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A MONOMANIAC.
I have an miniate friend who, alas, is a
Monomaniac!
As thy w .rd implies, her mania ia confined
to one subject —she is extra-sensible other
wise—but that “one subject” is the all im
portant one of dress and fashion. She don t
regard the subject as one of primary impor
tance, but labors under the hallucination
that the culture of the mind and heart
should take the precedence. She acts as if
decency and Comfort actually were the main
purposfe- of dress, and as if these ends being
accomplished, al! i? right.
M e has a lucid interval now and then, to
he sure, when she devotes herself with
grout zeal to her wardrobe, and has dresses,
Ac., made very much like other folks; but
it is soon over, and she again relapses, giv
ing her first care to something else, and just
wearing the new garments on and on, re
gardless of the changing fashions, till some
times, they actually begin to wear out.
it i ■ j;>■ vso in regard to her children;
•he is for< attending to their studies, or
work, or play, while she makes warm flan
nels, and knu.s lambs’ wool stockings for
them; but as to a real stylish rig out, they
never hove it. It actually gives me the
heart-ache to see them so wronged by their
•wn mother, and they such dear, bright,
go and, pretty oh airen, too.
The fact is, she gives no more time or
tb u ill to the momentous matters of dress,
than is really nr ■'.•wary.
You woui t not believe how oblivious she
is to n- w i ■ fi.ion?.
“llow tl * you kke waterfalls?” said I to
her la: t spi ;ng. ...
“i i<ue i : v:.ry much,’’ she replied.
“J" ' you ? >5 said I, surprised, “which
kind V
* 0 every kind ’’ she replied, “I never
•aw one 1 did not like.’*
“'o i.'j in the world, then, don’t you wear
one V ciicd I, “you have just the head and
hair for it, and I will show you”—
I was cut short by.her look of utter be-
Wutiti merit, and remembering her mania,
realized that she did not even know what a
waterfall is, hut actually thought 1 was talk
ing of-—o? (what shall J call them) water
tumbles, Niagara and such !
Whe.:;. as sometimes does happen, thanks
to the urcos-ni’iker, she gets a real, down
right fashionable dress, and you go to church
all agog to sec it, she is about sure to come
slip plug in very quietly, in some plain, de
cent tiling, she’s worn at least a dozen times
before.
“Vv liy in the name of common sense did
you not wear your new silk yesterday?”
asked J, one Monday.
“Oh, ■ never thought of it,*’ she replied;
hut now !; you : . bud mo of it, I don’t
think I. sli.ill cv>.r wear it to church; it’s
uncomfortably lorn?, and ia so made as to
require much tl-ue and the ught in dressing.
A churcu is no place fbr finery.”
“ What do you want with the dress,
then V 7 cried I, quite vexed.
“ Oh, to wear to some places where I
should be singular without something of the
kind,” she replied.
“Just as if you were not always singular
in your dress/' cried 1, my patience quite
gw
hh 1* us! rd, with tears in her eyes, as
she s.i 1, “1 don’t want to be singular, but
■cat anil eon)'' ' '.'o. and enough in style,
not to aUnvot alt ulk;n to myself; but the
fashions of;on. and time flies so
•wiftly on the wf of duty, f suppose I
do olv'o get too f.u' .behind ihe times in
dress.”
•. how f did pity her! You see
the Y;'.rv heart ot her mania is, that she
don’t' cure i or dress per sc, and so don’t
make it her chic fundi
r .l > :rc ns fit b« a glr-aui of reason in it, if
•he wore ola-i«--!uop. and fillings from necessi
ty ; but it's no sue!) tiling. She has plenty
ot nr m'y ; her husband is rich, and so de
Yoted ;.e would leave no stone unturned to
get t ' moon down for her, if she asked him
f° r U* f l he insnnfy oi it is tnat she might
ano \v: uocs not dress fashionably !
to u, it s “a cross’’ to her that
eho is yvr-od to dress at all. One evening
fho said tj mo, with a sigh, “ I have a
drer maker coming to morrow; isn’t it a
trial
fi : "”U' , h T wouldn’t for the world
have a-? v . i--jy know if) I am pinched for
*ac\, -; so 1 answered, with an inward groan,
*1 B,.ou’du’fc think it a trial if I had all
thl ■ H.v : g to bo mride up.”
