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REFERENCE BOOKS FOR TEACHERS' LIBRARIES.

Reference Books for Teachers' Libraries.

THE Superintendent of Public Schools in the City of Boston, in his report for 1852, makes the following remarks with relation to Books of Reference for Teachers: —

"Teachers, like gentlemen in other professions, need a few suitable books of this class always at hand; for they cannot carry all the minute details of the different branches taught in schools in their minds always ready for use, any more than well-read Lawyers, Physicians, or Clergymen can respectively carry all their professional learning with them, ready to meet all emergencies. All persons who know where and how to look for such information as they want may be considered well educated, in the professional sense of the term.

"There is wanted in every Grammar School a collection of such works as would make, when all taken together, one Comprehensive Dictionary on the subjects connected with school studies. This Library of Books of Reference need not at first contain more than forty or fifty volumes, embracing such works as the American Enclycopædia, McCulloch's Geographical Dictionary, Brande's Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art, Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, with a Universal Biographical Dictionary, and a good Atlas of Ancient and of Modern Geography. These few books would render great assistance to the Teachers and the Scholars, in their respective labors."

Encyclopedia Britannica (now publishing), in 21 vols. Sub

scription price,

Encyclopædia Americana, 14 vols.,

Brande's Encyclopædia of Lit. and Art,

McCulloch's Geogl. Dictionary, 2 vols. 8vo,

McCulloch's Coml. Dictionary, 2 vols. 8vo,

Mitchell's Universal Atlas,

Spruner's Ancient Atlas,

(See List of Atlases and Geographical Works.)

$115.50

15.00

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12.00

10.00

THE HOME CYCLOPÆDIA. The following six volumes were compiled specially for the purpose of placing within the reach of persons of limited means a COMPLETE ENCYCLOPEDIA, and they are admirably adapted for the use of Teachers. Each volume complete in itself.

Cyclopædia of Geography; or, Universal Gazetteer. By T.
C. Calicott.

66

1 vol. 12mo.

Cyclopædia of Chronology; or, Dictionary of Dates.
George P. Putnam. 1 vol. 12mo.

. $2.00

2.50

By

2.00

Cyclopædia of the Useful Arts; including Agriculture,
Architecture, Domestic Economy, &c.
M. D. 1 vol. 12mo.

REFERENCE BOOKS FOR TEACHERS' LIBRARIES.

Cyclopædia of Literature and the Fine Arts; comprising a complete and accurate Definition of Terms, &c. By George Ripley and Bayard Taylor. 1 vol. 12mo.

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66

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1 vol. 8vo.

Cyclopædia of Universal Biography; a Dictionary of the Names of the most Eminent Men. By Parke Godwin. 1 vol. 12mo.

66

1 vol. 8vo.

Cyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Descriptive, and Topographical. Alphabetically arranged, and familiarly explained. By Robert Stuart. 1 vol. 8vo.

MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS.

Lardner on the Steam-Engine. 1 vol. 8vo.
Huntington's Manual of the Fine Arts; Critical and His-
torical. 1 vol. 12mo.

Lectures on the Progress of Arts and Sciences. By Whe-
well, De la Beche, and ten other distinguished men.
Delivered before the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and
Commerce. 1 vol. 12mo.
Tschudi's Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra,
across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval
Forests. 1 vol. 12mo.

Tschudi's Peruvian Antiquities, translated from the Span-
ish by Francis Hawkes, D. D. 1 vol. 12mo.

Curzon's Ancient Monasteries of the East; or, A Visit to
the Monasteries in the Levant. 1 vol. 12mo.
Layard's Babylon and Nineveh; with Travels in Armenia,
Kurdistan, and the Desert. 1 vol. 12mo.

Spencer's Travels in Egypt and the Holy Land. 1 vol.

Silliman's (Prof. Benjamin) Visit to Europe. 2 vols.
12mo. With Illustrations.
Ungewitter's Modern Europe; a Manual of European Ge-
ography and History, with a copious Index. .
Osborne's Polar Regions; or, A Search for Sir John
Franklin's Expedition. 1 vol. 12mo.

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St. Petersburg: its People, their Character and Institutions. By Edward Jermann.

1 vol. 12mo.

Walton's Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert, and
Sanderson. 1 vol. 12mo.

Montagu's Selections from the Works of Taylor, Latimer,
Hall, Milton, Barrow, South, Fuller, and Bacon.

12mo.

Smith's Classical Dictionary,

Anthon's Classical Dictionary,

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REFERENCE BOOKS FOR TEACHERS' LIBRARIES.

1.25

Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature. 2 vols. 8vo. $5.00
Meadows's New Italian and Eng. Dictionary. 1 vol. 16mo.
Neuman and Baretti's Spanish and Eng. Dictionary. 8vo.
Spiers and Surenne's French Dictionary,

Ure's Dictionary of Arts and Manufactures. New Ed.
2 vols.

Appleton's Dictionary of Mechanics. 2 vols. 8vo.
Baldwin's Univ. Pronouncing Gazetteer,

Hoblyn's Dictionary of Scientific Terms.

12mo.

