THE LATEST AND THE BEST. THOMSON'S NEW ARITHMETICS. "NEW GRADED SERIES." By JAMES B. THOMSON, LL.D. I. NEW MENTAL ARITHMETIC. 144 pages, 16mo. Price 35 cents. FOR PRIMARY DEPARTMENTS. II. NEW RUDIMENTS OF ARITHMETIC. Combining Mental with Slate Exercises. 224 pages, 16mo. Price 50 cents. FOR INTERMEDIATE DEPARTMENTS. III. NEW PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC. 384 pages, 12mo. Price $1.00. FOR GRAMMAR DEPARTMENTS. Since the issue of the author's former Series of Arithmetics, of which millions have been sold, great changes have taken place in the commercial world. These changes necessarily demand changes in Text-Books. To meet this demand, "THE NEW GRADED SERIES" was undertaken at the request of many practical teachers, and is now presented to the public. PLAN. 1. The Series is divided into three books-the object being convenience and economy; 2. Each book in the Series is complete in itself; 3. The definitions and principles, so far as each extends, are expressed in the same language, and are clear, concise, and comprehensive; 4. Both the "how" and the "why" are clearly presented and illustrated; 5. The Examples are new and abundant; 6. The principles of Analysis-"the grand commonsense rule "—are fully developed; 7. The principles of Percentage, and their application to business matters, including Stock Investments, United States Bonds, Domestic and Foreign Exchange, etc., have received particular attention; 8. Great pains have been taken by the author to adapt the work to the various industrial and scientific pursuits. To this end, it has been a cardinal point to incorporate a great amount of information pertaining to matters of science, to business forms, the counting-room, the work-shop, the farm, and the bousehold. In this respect it is believed these works are ahead of all others. "Prof. Thomson has shown the relation of numbers to many matters of common life-interest, not usually noticed in elementary treatises on Arithmetic; and has done this in such a manner as fully to justify the title of * Practical.' "--F. A, P. BARNARD, LL.D., President of Columbia College. "I am much pleased with the appearance of Thomson's New Practical Arithmetic. The arrangement of matter and the typography are all that could be desired. The subject treated is developed consecutively sad logically. The analysis of examples and the generalization of the results obtained, in the deduction of rules, is calculated to fix the attention of a learner, enable him to work intelligently, and to form in him a habit of cor rect reasoning. The examples for illustration are well graded, practical, and plentiful. *** Much informa tion is given pertaining to business forms and matters of science, and thus the work is adapted to the wants of every-day life among all classes of persons.”—J, H, VAN AMRINGE, Professor of Mathematics, Columbia College, New York City. "I have examined Dr. Thomson's New Practical Arithmetic with much enjoyment of its lucid method and attractive style. Dr. Thompson's name is sufficient guarantee that the work is well done, the public baving known him many years as a thorough, pains-taking, and sound scholar. *** On the whole, I know of no other arithmetic which I should prefer."—Rev. HOWARD CROSBY, D.D., Chancellor of N. Y. Univ. "I have examined the new Series of Arithmetics by James B. Thomson, LL.D., and am much pleased with the improvements introduced therein. These books have been adopted by the Board of Public Instruction of the City of New York, and I have no doubt they will prove a valuable addition to the text-book list.-Hon. HENRY KIDDLE, Superintendent of Public Instruction, New York City. "The above expresses very fully and clearly my own views of the practical value of Prof. Thomson's New Series of Arithmetics."-Assistint Superintendent HARRISON, of New York City. We consider Thompson's New Arithmetics a decided improvement on his former series, which is exter sively used in our schools, and admirably adapted to the wants of our pupils."-Forty-four Principals of Male Grammar Schools, City of New York. The "We consider them works of great merit, and admirably adapted to the wants of the pupils. amount of information on business matters found in them is an important consideration in the education of girls as well as boys, and cannot fail to commend them to the attention of all practical educators."-Forty Principals of Female Grammar Schools, City of New York, "Specimen copies furnished to teachers at half price. Copies for introduction furnished, free of all express charge, at two-thirds the above prices. Address, CLARK & MAYNARD, Publishers, 5 Barclay St., N. Y.; or GEO. B. TOWLE, N. E. Agent, 37 Brattle Street, Boston. OP Worcester's Comprehensive and Primary DICTIONARIES. We take pleasure in informing School Committees, Teachers, and friends of education gener. ally, that we have just published the above. Besides the illustrations, important additions have been made to these books, and we believe the same will be appreciated by all who desire a convenient Dictionary for the School-room or family. SPECIAL TERMS will be made to Committees and Teachers who desire to see their scholars generally supplied with a good Dictionary. CORRESPONDENCE IS SOLICITED. ALSO, JUST PUBLISHED: WALTON'S MANUAL OF ARITHMETIC, Consisting of Dictation Exercises, Hints on Methods of Teaching, etc. This book is designe especially for teachers, and we trust will prove au invaluable aid. Mailed on receipt of 60 cents THE FRANKLIN FIFTH READER. By GEO. S. HILLARD. This book contains very choice selections for reading, and can be used in connection with Mr. Hillard's New Series or not. The selections are somewhat easier than the Fifth Reader of that series, and the book is beautifully illustrated. Has just been adopted for the Boston schools. A Concise History of the United States, By L. J. CAMPBELL. BASED ON SEAVEY'S GOODRICH. This book contains about 200 pages of narrative, and also an Appendix containing the DEC LARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, CONSTITUTION, etc., and is suitably illustrated with MAPS and CUTS. No pains and labor have been spared to render the work especially desirable as a Class Book. The attention of Teachers and School officers is invited to the following particulars: I. Its simplicity of statement and judicious selection of facts. II. Its accuracy in the relation of events, pronunciation of proper names, etc. III. Its freedom from comparatively useless dates. BREWER & TILESTON, Publishers, 114 Washington St., BOSTON. WALTON'S NORMAL SERIES. This series of Arithmetics consists of three books, viz.