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PROF. MANDEVILLE'S READING BOOKS.

I. PRIMARY, OR FIRST READER. Price 10 cents.
IL SECOND READER. Price 16 cents.

These two Readers are formed substantially on the same plan; an the second is a continua son of the first. The design of both is, to combine a knowledge of the ineaning and pronuncia. vion of words, with a knowledge of their grammatical functions. The parts of speech are in par uced successively, beginning with the articles, these are followed by the emonstrative pro. potns; and these again by others, class after class, until all that are requisite to forn a sentence dive heen separately considered; when the common reading lessons beyin.

The Second Reader reviews the ground passed over in the Primary, but adds largely in the bnount of information. The child is here also taught to read writing as well as printed inatter; and in the reading lessons, allention is constantly directed to the different ways in which sentences are formed and connected, and of the peculiar manner in which each of them 18 deliv ered. All who have examined these books, have pronounced themi a decided and important ad vanre on every other of the same class in use.

III. TIIRD READER. Price 25 cents.
IV. FOURTH READER. Price 38 cents.

In the first two Readers, the main object is to make the pupil acquainted with the mea..ins and functions of words, and to impart facility in pronouncing them in sentential connection: the leading design of these, is to form a natural, flexible, and varied delivery. Accordingly, ibs Third Reader opens with a series of exercises on articulation and modulation, containing numer ous examples för practice on the elementary sounds (including errors to be corrected) and on the different movements of the voice, produced by sentential strucure, by cmphasis, and by the pas sions. The habits formed by these exercises, which should be thoroughly, as they can be tasily mastered, under intelligent instruction, find scope for improvement and confirmation in the reading lessons which follow, in the same book and that which succeeds. These lessons have been selected with special reference to the following peculiarisies: 1sl

. Colloquial character; 2d, Variety of sentential structure; 3d, Variety of subject matter; 4th Adaptacion to the progressivo development of the pupil's mind; and, as far as possible, 5th Tendency to excite moral and religious emotions. “Great pains have been taken to make the bouky in these respects, which are, in fact, characteristic oi the whole series, superior to any Oikers in use ; with what success, a brief comparison will readily show.

V THE FIFTH READER; OR, COURSE OF READING. Price 75 cents.
VI THE ELEMENTS OF READING AND ORATORY. Price $1.

These books are designed to cultivate the literary taste, as well as the understanding and voca. powers of the pupil.

The Course of Reading comprises three parts ; the first part containing a more elaborato description of elementary sounds and the parts of speech grammatically considered than was deemed necessary in the preceding works; here indispensable : part second, a complete classifi. cation and description of every sentence to be found in the English, or any other language; examples of which in every degree of expansion, from a few words to the half of an octavo page in length, are adduced, and arranged to be read; and as each species has its peculiar delivery an well a: structure, both are learned at the same time; part third, paragraphs; or sentences in thei: connertion unfolding general thoughts, as in the common reading, books. It may be ob. sorvol that we selections of sentences in pari second, and of paragraphs in part third, compriso some of the finest gems in the language : distinguished alike for beauty of thought and facility

, of diction. If not found in a school book, they might be approprately called “ elegant extracis

The ELEMENTS.OP READING AND ORATORY closes the series with an exhibition of the whole theory and art of Elocution exclusive of gesture. It contains, besides the classification of sen. tences already referreu iw, but here presented with fuller statement and illustration, the laws in punctuation and delivery deduced from it: the whole followed by carefully selected pieces for seutential analysis and vocal practice.

The Result.-The student who acquaints himself thoroughly with the contenus of thin book, will, as numerous experiments have proved; Ist, Acquire complete knowledge of the structure of the language; 20, Be able to designate any sentence of any book by name at a Elence; 3, Be able to declare with equal rapidity its proper pur.ctuation; 4th, Be able to deʻare, and with sufficient practice to give its proper delivery. Such are a few of the general character istics of the series of school books which the publishers now offer to the friends and patrone of a sound common school and academic education. For more particular information, reserence is respectfully made to the “Hints,” which may be found at the beginning of each volume.

N. R. The punctuation in all these books conforms, in the main, to the sense and proper de livery of every sentence, and is a guide to both. When a departure from the proper punciuation occurs, the proper delivery is indicated. As reading books are usually punctuated, it is a matter of surprise that children should learn to read at all.

