The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-05-03


From the numerous testimonials for the Selec
Series, attention is invited to the following:
McGUFFEYs READERS.
From Report on Readers by Committee of Virgins
State Teachers Association, July, 1868:
"Of DR.. McGufeys works it may be truly af
frmed that they have been so favorably received
and so long and extensively used, that they now
seem to have become almost an essential part o.
Primary School machinery, and to be vested with
prescriptive title to general acceptation. They
bear, indeed, the prestige of great name, ano
doubtless their intrinsic worth is entitled to such ar
endorsement"
From Rev. Dr. B. NJ. Smith, Union Theological
Seminary.
~ have known and fully approve, of McGuffey''
Series"
From Rev. DR.. Drury Lacy.
CATER full and fair trial of several series o
Readers, have laid them all aside, except Nc
Guffeys, which, l regard as decidedly better thar
any with which l am acquainted"
McGuffey's Series is in use in three fourths of al
the schools in Virginia.
GUYOT'S BIOGRAPHIES.
Prof Guyot was the pupil of Humboldt, and ha
probably made more contributions to Geographical
knowledge than any other living man. He was for
merly Professor at Columbia, s. c., and is now
Professor of Geography at Princeton.
From General Robert E. Lee.
"Guyot's Maps are in use in Washington College
and receive the hearty commentator of those EN-
ploying them. can add my own approval
From Professor J. L. Campbell, Washington & Lee
University, and County Sup't of Rockbridge
81 am not acquainted with any series of Geogra
phies which seem to me well adapted to interest
the minds of children, and at the time to lead
them gradually forward to thorough knowledge Of
the subject"
From Rev. DR.. B. Sears, Agent of the Peabody Fund
for the benefit of the South.
"In my agency at the South 1 embrace all suita-
BILE occasions to recommend Prof. Guyots book on
Geography. This do for the public good, and not
for the interest of any parties. There have been
other good works on the subject, but since the ap
pearance OF Prof Guyot's think there are none
that can compete with them. regard it as the best
series for its purpose OF any before the public
Guyot's system is eminently elementary in its char
acter, simple in its method and fundamental in its
facts"
From the Richmond "Dispatch."
"The Maps and sketches of Virginia and Virgin.
las history, productions minerals, &C., &C.. in the
edition to be used in schools, will be from the
pen of Jed Hotchkiss, Esq, fact, the mere state
ment of which, will go far in popularzing these
books in this State"
From Rev. Geo. B. Taylor Chaplain of the Univer
sity of Virginia, formerly Principal of Boy!
School in Staunton.)
81 have introduced Guyot's Biographies, ant
certainly regard them as incomparably superior tc
any Biographies extant. They fill my idea. l also
want set Of maps"
From Prof. J. c. Covell Sup't of Virginia Asylum
for Deaf, Dumb and Blind, Stanton, where ar
edition OF Guyot's Geography has been printed
for the blind.
81 am obliged to you for sending the Intermedi
ate Geography; had not seen it before. 1t sur
passes all the other Biographies of that grade have
ever seen. Students of geography should erect al
much has he done for them in this science"