Reference Books. SCHOOL ARCHITECTURE. By Henry Barnard, LL. D. With many Illustrations. New York: A. S. Barnes and Burr. Large 8vo. PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL ARCHITECTURE. A Manual of Directions and Plans for Grading, Locating, Constructing, Heating, Ventilating, and Furnishing Common School-houses. By Thomas H. Burrowes. 8vo. pp. 276. COUNTRY SCHOOL-HOUSES: containing Elevations, Plans, and Specifications, with Estimates, Directions to Builders, Suggestions as to School Grounds, Furniture, Apparatus, &c., and a Treatise on School-house Architecture. By James Johonnot. New York: Ivison and Phinney. The three volumes last named contain a vast amount of information on very important subjects. They should be in every school-teacher's library. MENTAL PHILOSOPHY: including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will. By Joseph Haven, late Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy in Amherst College. Boston: Gould and Lincoln. 12mo. pp. 58. THE ENGLISH POETS. With Critical Notes. By Rev. J. R. Boyd. New York: A. S. Barnes and Burr. This series of five volumes includes Milton, Young, Thomson, Cowper, and Pollok, each made interesting and intelligible by judiciously arranged explanatory notes. WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY, UNABRIDGED. This work, pub lished by G. and C. Merriam, Springfield, Mass., should be in every library. No teacher can afford to be without it. It contains an inexhaustible fund of information. WORCESTER'S DICTIONARY, UNABRIDGED. This work, published by Hickling, Swan, and Brewer, of Boston, will deserve a place in every library. LIPPINCOTT'S PRONOUNCING GAZETTEER. A complete Pronouncing Gazetteer or Geographical Dictionary of the World. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 12mo. pp. 2182. This is unsurpassed, and indeed has no rival in the department of which it treats. Reference Books. APPLETON'S CYCLOPÆDIA OF BIOGRAPHY, Foreign and American, embracing a Series of Original Memoirs of the most Distinguished Persons of all Times. With 600 Engravings. One large 8vo. A truly excellent and useful volume. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY: comprising a Summary Account of the Lives of the most Distinguished Persons of all Ages, Nations, and Professions. By John L. Blake, D.D. Philadelphia: H. Cowperthwait & Co. 8vo. pp. 1366. APPLETON'S NEW AMERICAN CYCLOPÆDIA: a Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge. Edited by George Ripley and Charles A. Dana. New York: D. Appleton & Co. This work is to be in fifteen volumes, large octavo. Six volumes have already been published, and from these we feel warranted in saying that the work is eminently worthy of public patronage. It will constitute a library of itself, containing a vast amount of information on subjects in general and of prominent individuals. As a work of reference it will prove invaluable. THESAURUS OF English WorDS AND PHRASES: so arranged and classified as to facilitate the Expression of Ideas and assist in Literary Composition. By Peter Mark Roget. Revised and edited, with a List of Foreign Words defined in English, and other Additions, by Barnas Sears, D. D., President of Brown University. Boston: Gould and Lincoln. 12mo. pp. 510. CRABB'S ENGLISH SYNONYMES EXPLAINED. With copious Illustrations and Explanations, drawn from the best Writers. New York: Harper and Brothers. 8vo. pp. 535. ON THE STUDY OF WORDS. By Richard Chenevix Trench, B.D., Professor of Divinity, King's College, London. New York: Redfield. 12mo. pp. 231. Bos CHAMBERS'S CYCLOPÆDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. ton: Gould and Lincoln. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. 2400, and more than 300 elegant illustrations. A selection of the choicest productions of English authors, from the earliest to the present time. A most valuable work. CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: embracing Per Reference Books. sonal and Critical Notices of Authors, and Selections from their Writings. From the earliest Period to the present Day. With Portraits, Autographs, and other Illustrations. By Evert A. Duyekinck and George L. Duyckinck. New York: Charles Scribner. 