SCHOOL BOOKS, PUBLISHED BY JENKS AND PALMER, BOSTON. EMERSON'S SPELLING BOOK. THE NATIONAL SPELLING BOOK AND PRONOUNCING TUTOR; containing Rudiments of Orthography and Pronunciation on an improved plan, by which the sound of every syllable is distinctly shown, according to Walker's Principles of English Orthoepy; with Progressive Reading Lessons. Designed for the use of Schools in the United States. By B. D. Emerson. from the one hundred and sixtietn edition. Revised This Spelling Book has been so long before the public, and so extensively used in the United States, that nothing need be said to commend it to the attention of those engaged in the cause of education. It has been recently revised and improved by adapting the orthography to the general usage of the present day. Among the recommendations which have been given of it are the following: The ingenious classification of the words, so as to mark accurately the sounds, not only of the accented but of the unaccented syllables; the conciseness and simplicity of the Introduction and Key; the abundance and judicious arrangement of the matter contained in the work, and its faithful mechanical execution-render it, in our opinion, superior to any Spelling Book with which we are acquainted. JOHN FROST, CHARLES FOX, Masters in the Department of Reading and Grammar in the Public Schools, Boston. Having carefully examined a copy of the National Spelling Book, by B. D. Emerson, I do not hesitate to say that, in my opinion, it is beyond all comparison the best book of the kind with which I am acquainted. EBENEZER BAILEY, Late Principal of the Young Ladies' High School, Boston. This Spelling Book is the result of the labors of a practical and popular teacher; and, so far as I have the means of judging, it has the advantage when compared with any other book of the kind that has ever been published, either in Great Britain or in the United States. JOHN PIERPONT, Compiler of American First Class Book, National Reader, &c. We have examined Mr. B. D. Emerson's Spelling Book with care and satisfaction. We think it contains improvements on initiatory books of the same class heretofore used. LEVI HEDGE, LL. D. Profs. Harvard SIDNEY WILLARD, A. M. University. The National Spelling Book has likewise received the approbation and recommendations of I. I. HITCHCOCK, Instructer, Baltimore, Md.; B. B. WISNER, D. D., formerly Pastor of the Old South Church; WILLIAM JENKS, D. D., Editor of the Comprehensive Commentary; JEREMIAH EVARTS, formerly Corresponding Secretary of the A. B. C. F. M., Boston; FRANCIS WAYLAND, D. D., President of Brown University; B. F. FARNSWORTH, Academical and Theological Instructer, New Hampton, N. H.; S. C. LOVELAND, Author of Greek and English Lexicon of the New Testament, Reading, Vt.; DANIEL ADAMS, Author of the Scholar's Arithmetic, &c.; Rev. N. BOUTON, Rev. N. W. WILLIAMS, Concord, N. H.; WALTER R. JOHNSON, Principal of the High School, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia; BENJ. A. GOULD, late Principal of the Public Latin School. Boston: Capt. PARTRIDGE, Scientific and Military Academy, Middletown; JOHN RICHARDSON, Leicester Academy; R. G. PARKER, Roxbury; and others. INTRODUCTION TO THE NATIONAL SPELLING BOOK, with Easy and Progressive Reading Lessons; for the use of Primary Schools. Revised and Enlarged. By B. D. Emerson, Author of "The National Spelling Book." The improved edition of this book has received such alterations and additions as will render it a suitable introduction to the New National Spelling Book, as well as the National Spelling Book, for which it was originally designed. B SCHOOL BOOKS, PUBLISHED BY JENKS AND PALMER, BOSTON. WORCESTER'S ELEMENTARY DICTIONARY. An Elementary Dictionary for Common Schools; with Pronouncing Vocabularies of Classical, Scripture, and Modern Geographical Names. By J. E. Worcester. The Elementary Dictionary is, for substance, a reduced form of the Comprehensive Dictionary, and is especially adapted to the use of Common Schools. It contains a very full list of the words of the English language which are in good use; and, including its vocabularies, it possesses important advantages over all other common school dictionaries. The pronunciation of the words is carefully given, in a form very easily understood, and in accordance with the best usage and the most approved authorities. The best edition of Walker's School Dictionary, together with its vocabularies, contains about 31,200 words, upwards of 12,000 less than this. The Elementary Dictionary comprises the following divisions:1. Dictionary Proper, 2. Words from Foreign Languages, 3. List of Americanisms, 4. List of Words of various Orthography, 5. Greek and Latin Proper Names, 6. Scripture Proper Names, Words, 32, 240 do. 403 do. 83 do. 1,035 do. 4,820 44,001 7. Modern Geographical Names, Total number of words, WORCESTER'S COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY. A Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language, with Pronouncing Vocabularies of Classical, Scripture, and Modern Geographical Names. By J. E. Worcester. Carefully Revised and Enlarged. 