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12 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION and the Centennial, 72 pages, New York and How to See It, 72 pages, and Washington and How to See It, 72 pp. 35 cents each in cloth 15 cents each in paper. Boston to Washington, including all the above, 250 pages, paper, 35 cents cloth, with fine map of the United States, $1 00. For sale by booksellers and news dealers generally, or will be forwarded, post paid, by the publishers, as above. We have received and examined with great care and interest, the four numbers of the series of Froebels Kindergarten Occupations, which have been issued by Mr.

E. Steiger, 22 Frankfort Street, New York. We are sure we are doing teachers and parents a special favor by calling their attention to this new, and effective way of teaching and training the children. Surely we are coming speedily to some better methods of educating the children, and it is worth while to give Mr. Steigers series of Kindergarten Toys, which are put up in a neat box and sold for seventy-five cents, a trial.

Full directions and all necessary instructions are sent with them. Prof. Westlakes How to Write Letters, is a book we wish all our correspondents, numbering some thousands, would read. It is a book which any and all can consult with profit and advantage. We believe the author is Professor of English Literature in the State Normal School, Millersville, and he has given us something more than a mere catchpenny letter writer.

Hadley Brothers publish a similar work which we have taken occasion to commend again and again, and our teachers would do well to get one or both of these books, and give some specific instruction to their pupils on Howto Write Letters. This book of -Prof. Westlake is specially to be commended for the good sense and good English used in the several for-mulses given. The publishers, Sower, Potts of Philadelphia, have issued the work in the best style of printing and binding, and we hope the book will find its way into the hands of every teacher in the country. and if wo do not greatly misjudge she has composed just what is needed.

She has sent us her Greeting Song, also A Parting Song, A Morning Song, In addition to her stirring and patriotic Centennial Song, which we wish every child in the country would learn to sing, she has issued a series of Music Leaves which consists of the music, the words, directions how to sing it, and a beautiful chromo, making both a merit card and a sweet song card. We most cheerfully commend these Song Leaves and these Penny Songs to teachers everywhere. They are as appropriate for Sunday schools as for day schools, and offered at so low a price that all ought to sing and be happy. Zells Encyclopedia is the only one describing all the cilies, towns, and villages in the world; defining all words in use in the English language; giving the pronunciation of all common and proper names; treating on so many as 150,000 subjects; rendering accessible information on every conceivable topic; and the only one to be obtained on small monthly payments. It is now coming from the press to be complete in 64 numbers of 40 pages each, thoroughly revised, with 36 pages of beautifully colored maps, showing all parts of the world.

One 50 cent part or more can he mailed regularly to subscribers monthly. Sample number sent for 25 cents. J. W. Marsh, 722 North Fourth Street, St.

Louis, is the Western manager. It is pronounced by the newspaper press of America and England as better adapted to the wants of the masses than any other work of reference in exis-tence. It is sold only subscription, and agents are wanted. The committee of award of the Gold Premium offered by the New England Journal of Education, for the best Centennial Drama for schools, have conferred the honor upon Miss Alice M. Guernsey, a teacher in the State Normal School at Rannolph, Vt.

The committee consisted of Col. T. Wentworth Higginson, of Newport, R. William T. Adams (Oliver Optic), and Mrs.

M. P. Colburn, of Boston. The drama consists of five acts. Opening scene is a soliloquy of Columbus followed by an introduction of the Muse of History.

The closing scenes are (a) The Decoration of the Arch of Triumph, (b) The Coronation of America. Splendid tableaux and fine music are interspersed. The Drama will be issued by the New England Journal of Education, Boston, Mass. Price 25c. The Addresses and Journals of Proceedings of the National Educational Association, session of the year 1875, at Minneapolis, Minn.

Published by the Association, Salem, Ohio. Pages 105. Hurd Houghton, 13 Astor Place, New York, have done a specially good thing for the people of this country, and for those who will this year visit us from other countries. They have issued three very carefully prepared Centehnial Guides, brim full of just such information as one will need who wishes to travel intelligently and get the most with the least expense and fatigue. The two latter items, we do not hesitate to say will be considered, whether they are talked much about or not.

These guides have been prepared with great care, and are sold qt alow price. The series consists of Philadelphia great event at their respective abodes throughout the Union. Excursion Tickets East. The Centennial Year brings with itf not only the grandest exhibition in the history of the world, but so much of good will and fraternity of feeling that commerce itself has become infected with the same spirit. Arrangements have been perfected for furnishing round trip Excursion Tickets, good for sixty days, so that people can go by one route and return by another any other, in fact, that inclination, interest, or fancy may dictate.

Send to the nearest railroad ticket office, and ask for a Centennial Guide, and with your friends select the route you prefer, and secure your tickets. The INDIANAPOLIS ST. LOUIS R. touching at Indianapolis, Cleveland, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, and by the Erie, with its unrivalled scenery and broad gauge, to New York or to Wavcrly, and from thence direct to the Centennial Grounds in Philadelphia. The VANDALIA LINE, Which is under the same splendid management as the Indianapolis and St.