“ * you r ’ answered she In inno
ccru to. ,0, “ but./ do. I have just been
lee.nuv - pniiooca by reading the third chap
ter and timeris, and reflecting that it is for
Our sms that w® have to dress at all. lam
bui 1 repent of Adam’s sin every time I
have to get up anew dress.” Did you
Over I J
i\ ' ?r! °wy Sabbath in December
1 e;• re a hood ( 0 church ! I thought my-
J; 1 r if and lor any development, but it was
everv w V.l ofT> the ™’ listenin S to
• , t ; , ° Sfinn on> just as uncon
cior, j. her hood, as it the proverb « out of
mg 1* on, 0: mind” were true of ladies’ hcad
gfca’
this.” ** J g * lVe hor a shaking up for
1* ” . * > l ; n her, going home, and
wios • in her ear, “ What upon earth
pc *;i r : *? j V JWCart . hat thing to church?”
r <iow, J in a dazed way, at her
clo.Li, y ass, over-shoes, then up into my
faen win an innocent “What is amiss?’’
“ That ho and r hissed I
“Oh you forgot I I,ad it said she
wilt, aqu.fi> simle; “ I was threatened with
the toon ac.it', aud couldn’t go out without
it.”
“ Then stay at home,” growled I; “ you
wouldn’t catch me out such a day, spoiling
my new hat and feathers, if I was not oblig
ed to be there to sing.”
“ There is a divine law against our for
saking the worshipping assembly,” replied
my friend solemnly, “ but is there any law,
human or divine, against wearing a hood in
side a church ?’’
11 Yes,” snapt I, “ the law of fashion ,
which you break at your peril.’’
She only smiled and asked me very coolly
if I had been instructed by Dr. B ’s
excellent sermon, just as if I had been at
tending to that!
I have about given up arguing with her;
it is only folly to argue with a maniac ; but
I thought her husband must feel dreadfully:
so one day I went to condole with him
about it; and what do you think he up and
said?
“ When I wanted a wife,’’ said he, “ I
searched the city through for a young lady,
who had not a monomania for dress and
fashion, and she was the only one I hit up
on; so I married her and she suits me first
rate.”
Only think of it!
<l| t pause, Jrait auir dsrbeit.
From the Macon Daily Telegraph.
What a White Boy Can Do.
The Marianna Florida Courier says : “Lit
tleton Chambliss, aged sixteen years, son of
James H. Chambliss of this county, culti
vated 15 acres in corn and five acres in cot
ton ; has housed two hundred and seventy
two bushels of corn and picked for the gin
two and a half bales of cotton. With the
usual appliance the crop was made by him
self. Corn at $1.50 and cotton at 25 cents,
rather below than above the market price,
his crop would yield seven hundred seven
teen dollars and fifty cents. This boy has
shown an industry and application worthy «f
all praise, and our Farmer’s Club by its first
act after permanent organization should pre
sent him an appropriate testimonial of the
approbation of the Club for his industry and
zeal. This incident demonstrates that Flori
da only needs laborers of the right sort to
develope her resources and show her lands
equal to any upland in the same latitude.”
It developes another fact of far greater
importance, viz: that the hundreds of thou
sands young men and boys in the South who
spend their time in idleness and are a tax
upon society waiting for what they are
pleased to term “ honorable, employment,’’
in stores, counting rooms, etc , could, if they
would but make up their minds to go to
work in the most honorable of all employ
ments, make wealth for themselves and build
up their down-trodden country.
The youth of the South have been reared
with false notions of the duties of life, grow
ing, perhaps, out of our now extinct insti
tution of slavery. Negroes are an inferior
race, and the idea has obtained that any
occupation in which they engage, is unsuit
ed to the capacity and dignity of the sons of
gentlemen. They must be educated to the
learned professions, in which not one in ten
can succeed. The consequence has been,
and still is, that the large body of our South
ern young men are now adrift on society,
producing nothing and living on the labors
of others.
The times have changed, and the lesson
now to be learned is, that we must change
with thmn. We must abandon false notions
and false practices, look upon life as a se*
rious reality, in which every member of so
ciety must perform a useful part. We must
humble pride, or rather that ridiculous and
pernicious sentiment that prompts men and
women to avoid labor, and thus ignore a
great object of their creation. We must
come to consider that any employment that
is honest and profitable, is not beneath us,
and, above all, that as a people we are poor
indeed, individually and collectively, and
must earn the comforts of life by the sweat
of our brow. It is due to ourselves as
members of society, and due to our country,
which can only regain its former dignity
and wealth by the earnest efforts of every
citizen to support himself and add some
thing yearly to the general stock of surplus
production.