424 pp. duodecimo. It This Dictionary, in regard to those words for the orthography, pronunciation, or definition of which an intelligent English reader has the most frequent occasion to consult a dictionary, is probably the most complete work of the kind extant. contains, besides a very full vocabulary of common-English words, many technical terms, and a copious list of such words and phrases from foreign languages as are often found in English books, very full vocabularies of Classical and Scripture Proper Numes, and a vocabulary of words of doubtful or various orthog raphy, which, together with the rules and remarks accompanying them, embrace nearly all the difficult and doubtful cases that often occur in English orthography. This edition is also furnished with an Appendir, containing additional words, and a pronouncing Vocabulary, comprising about 3,000 Modern Geographical Names. The volume comprises about 66,000 words, to all of which the pronunciation is g ven; being more than twice as many as are found in the school editions of Walker's Dictionary, together with their vocabularies. n the preparation of this Dictionary, pronunciation has been a leading object, and has received particular attention; and as a Pronouncing Dictionary, it will be found to possess peculiar advantages. A prominent feature in the plan consists in the exhibition of authorities respecting words of curious, doubtful, or disputed pronunciation; and this volume is so constructed as to exhibit, with respect to all the class of words for which a Pronouncing Dictionary is chiefly wanted, the modes in which they are pronounced by all the most eminent orthorpists. The Comprehensive Dictionary is required to be used in the Public Schools of Boston, and has been introduced into numerous other schools, academies, and seminaries in different parts of the country. In Worcester's Dictionary a more careful and judicious attention appears to me to have been paid to orthography, in order to render it correct, consistent, and accommodated to the best present usage, than in any other work of the kind with which I am acquainted; and this Dictionary has, therefore, been adopted as the general guide with respect to orthography, in works printed at the University Printing House in Cambridge. CHARLES FOLSOM, Formerly Printer to the University. WALTER R. JOHNSON, A. M.. Principal of the High School, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia says:-I have examined this Dictionary with great satisfaction. The plan and execution of the work appear to me equally worthy of commendation. SCHOOL BOOKS, PUBLISHED BY JENKS AND PALMER, BOSTON. WORCESTER'S DICTIONARIES. "This Dictionary exhibits, in its different parts, ample evidence of inquiry, careful comparison, and sound judgment. It combines, in a very condensed, yet intelligible form, a greater quantity of valuable matter than any other similar work; and as a Pronouncing Dictionary, it possesses decided advantages over all others, by its superior system of notation, and by its exhibition of all the principal authorities respecting words of doubtful and various pronunciation. We do not hesitate to pronounce it, in our judgment, the most comprehensive, aceurate, and useful compendium within our knowledge. JOSEPH STORY, LL. D., Professor Law, Cambridge, Mass. SIDNEY WILLARD, A. M., Professor Hebrew, Latin, &c., Cambridge, Mass. E. T. CHANNING, A. M., Professor Rhetoric and Oratory, Cambridge, Mass. JOHN PICKERING, LL. D., Boston. WM. ALLEN, D. D., President Bowdoin College, Me. J. L. KINGSLEY, LL. D., Professor Latin, Yale College, Conn. ALONZO POTTER, Professor Rhetoric, Union College, New York. C. ANTHON, LL. D., Professor Greek and Latin, Columbia College, N. York. PETER S. DUPONCEAU, LL. D., Philadelphia, says: I have examined with great pleasure and attention Worcester's Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language. It contains many valuable improvements on other works of the same kind, which makes me consider it as the best Parlor Dictionary now extant. I have introduced it into my family, and will not fail to recommend it to my friends on every occasion. HECTOR HUMPHREY, D. D., President of St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., remarks:-Worcester's Dictionary is in our schools; and I should be glad to see it adopted everywhere. I find it exceedingly convenient and useful. ROBLEY DUNGLISON, M. D., Professor in the University of Maryland, observes: -I have examined this Dictionary with care, and am much pleased with the plan and execution. I can have no hesitation in awarding to it the merit of being the best adapted to the end in view of any that I have examined. It is, in other words, the best portable "Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary" that I have seen, and as such is deserving of extensive circulation. That a work of this kind was needed, no one who has attended to the subject can doubt; and all who have examined Mr. Worcester's Dictionary, and are competent judges of its merits, must be satisfied that much has been done to supply a wellknown deficiency in regard to books of this class. The explanations of the words are as exact and complete as could be expected in so small a compass; and in the pronunciation of those concerning which orthoepists differ, there are constant proofs of good judgment, and an ear well trained in the art of distinguishing differences between kindred sounds. It is, we believe, extending its circulation very widely, and we see no reason why it should not become the standard work of its kind.