St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1868-10-30
Nutfl Directory.
C I r c U l. A r

The attention of Town superinAndents Teachers and
Others interested in the of popular education
the State of Vermont is called to Section 2, Act No. ?
Of the Lava of Vermont for the year 1890 which
f1lsws:
~FCTI'S >. The board Of Education are hereby al-
horized, and It il made their duty before July
IH"' and on or before sad date fifth year there
sfter to selec' list # -uch grammar. Biographies
arithmetic, historic of thu state and United lt
phllOr es, alebras readers and spellrrs not xceed
ing one book of a kind ia each branch Is they s.ar
deem best suited for instruction and in the district
schools in ih- State each u said hrau,bcs and shall
the list selected to Ice Published in all tie
papers published in the - t. during h. month Of
January next following he making such selection
and alsp to be inrrted in each chop reli-tcr Issued
after one year from the making of such selection which
lit selected !rr be and r.msiu authoritative and
binding upon the Board of Education. -uperinendrnts
and tcach"Ts Tor and dI7iuG 1--WE yeas from and after
November l, lNGS, snd each five thereafter and
sIPerinteUden;s and tea herr shall recommend fr ue
in the district -choo- books shall become nee
.Ty Tor instruction in The ranches named no other
than the books including in said list selected and
published.
The following Is an extract from the report of the
Board Of Educstion, for the wear 1861, page ::
Mi.chcn's Tirst l.. sson= Primary and Intermediate,
eograp ie-, were adopeI for there reasons brief
the simplicity and 81 arne-s Of the the gradual and
cons ant advancement fir IN the primary 'rrrhz the
higher departments of geographical kuOwled. 20, the
concssuss- and completeness of the defint ms the
elcgane" ar' accuracy Of te map, the ycnez-
Of tie pictO Illustrations, and the uniform
the adoption If these ook, the publishers have tukeu
measures to prepare special edition The Inermsdi-
ate Geography for il the schools OF Vermont Thi.
edition will contain qar'o map of the STATE Gu
eraved cOpperpatc: G-i four pages of letter pIczs
and questiOs relating 10 lie geography of Vermont to
be prepaed by l;ev. Iliny IL. White It is believe
that this feature. while it Is not to iucea- tue Of
the book. will materially nCreas it, alue and the in
tcrcst with which it will be stuffed. McNally- Pysi-
cal Geography, ncompaued MOnt-ith'= s=-0u IN As
trouomy was adopted TO be in tiore departments
of the study which are Indicted by thci ti'lc- GIyoa
Common school topography adopted A. a Phy-ical
Geography OF a grad different from NcNally's.
lnaaInuch rs there seems to be usappreic nson
IL to the intention and design the Board in recon-
ndnS the ctfer Mt Textbooks in Geography it seems
proper to sste that their intention TO
thu use Of Mitc'.el Biographies BY all classes Viii
have hitherto used hch would otherwise use Cor
nelr, and that they did design that Guyot's Geo
grsphies should be ud, kept by pupils no. having
pas d through MITCHELL, desire to advance TO the
ztudy of physical geograp.y ty Guyotz method.
The Publishers Of Mitchclls New biographies will
-eni agents ia'o every in the state, supply
choOls ding TO the annexed and it lie hoped
that entendcuts will furnish every facility for the
speedy prosecution OF their business
JouS r. PACE, l. F. WARD,
PLISY H. WHrTr, A. }. WHITE,
JosATHAN Ross, VI. CLARh,
u. D. GORuAN,