NEW YORK, November 1, 1-73.

Messrs. IVISON, BLAKEMAN, TAYLOR, & CO. have the pleasure of announcing that they have now completed the important revisions, additions, and improvements in the spencer an Copy-Books, which have been for so long a time in careful and laborious prop

aration.

This justly popular system has been for years the acknowledged standard in this country and Europe; and we feel confident that these revisions will place it far in advance of the position it has heretofore occupied, embracing as they do fresh features entirely original with the authors, and now published for the first time.

DESCRIPTION OF THIS SERIES.

NUMBER 1 contains the 13 short letters, together with simple words.

NUMBER 2 reviews the short letters separately, then combined in words, and intr duces the lo ps, capitals, and figures. NUMBER 3 reviews Numbers 1 and 2, introduces longer words, and closes with short sen tences on the last four pages.

NUMBER 4 is a word book, containing five capitals and four words upon a page.

NUMBER 44 is an entirely new book, and contains words and short sentences, arranged alphabetically. The sentences are placed in the centre of the copy and the words at each end. NUMBER 5 contains long sentences, embracing all the capitals and small letters, with col umns of two figures at each end.

We have recently added to our series a TRACING BOOK, containing all the small letters, capitals, and figures, printed in colors, and adapted to the use of Primary and Grammar grades.

The Common School Series; or Numbers ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, and FIVE, has undergone a thorough revision in very particular. The matter is fresh and new, and has been carefully selected, and arranged with special reference to its proper gradation for our public schools.

These books present the Genuine Spencerian Style of Penmanship. They are Simple, Accurate, and Beautiful But one style of Capital Letter is used, and this has been selected on account of its simplicity of construction and ease of execution.

The height and width of the small u is made the unit for measuring the proportions of the capitals, as well as the small letters. In the preparation of the copies the utmost taste and skill have combined to make each letter a model wherever it appears, and in perfect accordance with the rules for its formation.

The ruling regulates absolutely the height, slant, and spacing of all the letters in Number 1, the loop letters in Number 2, and the relative heights of all letters in Number 3. An excel lent plan for securing the slant and proportions of letters, by means of space marks over the copies, will be found in Number 3.

The books of this revised series are more perfect in arrangement and classifica. tion than any others published. The copies are systematically and progressively arranged, so as to afford practice upon all the different combinations and at the same time secure the most beauuful pages when written. The capitals are introduced in Number 2. thus avoiding the necessity of writing three books to complete the alphabets of small and capital letters. When there is not sufficient time to write the books of this series a Course can be selected,' consisting of 1, 2, 3, or 4 books. To complete a course in one book, Number 3 can be used; in two books, Numbers 2 and 3, or 3 and 41⁄2; in three books, Numbers 1, 2 and 3, or 2, 3 and 5. The letters are classified according to similarity of formation, beginning with the most simple. The instructions for the teacher and pupil are more simple, thorough and complete than in any other series yet published. On the covers of the lower books are cuts ilustrating position at desk, penholding and slants. The principles, small letters, capitals, and figures appear in script, accompanied by the complete analysis and construction of each letter, also instructions for the distribution of books, opening and closing exercises, spacing, shading, etc. Over the copies appear special instructions, illustrations. and analysis of each letter, with the principles numbered, and directions for counting. The Figures, so often neglected in copy-books, are fully analyzed and explained. The copies have been accurately and beautifully cut on steel by the most skilful script engraver of modern times, and printed upon the best paper in the highest style of the art.

We have spared no expense to present the Revised Standard Spencerian of 1873 in a manner worthy of its superior merits and well-known practical character.

Other Spencerian publications are in course of preparation, of which due announcement will be made.

IVISON, BLAKEMAN, TAYLOR, & CO.,

Educational Publishers,

138 and 140 Grand Street, New York.

For the New England States, address O. B. SEAGRAVE, care of Knight, Adams, & Co., 32 Cornhill, Boston.

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