the
usual branches of study in our Common Schools outside of cities and
towns; none can so well appreciate the difficulties which have
surrounded this subject as the teacher. Another cause which has
precluded the study of History has been the high price of all the
text-books on this subject. The very low price of the present treatise
will obviate this difficulty. The author of this compend, a man of large
experience in the schoolroom, deserves the thanks of teachers and
scholars, for the concise and succinct form which he has treated this
much neglected subject; ignoring all that does not properly appertain to
the important events of our Nation's existence, he has given us all that
should be memorized, and in so agreeable a form as to be thoroughly
mastered with but little effort.

With this book in his hand, the scholar can in a single school-term
obtain as complete a knowledge of the History of the United States as
has heretofore required double the time and effort.

Teachers who are anxious to have their pupils proficient in this
subject, or who are themselves desirous of reviewing the main points of
History in order to pass a creditable examination, will find this _the
book for their purposes_, and it will commend itself to the _live
teacher as a book long needed_. The want of such a work suggested its
preparation, and we are satisfied that in every schoolroom its advent
will be welcomed by both teacher and pupil.

The unprecedented success which has attended this work since its
publication is the best recommendation of its merits, more than _Twenty
Thousand Copies_ having been sold during the past year. It is indorsed
by prominent educators, is used in over fifty Normal Schools, and in
hundreds of cities, towns, and townships throughout the entire country.
Teachers, Directors, and all others interested in Elementary Education
are invited to examine the book.

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PARKER'S GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

Based upon an Analysis of the English Sentence. With copious Examples
and Exercises in Parsing and the Correction of False Syntax, and an
Appendix, containing Critical and Explanatory Notes, and Lists of
Peculiar and Exceptional Forms. For the use of Schools and Academies,
and those who write. By Wm. Henry Parker, Principal of Ringgold Grammar
School, Philadelphia. Price by mail, postpaid, $1.25.

Prepared by a GRAMMAR SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, and arranged in the manner that