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No. 2.-WILLSON'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED

States. 75 cents.

Commencing with the discovery of America, and brought down to the middle of the Nineteenth century. The work presents the following claims to public favor:-1st, superior accuracy; 2d, chronological arrangement of dates, wholly in new style; 3d, illustrative maps and charts, and copious Geographical Notes, exhibiting to the eye, and describing all important localities referred to: 4th, convenient Marginal Arrangement of the Questions. An Appendix contains the Constitution of the United States with Explanatory Notes, abridg ed from the author's work on "Civil Polity," or Constitutional Law.

Willson's History of the United States has been introduced into the Public Schools of New York City, the Normal School in Albany, the Public Schools in Newark, Brooklyn, Rochester, Buffalo, Cincinnati and St. Louis, &c, as well as in great numbers of Male and Female Academies and Seminaries in all parts of the country. During the first year of its publication, fourteen thousand copies were sold.

From the numerous recommendations and notices of the work, the Publishers select the following:

"Burlington, N. J., 11th mo. 6th, 1845. "Willson's F'istory of the United States for the use of Schools, I have read through with peculiar satisfaction. If any other book, compiled for the same purpose, equals it in combining brevity with clearness of detail, impartiality with a manly regard for national interests, elevation or style with the simplicity due to youth, and especially geography with history, I am not acquainted with it.

"The writer seems to be imbued with a just perception of the wants of the scholar and the facilities due to the teacher.

"JNO. GRISCOM."

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Stone Altar found at Copan, six feet square and four feet high. No. 3.-WILLSON'S AMERICAN HISTORY. School Edition. 12mo. $1 50. Library Edition. 8vo. $2 00.

School Edition and University Edition, comprising Book I.-Historical Sketches of the Indian Tribes, with a Description of American Antiquities, and an Inquiry into their Origin, and the Origin of the Indian Tribes. Book II-History of the United States, (same as the above,) with Appendices additional, showing, Ist.: our Relations with European History during our Colonial existence; an Account of the Reformation, History of the Puritan Sects, &c.; 2d, An Account of Parties in England during our Revolution, and the European Wars in which England was involved by that Cor est; 3d, An Examination of the Character, Tendency and Influence of our National Government, and an Historical Sketch of 'he Parties that divided the Country from the close of the Revolution to the termination of the Second War with England. Book III, Part 1.-History of the present British Provinces, from their Early Settlement by the French to the present time, comprising History of the Canadas, of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, Prince Edward's Island, New Brunswick and Newfoundland. Also, the Early History of Louisiana. Part 2.-History of Mexico, from the Conquest by Cortez, to the commencement of the War with the United States in 1846. Pari 3.-History of Texas, from the time of its discovery by La Salle in 1684, to the time of its admission into the American Union in 1845. Appendix.-Sketch of the Mexican War. One vol. large octavo. 706 pages.

Book 1. contains Plans and Drawings of all the principal Mounds and Ruins known to exist in our own territory, and in other portions of the Continent. The results of Stephen's Travels in Central America and Yucatan are succinctly given; and copies of the most interesting drawings, made by Mr. Catherwood, have been engraved expressly for this work.

NOTICE.

From the Madison Banner, Indiana.

"It ontains a very large quantity of matter, and is decidedly better adapted for Schools and Academies than any other history of the American Continent. It will also prove invaluable to all persons and classes as a book of reference. Indeed, we have never perused any historical work with more satisfaction, interest, and delight."

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From the Cincinnati Herald.

The best compendium on the subject we have ever seen."

From the Brooklyn Eagle, N. Y.

"We have little but commendation to bestow on this handsome, neatly-printed work." From the Cincinnati Chronicle.

"We commend this book to the public as one of universal interest."

From the New York Tribune.

"The most succinct and comprehensive history of America that has fallen under our notice."

No. 4.-WILLSON'S OUTLINES OF GENERAL Now first published, Aug. 1854. School Edition. 600 pages. Octavo. $1 25.

History.

University Edition. 850 pages. Octavo. $2 00.

The Publishers submit to Teachers, Superintendents of Schools, &c., “WILLSON'S OUTLINES OF GENERAL HISTORY," with the confident belief that it will commend itself to them as deci ledly superior to any other work on the same subject.