There is nothing degrading in this. On
the contrary, it will elevate the character of
our people and inspire them with the senti
ment of independence. ' There is no argu
ment so forcible as illustration. Take, then,
the case of the little Florida boy whose
achievements in one year are set forth in the
paragraph above. Tell us how he is de
graded—why he is not as respectable and in
every way as good as the idlers around him
who have spent the year in fruitless efforts
to get into stores and other places that they
consider “honorable.” Do any of these lat
ter stand so well in the eyes of the com
munity? Throw him into a gentleman’s
parlor, amidst a gay and festive throng, will
any young lady think less of him or with
hold her courtesies because he has labored
hard in the field and laid up enough in one
year to support himself two 1 Has he not
the means of making even a better appear
ance in society than the lazy, proud drones
who have done nothing and depended on
their impoverished papas to supply them
with respectable raiment? We beg the
young men of the country to look at this
matter in its true light, and to banish from
their minds those false notions that will sure
ly end in even a worse degradation than that
from which they now mistakingly shrink as
real. If they wish to become honorable, re
spectable, independent, and influential men,
they must show themselves ready to fight
the battle of life with all the energies that
Providence has placed in their hands. They
can never rise on Idleness, for it is the par
ent of Poverty—the hardest and most merci
less of masters. It is far better to shovel
SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.
dirt than to eat it. Let this be remembered.
And while on this subject, we feel that it
would not be amiss, in the present deplora
ble state of the country, to say a word to
the young women of the South. From the
closing of their school days until marriage
and the assumption of the duties of the
family, what are they, and to what extent
do they discharge.that great command of the
Creator, “in the sweat of thy face shalt
thou eat bread ?” Not taking the decree in
its literal sense as regards the tender sex, it
is at least legitimate to construe it as an in
junction to labor, imposed on every son and
daughter of Adam, and in this light, during
the period mentioned, which with many cov
ers a term of years and the most active portion
of life, how do they improve the talent en
trusted to their care ? Beyond the manufac
ture of a portion of their own apparel, is
not the life of that class a positive burthen,
one round of trifling and frivolity, without
the first self-sustaining effort, or the produc
tion of a single thought or thing that would
make the world any wiser or better, from the
fact that they have lived ? In their ap
propriate sphere, let them, too, learn the
valuable lesson which we have sought to im
press in what we have written.
Packing Cotton.— The press is calling
the attention of planters to the necessity of
more care in packing cotton. Bagging
weighs two and one-fourth pounds per yard,
and sells on the bale at the price of cotton.
Bagging costs forty-five cents per yard, and,
therefore, sells on the bale at about sixty
eight cents. What folly, then, in planters,
to stint the use of bagging in properly
protecting the bale of cotton ! And
yet, for the want of such protection, the
cotton in the market is actually suffering in
classification and price. We call the at
tention of planters and packers to this sub
ject, and, without further words, trust they
will see the necessity of such liberal use of
bagging as will protect the fibre from dirt
and stain.
■
The Use of Borax in Washing. —ln
Belgium and Holland linen is prepared
beautifully, because the washerwomen use
refined borax, instead of soda, as a washing
powder. One large handful of borax is
used to every ten gallons of boiling water,
and the saving in soap is said to be one
half. For laces and cambrics au extra extra
quantity is used. Borax does not injure
the linen, and it softens the hardest water.
A teaspoonful of borax added to an ordina
ry sized kettle of hard water, in which it is
allowed to boil, will effectually soften the
water.
SHEET MUSIC SONGS.
