CROSBY, NICHOLS AND COMPANY'S PUBLICATIONS. 
IMPORTANT SCHOOL BOOKS, 
PUBLISHED BY CEQSBY, HXCHOLS A ’ED CO. 
PAYS ON AND DUNTON’S PENMANSHIP. 
REVISED SERIES. 
A Complete System of Writing, in Eight Parts. With copies at the head of every 
page, in a style exactly resembling those written by the authors. 
This series of writing-books, by practical teachers who devote themselves to 
instruction in the art, is comprised in five parts, with a Supplementary Series in 
three parts, containing a Comprehensive System for Ladies, a Comprehensive Sys¬ 
tem for G-entlemen, and a Book of Forms, comprising those most in use among 
mercantile men in the different States of the Union, — a feature entirely original 
with this series. 
This system of penmanship aims to teach one thing at a time, and that thor¬ 
oughly; leading the pupil in gradual progression through the elements, until he 
acquires a beautiful and easy, and, what is of still greater importance, a legible 
hand-writing. It gives practice on the capital letters and figures, both of which 
are usually too much neglected. 
Payson and Dunton’s System of Penmanship is now used in every State in the 
Union, and has received unqualified approval from many of the best teachers in 
every State, from Maine to California. 
FRENCH TRANSLATION SELF-TAUGHT, 
OR 
FIRST BOOK ON FRENCH TRANSLATION (ON A NEW SYSTEM). 
BY 
GUILLAUME TALBOT, 
Professor of the French Language and Literature, etc. Third edition. 12mo. 
Price $1. 
u This book should be in the hands of all those who would learn to read and 
translate French in the shortest period of time possible, especially if they under¬ 
take to do so with little or no assistance from a teacher. We think the author 
does not claim too much when he says that, as a first book for translating French, 
it ‘ is greatly superior to any other grammar or translator yet published.’ It 
employs the best and most rapid method, and is the best book of the kind we are 
acquainted with. Teachers and others should examine it.” — Telegraph. 
GLEANINGS FROM THE POETS, FOR HOME AND 
SCHOOL. 
Selected by MRS. ANNA C. LOWELL, 
Author of “ Theory of Teaching,” “ Thoughts on the Education of Girls,” etc. A 
new edition, enlarged. One vol. 12mo. Price $1. 
u For the use of schools we know of no better collection, and it will ever be found 
useful in the domestic circle. * * Remarkable taste has been displayed in this 
selection of poems, which are taken from some of the best of American and Eng¬ 
lish poets.”— O. C. Memorial. 
“ The best of its kind that we have seen. * * * Admirably fitted to serve 
the use for which it is intended.”— Arthur’s Home Gazette. 
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