-I. A Pictorial Primary Arithmetic (Normal edition). II. An Intellectual Arith.netic (Normal Edition). III. The Illustrative I'ractical Arithmetic. It is designed for Common The Illustrative Practical Arithmetic is entirely new. Schools, Normit Schools, High Schools and Academies, and will, it is believed, meet the wants of the large majority of the students of written arithmetic, in all grades of schools, more fully than any other arithmetic before the public. For those who desire to pursue the subject further, Walton's Written Arithmetic Presents a somewhat more extended course and a fuller practice. Favorable terms will be made for introduction. ADDRESS: BREWER & TILESTON, PUBLISHERS, 114 Washington St., BOSTON. Standard Botanical Text-Books, By ASA GRAY, M. D., Fisher Professor, Harvard University. MORE EXTENSIVELY IN USE THAN ALL OTHERS COMBINED. This justly celebrated Series of Text-Books presents the latest and most accurate principles and developments of the beautiful science to which Professor GRAY has devoted so much of his life. None have yet approached him in the rare art of making purely scientific theories and dry details popular and interesting. 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Price, $2.50. *This and HOW PLANTS GROW, are two of the most popular School Books known in Botanical Science. They are more generally used than any others published. THE MANUAL. A FULL AND COMPLETE WORK FOR HIGHER CLASSES. Price, $2.25. The most liberal terms for introduction will be given. Send for full descriptive Cireulars, Etc. IVISON, BLAKEMAN, TAYLOR & CO. PUBLISHERS, 138 and 140 Grand Street, NEW YORK. PUBLISHED BY ALFRED MUDGE & SON, 34 SCHOOL STREET, FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. TERMS: -$150 a year, payable in advance. OF Eaton and Bradbury's Mathematical Series. BRADBURY'S ELEMENTARY GEOMETRY, 116 pp. Price, $1.00. BRADBURY'S ELEMENTARY TRIGONOMETRY, with Tables, 120 pp. The Two Books in one volume, $1.50. These works are becoming very popular as text-books, though they have been published but a few months. They answer more nearly than any others in these branches the growing demand for brief and concise books suited to the present grade of High Schools and Academies. They contain enough to prepare for college, and to lead to the higher mathematics, and the practical questions at the close of the different books, and exer. ises for original demonstration are features of great interest and value. They have already been introduced in a large number of the best schools in different parts of the country. From Prof. FRANCIS BOWEN, Harvard College, Cambridge. Your Elementary Geometry is far the best introduction to the study which I have yet seen. It has the great merit of conciseness, omitting all irrelevant or otherwise needless matter, and con tains within a small number of pages all the lane and Solid Geometry which the pupil needs to know before he can be admitted to larvard College. Then the Practical Questions and Geometri cal Exercises are so judiciously prepared as not to perplex the student with needless difficulties, and yet to give him the quickness in computation, the readiness in applying his previous know!edge, and the skill in devising geometrical modes of proof for himself, which are a necessary preparation for the study of the higher mathematics. Your work ought to be made the only textbook on the subject for use in our Academics and High Schools. From A. J. SWAIN, Esq., Principal of Sterens High School, Claremont, N. H. The Geometry I am specially pleased with, inasmuch as it gives the student something to do as well as learn, and is particularly adapted to schools where the time for Geometry is limited. From Mr. J. C. BULL, Teacher in American Asylum, Hartford, I am specially pleased with the idea upon which it is founded that of the omission of unimportant matter, and think it will thus be well adapted to supply a long felt want in our higher schools. This is a work of moderate size, and yet contains enough to prepare for teaching and for college. It has a large number and great variety of problems, but does not aim to present all the abstract principles included in many larger works. The book can be completed in one year in any well graded school, and has been introduced and is used in a large majority of the higli Schools of New England, and extensively elsewhere. EATON'S SERIES OF ARITHMETICS. The different works of this series are believed to be better fitted than any others for the use of Grammar and Common Schools, Academies, High and Normal Schools. The examples are practical, definitions clear and concise, methods of analysis business like, and the books present the latest and most approved methods of mathematical instruction. The keries is used exclusively in the Boston Schools, and more than any other series in the New Eng land States, and largely West. From Mr. M. O. HARRINGTON, Principal of High School, Danvers, Mass. The clearness and brevity of definitions and logical arrangement of principles are marked features of merit in Eaton's Mathematical Series. From Mr. T. P. MARRYATT, Principal of High School, Peterboro', N. H. After using Eaton's Algebra a year, I can say that it has more than fulfilled my expectations. I have given the Geometry a pretty thorough examination, and am decidedly of the opinion that it is the book we want. From C. W. RANLET, Esq., Chairman of School Committee, Holyoke, Mass. We have Eaton's Arithmetic and Algebra already, and are so well pleased with them that we shall continue them. 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