The SCHOOL EDITION of the Outlines embraces 600 octavo pages-extending from the earliest Historic periods to the year 1852. In Grecian and Roman History, the line fixed by historical criticism is drawn between the uncertain and legendary, and the authentic. The results of the investigations of those able modern writers, Thirlwall, Grote, Niebuhr, and Arnold, are given-and the authorities on all disputed points of general interest are cited.

A prominent characteristic of the work is its UNITY OF PLAN, which is preserved throughout, the attention of the reader being confined chiefly to those nations whose successive history has exerted a marked influence on the civilization of mankind. Thus we have, after a brief notice of the early Ages, the History of Greece, until that country, and all the nations around the Mediterranean, are absorbed in the overshadowing power of the Roman Empire;-then the Roman WORLD until the dissolution of the Western Empire; then succeeds the gloomy period of the Middle Ages, but marked, in regular succession, by the mighty colossus of Saracen dominion, the Feudal system, Chivalry, and the Crusades; the period closing with the discovery of America, and the dawn of a brighter future. The several succeeding centuries are also so marked by prominent and mostly successive events as to render considerable unity of narrative easily attainable; --the Sixteenth by the Age of Henry VIII, and Charles V., and the Age of Elizabeth— the Seventeenth by the Thirty Years' War, the Eng ish Revolution, and the Wars of Louis XIV. The Eighteenth by the War of the Spanish Succession, Peter the Great of Russia and Charles XII, of Sweden, the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War, the American Revolution, and the French Revolution-the Nineteenth by the Wars of Napoleon; the Peace, and Reforms, which followed; and the still recent Revolutions which have converted Europe into a great Battle Ground for Freedom.

The STYLE in which the work is written will be found to be chaste, vigorous and elevated-the PROPER NAMES are so accentuated, especially in Grecian and Roman History, that the student will readily form the habit of their correct pronunciation; instead of questions, a full ANALYSIS precedes each chapter or section; nearly eight hundred GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES illustrate and explain whatever is essential to the full elucidation of the text; and eighteen HISTORICAL MAPS, of the full size of the page, are found at the close of the volume, with each, an accompanying page of explanatory matter. The Historical Maps are, 1st, Ancient Greece; 24, Athens and its Harbors; 3d, Islands of the Egean Sea;, 4th, Asia Minor; 5th, Persian Empire in its greatest extent; 6th, Palestine, or the Holy Land; 7th, Turkey in

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Europe, with the Bosphorus; 8th, Ancient Italy; 9th, Roman Empire in its greatest extent; 10th, Ancient Rome; 11th, the World at the time of the discovery of America; 12th, Battle Grounds of Napoleon; 13th, France, Spain, and Portugal, with the divisions best known in History; 14th, Switzerland in Cantons, and the Countries around the Baltic; 15th, the Netherlands, (now Holland and Belgium;) 16th, Great Britain; 17th, Central Europe; 18th, United States and their Territories. These maps are neatly colored in both editions of the History.

It is confidently believed that no School History hitherto published has been prepared with greater care, or more judicious adaptation to the wants of the student.

The UNIVERSITY EDITION of the Outlines contains the School edition" complete, and also an additional part of 250 pages, called the "Philosophy of History;" the whole forming a large and hand-oine octavo of 850 pages. The subjects treated of in the 12 chapters of this part of the work, are, 1st, The Antediluvian World, with its geological history. &c.; 2d, Early Egyptian, Assyrian, and Babylonian Civilization; 3d, Character and extent of Civilization during the Fabulous period of Grecian History; 4th, during the uncertain period of Grecian History; 5th, The Glory and the Fall of Greece; 6th, 7th, and 8th, Regal, Republican, and Imperial Rome; 9th, the Middle Ages; 10th, the Reformation; 11th, The English Revolution; 12th, The French Revolution.

