WILLSON'S SERIES OF SCHOOL & FAMILY READERS Retail Prices of Readers, April, 1864: Willson's Primer, 15 cents; First Reader, 25c. Second Reader, 37 1-2 c.; Third Reader, 62 1-2 c.; Fourth Rea der, 82 1-2 c.; Fifth Reader, $1.25; Sixth and Seventh Readers not published Primary Speller, 12c. (The wholesale prices are one third discount from the retail. Large Speller nearly ready. OFFICIAL ADOPTION OF WILLSON'S READERS. In addition to the official adoption of Willson's Readers by Boards of Education in great numbers of our cities, towns and villages, they have been officially and unanimously adopted, during the past year, by the State Boards of Education in Indiana, Kansas and California. In California the subject of adopting a state series of reading books was largely discussed in the State Teachers' Association held in the summer of 1862, when it was thought advisable to give the teachers another year to consider the subject, and an able committee was appointed to report on reading books at the next meeting of the Association. At the annual meeting in May, 1863, this committee, after a thorough examination, of all the principal readers before the public, reported unanimously in favor of Willson's. The vote on readers in the Association, stood as follows: Willson's received 115 votes; Sargent's, 13 votes; Parker & Watson's, 4 votes; scattering, i vote. The great importance of this vote of the teachers will be seen, when it is stated that the Legislature of the State had already passed a law empowering the State Board of Education "to prescribe and adopt a uniform series of text books," and providing that "no school district shall be entitled to its pro rata of public moneys unless such text-books as are prescribed by the State Board of Education shall be adopted and used in school." Hence, the action of the State Teachers' Association was understood to be advisory to the State Board, of which the Governor of the State is President, and the State Superintendent secretary. The State Board then unanimously endorsed the action of the Association, and adopted Willson's Readers for the public schools of the state. From John Swett, Supt. of Public Instruction of California, Feb. 1864. "Willson's Readers are very popular throughout our State, and are now in universal use." Although the early numbers of Willson's Readers were first published less than four years ago, and two additional numbers are still required to complete the series, yet, with all the opposition they have had to encounter, they have attained, in this short period, a much larger circulation than most of their predecessors-a circulation which is already second in number, as we believe, to only two of the old series, that have had twenty-five years the start of them. As evidence, therefore, of the unprecedented favor with which the system of instruction adopted in these books has been received by the educa tional public, may not be improper to state here that the sales of Willson's Readers during the preceding six months have been more than TwO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND Copies; which is over sixteen hundred volumes per day! Considering the character, aims, and tendencies of these books, assuredly this testimony mny be set down to the account of Educational Progress. Among the larger cities and towns that have adopted, and are now using, this Series-some of them to the exclusion of all other readers-are, New York, Baltimore, Harrisburg; Memphis, Tenn.; St. Paul, Minn.; Waterbury, Bridgeport, New Milford, Danbury, Litchfield, Stamford, New Britain, Conn.; West Chester, Philadelphia, Pa.; Janesville, Beloit, Wis.; Galesburg, Pekin, Ottawa, Carrolton, Lacon, Ill.; Newport, R. I.; Rochester, N. Y.; Paterson, New Brunswick, Plainfield, Hudson City, N. J.; Deerfield, Millbury, Groton, Edgartown, East Needham, Mass.; San Francisco, Cal.; Indianapolis, Lafayette, Union City, Ind.: Leavenworth, Kansas; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Circleville, Salem, Ohio; St. Clair, Coldwater, Battle Creek, Sheboygan Falls, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Hagerstown. Md.; Wilmington, Del.; &c., &c., &c. They are also more or less in use in every city, and in nearly every village and county throughout the Eastern, Middle and Western States. 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