Columbia gazette., 1854-04-01
CIRCULAR.

| state. in addi. ion to sucn aiphapetcai
and other cards charts, globes, &c. as
the good iudgme. t of th G commissioners
and teachers may .airect.
Orshography-G. odrich'si Common IN
School Primer, .espec. ally where you
have no alphabet cards, The print OF
| the alphabet is large, and may axe the
place of the card. 98 H
! Noah Webster's Elementary. spe uins
Book, (Cooleridgc Pictorial Ediiion,) 20
be used also as primary reader
/ Reading-Swan's Primary Reader,
second part.
Jack Haylard-to be read in class,
and studied at home. u. Hunt s. son,
Philadelphia
Towns Third Reader. H.
Parley's Book of Anecdotes.
McGuffey's Eclcctric Fourth Reac !cr.
Towns Fourth Reader.
Swans Instructive Reader.
Zacho's New American Speaker :
Barnes & CO., New York.
Wruing-Rand's series Of Copy
Books. c. C. Biddle, Philadelphia.> )
Alphabetical Outlines in GermaR
Text, Old English, &c. iBiddle.)
Arathmetic-Colburn' Intellectual, )
upon the Inductive method, followed by.
Gteenleaf's National, 1853.
Mitchel's series. latestcd
Harley's New Geography for begin
ners, may be used as primary.
Terrestrial Globes, (may be, had at
$25 of Marvin & Hitchcock, and prob
ably other booksellers, San Francisco.)
Etymology-Lynd's First Book.
(Biddle Philadelphia
Lynd's Glass Book. (Biddle Phila. I
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES First Les
sons connected with English Grammar,
ID. Appleton, New York;
Gramn,ar-Smith's Productive,-
(Truman & Spofard, Cincinnati.
History-Parley's First Book, COM
b;ned with Geography. (Jenks H. g..
Swan, Boston 1852
Parley's Universal History. New
man & Ivison, New York;
Wizards United States.
Botamy-Theodore Thinker, First
Lessons. Barnes & CO., New York;
Mrs. Lincoln. Huntington, Mason
& Law, New York.
Algebra-Alsop's First Lessons
Biddle, Philadelphia.
Alsop's Algebra. Biddle, Phila.
Observation-Disclosures. Biddle Phil
Surreyang-Gummere's. Biddle,
Philadelphia. ~.
Mathemdtses-Davies's Pratical Math- 81
ematics. l.sifT II
Day & Thompson's Trigonometry.-
Newman, New York, lS4S.
Davies Calculus. l.
Davies Legendre Geometry and Tri.
gonometry. Revised 1853.
Observation-Disclosures Shuster's.-
Newman & Ivison, New York, 1853.
Natural Philosophy and Astromon ~
|-Olmstead's Rudiments of Natu raj
Philosophy and Astronomy. a
Comstock's Philosophy, revised edi-
tion, 1853. Pratt w. & CO., New y ork.
McIntire's Astronomy and the G. lobcs.
Elocution-Caldwell's Manuel Phil
adelphia. Excellent.
Physiology-Cutter's.
Geology-Page's Elements-
Hichcock's revised edition.
CAemistry-Mrs. Lincoln F helps. for
beginners.
Silliman's.
Natural Histry-Goidsmi tbs.
+ Classical antiquities s-Prof essor Fisk.
Biddle, Philadelphia A
+ Greek Languagc-Bullion, or Nc
Clintock & Crooks.
Latin Langnage-Bullion, or Nc
Clintock & Crooks.
French, Haliiom, Spami, h and Ger
mam-At the discretion Of the teacher.
Webstcr's Dictionary.
"Polite Learmimg," is the title of a
small book, invaluable to secondary
schools. The book is rare. McCarty
& Davis, Philad. 1926.
Book Keepsng-The teacher must use
his discretion. There is much valuable
information in "Crittenden, . ard others.
but | hope some practical accountant
will give us a book avoiding the inter-
vening books between those of original
entry and the Lcdgcr-they are factor
les for waste of time and production of
error. Even in comu,ission business.
the closing Of each sale in the "account
sales book should be posted at once to
| the Ledger, to credit Of the various ac-
counts there named, including all char
ges accounts, commission accounts, &c.,
to balance the accounts, previously
posted to debit Of the purchasing par
tics from the sale book! Thus may the
system De simpllied, and the distin-
guishcd ability of some book keepers, to
puzzle jaries by scientific entries, be
dispensed with. A mere memoranda
of transaction, necessarily exhibits the
proper account, debit and credit, to
which it should be placed in Ledger,
without any intervening book.
| PAUL X. HUBBS, State Supcr't
Department of Public
| Instruction,
Benicia, March 6, 1854. mar-o5-7e