436 LITERATURE, AMERICAN, AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1875. 



Word-Pictures. Thoughts and Descriptions from 

 Popular Authors. (Lothrop.) 



doing West ; or, The Perils of a Poor Boy. By 

 Oliver Optic. (Lee & Shepard.) 



Young Rick. By Julia A. Eastman. (Lothrop.) 



Brought to the Front ; or, The Young Defenders. 

 By Elijah Kellogg. (Lee & Shepard.) 



'Hymns and Khymes for Home and School, collect- 

 ed by Mrs. S. C. Guild. (Nicholas & Hill, Boston.) 



The Nursery Eattle for Little Folks. By Anne 

 Huber. Twelve Chromo Illustrations. (Lippincott.) 



SCHOOL TEXT-BOOKS. It is to be presumed 

 that the supply of these is regulated by the de- 

 mand, economically considered, but how far 

 the demand is artificially created admits of a 

 question. Among the numerous and compet- 

 ing manuals of instruction, there are enough 

 of a high order to justify the belief that on the 

 whole the tests of success in teaching are be- 

 come more exacting. An indication that the 

 art of teaching itself is felt to be in need of ex- 

 press cultivation is given in the publication of 

 "The Teachers.' Handbook for the Institute and 

 the Qlass-Room," by William F. Phelps, M. A. 

 (Barnes). The interest that is felt in the study 

 of the Greek and Latin classics is apparent in 

 the thorough editing of the text-books provided 

 for the student, of which the following are ex- 

 amples : 



A Method of Instruction in Latin ; being a Com- 

 panion and Guide in the Study of Latin Grammar. 

 By J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough. (Ginn Bros., 

 Boston.) 



Selections from the Poems of Ovid, chiefly Meta- 

 morphoses. (Same editors and publishers.) 



Latin Composition. By J. H. and W. F. Allen, 

 and J. B. Greenough. (Ginn.) 



Preparatory Latin Course. Nos. 1 and 2. (Same 

 editors and publishers.) 



The Select Orations of Lysias. Edited by James 

 Morris Whiton, Ph. D. (Ginn.) 



A Latin Primer. By B. L. Gildersleeve. (Uni- 

 versity Publishing Company.) 



Latin Reader. (Same author and publishers.) 



A New and Concise Method of Reciting Latin 

 Verbs. Adapted to any Latin Grammar. By Martin 

 Bahler, A. M. (Dennis & Co., Newark, N. J.) 



The Satires of A. Persius Flaccus. Edited by B. 

 L. Gildersleeve, Ph.D., LL. D., Professor in Uni- 

 versity of Virginia. (Harpers. ) 



The Germania, Agricola, and Dialogus de Oratori- 

 busj of Tacitus. With Explanatory Notes by Prof. 

 George Stuart. (Eldridge, Philadelphia.) 



The Oration of Demosthenes on the Crown, with 

 Extracts from the Oration of JEschines against Cte- 

 siphon, and Explanatory Notes. By Martin L. 

 D'Ooge, Ph. D., Professor of Greek, University of 

 Michigan. (Griggs, Chicago.) 



Some of the text-books for the study of 

 modern languages deserve like commendation : 



German Classics for American Students. Vol. I. 

 Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea. Edited, with an 

 Introduction, Commentary, etc., by Prof. James 

 Mwgan Hart. Vol. II. Schiller's Die Piccolomini. 

 Edited by Prof. Hart. (Putnams.) 



A First German Book. By Charles A. Schlegel, 

 Trotessor of Modern Languages in the Normal Col- 

 lege, City of New York. (L. W. Schmidt.) 



Introductory German Eeader. By Dr. Emil Otto. 

 With Notes and Vocabulary by Edward S. Joynes, 

 A., Professor in Washington and Lee Univer- 

 sity, Virginia. (Holt.) 



