LORD'S HISTORY.
A Modern Bistory,

FROM THE TIME OF LUTHER TO THE FALL OF NAPOLEON.

BY JOHN LORD, A.M.,

LECTURER ON HISTORY.

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Of the fitness of Mr. Lord to prepare such a history, some opinion a

be formed from a perusal of the English and America. testi onials of his

Historical Lectures, a few of which are appender'.

WORKS ON THE NATURAL SCIENCES.

GUY'S ASTRONOMY,

AND

KEITH ON THE GLOBES.

GUY AND KEITH.

GUY ON ASTRONOMY, AND KEITH ON THE GLOBES: Guy's Elements of Astronomy, and an Abridgment of Keith's New Treatise on the Globes

THIRTEENTH AMERICAN EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS, AND AN EXPLANATION OF THE ASTRONOMICAL PART OF THE AMERICAN ALMANAC.

Illustrated with Eighteen Plates,

DRAWN AND ENGRAVED ON STEEL, IN THE BEST MANNER.

A volume containing. Guy's popular Treatise of Astronomy, and Keith on the Globes, having been submitted to us for examination, and carefully examined, we can without any hesitation recommend it to the notice and patronage of parents and teachers. The work on Astronomy is clear intelligidlo, and suited to the comprehension of young persons. It com prises a great amount of information and is well illustrated with steel engravings. Keith on the Globes has long been recognised as a standard school book. The present edition, comprised in the same volume with the Astronomy, is impied by the omission of much extraneous matter, and the reduction of size and price. On the whole, we know of no school vook which comprises to much in so little space as the new edition of Guy and Keith.www

THOMAS EUSTACE,

JOHN HASLAM,

W. CURRAN,

SAMUEL CLENDENIN,

CHARLES MEAD,

BENJAMIN MAYO,

HUGH MORROW,

J. H. BLACK.

The following teachers of Beitimore, concur iu the opinion above ex

pressed:

E. BENNETT,

C. F. BANSEMAR,

ER HARNEY,

ROBERT O'NEILL
N. SPELMAN,

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O. W. TREADWELL,
JAMES SHANLEY,
DAVID KING,
ROBERT WALKER,
D. W. B. MCCLELAN.

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MANESCA'S FRENCH GRAMMAR; Or the Serial and Oral Method of Teaching Languages-dapted to the French

BY L. MANESCA.

SERIAL AND ORAL METHOD.

MANESCA'S FRENCH READER.

Prepared for the use of Students who have gone through the Course of Less ins contained in the method; to which is added,

A TABLE OF THE FRENCH VERBS, Arranged and classified on a new plan, calculated to facilitate greatly their acquisition. BY L. MANESCA.

EXTRACTS OF NOTICES OF MANESCA'S FRENCH GRAMMAR. From the New York Daily Tribune.

This is no doubt one of the most rational and effective manuals for the teaching of languages that has ever been prepared; any person, with an ordinary degree of attention, may, with its aid, be certain of obtaining a sound, practical knowledge of the French in a short time. The Serial and Oral method was discovered by JOHN MANESCA, who devoted a life of profound philosophical investigation to the subject of teaching languages. The result of his labours was the creation of the system in question. Va rious imitations have been made of his matchless method, and it has become more widely and popularly known under other names than his own. The most successful imitation is that made by OLLENDORFF, of Paris, a German teacher, into whose hands the system fell by accident, a few years since, and who appropriated it as an invention of his own.

From the New York Evening Post.

This appears to us a very able work, arranged with great order and method, and admirably adapted to the end it has in view. "I call the method, the Serial," says the author in the preface, "because the elements of our language are distributed and classified in a series, that is, in a naturally progressive and connected order, conformable to the nature of language and to the laws of acquisition of the understanding." The ele ments are arranged, each in its proper place, forming one great chain of connected and dependent links. With the aid of this Serial arrangement the student is led on by easy steps, from the simpler to the more complex part of the language, and acquires it without the vexatious labour, grow. ing out of the artificial difficulties which false systems create. The term Oral indicates that the method communicates a knowledge of the spoken language.

The oral exercises have been prepared, and are introduced for the pur pose of communicating this knowledge. The serial and oral method is the same in principle as that which nature employs in teaching the child its mother tongue, but being adapted to maturer age, the series of which the language is composed, is condensed and greatly abridged, so that an amount of language can, in a few months, be acquired by the student which the child requires years to learn.

JOHNSTON'S SERIES

JOHNSTON'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.

REVISED EDITION.

ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.

A Manual of Natural Philosophy,

COMPILED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES, AND DESIGNED AS A TEXT< BOOK IN HIGH SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES.

BY JOHN JOHNSTON, A.M.,

PROFESSOR OF NATURAL SCIENCE IN THE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY.

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The above valuable series of books were prepared by JOHN JOHNSTON, A.M., Professor of Natural Science in the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Ct. The Chemistry is the standard text-book of many of the lead. ing Colleges and prominent Medical Institutions of the country. The Elementary Chemistry, very recently published, has been adopted in many High Schools and Academies, in all parts of the country.

The present edition of Johnston's Natural Philosophy will be found much enlarged and improved. Exact in its definitions, original in its illustrations, full and familiar in explanation, the publishers are assured it will require onty to be examined to be approved. It has been recently recommended by the Board of Education of the State of New Hampshire for the use of the Common Schools of the State; it has also been adopted in he High School of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in many. Academies and jchools in various sections of the country.

A fow notices of the series, from among many which have been receivea re appended:

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Extract from the Proceedings of the School Commissioners of the State of New Hampshire.

At a meeting of the Commissioners of Common Schools for the State of New Hampshire, held in Concord, August, 1851, it was, on motion of Mr. Whidden, of Lancaster, Coos county,

Voted, To recommend "Johnston's Natural Philosophy" to be used in the Common Schools of the State.

From M. J. WILLIAMS, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, South Carolina College, Columbia, S. C.

I consider Johnston's Manual of Natural Philosophy a good text-book for elementary instruction in schools and academies.

Extract from the Record of the Proceedings of the Board of Visitors of the Natchez Institute, Natchez, Miss.

At a meeting of the Board of Visitors of the Natchez Institute, Johnston's Natural Philosophy, and Johnston's Elements of Chemistry, were unanimously adopted as text-books for the use of the pupils.

Signed,

L. M. PATTERSON, Secretary.

From PROF. BOOTH, of the High School, Philadelphia.

1 find, upon a careful examination of Johnson's Manual of Chemistry, that it is extremely well adapted to the objects for which it is designed. As a text-book, I regard it as superior to Turner's Chemistry, on which it is based, being more condensed and practical, and yet sufficiently and equally presenting the late rapid advancement of the science.

Extract from a Letter of F. MERRICK, Professor of Chemistry in the Ohio Wesleyan University and Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio. Having carefully examined Johnston's Turner's Chemistry, without specifying its particular excellencies, I am free to say that I regard it as an excellent text-book. Indeed to most students in the higher seminaries of learning, I know of no book upon the subject, which I would recommend in preference to it.

From JOHN F. FRASER, Professor of General Chemistry in the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia.

I find it to be a carefully compiled and well digested Treatise, and, as i

believe, well adapted to serve the purpose of a text-book.

This work has been introduced into many Academies and several Co leges, and is held in the highest estimation.