Butte record., 1854-05-13
CIRCULAR.

q y ACCORDANCE with San Act to establish 4 svsten
Il of Common Schools" Art !. subdivision OF Sec
ton l. the following numeSi books designated to be
used in the Public Schools of this state in addition To
slce alphabetical and other cards chart gobs &C. as
the good judgment of the Commissioners and Teachers
may direct
ORTliOGRApHY-Goodri Common School Prin-
or, especially where You have Alphabet cards The
print OF the alphabet is large and may take the place
the card. Noah Websers Elementary Spelling Book
(Cooedgc Pictorial Edition. to he used also as a Prima-
ry Reader.
READING-swan's Primary Reader, second part
JACK Hayard-io be read in class and studied home
Towns Third Reader; Parley's Book of Anecdotes;
McGufIey,s Eclective Fourth Reader Swhns Instruc-
tive Reader; Zacho'- New American Spcller.
WRITING-Kand's Series OF Copy Books Alphabet
Icai outlines in German Text.
ARITHMETlC-Coibon's Intellectual, upon the in
ductiye method, followed by Greenears National 1855.
GEOGRAPHY-Michelrs Series laiest edition.
PaFeys new Geog Apply for beginners, may be used as
primary. Terrestrial Gl1bes, snav be had at S25 of
nasyin Hitchcock and probably other booksellers in
san Francisco.
ETYMOLGGY-Lynd's First Book. Lind's Class
Book. riddle, Phiiadelphia.)
CoMPOSI1I0N-Quac First Lesson conncc
ted with the English Cremmar. O.. Al pleton, n. "
GRAMMAR-Smith's Productive.
HlSfORY-Parleys First Book combined with &c
ography. parley's Universal History Wizards Uni
ted States.
BOiANY-Theodore Thinker, First Lessons. Mrs
Lincolns Botany
ALGERIA -Alsop's First Lessons AIsop's Algebra
MENSURATION-Vad (Bildle. Philad'a
SukNEYING-tiummeres. do do
IlCS-Davies' Practical Mathematics Dav
Ihompsons Trisonometry. Davies Calculas. Davies
Legcndre, Geomatry and TrgonOmetry. Revised lS53
DkAWlNG-Prof. Shusiers. Newman Ivison)
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND ASTRONOMY
Olinstead's Rudnens of Nat, Z iOsophy and Astrln-
omy- Comsiock's Philosophy. Revised edition 1883
Mcintlre's Astronomy and the Globes.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Manual Philad'a IsJ5
PHILOSOpHY-Cutters.
GEOLoGY-Paige's olemeuts IIiichcock's rev ed.
GhEMistRY-Mrs. Lincoln Phelps, fon beginners.
Snans.
NATURAL LHIsTORY-Godsmith's
CLASSICAL ANFGQUTIES-Prof Fisk'ss
Crooks
LATIN LANGUAGE-Bul McClntock & Crooks
FRENCH, ITALIAN, SPANISH AND GERMAN
Atthe discretion OF the teacher
WEBsTER's DICTIONARY.
"POLTfE LEARNING7 is tho title Of n small bool,
invaluable to secondary schools. The book ia rare
(acCarty & Davis. Philada, 1920
BOOK -kEEPING-The teacher must t,se his discre-
ton Theee is much valuable informaiisn in Critten-
lei" anc othsrs, but hope practal accoontant
VIII give Us book avoiding the intervening books be-
tween those of original entry and the Ledger-they are
factories for waste of time and produ ciion of error
Eve n in commission business the closing of each
sale IN the account sales book should he posted at
once TO the Ledger to credit OF the Aarous accounts
here named intending all the charges, accounts com
mission account &c. TO balance the accounts previous
y posted to debit OF the purchasing yartes from sas
boos." Thus may the system be simuIiied and IN.
distinguished ability Of some bookeepers to p,zzi IN
ries by scientific enes," be dispensed with A mere
memoranda Of transaction, necessarily exhibits the pro
per accounts, debit and credit to which it should b
placed in Ledger, without any intervening book
PAUL K HUB8S
state SuperInie ndcnt
department OF Public instruction.
Dcnicia, March, 1851.