J. W. Burke & Co’s Seventh List.
Mary Helena to her favorite rose Pettigrew 40
Mary Lindsay Mrs Sullivan 20
M iry Lyle Augusta Browne 30
Mary May Hime 30
Mary of the Wild Moor Turner 30
Mary Queen of Scot’s Lament Brinley Richards 30
Mary of Tipperary—colored title Lover 50
the village queen Wallace 20
Mary Vale Macaulay 30
Mary’s welcome home Tucker 30
Maryland, my Maryland Lady of Baltimore 25
Massa’s in de cold ground Foster 25
Massa sound is sleeping Baker 30
M asquerade Song „ Auber 25
Maud Adair and I McNaughton 30
May breezes Kreip! 30
May day Rogers 30
May day Petersilea 10
May pole Old English 25
May queen part 1 Dempster 50
May queen “ 2 “ 50
May queen “3 100
May sun cheds an amber light “ 50
May thy lot in life be happy Horn 25
Meet me at the twilight honr Trigg 30
Meet me at yon ruined tower Westrop 20
Meet me by moonlight Wade 20
Meet me in heaven Converse 25
Meet me in the willow glen Lee 25
Meet me love when twilight closes Lmley 30
Meet me but once again Nash 20
Meeting of the waters Stevenson 20
Melancholy—German and English Schuberth 30
Melancholy “ “ “ Schwing 3j
Melinda May Poster 30
Melody—song Lover 20
Melodies of mariy lands C over 25
Mellow horn Hyatt 20
Memories dream Merrifield 30
Memories of the past Hotchkiss 35
Mercy’s dream Hawthorne 30
Mermaid’s Cave Horn 35
Merrily, mer.ily over the sea Wallace 50
Merrily, merrily shines the morn Foster 30
Menily, merrily sound the bells Hatton 40
Merrily oh 1 the woedsman trudges along Brown 30
Merry days of old Nelson 60
Merry farmer boy Turner 20
Merry hearted soldier Turner 30
Merry Lark Miss Cowell 20
Merry milkmaid Griffiths 30
Merry ploughboy Old ballad 20
Merry sailor boy Lang 25
Merry sleigh ride Woodbury 20
Merry spring Russell 25
Merry vintage maid Glover 30
Midnight serenade—song and chorus Taylor 30
Midnight voice “ “ “ Darling 35
Midshipman, The Miss Cowell 30
Mignon’s song—words by Goethe Strack 30
Miller’s daughter H W A Beale 36
Miller’s maid German air 30
Miller’s song Kneass 30
Miller’s Will—comic Stump Town 30
Mine I—words by John Halifax, gent, Linley 30
Mine be a cot Kraust 30
Miniature,'The t P Knight 30
Ministering angel Walter 30
Minnie Gray—picture title Weiland 50
Minnie Bell Nava 30
Minnie Gray Glover 30
Minnie Moore Dr. Howe 30
Minnie Moore . Hatton 30
Minorn—a German serenade Spohr 20
Minona Asihore Crouch 30
Minstrel Boy Moore 20
Minstrel child Blockley 20
Minstrel of the Tyrol Russell 40
Minstrel wco’d a beauteous maid Barnett 20
Minute Gun at sea KmR 20
Miss Caudle’s complaint Jones 20
Miss Julia Tanner Johnson 30
Missouri —a voice from the South McCarthy 26
Mississippi boat race Our Pilot 30
Mister Gregg and Miss Snap Keller 20
Mister Hill-*-pray be still Barclay 20
Mi tress Cuirzer, or Taming a Tartar Carpenter 80
Modern Belle Hutchinson 30
Molly Bawn, why leave me pining Lover 20
Molly do you love me Foster 30
Money—tin Haacke 30
Monterey—a national song Phillips 25
Moonbeams o’er ihe lake are glancing Taylor 30
Moon behind the hill Brigham Bishop .35
Moon in all her beauty Mauliana 75
Moon is blinkin’ o’er the lea Bisseß 23
Moon is i rightly beaming Amateur 20
Moon is sailing o’er the sky Petersilea 30
Moon is up Phipps 25
Moon’s on the Lake, or McGregors' gathering Lee 25
Moonlight, moonlight Lee 20
Moonlight is beaming White 20
Moonlight on the ocean Cherry 30
Moonlight serenade Wood-; 20
Moonlit bower Sola 20
Moonli stream Glover 30
Moorish serenade Kucken 33
Morgiana thou art my dearest Comer 30
Morning and evening Plunkett 30
Morning, noon and night Dempster 40
Morning its sweets is flinging (Ciudenlla) Rossini 25
Morning piayer Little 25
Morning song Harro.d 30
Morning song (Jenny L'nd) Benedict 50
Morning star Morse 20
Moss grown cot Brigham Bishop 30
M >ther dear good bye Thomas 30
