A System of Modern Geography; comprising a Description of the present State of the World, and its five great Divisions.

Embellished with numerous Engravings, and ill.u.s.trated by an Atlas of 28 Maps, drawn and engraved for the work. Second revised edition. By _S. Augustus Mitch.e.l.l_. Price, $1 12-1/2.

_From the Teachers of Public Schools in the City of New York._

We have examined "Mitch.e.l.l's School Geography," and the Atlas that accompanies it, with considerable care, and must give it the preference to any work of the kind with which we are acquainted.

Its merits are numerous,--the definitions are remarkably plain and concise,--the exercises are copious and important, and the descriptive department is luminous and correct. The divisions of the American Continent are represented and described as they really exist at the present time, and the gross mis-statements generally found in school Geographies are corrected. The typographical execution is uncommonly neat and distinct. Indeed the Atlas is a model of the kind, and actually teems with information. The Geography is embellished with some hundreds of neat and well-executed engravings, which ill.u.s.trate and greatly enhance the value of the work.

DAVID PATTERSON, M.D., Prin. Public School No. 3.

WILLIAM BELDEN, A.M., Prin. Public School No. 2.

JNO. W. KETCHUM, Princ.i.p.al of Public School No. 7.

LEONARD HAZELTINE, Prin. of Public School No. 14.

JOHN PATTERSON, Public School No. 4.

WM. A. WALKER, Public School No. 15.

ABM. K. VAN NECK, Public School No. 16.

WM. FORREST, Princ.i.p.al of Collegiate School.

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.

_Board of Controllers of Public Schools, 1st School District of Pennsylvania._

At a meeting of the Board, the Committee of Supplies offered the following resolution:

_Resolved_, That "Mitch.e.l.l's School Geography and Atlas,"--last edition--be introduced as a cla.s.s-book into the Public Schools of the First School District.

The above resolution was agreed to.

From the minutes.

R. PENN SMITH, _Secretary_.

_The following Teachers have recommended the Geographical Works in strong terms._

JOHN FROST, Professor of the High School.

WM. VOGDES, Professor of the High School.

WM. ROBERTS, Princ.i.p.al Teacher in the Moyamensing Public School.

ANN DOLBY, Princ.i.p.al Teacher in the Moyamensing Public School for Girls.

JOHN M. COLEMAN, Princ.i.p.al of the New Market Street Public School.

W. W. WOOD, Princ.i.p.al of the South-West Public School for Boys.

JAMES RHOADS, Princ.i.p.al of North-West Grammar School.

JANE MITCh.e.l.l, Princ.i.p.al of North-West School for Girls.

WM. S. CLEAVENGER, Princ.i.p.al of the Locust Street Public School.

W. H. PILE, Princ.i.p.al of the North-Eastern Public School.

LYDIA E. SMITH, Princ.i.p.al S.W. School for Females.

A. C. HUTTON, Princ.i.p.al of Lombard Street School.

BELINDA TAYLOR, Princ.i.p.al of the N.E. Girls' School.

LEONARD BLISS, Jr., Professor of Belles-Lettres and History, Louisville College, Ky.

FRANCIS E. G.o.dDARD, Louisville, Ky.

JOHN FREEMAN CLARKE, Agent of City Schools, Louisville, Ky.

D. M. GAZLAY, Louisville, Ky.

B. B. SMITH, Super. of Public Instruction for the Commonwealth of Ky.

CHARLES CRANE, Princ.i.p.al Prep. Dep. Trans. University, Ky.

EDWARD WINTHROP, Prof. of Sacred Literature in the Theo. Sem. of Ky.

JOSIAH GAVER, Princ.i.p.al of the City Public Schools, Lexington, Ky.

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