The design of this additional part to the "Outlines" is to show the advanced Student-not that this World's History is "a mighty maze without a plan"-but that the great events in its drama-the rise, growth, and decay of its mighty Empires-its great political, moral, and intellectual Revolutionary changes, and the varying phases of its civilization, lie along an unbroken chain of causes and effects that have in great part been developed by the profound researches of a Gibbon, a Hallam, a Niebuhr, an Arnold, a Sismondi, a Grote, and a Guizot, of whose labors our author has freely availed himself. These closing chapters of the work exhibit great extent of research; and although they condense a great amount of matter within a small compass, it is believed they will compare favorably, in point of style and interest, with the best Historical articles in the English Reviews.

From many highly favorable notices of Willson's Outlines of History, we select the following:

From the New York Commercial Advertiser.

"We have examined the volume with some care, and find it unusually accurate, and admirably adapted to the use of schools. Mr. Willson has not adopted the easy method of copying from Rollin and other previous compilers, but has prepared his work from the best sources-from the writings of Thirlwall, Grote, Niebuhr, Arnold, and other historians of the highest reputation."

From the Religious Herald (Hartford).

"A valuable text book of history, designed for the higher class of schools and for colleges. The author is well known by his United States ffistory, which is so extensively used in the common schools. The present work, modest in pretension but solid in worth, appears to be well adapted to the wants of the student.""

From the Christian Intelligencer.

"Our literature in the department of History is here enriched by a most valuable addition. The author has embodied the results of the best riters, grouping together the main subjects of history, so as to present them, as much as possible, in one com plete view to the reader; and, in this way, to fasten them on the memory, instead of descending to such minuteness of detail as would have a contrary effect. The work, while admirably adapted to teachers and schools, for whose se it seems to have been designed, is worthy the attention of the general reader."

Fn the N. Y. Tribune.

"It forms a useful book of reference, as well as a manual for instruction, comprising the results of the latest investigations by the best modern scholars, especially Thirl wall and Grote in Grecian, and Niebuhr and Arnold in Roman History."

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No. 5.-WILLSON'S COMPREHENSIVE CHART of American History. $6.

This is a neatly-engraved Chart of American History; colored, varnished, and mounted on rollers, and measuring nearly five feet by six. It is arranged on a plan essentially different from any other historical chart; and yet it is so simple, that an intelligent child can understand it. It embraces the History of all the Countries, Colonies, States, and Provinces of North America, from their first discovery and settlement down to the present time.

The following, selected from numerous commendatory notices of the Chart, are submitted to the attention of those interested in the cause of education:

NOTICES.

From Nath. Cross, Prof. of Languages in the University of Nashville, Tenn. "Nashville, Feb. 1847. "Willson's Chart of the United States I consider superior to anything of the kind I have seen. It is comprehensive without being confused, and the plan and arrangements simple, and therefore easily understood.

"In the hands of an intelligent teacher, I should suppose that no device could be better to convey to the pupils in our Cominon and Elementary Schools a complete knowledge of their country."

From the Hon. Wm. A. Walker, M. C., formerly Superintendent of Common Schools for the city and county of New York.

"It is to the study of History precisely what a map is to the and the writer considers one quite as necessary as the other. Chart, the undersigned verily believes that as much might be month, as by present means in a year."

study of Geography; With the use of the taught to a class in a

From Charles Bartlett, Esq., Principal of the Poughkeepsie Collegiate School. "This is a splendid Chart, most admirably adapted to the purposes for which it was designed; and I believe that an individual or a class, aided by it, would obtain more available knowledge of American History in one month than could be obtained without it in six months. This Chart ought to find a place in every Academy and Common School in the United States."

CLARK'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

A concise

History of England, from the Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of Queen Victoria. Written on a new plan, with particular reference to Chronology and Facts. By W. Clark, Esq. Edited, with Additions and Questions, by Prof. J. C. Moffat, of Princeton College. 362 pages. 75 cents.

From the New York Evangelist.

"Just what it purports to be-a concise, clear, and methodical outline of English history, well adapted for school purposes and for young readers. It gives an eas, narrative, and condenses all the principal facts in a way to convey much instruction, and at the same time to excite a desire for larger works."

Upon its own merits it has been introduced into several of the best schools in New York City, into the Brooklyn Female Academy, Asbury Female College, New Albany, Ind., Hughes' High School, Cincinnati; and it is commended in strong terms by Edward Cooper, Esq., late Editor of the N. Y. District School Journal; and also by Prof. J. S. Hart, Principal of Philadelphia High School.

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