Louis Railroad, takes you to Indianapolis, thence to Pittsburgh, giving one that magnificent day-light ride over the Allegheny Mountains to Harrisburg, and on to Philadelphia direct the short line. It was over this route, the Pennsylvania Central, that the Special Continental Express Train, last week, on the way from New York to San Francisco, in SO hours, made a continuous run of 444 miles without a stop, thus accomplishing in this centennial year a feat in transportation without parallel or precedent in the history of the world. The Alleghenies were crossed with a single engine, at a speed of thirty-five miles per hour, with a grade of ninety-six feet per mile. The minimum speed was twenty-five miles, and maximum sixty-two miles per hour, being an average of forty-four miles. The engine and cars were in perfect condition at Pittsburgh, and the same cars were run through to San Francisco.

These pool lines, the Indianapolis and St. Louis, or The Vandalia Line, either of them, will if you choose take you to Indianapolis and Cincinnati, and then via the Atlantic and Great Western, from Cincinnati "to Cleveland and Salamanca, and the Erie to New York or Philadelphia. Under these arrangements you can select one route going and return by another, or you can go and return by the same route. In either case the price of the ticket is the same. Especial care seems to have been taken to represent in these Centennial Guides those routes offering the greatest attractions of natural scenery, by the most comfortable and superior lines of transit.

They include a view of the Alleghenies and Blue Ridge a look at Baltimore and Washington a trip on the Hudson River a sight at Niagara a ramble at Watkins Glen a sail on Chautauqua Lake or a stroll down on the beach at Long Branch. These Excursion Routes, including the Ohio and Mississippi R. actually number over one thousand and give more variety of travel and sight seeing to our people than has ever been offered before for the same amount of money, and as Centennial Expositions do not come often, it will be wise for us make the most of this. The Meter-diagram, with Metric and English Scales, Tables of Weights and Measures, By A. T.

W. Stanley, New Britain, Conn. The Metric System Is so called from the mete which is its principal and only arbitrary unit. Congress lias authorized the use of the system for computing equivalent values, and the advantages claimed for it over other systems are: 1st. That computations are made by decimals alone.

2d. It is a uniform system, all weights and measures being founded on the meter, and all the tables by ascending tens hence it gives unity and simplicity in place of the present complexity. It can be used for Measures of Length, Measures of Surface, Measures of Capacity Weight, This Meter-diagram is gotten up with full explanations, on strong card board, about fonr inches wide and a little over one yard long, backed with muslin, on which the several cuts of the Centennial buildings are printed, with descriptions of their length, breadth, all coiled and put into a neat box, which can be sent by mail to any address. Of conrse it will take some time to familiarize ourselves with the Denomination and Values, with the Kelometer, the Hectometer, but we do not know why these should not be learned easily by new beginners. At all events, we are in favor of giving this system a fair trial, and Messrs.

A. T. W. Stanley of New Britain, have done a good thing in giving us in so compact a form, and at so little expense, the whole theory in a nut-shell. Send to them for a Meter-Diagram.

Centennial Memorial Certificates for the School Children. The visitors at the International Exhibition, Philadelphia, will not fail to note one striking feature in Machinery Hall. One of R. Hoes wonderful presses will there be seen printing from engraved plates, beautiful Memorial Certificates, signed by President Grant, so that visitors may for a trifling sum carry away with them documentary evidence in a durable form, that they have seen the wonders of the Great Exhibition. As it is not to be expected that all of the thirteem millions of school children of the United States will be able to visit Philadelphia, and as they may wish preserve some lasting memento of the Celebration of the Centennial Anniversary throughout the country, the Centennial Certificate Bureau at Philidelphia has provided for this want by issuing other certificates for the benefit of the School children and Sunday School scholars.

These documents are elegantly gotten up on parchment paper, with engravings of the Exhibition buildings, portraits of George Washington and President Grant, and beautiful groups of emblematic figures, and are signed by U. S. Grant, President of the United States, J. F. Hartranft, Governor of Pennsylvania, and W.

S. Stokley, Mayor of Philadelphia. The plan of furnishing these certificates to the school children is warmly recommended by leading clergymen and teachers in New York, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, and as the priee is only thirty cts. they are brought within reach of all. To quote the closmg words of these Certificates, which contain in themselves the key to the purpose for which they are issued, This Certificate is given for transmission in a durable form to the family and descendants of the person therein named, to show that the youth of the country joined in the celebration of this Special Notices.

Please remember not to forget that $2 50 buys a ladies finest kid or morocco side-lace shoe at the Olobe Shoe Store 805 Franklin avenud. 9 6 Wabash Fast Eine. Round trip excursion tickets now on sale, good till Sept. 30, to: Fiagara Falls and return $23 50 Detroit and return 20 00 Put-in-Bay and return 18 50 Round trip Centennial Tickets at lowest rates. J.

S. LAZARUS, Gen. Western Agent. W. L.

Malcolm, Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent. Ticket office, 104 N. Fourth st. It Will Pay If you are going East to call upon, or write to John Bentley of the Illinois Central Railroad, St.

Louis, for copies of the International Tourists Guide, and Centennial Book of Routes and Rates. Tickets are now on sale via Northern Routes, going to Philadelphia and New York, and returning via Southern Routes, thus giving the passenger an opportunity of visiting all the large cities and places of interest in the East. Ticket office 102 North Fourth Street, opposite Planters House..