. M„ late, and for many years, Principal of the Epes School, Salem. Now Superintendent of Public Schools, Danvers, Mass.

"We may anticipate for this work a wide circulation, among teachers and friends of education. The extensive and high reputation of its author, indeed, will bespeak for it more than pen of ours can do. It is a work of about three hundred and twenty pages, in good size type, and presents a very pleasant appearance to the eye, as well as the work noticed on the preceding page, both of which, for their neat appearance, do great credit to the enterprising publishers.

Mr. Northend's book will prove interesting to all, and of great benefit to teachers, especially as a chart for those just commencing to engage in the profession. As a vade mecum, it will prove a very pleasant companion, for its pages are filled with the results of a large experience presented in a very pleasing form. We are glad to find that the author, in furnishing to teachers so useful a work, has not neglected the suaviter in modo, and has here and there thrown in a pleasant anecdote, which will enliven its character, and make it all the more acceptable. We shall have frequent occasion to refer to it hereafter. In closing this short notice, we would assure our readers that a perusal of the work will more than realize to them the truth of all we have attempted to say in its favor. Appended to the volume will be found a catalogue of educational works suitable for the teacher's library."-Massachusetts Teacher.

"We wish that this interesting and readable volume may find a place in every family, and we are certain that it ought to be on the shelf of every school library in the land."-Salem Gazette.

"It presents a multitude of practical hints, which cannot fail to do good service in enlightening all laborers in the field of education."-Boston Transcript.

"We unhesitatingly commend this volume of sound, practical, common sense suggestions. Every school teacher should carefully examine its pages, and he will not fail-he cannot help receiving-invaluable aid therefrom."-Boston Atlas.

"We have examined this work with care, and cheerfully commend it to parents and teachers. It abounds in judicious advice and sound reasoning, and cannot fail to impart ideas in the education of children which may be acted upon with the most beneficial results."-Boston Mercantile Journal.

"This is an intelligible, practical, and most excellent treatise. The book is enlivened with numerous anecdotes which serve to clinch the good advice given, as well as to keep awake the attention of the advised."-Boston Traveller.

"This is a sterling work of great value. It should be in every family. All teach ers need just such a work."-Boston Olive Branch.

This work is suggestive of principles, and not intended to point our course of studies. Its aim is to excite attention to what should be the elements of an American education; or, in other words, what are the ideas connected with a republican and Christian education in this period of rapid development.

"The author could not have applied his pen to the production of a book upon a subject of more importance than the one he has chosen. We have had occasion to notice one or two new works on education recently, which indicate that the attention of authors is being directed toward that subject. We trust that those who occupy the proud position of teachers of American youth will find much in these works, which are a sort of interchange of opinion, to assist them in the discharge of their responsible duties. "The author of the work before us does not point out any particular course of studies to be pursued, but confines himself to the consideration of the principles which should govern teachers. His views upon the elements of an American education, and its bearings upon our institutions, are sound, and worthy the attention of those to whom they are particularly addressed. We commend the work to teachers."— Rochester Daily Advertiser.

"We have examined it with some care, and are delighted with it. It discusses the whole subject of American education, and presents views at once enlarged and compre hensive; it, in fact, covers the whole ground. It is high-toned in its moral and religious bearing, and points out to the student the way in which to be A MAN. I should be in every public and private library in the country."-Jackson Patriot.

"It is an elevated, dignified work of a philosopher, who has written a book on the subject of education, which is an acquisition of great value to all classes of our countrymen. It can be read with interest and profit, by the old and young, the educated and unlearned. We hail it in this era of superficial and ephemeral literature, as the precursor of a better future. It discusses a momentous subject; bringing to bear, in its examination, the deep and labored thought of a comprehensive mind. We hope its sentiments may be diffused as freely and as widely throughout our land As the air we breathe."-Kalamazoo Gazette.

"Important and comprehensive as is the title of this work, we assure our readers it is no misnomer. A wide gap in the bulwark of this age and this country is greatly essened by this excellent book. In the first place, the views of the author on education, irrespective of time and place, are of the highest order, contrasting strongly with the groveling, time-seeking views so plausible and so popular at the present day. A leading purpose of the author is, as he says in the preface, to turn the thoughts of those engaged in the direction of youth to the fact, that it is the entire soul, in all its faculties, which needs education.'

"The views of the author are eminently philosophical, and he does not pretend to enter into the details of teaching; but his is a practical philosophy, having to do with living, abiding truths, and does not sncer at utility, though it demands a utility that takes hold of the spiritual part of man, and reaches into his immortality."-- Holden's Magazine.

De Tocqueville's American Institutions.

AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR INFLUENCE.
BY ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE.

WITH NOTES, BY HON. JOHN C. SPENCER.-1 vol. 8vo.

This book is the first part of De Tocqueville's larger work, on the Republic of America, and is one of the most valuable treatises on American politics that has eve been issued, and should be in every library in the land. The views of a liberalminded and enlightened European statesman upon the working of our country's social and political establishments, are worthy of attentive perusal at all times; those of a mas like De Tocqueville have a higher intrinsic value, from the fact of his residence among the people he describes, and his after position as a part of the republican government of France. The work is enriched likewise with a preface, and carefully prepared notes, by a well-known American statesman and late Secretary of the Navy. The book is one of great weight and interest, and is admirably adapted for the district and school library as well as that of the private student. It traces the origin of the Anglo-Americans treats of their social condition, its essential democracy and political consequences, the Bovereignty of the people, etc. It also embraces the author's views on the Americar system of townships, counties, &c.; federal and state powers; the judiciary; the con stitution; parties; the press; American society; power of the majority, its tyranny. and the causes which mitigate it; trial by jury; religion; the three races; the aristo cratic party; causes of American commercial prosperity, etc., etc. The work is ar epitome of the entire political and social condition of the United States.

