THE

AMERICAN TEXT-BOOKS OF ART EDUCATION.

A Complete Series of Text-Books on Drawing.

PREPARED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS.

By

PROFESSOR

WALTER SMITH,

[STATE DIRECTOR OF ART EDUCATION FOR MASSACHUSETTS.

THIS series of Text-Books on DRAWING, which will be completed during the year, is submitted to the consideration of teachers and others interested in the question of Art Education, as being better adapted for use in schools than any other works now before the public. Attention is invited to the following points :

FIRST. The method of instruction is entirely different from that taught by any other system. Starting with the idea that Drawing is a study as easily mastered as Arithmetic, Grammar, or Geography, it has been the aim of the author of these books to make the system of instruction simple, logical, and progressive throughout. Beginning with judging distances and drawing straight lines, pupils are led forward step by step,through a wide variety of examples of the finest forms in nature and art, up to drawing elaborate ornamental forms in various positions and of varying sizes and proportions; and also to original designing.

SECOND. The general arrangement of the exercises is a great improvement on any plan heretofore adopted. The pupil has his copy and instructions directly before him, so that no time is lost in referring from one to the other. The directions themselves are brief and explicit, so clear that pupils can readily understand what they are required to do.

THIRD. The great variety of the exercises and the various knowledge required of the pupil in the way of reducing, enlarg ing, or charging the form of the copies given. This varied knowledge pupils readily attain, when once they have been started in the proper manner of working.

FOURTH. This series of Drawing Books is arranged according to the following subject divisions:

Plane Geometrical Drawing,

Free-Hand Outline Drawing,

Model and Object Drawing,
Perspective Drawing,

Mechanical Projection and Drawing,

and each subject embraces three or more books or parts. These subjects or divisions embrace the basis of all drawing, whether of an Artistic, Industrial, or Mechanical character; and these books of Prof. Smith's are the only works published which cover the whole ground. This series, therefore, is the only complete series of Drawing-Books accessible to American teachers.

FIFTH. Teachers can teach drawing by this system with much better results than by any other. The Text-Books are so arranged that the pupils see their own powers develop as they go from exercise to exercise; while for the special benefit of teachers, Manuals are prepared, which give full particulars and illustrations in regard to the best methods of teaching the subject, together with valuable suggestions in regard to original designing.

SIXTH. The Art Education which is now demanded for public schools, and which the State of Massachusetts has made a part of her common-school education, is not the kind of drawing heretofore taught in schools. Hitherto there has been no school instruction on this important branch of education which, compared with the European systems of Art Education, could in any way be regarded as satisfactory. There has been no comprehensive method or system in teaching the subject at all. Pupils have been set to copying forms in Outline, Perspective, Geometrical, Object, and Mechanical Drawing in the most confused manner, jumping about from exercises in one class of subjects to other exercises of an entirely different character in other classes, without any distinction being made between them, or without the fundamental principles of the various subjects so essentially different from one another being explained or understood. Hence the teaching of Drawing as hitherto conducted has led to no practical results; and in the minds of many people the study itself has fallen into disrepute, as being a mere amusement, and applicable only to pupils who might have some special aptitude for it. The use of these books of Prof. Smith's will remedy these defects in the teaching of Drawing.

SEVENTH. These books are much cheaper in price than any others now before the public; and the arrangement of them is the most convenient one possible for school use.

PRICES :-Drawing Books, 20 pages in each book, 25 Cents each; Teachers' Manuals, per copy, $2.50.

Books for Free-Hand Drawing, six in number; for Geometrical Drawing, four; Perspective Drawing, two; and for Model and Object Drawing, two. Are now ready.

Copies of the Drawing Books and Manuals furnished for examination at one-third discount.

JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO., Publishers, Boston.

SMALL TEXT-BOOKS FOR SCHOOLS.

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Ask attention to the following books as answering the requirements so frequently made for compact text-books.

I.

(IN PRESS.)

FIRST STEPS IN GENERAL HISTORY. A Suggestive Outline. By ARTHUR GILMAN, A.M. With Maps, Chart, and Indexes. In one volume 16mo. Uniform with GILMAN'S FIRST Steps in English Literature.

The hearty reception given to Mr. Gilman's previous book has encouraged the author to put forth a companion volume in HISTORY. It will be found to possess the same excellent qualities of accuracy, condensation, and freshness which marked the former volume. It will be thoroughly furnished with good maps, charts, and a copious index.

II.

FIRST STEPS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. By ARTHUR GILMAN, M.A. In one volume 16mo, pp. 231. Price $1.00. Seventh edition, thoroughly revised and brought to date. "I know of no work in the English language from which so much on the subject can be learned in so small a compass as from this. As an outline for beginners it is all that can be desired, and an excellent preparation for a more extended course." -From the late Joseph G. Cogswell, LL.D., recently Librarian of the Astor Library.

"Its clearness and conciseness, the interesting historical facts introduced as closely related to our literature or to the history of our language, the judicious selection of authors, and the bold rejection of others by which your work is kept within the proper limits of such an undertaking, are some of the points which have specially impressed me."-Cyrus Northrop, Professor of English Literature in Yale College.

III.

COLBURN'S ARITHMETIC. Intellectual Arithmetic upon the Inductive Method of Instruction. By WARREN COLBURN, A.M. In one volume, 16mo. Half bound, 40 cents.

