JUVENILE No. 1-WILLSON'S AMERICAN History. For Primary Schools; on the same general plan as the History of the United States. Embracing the most interesting and morally instructive incidents and events in American History, commencing with the Life of Columbus. Handsomely illustrated. 160 pages. 31 cents. WILLSON'S HISTORICAL SERIES. No. 2.-WILLSON'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED States. 75 cents. Plan of the Siege of Quebec. VICINITY of QUEBEC Gen.Wolfe's Commencing with the discovery of America, and brought down to the middle of the Nineteenth century. The work presents the following claims to public favor:-1st, superior accuracy; 2d, chronological arrangement of dates, wholly in new style; 3d, illustrative maps and charts, and copious Geographical Notes, exhibiting to the eye, and describing all important localities referred to: 4th, convenient Marginal Arrangement of the Questions. An Appendix South contains the Constitution of the United States, with Explanatory Notes, abridged from the author's work on "Civil Polity," or Constitutional Law. Willson's History of the United States has been introduced into the Public Schools of New York City, the Normal School in Albany, the Public Schools in Newark, Brooklyn, Rochester, Buffalo, Cincinnati and St. Louis, &c., as well as in great numbers of Male and Female Academies and Seminaries in all parts of the country. During the first year of its publication, fourteen thousand copies were sold. From the numerous recommendations and notices of the work, the Publishers select the following: "I consider it the best, and in reality the only School History I have ever seen, adapted to the wants of our Common Schools. "Burlington, N. J., 11th mo. 6th, 1845. "Willson's I'istory of the United States for the use of Schools, I have read through with peculiar satisfaction. If any other book, compiled for the same purpose, equals it in combining brevity with clearness of detail, impartiality with a manly regard for national interests, elevation of style with the simplicity due to youth, and especially geography with history, I am not acquainted with it. "The writer seems to be imbued with a just perception of the wants of the schclar and the facilities due to the teacher. "JNO. GRISCOM." 8 ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES AND MAPS: EMBRACING PART I. ANCIENT HISTORY. PART II. MODERN HISTORY. BY MARCIUS WILLSON, AUTHOR OF "AMERICAN HISTORY," "HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES," ETO. School Edition. NEW YORK : IVISON & PHINNEY, 178 FULTON STREET; 1855. |