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PART FIRST of this volume, under the head of Vocal Gymnastics, embraces thorough and prac tical articles on Respiration and Phonetics, a masterly treatise on Elocution, and Recitations in Verse. PART SECOND, the most extended and varied course of exercises in Calisthenics ever published. PART THIRD, an exhaustive course of exercises in Gymnastics, with wands, dumb-bells, Indian clubs, and band-rings.

This is the only gymnastic drill-book, with words of command, and classes of movements, systematically arranged, in any language. It is the first work that seizes the theories of educators and philanthropists, the forms of things unknown," and "turns them into shapes." In a word, it presents, in a simple and well-defined form, the means of rendering physical culture easy and certain to the rich and the poor, to persons of all ages, either individually or in classes.

Exercises for the lungs, the voice, the organs of speech, the joints, and all the muscles, are strictly classified, involving a prescribed number of positions and elementary movements, with an almost innumerable variety of combinations. These movements are executed simultaneously by several persons, in exact time. in connection with counting, phonetics, recitations, or music, either vocal or instrumental, thus insuring geniality and generous einulation alike in the school, the family, and the gymnasium.

NINETEEN PIECES OF APPROPRIATE PIANOFORTE MUSIC Are introduced. Those not composed expressly for this work are selected and arranged, from the choicest productions of the ablest masters, by the well-known and eminent musicians and composers G. F. BRISTOW AND H. B. DODWORTH.

The wood-cuts are more numerous and better executed than those of any corresponding work, either gymnastic or military. They are from original designs, illustrating positions actually taken, and movements executed by the author. It is printed on fine and heavy tinted paper. The typography is unrivalled.

WATSON'S GYMNASTIC APPARATUS,

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The desired weight is not secured by varying the size, but the material. The wood usually used for dumb-bells and Indian clubs is maple, beech, birch, hickory, ironwood, and locust. Rosewood and lignum-vitæ make very superior bells and clubs. Wands are made of white-ash. Handrings are usually made of cherry and mahogany.

The wand has eight plane equal faces or sides. It is seven-eighths of an inch thick for men and women, and three-fourths for boys and girls. Its length is determined by the height of the person. It is made with or without metallic balls at the ends.

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WATSON'S NATIONAL PHONETIC TABLETS.

These TABLETS, eight in number, each 24 by 30 inches in size, printed in colors and mounted in the best style, may be read at a distance of one hundred feet. They present in the simplest, most convenient, and attractive form for class drill, all the excellencies of the American phonetic and the English phonic systems, without any of their objectionable features, furnishing abundant and appropriate material for the acquisition of the basis of all good delivery-a perfect articulation. This is done as follows:

I. By employing figured vowels and consonants, thus securing just as many distinct characters as there are elementary sounds in the English language, without the introduction of a single new

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II. By giving a list of all letters and combinations of letters that ever represent these sounds, with the necessary exercises.

III. By furnishing all needful rules, and ample and apposite directions and explanations for in

structors.

IV. By an exhaustive, though simple aualysis of English words, both as spoken and written. V. By phonetic reading, embracing many words usually mispronounced, and all the difficult combined sounds of the language, thus securing what may be regarded as a complete vocal gymnasium, These TABLETS are used in some of the best Academies, Public and Normal Schools, and Gymnasiums of the United States.

Price, mounted on heavy boards in card form, $4 00; in the best map form, $6 00.

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SIMONSON'S

CIRCULAR ZOOLOGICAL CHART:

A Directory to the Study of the Animal Kingdom.

Size 21 by 27 inches.

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This Chart is correctly and elegantly lithographed, and will be highly ornamental upon the walls of the library or school-room.

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SIMONSON'S CIRCULAR ZOOLOGICAL CHART.

From the Hartford Daily Courant.

This guide to teachers and students of Natural History brings together, in a very convenien form, a great mass of valuable information respecting the Animal Kingdom. It gives the primary divisions of Vertebrates, Articulates, Radiates, and Mollusks, and also the several classes, orders, families, genera, and species, so that all may be seen at one glance. Take for instance the robin: we see that it is of the genus thrushes, of the family dentirostres, or tooth-billed group, of the order insessores, or perchers, and of the class land-birds, and under the general division of warm-blooded vertebrates. Thus a teacher or student will find it exceedingly useful for constant reference, and by its arrangement much time may be saved. The work has been carefully and thoroughly done, and presents a very neat appearance. We cordially commend it to all teachers and students of Natural History, as a very valuable help in schools, and also for reference in private families.

From the Hartford Times.

SIMONSON'S ZOOLOGICAL CHART: A DIRECTORY TO THE STUDY OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. -It conveys, at a glance, the sum of existing knowledge in relation to the classes, orders, and families of the whole Animal Kingdom, from MAN down to the Sponges, the lowest organization in the scale. This elaborate and beautifully simple Chart may be said to contain, in the most compact and accessible form possible, the knowledge that has been laboriously gained and garnered by such eminent explorers of Nature's fields as CUVIER and SWAMMERDAM. It is, in fact, a perfect compendium. It supplies an actual want, not only of the scholar, but of the teacher. Indeed, it is of interest and value to everybody. You can see from the Chart what family or species any bug, fish, small or large animal belongs to. The fossils, too, are touched upon. The extinct MASTODON belongs to the same family as the elephant, and the horse is one of the species of the same order. Of beetles there are 40,000 species. The Chart is full of information, and its study can not fail to profit every one who consults it.

From the Evening Press, Hartford.

