CONTAINS THOUSANDS OF WORDS NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY OTHER DICTIONARY. FULLY ILLUSTRATED AND CONTAINS FOUR FULL-PAGE ILLUMINATED PLATES. Worcester's School Dictionaries. THE STANDARD IN SPELLING, PRONUNCIATION AND DEFINITION. WORCESTER'S DICTIONARIES Were adopted June 1st, 1886, for exclusive use in the PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF VIRGINIA. THESE DICTIONARIES CONTAIN MORE WORDS THAN ANY OTHERS OF SIMILAR GRADE. ADOPTED AND USED IN NEW YORK CITY, PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON, CAMBRIDGE, CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS, WORCESTER, LOWELL, And hundreds of cities and towns throughout the United States and Canada. Recently adopted for North Carolina and West Virginia. Used exclusively in the Boston schools. "Worcester's Dictionaries should be used by the youth of the country and adopted in the common schools."-New York Evening Post. THE STANDARD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. "In 1860, the Faculty of the University of Virginia adopted Worcester as their standard, and are now stronger than ever in their adherence to it as their standard. The following is a copy of the resolutions taken from the record of the University : "At a meeting of the Faculty of the University of Virginia, held July 7, 1860, Professor Holmes offered the following resolutions: "Resolved, That, in the opinion of this Faculty, Worcester's Dictionary affords the most reliable authority for the orthography of the English language. "Resolved, Therefore, that Worcester's Dictionary is, for the present, recognized as the standard for propriety in this respect.' They were passed." WORCESTER is generally regarded as the STANDARD AUTHORITY for the English language, and is so recommended by Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Sumner, Holmes, Irving, Winthrop, Agassiz, Marsh, Henry Everett, Mann, Stephens, Quincy, Felton, Hilliard, Memminger, and the majority of our most distinguished scholars, and is, besides, recognized as authority by the Departments of our National Governments. It is also adopted by many of the Boards of Public Instruction, and in all the large newspaper offices in the United States and England. Descriptive Catalogues, containing full lists of our educational publications sent to any address on application. J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, Publishers, 715 and 717 Market Street, Philadelphia. ANNOUNCEMENTS. Ready September 1st. White's Pedagogy. The Elements of Pedagogy. By EMERSON E. WHITE, LL.D., Superintendent of Cincinnati Public Schools. A thorough and practical discussion of the science and art of school education. For Normal Schools, Institutes, Reading Circles, and for all persons interested in education. 12mo. full cloth. Introduction price, $1.50. McGuffey's Word List. More than 10,000 words from McGuffey's Primer and Readers, arranged in lessons as found in the successive lessons in the books. Pronunciation indicated by diacritical marks; the words divided into syllables; silent letters cancelled and accented syllables marked 16mo.; 80 pp. Introduction and Sample Copy price, 10 cents. Eclectic Language Lessons. By M. E. THALHEIMER, author of Histories. Designed to accustom children to a correct use of the elementary forms of speech, with as little reference as possible to the technicalities of grammar. Profusely illustrated. Full cloth; 12mo. Introduction and Sample Copy price, 35 cents. Exchange price, 20 cents. New Catalogue. Free to teachers and school officers. Messrs. Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co.'s new, complete descriptive catalogue is now ready. It is illustrated with portraits of Drs. McGuffey, Ray, White, Harvey, Holbrook, Schuyler, Ridpath, and Milne, authors of the text-books of the Eclectic Educational Series. Sent gratis to any teacher or school officer on application. OTHER RECENT PUBLICATIONS. Single Specimen Copies for examination, with a view to first introduction, will be sent post-paid on receipt of the introduction price annexed. Ray's Arithmetic Tablets. Numbers 1 to 8, per dozen. Long's Language Exercises, Part II.. Long's Language Exercises, Teacher's Edition, including Parts I and II.. Long's Language Exercises, Part III. White's Oral Lessons in Number $1.00 Murdoch's Plea for Spoken Language. Murdoch's Analytic Elocution. Kidd's New Elocution... Send for our Proposition of Exchange and Introduction Rates. Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., Publishers, 137 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, O. 28 Bond Street, New York. THE FOLLOWING BOOKS, PUBLISHED BY A. S. BARNES & CO., are in satisfactory use in a large number of the counties and cities of the State-viz: DAVIES & PECK'S BRIEF ARITHMETIC, Special Wholesale Price .50 DAVIES & PECK'S COMPLETE ARITHMETIC, .75 .20 WATSON'S INDEPENDENT PRIMARY READER, .18 .35 .50 .63 .90 55 MONTEITH'S COMPREHENSIVE GEOGRAPHY (Va, Sp.), 1.10 These books are the products of fifty years' experience in the publishing business and making of School books. They Are Excelled by None and Equalled by Few. They are giving eminent satisfaction where used. According to the recent action of the State Board of Education these Books are permitted to be used during the next four years. Although not under any agreement to do so, the publishers have determined to offer these books at their Wholesale Prices In the State of Virginia. Teachers and scholars who are unable to obtain them at these prices are requested to address their orders direct to the publishing house, enclosing price of book wanted, as per above list, and the book will be forwarded postpaid. For Catalogues and Price-Lists of over three hundred educational books, address A. S. Barnes & Co., Nos. 111 & 113 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK. To County and City Superintendents and Trustees of Schools. Spencerian Copy-Books and Webster's Dictionaries. THE NATIONAL STANDARDS. THE SPENCERIAN COPY-BOOKS are used in SEVENTY-SEVEN COUNTIES OF VIRGIINA, and are far more generally in use throughout the United States than any other series in existence. It is universally conceded that the Spencerian System has created the American Standard of Penmanship. No other copy-books furnish such excellent INSTRUCTION TO TEACHERS. No other copy-books furnish such practice in SUPPLEMENTARY WRITING. WEBSTER'S DICTIONARIES ARE UNIVERSALLY USED IN VIRGINIA, and throughout the country the annual sale of Webster is more than twenty times that of any other dictionary. The State Board of Education Does not Demand a Change. "The policy adopted by the Board of Education does not necessitate changes of text-books in any county or city of the State, but leaves the question to be determined by the county and city schoo! boards. Counties and cities having other books than those on the prescribed list CAN CONTINUE IN USE ONE OR EVERY ONE OF THE BOOKS THEY NOW HAVE."-From Instructions of State Superintendent, dated June 1st, 1886. Prices to Pupils as Low as any other Corresponding Books. Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., 753-755 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. |