The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-07-28
school Books for the South.

In continuation of our previous article, in
which we pointed out the great necessity for
well-considered series of text books for our
schools, we beg leave to attract the attention
OF the classes we then addressed, namely /:
booksellers, teachers, school commissioners,
parents and guardians-to the forthcoming
publications announced by the great publish
ing house of RICHARDSON & Co., No. $40
Broadway, New York.
The English series, thus far, consists of the
following: The Southern Pictorial Primer or
First Reader; The Southern Elementary
Spellor; The Southern Pictorial Second
Reader The Southern Pictorial Third Reader;
The Southern Pictorial Fourth Reader; The
Southern Fifth Reader The Southern School
Speaker An elementary English Grammar,
for the use of Schools A Chronological His
tory of the United States of North American
all Of which have been prepared by GEORGE
HOLMES, LII. d., Professor Of History and
General Literature in the University of Vir-
ginia. The announcement of the name of
the author is sufficient to assure the public
that his work has been excellently we'll done.
No man in the United States stands superior
to Professor HOLMES in copiousness and &C
curacy Of information; or, in what, perhaps,
is more to the present purpose, the rare fac
ulty of inparting knowledge. And, although
we look forward to the time when his genius
and learning will give the world of letters
more ambitious performances than these, still,
We doubt whether, for the general good, he
could have devoted the time expended on
these books to nobler purpose.
Grammar in French; A French Reader,
for Beginners; A French Reader, for Schools
and Colleges.
These books-the first contributions to the
department Of Modern Languases-have
been prepared by NJ ScHELE DE WERE, of
the University, whose varied accom- shments
as linsuist are well known to tho country.
Perhaps the best evidence we could furnish of
his rare mastery of languages, is to be found
in the pages of volume of essays in English,
published some years ago, in which he has
treated variety of topics in manner that
shows he has made all languages his own.
We have next on the list the Outlines of
Latin Grammar, and Progressive Latin
Reader. By BASIL l.. GILDERsLEEvE, Pr. d.,
Prof. Ancient Languages, &C., &c.
Mr.. GILDERsIEEvE has received all the ad-
vantages to be derived from the best schools
OF Europe and, although young man, has
achieved distinguished reputation as a
scholar, and shown himself fit successor to
the profound and lamented HARRISON.
In the series of Mathematical Text Books,
we find the following: First Lessons in Num-
bers, Mental Arithmetic Elements of Writ
ten Arithmetic, High School Arithmetic.
Algebra, for Schools and Colleges, Legendre 8
Geometry, Analytical Geometry, parts and
II; to which will be added, Gas soon as prac-
ticable," work on the Differential and Inle-
grail Calculus. These, by Professor CHARLES
.. VENABLE, also of the University of Vir-
ginia. The large experience of the author,
who has devoted more than fifteen years to
instruction in the austere science which he
teaches, gives the public guaranty of his
fitness for the task he has undertaken. But
If they should require additional evidence of
this, it is found in the fact that he has filled
the Chair Of Mathematics and Astronomy in
the University of South Carolina, and of
Natural Philosophy and Chemistry in the
University of Georgia.
Here, then, we have list of Elementary
Books, which are to appear early this Fall
from the hands of men thoroughly compe-
tent to the task which they have undertaken
Their success is foregone conclusion; for
they have only to be announced, to become
the standard texts of the South
These gentlemen have entered upon wide
field OF usefulness, and we rejoice to believe
that the rewards will lie as substantial as the
honsrs will be enduring; for in these books
they have, as it were, shaken hands with pos
terity,