Mother d< ar, oh pray for me Woodbury 30
Mother is the bat*ie o’er Roefs 30
Mother of the soldier boy Sehreiner 15
Mother, thou art the dearest on© Denizeiti 30
Mother thou’rt faithful to me Poster 30
Mother who hath a child at sea Russell 50
Mother would comfort me Sawyer 30
Mother’s charge Farnham 30
Mother, I leave thy dwelling Crosby 20
Mother’s love Peters 50
Mother’s love Cross 20
Mother’s prayer Cull 30
Mother’s smile Julio 20
Mother’s welcome Engelbrecht 30
Mountain boy 20
Mountain bugle Hewitt 20
Mountain maid Hillon 35
Mountain maid’s invitation—come, come Rainer’s 30
Mountaineer Marshall 30
Mourir pour la patrie—English words White 25
Mourner’s tribute Metcalf 30
Mourner’s vigil Pontigney 30
Mournful good night Hewitt 20
Mournfully, sing mournfully Seemuller 30
Mu. iel, from John Halifax Linley 30
Music 10
Music hath a magic Glover 30
Music murmuring In the trees Jarvis 30
Music of the Mill Glover 30
Musing o’er days gone by Reed 25
Mrs Lofty an 1 1 Hutchinson 35
My absent brother Miss Evans 20
My ancestor’s dwelling Ison 20
Mn angel boy Brougham 20
My Arab maid Horn 30
My bark is lightly dancing Browne 40
My bark o’er the billow Lemon 20
My bark which o’er the tide Balfe 20
My b'essing with thee go Linley 30
My blithe bonny bark is my brida Henberer 20
My bonny bark Smith 30
My bonny highland lass Glover 20
My bonny Kate, my gentle Kate Peters 50
My boyhood’s days * Baker 30
My boyhood’s holidays Shrival 30
My brother dear Howe 30
My brother’s on the sea Mi- s Durant 30
My brudder Gum Foster 25
My canoe is on the Ohio Kneass 3)
My childhood’s days (Bianca) Balfe 30
My childhood’s home Bleckley 20
My childhood’s sunny hours Morales 2C
My cottage in ihe grove Cli.ton 20
My cousin Mary Bell 20
My dear, my native land Thomas 30
My dearie O, or the Auld Grey Kirk Eaton 30
My dear New England home Bonney 25
My dream of love is o’er Spohr 20
My dreams are now no more of thea Lavenu 30
My early fireside Hawthorne 30
My early home Majthews 30
My eyes are dim with tears Gould 20
My father and my mother Dempster 50
My fatherland—Tyrolienne, Barnett 20
My forest harp Strong 20
My gentle spirit bride La Hache 30
My gondola’s waiting below, love Hay ter 30
My good old darkey home Janke 30
My grandfather’s days Sporle 20
My happy fireside Avery 30
My happy home Blockley 20
My heart and lute Moore 20
My heart is like the silent lute Dempster 40
My heart is like the faded flower Strong 20
Mp heart is not yet broken Knight 20
My heart is sad, or Long, long weary day Wetmore 30
My heart is sad and lonely Dempster 50
My heart is so loiiely Loder 20
My heart’s on the Rhine Speyen 30
My heart to thee flies home Macfarrin 20
My heart was like a quiet lake Glover 30
My heid is like to rend, Willie Swift 20
My Helen is the fairest fiower Kirby 20
My home Dutton 25
My home and thee Telford 30
My home beneath the Sycamore Rasche 20
My home in old Kentuck Tucky ho 25
My home is not happy now Donald’s awa’ Loder 30
My home is there * Fiake 30
My hom°, my happy home (Jenny Lind) Hodson 30
My home no more Duke 30
My hoosier g 1 Barker 30
My husband is such a queer fellow Keller 30
My lady waits for me lueho 30
My tart cigar Hubbard 30
My little Sue Parish 30
My little valley home Devere 30
My lodging is on the cold ground Davenant 20
My lost Carrie’s grave Luby 30
My love is o’er the sea Lee 20
My love she’s but a lassie yet Scotch 10
My lover dear is on the sea Centemeri 30
My lute it has but one sweet song Wade 20
My madness now forsaking Meyerbeer 30
M&ry Endsu-Bohn 30
My mother dear Lover 20
My mother I obey Kleber 20
My mother she is aged now Pixley 30
My mother’s grave Marten 30
My mother’s prayer (Carlo the Minstrel) Auber 30
My mother’s sweet good bye Keller 35
My mother’s voice Ella Wren Nisbet 30
My mountain home Wetmore 30
