The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-10-25
School Books for the Million!
ECLECTIC SERIES.

Best and Cheapest School Books Published.
TINE Eclectic Series OF School books was PROJECT
L ed by that we'll known friend and advocate OF po-
pular education, Professor William H. McGutey, OF
the University of Virginia. whose life has been spent
in the west and SOUTH where hls active abors ju
dicious instructor have gained him the appreciation of
all lovers of sound, practical and progressive educa
ton. The reading books bearing his name have been
proved, by actual trial, and more extensively
used than any other, and daily receiving the adoption
and approval OF the most ntelgen and discriminating
teachers of the land.
Professor P1NNEo. author Of the granmars, for ten
wears prof in Charlotte Hall Institute, Maryland, has
furnished in the grammars bearing his name what are
regarded by all who have examined them, model
text books of the English language.
Professor RAY, from Wood county, Virginia, one of
the most able mathematicans and practical instructors
in the country, has supplied what has been long much
needed-a simple, progressive, and thorough seies OF
text books on Arithmetic and Algebra.
Reading and Spelling Books;
McGu1eys Eclectic Primer, for little children; McGuf
ey's Eclectic Spelling Book, for primary and COM
mon schools.
McGufleys Eclectic First Reader; lessons in spelling
and reading for the younger pupils.
McGutieys Eclectic Second Reader; lessons in read
ing and spelling for you'd pupils
N1cliufey rs Eclectic Third Reader; for middle classes;
chaste and instructive lessons in prose and poetry
McGuffeys Eclectic Fifth Reader (Rhetorical Gude;)
The Hemans Reader for Famale Seminares elegant
extracts in prose and poetry.
The above spelling and reading books have few
equals and superiors which is evnced by the fact
that in schools where they were for time superseded
by the novelty of other books, McGutfeys have been
readopted, the exclusion of all others, experience
having proved their greater practical utility in the
schoolroom; and in view of the large amount of mat
they contain, and the low prices at which they
sold, they very much cheaper than any other SINH
lar works.
English Grammar.
Pinneo's Primary Grammar, OH the anal ytc method;
complete work for beginners in the study.
Pinneos Anal yuca Grammar; full and complete
treatise for academies aud schools
Pinneos English Teacher; in which is taught the
structure of sentences by analysis and synthess;
admirable work the anal ysis of sentences.
Professor Pinneo's works model class books
on the subject of English grammar. This study,
usually dry, and unnterestng learners is rendered
in these volumes attractive and interesting. They are
srikngly simple, progressive, and thorough in their
plan and arrangement, and enable pupils to become
good grammarians. They are the cheapest works of
the kind published.
Arithmetic:
RAYS Arithmetic, part rst simple lessons for the lit
tie learners.
Rays Arithmetic, part second, complete text book in
mental arithmetic, by the induction and analysis.
Rays Arithmetic, part thrd for schools and acade-
mics: full and complete treatise the inductiye
and analytic methods of instruction.
Numerous and skillfu instructors regard the arith-
metcs of professor Ray the most simple progress
sye methodica and thorough class books on the sub
lect before offered to American teachers and they
at least 20 per cheaper than other arithmecs
OF like sze and of an equal amount of matter. These
volumes are the result OF practical experience in
teaching; and they are prepared in compliance with
the solicitation of many friends of education, who
were cognizant of the marked SUCCESS Of their author
instructor.
Algebra.
Rays Algebra part first: for common schools and acad-
emes simple, progressive, lucid and elementary
treatise.
Rays Algebra part second for advanced students in
academies and colleges: progressive, lucid and
comprehensive work.
The great excellence of Rays arithmetic warranted
the expectation that an algebra by the author
would be an improvement on all similar treatises.-
Rays algebra has the appreciation of the judci-
Gus educators and is superseding all others in many
of the best schools in the United States.
Each part of the arithnetica course, as we'll as the
agebrac, is complete book in ITSELF and is sold Sc
parately.
All the foregoing books have been compiIed ex
pressly for electric educational SERIES Their auth
practical teachers-rnen OF knosvedged abi
ty and learning, who have long been identified with
and have constantly labored for the advancement Of
the cause Of education. The several books embraced
in this series admitted, because Of their merit the
excellent style OF their MANUFACTURER and the quantity
of matter contained in them TO be the cheapest class
books published in the United States.
In Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and other
States the entire Eclective series is being adopted in
the best schools in preference to other books. In Tex
as, they are being adopted excellent, econom-
cal and uniform series OF class books.
For sale in Shreveport by ]. w. MORRIS; WILLIAM
B. MILLER; LEWIS 4 RAscaE. In Jefferson by NICHOLS
& McNA.g. aug3l-ly
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