This singularly ingenious Chart is the best thing of the kind which we have seen, and we learn that competent naturalists pronounce it very correct in detail.

From the Daily Post.

In arranging this Chart, which is a wonder of conciseness and simplicity, Professor Simonson has consulted the most celebrated authors, and has submitted it to the criticism of professed experts, who pronounce it complete.

From the New Haven Palladium.

It will prove a valuable guide to teachers and students of Natural History.

GREAT GEOLOGICAL CHART,

Size, 6 ft. 6 in. by 5 ft.,

FINELY ENGRAVED AND SUPERBLY COLORED.

This chart is designed to exhibit to the eye the order in which the successive layers or strata of rocks are arranged, as it has thus far been determined by geologists; and, also, the characteristic fossils which have mainly afforded the key to this arrangement. It is intended to exhibit the sppearance that would be presented if a section, or cut, were made from the surface toward the center of the earth, thus exposing the different layers to view by their edges. It is, in fact, such a representation as may be seen in the banks of many rivers, as the Niagara, or in the high rocky cliffs of the lake or ocean shores, only it is much more extended than any such natural exposures.

This beautiful chart was prepared by Professor Hall in the hope that it might render a study so delightful in itself, and so practically useful, more extensively introduced, and more easily understood.

Unfortunately only a limited number of these charts were produced from the lithographic stones. The subscribers have now for sale a few of these charts, fresh and perfect, and they offer them MOUNTED ON CLOTH AND ROLLERS for $9.00 each; the sheets for same at $6.00. KEY TO HALL'S GEOLOGICAL CHART, 75 Cts.

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A great proportion of the material for this work is the result of several years' labor of Prof. C. C. CONVERSE, former organist of the Broadway Tabernacle. New York. It embraces the finest music collected and composed during a residence in Germany and England, as well as the most popular tunes of American Authors, adapted to the hymns in use by all denominations,

The great number and variety of CHANTS and SET PIECES found in this work will greatly enhance its value, and the publishers commend it to the notice of all Churches as the best book of the age, according to the testimony of persons competent to judge.

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Price, single copy, $1.25; per dozen, $10.00.

New editions of these popular Text-books have recently been published, with the addition of Practical Exercises in ANALYSIS and PARSING, by HENRY KIDDLE, A. M., Assistant Superintendent of Common Schools, New York City. They have long been the established favorite with very many of our most successful teachers. They are acknowledged by those who have given them a fair trial, to be the MOST SOUND, CLEAR, and PRACTICAL Treatises on the English Language that have ever been introduced to the notice of Teachers. They are rapidly becoming, from their extensive use and popularity, THE NATIONAL STANDARD.

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This excellent system of Penmanship, embraced in a series of twelve numbers, has recently been carefully and thoroughly revised, and the publishers are confident that it surpasses every other work of the kind, not only in the execution, but also in the quality of the material used. They have been adopted in the Public Schools of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Wilmington, Providence, New Haven, Newark, Albany, and many other large cities, as well as in many Normal Schools and Pri

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To assist teachers in explaining the system of Penmanship, a series of writing charts, in six num bers, has just been prepared. They present a complete classification of all the letters, with their principles. They as printed on six sheets, and mounted on heavy card board, two sheets on each board. Price, per set, $1.50.

POTTER & HAMMOND'S BOOK-KEEPING BY SINGLE AND DOUBLE ENTRY, is a thorough and PRACTICAL System, prepared by practical business men. It comprises five sets of books, which are engraved in the highest style of the art, furnishing perfect specimens of penmanship, and the best forms of making entries. A careful examination of these books will convince Teachers and School Officers of their peculiar merits, and will secure their general use in Public and Private Schools everywhere. This work is nestly bound in two parts, viz.. The Common School Edition, containing two sets of Single Entry, and one set of Double Entry, together with engraved matter in the same style as the Penmanship. The High School Edition is a continuation of the former, and contains two sets of Double Entry Book-Keeping, and also a set of Commercial Calculations, and engraved forms of Notes, Drafts, &c., which will be found invaluable to the student.

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FIRST LESSONS IN ALGEBRA. An Easy Introduction to that Science. By EBENEZER BAILEY.

This valuable book, long and favorably known in New England, has recently been revised, and is now pronounced by some of the best authorities in this country, THE VERY BEST ALGEBRA YET PUBLISHED. Every teacher should examine it. Of this book DR. WAYLAND, late President of Brown University, writes as follows:

"I have examined the new edition with sufficient care to perceive its excellent adaptation to the purposes of a Teacher. The elementary principles of the science are beautifully analyzed, and illustrated with remarkable clearness and simplicity. The progress from the easy to the more difficult combinations is so skilfully arranged that the knowledge of any one section is a sufficient preparation for the study of that which succeeds it."-Specimen copy sent by mail for 60c.

A MILITARY MANUAL FOR SCHOOLS. By F. N. FREEMAN, A.M., Military Supt. of the Eagleswood Military Academy. 8vo., 104 pages.

The martial spirit is rife amongst us in these days of war. No class in the community, outside of the army itself. is more affected with it than the schoolboys. Hence, MILITARY SCHOOLS are all the rage at the present time; and there are certainly advantages in such schools when properly organized and conducted. How should they be organized and conducted? This Manual of Colonel FREEMAN'S is intended to answer the question. We believe this work is quite the most practical Manual for use in schools that has ever been issued. All persons interested in Military Schools will Bad much of interest and value in the comprehensive scope of its hundred pages. Specimen copy, in paper covers, sent by mail, for 30 cents.

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