D. APPLETON & CO'S EDUCATIONAL PUBLICATIONS. Notice to Teachers and Students. WE would invite your attention to the accompanying List of COLLEGE AND SCHOOL TEXT-BOOKS, which we are sanguine are of a very high order of merit. The books for instruction in Greek and Latin are chiefly the production of THOMAS K. ARNOLD, a man most distinguished for learning, intelligence, and experience as a teacher. He has introduced in his "First and Second Latin Books," and in his "First Greek Book" and "Greek Reading Book," an entirely new and admirable method of learning the Grammar of these languages. In them the Grammar is studied as a means of expressing one's own thoughts, as well as for a key to those of others; and the students are required, at the first lesson, to exercise themselves in Latin and Greek composition. A "Greek Ollendorff" has just been prepared by Professor KENDRICK, which consists of a progressive exhibition of the principles of the Greek Grammar. It is fitted to precede the use of the Grammar, and to fix in the minds of youth those many minute points of the language which are absolutely necessary to its thorough and successful acquisition. Next succeed the books of "Latin Prose Composition" and "Greek Prose Composition," which are intended to make the student more perfect and accomplished in his earlier exercises, and to acquaint him with the higher beauties of these noble languages. To these have been added new editions of LIVY, TACITUS, HORACE, CESAR, and CICERO, which the student is now capable of reading with ease and pleasure. The results which have followed the use of these Text-Books in this country and England, and the adoption of this method of learning these languages, have been of the most successful and gratifying kind. The progress of the student is rapid and thorough; and his earlier studies, instead of being an irksome task, are an entertainment to him. In this country, the French, German, Italian, and Spanish are, largely, both spoken and written languages; and the intercourse between these nations and ourselves is rapidly increasing. It is to furnish a method by which the student may be enabled, quickly and with ease, to read and speak thein, that the books of OLLENDORFF on these languages, in this Catalogue, have been prepared. With him, it is a principle that only a slender knowledge of specific Grammar is required to read and speak a modern language-as a child who both reads and speaks a language knows nothing of Grammar. This has been steadily followed in the preparation of the "New Method of Learning French," the "New Method of Learning German," the "New Method of Learning Italian," and the New Method of Learning Spanish,;" and the success which has attended the use of these books has been most triumphant. Each of these OLLENDORFFS is accompanied with a "Progressive Reader," that is designed to assist the student to a more complete attainment and appreciation of those polished and flexible languages. The French and English Dictionary," the "German Dictionary of ADLER," and the "Spanish Dictionary," are the works of eminent scholars, and have been prepared after a careful revision of the latest and best editions. In the list of English works, the one entitled "BOJESEN and ARNOLD's Manual of Grecian and Roman Antiquities," possesses more than ordinary value. Much less voluminous than either POTTER'S Grecian or Roman Antiquities, it yet contains all that is of primary importance in relation to the numerous habits, institutions, arts, and accomplishments of these great and glorious nations. In this connection we ought likewise to mention TAYLOR'S "Manual of Modern and Ancient History;" one of the most valuable and instructive works, concerning the subjects which it comprehends, that can be found in the whole department of historical literature. Akin to this is GREEN 8" History and Geography of the Middle Ages." The recent works in the list, entitled "PUTZ and ARNOLD'S Manual of Ancient Geography and History," of "Medieval Geography and History;" and of " Modern Geography and History," are an exceedingly full, systematic, and well arranged view of the political, civil, social, and religious state of the world in former periods, and of the most authentic character. As Text-Books for students, there are none in the possession of the public which are so well adapted, as these which we have named, to unfold the philosophy of history, or to implant in their minds its leading principles. Perhaps there is not in this entire collection, any thing so simple and so scientific as the series of Reading Books by Professor MANDEVILLE. It is not a mere collection of " Pieces in Prose and Verse," like the Reading Books in common use; but the series is prepared upon the principle that the English language consists of a few classes of sentences to which the whole can be reduced. When the pupil is once instructed in the manner of reading and delivering these few classes of sentences, he will be able ever after, at once, to read forcibly, distinctly, and impressively, any thing in the language. The "Primary, Elementary, Practical, and Higher Arithmetic," "Elementary Geometry and Algebra," and "Plane Trigonometry and Land Surveying," by PERKINS, are the works of an accomplished mathematician, who has aimed to instruct the youth to rely, as far as possible, upon the operations of his own mind, in his calculations. To these we might add "QUACKENBOS'S "First Lessons in English Composition," one of the most popular books of the day; and "LATHAM'S Hand-Book of the English Language" (JUST READY), an important aid to all students of our native tongue. ARNOLD'S First and Second Latin Book and Practical Grammar. First Latin Book. By Harkness. 12mo...... Latin Prose Composition. By Spencer. 12mo..... By 80 75 First Greek Book. By Spencer. New Edition, Revised... - Second Greek Prose Composition. By Spencer. 12mo. BOISE'S Exercises in Greek Prose Composition. 12mo...... CESAR'S Commentaries. Notes by Spencer. 12mo.... CICERO. De Officiis. Notes by Thatcher. 12mo... Select Orations. Notes by Johnson. 12mo.... Tusculan Disputations. By Arnold. 12mo...... KUHNER'S Elementary Greek Grammar. By Profs. Edwards and Taylor. 12mo. KENDRICK'S Greek Ollendorff. 12mo....... HORACE. With Notes, &c., by Lincoln. 12mo... HARKNESS'S New Latin Reader. 12mo.. SALLUST. With Notes by Butler. 12mo...... 75 1 00 1 00 75 75 75 1 25 75 62 1 00 90 1 00 1 00 1 25 TACITUS'S Histories. Notes by Tyler. 12mo..... LIVY. With Notes, &c., by Lincoln. 12mo. Map.... Germania and Agricola. Notes by do. XENOPHON'S Memorabilia. Notes by Prof. Robbins. A New Edition. 12mo..... 2.00 |