Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1855-02-14
TESTIMONIALS.
OF PRACTICAL EDUCATORS.

OF PRACTICAL EDUCATORS.
have examined Mayhews Practical Bookkeeping
with much care and particular attention. This i'm
portant subject is too muchneglected in our Public
Schools, and am rejoiced that book of SO much
merit is now placed within the reach Of all.-JNo.
WHITEHEAD, Secretary Of Board.of Education, New
ark, n J.
My pupils like tile book No class works more
cheeffuly, or profitable than that which follows his
practical examples, making the calculations and
raging them accurately, in husiness-like form.-N
Newark. n. j.
Maghew's Practical Bools-keepiAgis better adapt
ed in my Judgment to the ordinary business of the
great majority of the people Of our country, than any
treatise that has hitherto beenIused
feel greatly disposed to favor its use.-JosEPn Nc
KEEN, Superintendent Com. Schools, City and County
ON Y
This is the only really practical system of elemen
tary Book Keeping that has fallen under my obser-
yation. 1t is brief lucid, and comprehensive and
contains Under variety offorn all the general prin-
eiples required to be known in recording ordinary
mercantile transactions lis extensive Introduction
to schools WILL in my opinion confer great bless
ing on popular education.-E L. AVERY, Principal
Ward School No. I'll N Y. (eoncurred in by twenty
other Principally
fully concur in the testimony Of Mr.. E. L. Avery;
and in addition, would state that introduced the
work into my Evening School about the middle of the
late term. My pupils weie delighted with it. and
made more rapid progress ii it than in any book L
ever saw used They liked the book because they
understood it. Indeed, so little assistance did even
the least advanced of my pupils require, that deem
the work truly entitled 10 be called Bookkeeping
without Master.''-WM p Moss, Jun, Principal
Ward School Mo- p, N. Y, Concured in BY other
Principally
Mayhew's Practical Bookkeeping is a capital work
1t is well fitted for use in our common schools in New
York, and l cordially recommend its introduction
both here and elsewhere THoMAs K. FouBKEj Prin-
cipal Ward School No AN. n.
Admirably adapted to meetthe wants of scholars
of both sexes it is the only work that suits my views
as calculated fer Young LadeS
1t is adopted the Textbook bn the subject in this
insttution.-JoHN b NEWMAN, NJ. D., President
Harrodsburg Female College Ky.
1t is an excellent book for discipline
and should be in in every District School, both
in the City and Country e. 4sAADwlN A. NJ and
O. STEWART, Teachers of Select School, Monroe
Mich
OPINIONS OF THE PREss-This is plain, brief
treatise by the late able SuEerntendent of Public
Instruction in Michigan whose labors in another de-
partment of education have given him prominent
position among the friends Unpopular improvement
in this country 1t is not mere competition, but
presents several original features of great value. By
its perfect cearness of expression, its admirable ar
rangement, and the multiplicity Of examples by
which its theoretic principles are illustrated it is
well adapted to common use. No work On the sub
ject that we have seen, can shTcfe safely recoms
mended to farmers and mechanics as exactly suited
to their vants.-New York Tribune
IL Teachers and others engaged in the cause of