-American Monthly Review. This dictionary has been republished in London; and in a notice, in "Tait's Edinburgh Magazine," of a specimen of it, it is stated that "if the work possess the sterling merit of the specimen before us, it will go far to supersede most others at present in common use." No specimen, as is well known by all who have used this Dictionary, would give too favorable an impression of its completeness and correctness.-Select Journal of Foreign Periodical Literature. WORCESTER'S COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY.-This work has been so long before the public that it has assumed in many circles the character of a standard book of reference. The edition just published presents as full a view of the details of the English language, as at present constituted, as can well be compiled. Great labor appears to have been bestowed in explaining, in a clear and useful manner, the proper pronunciation of the words contained in it, and in cases of doubt, the various opinions of differing authorities are given at length. Mr. Worcester is well known as a gentleman of great diligence of research, and the reputation of his name would be a sufficient warrant of the accuracy of the book, which will be fully maintained by the closest examination. The dictionary not only contains words of standard authority as English, but words of recent or doubtful character, and most of those which have been transplanted from foreign languages, and not yet naturalized, the origin of all such being carefully stated.-Boston Daily Advertiser. D SCHOOL BOOKS, PUBLISHED BY JENKS AND PALMER, BOSTON. WORCESTER'S READING BOOKS. WORCESTER'S PRIMER, or First Book. WORCESTER'S SECOND BOOK for Reading and Spelling. WORCESTER'S INTRODUCTION TO THIRD BOOK, with Rules and Instructions. WORCESTER'S THIRD BOOK, for Reading and Spelling, with Rules and Instructions for avoiding common errors. WORCESTER'S FOURTH BOOK for Reading, with Rules and Instructions. The above form a complete series of Reading Books, which are not surpassed by any other works for this purpose now before the public. The rules which are inserted in the Third and Fourth Books, have been found by, instructers very useful in correcting the young reader, while they give great assistance to the teacher. The publishers have been informed, by those who have used these books in their schools, that classes taught from this series have been known to acquire as much correct and practical knowledge, in this all-important branch of common education, in one month, as they have acquired in thrice the time from other reading books, under the same instructer. Recommendations of the above Works from individuals and the press. George B. Emerson, Esq., an eminent teacher of Boston, remarks, in a letter to the Publishers: "Ever since I first became acquainted with Mr. Worcester's books, they have seemed to me better adapted, than any other series that has come to my knowledge, to the capacities and wants both of learners and teachers of the Elementary Schools. They are not, like most others intended for this purpose, a mere compilation; to a great extent they are original. "The remarks to teachers, the notices of errors to be avoided, and the questions to aid the understanding of the learner, are all of great value; but what is of far greater, is the elevated moral tone which pervades these lessons, fitting them not only to exercise the mind and communicate the art of reading, but to do much for that better and usually neglected part of education, the formation of the moral character, and the education of the moral affections." And, in regard to the Introduction to the Third Book, just published, Mr. Emerson adds, "I welcome this as an addition to an invaluable series." [From William Russell, Teacher of Elocution.] In a letter received by the publishers, Mr. Russell remarks-"I consider them the best adapted of any to youthful readers. They are more simple in matter and style, and more interesting to children, than any other that I have tried, and finely suited, in particular, to the office of maternal instruction at home. "They are, further, excellently adapted to the improvement of young readers in articulation and pronunciation, as many prevailing errors are carefully indicated in them. The sentiments embodied in these books are such as parents would wish to have inculcated during the early parts of life." [From Ebenezer Bailey, late Principal of the Young Ladies' High School, Boston, author of the "Young Ladies' Class Book," and First Lessons in Algebra."] "I have used Worcester's series of Reading Books in my school ever since they were published, and regard them as among the most valuable works of the kind with which I am acquainted." [From Palmer's Prize Essay on Education.] "Worcester's