The above series of Reading Books are already very extensively introduced and com mended by tne most experienced Teachers in the country. « Prof. Mandeville's system is em: Dently original, scientific and practical, and destined wherever it is introduced to wipereedo at once all others."

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English.

COURSE OF MATHEMATICAL WORKS,

BY GEORGE R. PERKINS, A. Mug
Professor of Mathematics and Principal of the State Normal School

I. PRIMARY ARITHMETIC. Price 21 cts.
A want, with young pupils, or rapidity and accuracy in performing operations upon writtes
um ers; an imperfect knowledge of Numeration; inadequate conceptions of the nature ane
relations of Fractions, and a lack of familiarity with the principles ot' Decimals, have induced
the author to prepare the PRIMARY ARITHMETIC.

The tirs: part is devoted 10 MENTAL EXERCISES and the second to Exercises on the Slate
and Blackboard.

While the minds of young pupils are disciplined by mental exercises (if not wearisomely
prolonged), they fail, in general, in trusting to*" pead work” for their calculatior“; und in re.
sorting to written operations to solve their difficulties, are often slow anil inaccurate iru.m a want
of early familiarity with such processes: these considerations have induced the Author to devote
part oi

' his book to primary written exercises.
It has been received wiih more popularity than any Arithmetic helt..ofore issue

II. ELEMENTARY ARITHMETIC. Price 42 cts.
llas recently been carefully revised and enlarged. It will be found concise, yet luciu. It icaches
the radical relations of numbers, and presenis fundamental principles in analysis and examples.
It leaves nothing obscure, yet it does not embarrass by multiplied processes, nor e..jeeble by
minute details.

In this work all of the examples or problems are strictly practical, made up as they are in a
great measure of important staiisucs and valuable facis in history and philosophy, which are
thus unconsciously learned in acquiring a knowledge of the Arithmetic.

Fractions are placed immediately aiter Division ; Federal Money is treated as and with De-
cimal Fractions; Proportion is placed before Fellowship, Allization, and such rules as require
its application in their solution. Every rule is marked with verity and simplicity. The an-
swers to all of the examples are given.

The work will be found to be an improvement on most, if not all, previous eleinentary
Arithmetics in the treatment of Fractions, Denominate Numbers, Rule of Three, Interest, Equa.
un of Payments, Extraction of Roots, and many other subjects.

Wherever this work is presented, the publishers have heard but one opinion in regard to its
merits, and that most favorable.

III. HIGHER ARITHMETIC. Price 84 cts.
The present edition has been revised, many subjects rewritten, and much new matter anded;
and contains an APPENDIX of abou! 60 pages, in which the philosophy of the more difficuit
operations and interesting properties of numbers are fully discussed. The work is what its name
purports, a Higher Arithmetic, and will be found to contain many entirely new principles which
have never before appeared in any Arithmetic. It has received the strongest recoin rendations
from hi pdreds of the best teachers the country afforis.

IV. ELEMENTS OF ALGEBRA. Price 81 cts,
This work is an introduction to the Author's “Treatise on Algebra,” and is designed espo
cially for the use of Commor. S:hools, and universally pronounced "admirably adapted to the
purpose.”

V. TREATISE ON ALGEBRA. Price $1 50.
This work contains the higher parts of Algebra usually taught in Colleges ; a new method
of cubic and higher equation as vell as the THEOREM OF STURM, by which we may at onca
driermine the number of real roots of any Algebraic Equation, wi.h much more ease than by
previously discovered method.

In the present revised edition, one entire chapter on the subject of CONTINUED FRACTIONS
bivs been added.

VI. ELEMENTS OF GEOMETRY, with PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS. $1,

The author has added throughout the entire Work, PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS, which, in the
estimation of Teachers, is an important consideration.

An eminent Professor of Mathematics, in speaking of this work, says: “We have adopted
ki, because it follows more closely the best molel of pure geometrical reasoning, which ever has
been, and perhaps ever will be exhibited ; and because the Author has contensed some of the
impxrani principles of the great taster of Geometricians, and more especia.., has shown that
his theorenis are not mere Theory, vy many practical applications : a quality lu a text-book ol
this science or less uncommon than it is important."

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MANDE VILLE'S SERIES.

FOURTH READER.

FOR

COMMON SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES.

VY

HENRY MANDEVILLE, D.D.,

PROFISSOR OF MORAL SCIENCE AND BELLES LETTRES IN HAMILTON

COLLEGE NEW YORK.

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED,

NEW-YORK:
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1851.