The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-06-07
From the numerous testimonials for the Select
Series, attention is invited to the following:


Series, attention is invited to the following:
MoGUFFEY'S READERS.
From Report on Readers by Committee of Virginia
State Teachers Association, July, 1868:
"Of DR.. McGuffey's 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 Of
Primary School machinery and to be vested with
prescriptive title to general acceptation They
bear, indeed, the prestige of a great name, and
doubtless their intrinsic worth is entitled to such an
endorsement"
From Rev. DR.. B. NJ. Smith, Union Theological
Seminary.
81 have known and fully approve of McGuffey's
Series"
From Rev. DR.. Drury Lacy.
CATER full and fair trial of several series o.
Readers, 1 have laid them all aside, except Nc
Gufeys, which, | regard as decidedly better thar
any with which am acquainted
McGpfey'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 has
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. L can add my own approval"
From Professor j. l.. Campbell, Washington & Let
University, and County Sup't of Rockbridge.
81 am not acquainted with any series of Geogra
plies which seem to me so well adapted to interes
the minds of children and at the same time to eaC
them gradually forward to thorough knowledge O
the subject
From Rev. DR.. B. Sears, Agent of the Peabody Fund
for the benefit of the South
"In my agency at the South | embrace all suita
BILE occasions to recommend Prof. Guyot's book OF
Geography. This do for the public good and mo-
for the interest of any parties. There have beer
other good works on the subject, but since the ap
pearance OF Prof. Guyots, | think there are none
that compete with them. ! regard it as the bes
series Tor its purpose OF any before the public
Guyots system is eminently elementary in It's char
acter, simple in its method, and fundamental in it
| facts
From the Richmond "Dispatch."
"The Maps and sketches of Virginia and Virgin
las history, productions, minerals, &c, &c., in thu
pen of Jed. Hotchkiss, Esq, fact the mere state
ment of which, will go far in popularizng thes
books in this State"
From Rev. Geo. b. Taylor, Chaplaln OF the Unlver
sity of Virginia, formerly Principal of Boy
School in Staunton.)
81 have introduced Guyots Biographies, anc
certainly regard them as incomparably superior tt
any Biographies extant. They fill my idea. l alsc
want set Of maps"
From Prof j. C. Covell, Sup't of Virginia Asylum
for Deaf, Dumb and Blind Stanton, where al
edition of Guyots Geography has been printed
for the blind
~ am obliged to you for sending the Intermedi
ate Geography; l had not seen it before. 1t sur
passes all the other Biographies of that grade have
ever seen. Students of geography should erect al
ever enduring monument to Guyots memory, 81
much has he done for them in this science"