"M. De Tocqueville was the first foreign author who comprehended the genius a our institutions, and who made intelligible to Europeans the complicated machinery wheel within wheel, of the state and federal governments. His 'Democracy it America' is acknowledged to be the most profound and philosophical work upor modern republicanism that has yet appeared. It is characterized by a rare union o discernment, reflection, and candor; and though occasionally tinged with the author's pecunarities of education and faith, it may be accepted as in the main a just and im partial criticism upon the social and political features of the United States. The pub lishers have now sought to adapt it as a text-book for higher seminaries of learning For this purpose they have published the first volume as an independent work, thus avoiding the author's speculations upon our social habits and religious condition. This volume, however, is unmutilated-the author is left throughout to speak for himself; bu where at any point he had misapprehended our system, the defect is supplied by notes or paragraphs in brackets from the pen of one most thoroughly versed in the history the legislation, the administration, and the jurisprudence of our country. This work will supply a felt deficiency in the educational apparatus of our higher schools. Every man who pretends to a good, and much more to a liberal education, should master the principles and philosophy of the institutions of his country. In the hands of a judicious teacher, this volume will be an admirable text-book."-The Independent.

"Having had the honor of a personal acquaintance with M. De Tocqueville while be was in this country; having discussed with him many of the topics treated of in this book; having entered deeply into the feelings and sentiments which guided and im pelled him in his task, and having formed a high admiration of his character and ɗ this production, the editor felt under some obligation to aid in procuring for one whom he ventures to call his friend, a hearing from those who were the objects of his ob servations.' The notes of Mr. Spencer will be found to elucidate occasional miscco ceptions of the translator. It is a most judicious_text-book, and ought to be reac carefully by all who wish to know this country, and to trace its power, position, anċ ultimate destiny from the true source of philosophic government, Republicanism-the people. De Tocqueville, believing the destinies of civilization to depend on the powe of the people and on the principle which so grandly founded an exponent on this con sinent, analyzes with jealous care and peculiar critical acumen the tendencies of the new Democracy, and candidly gives his approval of the new-born giant, or points out and warns him of dangers which his faithful and independent philosophy foresees We believe the perusal of his observations will have the effect of enhancing still more to is American readers the structure of their government, by the clear and profound ste in which he presents it.”—American Review.

DAVIES' LOGIC OF MATHEMATICS.

The Logic and Utility of Mathematics, with the best methods of Instruc tion, explained and illustrated. By CHARLES DAVIES, L. L. D.

"One of the most remarkable books of the month, is The Logic and Utility of Mathematics, by Charles Davies, L. L. D.,' published by Barnes & Co. It is not intended as a treatise on any special branch of mathematical science, and demands for its full appreciation a general acquaintance with the leading methods and routine of mathematical investigation. To those who have a natural fondness for this pursuit and enjoy the leisure for a retrospect of their favorite studies, the present volume wil possess a charm, not surpassed by the fascinations of a romance. It is an elaborate and lucid exposition of the principles which lie at the foundation of pure mathematics, with a highly ingenious application of their results to the development of the essential idea of Arithmetic, Geometry, Algebra, Analytic Geometry, and the Differential and Integral Calculus. The work is preceded by a general view of the subject of Logic, mainly drawn from the writings of Archbishop Whately and Mr. Mill, and closes with an essay on the utility of mathematics. Some occasional exaggerations, in presenting the claims of the science to which his life has been devoted, must here be pardoned to the professional enthusiasm of the author. In general, the work is written with singular circumspection; the views of the best thinkers on the subject have been thoroughly digested, and are presented in an original form; every thing bears the impress of the intellect of the writer; his style is for the most part chaste, simple, transparent, and in admirable harmony with the dignity of the subject, and his condensed generalizations are often profound and always suggestive."-Harper's New Monthly Magazine.

"This work is not merely a mathematical treatise to be used as a text book, but a complete and philosophical unfolding of the principles and truths of mathematical science.

"It is not only designed for professional teachers, professional men, and students of mathematics and philosophy, but for the general reader who desires mental improvement, and would learn to search out the import of language, and acquire a habit of noting of connexion between ideas and their signs; also, of the relation of ideas to each other.-The Student.

"Students of the Science will find this volume full of useful and deeply interesting matter."-Albany Evening Journal.

"Seldom have we opened a book so attractive as this in its typography and style of execution; and there is besides, on the margin opposite each section, an index of the subject of which it treats-a great convenience to the student. But the matter is no less to be commended than the manner. And we are very much mistaken if this work shall not prove more popular and more useful than any which the distinguished author has given to the public."-Lutheran Observer.

"We have been much interested both in the plan and in the execution of the work and would recommend the study of it to the theologian as a discipline in close and securate thinking, and in logical method and reasoning. It will be useful, also, to the general scholar and to the practical mechanic. We would specially recommend it to those who would have nothing taught in our Free Academy and other higher institu lions but what is directly practical'; nowhere have we seen a finer illustration of the connection between the abstractly scientific and the practical.

"The work is divided into three books; the first of which treats of Logic, mainly apon the basis of Whately; the second, of Mathematical Science; and the third, of the Utility of Mathematics."-Independent.

"The author's style is perspicuous and concise, and he exhibits a mastery of the abstruse topics which he attempts to simplify. For the mathematical student, whe desires an analytical knowledge of the science, and who would begin at the beginning. we should suppose the work would have a special utility. Prof. Davies' mathemati eal works, we believe, have become quite popular with educators, and this discloses quite as much reasearch and practical scholarship as any we have seen from his pn." -New-York Evangelist.