Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-10-30
CT r c u L A r

The attention Of Town Superintendent
Teachers, and others interested in tie cause o
popular education in the State of Vermont il
called to Section ., Act No. 9 Of the Laws Of
Vermont for the year 1896, which reads az fol |
lows
- CrIoS 2.-The Board of Education ard
hereby authorized. aud it is made their duty on
OF before July 1867, and on or before said dat,
every fifth year thereafter, to select list Of
snch gramniars, biographies, arithmetics. his !
tories of this State and the United states, phil
osophcs, algcbras, readers and spoilers, not
exceeding one book of q kind III each branch al
they shall deem best suited for instruction ant
use III the district schuos In this state, in eacl{
o: said branches and shall cause the list sd
selected to be- published in all the newsl apers|
published in the state, during the month Of
January next following the making of tuch se]
lection and 80 to be inserted in each school
register issued after one wear from the making
of such selection which list, so selected shall
I've aud remain authoritative and hiding upoII
the Board Ga Education, superintendent and
teachers, and during five wears from and afteI
November |, lsGS, and each five years thercafl
ter; and supcrlntendents and teachers shall
recommend for use in the district schools a1
new books shall become necessary for instruct
ton i'll the branches named, no other than th,
books included i'll said list selected and publ
lished
The following is an extract from the Report
OF the Board of Education, for the year 1867
page s:
Mitchells First Lessons, Primary and Inter
mediate Biographies were adopted, for these
reasons. i'll brief, the simplicity and ccarnesi
uf the text, the gradual and constant advance
mcnt from the primary truths to the higher dc
partments geographical knowlt dye, the con
| clscness and completeness of the definitions
the elegance and accuracy of the maps, the at
| tractivencss of the pictorial illustrations, and
! the uniform method of treating topics that are
| similar to each other. since the I'D ,pton o.
these books. the publishers have taken meas
! uics to prepare spec al edition of the Inferno
date Geography for use i'll the schools of Yer
mont. This edition will contain new quart,
map of the state. engraved on coprerplute ant
tour pages OF letter press and questions, reiat
ing to the gcngra,h y of Vermont. to he prepar
| ed by liev Piny ii. White, 1t is believed tina
tins feature, while it is not to increase the cos
of the books, will materially increase its valu
| and the interest with which it will be studied
| McNaly's Physical geography, accompanied b.
| Monteith's Lessons inl Astronomy, was adopted
to be us d III those departments of the stud
which are Indie ted by their titles. Guyot'
Common school Geography was adopted as
Physical Geography # grade different frol
McNalys.
lnaSnuch as there seems to be some misar
prehonsion to the intention and design of tn
Board in recommending the different textbook
i'll geography, it seems proper to state that
was their intention to recommend the use {
Mitchcl's Biographies by all classes which hav
hitherto used, which would otherwise us
Cornclrs, and that they did not design tina
Guyot's Biographies should he used except b
pupils WHO, having passed through Mitchelrs
desire to advance to the study of physical geo
graphy by Guyots method.
The publishers of Nftchell's New Geographic
viii send agents into every town in the State, t
supply schools according to the terms annexed
aud 1t is hoped that superintendent will furnis
every facility for the speedy prosecution Of thei
business.
JoHN b. PAGE l.. +. WARD,
pIINY IL. WHITE, A. j. SANBoRN,
JONATHAN Ross, NJ. CLARKE,
| ID. ID. GORHAM,
State Board of Education.
A. L. RANKIN,
Secretary.