My mountain home Hodson 20
My mountain lay—Tyrolienn© Rimbault 30
My native home Croal 20
My native land Underner 20
My native land adieu Behsle 25
My native laud good night Fowler 20
My native land’s my home Turner 30
My New England home 2o
My Normandie Berat 30
My ocean home Wodbury 3 0
My old Aunt Sallie Emmet 20
My old house, my dear happy home Buckley 30
My old Kentucky home, good night Foster 25
My old wife Russell 30
My own cottage home Comer 20
My own dear mountain home Hasee—Gilbert 30
My own dear Rosalie (11 Pirati) Bellini 20
My own green Isle Waylett 20
My own Katrine McNaughton 30
! My own mountain home Ilensler 80
! My own mountain stream Wrighton 30
My own, my guiding star (Robin Hood) Macfarren 30
My own, my native home Harroway 20
My own wild Irish girl Duggan 20
My prairie home; q p Root 35
My presence still in calm or storm Balfe 20
My pretty Azile Linley 3®
My pretty Gazelle Hodson 20
My pretty Rose Hodson 20
My Rose Taylor 20
My sister dear (Massaniello) Auber 25
My sister, I would sing of thee 35
My sister smiling passed away Howe 30
My soul is dark—words by Byron Phillips 35
My Southern sunny home Hays 35
My spinning wheel Cunnington 30
My spirit’s bride Wetmore 20
My thoughts are of thee, love Peters 35
My treasure Reissinger 26
My warrior boy Muse 25
My wife and child—words by Gen. Jackson Rosier 25
Nancy Bell Collins 3#
Nancy Till White 3*
Napo eon’s grave Nelson 30
Napoleon’s midnight review Neukomme 50
Napolitaine, I’m dreaming of thee Lee 30
Nay deem me not happy Baker 30
Near the banks of that lone river La Hache 30
Neath the willow, love we’ll meet Deßegnis 50
Never mind de white folks Dante 30
Ne’er spurn the hand in friendship given Fenny 30
Nelly Bly Foster 3#
Nelly Gray Howe 3,
Nelly is forever singing Kohl 30
Nelly was a lady Foster 30
Never again Glover 3#
Never dre.im of constant bliss Everest 30
Never mind Nish 30
Never, never love M S Reeves 2#
New England I my home o’er the sea Stoddard 30
New friends, hue friends Hawthorne 30
New Medley song Covert 4#
New mown hay Ware 30
New Red, White and Blue La Hache 25
New York gals Morris 25
Newspaper song p e te Morris 26
Nice yonng man—comic 20
Night before the batlle Louis SO
Night before the bridal Linley 20
Nightingale’s Trill Gaos 40
Night in slumber Abt 30
Nights of mu.-ic Hampel 26
Night song Willis 26
Nina, Nina Sola 20
Noble’s daughter Barnett 30
Nobody comiDg to marry me Cooke 20
Nobody’s boy Drayton 30
No mere Lady of Georgia 20
None remember thee Mrs. Norton 2*
No ne’er can thy home be mine Bayly 30
No one Murrell 30
No one to love Harvey 30
No prize can fate on man bestow ,Balf3 25
Norah dear Hudson 30
Norah McShane Horn 30
Norah my queen Lloyd 30
Noreen, or O’Donoghue’s bride Crouch 60
Northland for me Lover 20
No surrender HfMera 25
Bhe never blamed him, never Bishop 20
AMERICA S S TOUIB
SCHOOL SERIES.
COMMON SCHOOL PRIMER, 9G pages, 16 mo.,
cloth backs.
GOODRICH’S NEW SERIES of Readers; by
Noble Butleh, Louisville, Ky.
BUTLER’S INTRODUCTORY GRAMMAR.
BUTLER’S PRACTICAL GRAMMAR; by No
ble Butler, Louisville, Ky.
TOWNE’S ARITHMETIC, TOWNE’S ALGE
BRA and KEY to the ALGEBRA, by
Prof. P. A. Towne, Mobile, Ala.
BUTLER’S COMMON SCHOOL SPEAKER.
BRONSON’S ELOCUTION.
The above Books are Printed, Bound and
Electrotyped in Louisville, Ky.
The Teachers in Macon, after a careful exam
ination, speak in the following flattering terms
of their merits :
Wesleyan Female College,*
July 19th, 1866 J
Numbers Four, Five and Six of Goodrich’s New ISe
ries of R< aders, edited by Noble Butler, A. M. have
been in use in this Institution since the year,,lß6o.
It gives us pleasure to testify that they have given ug,
not merely satisfaction, but a high degree of delight,
so admirably do we find|them adapted to this purpose.