German Grammar. A Text-Book for the Practi- 

 cal Study of the German Language. By J. Adolph 



Schmidt, A. M., and Hermann J. Schmidt. (Lip- 

 pincott.) 



The Rudiments of German Etymology. A Neces- 

 sary Appendix to Every German Class-Book. By 

 Henry Klein, A. M. (M. Taylor, Buffalo, N. Y.) 



Introduction to Anglo-Saxon. By Stephen H. 

 Carpenter. (Ginn, Boston.) 



An Illustrated Child's First Book in French. By 

 Professor Jean Gustave Keetels. (Clark & May nard. ) 



French Children at Home. An Introduction to 

 " Comment on parle a Paris." By Madame de 

 Peyrao. (D. Appleton & Co.) 



A Practical Course with the Spanish Language. 

 On Woodbury's Plan with German. By H. M. Mon- 

 santo, A. M., and Louis A. Languellier, LL. D. 

 (Ivison.) 



Text-books in science engage the ability 

 and zeal of some of the most successful scien- 

 tific investigators, and the skill of instructors 

 in our highest institutions : 

 ^ The Geological Story Briefly Told. An Introduc- 

 tion to Geology for the General Keader and for Be- 

 ginners in the Science. By James D. Dana, LL. D. 

 (Ivison.) 



First Book of Zoology. By Edward S. Morse, Ph. 

 D., formerly Professor of Comparative Anatomy and 

 Zoology of Bowdoin College. (D. Appleton & Co.) 



Class-Book of Chemistry. By Professor E. L. 

 Youmans. Revised. (D. Appleton & Co.) 



The Text-Book of Human Physiology. By Austin 

 Flint, Jr., .M. D. (D. Appleton & Co.) 



Elements of Zoology. A Text-Book. By San- 

 born Tenney, Professor of Natural History m Wil- 

 liams College. (Scribner.) 



Manual of Introductory Chemical Practice, for the 

 Use of Students in Colleges, and in Normal and High 

 Schools. By George C. Caldwell, S. B.. Ph. D., 

 Professor ot Agriculture and Analytical Chemistry, 

 and A. A. Brennan, S. B., Assistant Professor of Ap- 

 plied Chemistry of Cornell University. (Finch & 

 Apgar, Ithaca.) 



The following works in the departments of 

 literature, ethics, and politics, are noticeable : 



Christian Ethics; or, The True Moral Manhood 

 and Life of Duty. A Text-Book for Schools and 

 Colleges. By I). S. Gregory, D. D. (Eldridge, 

 Philadelphia.) 



Manual of English Rhetoric. By A. S. Hepburn, 

 Professor in Davidson College, North Carolina. 

 (Wilson, Hinkle & Co., Cincinnati.) 



Representative Names in the History of English 

 Literature. By Horace H. Morgan. (Ginn.) 



Practical Ethics for Schools and Families. By 

 Matilda Fletcher. (Barnes.) 



Text-Book of Poetry, from Wordsworth, Cole- 

 ridge, Burns, Beattie, Goldsmith, and Thomson. 

 With Sketches of the Poets' Lives, Notes, and Glos- 

 saries. For Use in Schools and Classes. By the 

 Rev. H. N. Hudson. (Ginn.) 



A Shorter Course on Civil Government. By Caleb 

 Townsend. (Ivison.) 



In arithmetic andthe mathematics generally 

 the number of new claimants for the favor of 

 teachers was less than usual : 



First Lessons in Numbers. By William G. Peck 

 LL. D. (Barnes.) 



Manual of Algebra. (Same author and publisher.) 



A Junior Class Arithmetic, Oral and Written. By 

 Daniel W. Fish. (Ivison.) 



First Book in Arithmetic. Complete Arithmetic. 

 (Same author and publisher.) 



Algebraic Problems. Arithmetical Problems. 

 (Ivison.) 



Complete Algebra. A Practical Work so graded 

 as to meet the Wants of Both Elementary and High 



