TO PARENTS, TEACHERS, SCHOOL COMMITTEES, AND ALL OTHERS INTERESTED IN THE CAUSE OF THE subscribers respectfully solicit attention to the following Catalogue of School Books, and other works auxiliary to the cause of general education. At a great expense of care, time, and capital, they have succeeded in forming a series of School Books, which, it is believed, may fairly challenge competition with those of any other publishing house in the country. It has been an object with them to secure the aid of the best authors and teachers in the preparation of these works; and they have spared no expense in rendering the mechanical execution of each work in some measure worthy of the matter which it contains. Indeed, it has been a favourite design with them to introduce a superior style of printing, engraving, paper, and binding for School Books, believing as they do, that the usefulness of the works is as much enhanced by their accuracy, as the interest which the pupils take in them is increased by their neatness and beauty. The engravings on steel and on wood which adorn some of the volumes, have been executed by some of our best engravers, and are by no means discreditable to their talents. [ii] As all the works are stereotyped, their accuracy is insured; since any trifling error which may escape notice in a first edition, is easily corrected in the stereotype plates before a second is issued. The series of School Histories; comprising the Histories of Greece, Rome, and England, the Outlines of Sacred History, and the Sacred History of the Deluge, are considered particularly worthy of attention. A careful examination of these books will show them to be well suited to the use of schools. Their embellishments are executed in a beautiful style; and the tables, questions, and other explanatory and illustrative matter, render them unusually convenient for teachers, and improving for scholars. The recommendations of teachers and reviewers of public journals contained in the catalogue, will show the estimation in which they are held by literary men, and the extent to which they have been introduced in the schools of our country. In order to complete this series of school histories, the subscribers have now in preparation a History of the United Statcs, and a General History. The small volume of Guy and Keith on Astronomy and the Use of the Globes, is a very popular work. It has been found the most elegant and convenient compend of astronomical science hitherto prepared for the use of schools. The recommendations of this work are respectfully offered to the notice of the public. Bridge's Algebra is also gaining a very high repute, from its accuracy and the beautifully clear and concise method which the author pursues. It is a favourite book with pupils, on account of its being perfectly intelligible and interesting. It renders a somewhat abstruse science quite attractive to young minds. The Scientific Class Book is perhaps the most valuable publication on the list. It comprises in two moderately sized volumes all the subjects of natural science studied in schools and academies, and several subjects highly useful and interesting which have not hitherto been embraced in the course of instruction at school. Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Metallurgy, Mineralogy, Crystallography, Geology, Oryctology, and Meteorology, are here treated at sufficient length for the purposes of liberal education; and in the volume which is now in preparation, Physiology and the several departments of Zoology will be fully treated. A uniform and well executed course on these important subjects has hitherto been a desideratum. It is believed, and the testimonials submitted in the catalogue support the belief, that the volumes now offered leave nothing further to be desired in the way of text books for a thorough course of school instruction on natural science. For particular notices of the other School Books comprised in the subscribers' list, the reader is referred to the following catalogue. Teachers and school committees, who may be desirous to examine copies of the books, are respectfully requested to call at the store of the subscribers, No. 23 Minor street, or to make application to their nearest agent. KEY & BIDDLE. CAREFULLY PREPARED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC MATERIALS, AND A COMPARISON OF THE LATEST AND BEST AUTHORITIES, AND FURNISHED WITH NOTES, REFERENCES, QUES- VALUABLE SCHOOL-BOOKS PUBLISHED BY KEY & BIDDLE. PINNOCK'S ENGLAND. THIRD AMERICAN, FROM THE TWENTY-THIRD LONDON EDITION. PINNOCK'S IMPROVED EDITION OF DR. GOLDSMITH'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the death of George II., with a continuation to the year 1832: with Questions for examination at the end of each section; besides a variety of valuable information added throughout the work, consisting of Tables of Contemporary Sovereigns and Eminent Persons, copious Explanatory Notes, Remarks on the Politics, Manners, and Literature of the Age, and an Outline of the Constitution. Illustrated with Thirty Engravings on Wood. Third American, corrected and revised from the Twenty-third English Edition. RECOMMENDATIONS. MESSRS. KEY & BIDDLE, Philadelphia, Oct. 20, 1834. Gentlemen-Be pleased to accept my thanks for the favour you have done me in sending a copy of your neat and attractive edition of Pinnock's Goldsmith's England. It appears to me to have been sedulously prepared for the purpose which it professes to subserve-that of a convenient manual for schools and academies. By the questions and tabular views at the ends of the several chapters, the scholar will be able to test his own acquisitions, and to embrace at a glance an important collection of facts, in regard to the history and biography of the period of which he has been reading. These land-marks for the memory serve to raise a host of reminiscences, all interesting to the diligent and inquiring student.-With my wishes for the success of the work, accept the assurances of the high respect with which I sub scribe myself, Your obedient servant, WALTER R. JOHNSON, Professor of Mechanics and Natural Philosophy in the Franklin Institute. 1 |