don? On what subjects write? What celebrated letters publish? What of his general character? Distinguishing traits? When die ? THOMAS CHALMERS.-P. 489. When born? Where educated? Profession? What publish? Where settle ? What subsequent publications ? To what professorship appointed? To what removed in 1828? What noble stand take in 1843? What of his academic honors? When die ? JOSEPH JOHN GURNEY.-P. 494. For what distinguished? Whose son? When born? By whom early trained? Where educated? Attainments? To what sect belong? What as a speaker? What journeys take? For what object? Where go in 1837 ? What islands visit, and for what object, in 1839 ? What subsequent visits on the Continent? Object? When die His various works? In what societies chiefly interested? His benevolence? His habits? His general character ? RICHARD MANT.-P. 504. When born? Where educated? What post occupy? When die ? What publish? His poems ? HORACE SMITH.-P. 507. Whose son Of what the author? Occasion of Rejected Addresses ?" (note.) His business? Death? BERNARD BARTON.-P. 512. Where and when born? His occupation His health? Death? How now known? Character of his poetry? Private character ? EBENEZER ELLIOTT.-P. 521. For what celebrated? Where and when born? How early employed? What of his early developments? What first stimulated him? Who was his favorite author? Where enter into business? First publication? Subsequent? What called out his talent? Where spend his last years? Testimony of Montgomery? FRANCIS JEFFREY.-P. 531. Where edu cated? What profession enter? What society join in 17921 Whom there meet? When called to the bar? To whom married? Projectors of the "Edinburgh Review?" How published? Who the first editor? Who the liberal publisher? (note.) Who composed the fraternity of critics? Remarks of Stanton ? When did the first number appear? What demand for it? Greatest circulation? What of the times? What of the ability of its contributors? What of Jeffrey's part? To what post elected in 1820 In 1829? In 1830 ? When 1844? What of the influence he has enter Parliament? What publish in exerted? Who subsequent editor of the "Review ?" latter days? When die ? How employ his WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.-P. 549. When and where born? Profession? What first publish, and when? With whom form a friendship? Next condemned it? To whom married? publication? Its reception? Who Where reside? By whom there visited? Consequent appellation? What publish in 1814? How received? Opening of the "Edinburgh" article? Next publication? Whom visit in 1831? How honored in 1835 ? In 1839 ? In 1842 1 When die ? Opinions of the literary world? With whom is it absurd to compare him? What poets does he not equal? What sure test to try the merits of a poet? (note.) Lord Jeffrey's subsequent opinions? JOANNA BAILLIE.-P. 564. Whose daughter? When born? With whom contemporary? With whom reside? Her first publication? Second Third? What subsequent publications? When die? In what department of poetry did she particularly excel? Character of her miscellaneous poetry? SAMUEL ROGERS.-P. 572. Repeat Byron's lines. Where and when was Rogers born? What rare instance does he present? Education? First publication? When did the "Pleasures of Memory" appear? How received? Labor bestowed on LORD BROUGHAM.-P. 726. How distinguished? With what important subjects inseparably identified ? Whose son? When born? Where educated? In what work engaged in 1802? What drew public attention to him? When enter Parliament ? What bill introduce in 1815? How engaged in 1820? In 1823? What soon after publish? In what cause of philanthropy did he early engage? To what post elected in 1825? Of what society President? With what university connected? Speech in 1828? When appointed Lord Chancellor? Why was it not well for him to accept the appointment? When go out of office? How employed since? What works has he published? His general character ? THE END. SCHOOL PUBLICATIONS. THE UNITED STATES ARITHMETIC. THE UNITED STATES ARITHMETIC; designed for Acade mies and Schools. By William Vogdes, Professor of Mathematics in the Central High School of Philadelphia. The first 104 pages of the above-named work, embracing the rules to Compound Division inclusive, with 16 pages of miscellaneous exercises additional, are published as a FIRST PART -designed for the use of Secondary Schools and the junior classes of Grammar Schools and Academies-in a separate volume, at half the price of the whole work. A KEY to the above-named work, designed for the use of teachers, has also been published. "The United States Arithmetic" has been adopted as a class-book in the public schools of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, Lancaster, Camden, &c., and in very many highly respectable private seminaries throughout the Union. THE UNITED STATES PRIMARY ARITHMETIC. THE UNITED STATES PRIMARY ARITHMETIC. By Professor W. Vogdes-IN PRESS. RING'S 3000 EXERCISES IN ARITHMETIC. THREE THOUSAND EXERCISES IN ARITHMETIC. By David Ring, late Principal of the Female Public High School, Front street, Baltimore. Third edition, revised and corrected, with an Appendix, by W. J. Lewis. A KEY to the work, for the use of teachers, has been published. This little book is used in the public schools of Baltimore, &c., and in many private seminaries of respectable standing in various sections of the Union, and is adapted to use in connection with any treatise on arithmetic. The importance of numerous examples to insure a full understanding by the pupil of arithmetical rules, is generally conceded by teachers. Messrs. Jacob and Charles E. Abbott (the former well known as the author of those admirable books for children, the "Rollo," Lucy," and "Jonas" books, &c.,) thus express their opinion on this subject: "t