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6 Illtsctllanj. 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 *