Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-11-09
CT r G u L A R .

The attention of Town Superintendent
Teachers, and others interested in the cause Of
popular education in the State of Vermont il
called to Section 2, Act No. 2, of the Laws Of
Vermont for the year 1866, which reads az fol !
| lows
SEcrIoN 2.-The Board of Education ard
hereby authorized. and it is made their duty, orI
or bet' +, July L. 1867 and on or before said datd
every NTH year thereafter, to select a list Of
| such gramnars, Biographies, arithmetcs, his
tories of this State and the United States. phil
osophles algebras, readers and spoilers, nod
| exceeding one book of kind III each branch, ad
| they Shall deem best suited for instruction and
use In the district schools in this State, in eacI
o: said branches and shall cause the list sd
selected to be published in all the newsJ apersl
PuDhshed IN the State, during the month OF
January next following the making of such sc !
| lection ana so to be inserted i'll each school
register issued after one year from the making
OF such selection which list, selected, shall
| be and remain authoritative and hiding upon|
the Board OF Education, superintendent and|
| teachers, and during five years from and afterI
| November J. 1868, and each five years thereaf-|
ter; and superlntendents and teachers shall
recommend for use in the district schools, as
pew books shall become necessary for instruc-
| ton III the branches named, no other than the
books included in said list selected and pub
| lished.
The following is an extract from the Report
, OF the Board of Education, for the year 1857,
pages
Mitchels First Lessons, Primary, and Inter
mediate Biographies were adopted, for these
reasons, in brief; the simplicity and c.carness|
Oh the text, the gradual and constant advance
ment from the primary truths to the higher de-
partments OF geographical knowledge the con
clscness and completeness of the definitions
the elegance and accuracy of the maps, the at
tractlveness OF the pictorial illustrations, and
the uniform method of treating topics that are
similar to each other. Since the adoption of
these books. the publishers have taken meas
nres to prepare a spec al edition of the lnterme
date Geography for use i'll the schools of Yer
mont. This edition will contain new quarto
map OF the State. engraved on copperplate and
Iour pages OF letter press and questions, relat-
ed by, Rev. Pliny II. White. ii is believed that
ms feature while it is not to increase the cost
OF the books, will materially increase its value
and the interest with which it will be studied
AicNallys Physical biography, accompanied by
Monteth's Lessons inIAstronomy, was adopted,
TO be use IN those departments of the study
which are indie ted by their titles. Guyot's
Common School Geography was adopted az Il
rhysieai Geography Of grade different from
McNally's.
lnasmuch az there seems to be some misap-
prehension as to the intention and design of til
Board i'll recommending the different text book
in geography, it seems proper to state that
was their intention to recommend the use of
Mitcheli's Biographies by all classes which have
hitherto used or which would otherwise use
Cornell's, and that they did not design that
Guyot's Biographies should be used, except by
pupils who, having passed through Mtchells,
desire to advance to tho study of physical geo.
graphy by Guyots method.
The publishers of Mitchell's New Biographies
will send agents into every town in the State, to
supply schools according to the terms annexed
and 1t is hoped that superintendent will furnish
every facility for the speedy prosecution of their
business.
JOHN Il. PAGE l.. f. WARD,
PLINy IL. WHITE, A. j. SANBoRN,
JONATHAN Ross, NJ CLARKE,
ID. ID. GoRHAM,
State Board Of Education.
A. Il. RANKIN,
Secretary.