2 vols. Royal 8vo. pp. 1500. THE ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF ALL NATIONS: comprising a complete Physical, Statistical, Civil, and Political Description of the World; exhibiting its various Rivers, Mountains, Lakes, Plains, &c.; the Natural History of each Country, Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Shells, Minerals, Insects, Plants, &c.; and the Productive Industry, Commerce, Political Institutions of all the Empires, Kingdoms, and Republics of the Globe; including the late Discoveries of Drs. Barth, Kane, and Livingstone. Also a General View of Astronomy. By Hugh Murray, F. R. S. E., assisted by Professors Jameson, Wallace, Swainson, and Hooker. Edited by Elbridge Smith, A. M., Principal of the Norwich Free Academy. The whole embellished with Maps, Charts, and over 1,100 Engravings. Norwich: Henry Bill. 2 vols. pp. 1670. Very valuable. THE GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH GRAMMARS. By Goold Brown. New York: W. and S. Wood. Large 8vo. pp. 1028. This volume should be in the hands of every teacher. It is emphatically the Grammar of Grammars. HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGY. The World's Progress. With Chart. 12mo. pp. 716. GENERAL LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS. By George Ripley and Bayard Taylor. 12mo. pp. 647. THE USEFUL ARTS. By Dr. Antisell. 12mo. pp. 690. UNIVERSAL BIOGRAPHY. By Parke Godwin. 12mo. pp. 821. UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY: a Comprehensive Gazetteer of the World. 12mo. SCIENCE including Natural History, Botany, Geology, Mineralogy, &c. By Samuel St. John. These six volumes, published by S. A. Rollo & Co., New York, are intended to comprise a comprehensive view of the whole circle of human knowledge; in other words, to form a Reference Books. General Cyclopædia in a portable shape, for popular reference, for family libraries, for teachers, for school libraries, and for the general reader. OUTLINES OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY, from the Creation of the World to the Present Time. By George Weber. Boston: Hickling, Swan, and Brewer. 1 vol. Royal 8vo. pp. 559. In this work we find the principles of historical perspective applied to the annals of the world with wonderful success. Though a vast multitude of objects are introduced to the reader, there is not the least indistinctness or confusion. MATHEMATICAL DICTIONARY; and Cyclopædia of Mathematical Science. Comprising Definitions of all the Terms employed in Mathematics, an Analysis of cach Branch, and of the Whole, as forming a single Science. By Charles Davies and William G. Peck. New York: A. S. Barnes and Burr. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. 592. - ELEMENTS OF CRITICISM. By Henry Home, of Kames, one of the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary in Scotland. Edited by Rev. James R. Boyd. New York: A. S. Barnes and Burr. 12mo. pp. 486. BOUVIER'S FAMILIAR ASTRONOMY: illustrated by Celestial Maps and upwards of Two Hundred finely executed Engravings. To which are added, a Treatise on the Globes, and a Comprehensive Astronomical Dictionary. Philadelphia : Childs and Peterson. 8vo. pp. 499. FAMILIAR SCIENCE; or, The Scientific Explanation of the Principles of Natural and Physical Science, and their practical and familiar Applications to the Employments and Necessities of Common Life. Illustrated by nearly Two Hundred Engravings. By David A. Wells, A. M. Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson. 8vo. pp. 566. MAURY'S GEOGRAPHY OF THE SEA. This excellent work is published by Harper and Brothers, New York. It is well illustrated with wood-cuts and charts. THE EARTH AND MAN: Lectures on Comparative Physical Geography, in its Relation to the History of Mankind. By Arnold Guyot. Boston: Gould and Lincoln. 12mo. pp. 334. Books for School Libraries. 12mo. THE HAND-BOOK OF HOUSEHOLD SCIENCE. A Popular Ac- Fowler and Wells, New York, publish some very good books. "How to Write," "How to Talk,” etc. will be found exceedingly useful to all classes. APPENDIX G. BOOKS FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIES. MANY school libraries have been established within the last ten years. The usefulness of these will depend greatly upon the character of the books selected to furnish them. The press is teeming with books for the young, but many of the volumes issued are entirely unsuitable, and their circulation will do harm and not good. The following we commend as interesting and instructive books for school or family libraries. |