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LITEKATUKE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1877. 



Our Home Birds. By Ella R. Church. (Amer- 

 ican Baotist Publication Co.) 



Out-Doors at Long Look. By Edward Abbott. 

 Illustrated with Original Silhouettes by Helen Ma- 

 ria Hinds. (Noyes, Snow & Co.) 



Poems in Company with Children. By Mrs. S. M. 

 B. Piatt. (Lothrop.) 



Leedle Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems. By 

 Charles F. Adams. (Lee & Shepard.) 



Good Times. By Favorite Authors. (Lo- 

 throp.) 



JIappy Hours for Boys. By Favorite American 

 Authors and Artists. (Companion volume) Happy 

 Hours for Girls. (Lothrop.) 



TEXT-BOOKS. Those who have school-books 

 to purchase complain, and not without reason, 

 of their multiplication. But it is impossible 

 that knowledge should be advanced in all de- 

 partments of investigation, and the science or 

 art of teaching itself be progressive, without 

 requiring better instruments of teaching. Nov- 

 elty is not always improvement, but improve- 

 ment implies a superseding of the old by 

 the new. Among the more noticeable works 

 of this description may be mentioned in the 

 departments of physical science and its appli- 

 cations: Weisbach's " Manual of the Mechan- 

 ics of Engineering and of the Construction of 

 Machines," translated by Prof. A. J. Du Bois, 

 of Yale College ; an " Elementary Treatise on 

 Physics, Experimental and Applied," trans- 

 lated and edited from Ganot's "Elements de 

 Physique " by E. Atkinson (W. Wood & Co.) ; 

 Prof. Wheeler's (of West Point) "Elementary 

 Course of Civil Engineering " (Kay & Brother, 

 Philadelphia); "A Series of Simple, Enter- 

 taining, and Inexpensive Experiments on the 

 Phenomena of Light," by Alfred M. Mayer 

 and Charles Barnard (D. Appleton & Co.) ; 

 "Elements of Descriptive Geometry, Shadows 

 and Perspective," by Edward Warren (Wiley) ; 

 and as auxiliary to such studies, " A Course in 

 Scientific German," by Harry Blake Hodges, 

 instructor in Harvard University (Ginn & 

 Heath). In ancient and modern languages : 

 " A Compendious German and English Dic- 

 tionary," by Prof. William D. Whitney, of 

 Yale (Holt) ; " Dictionary of the French Lan- 

 guage," by Gustave Masson (D. Appleton & 

 Co.) ; " An English Commentary on the Rhe- 

 sus, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, Heraclidae, 

 Supplices, and Troades of Euripides," by the 

 late Charles Anthon, LL. D. ; Dr. Anthon's 

 Livy, edited by Mr. Hugh Craig (Harpers) ; 

 " Parallel Rules of Greek and Latin Syntax " 

 (Ginn & Heath); "French Classics for Stu- 

 dents," edited by Prof. A. Gombert, eight 

 volumes (Putnams) ; " Seneca, with Notes 

 and Scripture Parallelisms," by Drs. John F. 

 Hurst and Henry C. Whiting (Harpers); "A 

 Systematic Synopsis of German Grammar," 

 by Dr. P. Henn (Steiger) ; and in the Doug- 

 lass Series of Christian, Greek, and Latin au- 

 thors: " Justyn Martyr," edited by B. L. Gil- 

 dersleeve (Harpers). There^was room for an 

 improved manual of rhetoric, and Prof. David 

 J. Hill's " Science of Rhetoric " (Sheldon) may 

 claim the merit of originality in its exposition 



of " the laws of effective discourse." In the 

 class of books for instruction in English : Chau- 

 cer's " Parlement of Foules," edited by T. R. 

 Lounsbury (Ginn & Heath) ; Shakespeare's 

 "Macbeth," edited by William J. Rolfe (Har- 

 pers); "The Classical English Reader," by 

 the Rev. Henry N. Hudson (Ginn) ; " Outlines 

 of Etymology," by S. S. Haldeman (Lippin- 

 cott) ; and Appleton's " Handbook of Ancient 

 Geography." 



Syllabus of Lectures in Anatomy and Physiology 

 for Students of the State Normal and Training 

 School at Cortland. By T. B. Stowell, A. M. (Da- 

 vis, Bardeen & Co., Syracuse, N. Y.) 



Fourteen Weeks' Course in Physiology. By J. 

 Dorman Steele, Ph.D., F. G. S. (Barnes. 



Manual of English History. By E. M. Lancaster. 

 (Barnes.) 



Thought and Expression. By S. S. Greene. (Cow- 

 perthwaite, Philadelphia.) 



Grammatical Praxis. By R. K. Buehrle. (Cow- 

 perthwaite.) 



How to Teach. A Manual of Methods for a Grad- 

 ed Course of Instruction ; also Suggestions relative 

 to Discipline and School Management. By Henry 

 Kiddle, A. M., Thomas F. Harrison, and N. A. 

 Calkins. (Van Antwerp, Brag & Co., Cincinnati.) 



Elementary Perspective. By M. J. Keller. 

 (Clarke, Cincinnati.) 



The Grammar School Speller and Definer. By E. 

 D. Farrell. (Catholic Publication Society.) 



The Accountant for Public Schools and Acade- 

 mies. By M. R. Powers, M. A. (Barnes.) 



Animal Analysis. A Method of Teaching Zool- 

 ogy. To which is added, Directions for forming a 

 School Cabinet. By Elliott Whipple, M. A. (Jan- 

 sen, McClurg & Co.) 



The Chorus Choir Instruction-Book. By A. N. 

 Johnson. (Ditson.) 



An Outline of General History. ^ By M. E. Thal- 

 heimer. (Van Antwerp, Cincinnati.) 



Elocution Simplified ; with an Appendix on Lisp- 

 ing, Stammering, and other Defects of Speech. By 

 Walter K. Fobes. With an Introduction oy Geo. M. 

 Baker. (Lee & Shepard.) 



A Complete Course in Physical and Political 

 Geography. Introductory Geography. (Harpers.) 



History of France. By John J. Anderson, Ph. D. 

 (Clark & Maynard.) 



Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War. With 

 Notes, Vocabulary, and Map. By G. K. Bartholo- 

 mew. (Van Antwerp, Brags & Co., Cincinnati.) 



Analytical Grammatical Chart of the English Lan- 

 guage. By J. Derham. (Santa Rosa, California.) 



First Lessons in Latin. By Elisha Jones, M. A. 

 (Griggs, Chicago.) 



Students' Topical History Chart-Book. By Ida 

 P. Whitcomb. (Barnes.) 



Industrial Drawing. By D. H. Mahan, LL.D. 

 Revised and Enlarged by D. F. Thompson. ('Wiley.) 



Economics ; or, The Science of Wealth. By Prof. 

 J. M. Sturtevant. (Putnams.) 



USEFUL ARTS. Between the fine and useful 

 arts the line is obscured when, as in our time, 

 there is a fine art of house furnishing, and un- 

 dreamed-of testhetic suggestions are found in 

 the contents of a china-closet. Some useful 

 inventions are intimately connected with the 

 results of scientific discovery, and some books 

 in the following list approach the border of 

 that field of knowledge : 



A Practical Treatise on Water Supply Engineer- 

 ing. By J. T. Fanning, C. E. (Van Nostrand.) 



A Treatise on the Manufacture of Perfumes and 