Mulligan's Grammatical Structure of the Eng. Language,
Worcester's Universal and Critical Dictionary of the Eng-

4.00

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Graham's English Synonyms,

1.00

Latham on the English Language,

.75

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Davies's Logic of Mathematics,

1.00

Mill's Poets and Poetry of the Ancient Greeks. 1 vol. 8vo.
Sargent's Standard Speaker,

Webster's Quarto Dictionary, unabridged,

Autobiography of Hugh Miller; or, My School and Schoolmasters. By Hugh Miller.

Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, so classified
and arranged as to facilitate the Expression of Ideas,
and assist in Literary Composition. By Peter Mark
Roget, late Secretary of the Royal Society, and author
of the " Bridgewater Treatise," &c. Revised and En-
larged; with a List of Foreign Words and Expressions
most frequently occurring in works of general literature,
defined in English by Barnas Sears, D. D., Secretary of
the Massachusetts Board of Education, assisted by several
Literary Gentlemen. 12mo. cloth.

Brockelsby's Elements of Meteorology,
De Tocqueville's American Institutions,
Young's Science of Government,

Arithmetic Practically Applied. By Horace Mann and
P. E. Chase.

Intellectual Philosophy. By Francis Wayland, D. D.,
President of Brown University. 1 vol. 12mo.

Foot Prints of the Creator. By Hugh Miller.

Earth and Man, by Arnold Guyot, to accompany Guyot's

Physical Maps, .

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REFERENCE BOOKS FOR TEACHERS' LIBRARIES.

Lyell's Manual of Geology,
Lyell's Principles of Geology,

Genesis and Geology; or, An Investigation into the Rec-
onciliation of the Modern Doctrines of Geology with the
Declarations of Scripture,

Religion of Geology and its connected Sciences. 12mo.
muslin,

Geology of the Globe, and of the United States in particu-
lar. These three by Edward Hitchcock, D. D.
Dew's History of Ancient and Modern Nations,
Spalding's History of English Literature.

(See List of Atlases and Geographical Works.)

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Johnston's Physical Atlas,

Mahon's History of England. 2 vols. 8vo.

Keightly's Mythology of Greece and Rome,

Keeper's History of the Middle Ages. 2 vols. 12mo.

Green's History of the Middle Ages,

Carlyle's Miscellaneous Works. 1 vol. 8vo, portrait, muslin, 1.40

.75

.75

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2.50

1.12

3.50

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.38

Wilson's (Christopher North)

8 vols., with Portraits of Authors. Muslin, Stewart's Active and Moral Powers of Man. Edited, with Notes, by James Walker, D. D. 1 vol. 12mo, muslin, Reid's Essays on the Intellectual Powers. Abridged, with Notes, by Sir William Hamilton and others. By James Walker, D. D. 12mo, muslin. Essays on Representative Men. By R. W. Emerson. Emerson's (R. W.) Essays. New Edition, first Series. second Series, 12mo, muslin, Davis's Manual of Magnetism, including Galvanism, Magnetism, Electro-Magnetism, Electro-Dynamics, MagnetoElectricity, and Thermo-Electricity. 180 original Illustrations. 12mo, muslin,

Annual of Scientific Discovery, for 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855. Edited by David A. Wells and Geo. Bliss, Jr., per volume, .

1.00

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.60

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66

66

66

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New and fine 8vo edition.

9.60

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Massachusetts Common School Journal. Edited by Hon.
Horace Mann. 12 vols., bound, containing twelve An-
nual Reports of the Board of Education. Price per vol., $ 1.50
Do. folded and collated, per vol.,

Seventh Annual Report of the Massachusetts Board of
Education,.

Eleventh Annual Report of the Massachusetts Board of
Education, by H. Mann,

Twelfth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Board of
Education,

Barnard's Education in Europe, New and Enlarged Ed.,
Barnard's Normal Schools,

Barnard's School Architecture, new Edition,

1.00

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1.75

These works contain a digest of Mr. B's experience and observation, giving the best modes of teaching, Catalogues of Educational Works, Apparatus and Furniture. No School Committee should be without the Architecture, and no School Library without them all.

My Schools and Schoolmasters; or, The Story of My Education. By Hugh Miller. 12mo, cloth.

1.12

Lectures and Transactions of the Mass. Teachers' Association. 1 vol. 12mo.

.75

Massachusetts Teacher, per vol., bound,

1.40

The District School, by J. Orville Taylor,

The School and Schoolmaster, by Emerson and Potter,
Page's Theory and Practice of Teaching,
The Teacher's Institute; or, Familiar Hints, by W. B.
Fowle,

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Lectures on Education, by Hon. Horace Mann. These

Lectures have never been published in any other form,

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Teacher's Manual, by W. P. Lyon,

District School as it Was, by Rev. W. Burton,

Infant School Manual, by Mrs. Howland,

The Teacher's Manual, by T. H. Palmer,

Teaching, a Science; The Teacher an Artist, .

Means and Ends, by Miss Sedgwick, .

Practical Education, by Maria Edgeworth,

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Lectures and Proceedings of the Ăm. Institute of Instruc

tion from 1840 to 1853, inclusive, 14 vols., per vol.,