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CHILD'S BOTANY, WITH ENGRAVINGS.

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THE TALES OF PETER PARLEY ABOUT EUROPE, with sixty Engravings.

JUST PUBLISHED BY S. G. GOODRICH

THE LEGENDARY,

VOL. I.

Consisting of Original Pieces in Prose and Verse, principally illustrative of American History, Scenery, and Manners.

EDITED BY N. P. WILLIS.

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SAD TALES AND GLAD TALES, by Reginald Reverie.
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HISTORY OF GREECE,

HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

ditto.

Records of the SPANISH INQUISITION, translated from the original documents.

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NEW ARITHMETIC.

SMITH'S MENTAL AND PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC, a work on a new plan, in which Mental Arithmetic is combined with the use of the slate: containing a complete system for all practical purposes-in dollars and cents, with exercises for the slate--to which is added a Practical System of Book-Keeping. Published by Richardson & Lord, and S. G. Goodrich. Price $4.50 per dozen.

Highly favourable notices of this Arithmetic may be found in several periodicals of the day. The following is an extract from the Journal of Education for April last.

A careful examination of this valuable work will show that its author has compiled it, as all books for school use ought to be compiled from the results of observation and actual experiment in the school room. It is entirely a practical work, combining the merits of Colburn's system with copious practice on the slate.

'Two circumstances enhance very much the value of this book. It is very comprehensive, containing twice the usual quantity of works of this class.

There are several very valuable peculiarities in this work, for which we cannot, in a notice, find sufficient space. We would recommend a careful examination of the book to all teachers who are desirous of combining good theory with copious and rigid practice.' The following is an extract from a Memorial of the Instructers of the public schools of the town of Providence, to the Town Council and School Committee, on its introduction into that place :

It may be sufficient, for the present, that we merely express to your Honors and the gentlemen of the School Committee, our decided preference of Mr. SMITH'S Arithmetic to any other now in use, with which we are acquainted;-and we most earnestly entreat that you would authorise its immediate introduction into the Public Schools.' OLIVER ANGELL, Jos. B. PETTIS, ORIGEN BACHELLER, EDWARD W. BAKER, JOSEPH C. GARDNER, WILLIAM P. TAFT, ALFRED B. LEE.

After a careful examination by the Rev. F. Wayland, Jr. D. D., President of Brown University, Rev. T. T. Waterman, and W. T. Grinnel, Esq., to whom as a Sub-Committee, the work had been referred, it was ordered by the Town Council and School Committee, that The System of Arithmetic, by Roswell C. Smith, be used in all the Public Schools in this town."

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[The following miscellaneous particulars bring down the more interesting part of Johnston's history to the close of the era preceding the French Revolution.]

Early state of the Medical Profession in France.

For a considerable period, and more particularly about the beginning of the fourteenth century, much scandal had been occasioned, not only in the university, but in the city of Paris, by the contentions in which the different branches of the medical profession were embroiled amongst themselves, about their mutual privileges. In early periods of history, the professions of physician and surgeon were synonymous, or rather they were confounded together; but as the medical science rose in importance, physicians refused to practise the manual part of their art, and in consequence a new class sprung up, totally unconnected with the university, who practised in that department alone, and who were named surgeons. But so ignorant and ill educated were these persons, and so unfit for their profession, that Philip the Fair, to prevent the art from falling altogether to ruin, issued an ordonnance, commanding, under severe penalties, all who wished to practise surgery, to take a license from the surgeon attached to his own person at the chatelet, and an oath before the prevot. At this period various circumstances prove that the surgeons were totally unconnected with the university; and the fact, that women were admitted into their number, is alone sufficient to establish this. In 1356 their connexion with the university for the first time appears, from the surgeons being