Primer is an admirable little book for beginners. The author of the Primer has furnished an excellent series of books." [From S. F. Streeter, Esq., Principal of a Private Seminary at Baltimore, formerly teacher in the Public Latin School, Boston.] "I take great pleasure in assuring you, that, after using Worcester's Fourth Reader for more than a year, I am decidedly of opinion that it is the best manual for advanced classes that we have. The rules at the beginning of each lesson, the selection of such words as are most likely to be misspelled or mispronounced, and the style and substance of the lessons themselves, all form features of prominent excellence and merit. I have no doubt that the series will prove a valuable aid in teaching the important but often too much neglected art of reading." E SCHOOL BOOKS, PUBLISHED BY JENKS AND PALMER, BOSTON. WORCESTER'S READING BOOKS. The following, in commendation of Worcester's Reading Books, was received from the Rev. Mr. PARMELY, Principal of the Westboro' Seminary, dated September 20, 1842. "Gentlemen,-You will please send me, in addition to my last order, one dozen Worcester's Fourth Book, for the use of our institution. "I am happy in giving my testimony in favor of Worcester's Reading Books, for I know of no system that is so well calculated, where the preceptor makes it his business to instruct his pupils in the meaning of what is read, as well as the art of reading, as his series. His rules and instructions at the beginning, as well as errors and questions at the close of each chapter, are invaluable, and give a high value over the multiplicity of reading books which are in use." [From D. H. Armstrong, Principal of Public School No. 1, St. Louis.] "I am happy in being able to bear my humble testimony to the merits of Mr. Worcester's Reading Books, as works admirably calculated to accelerate the improvement of the scholar. After such an acquaintance as their use two years in the school-room will produce, I have no hesitation in pronouncing them superior, in my opinion, as it regards matter and method, to any other series of books I have examined." St. Louis, June 20th, 1840. [From Edward Leavy, Principal of Public School No. 2, St. Louis.] "You ask my opinion of Worcester's series of Reading Books. I answer, that after a careful examination of them, a consciousness of their superior merit induced me to join with my colleague in asking the School Directors' permission to have them introduced into the St. Louis public schools; and now, having used them for upwards of a year, I can say with confidence, that they have fully justified the preference, and have furnished the strongest evidence of their peculiar fitness for the purposes for which they are intended." St. Louis, June 22d, 1840. [From the Rev. P. J. Verhagen, President of the Faculty of St. Louis University.] "At your request I have examined Worcester's Reading Books. The whole series is worthy, in my opinion, of the literary reputation of the author. The plan which he has adopted, and the matter which he has embodied in the books, are admirably adapted, I think, to the proficiency of those who devote themselves to the important branches of spelling and reading with propri ty. I deem this series a valuable acquisition for our schools, and hope that it will receive the patronage of all who are engaged in the humble but highly meritorious task of teaching youth the elements of English literature." St. Louis, June 22d, 1840. [From the Journal of Education.] "The author of this invaluable little manual (the Primer) has done more for the health and the happiness, as well as the intellectual improvement, of infant learners, and for the relief and aid of mothers, than if he had published an octavo volume on the philosophy of instruction, or on the duties of mothers. Instead of formally discussing his method, (which appears to us decidedly the best ever offered to the public.) we will furnish some extracts from the work itself, which will serve to give an idea of the spirit of the plan "A work like this, which so happily addresses itself to the very elements of infantine thought and feeling, it would be idle to praise. The book carries within itself its best recommendation to a parent's heart." [From the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Advocate and Nassau Gazette.] "We have examined these books attentively, and cannot refrain from expressing our sincere conviction that they are every way worthy of patronage. "Worcester's Fourth Book should be in the hands of every adult in the country." I have devoted some time to the examination of Worcester's Reading Books, and can truly say that I have been highly gratified with the general plan and execution. I am especially pleased with the Third Book of the series, and doubt whether there is anything better, for the place it was designed to fill, in the English language. Colchester, Ct., April 27, 1829. J. R. ARNOLD From an examination of the works of Mr. Worcester, I freely coneur with the remarks of Mr. Arnold, and would recommend their introduction into the schools of the town. M. DUDLEY. Berlin, Ct., Academy, April, 1839. F |