HARPER'S GEOGRAPHIES. .

During the past year, HARPER'S GEOGRAPHIES have received more adoptions than all others combined, In Wisconsin alone, the leading cities and towns, and hundreds of districts, have already introduced HARPER'S GEOGRAPHIES. Every prominent Superintendent and Teacher recommends them. Send for circulars, giving testimonials and a list of adoptions.

The signal success of Ilarper's Geographies is conclusive evidence of the great advance recently made in methods of teaching this important subject.

It is a well-known fact that Harper's Geographies have actually created a deep interest in a long neglected branch of study, and the testimony of thousands of teachers, parents and pupils is, that these Geographies are eminently worthy of their great popularity.

HARPER'S GEOGRAPHIES
Are now offered for Exchange at the following prices, viz:
Harper's School Geography

60 cts. Harper's Introductory Geography

30 cts, For $1.00 we shall be glad to furnish a set of Harper's Geographies for examination STATE EDITION — to Teachers and School Officers.

Harper's New Language Series.

The fact that since the publication of Swinton's Language Books over a Million Copies have gone into the schools of the United States is the best evidence of their Merit. The books have also been published and extensively adopted in Great Britain and Canada.

IN WISCONSIN. ALL LEADING TEACHERS of this State, as well as of every other State, warmly commend Swinton's Course in English, and the books are used in the best schools.

Prices for Examination with a view to Introduction: The LANGUAGE PRIMER, 20 cents; the New LANGUAGE LESSONS, 25 cents; the New COMPOSITION, 25 cents; the NEW ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 40 cents. The Grammar and Composition, bound in One Volume, 55 cents.

HARPER & BROTHERS publish a full line of School and College Text Books. For introductory terms and supplies, address the Agents,

W. J. BUTTON, or THOS. CHARLES,

117 and 119, State St., Chicago, Ill.

Thalheimer's Histories. In compliance with a demand for separate Histories of the Early Eastern Monarchies, of Greece and of Rome, MESSRS. VAN ANTWERP, BRAGG & Co. announce an edition of Thalheimer's Manual of Ancient History, in three Parts, viz: 1. THALHEIMER'S HISTORY OF EARLY EASTERN

MONARCHIES, 2. THALHEIMER'S HISTORY OF GREECE, 3. THALHEIMER'S HISTORY OF ROME. The First embraces the Pre-classical Period and that of Persian Ascendency. The Second, Greece and the Mace tepian Empirer. The Third, Rome an Kingdom, R-public and Empire.

Each part. sufficiently full and comprehensive for the Academic and University Course. Liberally Illustrated with accurate Maps. Large Svo., full cloth.

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Sample Copy and

Exchange. Introduction. Thalheimer's General History,

$0.75

$1.00 Thalheimer's Ancient History,

1.00

1.35 Thalheimer's Mediæval and Modern History, 1.00

1.35 Thalheimer's Eastern Monarchies (separate), .50

.65 Thalheimer's History of Greece (separate), .50

.65 Thalheimer's History of Rome (separate), .50

.65 Thalheimer's History of England,

.60

.85

Andrew's Geology. An Elementary Geology, designed especially for the Interior States, by E. B. ANDREWS, LL. D., of the Ohio Geological Corps, and late Professor of Geology in Marietta College. 12mo., cloth, 283 pp., 432 Illustrations.

The distinctive feature of this work is its limitations. It le designed for students and readers of the Interior States, and, consequently, for such has its chier references to homo Geology. By thus liiniting the scope of the work, it 18 believed that a much better book for beginners may be made thau if far more were attempted. ECLECTIC SERIES - Natural Sciences.

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Sample Copy and

Exchange. Introduction. Andrew's Elementaay Geology,

.85 Norton's Elements of Physics,

.50 Norton's Natural Philosophy,

.65

.90 Norton's Elements of Chemistry,

.65

.90 Brown's Physiology and Hygiene,

.60

.85 Ray's Elements of Astronomy,

1.00 ECLECTIC GEOGRAPHIES Wisconsin Edition, Eclectic Geography, No 1,

.33

.45 Eclectic Ceography, No. 2, Wis. Ed.,

.66 FOR HIGHER SCHOOLS. Eclectic Geography, No. 3, Wis. Ed.,

.78

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VAN ANTWERP, BRAGG & CO. CINCINNATI & NEW YORK. FIVE BOOKS.

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A Combination of the Word and Phonic Methods.
Spelling Book Dispensed With.

Good Pictorial Illustrations.
Elocutionary Exercises.

Conversation Exercises.

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Price, for Introduction, $1.08 per Doz. For samples, etc., Address

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Introd'n

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For Common Schools no series of books can be

found to compare in Excellence, Completeness and Economy, with the following list of standard TextBooks selected from

The American Educational Series. Hundreds of Districts throughout the Northwest have, within the past few years, adopted the most or all of these books, and their introduction and use bave repaid tenfold their cost in securing uniformity in the use of the best books published.

Mailing

Exchange Swinton's Speller (Word Book).

$0.22 $0.15 $0.11 New Graded Reader, First.

.22 .15 Second..

.35 .24 .15 Third.

.50 .33 .20 Fourth

.62 .42 .25 Fifth..

1.05 .71 .35 Robinson's First Book in Arithmetic..

.45 .29 .20 Complete Arithmetic..

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.50 Kerl's Shorter Course in Grammar.

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.45 .33 Swinton's Condensed U. S. History..

1.10 .75 .55 Elementary Geography

1.00 .60 .40 Spencerian Copy Books.....

.12 •10 .10 Gray's How Plants Grow (Botany).

1.00 .67 .50 Bryant & Stratton's Commercial Scbool Book-Keeping 1.00 .67 .50 Webster's Common School Dictionaries....

.85

.67 .67 Townsend's Shorter Course Civil Government.

.60

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For High Schools the following works are more widely

Price,

Price.

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used and approved than any other simi. Jar publications:

Mailing Introd'n Exchange

Price. Webster's Academic Dictionary...

$1.90 $1.55 $1.55 Cathcari's Literary Reader....

1.40 .96 Swinton's Complete Geography.

1.60 1.00 .75 Word Analysis.....

.35

.18 Randall's Reading and Elocution.

1.25 .83 Kerl's Composition and Rhetoric.

1.10

.75 .55 Robinson's Elementary Algebra...

1.30 .90 .65 (Ficklin's) Complete Algebra.

1.75 1.20 .88 Geometry.. ::

1.10 .75 .55 Bryant & Stratton's High School Book-Keeping.

2.15 1.50 1.08 Swinton's Outlines of the World's History.

1.75 1.20 .88 Townsend's Analysis of Civil Government..

1.30 .90 Gray's School and Field Book of Botany..

2.15 1.50 1.08 Eliot & Storer's Elementary Chemistry.

1.30 .90 .65 Dana's Brief Geology (Geological Story)

1.30 .96 .65 Text-Book of Geology

1.75 1.29 1.29 Kiddle's Elementary Astronomy.

1.30 .90 .65 Laoguellier & Monsanto's French Course.

1.75 1.25 1.25 Woodbury's Complete Course in German

1.75 1.20

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1. Each assembly district in the state shall be entitled to eight ropresentatives in the Normal Schools, and in case vacancies exist in the representation to which any assembly district is entitled, such vacancies may be filled by the presideñit and secretary of the Board of Regents.

2. Candidates for admission shall be nominated by the county superintendent of the county (or if the county. superintendent has not jurisdiction, then the nomination shall be made by the city superintendent of the city) in which such candidates may reside, and they shall be at least sixteen years of age, of sound

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