The American Educational Series. FIRST LESSONS IN OUR COUNTRY'S HISTORY. ་་ BRINGING OUT ITS SALIENT POINTS, AND AIMING TO combine simplicity with sense. By WM. SWINTON, A. M., Professor of History University of California, and Author of " Condensed History U. S.," "Word Analysis,” “ Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac." etc. I vol. 12mo., paper, 200 pages. Price, by mail, 80 cents. This is, perhaps, the most attractive and dainty school book ever issued from the American press. The distinctive place which the First Lessons is designed to occupy is the lower classes of our graded, ungraded and private schools. It has been the author's special care to avoid crowding the text with the multiplicity of details and isolated facts that have made the old "Introductories" and "Elementaries" really more difficult to the beginner than a full treatise would be. This he has accomplished by a judicious exercise of the principle of selection, by which "salient points" alone have been chosen. The economy of space thus gained by throwing out the usual mass of unmemorizable minutia has enabled him to enlarge on the grand, vital facts, and to throw into his treatment the charms of style and color, and the allurements of incident and romance. The chief features that will recommend the FIRST LESSONS are: 1. Its plain yet picturesque style, and the skill with which "simplicity and sense are combined in the treatment. 2. The care in the historical perspective, by which only the "salient points "are brought out, and these with such fullness as to produce distinct and lasting impressions. 3. The convenient arrangement of easy yet suggestive questions in the margin, giving plain and ready reference to both teacher and pupil. 4. The clustering of events round the great central facts of our history, thus aiding the memory by the power of association. 5. The easy and agreeable method of treating the history of the United States since the adoption of the Constitution-not on the ordinary plan of hinging the events on the political history of the several administrations, which makes the recitatal dry and difficult, but by bringing together such facts as are interesting and important in a series of pictorial grouping. 6. The method of plain review lessons to reiterate the leading events and secure their remembrance. 7. The beauty of mechanical execution as regards print, paper and illustrations. *THE_EDUCATIONAL REPORTER-Full of interesting and valuable Educational information, is published three times a year, bearing date respectively January, May and September, and will be sent to teachers and educa tionists, without charge, on application. Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS, 138 & 140 GRAND ST., New York. 133 & 185 STATE ST., CHICAGO. The American Educational Serics. A STUDY FOR EVERY AMERICAN. ANALYSIS OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT. INCLUDING A CRITICAL AND TABULAR ANALYSIS OF THE Constitution of the United States, with Annotations, &c. BY CALVIN TOWNSEND, Esq. 1 vol. cloth, 12mo., 340 pages. Price, by mail, $1.50. This work is intended for use in Grammar, High and Normal Schools, Academies, and other institutions of learning. In it the subject of Civil Government, as administered in this country, is presented analytically. It is the only work published which pretends to give a lucid, topical, and tabular arrangement of the principles of our government. It is characterized by absolute freedom from all political bias, by clear and welldefined statement of fact, and above all, by the almost faultless analysis. Elements of kindred significance are grouped together in one table, under one common and appropriate title. For this purpose paragraphs, sections and clauses, whenever necessary, are severed from their original connections in the Constitution. A VERY VALUABLE ACCOMPANIMENT TO THE ANALYSIS OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT IS THE ANALYSIS OF THE CONSTITUTION. A CHART of Fifty-two pages, 15 by 20 inches each, mounted on a single roller, so as to be suspended from the wall of the school-room. By the same Author. Price $5. A copy of this CHART can be used with great interest and profit in every Teacher's Institute, and in every class-room where pupils over twelve years old are taught; and it would be invaluable as a work of reference in every lyceum, law, government and editor's office. ANALYSIS OF LETTER-WRITING. TOPICALLY AND ANALYTICALLY ARRANGED, with a large number of Model Business Letters. By CALVIN TOWNSEND, Author of "Compendium of Commercial Law," "Analysis of Civil Government," etc. 1 vol. cloth, 189 pages. Price $1.50. By mail on receipt of the price. This work does not belong to the class of books commonly known as "Model Letter Writers," but is a systematic effort to supply a text-book on a very important branch of learning. It is the first attempt that has yet been made to teach Letter Writing topically and analytically, as to form or matter, in the schools of any grade of this country. It makes no pretensions to teaching the pupil how to compose a letter; that can only be done by itself-but is rather intended as a correct guide in the matter of mechanical detail, and in the combinations of the parts of a letter. The volume is designed chiefly for the use of the pupils in Normal Schools, Business Colleges, the advanced classes of Common Schools, and for persons in Business Life. THE EDUCATIONAL REPORTER-Full of interesting and valuable Educational information, is published three times a year, bearing date respectively January, May and September, and will be sent to teachers and educationists, without charge, on application. Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS, 138 & 140 GRAND ST., New York. 133 & 135 STATE ST., CHICAGO. |