is generally the object, in text-books on arithmetic, to give a sufficient number of problems, under each rule, to exemplify and illustrate the process, so that it may be fully understood by the pupil. But experience in teaching arithmetic shows us that much more than this is required. It is not enough that the pupil understands an arithmetical process, nor that he is simply able to perform it. He must become thoroughly accustomed to the perforinance of it by means of long-continued practice, until the principles involved and the methods to be pursued, in all the various modifications which may arise, become completely and permanently familiarized to the mind. It is, accordingly, found necessary, in the best institutions, to provide, in some way, a great number of examples for practice, after those contained in the text-books are exhausted." ALSOP'S ALGEBRA. A TREATISE ON ALGEBRA, in which the principles of the science are familiarly explained and illustrated by numerous examples. Designed for the use of Schools, Academies, and Colleges. By Samuel Alsop, Principal of Friends' Select School, Philadelphia. Second edition, enlarged and improved. A portion of the work, comprising Quadratic Equations, is published separately, as PART FIRST, for the use of lower classes. A KEY, for the use of teachers, has been published by E. C. & J B. The above-named work has been adopted as a text-book in Miami University, the Central High School of Philadelphia, Hartford Public High School, Haverford (Friends' Collegiate) School, &c. From Professor John Griscom, LL. D. Having long been acquainted with the reputation of the author of this work as a very successful student of the higher mathematics, both of English and foreign authors, and a skilful and faithful teacher of youth, I have looked through his "Elementary Treatise on Algebra" with no little interest. The result of the examination is a full conviction that none of the treatises before extant with which I have been acquainted, through a long course of teaching, is so well adapted as this, under the care of an intelligent master, to indoctrinate the student into a thorough acquaintance with Algebraic Analysis, and qualify him for its application to Geometry and Physics. The care manifested in the gradation of his treatise, the neatness of the solutions, and the numerous, but choice selection of questions for practice, satisfactorily prove that the author is habituated to a knowledge of the wants of students, and has arranged his work in con formity to such experience. JOHN GRISCOM. BURLINGTON, N. J., 10th mo. 23d, 1846. ALSOP'S FIRST LESSONS IN ALGEBRA. FIRST LESSONS IN ALGEBRA: designed for the use of Grammar Schools, and the lower classes in Academies. By Samuel Alsop, formerly Principal of the Friends' Select School for Boys. Philadelphia. In this work, the first principles of the science are presented in a clear and simple manner, and every thing not required for the full understanding of the subject has been omitted. The general plan pursued in the author's "Treatise on Algebra" has been followed; omitting, however, those parts which are of a more abstruse character, and on that account not adapted to primary instruction. Throughout the work, great care has been taken to illus trate every principle by numerous examples, in order to fix firmly in the mind of the pupil the general principles of the science; and it is confidently believed that that discipline of the mind which constitutes so large a part of the value of mathematical studies, and which appears to have been so generally lost sight of in the preparation of the elementary treatises on Algebra published in our country, will be found to result from the use of this little work as a text-book for young pupils. It is used as a text-book in the Public Grammar Schools of Philadelphia, in the Frimary Department of Girard College, and extensively in Academies and private Seminaries in various sections of the Union. VOGDES'S MENSURATION. AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON MENSURATION AND PRACTICAL GEOMETRY; together with numerous Problems of practical importance in Mechanics. By William Vogdes, Professor of Mathematics in the Central High School of Philadelphia, author of the United States Arithmetic. A KEY, for the use of teachers, has been published by E. C. & J. B. DEAR SIR-I have examined your Treatise on Mensuration, &c., and am fully persuaded of its excellence. The accuracy of its definitions, and the copiousness of its illustrations, make it admirably adapted to the wants of students in our elementary schools. Sincerely desiring that you may be compensated for your labour by its speedy introduction into our academies, &c., I remain, truly, yours, M. L. STOEVER, PROF. VOGDES. Prin. of the Acad. Dept. Penna. College. have given us the requisite multum in Yours, truly, Messrs. Biddle-In Vogdes's Mensuration you parvo. We shall introduce it in this institution. HERKIMER CO., N. Y., May 21, 1847. D. W. ASHBURN, Prin. L. F. Aold. MAURY'S NAVIGATION. THE TEXT-BOOK OF THE U. S. NAVY. AN ELEMENTARY, PRACTICAL, AND THEORETICAL TREATISE ON NAVIGATION. By M. F. Maury, Lieut. U. S. Navy. Third edition, much enlarged and improved. General Order, Navy Department. Maury's Navigation is hereby adopted as the text-book of the Navy. Midshipmen are therefore required to make themselves acquainted with at least so much of Mathematics, Nautical Astronomy, and the other kindred branches of Navigation as is therein contained. Professors of Mathematics and Boards for the examination of Midshipmen are charged with the execution of this order. J. Y. MASON. The above-named work has also been adopted as a text-book in the Central Public High School of Philadelphia, the High School of Baltimore, &c. [Signed] 2 |