SANDERS' SERIES OF SCHOOL BOOKS. RECOMMENDATIONS FROM PRACTICAL TEACHERS From the Principals af the Public Schools, City of New York. MR. C. W. SANDERS, Dear Sir, I have examined your series of Elementary School Books, and consider them highly calculated to please and improve the youthful mind. The reading lessons have evidently been selected with much care, and are of such a character as are calculated to cultivate the morals, while they entertain the mind. The arrangement of the lessons in the last of the Series of Readers must particularly commend itself to all persons engaged in teaching, on account of the questions and Spelling lessons attached to each; this, and the many other improvements introduced in the whole Series, will not fail to recommend them to the favorable opinion of Teachers generally. Yours, very respectfully, J. W. KETCHUM, New York, Jan. 12th, 1 Principal of New York Public School, No. 7. We cheerfully and fully concur in the opinion expressed above. Leonard Hazeltine, Principal Public School No. 14. N. W. Starr, Principal Public School No. 10. Abm. K. Van Vleck, Principal Public School No 16. A. V. Stout, Principal Public School No. 13. From R. T. Dillard, Superintendent of Public Instruction for Kentucky. MR. C. W. SANDERS, DEAR SIR,-The Series of School Books, which you kindly sent me, have received that attention, which I was enabled to bestow on them and I am happy to say, you have done good service to the cause of Elementary Science. The selections in your Third and Fourth Readers are excellent-and the method you select to enforce them, cannot fail of success. I am Dear Sir, Yours, R. T. DILLARD. From the Principal of Public Schools of the Fifth and Sixth Districts, Cincinnati. Cincinnati, November, 1842. MR. SANDERS, SIR,-I have examined your Series of School Books, and be lieve them to be well calculated by their philosophical arrangement, simplicity and appropriateness of language, to interest and improve the youthful mind. The Spelling Book, in my opinion, contains many excellencies, superior to any one of the kind that has come to my knowledge. The Series, I think, admirably well adapted to meet the wants of Common Schools. J. B. WYMAN. We cheerfully concur with Mr. J. B. Wyman, in the above expression of his a views in regard to Sanders' Series of School Books. Darius Davenport, Principal of 9th and 10th Districts. H. J. Adams, Principal of 11th and 12th Districts. Hiram P. Randall, Principal of 4th District. Samuel R. Evans, Principal of Public School, Fulton. From H. H. Edwards, Principal of First District School, and Oliver Wilson, Principal of the Second District School, Cincinnati. MR. C. W. SANDERS,-We have examined the School Readers you left with us, and believe they possess superior claims to the attention of teachers and others connected with elementary education. The moral lessons contained particularly recommend the work. H. H. EDWARDS OLIVER WILSON. November 28th, 1842. From the Rev. B. P. Aydelotte, D. D. President of Woodward College, and Presi dent of the Board of Examiners and Inspectors of Common Schools, Cincinnati. Sanders' Series of School Books, consisting of six volumes from "The Pri. mary School Primer" to the "Fourth School Reader," were placed in my hands for examination. They are very neatly executed in all that belong to the printer, engraver, and binder. The matter has evidently been selected with great care, both in respect to the intellectual and moral instruction of the pupil. It would be invidious to com. pare this "Series" with others before the public; but this may with propriety be said, that I know not upon the whole a better set of school books. The great number of new text books continually brought before the public, is much com. plained of; but it is only by such continuous effort we can ever arrive at that perfection, at which it is alike our duty and our interest to aim. A vast improvement has certainly taken place in this department of educa tion within the last thirty years, and I believe it will rarely be found that any school book, which has attained to a respectable circulation, is not in some respects better than any that has preceded it. Copy (Signed) Woodward College, Jan. 3, 1843. B. P. AYDELOTTE. From Prof. J. W. Hopkins, Principal of Preparatory Department, Woodward College, Cincinnati, October 5th, 1842. I have examined "Sanders' Third and Fourth Readers," and take pleasure in saying that I believe them equal in every respect to any works of this kind now in use in the western country, and in many respects superior. The progressive arrangement of the exercises cannot be easily improved. The selec tions are very good, and calculated not only to interest and please the pupil, but many of them will no doubt produce lasting beneficial effects upon the hearts of those who may study them. If any works of this kind are worthy of patronage these certainly are. Respectfully, JOHN W. HOPKINS. From Rev. P. B. Wilber, A. M., Principal of the Methodist Female Collegiate Institute, Cincinnati, October 20th, 1842. MR. SANDERS, DEAR SIR,-I have examined with as much care as circumstances would permit, your Series of School Books, consisting of the Primary School Primer, Spelling Book, and the First, Second, Third and Fourth Readers and think them well calculated to accomplish the end for which they were severally intended-indeed I consider them superior in several important respects to any similar works with which I am acquainted. We shall introduce them after this quarter into this Institution. I am, dear sir, very respectfully yours, &c. P. B. WILBER. From Prof. J. Herron, Principal of English Department, Cincinnati College, Cincinnati, November 22d, 1842. MR. C. W. SANDERS, DEAR SIR,-I have examined your Series of School Books with great interest, for I believe they combine more excellencies than any now in use, and if generally adopted, will prove conducive to that uniformity in spelling and pronunciation so much to be desired in the English lan. guage: and I feel warranted in using them in the English department of the ollege, and in recommending their general use. JOSEPH HERRON. THE Balton AUTHOR OF SPELLING BOOK, ETC. CINCINNATI: WILLIAM H. MOORE & CO., No. 110 MAIN STREET. 1848. Kaddong University Library 356809 LB1579 mo ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, BY CHARLES W. SANDERS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. В. 8-9-41 PREFACE IN the present work, the author has been inauced to add to its more prominent features, that of questions, which, in the former and less advanced numbers of the Series, would have been premature; the nature of those subjects, readily suggesting to the teacher such questions, as the capacities of his young learners might seem to require. These questions have been so constructed as to elicit answers, giving not only a literal view of the subject, but also, in many nstances, such sentiment or moral, as its nature most naturally suggests. The fore part of the work contains a number of Rulés, giving such instructions as will the better prepare the pupil for his daily, allotted task in reading; and that they may receive due attention, and become more practically useful to him, questions, preceding the various pieces to which they more especially apply, have been prepared. One of the leading obstacles to the pupil's progress in learning to read, is, that of permitting him to proceed, while unacquainted with the meaning of the more difficult words, of which his lessons are composed. To obviate this evil, care has been taken to place before him for previous study, this class of words defined primarily, according to their use in the lessons to which they belong. By a studied brevity of the several pieces, the subjects have been made to embrace a great variety, extending both to sen [* |