"Everything I have seen confirms me in the opinion which I early formed that Colburn's Arithmetic' is the most original and far the most valuable work upon the subject that has yet appeared. Where it has been used, and properly used, in a school, I find an intelligence and readiness in the processes of mental arithmetic which I look for in vain in cases where the instruction has been conducted upon principles foreign to those which Mr. Colburn introduces."-George B. Emerson.

IV.

PARADISE LOST. With explanatory notes prepared under the advice and with the assistance of Professor H. W. TORREY, of Harvard University. In one volume, 16mo. Cloth, $1.25; full gilt, $1.75.

"The classical allusions, references to mythology and history, as well as not very obvious expressions and words, need exposition, which is found here in brief foot-notes, which are prepared with a full view of the wants of the reader. The edition is otherwise neat, portable, and in all respects desirable. The two indexes add great value to the work."-The Presbyterian. "In these two most important particulars (a correct text and a judicious punctuation), as well as in the full but brief and very intelligible notes, I find the care and learning of the editor manifest, without ostentation, on almost every page.”—James Jennison, Tutor in Elocution at Harvard College.

"The perfection of book-making, and every way a most desirable edition."-Hartford Press.

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"The strongest feature of the book is in its teaching power. It is truly calculated to educate in the correct way, and the use of it will give mental strength to the student. It must undoubtedly be pronounced an excellent book for reference, and much better for educational purposes than any text-book of physics yet in print."-New York Tribune.

A HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. BY GEORGE WASHINGTON GREENE, author of "The Life of Nathanael Greene, Major-General in the Army of the Revolution," Non-resident Professor of American History in Cornell University. In one volume, crown 8vo. Cloth, $1.50.

In the small space of 450 octo-duodecimo pages, the accomplished author gives a complete view of the principles, laws, and development of the contest, with enough of the details to illustrate their concrete action, so that the reader who desires to pursue any one of the lines of investigation indicated can do it under the direction of definite ideas. The volume thus fills a place in our literature which is occupied by no other work. It is at once a generalized history of the Revolution, and a stimulating guide to the study of its details."-Boston Transcript.

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NOTES IN SEASON.

THE second edition of Mrs Clement's "Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and their Works," will contain a new preface in which the author takes occasion to define more precisely the limits of her work, which exclude all living artists, and include but few of those artists whose works do not come in the way of most travellers.

MR. ALCOTT's long-delayed "Records of a School" are just ready at Roberts Bros., together with Miss Frothingham's translation of Lessing's "Laocoon" The first is a unique contribution to descriptive educational literature, and the second, one of the finest essays on art in any language.

Two important works are just ready at Macmillans, "The Principles of Science, a Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method," by W. Stanley Jevons, Prof. of Logic and Political Economy in the Owens College, Manchester, is a work on logic as applied to scientific generalization and argument, which demands the attention of all working scientists, and "The Constitutional History of England, in its Origin and Development," by Wm. Stubbs, M. A., Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford (Clarendon Press Series), is one whose title defines its purpose, and whose author is one who must be read by every student cf constitutional law, comparative politics, or sociology. It is also exceedingly attractive to the general reader.

THE TO-Day Printing and Publishing Company, Philadelphia, have going through the press "Justin Harley." a new novel by John Esten Cooke. It will be a 12mo of about 350 pages, with illustrations by William M. Sheppard. The book will be ready for delivery next week. They have also in the press Max Adler's book, "Out of the Hurly Burly; or, Li'e in an Odd Corner." Dio Lewis is engaged on a new work on sexual hygiene, which the company will publish.

Two new novels are ready at Osgoods, "Zelda's "THE Elements of Algebra," by F. A. Shoup, Fortune," a tale of a Gipsy girl, which Mr. Leland professor of mathemetics in the University of the has spoken of as the only novel in our language, South, late professor of logic, metaphysics, etc., in except "Lavengro" and the "Rommany Rye," in the University of Mississippi, is to be published imThe method of which the author has shown real familiarity with mediately by E J. Hale & Son. the life, manners, and language of the gipsies; and treating the subject of algebra in this book is in A considerable space in the be"Young Brown," already favorably received by great part new. the readers of Every Saturday, by the author of ginning is given to exercises in algebraic termino"The Member from Paris," Mr. Granville Murray.logy. The old arithmetical division of the subject into addition, subtraction, etc., is entirely discarded. The subject of the plus and minus signs is presented naturally and simply, and after that follows an exhaustive treatment of the signs of multiplication and division, and the whole doctrine of exponents. The management of fractional and radical quantities, of quantities affected by all manner of exponents, is taught at once. When the equation is reached, the transformations of all orders of equations are treated of together. The discussions are considerably extended, and much new and interesting matter introduced. The book is planned to contain all that is necessary for the successful presentation of the higher mathematics. It is claimed to be more simple, more thorough, more philosophical, more practical, and without doubt is much shorter than any work now extant upon the subject.

DR. CLARKE's book calls out two series of replies on the same plan. Of that announced by the Putnams, to be edited by Miss Anna C. Brackett, we have already spoken. It will be called "The Education of American Girls," and the contributors will be Miss Brackett herself, Mrs. Dall, Edna D. Cheney, Dr. Mary Putnam-Jacobi, Sarah Dix Hamlin, Mrs. Lucia Calhoun Runkle, and others, the first named reviewing Dr. Clarke's book directly. The other is to be edited by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, and published by Roberts Bros., under the title of "Sex and Education," and its contributors will be Col. Higginson, Mrs. Badger, Mrs. Dall, Mrs. Howe, Miss Phelps, Miss Brackett, Dr. Marcy B. Jackson, and Mrs. Horace Mann. College testimony will be included in both.

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