THE SCHOOL AND THE SCHOOLMASTER. A MANUAL FOR THE USE OF TEACHERS, EMPLOYERS, TRUSTEES, INSPECTORS, &c., &c., OF COMMON. SCHOOLS. IN TWO PARTS. PART I. BY ALONZO POTTER, D.D., OF NEW-YORK. PART II. BY GEORGE B. EMERSON, A. M., IBRAR OF THE ERSITY ALITORAL OF MASSACHUSETTS. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY WM. B. FOWLE & N. CAPEN, NO. 184 WASHINGTON ST. LB1025 P% 1843 51456 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1842, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York. ADVERTISEMENT то THE MASSACHUSETTS EDITION. THE subscriber has been authorized and requested by a distinguished citizen of Boston, MARTIN BRIMMER, Esq., the Mayor elect of the city,-(whose name is here mentioned to satisfy a reasonable public curiosity, though wholly without his consent or knowledge,) to cause an edition of thirty-five hundred copies of the following work, entitled "The School and the Schoolmaster,' to be printed, and to be distributed in the following manner, namely, one copy to each of the Public Schools in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and one copy to each Board of superintending school committee men. It is the desire of the donor that these volumes shall be placed in the hands of the prudential committee men, or of such other persons as the districts respectively may select as their trustees, to be by them loaned to the teachers who may be successively employed in the schools, and after the same have been read by the teachers, then to any inhabitants of the districts who may wish to peruse them. It is also his desire and expectation, that the copies given to the superintending school committees shall be considered the property of said committees, for the time being, and be delivered over by each Board, at the expiration of its official term, to its successors in office. The range and compass of the subjects embraced in this volume. and the masterly manner in which they are treated, commend it to the careful perusal of every person engaged in the sacred cause of education, of every lover of his country and friend of mankind. The reputation of the gentlemen by whom it was written is a high guaranty of its excellence; and it is believed that the more the work is examined and understood, the more will it redound to the credit of its authors. It seems proper here to state, that "The School and the Schoolmaster" was originally prepared in compliance with the request, and at the expense, of that munificent friend 'and patron of Common Schools, the HON. JAMES WADSWORTH, of Geneseo, New York, by whom a copy has been gratuitously sent to each district school in that State,-almost eleven thousand in number,-one to |