Remarkably characterised by vivacity and variety in
the selections* and by clearness in the directions and
the rules that they contain ; they have added to the
reading exercises of our classes that interest and de
light which properly belong to them and which we
consider essential to rapid improvement
It has been my privilege to examine Eutler’s Gram
mar, and lam free to state that I consider it one of
the very best Grammars that we have. Following the
same general plan as Bullions it is, in many points,
dec’ded'.y superior to that work. I feel assured that
after a fair trial of Butler, nearly all of those teachers
who are now using Bullion’s would permanently sub
stitute Butler.
The handsome and intelligible style in which the
hous 0 of Jno. P. Mi rton & Cos. get up their School
Books, constitutes no small recommendation to their
adoption.
JNO. M. BONNELL,
President.
PROF SMITH’S OPINION OF THE ARITHMETIC.
A striking feature of Towne’s Arithmetic, is that it
contains no superfluities.
Most cf the Arithmetics are cumbered with many
things which the pupils never earn, and are never ex
pected to learn. Prof. Towne has studied co- densa
tion and brevity in the enunciation of rules definition*
and principles, and he has shown this seldom if ever,
at the exp-nse of clearness. Percentage with its ap
plications, i3 presented in a manner new and origi
nal, but very clear and satisfactory The chapter on
Ratio and Proportion is an excel.ent one. We ven
ture to say that it is inferior to the corresponding
part of no work in u~e in this country. Upon the
whole, we think that this book is entitled to a place
in the first rark of Arithmetics, and we shall rejoice
to hear of its general.introduction into our schools.
C. W. SMITH,
Prof. Math. W. F. College.
PROF. POLHILL’h TESTIMONY.
Orange Street School, \
Macon, Ga., July 20th, 1866. j
It gives me great pleasure to recommend to all in
structors of youth, the whole Series of Goodrich’s
Readers, edited by Noble Butler. A. M. I have used
all of them in my school since 1858, and find them bet
ter adapted to the use of schools, than at y books that
I have used during an experience of fourteen years
as a teacher.
The chief recommendation of these Books, is the
easy gradation of the series from number one, to six,
by wiiich the pupil is led almost imperceptibly, from
the simplest lessons, to reading from the best English
Classics. To learn to read rapidly and well, the pupil
must read and for this purpose these
Books excel all others that I have used.
BENJ. M. POLHILL.
REV HOMER HENDEE LATE PRESIDENT OF GREENSBORO COL
LEGE, ADDS HIS TESTIMONY FOR THESE BOOKS.
Young Ladies’ Academy, )
TL „ . , Maoon, Ga., July 21st, 1866. t
It affords me pleasure to commend such books ae
are adapted to the wants of our schools, at the pres
ent time. Asa teacher of Young Ladies lor twenty
years, it wou’d have saved me much labor to have
haa. what I now regard as treasures, in ‘ the Primary
and Practical English Grammar,” and the series off
School Readers (Goodrich’s first to sixth) edited by
Noble Butler, A. M. These books are severally suited*
to the purposes intended. The Grammars fill a place
unsupplied before. Tne Sixth Reader alone, or in
connection with Bronson’s Elocution, cannot fail te
faci ita*e the plans of instruction in this delightful and
beautiful art.
I have just examined and am delighted with the
Arithmetic and Algebra, by Pn f. Towne, and. shall in
troduce them at once into my school.
„ , . HOMER HENDEE.
State of Georgia, is Rev. A. R.
MACEi, who will call in person upon the Teachers of
the State a* rapidly as possible Ours is the only
Southern house engaged in the publication of School
Books. This we expect no intelligent man to consid
er a valid reason for adopting an inferior book; we
present th© statement merely as an inducement lor
Southern men to examine our boeks, which we wish,
and expect to stand on their merits. These books
are by the best teachers in Virginia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Missouri, Louisiana, Tennessee. Georgia,
and more recently adopted by the State Educational
Convention of Texas, as the text books, to be used in
the schools of the State. We feel just tied in predat
ing that they will become the STANDARD SCHOOL
BOOKS, throughout the South _
Messrs. J. W. Burke & Cos., Macon, Ga., keep
constantly on hand, a large supply of our publications,
for the trade, and will furnish copies for examination
fratis, upon apt Mention from Teachers. Letters to
ie General Agent, Rev. A. R. Macey, must be directed,
to the care of J. W. Burke & Cos., Macon, Ga^
Very BespectfuHy,
JNO. P. MORTON & O *